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Originally posted by Matti Matti wrote:

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.
Wow, it was pretty much the exact same for me, except I was probably 13 or 14... But yeah, I'd agree with Sean Trane's evaluation mostly, though I will say that Love Over Gold is basically just as proggy as Pink Floyd was from DSotM onwards, although that probably says more about people's image of Pink Floyd.
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Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

Originally posted by Matti Matti wrote:

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.
Wow, it was pretty much the exact same for me, except I was probably 13 or 14... But yeah, I'd agree with Sean Trane's evaluation mostly, though I will say that Love Over Gold is basically just as proggy as Pink Floyd was from DSotM onwards, although that probably says more about people's image of Pink Floyd.
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

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.

That's actually a fair point now that I think about it. Tales of Mystery and Imagination is really nothing like any dire straits album, but I was thinking more about Ammonia Avenue or Eye In The Sky. ヅ
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Dont really know. But money for nothing and your charges for free hehehe
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Originally posted by DiamondsandPearls DiamondsandPearls wrote:

Dont really know. But money for nothing and your charges for free hehehe
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Love Over Gold is an excellent album (Telegraph Road is a masterpiece), and in my opinion it would fit as a crossover album. Other than it, I can't think of anything else except for Brothers In Arms' title track as at least, prog-related. So, perhaps it isn't enough. Still, I like Dire Straits.
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I'm a Dire Straits fan. Really I am. Here's a brief summary of the band's career:

The first two albums can best be described as "Ry Cooder meets Bob Dylan".

The third album, Making Movies, adds a Springsteen influence (thanks, Roy Bittan and Jimmy Iovine).

The fourth album, Love over Gold, is a masterpiece, but the Dylan influence is still prevalent (especially on "Industrial Disease"). Alan Clarke's magnificent keyboard work gives the album a "prog-lite" flavor.

For the last two albums, Knopfler's greatest influence was suddenly Randy Newman. This has continued on into his solo career, where he's become a caustic, yet jaded social-commentator.

Do any of the names above (Cooder, Dylan, Springsteen, Newman) make you think of prog?
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