Which Albums by Rush are real Prog Rock? And Why?

"What is Prog?"

verslibre wrote: "What is Prog?"

Cristi wrote: verslibre wrote: <font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"What is Prog?" is prog what?

Either way it’s?

 

Zeph wrote: You can’t even agree on the definition of “prog”, which makes it difficult to answer the question. Music is not black and white where every single album can be deemed either prog or not. It’s all a mix of inspirations and talent. I’m also amused at the topic title, asking for “real prog”. Certainly prog police work.

Silly me, I've just noticed the "real prog rock" in the title. As opposed to  false or fake prog rock everywhere, right? 

Edited by Cristi - January 31 2024 at 09:22

I actually don't disagree with the 2112 to MP opinion (although is side two of 2112 really prog?) but my personal (subjective) defintion of prog stretches a bit beyond MP.

Zeph wrote: You can’t even agree on the definition of “prog”, which makes it difficult to answer the question. Music is not black and white where every single album can be deemed either prog or not. It’s all a mix of inspirations and talent. I’m also amused at the topic title, asking for “real prog”. Certainly prog police work.

Cristi wrote: richardh wrote: Zeph wrote: You can’t even agree on the definition of “prog”, which makes it difficult to answer the question. Music is not black and white where every single album can be deemed either prog or not. It’s all a mix of inspirations and talent. I’m also amused at the topic title, asking for “real prog”. Certainly prog police work. exactly 5.75% of the music on this site is real prog rock. After that you have the fake prog represented by 80's King Crimson and Peter Gabriel entire solo career plus the AOR crap that no one cares about and the weird stuff that strange human like persons think is important. <runs and hides> who said that AOR is real prog?  what's a "strange human like person"?

Now now children remember one man’s prog isn’t necessarily another man’s prog?

^Come on. Madrigal is more of a prog song than Cinderella Man.  It seems that maybe you have fallen into the trap that many people have which is thinking that a song has to be complex to be prog.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - January 31 2024 at 09:30

^Maybe "more fool me" isn't a prog song but imo "I know what I like" qualifies. I stand by what I said. I remember asking a guy at a prog festival if he thought "wonderous stories" and IKWIL are prog and he said they were. I suppose we can all argue until the cows come home as to whether they or other songs are prog. I guess it ultimately it depends on our own interpretation and opinion on what makes something prog.

Cristi wrote: Nitpicking like this, I can list songs that are not prog from all the prog-greats.