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   You're not wrong. You're not the first to say it, maybe not even the first this week.  They're one of the perennial top contenders for inclusion on the site...and many people feel that they belong here more than dozens of bands already listed. I personally wouldn't mind seeing them listed one bit...Queen II is one of my favorite examples of early hard rock-flavored prog, right up there with Rush. 
The argument against them (as far as I understand) is that the overall output of the band is not prog, and that they belong with other bands who dabbled in prog but didn't make it their focus. Is that accurate, naysayers?

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James Lee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 05 2004 Status: Offline Points: 3525	Posted: April 11 2005 at 05:53
	You're not wrong. You're not the first to say it, maybe not even the first this week. They're one of the perennial top contenders for inclusion on the site...and many people feel that they belong here more than dozens of bands already listed. I personally wouldn't mind seeing them listed one bit...Queen II is one of my favorite examples of early hard rock-flavored prog, right up there with Rush. The argument against them (as far as I understand) is that the overall output of the band is not prog, and that they belong with other bands who dabbled in prog but didn't make it their focus. Is that accurate, naysayers?


Moribund Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 21 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 210	Posted: April 11 2005 at 05:25
	I am baffled at the absence of Queen from this site. The fact that their music became markedly commercial and unprog from the mid 70's onwards is undeniable, but this is no less a reason to dismiss them as to dimiss Genesis for doing the same some 5 years later. The first four albums are undeniably prog (certainly Art Rock if not Symphonic Prog) and isn't Bohemian Rhapsody arguably the most definably prog sounding track to have ever made number one in the UK singles chart (a distincion later to be challenged by Paranoid Android)? I am not making a particular play for including them, but comenting on what seems a conspicuous absence from a band whose first four albums seem to belong very comfortably within the genre. Now tell me I'm wrong...