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    Posted: March 13 2011 at 12:22
I would like to suggest you The Tubes for prog related.In my opinion their first albums was quite progressive.Tell me what you think?
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Points: 14256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2011 at 18:20
They were a stange band, dressed provacatively and strange and had a very weird single, Dont touch me there..... I remember all that. But not sure about a Prog genre for them. It was more a type of anarchist techno music, conceptual of course and very strange. But so many bands were doing that back then. Gimmicky rather than prog. Not sure here. Others?
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Points: 2205 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2011 at 22:32
Perhaps approaching crossover prog.
 
They are listed as: pop/rock, glam rock, rock, AOR, art rock and proto punk.
 
Rock, hard rock and new wave in this Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes
 
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Points: 12681 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2011 at 22:57
"...and a baby's arm holding an apple."
 
I love "White Punks on Dope" and "What Do You Want From Life". But I've never considered them progressive.
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Points: 2205 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2011 at 23:25

I will say this: I think it goes great with this album art by Roger Dean for Rare Earth.

 
as well as many other albums. Smile


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I would call them prog, for sure. Love that band.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2011 at 08:18
A lot of the music in the samples sound really progressive, with instrumental quirkiness that remind me of Zappa and Gentle Giant. Good stuff. I've notified the Crossover Prog Team.
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Points: 5482 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2011 at 10:29

They had a fair amount of prog on their debt album.   And a great album it was.

After that, however theatrical they were, they were not prog.  I would say no.
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Points: 65937 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2011 at 10:59
The song She's A Beauty has always reminded me of Karn Evil 9 from ELP for some reason or another.  Not sure why, but it might have had something to do with the music video and reference to a carnival.
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Points: 26136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2011 at 17:16

Love this band. Plenty of prog moments ,even the more commercial stuff like Remote Control is still very interesting to my ears.

This is The Tubes at their 'proggiest'
 
 
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First album ,if listed here would be a near 5.
A classic and alot of proggy moments.

Up From The Deep.
Haloes
Space Babies.
Mondo Bondage

Even the other tracks have proggy bits.


A must have record.
Still blows me away every time I crank it up on my Dynaudio monitors and subby.
A one of a kind band.

Live as tight as a drum.
(from all the you tubes I've seen)

Re Styles was smokin' hot also lol.
Trying to spread the good prog to mud eared Aussies.
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Points: 14256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2014 at 02:21
A resurrected thread.... oh well it could be worse it could be recommending Gary Numan... oh wait a second...
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Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2014 at 04:32
Let's ignore Love Bomb, shall we !!!
I own the white vinyl 7" of Prime Time - bloody nifty track, that !! Not sure about Prog though....
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Let's ignore Love Bomb, shall we !!!
I own the white vinyl 7" of Prime Time - bloody nifty track, that !! Not sure about Prog though....

First album is very proggy. ^ Nice one. i loved the Completion Backward Principle and the Attack of the 50ft Woman. The music sounds so coked up nowadaysLOL
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2014 at 05:33
The Tubes would be in prog related section , imo.
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Points: 14256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2014 at 20:17
Nice doco !!!
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Points: 312 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2014 at 20:35
I play The Tubes on my radio show.  Usually the earlier stuff, Remote Control and the track "Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman".
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2014 at 02:50
A long time ago since I listened to them, but I like "Don't Touch Me There", "TV Is King", "What Do You Want From Life" and "Don't Want To Wait Anymore"
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2014 at 03:26
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:


LOL
I was in the 3rd row of the gig in Leicester where Fee Waybill aka "Johnny Bugger" broke his leg falling off the stage brandishing a chain-saw. 

The documentary lies - he did not continue to run around with a broken leg terrifying the audience, he landed on the poor guy sitting in front of me and we were all sent sprawling across the floor by the impact. It didn't take long to realise that this wasn't part of the act when Waybill didn't get up, it took less than a minute for the band to stop playing so the roadies could carry him backstage. 

Also, several websites claim this happened at the Hammersmith Odean in 1978 during the recording of What Do You Want From Live (which was actually recorded in 1977), they lie too: it happened at Leicester's De Montfort Hall on 9th May '78. At the later Knebworth open-air concert in October '78 What Do Yo Want From Life ends with "...or a broken leg in Leicester?" instead of "...or a baby's arm holding an apple?" (I was there too).



Anyway - The Tubes - damn fine musicians, Theatre Rock, Art Rock, but not Prog Rock. They could be Prog Related but I don't see the point in adding them.
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2014 at 03:51
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

(...) Anyway - The Tubes - damn fine musicians, Theatre Rock, Art Rock, but not Prog Rock. They could be Prog Related but I don't see the point in adding them.


Why not?
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