ANYTHING HERE PROG!

of course it doesnt sound like some dranged lunatic
lying on his bed in a 8x10 bungalow babbling out
grevious non sensical rubbish. While violins squill
and flutes toot around him in some drunken spent
jig!

Or is some of this to amazing to your ears to qualify
after being trapped for so long!!!

Give that ol' AMERICANA a hoot!!! and dump the
backlog of all that POPPYCOCK!!!

Edited by DallasBryan

i'm so tempted to put headhunters i think i will. Sly is such a crazy piece of music, i love it.... and of course chameleon is classic as is watermelon man! AWESOME ALBUM.

The one US Artist/Group I'd expect to see listed here on Progarchives is
Mike Keneally (& Beer for Dolphins)

Great music, definitely progressive.

got some extraordinary compositions, and IMO, the best lyrics ever...

"We live in a world
where every bot and girl
is taught to believe in a justifiable war"


but sorry, Dallas, I cannot call any those groups prog.

-Beau


Edited by Beau Heem

How did Ry Cooder's Jazz get in - after being recommended to this album by a guitarist who indirectly replaced Cooder in the Magic band, I was surprised about its dated sound. It gives me the impression of a polite, late 20's tearoom group ensemble wanting to play Scott Joplin and not get too heavy with the new fangled 'jazz' - prog rock never entered my mind as a definition. Give me  RC's Crossroad OST - but why was the Steve Vai  blues battle omitted?????????

I can't really see Pretty Hate Machine being prog. But I have mentioned
before that nin's The downward spiral and the fragile are prog IMO.

[QUOTE=DallasBryan]whats the difference in Ry Cooder playing spooky
1920s jazz electrified and english progressive folk
rock groups playing spooky 1800s folk music
electrified?

QUOTE]

 

A thought: Bob Dylan shocked the folk world by playing electric but wasn't labelled prog. [Fairport Convention following that pathway, raiding Cecil Sharpe's British Isles folk song book, playing electric have not been called prog - ditto Steeleye Span]. Strawbs becoming less folky and electric were/are prog. Tull losing some of the blues with personnel changes due to  Abrahams' departure, shift from a blues to a a sort of folky prog band. Al Stewart shifted from folky (e.g. Bedsitter Chronicles - has this even been release don CD?) to AOR (eventually, Year Of the Cat), but not thought of, at least in any big way, as proggie. Seems to reinforce the idea that we are arbituary with our categorisations.

Please Sir,me no understandee!

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