To include ELO in Progarchives

Guillermo, you are right ELO is progressive rock in
the early years. No Answer is definitlely and
Eldorado was one of the first true(only one or two
really worked) concept albums in rock n roll in the
mid 70's.

There seems to be this either younger generation
that has been exposed to so many different kinds of
crap and grew up hearing them on the radio or a
british society mainstream idea that they are British
AOR because they were frequently played on british
radio or northeastern USA stations, where they
decide in institutes(stuck inside because its to damn
cold), what is or aint this and that! Their brains are
frozen.

So dont feel bad your right!

Edited by DallasBryan

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

" Art Rock (Symphonic Prog is often refereed to as Art Rock) — A name that is used to refer to early explorative work that had roots in popular music.Very structured and even adventurous, sometimes hard or heavy, sometimes mellow, strong melodies, good hooks are an integral part of most of the material. Bands in this category can and have produced material falling into other categories as well. There may be moments of outright progressive rock but with more of a pop influence and certainly a tendency towards shorter songs. Examples: BE BOP DELUXE, early ENO, ROXY MUSIC. "

In my opinion, ELO is still Progressive, if you read these definitions. Why Roxy Music wasn`t included before in the discography?

 

Edited by Guillermo

Apparently the best ever prog album...

Disc: 2
1. Here Comes The Flood (Peter Gabriel)
2. Tubular Bells (Part 1) (Edit) (Mike Oldfield)
3. Winter Wine (Caravan)
4. May I? (Kevin Ayers & The Whole World)
5. Sympathy (Rare Bird)
6. A Salty Dog (Procol Harum)
7. Mocking Bird (Barclay James Harvest)
8. Which Way The Wind Blows (Anthony Phillips with Mike Rutherford & Phil Collins)
9. Lucky Man (Emerson, Lake And Palmer)
10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music)
11. 10538 Overture (Electric Light Orchestra)
12. Mumps (Hatfield & The North)

Sure enough ELO is progressive enough to be listed here.

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Lunar

MAYBE PROG RELATED OR ART ROCK...BUT MAYBE....

IN FACT I DONT CONSIDERE THEM AS PROG

I've gone for 'no' I'm afraid; I agree that the first two albums are def worthy of inclusion, but Third Day and Eldorado less so (I owned all 4 of them once..), and the rest is borderline Art Rock/ Pop, which is of little interest here...