Queen.....WHY THE HELL NOT?!?!?! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Can someone please explain to me, WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH, Queen is not on this damn site?!?!?!?!?!.........It's almost a complete insult. Perhaps a better question should be...why the hell are bands like Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, Styx, Weather Report, Traffic, SuperTramp, Hawkwind, and Asia on this site and Queen excluded?!?!?!?

I listen to some of the above mentioned bands, and I think to myself...ummm this is prog?????????????? When including bands like Weather Report, you are blurring boundaries, which normally I would approve of, but there can't be a double standard. Weather Report, for all intensive purposes is JAZZ.......go to a store, and look for weather report, and they won't be in the pop/ rock section, but they will be in jazz. But...look for Gentle Giant, Genesis, YES, King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull, so on and so forth, you will find them under rock. Infact, Bill Bruford's solo efforts are under JAZZ......so if you are going to make exceptions to the rules based on your whims, then you have to examine more closely. Why not include Miles Davis on this site...certainly he was one of the starters of fusion....all im saying, is that the inclusion of some bands and the exclusion of others follows NO LOGIC.

Then there are bands like Uriah Heep (who I detest by the way).....where I can't find one inkling of progressive anything. I listened to an album of theirs, and my thought was...wow this is pretty much STANDARD rock music. I personally don't understand why there is this huge road block for Queen, when HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE bands like Styx are placed in this site. Queen is ten times the band Styx was. Someone, who was really big into Styx, once said to me...."hey, if you like Queen, then you'll like Styx".....and I've listened to Styx, and I absoultely disagree.

Now not to start a complete progressive riot.....but I still STRUGGLE with the idea that Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues are progressive. Certainly there are some Queen "tunes" which to me are more progressive than Pink Floyd or Moody Blues. I'm sorry people, but I just dont see them as being progressive. So come on Queen fans, let us fight with conviction to get this amazingly talented band on this site.

oh by the way.....as a side note, am I the only one who sees a resemblance in the front man characteristics of Freddie Mercury and Peter Gabriel??....Both were AMAZING front men. Let me know what you think.

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glass house Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 4986	Posted: July 06 2005 at 16:11
	He , I like Queen, but let's keep this site clean. I'm still puzzled about Meshuggah. Bye Edited by glass house

Proglover Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 09 2005 Status: Offline Points: 416	Posted: July 06 2005 at 16:04
	Can someone please explain to me, WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH, Queen is not on this damn site?!?!?!?!?!.........It's almost a complete insult. Perhaps a better question should be...why the hell are bands like Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, Styx, Weather Report, Traffic, SuperTramp, Hawkwind, and Asia on this site and Queen excluded?!?!?!? I listen to some of the above mentioned bands, and I think to myself...ummm this is prog?????????????? When including bands like Weather Report, you are blurring boundaries, which normally I would approve of, but there can't be a double standard. Weather Report, for all intensive purposes is JAZZ.......go to a store, and look for weather report, and they won't be in the pop/ rock section, but they will be in jazz. But...look for Gentle Giant, Genesis, YES, King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull, so on and so forth, you will find them under rock. Infact, Bill Bruford's solo efforts are under JAZZ......so if you are going to make exceptions to the rules based on your whims, then you have to examine more closely. Why not include Miles Davis on this site...certainly he was one of the starters of fusion....all im saying, is that the inclusion of some bands and the exclusion of others follows NO LOGIC. Then there are bands like Uriah Heep (who I detest by the way).....where I can't find one inkling of progressive anything. I listened to an album of theirs, and my thought was...wow this is pretty much STANDARD rock music. I personally don't understand why there is this huge road block for Queen, when HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE bands like Styx are placed in this site. Queen is ten times the band Styx was. Someone, who was really big into Styx, once said to me...."hey, if you like Queen, then you'll like Styx".....and I've listened to Styx, and I absoultely disagree. Now not to start a complete progressive riot.....but I still STRUGGLE with the idea that Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues are progressive. Certainly there are some Queen "tunes" which to me are more progressive than Pink Floyd or Moody Blues. I'm sorry people, but I just dont see them as being progressive. So come on Queen fans, let us fight with conviction to get this amazingly talented band on this site. oh by the way.....as a side note, am I the only one who sees a resemblance in the front man characteristics of Freddie Mercury and Peter Gabriel??....Both were AMAZING front men. Let me know what you think.