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lucas 
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 Posted: May 09 2008 at 17:32 |
Difficult to categorize. But no one can deny they are a great band.
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daSilva
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Posted: May 10 2008 at 03:44 |
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I guess they play the odd prog note every now and then but they're not a prog band. They make good music, though.
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Norbert
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Posted: May 10 2008 at 08:26 |
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Prog related and good, sometimes even brilliant.
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AustinPrince14
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Posted: May 10 2008 at 15:15 |
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Hey Prog Archive!
I am looking for a Queen song, not sure what it is or what any of the lyrics are. I heard it very faintly as I was passing by a store. It is a very quiet, piano driven song, at least toward the end when I heard it. It has quiet lead vocals by Freddie Mercury accented in a call-and-response-style by the rest of the band in the signature Queen backup vocals. It isn't on "A night at the opera" and I hope from this information given I could get some help in naming this song.
Any help is appreciated,
Austin
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kenethlevine
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Posted: May 11 2008 at 12:01 |
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They have some prog songs like the aforementioned "Prophet's Song", but
to me they are more arena rock and with the worst qualities of that
appellation - the grandstanding, the pompousness, the seeming disdain
for their audience, not to mention that they produced some of the worst
hits ever, like "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites
the Dust"
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manray
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Posted: May 12 2008 at 19:12 |
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in my opinion They cant be classed as not prog! Jazz and classical influences coming out the ears, extened compositions And they used certain studio techniques before any others!
Progressive and AMAZING
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Certif1ed
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 07:07 |
^Indeed, many of their compositions leave most so-called Prog bands crying in the dust. The entireity of QII, for example.
Then there's Hot Space, admittedly...
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tuxon
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 08:50 |
 Certif1ed wrote:
^Indeed, many of their compositions leave most so-called Prog bands crying in the dust. The entireity of QII, for example.
Then there's Hot Space, admittedly... |
Hot Space is a great record, well only if you like it, but I like it,
of course it's not progressive.
Or is it 
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Kotro
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 15:10 |
tuxon wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
^Indeed, many of their compositions leave most so-called Prog bands crying in the dust. The entireity of QII, for example.
Then there's Hot Space, admittedly... |
Hot Space is a great record, well only if you like it, but I like it,
of course it's not progressive.
Or is it |
Progressive disco? 
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boo boo
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 16:30 |
One thing that irks me is that this is a prog forum, and yet we have people using the word "pompous" as a negative connotation. 
Edited by boo boo - May 13 2008 at 16:31
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Relayer09
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 18:24 |
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Queen is a great band. Queen II could be considered prog as an album but Queen's prog moments are too few to put the band in the prog catagory. They even had some prog moments on later albums, Dragon Attack comes to mind but still not enough of them to be prog.
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Avantgardehead
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Posted: May 14 2008 at 15:26 |
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Definitely prog-related. But man did they have a steep drop-off after A Night at the Opera...
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Certif1ed
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Posted: May 15 2008 at 02:32 |
Relayer09 wrote:
Queen is a great band. Queen II could be considered prog as an album but Queen's prog moments are too few to put the band in the prog catagory. (...). |
I fail to see how three albums worth is too few prog moments, when some bands in the archives haven't even released that many albums!
Surely one album of great prog (QII) is enough?
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