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    Posted: November 29 2021 at 14:33
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

With Rush it is generally accepted that their prog period was between 1976-1981(2112 to Moving Pictures).
Okay, I'm game. Where do you "generally" get your information for such a broad statement as this? Can you name a source? As far as I'm concerned (and it must be stated that this is merely my humble opinion), Rush's prog period easily started with Fly By Night and even more easily ended with Grace Under Pressure.


Yes, everyone has their own opinion. I'm basing mine on just the things I have seen on prog websites and maybe the rush forum. FBN and COS had some very proggish moments on it (By tor and the snow dog is actually the only real prog track on FBN) and so did 2112 but the 2112 suite was the most prog sounding thing they have done up to that point. On the other end, Signals seems to be the beginning of the new wave period. Still, very proggish but different. 


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They had a prog period.....?




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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

With Rush it is generally accepted that their prog period was between 1976-1981(2112 to Moving Pictures).
Okay, I'm game. Where do you "generally" get your information for such a broad statement as this? Can you name a source? As far as I'm concerned (and it must be stated that this is merely my humble opinion), Rush's prog period easily started with Fly By Night and even more easily ended with Grace Under Pressure.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Their whole discography. Prog is a wide umbrella. Where there may be debate is when they transitioned from one subgenre to the next. 


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Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

Those first couple albums are pretty clearly rooted in Psych rock, plus handing them the "prog" qualification would screw up the general consensus that In The Court Of The Crimson King was pretty much prog's album length debut (Zappa would disagree of course, and he's welcome to, because he rules, but I still would call ITCOTCK ground zero for the movement). So I'm fine saying the Syd stuff's not prog. Atom Heart Mother definitely seems to fit the bill with that sidelong title track and its orchestral sweep. I'd definitely say The Wall is prog, but I'd say the same thing about Tommy and Quadrophenia from The Who. Not every song needs to fit the bill on an individual basis for the album as a unit to qualify. ELP has Lucky Man on it for example. About The Final Cut... I don't love it, but it probably qualifies. It's certainly not pop, that's for darn sure. I haven't listened to the rest enough to say one way or the other, but I know enough to say they seem to have elements remaining which fit the bill, not to mention so much neo-prog pulls from that spacey, slow, synth laden, shimmering guitar lead aesthetic that you could argue the Floyd sound itself had become prog, regardless of song structures or lyrics.

I didn't really want to get into the what is the first prog album discussion on here because it's not really relevant to the discussion at hand. However, since you brought it up I think it's very debatable that "court" was the first. You also had Days of future passed and several others. Frank Zappa probably wouldn't not disagree because I doubt he would consider himself prog. I'm not sure how else I would label Uncle Meat though. I'm also not sure what else I would call the More soundtrack or ummagumma but to be a bit more strict about definitions I chose AHM as the starting point for PF. Anyway, we can argue until the cows come home(no pun intended ;)) about what is or what isn't prog. For me The Wall is more art rock than prog. If art rock is part of prog then ok. I admit prog can be a wide umbrella.

I can see that I suppose. My art rock meter tends to go off on stuff like Peter Gabriel's Melt, David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy and Scary Monsters, and even King Crimson's 80s stuff. So I could see an argument for The Wall as a move into art rock, though I think theft that it's a massive double concept album with an intense narrative story is a pretty prog move on its face.

Yeah there are definitely arguments to be made for ITCOTCK not being the first prog album, but it's like arguing Black Sabbath isn't the first metal album. There's probably enough evidence to make a good argument, but it really goes against the popular interpretation of the history of rock and roll, and kind of downplays the massive importance of those two records. ITCOTCK may not actually be the first prog album, but it sure feels like it.
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As a self confessed Floyd nutter I classify The Wall & Final Cut albums as rock operas - as they have elements in common with works such as Tommy and Quadrophenia.  The DG led era is more AOR. Whereas Piper is pure psychedelia. 

Everything else is pretty much prog. [Just my opinion.]
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First album up to "Dark Side of the Moon" are the albums I like, what genre they are is up to someone beside myself.

