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    Posted: January 20 2012 at 05:07
What's goin on proggies?!?

Thought I'd take the time out of my particularly boisterous Friday night to let you all know how disheartened I was to find out UFO haven't found their place in PA. Obviously they're not progressive rock in the strictest sense, but surely their first 2/3 albums earn them a spot in the 'space rock/prog related' sections.

C'mon guys...you know you want to...

Warm regards to all (especially those with long hair!)
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Lukewarm regards from a short haired Highland terrier: I agree that UFO were on the first 2 albums a veritable 'freakout' band but Prog or even related?...nah
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Points: 17572 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 06:46
UFO is a hard rock band basically, however they recorded one highlight which fits our genre - it's 'Flying - One Hour Space Rock' - not enough though to consider them prog overall


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 07:48
I think they were already proposed and rejected before.
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Points: 5531 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 08:15
Originally posted by Rivertree Rivertree wrote:

UFO is a hard rock band basically, however they recorded one highlight which fits our genre - it's 'Flying - One Hour Space Rock' - not enough though to consider them prog overall


perfectly agree, they are in same category as Scorpions
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Points: 17498 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 18:02
Scorpions 1st album is about as psychadelic as you can get! That is a brilliant album.......and even Fly To the Rainbow has a lot of psych/art rock....from there it turns into certain songs, then Uli leaves. I love Scorpions.....
 
As far as UFO...never thought of them as psych/art.......Anyhow not for the PA, both are over on MMA where they belong.
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Points: 64352 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 18:07
Obsession is progrelated, whether that means they should be added is another question
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 18:17
^ I think most of their early stuff is Prog Related probably. No big deal if not added though.
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Points: 64352 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 18:29
^ well if most of the early stuff and Obsession is PR, maybe it merits further thought
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Points: 8085 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2012 at 21:27
The album Flying is definitely progressive, but i wouldn't say the others are
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2012 at 03:46
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ well if most of the early stuff and Obsession is PR, maybe it merits further thought


I was shooting from the hip as it were. i will endeavour to investigate further.Smile
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There is a connection between them and the far more progressive Lone Star (singer Paul Chapman played in both bands) but thats about it. Good hard rock band imo.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2012 at 07:48
I didn't listen to the first two recently but I remember them as definite contenders for Space Rock or suchlike...psychedelia possibly.

Third album Phenomenon is straight out Rock( first Schenker album)
Fourth album Force It has the beginning of the UFO sound. A rock album for sure but first album with some keyboards. Schenker really rocks on this album!Headbanger



...more to come

I'm just loving Force It!Approve


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They were prog rock in their beginnings but they progressed to a more enjoying hard-rock later on.
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Points: 528 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2012 at 09:32
I love this band, seriously love UFO. Aside from some fairly regular proggy embellishments though, they aren't a prog band. Or at least any more.
If it is agreed that the first one or two are unequivocally space or psych prog, then isn't the rule that the band should be added, with the bio making clear that only albums 1, x and y are progressive rock? I'm not seeking to dilute the archive but I'm sure that's what I read. Or maybe someone has put something in my breakfast cereal and I've dreamed it up!
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Points: 528 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2012 at 10:11
And if UFO1 / Flying are added, I agree that Lonesome Crow (Scorpions) should be on here too!
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Points: 14256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2012 at 07:58
UFO are terrific

The new album is a compliation here:


UFO – Too Hot To Handle (The Very Best Of UFO) (2012)

Awesome!

I thought some of their music is prog such as Love to Love 


and their first 2 albums, and they appear on prog compilations... sometimes. I guess they are overall just heavy rock but prog related at times would be a fair assessment.  


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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

There is a connection between them and the far more progressive Lone Star (singer Paul Chapman played in both bands) but thats about it. Good hard rock band imo.
 
 
Paul Chapman was the guitarist not the singer in both bands - not a bad player either.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2013 at 17:26
Wow, never seen this thread before. And, yes, this is a terrific band.

I agree their first output (1970-1972) is psychedelic/space rock thing. For another psych number just listen to Alpha Centauri from their excellent 1980's No Place to Run.

After that period they went heavier in sound, changing their mood. The years with Shencker are the most brilliant and famous but the Chapman-era produced so may gems also and is so unjustly overlooked by many fans.

The music has a heavy edge and at the very same time is very elegant and refined too, you can listen to excellent synth and keys (just listen to Mechanix' intro, for example) and even sax.

Not only: in the superb 1981's record The Wild, The Willing and The Innocent there are wonderful orchestral arrangements (courtesy of Paul Buckmaster) for a quasi-symphonic appeal.

All in all a band I wouldn't be surprised to see, at least, in the prog-related subgenre.


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Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:


Not only: in the superb 1981's record The Wild, The Willing and The Innocent there are wonderful orchestral arrangements (courtesy of Paul Buckmaster) for a quasi-symphonic appeal.


Indeed, a superb album. Sublime in places.
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