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Speakin' of jazz fusion here's a super hot take: I have no problem with and even quite like jazz fusion with vocals!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by GodzillaStan GodzillaStan wrote:

Yes only made 3 amazing records (TYA, Fragile & CTTE), although the others have their moments.

Prog doesn't need to have complex time signatures, or virtuosic members.

Genesis was still making great progressive music well into the late 80's.

Derek Sherinian was just as good as Kevin Moore and Jordan Rudess.

The only good part of Tubular Bells is the beginning.

Return to Forever > Mahavishnu Orchestra  

The only truly amazing ELP record is the first one.

Not sure about the word 'amazing'. Are we talking 'original', 'ground breaking' 'unique' or something like that? Often 'consistency' is considered important by many but that doesn't mean 'amazing'. In terms of great playing then all Yes albums from TYA to 90125 have that. ELP likewise goes as far as Works.

Prog doesn't need complex time signatures. True. Dave Stewart (the prog one) was a already parodying this idea with his band Egg back in 1970 with 'Seven Is A Jolly Good Time'. Check it out.

Genesis made some good tracks in the 80's such as Dodo, Domino and Home By The Sea. 'Great progressive music' is a stretch. More throwing a bone to their few remaining prog fans!

The Dream Theater one is hardly a revelation. 

Tubular Bells is mostly recognised for the opening section but it is mostly very inventive and highly original music that drew on some wider influences. Maybe his later albums are 'better' but are they just better organised?

I so don't care about Jazz fusion where its 'how many angels dance on the head of a pin' type arguments. Both bands had incredible players disappearing up their own backsides a lot of the time. Personally I reckon the British band Colosseum made the only jazz rock stuff that is worth listening to.


I disagree with your "take" on jazz fusion. Colosseum are one of the best, but not the best, for that you need to look at Continental Europe with Italy's "Dedalus"  and "il Baricentro" and from Germany "Passport" and "Giger Lenz Marron" (the latter not accepted by PA, but , oh, well)
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Pointing out other similar problems is not a way to solve a problem. ―\_(ツ)_/― That's a logical fallacy.

But anyway, going by your "library analogy". Let's say: I'm looking for a sci fi book and can't find it under sci fi. Oh! It's in the 'Italian Speculative Fiction' section that used to be called 'Italian retro sci fi'!

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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Hot take: RPI is not a subgenre in the slightest. The reason for this label to exist and especially still include contemporary brand new spanking bands is just silly, purely judgmental, and has a tinge of xenophilia based on cultural fetishism and prejudice.

I'm no expert admittedly but Italy is a special place for music and culture. I hear a lot of modern(ish) RPI bands still obviously proud of their heritage and putting it in their music. Their is purity that is less obvious elsewhere, at least to my ears. We could also remove Krautrock on your reasoning. In fact Crossover and Neo are also silly sub genres. It's all music after all regardless of any label. They only exist for convenience sake. It's like going into a library and finding no seperate book sections for fiction/ non-fiction etc . Why would anyone want that?
Perhaps though the most arbitary label is 'eclectic'. Basically everyone wants to be in that one. It's the least obvious in terms of what it is and most made up one of the lot!
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Hot take: RPI is not a subgenre in the slightest. The reason for this label to exist and especially still include contemporary brand new spanking bands is just silly, purely judgmental, and has a tinge of xenophilia based on cultural fetishism and prejudice.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

 
I never found that much of a problem with the short tracks on Fragile... really, the only one I think could be better is Cans for Brahms, which I have read Wakeman actually intended to use what became Catherine of Aragon instead... it even features the whole Yes in 6 Wives... and that single change would have helped the album so much. We Have Heaven doesn't bother me at all, and it actually segues nicely into South Side of the Sky, so it doesn't really hurt the continuity of the album. Five Percent is so short that if you get distracted you won't even notice that it passed. The Fish segues so nicely from Long Distance Runaround, that I don't feel that song is complete without the other. And Mood for a Day is actually a beautiful piece of music.


Listening to the album now, still feel the album lacks flow (just my opinion). 

"The Fish segues so nicely from Long Distance Runaround, that I don't feel that song is complete without the other." - that is true, I agree, it should have been one song. They played it live like that. 


OK, maybe if you were up to an experiment. Make a list on whatever you might (possibly) commonly use (ITunes, Apple Music, Spotify, whatever), include the whole Fragile, then change Cans for Brahms for Wakeman's Catherine of Aragon and leave out Five Percent for Nothing and give it a listen, let's see how it works for you then.

