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Andy Webb ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: June 04 2010 Location: Terria Status: Offline Points: 13298 |
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All current suggestions have been forwarded to the CZ
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harmonium.ro ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989 |
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Reading band bios and genre definitions, checking out tags on RYM, AllMusic, Last.fm etc. would help solve some of these questions for you guys.
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
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Hi Anthony. I personally added this bad (with a bio provided by the band) despite I .consider their album the cheapest, unimaginative and most mediocre attempt of cloning Genesis. I even had a terrible word exchange with Nad Sylvan (Member of the band in http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28344&KW=UNIFAUN&PN=110 ) due to my opinions made in the the review, but I believe any band attempting so carefully to re-create Genesis, basing the sound in the use of keyboards and vocals in the style of Banks and Gabriel/Collins, is a Symphonic band. That was my opinion when added them and it's still, it's not a matter of quality, I hate the album, but I believe they have to stay where they are Thanks for your interest Iván Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - August 17 2011 at 14:24 |
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 17995 |
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Then wtf is Marillion?
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toroddfuglesteg ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Retired Joined: March 04 2008 Location: Retirement Home Status: Offline Points: 3658 |
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When you spot a minefield, knot down it's presence on a map but never ever walk straight into it. |
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
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Marillion wasa a good band (Until Fish left) that is INFLUENCED by Genesis, but in no way a clone. - Fish with his strong Scottish accent, in no way imitates Gabriel, he uses his natural range. - Mark Kelly in no way plays like Banks, his sound is clearly more oriented towards bands like Europe or Jan Hammer (Miami Vice era), but with a slight Bankian edge. - Steve Rothery doesn't has the slightest similarity with Steve Hackett, his style is much more heavy and less dark - Pete Trewavas has very little in common with Rutherford. So Marillion is an original band with influences, nothing less. Iván
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 17995 |
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Spoken like a fanboy in denial
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Henry Plainview ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 26 2008 Location: Declined Status: Offline Points: 16715 |
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That thread is great Ivan. I wish I could get into a flamewar with someone (somewhat) famous.
nobody cares
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
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Not a fanboy, as a fact not even a fan,
Apart from Script from a Jester's Tear and Misplaced Childhood, I hardly care for Marillion. But I'm not deaf. ![]() Iván
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CCVP ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 15 2007 Location: Vitória, Brasil Status: Offline Points: 7971 |
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I'm not trying to put gasoline in the fire, but their debut sounds A LOT like Genesis meets Pink Floyd. ![]() Actually, most of those bands said to be "quality neo prog" are basically Genesis meets Pink Floyd, at least among in the English crops, I don't know any neo Polish band, which is a shame considering they have the biggest (or at least the most importnat) of such scene today to the point that it influences many Polish progressive metal bands. |
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
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I don't deny that their main influence is Genesis, but they are not cloning them, as a fact since they blend the style of two bands, they are creating a new sound On the other hand a band like UNIFAUN, who's motto is to release "the songs Genesis never did", are IMO simple clones. Iván
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lazland ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13365 |
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I AM a huge Marillion fan, and as I've said here god knows how many times, they haven't sounded like Genesis since at least Fugazi, and even on that, the influence was getting weaker. BTW Ivan, they've been even better since Fish left
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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CCVP ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 15 2007 Location: Vitória, Brasil Status: Offline Points: 7971 |
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Agree on the first point, disagree on the second (even though I'm not Iván ![]() |
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presdoug ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8251 |
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come to think of it, Dzyan are in some ways more jazz rock/fusion than specifically krautrock
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34055 |
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interesting this might be of something that might help improve the site
also the guys who wrote it seems very knowledgeable about prog, so maybe contact him and let him join the squad. (or maybe he already are :O ) |
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
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Hi Aginor, this is not new, as a fact when Prog Archive started, ART ROCK was the sub-genre (or category if you want) in where bands like Roxy Music, STYX, ASIA, etc falled. GEPR supported this theory with their definition:
On those days M@x created Prog Related and more or less covered the parameters of what we had considered Art Rock, so we were ibna prolem Later there was a big discussion here and Mike (If I'm not wrong) presented us the new definition of Art Rock, as a fact with Tony we discovered that the term Art Rock had evolved through time:
And this one
So it was obvious that this bands fall into Art Rock, instead of creating new absurd sub-genres for one band, so with this information Tony and I wrote a new definition that was on the site for a couple years:
When Micky and Raff left the Symphonic Team, they took Art Rock, but the genre was HUGE, being that most teams (Including Symphonic), had sent the bands that no team accepted to Art Roick So the Administrators decided to divide Art Rock into three new genres:
This solved the issue of having almost 1,000 bands in one sigle category called Art Rock, and used the existing definition to create three genres. Keep Proggin' Iván BTW: I believe Jerry has collaborated with us more than once.
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Bosh66 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 23 2009 Location: Bolton, Lancs Status: Offline Points: 528 |
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"come to think of it, Dzyan are in some ways more jazz rock/fusion than specifically krautrock". Good point, presdoug. Dzyan certainly has jr/f at their core, but certainly indo-prog is a big part of their sound. The definition on this site of Krautrock as, "an anarchic, intense, acid, tellurian, nocturnal, spacey, dark and oniric "adventure" through rock music." doesn't particularly apply to this band anymore than a number of prog bands. In my humble uneducated opinion of course
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Bosh66 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 23 2009 Location: Bolton, Lancs Status: Offline Points: 528 |
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Here's another band where the genre allocation throws me a little (and contrary to how this might look, I don't generally get that hung up on labels, but anyhooo...)
Samurai released their eponymous album back in 1971. A very nice little album that mixes psych rock and jazz, and to me has quite a strong Canterbury sound, including on the bonus tracks which include live songs written for an unrealised second album. A special collaborator reviewing the album describes it as, "solid, energetic proto- prog with heavily inflicted jazz and R'n'B undertones, moderately related to the Canterbury patterns and an extra psychedelic sensibility." I don't think to my ears that's too far from the mark. What I would argue is that this one album band is much closer to Canterbury than Art Rock (it's under Crossover). The band in the album notes describe themselves as progressive jazz-rock. At the end of the day though, I'm just happy that the album is listed.
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Bosh66 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 23 2009 Location: Bolton, Lancs Status: Offline Points: 528 |
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Hey, I'm now a Groupie! Hope the band members are lookers!
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