ATPS #15: The Other Big 4

MovingPictures07 wrote: cacho wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: cacho wrote: Hercules wrote: Camel should have been on this list, as should Gentle Giant.Of those 4, I choose Tull, but Camel and Gentle Giant are better. Pretty damn right! If Rush is there also Uriah Heep, and Traffic? Are you kidding me, guys? How many of you actually have heard all of Rush's main 1970s and 1980s albums and have actually talked to people? Their influence is amazingly widespread, they're some of the tightest musicians in all of rock, and since when did Heep and Traffic make as much of an impact on prog and rock in general as Rush did? Rush is 5th in the world for rock in the number of platinum and gold selling albums, even ahead of Pink Floyd. Have you ears cleaned out and listen to 2112 or Hemispheres. I really care a damn of sales... Every one of you three (cacho, tszirmay, jammun) are simply nitpicking that part of my argument simply because you have no way to counteract the fact that Rush were HUGE in rock AND prog: Listen to.. Caress of Steel 2112 Hemispheres Permanent Waves A Farewell to Kings and more AND not only that But they have three of the BEST players at their respective instruments (especially Geddy Lee and Neil Peart) AND They kept prog alive in the 1980s along with King Crimson, producing art rock and prog-lite/influenced pieces all throughout the 1980s and until today. Not even Jethro Tull or the others on this list have done that, and you're saying that Heep and Camel were just as influential to be included in the "BIG" artists as Rush?! You have to be kidding me! It's a joke. I simply included the other information to even further my argument saying that Rush were extremely huge to conventional rock AS WELL AS to prog. Especially after your silly nitpickings and simply the enormous impact Rush has had (you can also tell that by going to the "what was your first introduction to prog" thread, I can't take your argument seriously.

Thank you for a little sanity. I feel ashamed that I wasn't able to join in that.

Well, hell just froze over as I am very into Jethro Tull now. I would've gone with Frank Zappa, but I don't like the vast majority of his solo stuff. If it were The Mothers of Invention, though, they'd get my vote in a heartbeat!

TGM: Orb wrote: cesar polo wrote: Hercules wrote: Camel should have been on this list, as should Gentle Giant. Of those 4, I choose Tull, but Camel and Gentle Giant are better.   I completely agree: Camel and Gentle Giant should have been on the list. Why?

easy.. Camel is easy listening and some people here like them.. that makes them a BIG prog group

no arguments with GG.. but who to bump.. next 4 I guess...

Zappa. Man.

Hercules wrote: Camel should have been on this list, as should Gentle Giant. Of those 4, I choose Tull, but Camel and Gentle Giant are better.

cacho wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: cacho wrote: Hercules wrote: Camel should have been on this list, as should Gentle Giant.Of those 4, I choose Tull, but Camel and Gentle Giant are better. Pretty damn right! If Rush is there also Uriah Heep, and Traffic? Are you kidding me, guys? How many of you actually have heard all of Rush's main 1970s and 1980s albums and have actually talked to people? Their influence is amazingly widespread, they're some of the tightest musicians in all of rock, and since when did Heep and Traffic make as much of an impact on prog and rock in general as Rush did? Rush is 5th in the world for rock in the number of platinum and gold selling albums, even ahead of Pink Floyd. Have you ears cleaned out and listen to 2112 or Hemispheres. I really care a damn of sales...

Every one of you three (cacho, tszirmay, jammun) are simply nitpicking that part of my argument simply because you have no way to counteract the fact that Rush were HUGE in rock AND prog: Listen to..

Caress of Steel
2112
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
A Farewell to Kings

and more

AND not only that

But they have three of the BEST players at their respective instruments (especially Geddy Lee and Neil Peart)

AND

They kept prog alive in the 1980s along with King Crimson, producing art rock and prog-lite/influenced pieces all throughout the 1980s and until today.

Not even Jethro Tull or the others on this list have done that, and you're saying that Heep and Camel were just as influential to be included in the "BIG" artists as Rush?! You have to be kidding me! It's a joke.

I simply included the other information to even further my argument saying that Rush were extremely huge to conventional rock AS WELL AS to prog. Especially after your silly nitpickings and simply the enormous impact Rush has had (you can also tell that by going to the "what was your first introduction to prog" thread, I can't take your argument seriously.


Edited by MovingPictures07 - May 10 2008 at 23:36

Hmm Gold and platinum! Great investments ! McDonald's and Coca Cola. Corporate giants .

cacho wrote: Hercules wrote: Camel should have been on this list, as should Gentle Giant.Of those 4, I choose Tull, but Camel and Gentle Giant are better. Pretty damn right! If Rush is there also Uriah Heep, and Traffic?

Are you kidding me, guys? How many of you actually have heard all of Rush's main 1970s and 1980s albums and have actually talked to people? Their influence is amazingly widespread, they're some of the tightest musicians in all of rock, and since when did Heep and Traffic make as much of an impact on prog and rock in general as Rush did? Rush is 5th in the world for rock in the number of platinum and gold selling albums, even ahead of Pink Floyd.

Have you ears cleaned out and listen to 2112 or Hemispheres.


Edited by MovingPictures07 - May 10 2008 at 21:08

Rush on!

R to the U to the S to the H.