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To be fair her first album "Annie in Wonderland" is listed as symphonic rock and progressive rock on wikipedia and her second one as symphonic rock. So, that's something.
^^ Thanks for posting Annie Haslam's "Going Home". I love that song. It is of course Dvorak's New World Symphony, which I always associate with Hovis bread.
To be fair her first album "Annie in Wonderland" is listed as symphonic rock and progressive rock on wikipedia and her second one as symphonic rock. So, that's something.
Thanks! That's the point I've been trying to make all along.
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Posted: November 12 2019 at 13:58
AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:
To be fair her first album "Annie in Wonderland" is listed as symphonic rock and progressive rock on wikipedia and her second one as symphonic rock. So, that's something.
To be fair, listen for yourself. All of the above videos are Annie's favorites from these albums as were related in the liner notes of the CDs and on blog sites. I don't find anything progressive about these songs. The Still Life album that's deemed Symphonic Rock is Symphonic Shlock. Again, there's nothing progressive about these songs but it is a great idea. The Blessing In Disguise album is pure MOR as is the Woman Transcending album that has a touch of electro pop as well as two Country Rock songs! I won't post the country rock songs and spare you.
This is a true representation of Annie's solo output, and as she herself has said, it's is not prog rock. Again, you have ears, make up your own mind or listen to the entire albums on Youtube and then decide. The MOR will remain as long as you care to listen.
Now, I'm going to listen to some KC and forget all about these songs for today.
Edited by SteveG - November 12 2019 at 14:00
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^^ You're clearly no fan of Annie Haslam if you're rudely going to dismiss her wonderful music as "Symphonic Schlock". I think you've now lost all credibility with that rude and uncalled for comment.
The only thing you've convinced me of is that you know precious little about music if that's your offhand attitude towards Annie Haslam - one of the greatest female Prog-Rock singers of all time!
Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 12 2019 at 14:38
To be fair her first album "Annie in Wonderland" is listed as symphonic rock and progressive rock on wikipedia and her second one as symphonic rock. So, that's something.
To be fair, listen for yourself. All of the above videos are Annie's favorites from these albums as were related in the liner notes of the CDs and on blog sites. I don't find anything progressive about these songs. The Still Life album that's deemed Symphonic Rock is Symphonic Shlock. Again, there's nothing progressive about these songs but it is a great idea. The Blessing In Disguise album is pure MOR as is the Woman Transcending album that has a touch of electro pop as well as two Country Rock songs! I won't post the country rock songs and spare you.
This is a true representation of Annie's solo output, and as she herself has said, it's is not prog rock. Again, you have ears, make up your own mind or listen to the entire albums on Youtube and then decide. The MOR will remain as long as you care to listen.
Now, I'm going to listen to some KC and forget all about these songs for today.
So then why post them if they aren't progressive? Just to show us how non prog she was? I was just telling you what she was listed as in wikipedia. Anyone could pull out a few songs from a few albums and say they weren't progressive just because of a few songs. Geesh. I could put up more fool me and I know what I like and say selling england wasn't prog or wonderous stories and going for the one and say GFTO wasn't prog. I don't think wikipedia would list her as progressive rock if they didn't feel that way. I don't always agree with them but heck I don't always agree with PA either.
Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - November 12 2019 at 14:21
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Posted: November 12 2019 at 14:39
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Annie Haslam's version of George Benson's "Nature Boy" sounds just like the kind of Progressive Rock song Renaissance could have recorded.
Actually, Nat King Cole first made that song a hit. It was written by Eden Ahbez. And I absolutely LOVE this LP of Annie's and that song is one of the highlights for me.
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Annie Haslam's version of George Benson's "Nature Boy" sounds just like the kind of Progressive Rock song Renaissance could have recorded.
Actually, Nat King Cole first made that song a hit. It was written by Eden Ahbez. And I absolutely LOVE this LP of Annie's and that song is one of the highlights for me.
I have Nat King Cole's version of "Nature Boy" on CD too, although I wasn't sure if many PA members would be old enough to remember it.
