Prog's not prog.

I'm not keen on 'New World Man' by Rush. When I first heard it I hated it and considered anything lighter than Motorhead as pop. These days I think it's ok. Interestingly I love 'Time Stand Still'

The only pop songs by prog bands I dont like is the muck Genesis put in the charts in the 80's, with the exception of Mama and Land of Confusion.

Ha! I think their best album is 'A Trick of the Tail'

The Final Cut by Pink Floyd is one of the best albums ever made, but I don't think it can be called a progressive album, even though it is not a commercial album. I also don't dislike A Momentary Lapse, which is pretty commercial rock, but the 80's style it has makes it annoying at some moments. I like some 80's Rush songs, I don't know much of those though, as the only post Moving pictures album I've got is A Show Of Hands, their live album from the late 80's. 

Is it impossible for commerical sounding music to be good, though? Popular music has its place, and bands like Genesis and Yes have produced good quality music of such a nature, without compromising their musical integrity, in my opinion. But then again, that's just me.

You know, ladies and germs, how progressive a song is has nothing to do with how good it is. It might have something to do with how ambitious it is... but if you accept that there is a way to go from having high ambitions and living up to them.

As for my picks? Lost Johnny's one of my favourite Hawkwind songs despite being a straight-up simple garage rock tune, basically a prototype for Motörhead since it has Lemmy singing. Jethro Tull I find just as adept at straight-up blues rock or folksy stuff as at their genre-busting progressive epics... and, yeah, there is a time and place for their simpler songs.

Evan wrote: King Crimson is prog

No, they're not. I hate it when they do those jazz tunes when they're supposed to do prog.

p0mt3 wrote: 'Prog' by definition is something very few bands here actually live up to, so i think you might just be reading bit too much into it. I dunno . . . when I write music, I write what I feel like writing, and if it comes out Prog, Pop, Jazz, whatever, it still comes from the heart, so I don;t worry about it. If these Prog guys constantly second guessed themselves about whether or not this song or that song is 'prog enough', we'd get nowhere.

Edited by ProGR72 - July 25 2009 at 16:49

Pardon? In the OP it looked like you didn't like it when prog rock bands tried to do other genres because it sounded too much like "ordinary music"...

ProGR72 wrote:    I'm sure ELP did'nt want to make prog when In the Hot Seat came out.

Toaster Mantis wrote: Pardon? In the OP it looked like you didn't like it when prog rock bands tried to do other genres because it sounded too much like "ordinary music"...

That's the impression I got fro  that as well.

Normally, I would ask for the TS to explain himself, but he's now at exactly 111 posts, and that's just too cool to ruin, so I won't push for him to make another post.