Wishbone Ash...
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Topic: Wishbone Ash...
Posted By: chopper
Subject: Wishbone Ash...
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 06:49
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are now in PA. I've always thought that "Argus" was generally recognised to be their best album, but I've only ever heard this and their first one. Is it their best album? Is it their most prog album? |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 06:54
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Argus is their best and proggiest, but the first three are excellent and the Lives Dates is also good, but from their fifth album (once Ted Turner left) they lost their magic But I do not think of WA as prog, though!! I think that they have been added as prog-related, though!!! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 06:57
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Prog Related they are... ...and lucky they were too, to have been added... ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 07:14
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I always liked the album New England. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 07:30
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I love Argus as much as any album in existence. It's perfection IMHO. I don't think they are prog in the true sense, though some albums have prog related characteristics. Porg related is a good place for them. I have in my collection: Wishbone Ash Pilgrimage Argus IV New England There's the Rub No Smoke Without Fire (excellent) Just Testing Nouveau Calls Here to Hear Live Dates and Livedates 2 Live in Chicago I've seen them 10 times in concert, the last in March 2005 in a pub in Hull with 200 young kids who loved them! I look forward to reviewing them. |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 07:31
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Yes, Martin, Wishbone Ash is lucky to be on Prog Archives, at this moment The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Santana are crying ... Hello Chopper, Wishbone Ash is nostalgia for me, many years I listened almost every day to Live Dates while visiting my best friend who was more into guitar-rock. For me the album Argus is their 'magnum opus' |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 07:47
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^Open wide the doors to 'Jefferson Airplane', let 'Santana' slip in and maybe 'The Doors ' through the backdoor. ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 08:22
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At the risk of repetition...
Wishbone Ash are lucky to be here.You may as well include Fleetwood Mac 1968-1971 and Ten Years After. W.A.were basically a Blues/Folk Rock band with dual guitarists similar to Fleetwood Mac's Green/Kirwan line-up. ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 13:18
Happy to see the Ash here  Saw them last week in concert at Stratford Upon Avon & they were absolutely brilliant!!! The new album Clan Destiny is fantastic but a million miles from prog! One of my best bands ever!!!------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 13:27
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VERY BIG ADDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARGUS is(in ENGLAND) THE BEST ALBUM OF 1972
AND NOT DISCUSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 13:46
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more than chuffed to see 'ash on here, hope to see some more albums added to their list soon!
-------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:07
| At long bloody last. The first eponymous album is my fav |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:38
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Fantastic band! "Phoenix" is one of the most beautiful songs ever!
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:40
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I'd not have objected to them being in 'art rock' either, but don't have a problem with 'prog related'. I love their first three- 'Argus' is one of those albums that gets better and better every time you play it, with some of the finest guitar work I know of. After that though, I'm not so fussed on what I've heard ('4, There's The Rub, Number The Brave- ok albums but rather patchy) until 'Illuminations' which despite being way too long, had moments of top quality, and 'Bona Fide' featured three of their best songs ever, 'Ancient Remedy', 'Faith Hope and Love' and 'Come Rain Come Shine', their most progressive piece in years. Might I recommend the DVDs 'Almighty Blues' and 'Phoenix Rising'- though the DVDs aren't so great- they split a concert into 2 discs so the punter would pay more- the gig featured is tremendous. The second of those has some nice archive film from the 70s.. |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 14:54
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Hallelujah |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 15:05
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Might I recommend the DVDs 'Almighty Blues' and 'Phoenix Rising'- though the DVDs aren't so great- they split a concert into 2 discs so the punter would pay more- the gig featured is tremendous. The second of those has some nice archive film from the 70s.. [/QUOTE]I agree,fantastic DVD's ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 18:04
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Finally in the Archives! Justice done. In my opinion Argus is their best studio album, but LIVE DATES is one of the best live albums of all times, up there with Yessongs and Live at Carnegie Hall (Renaissance)
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