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Posted: November 13 2019 at 04:27
AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:
SteveG wrote:
AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:
To be fair her first album "Annie in Wonderland" is listed as symphonic rock and progressive rock on wikipedia and her second one as symphonic rock. So, that's something.
To be fair, listen for yourself. All of the above videos are Annie's favorites from these albums as were related in the liner notes of the CDs and on blog sites. I don't find anything progressive about these songs. The Still Life album that's deemed Symphonic Rock is Symphonic Shlock. Again, there's nothing progressive about these songs but it is a great idea. The Blessing In Disguise album is pure MOR as is the Woman Transcending album that has a touch of electro pop as well as two Country Rock songs! I won't post the country rock songs and spare you.
This is a true representation of Annie's solo output, and as she herself has said, it's is not prog rock. Again, you have ears, make up your own mind or listen to the entire albums on Youtube and then decide. The MOR will remain as long as you care to listen.
Now, I'm going to listen to some KC and forget all about these songs for today.
So then why post them if they aren't progressive? Just to show us how non prog she was? I was just telling you what she was listed as in wikipedia. Anyone could pull out a few songs from a few albums and say they weren't progressive just because of a few songs. Geesh. I could put up more fool me and I know what I like and say selling england wasn't prog or wonderous stories and going for the one and say GFTO wasn't prog. I don't think wikipedia would list her as progressive rock if they didn't feel that way. I don't always agree with them but heck I don't always agree with PA either.
That's why I said that you have ears and to listen to the entire albums, in snippets, to decide for yourself. We've all become quite dependent on relying on sources like Wikipedia to classify and identify genres, etc. as well as listening to someone constantly state that a certain body of music is progressive when it's not. That's why we have so many questionable entries listed in PA under the various sub genres.
And to be fair, these posts are not aimed at you and other members but to the PA contributors who determine which artists are included in PA. I still have faith that they judge with their ears and not by what's written in dubious authorities like Wikipedia.
Edited by SteveG - November 13 2019 at 04:32
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To be fair her first album "Annie in Wonderland" is listed as symphonic rock and progressive rock on wikipedia and her second one as symphonic rock. So, that's something.
To be fair, listen for yourself. All of the above videos are Annie's favorites from these albums as were related in the liner notes of the CDs and on blog sites. I don't find anything progressive about these songs. The Still Life album that's deemed Symphonic Rock is Symphonic Shlock. Again, there's nothing progressive about these songs but it is a great idea. The Blessing In Disguise album is pure MOR as is the Woman Transcending album that has a touch of electro pop as well as two Country Rock songs! I won't post the country rock songs and spare you.
This is a true representation of Annie's solo output, and as she herself has said, it's is not prog rock. Again, you have ears, make up your own mind or listen to the entire albums on Youtube and then decide. The MOR will remain as long as you care to listen.
Now, I'm going to listen to some KC and forget all about these songs for today.
So then why post them if they aren't progressive? Just to show us how non prog she was? I was just telling you what she was listed as in wikipedia. Anyone could pull out a few songs from a few albums and say they weren't progressive just because of a few songs. Geesh. I could put up more fool me and I know what I like and say selling england wasn't prog or wonderous stories and going for the one and say GFTO wasn't prog. I don't think wikipedia would list her as progressive rock if they didn't feel that way. I don't always agree with them but heck I don't always agree with PA either.
That's why I said that you have ears and to listen to the entire albums, in snippets, to decide for yourself. We've all become quite dependent on relying on sources like Wikipedia to classify and identify genres, etc. as well as listening to someone constantly state that a certain body of music is progressive when it's not. That's why we have so many questionable entries listed in PA under the various sub genres.
And to be fair, these posts are not aimed at you and other members but to the PA contributors who determine which artists are included in PA. I still have faith that they judge with their ears and not by what's written in dubious authorities like Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is clearly more knowledgeable about music than you are. They don't rudely dismiss Annie Haslam's wonderful Symphonic Rock as "Symphonic Schlock".
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Posted: November 13 2019 at 06:48
Gee, I thought she was neo prog.
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AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:
That's the point I've been trying to make all along. 