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Saucerful to Final Cut.


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Saucerful to The Wall

their debut, although never a favorite of mine, was pretty groundbreaking and unique when it came out. 
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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Ummagumma ---> Animals is probably their core prog period, and possibly also including Saucerful.

Exactly what I think.
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I agree with the majority, Atom Heart Mother - Animals is right. I'd include Ummagumma and The Wall too.
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I would include The Wall as Prog. It functions like The Lamb Lies Down - it tells a story through shorter pieces, but in the long run, it is the sequencing that creates its progginess rather than the individual songs. A person may extract a single favorite song and enjoy it, but to get the full experience you need to listen to the entire album. The Wall has three songs that became hits, we all know what they are, and they are great by themselves, but to listen to them in context makes their quality shine that much brighter.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

With Rush it is generally accepted that their prog period was between 1976-1981(2112 to Moving Pictures). 

How about with Pink Floyd though? Imo, I would say it was from 1970- 1977 (Atom Heart Mother to Animals). I don't consider the Wall to be full blown prog and the ones after it are basically rock with prog elements and moments(although if someone wanted to call AMLOR or even TDB prog I wouldn't argue). I'm not sure about the very last one since I only heard it once but it sounded more like ambient or something(I would have to play it again though). As for the early stuff it's mostly either psychedelic, experimental, space rock or proto prog. I'm ok with Ummagumma being called prog but imo AHM is their first true prog album even if it still has strong psych elements on it. 

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I think a bit differently ... but yeah, all the way to THE WALL, however I do not think of this stuff as "progressive", as much as I do the continuing evolving ability of the band to show their IMAGES, that in the early days AFTER Syd, were done with sound effects, and were a big part of their QUADRAPHONIC sound experience, in that the vignettes moving around in various ways, made you feel like you were in the middle of it all ... something that later RW's version of THE WALL completely ignored and went for the cheap version, which took the "reality" out of the real thing and into the "imagine" atmosphere of the concept piece.

All in all, sometimes I think that the use of the word "progressive" or "prog" is over stated and over done, and not as meaningful to the music itself as one might think. For me, PF is a wonderful band, but I don't know that I ever considered them "progressive" specially when compared to many other bands in Europe that were doing far more adventurous things MUSICALLY, while PF stuck to making sure their idea of "visuals" could be seen to the audiences, which became a massive show starting with DSOTM.
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Is it important? I mean, does the (sub-)genre label you stick on it alter your appreciation of the music? Not for me, anyway, but I'm curious to know more of the motivation behind this questioning... (if it is not about appreciation, there might be another reason why this differentiation has a function that I don't see...)

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Maybe The Wall and The Final Cut could be seen more as an Opera Rock album instead of prog, but the rest is all 100% prog
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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Ummagumma ---> Animals is probably their core prog period, and possibly also including Saucerful.

I see the first two albums as psych with hints of prog. As for Ummagumma it's more experimental. The live album could maybe be considered prog but the solo pieces are just too weird to be prog. I'm not even sure I would call them psych.
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Ummagumma ---> Animals is probably their core prog period, and possibly also including Saucerful.
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If Ummagumma doesn't count as prog, I don't know what does. For me personally pretty much everything would qualify, but then I'm not the best to argue genre boundaries anyway, because I don't care much about them. Still, any serious list of clearly prog PF albums must include Ummagumma.
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AHM - Animals IMO.

For me, Floyd were obviously prog rock, but I consider it a much broader genre than many seem to. IMO prog was about breaking rules and experimenting. To do that, the musicians didn't have to be classically trained virtuoso's. They just needed an imagination and a willingness to break the conventions of rock music. By definition Floyd were prog rock, as they done this routinely and in a far more dramatic and experimental way than the likes of Bowie and Roxy Music, who often merely dabbled (to excellent effect obviously)
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Their whole discography. Prog is a wide umbrella. Where there may be debate is when they transitioned from one subgenre to the next. 

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