When Prog Bands "Lose It"

Jeremy Bender wrote: Pink Floyd - after the final cut Yes - after tales from topographic oceans King Crimson - never ELP - after brain salad surgery Dream Theater - after six degrees of inner turbulence Genesis - they never had 'it'

Dude, how can you resist the charms of "Love Beach"?

A question of taste....Yes after the Yes Album sounds about right.  Even though I dig most of what they did right up thru Drama, a warmness (for lack of a better word) was lost with the loss of Banks' jazzy fills and Kaye's earthy keys (I think Bruford peaked with the band on the first three albums).  What followed was often spectacular, they became a much more mature, accomplished group after TYA but the skin they shed was one smokin' outfit....really love those Banks Wes Montgomery imitations/freak outs on some of the late 60s bootlegs.

Dream Theater after A Change of Seasons.

A few bands lose it... maybe not "lose it" as in losing quality or something (No, I honestly think they DO), but better yet "loose it" as in letting the prog-stream flowing through their veins loose and lost in a pool of waste....

But The Flower Kings will never lose it!!!!!  

Don't know if Rush has been mentioned, but I think they are one of the few that had it, then really really completely lost it.   After Grace Under Pressure, they, well,  sucked.  


As for DT, they had it,  always did, and always will.  Never have they lost it.

After reading some of the comments I quite like Tangerine Dream up to the Tournado tour - must be about 1997. Excellent sound - but to me they just didn't know how to finish a track. Probably why I liked the live album with the links between each piece producing a continuous sound.

limeyrob wrote: After reading some of the comments I quite like Tangerine Dream up to the Tournado tour - must be about 1997. Excellent sound - but to me they just didn't know how to finish a track. Probably why I liked the live album with the links between each piece producing a continuous sound.   Still can't get into Rush though - I have tried

The Tournado tour was 1996 and concluded with Tournado, afterwards Valentyne Wheels.

I may be the TD die-hard fan, but I also believe there's been serious undulations during the 1986-1996 period. From cheap to inefficient. From marginally adequate to occasionally tastefull (and when oh-oh! delice ).

But I can draw a point from Tournado, saying that after those albums, up in the Millenium, Tangerine Dream "got it back".

oh, and I believe the point about Rush is bit misunderstood, in relation with the topic subject.


Edited by Ricochet - November 26 2006 at 16:20

stonebeard wrote: You kidding me???     Phaedra 2005 =

why Mr. Stonie!


It sure is

eugene wrote: Yes, but some of them returmn to form, as KC did with Thrak.

    

KC never lost it. Discipline is amazing. So is the Power to Believe, and so is Thrak.

1800iareyay wrote: jiSh wrote: Dream Theater went kinda flaky on Octavarium, there's only three songs I like from it (Root of All Evil/Sacrificed Sons/title track), they started to sound too much like other bands with their other songs. However, the "Score" concert totally rocked. I think we're related[IMG]height=17 alt=LOL src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>   I can't believe only one person mentioned ELP's Love Beach. That is the defintion of "losing it"   Here's some more bands, some not prog Yes- Going For the One Rush- Presto, though I think they rebounded wit Test For Echo and Vapor Trails, despite the later's atrocious production Deep Purple- Burn, came back for Perfect Strangers, lost it immediately afterwards, came back with Purpendicular Ozzy Osbourne- Bark At the Moon, came back briefly for No More Tears Genesis- began with And Then There Were Three...

Going for the one? That's easily one of their best albums!!!! Shame on you! Shame, shame shame!!!