It's fine, we don't have to agree on everything. Smile
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by STRSHPS STRSHPS wrote:

In The Hot Seat was the best last ELP studio album.

Are you joking, baiting? Confused

I think it was intended as a joke. If you take out the word 'last' from the sentence then it would be ridiculous Smile

I thought he meant later day. Confused
Anyway... 

It wasn't a funny joke fair to say but clearly that wasn't what he intended. Even if it was then Black Moon isn't exactly classic ELP so thinking ITHS is better woulnd't be that 'out there'. I quite like some tracks on ITHS , mainly Hand Of Truth and what was actually a Greg Lake solo song (no other members played on it) Gone Too Soon. Mostly it's sterile AOR from a band that was running on fumes. They reformed a few years after for a South American tour which went well and not suprisingly they played nothing of it. Says it all.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

 
I never found that much of a problem with the short tracks on Fragile... really, the only one I think could be better is Cans for Brahms, which I have read Wakeman actually intended to use what became Catherine of Aragon instead... it even features the whole Yes in 6 Wives... and that single change would have helped the album so much. We Have Heaven doesn't bother me at all, and it actually segues nicely into South Side of the Sky, so it doesn't really hurt the continuity of the album. Five Percent is so short that if you get distracted you won't even notice that it passed. The Fish segues so nicely from Long Distance Runaround, that I don't feel that song is complete without the other. And Mood for a Day is actually a beautiful piece of music.


Listening to the album now, still feel the album lacks flow (just my opinion). 

"The Fish segues so nicely from Long Distance Runaround, that I don't feel that song is complete without the other." - that is true, I agree, it should have been one song. They played it live like that. 


OK, maybe if you were up to an experiment. Make a list on whatever you might (possibly) commonly use (ITunes, Apple Music, Spotify, whatever), include the whole Fragile, then change Cans for Brahms for Wakeman's Catherine of Aragon and leave out Five Percent for Nothing and give it a listen, let's see how it works for you then.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by STRSHPS STRSHPS wrote:

In The Hot Seat was the best last ELP studio album.

Are you joking, baiting? Confused

I think it was intended as a joke. If you take out the word 'last' from the sentence then it would be ridiculous Smile

I thought he meant later day. Confused
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by STRSHPS STRSHPS wrote:

In The Hot Seat was the best last ELP studio album.

Are you joking, baiting? Confused

I think it was intended as a joke. If you take out the word 'last' from the sentence then it would be ridiculous Smile
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Peter Banks was a better guitar player than Steve Howe.  

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Originally posted by STRSHPS STRSHPS wrote:

In The Hot Seat was the best last ELP studio album.

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In The Hot Seat was the best last ELP studio album.
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Hot take: The remixed L'Heptade XL by Harmonium sounds worse than the original mix IMO. They should've done just remasters without tinkering with the mixes. The XL version suffers from very odd unfitting EQ decisions, overuse of reverb and compression, and annoyingly obvious digital reverbs that don't go well with that organic 70's Harmonium sound. :( For example the final upfront brass riff on Le Premier Ciel (XL version) lacks that crispy power the original had. It's overmixed and drowned in unnecessary reverb.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Just listen to the Agusa album for the first time that apparently has won PA Album of the Year. It doesn't sound particularly interesting to me. I think I've heard some 60 prog albums of 2023 and no way would this have entered my top 40. 

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It is a very nice album, but their previous is much better in my ears. I've played that album a heck of a lot more than this new one, which is nice, but not as far out and neat as the previous one.
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^Thanks, Cristi. That's very different (and shorter) than what Derek played. Jordan's solo on Scenes from New York is the longest (and most tempo-varied) of the three. All are great. I do think I like Derek's best, as it achieves the perfect balance of shred and chromatic coloration.
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Derek didn't compose the solo he plays on the EP?
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Not really hot takes. Derek burned it up on "A Change of Seasons." His keyboard solo is one of the best found on any DT album. 


A Change of Seasons was written with Kevin Moore, they played the song live during the Images & Words tour, so Kevin deserves the praise here. Derek was great on Falling Into Infinity, that I agree. Smile 


Derek didn't compose the solo he plays on the EP?
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Not really hot takes. Derek burned it up on "A Change of Seasons." His keyboard solo is one of the best found on any DT album. 

A Change of Seasons was written with Kevin Moore, they played the song live during the Images & Words tour, so Kevin deserves the praise here. Derek was great on Falling Into Infinity, that I agree. Smile 
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