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TOD KREMER 
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 Topic: Is Queen a prog band?
Posted: March 30 2006 at 12:56 |
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I have seen Queen discussed in these pages and on members "Desrert Island Discs" lists. Their albums (at least the early ones) show eclecticism, musicality, and technical skill. I consider Queen one of my favorites even though all my other favorites are more solidly in the prog realm. So I put it to you folks...is Queen prog?
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:04 |
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I would say not! I have been into them since they started & their 1st 3 albums are their best! Just top quality hard rock & nothing else. Maybe Queen 2 had a touch of prog,but to me it's just hard rock! I suppose a lot of people will say Races & Opera are prog but i don't know if they are!
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:04 |
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They were a glam rock band, with some progressive elements, especially on their first 5 albums.
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:23 |
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No, certainly not more than Led Zeppelin for instance
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:51 |
This brings back memories...
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:00 |
(See any number of prior threads on this old dead horse that you are pointlessly flogging, folks!)
Answer: "what is prog?" is entirely up to you. What does it really matter what others (especially strange strangers) think of your collection/choices for "prog" status?
Queen are here. 
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:08 |
 Peter wrote:
Answer: "what is prog?" is entirely up to you.
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I can't wait for the Sex Pistols to be added here. 
Edited by Meddler
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:10 |
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 14:21 |
Meddler wrote:
Peter wrote:
Answer: "what is prog?" is entirely up to you.
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I can't wait for the Sex Pistols to be added here.
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 "Entirely up to you" in the privacy of your own home, that is!
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daz2112
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 15:07 |
Be easy on Tod he's only a Newbie! 
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 15:19 |
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queen were hard to pin down style-wise in the early days, though considering they were described at the time as "the last of the heavy rock bands" or "glam rock" they did amazingly well in their career. but i would never describe them as prog. i was lucky enough to see them at hammersmith odeon in '75 when the whole show was built around "bohemian rhapsody", they were bloody amazing!
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 15:28 |
TOD KREMER wrote:
I have seen Queen discussed in these pages and on members "Desrert Island Discs" lists. Their albums (at least the early ones) show eclecticism, musicality, and technical skill. I consider Queen one of my favorites even though all my other favorites are more solidly in the prog realm. So I put it to you folks...is Queen prog? |
NO. NEVER HAS BEEN... NEVER WILL BE.
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 17:30 |
First, tell us what "prog" is.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 17:44 |
They're not a prog band, but they recorded some pretty progressive music.
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 17:58 |
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They aren't prog but they have some prog albums like A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, QUEEN II, QUEEN I in some way.
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 03:50 |
NEITHER QUEEN IS PROG OR NOT THEY MAKE MUSIC SO OUT OF THIS WORLD[ESPECIALLY THE FIRST FIVE ALBUMS] THAT WHO CARES? BY THE WAY THE MUSIC OF QUEEN IS NOT PROG ,HARD,GLAM,HEAVY,POP,BLUES,ORERA,WALZ,RETRO OR ROCK MUSIC.IS A MIX OF EVERYTHING PLUS TALENT AND AN ORIGINAL SOUND
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 05:01 |
ANDREW wrote:
They were a glam rock band, with some progressive elements, especially on their first 5 albums. |
I TOTALLY AGREE. AND THEY RULE!!
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 05:24 |
even though the first 3 queen albums are proggy, i feel that towards the end of the 70's queen had lost any of the conceptual threads of the earlier albums. Queen became masters of stadium rock & i feel this narrowed their progressive scope, indeed queen changed with the times & consequently contemporary popular taste. Does this make them prog?
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M. B. Zapelini
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 06:03 |
Personally, I do not like Queen. I think they had many prog elements in their sound at least until 1977-1978, and they deserve to be here. Two questions:
a) Are Queen a prog band? Yes, I think they can be seen as a prog band.
b) Are they a good prog band? No, in any sense at all!!!
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 10:03 |
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No. They were an eclectic, inventive mainstream pop/rock band that liked
to borrow from whatever music was current (glam, prog, disco and so
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