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Topic: Stevie Wonder for Progressive Motown Posted: July 09 2010 at 10:36
Stevie Wonder For Crossover, really. I already know for a fact no one on this site would ever support him being added, but I'll be damned if I don't see Songs in the Key of Life as a progressive "rock" album.
For one, it's a double album, secondly, it's got two main concepts running through it (human suffering/political suffering), so it could be considered a concept album. Thirdly, it has an extreme amount of diversity, from soul ballads to jazz rock instrumentals, to synth rockers, to all sorts of stuff. Plus, who was more influential on music, in general, guys?!
+double/conceptual album +extremely diverse +atypical song duration/format (from 2 minutes to 9 minutes, has instrumentals) +varied instrumentation, including the synth roll of Village Ghetto Land, to the jazzy rocking of contusion etc. It's not just your standard guitar, bass, drums, singer, ya dig? +Highly influential to god knows who.
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Posted: July 09 2010 at 17:44
what about Isaac Hayes for he's Shaft soundtrack he even use Mellotron and he plays Cheff in South Park, and was Scientolog which is a progressive religion.
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Posted: July 09 2010 at 18:20
aginor wrote:
what about Isaac Hayes for he's Shaft soundtrack he even use Mellotron and he plays Cheff in South Park, and was Scientolog which is a progressive religion.
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Posted: July 09 2010 at 18:32
aginor wrote:
what about Isaac Hayes for he's Shaft soundtrack he even use Mellotron and he plays Cheff in South Park, and was Scientolog which is a progressive religion.
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Posted: July 09 2010 at 18:49
Alitare wrote:
Stevie Wonder For Crossover, really. I already know for a fact no one on this site would ever support him being added, but I'll be damned if I don't see Songs in the Key of Life as a progressive "rock" album.
For one, it's a double album, secondly, it's got two main concepts running through it (human suffering/political suffering), so it could be considered a concept album. Thirdly, it has an extreme amount of diversity, from soul ballads to jazz rock instrumentals, to synth rockers, to all sorts of stuff. Plus, who was more influential on music, in general, guys?!
+double/conceptual album +extremely diverse +atypical song duration/format (from 2 minutes to 9 minutes, has instrumentals) +varied instrumentation, including the synth roll of Village Ghetto Land, to the jazzy rocking of contusion etc. It's not just your standard guitar, bass, drums, singer, ya dig? +Highly influential to god knows who.
He might be included had his name been Steviviano della Wondericco
I mean really...how can you NOT think that "Songs In the Key Of Life" does not include....jazz-fusion, symphonic, folk, rock and classical elements....
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Posted: July 10 2010 at 07:24
I hope this is a freaking joke - If Stevie W gets on here we will be laughed out of the prog convention society and our corpses will be hung up to dry as the masses throw rotten tomatoes at our emaciated frames...
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Posted: July 10 2010 at 07:29
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Dean wrote:
No.
Well aren't you just a stick in the mud. You know, that makes you a bad person. Not wanting Stevie Wonder in this place makes you a not good person.
I can live with that. Crossover is Progressive Art Rock, is not the place for a R&B, soul, funk, jazz artist, even if they are "progressive" in those particular genres and "rocked" a bit - no matter how you describe him, he is not Progressive Rock.
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Posted: July 10 2010 at 07:32
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
I hope this is a freaking joke - If Stevie W gets on here we will be laughed out of the prog convention society and our corpses will be hung up to dry as the masses throw rotten tomatoes at our emaciated frames...
... sorry to break it to you.. as a member of the 'prog convention society'...but it is that attitude.. not the adding of artists that is the reason why the site IS laughed at.
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Posted: July 10 2010 at 07:52
Well, Stevie Wonder would be a more "serious" candidate for the PA than, let's say, Michael Jackson, the Four Tops or even Jaaaaaames Brown and Aretha Franklin.
Yet, I won't champion him on this site. I don't really know his career and I doubt he kept the same direction from Innervisions to his more recent albums or songs. I will try to listen some of his records, but I have the feeling that Stevie Wonder was somewhat progressive some decades ago and for a short time (three, maybe four LPs?). Not the most relevant suggestion.
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