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asbestosLovesProg 
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Am I wrong? If Alan Parsons Project is prog, and Wishbone Ash is prog related, so is Dire Straits, no? I mean Brothers in Arms is at least prog related, if you ask me. Also Love Over Gold? That's borderline prog. I'm curious what you guys think.
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Logan
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Posted: November 25 2020 at 14:11 |
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Moved this topic to General Music Discussions as the topic does not fit the Suggest New Bands guidelines, which should include music samples, a bio, links. and in a case such as this, then a strong case for inclusion: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122381 It has been discussed many times. I'm not very familiar with Dire Straits, other than "Telegraph Road" (which is Proggy) and some other stuff which I wouldn't say is) but it didn't readily remind me of Alan Parsons Project or Wishbone Ash, and the best comparisons to make are to ones included in Prog categories that sound most similar and/or share personnel. If you're just going for a really general "this is as Prog as that", then that doesn't make a good case. One thing too is that PA is not very consistent due to all of thee changes that have happened here over the years. By the way, getting into Prog Related can take a lot of effort, and comes with its own expectations. Helps to look at the Prog Related page and see how many of those criteria an act ticks off, and then a Special Collaborator is expected to support it and bring it to the admin team. Here are some of the past topics on this: Topic: Do Dire Straits Count as Prog? (this topic is still open) So you are hardly alone in thinking that it should or might find a place in PA. It was proposed to the Prog Related "team" back in 2011 and rejected. |
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SteveG
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Posted: November 25 2020 at 14:46 |
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I don't find DS to be prog in the least but the Love Over Gold albun is superb.
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Posted: November 25 2020 at 14:56 |
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I like DS but prog? When I saw them in New Cross in the late seventies they were a good competent band with what I thought at the height of the new wave was a retro sound. Sorry,not prof for me, I have Love over Gold though and a fine album it is.
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Posted: November 25 2020 at 15:04 |
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Love their Making Movies album and especially Love Over Gold - think it is much better than many prog albums, but I have never considered Dire Straits being prog. It's not because they made a 14 minute song that it becomes prog... Actually, I've never considered Alan Parsons to be prog either, but they too have made magnificent albums. |
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Posted: November 25 2020 at 17:45 |
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In my opinion should be Prog Related. "Private Investigator" is somewhat proggy
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1980's 'Makin' Movies' LP featured a little tune, 'Skateaway' I have never been able to define. 'Evening paper in/Horror torn/But there's hope for later/Capricorn/Stars give her just enough/To get her home' and 'Then she reads about a swing to the right/But she's thinkin' 'bout a stranger/In the night' makes for a tuneful snack, until you get to the three-minute, instrumental conclusion. To call it a hook does lasers an injustice. I loved it and still do. And this guy does this-- makes a song so highly addictive you can't wait to hear it again-- throughout his career, culminating in a biographical record, 'Shangri La' in 2004, with 'Song for Sonny Liston', 'Boom, Like That', 'Back to Tupelo', 'Stand-Up Guy', and 'Don't Crash the Ambulance' via a near-fatal motorcycle accident: The big enchilada Stealing elections Had to go down there Trash collection Brother Knopfler started out as a journalist. Thus lyrics are the backbone of his most effective songs. We could think of his process as 'spellbinding', first the lyrics, then the cook. Many do wander off progfaced, and no one can remember where they were when they heard them. I like this quote from nowhere: 'A leading exponent of the moody rock lament...'
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Posted: November 25 2020 at 20:02 |
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If DS is prog, then Chet Atkins is prog-related.
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Epic use of sarcasm font. Edited by Tapfret - November 25 2020 at 21:34 |
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Remotely prog related at one or two, maybe three occasions, that's it. Love over Gold is a masterpiece and has some proggish elements as well.
Not fit for inclusion in PA, methinks.
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DS was my first favourite band when I was 12 years, just before finding prog. I still love especially the album Love Over Gold: 'Telegraph Road' expanded my musical horizon as a long rock composition. And I agree there are other DS songs with a slight (VERY slight) progness. But in general they are NOT a prog band AT ALL.
So, it's a firm no, I don't wish or expect to see DS in the ProgArchives database. There are lots of pop/rock bands and artists with occasional prog-related flavour, it would be pointless to accept artists on such marginal, occasional progness. Jane Siberry is another good example (I've suggested her myself many years ago, and respected the rejection). |
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DS in terms of prgginess: MM: 4/10 LOG: 6/10 BIA (side A: 0/10, side B 6/10), so 3/10 The rest (three other studio albums): 0/10 not enough to warrant an inclusion BTW, I like DS a fair amount, but only kept LOG (no knofler solo album either) Edited by Sean Trane - November 26 2020 at 01:24 |
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I love Dire Straits, although I wouldn't want to be in dire straits.
  The same goes for Fleetwood Mac too.
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I second that :)
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Wishbone Ash have at least made some out and out prog albums.
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I believe Argos is the proggiest Wishbone Ash album. Most of WA's albums are Hard Rock, apart from their two techno dance albums, obviously  |
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It was a great catalogue as well, the laminated book of dreams.
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The Time Was when you could order anything from Argos in a Sometime World with the leaves Blowin' Free.
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Short answer: NOOOOOOOO! Have you heard Alan Parson Project's debut album TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION? That's a prog masterpiece and unlike the silly pop fluff that followed (for the most part). Wishbone Ash was one of those early hard rock bands that had prog characteristics like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and others. Dire Straits has no connection to the prog world and doesn't have any remotely prog attributes and i own all their albums so quite familiar with them. Prog related here makes no sense until you investigate further so don't make simple conclusions based on an album or two you may have heard from an artist.
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