THEWHO!!! prog or not?respond and vote!!

IMHO albums like "Tommy", "QUADROPHENIA", "Who's Next" have several progressive elements.Guess that it doesn't mean nothing if they never spawned 20-minute, side long epics, does it?Tell me what you think about it.
so...for me it's YES!(they should be listed on progarchives)
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         &nbs p;  Angelo



Edited by archon

I think they should be included as well.  One concept album could be produced by a normal non-prog group but two concept albums, especially Quadrophenia which is a brilliant rock opera on par with many of the prog concept albums we love so much is no accident, they're prog.  Just listen to Won't Get Fooled Again and tell me it ain't prog.

Trouserpress wrote: SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!

I wish I could!

So my answer is NEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NYET!!!!!!!!!!!!NON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

robertplantowns wrote: I think they should be included as well.  One concept album could be produced by a normal non-prog group but two concept albums, especially Quadrophenia which is a brilliant rock opera on par with many of the prog concept albums we love so much is no accident, they're prog.  Just listen to Won't Get Fooled Again and tell me it ain't prog.

I did, it isn't that proggish I think.

I don't think the Who should be included, though they are a good band. There are lots of non-progartist that released concept-albums and though they're songs developed from easy proto-punksongs to somewhat more complex songs, I don't think they're prog enough to be listed here. But well, I though the same with Queen and we all know what happened.
 

ic: THEWHO!!! prog or not?respond and vote!!

 

I don't care for the tone of the topic heading either!

Peter Townsend=Genius writer.  Penned some great stuff. Never went beyond a certain line with it though. Proggiest moments were the 4th side of Quad with Dr Jimmy and Love Reign over me.  THe only other song that could qualify from that Album was the title song although John Entwhistle had some great bass lines in the opener, The Real Me.  Tommy's only prog moment was the Overature and Underture. Who's next Arp synth sound was interesting as was the violin solo at the end of Baba O' Riely. 

Other than that no. If rock opera=Prog then we need to include Andrew Loydd Weber and Tim Rice. 

 

 

I vote No.

 

 

Edited by Garion81

^ Or any stage musical!

Eelco wrote: Was Jesus Christ Prog?

Andrew Lloyd Webber uses a lot of odd signatures on J.C.S. though...but Sting does it too and would you call Sting prog?

As for the Who's Tommy, there are also some odd signatures on that one but not as much as a normal prog band does. And also a keynote that doesn't change for a long time (just listen to Underture) but so does Trevor Horn and could you call that music prog? Also there are some classical chord movements used by the Who but so does Abba, Brian Wilson and early Elvis Costello and would you call them prog?

No, this discussion will never end (sorry Trous) but in fact I haven't answered your question too...

Edited by Odd24

One of my favorite band, but definitely not prog! this is the ultimate classic rock band!

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I totally agree with you.       

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