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Do Dire Straits Count as Prog? |
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jamesbaldwin 
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 Posted: April 27 2023 at 12:49 |
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They cant be prog: King Charles III listen to them!
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Gaza: One year of Genocide with the complicity of the West
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David_D
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Posted: April 27 2023 at 13:00 |
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Strange questions relate to around here. Edited by David_D - April 27 2023 at 14:54 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: April 27 2023 at 16:47 |
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Nope. Just because it's long, does not make it a prog rock song.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 27 2023 at 16:53 |
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Dire Straits are about as much of a prog band as Steely Dan or The Police.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: April 27 2023 at 17:39 |
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Adding some Heavy Fuel to the debate, I can tell you Money for Nothing that Dire Straits are So Far Away from prog, but between You and Your Friend, Why Worry anyway, as they'll always be a Solid Rock band to me.
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richardh
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Posted: April 28 2023 at 01:49 |
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 I would also throw in Queen just to reignite an old argument.
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Jared
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Posted: April 28 2023 at 03:18 |
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He also attended a Status Quo gig with Di, back in '82... and before anyone asks, Quo ain't prog either; as they so self-deprecatingly admitted, they were still searching for the fourth chord..
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mellotronwave
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Posted: April 28 2023 at 06:06 |
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mellotronwave
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Posted: April 28 2023 at 06:07 |
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Not prog Imo....however I like Telegraph Road a lot
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Frets N Worries
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Posted: April 30 2023 at 19:06 |
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Telegraph Road was the song that led me to love longer songs, so for me, they're not prog, but a stepping stone that led me to progressive rock
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I prophesy disaster
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Posted: April 30 2023 at 19:30 |
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Wikipedia regards "Love over Gold" as progressive rock, art rock, jazz rock. Not long after "Love over Gold" was released, my older brother offered me a ticket to a Dire Straits concert, describing their music as "similar to Pink Floyd" which, because neither of us were aware of the term "progressive rock" at that time, was his way of saying he thought their music was progressive rock. He introduced me to Yes and Nektar, so he was aware of what progressive rock was. It should be said that this was during the '80s when progressive rock had more-or-less disappeared from the airwaves in Australia, so every hint of progressive rock counted.
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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barbera
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Posted: May 04 2023 at 17:31 |
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Love Over Gold has some hints of prog here and there, within Telegraph Road. A great song and also great lyrics. The rest of their catalogue is not progressive. The opposite. imo.
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bardberic
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But Queen 1973-1975 are prog lol
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bardberic
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Posted: May 04 2023 at 19:34 |
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Dire Straits? Ha! No, not even remotely. Nope.
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Posted: May 05 2023 at 00:45 |
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Not even remotely, although their masterpiece Love over Gold has some slightly progish hints.
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b_olariu
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Posted: May 05 2023 at 03:32 |
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Sean Trane
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I also spent the 70's & 80's being unaware my music of choice was called "progressive rock". I only learned that in the early 90's. Most of us in the area (Toronto) called that genre "Art Rock" Real progressive rock from the big 70's band during the 80's were: King Crimson/Discipline era Emerson Lake & Powell Brother Were You Bound Crest of Knave ((see Budapest) |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: May 05 2023 at 09:06 |
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dire straits is pure rock
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mickcoxinha
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Posted: May 10 2023 at 13:24 |
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Budapest, which is basically Jethro Full trying to sound like Dire Straits plus flute
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Jacob Schoolcraft
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Posted: May 10 2023 at 16:36 |
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There are many Rock bands in the 60s, 70s, and 80s that played regular Rock, but had a tendency to play in a Progressive style ..either by doing it for the whole of 4 or 5 minutes in one of their songs...or...recorded an instrumental piece .You can literally plough through a large volume of Rock albums which extend over 30 years and find that.
Of course they were never thought to be Progressive Rock by their audience or the industry, but because they were professional musicians they did in fact play something which sounded like Progressive Rock for a whole of 2 or 4 minutes. The reason being that they had a spark of creative freedom and could get away with it sparingly because they sold consistently and made the record companies happy. It's a fact..however they were never labeled as progressive in any sense. It usually wasn't revealed through the publications industry that they possessed that quality. I'm assuming it wouldn't have been good for business since they were being promoted as something else..but obviously some fans took notice of it. Edited by Jacob Schoolcraft - May 10 2023 at 16:39 |
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