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fatcat 
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Posted: April 05 2017 at 17:36 |
thier 1978 album chairs missing kind of reminds me of Syd barret era pink floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIXXe83fe4
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Posted: April 05 2017 at 17:41 |
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Anything can be prog if you believe hard enough.
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sidc58
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Posted: April 05 2017 at 19:28 |
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There is some "art rock" stuff on a few albums like Ideal Copy, Bell is a Cup, Its Beginning to and Back Again. Also Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, and Bruce Gilbert have done proggy and avant-garde material.
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Posted: April 06 2017 at 09:13 |
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I'd like to think so.
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Posted: April 06 2017 at 09:59 |
 fatcat wrote:
thier 1978 album chairs missing kind of reminds me of Syd barret era pink floydhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIXXe83fe4
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Floyd with Syd was never prog though.
I love Wire and have quite a few album of theirs. Experimental post-punk fits just fine to me.
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Posted: April 06 2017 at 10:00 |
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Kepler62
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Posted: April 06 2017 at 12:08 |
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Why does everyone want everything to be prog? It really died out in the mid to late seventies.
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uduwudu
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Posted: April 07 2017 at 00:55 |
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It's a balancing act. Not so long ago nobody wanted anything to be prog. Now it's a pop trend.
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Dean
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Posted: April 07 2017 at 01:24 |
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They were the last great band to sign to EMI's "progressive" imprint Harvest but they are pretty much the definition of post punk art rock.
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What?
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Flight123
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Posted: April 07 2017 at 12:56 |
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I've seen Wire and heard their first three albums - they are an interesting band - the word prog never crossed my mind but they are a rewarding listen
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SteveG
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Posted: April 07 2017 at 13:31 |
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Noooooo.! But I liked them anyway.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 12 2017 at 14:17 |
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Weren't the band Gang of Four similar? Didn't they have proggy elements too for a punk band? And also some early PIL? I guess it's time for me to go to youtube. Lol. I have heard Wire had some proggy elements though. One band I actually do have a couple of cds by is Pere Ubu. I'd say they were very experimental for a punk/proto punk band.
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Posted: April 12 2017 at 15:12 |
You called them "post punk", so that is what they are.......
Prog died in the mid 70's, it was taken over by disco.
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socrates17
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Posted: April 13 2017 at 14:11 |
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Almost, but not quite. To use the site's own terminology, I'd call Wire Prog Related. Certainly art-rock and certainly wonderful. I can have an unrealistically broad definition of prog, so I decided to adhere to the progarchives taxonomy. I have the same issue with SF. Writer and editor Damon Knight (To Serve Man) once said: "Science Fiction is whatever I'm pointing at when I say 'Science Fiction'."
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