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   When Mecano released its song "Aire", wasn't in a kind of prog trend? I ask because is the only song i know from Mecano that can be classified as prog, but don't know too much of its early work...

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mirco Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2005 Location: Venezuela Status: Offline Points: 819	Topic: Question for spanish coforists Posted: June 09 2005 at 21:02
	When Mecano released its song "Aire", wasn't in a kind of prog trend? I ask because is the only song i know from Mecano that can be classified as prog, but don't know too much of its early work...
	Please forgive me for my crappy english!

Ivan_Melgar_M Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535	Posted: June 09 2005 at 21:55
	Even though I like some Mecano early works like "Barco a Venus", I never saw a single song from them remotely close to prog'. They are closer to New Wave bands like OMD or similars but no relation with prog'. I considered them very innovative and love Ana Torroja's voice (Somehow similar to Jon Anderson's, but sounds great in a woman) until I heard that crap called Hawaii - Bombay, Holy sh!t the worst music and lyrics I ever found. Iván Edited by ivan_2068


nacho Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 18 2004 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 521	Posted: June 10 2005 at 03:22
	Mecano proggy? No please, forget about them. Nothing but pop... and cheap one IMO...
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: June 10 2005 at 04:02
	Yes, they are just a pop band. Anyway I read that Cano brothers were fond of progressive rock, Nacho Cano's favourite album was The Lamb Lies Down On Brodway (Genesis).

Winterfamily Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: March 13 2005 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 85	Posted: June 10 2005 at 04:33
	No, no, NO!!!!! Please, let us keep Mecano as far of this place as we can! For non - spanish or south american readers, just say you're quite lucky: i wish i've never heard them, but they were the biggest selling spanish pop act in the eighties. Two megalomaniac guys and a steadily uncompetent female singer making annoying bubblegum ballads. And now they've got their own stage play with their songs in it... Just like Abba. (However, their first LP was cool)

Carakhallo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 12 2005 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 114	Posted: June 10 2005 at 05:05
	NOOOOOO!!! Mecano sucks, really. Just poppy pop

nacho Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 18 2004 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 521	Posted: June 10 2005 at 05:49
	The funier thing about them is that a few years ago one of the guys in the band decided that he needed to do something musically more complex and then he wrote an... opera... Well, at least he said it was an opera. I listened to half of it (had to go to vomit in the middle) and it was pathetic... strangely enough Plácido Domingo was involved in that project and was the tenor singing in the recorded CD.
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