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The_Jester
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Topic: Show me a prog David Bowie song Posted: December 24 2010 at 17:44 |
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I'm certain that David Bowie isn't here for nothing but I never heard something from him that was close to prog. If you can show me it'll be appreciated.
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La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle!
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 17:54 | ||
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Logan
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 18:04 | ||
As a Prog Related artist, I think he has a fair amount of material with a prog (music in prog categories such as Krautrock) relation (and I could see him in Crossover for the Berlin trilogy).
From Low: From "Heroes": Edited by Logan - December 24 2010 at 18:06 |
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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JJLehto
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 18:09 | ||
An artist added that makes no sense?
Never |
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Logan
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 18:21 | ||
Agreed, they all have some kind of sense behind them whether people agree or not, or understand the reasons behind the additions. Too often people have called additions nonsense without being familiar enough with the artist's music or without understanding the artist's relation to music/ categories in PA (or not being familiar enough with the music scenes/ idioms that one finds a relation to). Just cause I like this track, by the way: Edited by Logan - December 24 2010 at 18:25 |
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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avestin
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 18:32 | ||
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Dean
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 18:36 | ||
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What?
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TODDLER
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Posted: December 27 2010 at 18:22 | ||
In his early material you can plainly hear the influence of Syd Barrett. He falls into the old and unique proggy singer songwriter a few years after Syd became a hermit or during that time. Space Oddity has that oddball English prog style which derived from that era. During the Berlin period when he worked with Fripp and Eno the music was perhaps more intense. The mystery for me is the un-released Glastonbury Fayre performance where he showed to the stage with an acoustic guitar. Supposedly he performed early versions of bizzare songs that later became classics but, more in a folk style. |
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 09:30 | ||
Like Roxy Music, Gabriel & Hammill, Bowie used to be Art Rock, didn't he?
African Night Flight from Lodger (a truly underrappreciated album) reminds me of The Residents. A far out nursery rhyme: Over the bushland over the trees Wise like Orangutang that was me Red Sails. Kraut/Motorik (as in Neu!) + new wave: The hinterland, the hinterland Were going to sail to the hinterland It is far far far far far far away far far far da da da |
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ProgressiveAttic
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:03 | ||
not prog (although the lyrics would be perfect for a prog song ).... but for some reason I find this extremely amusing :
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The_Jester
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:12 | ||
It really sounds a bit like the Residents! But more german.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:35 | ||
I was trying to find the real video to post. never found it so didn't bother.
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chopper
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:54 | ||
I don't understand - why did he put him on a train to Eastbourne? |
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Dean
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 11:04 | ||
¹ paraphrased because I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote. Edited by Dean - December 30 2010 at 11:14 |
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 17:21 | ||
Listen to A Small Plot of Land from the album 1.Outside
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The Truth
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Posted: December 30 2010 at 17:48 | ||
Most of his Berlin-period work was prog if not all of it. |
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progvortex
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Posted: January 02 2011 at 23:59 | ||
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Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it?
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Sean Trane
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Posted: January 03 2011 at 03:35 | ||
I'd have to gree that it's not really obvious why the glam icon Bowie sits in prog-related at all when looking at its 7's material (except for maybe Space Oddity - the song)...... One of the main arguments was that Bowie's more progressive stuff was in his late 80's and early 90's albums (of which, outside a song here and there, I don't know much, I must admit) that were indeed a tad more experimental than his glam days.... and I believe that's the argument that clinched it for his inclusion.... but I never cared to find out about those albums.
Actually Bowie was quite a tough sell to many of us (yours truly included) and it took many months (probably over a year) to get him included by those who lobbied it.
Bowie's inclusion later altered the general outlook of prog-related and opened the door (dare I say floodgates) for many other ever-so-slightly-prog artistes to be included
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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 |
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Harold-The-Barrel
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Posted: January 05 2011 at 07:01 | ||
More space rock but here's one I always liked...
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You must be joking.....Take a running jump......
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paganinio
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Posted: June 23 2011 at 06:08 | ||
I think his 1977 album Low had some subtle influence to Pink Floyd's Animals. The ambient/Krautrock-esque proto-industrial soundscape can be experienced in both.
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