To include ELO in Progarchives

Guillermo,

You're making a good case, I'm starting to believe!

I'd certainly agree about "Eldorado", a fine prog album.

ivan_2068 wrote: The "All Music Guide" considers ELO as, among other styles, a Prog Rock/Art Rock band. http://www.allmusic.com/  You said it Guillermo Allmusic makes a lot of mistakes, this page is not reliable at all, just to start is managed by musical and movie industry not by people who remotely cares for progressive rock. I had tosend them a post informing the management that Triumvirat is not a band from Finland and that neither Toto or Boston are progressive bands, when they changed the format they corrected all those mistakes, but there are still a lot. Iván

In the "All Music Guide" there are some good writers about music. One is William Ruhlmann. I have a good book about Pink Floyd written by him. Yes, they changed the format, but they have corrected some mistakes, and they also added biographies about bands which didn`t have Biographies in that website. Yes, maybe their main interest is commercial, but a lot of websites survive due to their commercial activities. Anyway, I consider the AMG a good website. I have visited this website since 1999.

Definitions in Progarchives: http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive-rock.asp

"PROGRESSIVE ROCK — a style that combines rock, classical, psychedelic and literary elements — was born in the late '60s with art-rock bands like Pink Floyd and King Crimson, whose albums typically featured 7 to 10 minutes songs with shifting time signatures and evolving musical themes. "

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If  "Eldorado" is not Progressive... well, "Avalon", from Roxy Music... Yes! It is!

ELO`s keyboardist, Richard Tandy, is a very good musician. Even in the song "Last Train to London", which is almost a Disco Pop song, he played some classical music arrangements in his keyboards. For me, ELO is Progressive, anyway.

The "All Music Guide" considers ELO as, among other styles, a Prog Rock/Art Rock band.

http://www.allmusic.com/

You can search for many bands there. That website has some mistakes, but I agree with them in many things.

Supertramp had also many Pop Hits. It is also considered as a Prog band/Art Rock band.

I can`t believe that Radiohead is considered by Progarchives as a Prog band!  For me, it is more an "Alternative Rock band", as many people calls this style.

I could also consider Coldplay and The Verve as a Prog bands.

Radiohead=Progressive

E.L.O.=Not Progressive

Not instruments! Tracks! The instruments are certainly prog, but so too are the tracks.

Those two tracks, Kuiama and From the Sun to the world, are from an album of like-styled tracks. Of which there are five.

The comparison would hold water if Britney's first 6 years were metal. Whether or not they are prog, you cannot call them untalented. I suppose you've heard two of their songs, and those were probably both from Discovery. The song writing is fantastic and they are all very talented multi-instrumentalists.

I think 20% of the vote is a lot more than you'd probably get for Nightwish or many of the other bands on the site. Which is a good thing - it shows all aspects of the genre!