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    Posted: February 19 2016 at 18:45
Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new waveband from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, originally consisting of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger, used electronic violins, guitars, screaming vocals and synthesizers to develop a unique "cabaret no-wave" sound. Bassist Peter Principle joined the band and in 1979 they released the single "No Tears", which remains a post-punk cult classic. That year they signed to Ralph Records and released their first album, Half-Mute. Eventually Tuxedomoon relocated to Europe. The band separated in the early 1990s, only to reunite later that decade. They have remained together since releasing the album Cabin in the Sky in 2004.
They are still active.

Discography

Half Mute, originally on Ralph Records, 1980
Desire, originally on Ralph Records, 1981
Divine, 1982
Holy Wars, 1985
Ship of Fools, 1986
You, 1987
The Ghost Sonata, 1991
Joeboy in Mexico, 1997 (as Joeboy)
Cabin in the Sky, 2004
Bardo Hotel Soundtrack, 2006
Vapour Trails, 2007
Pink Narcissus, 2014
"Blue Velvet Revisited", 2015 (collaboration with Cult With No Name)

(all the above albums except Joeboy in Mexico were released or re-issued on CramBoy, Tuxedomoon's label which is part of Crammed Discs)


East/Jinx/.../Music #1  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygtpf9sFJHg




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If anyone deserves to be here, then they are!



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Points: 2054 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2016 at 20:27
I'll leave the Prog or not debate to those more qualified, but I sure did love them back in the '80s. Baron Brown:
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2016 at 22:04
They've already been rejected by RIO / Avant Team about 7 years before.

Unanimous "yes" votes in RIO / Avant Team needed if they are approved ... please PM me the album (that you feel the most progressive) via a free filesharing website.
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Points: 20450 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2016 at 00:51
maybe TM needs one day inclusion of the PA BD, but IMHO, not in RIO/Avant....

more like Prog-related, IMHO

The track given as evidence is skewed, IMHO, because it's relatively unrepresentative of TM's average material, with this song giving indeed a certain RIO feel (between Albert Marcoeur and Etronfou Leloublanc)
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Great band but they were never prog. Experimental like a lot of other post-punk bands.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2016 at 07:55
Agreed, great post punk band but not Prog or Avant-Prog.
What?
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Points: 15 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2016 at 15:39
Progressive is a broad term, and so is in the music.

If this is not progressive, than I don't know what is


Tuxedomoon are very influential band, a group that had a big impact on the avant-garde music of the 20th century. And not only avant-garde. They are much better known in Europe than in America, for example.

I can see on this page a variety of music, music that would be very hard and difficult to accommodate under the guideline of progressive music, and I am very surprised that this band is still not here, although is many times mentioned in the forum, compared, recommended... They are to me personally much more interesting band, and better instrumentalists than Residents, with which are often compared. (And not that I don't love Residents)

 

Their records that contain the most progressive elements are:


Cabin In The Sky (2004)

Soundtracks (Urban Leisure) (2002)

Desire (1981)

Holy Wars (1985)

You (1987)

The Ghost Sonata (1991)

Vapour Trails (2007)

 

there is a lot more...

 

Thanks in advance :)



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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2016 at 16:09
I wholly agree with you regarding 'progressive is a broad term', but in the end this place is called Prog Archives and not progressive music archives;-) There are sooooo many acts out there that play progressive music yet do not fit within the confines of PA. Wire and Chrome are two other experimental post-punk bands - both of which I consider progressive in their own right - yet neither of them belong on this site imho.
Again great band, and thanks for reminding me of them as I actually pulled out Desire after my last post. What a great revisit that was!
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Their records that contain the most progressive elements are:

Soundtracks (Urban Leisure) (2002) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SQlhdt47U

Desire (1981) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBD27CAC86FA83826

Holy Wars (1985) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1SK0O9FkE4cT1eg5ajiHa9eHMy_d0BK

You (1987) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1SK0O9FkE4e9vxOZ0pfO09pcXpfY6-5

The Ghost Sonata (1991)

Vapour Trails (2007)

 there is a lot more...
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 20 2016 at 20:31
I've said no, therefore this discussion has been finished.
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