Roxy Music

I found something pretty interesting: in the definition of Art Rock of the archives, one band used as an example of the genre is... Roxy music!

YEAH! Roxy Music has now officially been added!

The reviews are not exactly rolling in for Roxy Music, one to date.

 

Easy Livin wrote: The reviews are not exactly rolling in for Roxy Music, one to date.

On my ever-expanding "to do" list, especially the first five albums....

[QUOTE=Sean Trane]

OK guys , Roxy Music has been on the Archives for one month now ,to the great demand of some progheads/forum members and so far there has maximum eight or nine reviews and only two from the persons who pleaded for their inclusion on the Archives. it seems that some of the ask-ers are not the do-ers (no offence) but then if the ask-ers do not write reviews......

 

When I pestered Poor Old Max@ for inclusion of Traffic , Tangerine dream , Audience , Aka Moon , Procol Harum, I made suire there was the majority of the studio albums that I reviewed within the first month. Now this is my idea of rewarding the admins for inclusion borderline groups for the archives. I was against Uriah Heep for inclusion in the Archives but still wrote reviews for their classic period (first 7 or 8 albums)

Progly yours

Hugues

I will be adding a couple more this weekend.  I will have the remaining albums done in a month is my guess as I can do a couple each weekend.  I do not know why some of the other people who wanted Roxy added have not posted reviews eithier.  I will mention that there are other bands on this site with only a few reviews but I do agree that if someone pickets for a band to be added they should follow it up with reviews.  Maybe the forum is made up of mostly thirty year old's  and under therefore making only the well known classic bands such a Floyd accessible and newer bands(post 80's) reviewed...who knows but anyone that I grew up with and followed music knew Roxy very well.  My band covered a couple of Roxy Music tunes in the seventies and early eighties and they were always well recieved.

roxy music is bland and not prog imo

Sean Trane wrote: [QUOTE=greenback]roxy music is bland and not prog imo

I would agree with you 100% but my rant is towards the people would pressured for inclusion and then do not review them.

I'm disappointed as well that there are not more reviews.  I will be finishing the studio albums in the next week or two.  There seemed to be support for Roxy Music to be included under the subcategory of artrock and I am glad that they were added.  As for greenback not liking Roxy, that is ok as I would be hard pressed to say I enjoy all the bands on this site or for that matter that I consider all the bands progressive.   I have always had a real hard time accepting Asia as a prog band.  They are a classic case of the whole being less than the sum of it's parts.  Wetton, Howe, Palmer creating music that should be catagorized along with the Eddie Moneys of the world. etc...   I grew up a huge fan of each individual band that they came from and was appalled when the first Asia album came out.    As catchy and radio friendly as they are it really is a  classic example of a band selling out to make a buck.  I am surprised they are on this site - they are nothing more than AOR...  Of course the same can be said about Supertramp as well.  With a small history as a prog band then a long history as AOR.  I enjoy Breakfast in America, etc but it is really not progressive.   Also the Rabin Yes days as much as I enjoy them are hard pressed to be progressive, especially 90125.   I think that some people get confused as to what progressive really means.  It is not progressive unless the music is.  It has nothing to do with the musicians past history to be a so called supergroup, as was the case with Asia.   Heck the song "Terrapin Station" by of all bands the Grateful Dead had more prog elements to it than any song I recall by Asia.