Most Outlandish Prog Suggestion

Lewian wrote: We also had Police coming up, and somebody even lobbied for Abba! (I don't think Abba ever was an official suggestion but I do remember one or two users stating at all fitting and unfitting occasions that Abba are prog for them.)

I've said that I find this ABBA song Proggy, as has at least one more person, but I wouldn't claim that ABBA is a Prog band.

FatherChristmas wrote: The Visitors by ABBA is a slightly proggy song as well but I'd never say they were (in general) anywhere prog.

Agreed. I never noticed anyone seriously suggesting that ABBA was a prog band, but merely that the notion that ABBA has nothing to do with Prog is not as straight-forward as some have claimed.That's often been my argument when people have suggested acts that have been ridiculed by others -- Parliament/ Funkadelic comes to mind. I think Parliamant's debut Osmium has prog-relatedness as does music in various albums by Funkadelic. I think a lot of suggestions have more merit than some give, sometimes because they don't know enough of the music and are drawing different associations (our Prog categories do cover a lot of musical ground). It doesn't mean that such stuff should be added, however. I commonly take issue with absolutist type thinking, and commonly prefer an agnostic and non binary, non-black and white way of thinking about things.

The most ridiculous addition to PA was William Hung, but that was done on April 1, 2007. It is still the best April Fools Day joke at PA in my time here -- in fact it's the only one that I can recall. I wrote a review for a Willam Hung album I made up called Hung Like a Horse based on his Hung For the Holidays album.

Edited by Logan - July 01 2020 at 12:27

Logan wrote: Agreed. I never noticed anyone seriously suggesting that ABBA was a prog band, but merely that the notion that ABBA has nothing to do with Prog is not as straight-forward as some have claimed.