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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 14:02
It grooves, it just grooves... differently.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 14:22
Of course Prog can groove, but this does not mean that all Prog does groove.  And the idea of it being too complex to groove is ridiculous.  There is plenty of music from Africa that is rythmically extremely complex, yet it grooves like nothing else.  I listen to a lot of Blues myself, and I can say that not all of it grooves either, and that there are several different ways it can groove.  I have always had difficulty with what a lot of people call 'soul.'  Many of the current top 40 tunes are described as soul, but it sounds so canned and artificial to me I can not even justify calling it by that title.  My suggestion: anytime someone criticizes something for lacking soul, ask them what they mean by soul.  If they can't express it, they don't know what it is.  Play Socrates (but don't get them too mad at you).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 15:19
Everything I don't like is grooveless, soulless and pretentious.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 15:37
How about George Clinton's Funkadelic? Plenty of groove there - massive stage show, concept albums a plenty, multi-part songs etc..... George is a hero of the little known Funk/Prog genre.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 15:48
Just like prog lyrics rarely have anything to do with Tolkien or D&D, it's a misconception that prog doesn't groove. Fragile by Yes for example is extremely groove-driven, and so is a lot of stuff by Jethro Tull and Gentle Giant, as mentioned before in this thread. I guess the misconception arises because people equate prog with ultra-symphonic, keyboard-driven stuff like Genesis (a band that too could groove, but their albums are usually mixed in a way that de-emphasizes that fact). Prog is way too diverse a genre to make any generalization like that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 15:52
Originally posted by Lord Jagged Lord Jagged wrote:

How about George Clinton's Funkadelic? Plenty of groove there - massive stage show, concept albums a plenty, multi-part songs etc..... George is a hero of the little known Funk/Prog genre.
 
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Why is he not on PA then?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:00
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Lord Jagged Lord Jagged wrote:

How about George Clinton's Funkadelic? Plenty of groove there - massive stage show, concept albums a plenty, multi-part songs etc..... George is a hero of the little known Funk/Prog genre.
 
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Why is he not on PA then?
 
That'll be because I was joking. Hence the winking emoticon.
 
Prog may groove to a certain extent, but no one is going to confuse Yes with James Brown.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:07
Prog doesn't groove, that's why we like it and why it's fanbase is mostly beard-stroking academics and lonely geeks uninterested in the repetitive drone of soul-based music.   It embraces the cerebral and ambitious.  Nothing wrong with that.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:18
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Prog doesn't groove, that's why we like it and why it's fanbase is mostly beard-stroking academics and lonely geeks uninterested in the repetitive drone of soul-based music.  
 
Clearly including the female prog fan there I see.
 
"Lonely geeks" is slightly worrying. An image of spotty shut in computer gamers performing acts of onanism under a Roger Dean poster is beginning to form.
 
I'd best go and listen to some James Brown - "Papa's got a brand new mellotron" the 12" disco mix I think.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:19
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:30
Something I read long ago on the cover of Soft Machine's 2nd album comes to mind here - "There is music for the body, and music for the mind. Soft Machine makes music for the mind." or something like that. Its a mental groove they're after. I feel it. Are you feelin it? I'm feelin it. What? Yes of course.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:34
Originally posted by Lord Jagged Lord Jagged wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Lord Jagged Lord Jagged wrote:

How about George Clinton's Funkadelic? Plenty of groove there - massive stage show, concept albums a plenty, multi-part songs etc..... George is a hero of the little known Funk/Prog genre.
 
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Why is he not on PA then?
 
That'll be because I was joking. Hence the winking emoticon.
 
And I so bought that. LOL I was just too lazy to check on what you've said.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 16:40
Bootsy Collins for Eclectic!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 17:33
Rush-
  • Digital Man
  • By-Tor and the Snow Dog
  • Losing It
Bruford-
  • Joe Frazier
  • QED
Pink Floyd-
  • the ever overplayed Money
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 17:59
Originally posted by Josh18293 Josh18293 wrote:

Rush-
  • Digital Man
  • By-Tor and the Snow Dog
  • Losing It
Bruford-
  • Joe Frazier
  • QED
Pink Floyd-
  • the ever overplayed Money


Money? A song in 7/4 is hardly going to pack a dance floor unless it's the annual epileptic convention disco.

Edited by Lord Jagged - October 27 2012 at 18:03
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 18:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 18:55
Ah, just thought of one that fits the bill exactly. Slave Called Shiver by Porcupine Tree. That's got a groove you can hang your hat on.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 20:04
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

queue Can here
[kidding]If only they had a decent rhythm section [/kidding]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 21:22
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

...Prog does groove.  It grooves on more levels.
THIS!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2012 at 23:40
Here's a bunch by King Crimson:

21st Century Schizoid Man
Pictures Of A City
Cat Food
Indoor Games
Ladies Of The Road
Sailor's Tale
Easy Money
Talking Drum
Lark's Tongues In Aspic Part II
Lament
Red
One More Red Nightmare
Providence (bass solo section)
Indiscipline
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Matte Kudasai
Frame By Frame
Sartori In Tangier
Waiting Man
Heartbeat
Man With An Open Heart
Three With A Perfect Pair

Pokes a very big hole in the claim that progressive rock has no groove.
He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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