Is Rush prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The real question that should be asked, is Rush pwog?

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

^ The Hall Of Fame is as useless as say Apple's top 100 albums of all time. Even by their standards, not having Tull in is very weird. Who did Ian Anderson upset this time? (Everyone I guess lol)

I just finished Geddy Lee's book and he referred to their music as prog rock several times like it was a given.

Biggles was in rehab last Saturday

^That Owl isn't very wise, Paul.

Hrychu wrote:

... in 70s Poland and Czechoslovakia, rock music was frowned upon by the government and thus it couldn't be widely advertised, so the "prog" bands from that area at the time, were marketing themselves as more of "jazz" groups rather than "rock" groups.

Btw, it's definitely not my impression that Rock music was any problem in the 1970s Poland. For instance, the Polish (state) Radio was playing whole albums of the most popular Western Rock bands, and did it in a way so it was very convenient to record them on tape recorders / cassette decks.

Edited by David_D - December 28 2024 at 11:55

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Hector Enrique wrote:

Even iconic groups have had albums that were far from progressive rock due to some commercial mutation or musical evolution, or for whatever reason. There are ELP's "Love Beach", Yes's "90125", almost all of Genesis' final stage, Steve Hackett's "Cured", etc, etc... Surely some Rush albums were also a bit distant from the progressive concept (Presto, Roll the Bones, Test for Echo among others), but due to the quantity and quality of albums and songs they have delivered ("By-Tor and Snow Dog", the suites "The Fountain of Lamneth", "2112" and "Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres", Xanadu", "Natural Science", "The Camera Eye", and a list of several etceteras more) it seems to me that the Canadians are part of the great cosmos that is progressive rock and they do it honor.

This does inadvertently raise another question, not so much about Rush but progressive rock in general, does it need to be actually 'good' to be progressive? At some point most bands of any style have done their best work and never better it. They carry on regardless (not Syd James and Hattie Jacques I'm talking about here though Wink

) and sometimes reinvent themselves and the music in doing so rather than just release limp pastiche versions of classic albums (Yes **cough**). Rush did go through different incarnations but never stunk up the place. Roll The Bones was actually the album that brought me back to Rush in the 90's. I thought it was fresh sounding and interesting. Many though regard it as their worst album. Another reason why I like them so much.

Even iconic groups have had albums that were far from progressive rock due to some commercial mutation or musical evolution, or for whatever reason. There are ELP's "Love Beach", Yes's "90125", almost all of Genesis' final stage, Steve Hackett's "Cured", etc, etc... Surely some Rush albums were also a bit distant from the progressive concept (Presto, Roll the Bones, Test for Echo among others), but due to the quantity and quality of albums and songs they have delivered ("By-Tor and Snow Dog", the suites "The Fountain of Lamneth", "2112" and "Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres", Xanadu", "Natural Science", "The Camera Eye", and a list of several etceteras more) it seems to me that the Canadians are part of the great cosmos that is progressive rock and they do it honor.

Héctor Enrique

Now. Here's the question. Is "Heavy Prog" more artificial of a genre label than "Yacht Rock"? 🤔

Some of the albums? Yes.

All of the albums? No.

No comment......jeez.

n/s: would this mean "not sarcasm"? What would be b/s?

Edited by Catcher10 - December 26 2024 at 13:01