"Fool's Overture" vs. "Funeral for a Friend"

I'm not generally an Elton John fan but "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" is a great track. I also love "Fool's Overture". I really don't know which one I prefer, so I'll take the easy route and vote for both equally.

I love Fool's Overture. That Elton John track not so much.

When i did this poll we didn't even have a Crossover Prog category. Supertramp was in Art Rock. I think I did it because there had been comments that Elton John had nothing to do with Prog, yet Fool's Overture, from a band in PA, has oft been considered a particularly Proggy Supertramp track and I have long closely associated "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" with "Fools Overture" -- good companion pieces to me. Bat Out of Hell may be Crossover Proogy but I don't get the same vibe from it as these two. Listening to that 10cc now and it's reminding me of Queen (great track regardless), and actually getting some of that Fools Overture vibe too. Maybe I would too off Bat out of Hell if I listened again.

By the way, I actually do like some Elton John tracks (Our Song, Rocket Man,...), but I don't expect of artists with other qualities to be "as proggy as they can", and the stuff that people think is "their most proggy" is often not what I'm attracted to. (I do understand why these two make sense as a pairing though.)

Fool's Overture 

Very good matchup. I voted both.

^I wasn't able to embed it on here but if you go to youtube listen to his track "out of the blue" from his Blue Moves album. It might surprise you. It's probably more fusion than prog though. Also, the short track "theme from a non-existant tv series" from the same album. Both are instrumental.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - September 08 2023 at 21:25

I heard Supertramp in a mall once, I was honestly surprised. But I guess they have a few famous songs, so I guess I should not be that surprised.  

Musicians whom were involved with the musicians in Supertramp, previous to Supertramps beginning are Gilbert O'Sullivan whom played in band with Rick Davies and Reginald Kenneth Dwight whom played in Argosy, led by Roger Hodgson and had Caleb Quaye and Nigel Olsson on drums.

Interesting.

The ccountry they become most popular is Canada, so ive read. The story of Rick Davies is quite interesting, not that the backround of Roger Hodgson, Bob Siebenberg, Dougie Thompson, John Halliwell or Richard Palmer James arrent interesting.

Edited by Icarium - September 10 2023 at 08:31