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Revan 
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 10:58 |
With this post i'm not to integrate any band to the archives, its just a curious thing i want to mention.
Yesterday i started to download the new album from the Darkness. I was expecting some good rock n' roll but when it started...
The introduction from "one way ticket" was worthy for a prog album! Then, it changed to an AC/DC style song...
Then it came "Knockers" and "Its just me?" wich still had that AC/DC
style. But it was in "Dinner Lady Arms" when some prog elements came
out (not much actually). Next it camed "Seemed Like A Good Idea before"
wich had even more prog elements, but it was not until "Hazel eyes"
when we had a pure Art Rock song! This song has all that a prog song
needs.
Well, then "Bald" has a prog intruduction but the song is as much AC/DC
as the first three ones. Then "Gilfriend"... What do i have to say?
This song sucks. Then... "english country garden"... good rock song
with Queen-like chorus. Finally, "Blind Man"! Good Queen song indeed!
LOL
This could appear to be a review, but it's just to show you how a quite
comertial band can slowly (very slowly) be converted into prog. Who
knows? Maybe we can excpect a Prog album for the fifth album!  (This is their second album)
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:03 |
The day the darkness makes an prog album i will stop listening to prog
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NutterAlert
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:08 |
I thought they were bad glam rockers
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:09 |
10 songs 35...minutes...i can already there see that this album is not something for me
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horza
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:12 |
The Darkness are NOT prog - they are a comedy rock band, a very good one, but NOT prog 
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Orbert
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:33 |
Wow, no lack of closed minds around here.
A lot of people have very definite ideas about what is prog and what is not, and if it's not, then it's automatically bad. Or if it's not 100% prog, then it's not prog at all and no one should even try to say that there are prog elements. Bah!
I think it's great when a mainstream rock and roll band stretches out, tries a few new things, even gets a little bit proggy. How else can they grow? No, one or two songs with proggy sections does not make the band prog or even "prog-related" (I'm not really fond of that term, but it's the best we have to work with). But I don't see any harm in giving it a listen, maybe expand my own musical horizons, and see how someone else has broadened theirs.
Anyone not willing to at least try is just missing out on new stuff.
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In and around the lake... 
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goose
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:36 |
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Revan
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:38 |
 horza wrote:
The Darkness are NOT prog - they are a comedy rock band, a very good one, but NOT prog |
Thanks i never said they were prog
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NutterAlert
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 11:47 |
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They may be the best thing to have ever come out of Lowestoft.
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Trotsky
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 14:49 |
I'm sure I've read that The Darkness spent a few years struggling as an
unpopular prog band under a different name ... before turning to their
present style as a joke and making it big ...
It wouldn't surprise me if they decided to slip in a little prog among another album of AC?DC/Def Leppard rehashes ...
here's a part of a bio ....
Growing up in of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, the Hawkins brothers,
Justin (vocals, guitar, synthesizer) and Dan (guitar) played in several
cover bands. One of those groups included Ed Graham (drums). In 1997,
Justin headed off for university and Dan left for London to continue
his music. In London, Dan met Frankie Poullain (bass) and the two often
jammed together, joined on weekends by Justin and Graham. The brothers
and Poullain even formed the short-lived progressive-rock band Empire.
A
millennium eve karaoke contest would be the factor that would bring
these four together as The Darkness. Justin entered the contest, with
Dan in the audience, and knocked the crowd out with his flamboyant
performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody." The brothers decided that Justin
should be the frontman of the group and quickly drafted Graham and
Poullain to fill out the roster.
Edited by Trotsky
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Peace Frog
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 15:24 |
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The Darkness are modelled after rock bands from the 70s. But they're okay, and what I've heard of them I like.
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