David Bowie for eclettic Prog

and adding albums as we speak....

no problem sir... figured the time was right to finally move forward with the addition




Edited by micky - May 28 2008 at 11:03

just an update.. on some stuff that has played out privately.

Bowie was accepted last fall for Xover.. but the team decided to sit on it till we thought the time was right.

When Bowie was approved for PR.. we were called so to speak and had to put our cards on the table.  However in light of both of the team members having vacations and...errr... other events around the forum... even that decision was sat on as well.  Anyway to make a long story short.  While the Xover team feels he is prog.. neither of us really feels that Xover IS a good fit in that sub-genre.  As a wise poster, James (Salmacis) said in a different thread about Bowie.. he really IS in a class by himself and trying to pigeonhole him... would be an exercise in fulitly.  Thus.. rather than pigeonhole him... we have decided that he is to be added in the broadest possible category... that being of course..  Prog Related hahhaha. Prog.. not prog..  doesn't really matter to much.. it is all personal perception of course. .but what matters is having him here because he does belong here. 

Anyway...  work is being done on a bio for him and hopefully he'll be added in a week or two.

akin wrote: debrewguy wrote: Following career paths, I would say that  Bowie's inclusion would justify Alice Cooper entry. The first two albums on Zappa's labels are proto-psych prog, the next 4 are full of concepts, story lines, extended multi-part compositions, all delivered with a theatricality that rivaled Peter Gabriel for character development. I await the deluge, and go back to the Coop's CDs to prepare my case. Not that I disagree with your argument, though.

Hmm, I just remembered I have to ask my wife if i can go out for a (ahem) few beers with the boys Saturday Night.

Following career paths, I would say that  Bowie's inclusion would justify Alice Cooper entry. The first two albums on Zappa's labels are proto-psych prog, the next 4 are full of concepts, story lines, extended multi-part compositions, all delivered with a theatricality that rivaled Peter Gabriel for character development.
I await the deluge, and go back to the Coop's CDs to prepare my case.

tuxon wrote: akin wrote: I think it would be much better if he stayed on prog-related genre forever.   Totally agree with that.

akin wrote: I think it would be much better if he stayed on prog-related genre forever.

Ghost Rider wrote: bhikkhu wrote: micky wrote: or come now...  Bowie has been accepted by Dean and I in Xover for some time now . but we sat on it until the forum was 'ready' for it. Gerald...  TM me a bio of him, I'll be writing one and will PM one to you, and would like to run both by Dean who has a real sense of him as an artist and he'll Frankenstein it and add his own fhoughts. will credit all 3 of us for the addition/bio....  he's been my baby of sorts.  I thought Easy said that Bowie was approved for PR.   If you read his post again, Bob also said he could be moved later...

Ah, I didn't take that as sign it really would happen. Do you really think Bowie belongs in a full prog sub-grenre?

micky wrote: or come now...  Bowie has been accepted by Dean and I in Xover for some time now . but we sat on it until the forum was 'ready' for it. Gerald...  TM me a bio of him, I'll be writing one and will PM one to you, and would like to run both by Dean who has a real sense of him as an artist and he'll Frankenstein it and add his own fhoughts. will credit all 3 of us for the addition/bio....  he's been my baby of sorts.

I thought Easy said that Bowie was approved for PR.

You do know this is going to cause an album review flood of epidemic proportions...