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Poll Question: Which band on the list was the most important in building prog?
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Points: 19557 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 18:18
Originally posted by progrocker2244 progrocker2244 wrote:


Building pop???? Don't try to tell me that Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, and Revolver helped build pop music.
 
No, but Help, Please Please Me, Love Me Do, I Wanna Hold your Hand, Yesterday, Ticket to Ride, Hard Day's Night, etc etc etc, are the base of POP.
 
The beatles were influential for everybody, but mainly to POP IMO.
 
So I agree with David on this one.
 
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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 18:28
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by progrocker2244 progrocker2244 wrote:


Building pop???? Don't try to tell me that Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, and Revolver helped build pop music.
 
No, but Help, Please Please Me, Love Me Do, I Wanna Hold your Hand, Yesterday, Ticket to Ride, Hard Day's Night, etc etc etc, are the base of POP.
 
The beatles were influential for everybody, but mainly to POP IMO.
 
So I agree with David on this one.
 
Iván


Well you are correct that their earlier albums were the base of pop, but this is a prog site, and most people would talk about their progressive albums here. Their early albums affected pop music just as much as their later albums affected prog. Sure their affect on pop is huge, but so is their affect on prog.

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the point is not whether Beatles and others influenced the early proggers - it's quite evident on the early Yes and Genesis albums - but rather this idea that without Pepper or Revolver or Strange Days, you wouldn't have had King Crimson, ELP or Yes.  I just don't think it was that simple.  The Beatles 'sound' is obvious on the Giles,Giles&Fripp recordings, but by the Crimson debut it was much less and clearly a new direction away from 1960s pop stylings was happening.  Again a fab four influence is heard in early Yes and Genesis, but the material on those albums is headed squarely in a different direction ..  60s bands created an atmosphere of creativity, but had little to do with the challenging and technically demanding new Prog era


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Since there is only one prog band in here, the choice is rather easy: Procol Harum of course. I have reviewed each album of each band in the list. I like almost all of them (although IB is not my cup of tea and Arthur Brown only released one album). How the hell would you compare these bands with the other great ROCK ones?
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Originally posted by ZowieZiggy ZowieZiggy wrote:

Since there is only one prog band in here, the choice is rather easy: Procol Harum of course. I have reviewed each album of each band in the list. I like almost all of them (although IB is not my cup of tea and Arthur Brown only released one album). How the hell would you compare these bands with the other great ROCK ones?


How is Procol Harum such an easy choice?? They helped with prog just as much as The Beatles.

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