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Cristi 
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Posted: August 04 2006 at 21:57 |
Well, here is a situation. When I was a student I bought a FOREIGNER (yes, you've read correctly) cassette and in the booklet there was a brief history of the group. And what didn't I know?! The first four Foreigner albums were considered progressive rock?!  As much as I love this band (and put me to the wall of Shame, I do like this band), they don't belong in the category of Prog-rock, not even the prog-related category.
Well what do you think about that and about that blunder?
Edited by Cristi - August 04 2006 at 22:04
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memowakeman
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 00:30 |
i don`t really know them.. just im afraid some early King Crimson member created Foreigner, Mc Donald? did he?
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 00:31 |
 memowakeman wrote:
i don`t really know them.. just im afraid some early King Crimson member created Foreigner, Mc Donald? did he?
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Yeah, McDonald did that and then later on Boz went on and was a founder of Bad Company if I'm not mistaken. 
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Fassbinder
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 00:37 |
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McDonald certainly was there... not sure though whether he created Foreigner or joined them... also, don't know much about them...
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memowakeman
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 00:40 |
Cygnus X-2 wrote:
memowakeman wrote:
i don`t really know them.. just im afraid some early King Crimson member created Foreigner, Mc Donald? did he?
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Yeah, McDonald did that and then later on Boz went on and was a founder of Bad Company if I'm not mistaken.
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What`s that? 
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Arsillus
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 00:42 |
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Foreigner is cool.
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maani
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 22:18 |
Yup, the first four Foreigner albums were "progressive" - they progressed from bad to worse...LOL
Peace.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 04:08 |
maani wrote:
Yup, the first four Foreigner albums were "progressive" - they progressed from bad to worse...LOL
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Good to have you posting in the other lounges again; Maani
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 11:18 |
maani wrote:
Yup, the first four Foreigner albums were "progressive" - they progressed from bad to worse...LOL
Peace. |
Comeon we're prog fans. We're not supposed to have a sense of humor.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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akin
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 17:28 |
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I don't know if they are progressive, but people often says that the first four are better than the rest.
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Seyo
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 16:50 |
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Rubbish. From what I know of Foreigner, they are even less prog than STYX, a pure AOR pop-rock with studio sophisticated sound production. Quite listenable, but hardly prominent for the type of music we are discussing here. Of course, one of the members was Mc Donald of KING CRIMSON fame, but that does not mean much.
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Sacred 22
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 01:36 |
maani wrote:
Yup, the first four Foreigner albums were "progressive" - they progressed from bad to worse...LOL
Peace. |
They sure did 
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 14 2006 at 11:31 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
Comeon we're prog fans. We're not supposed to have a sense of humor. |
No, no, no. Only you young ones are not supposed to have senses of humour......
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 14 2006 at 11:32 |
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I thought some ex-members of Spooky Tooth had some input too??? On a serious footing, I quite liked some of the first 4 albums, but clearly as AOR not progressive rock
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