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    Posted: January 13 2010 at 15:29
I saw with a great deal of interest that Prog Ears have Numan's CD The Pleasure Principle as their featured CD now. With quite a few fans and artists chiming in positively on the selction (along a few grumblers).

He has been influential, especially with his late 70's and early 80's productions, apparently in prog circles as well as industrial and metal ones.

It'll be interesting to see if more prog sites starts chiming in on him as an influential artist ;-)
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Points: 65792 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2010 at 17:05
interesting and a bold move, though ProgEars has always had a much bigger tent and seems to be moving toward a focus on popular innovation in rock rather than musical progression; I can see Numan's influence here and there, even in prog, and I remember when The Pleasure Principle came out and it certainly was new - what would be defined just a year or so later as as "New Wave" - though it was clearly the antithesis of what every Prog and Art rocker had been doing to that point. Ironic, really, and the possibility that later Genesis or Rush may have been mildly impacted by his music does not neccessarily put him in the family of progressive artists.

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http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=54651 Wink
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I noticed as much, though I haven't clicked on the thread yet... I can only imagine some of the reactions from the grumpier membersLOL!
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Hmmm - I saw Ultravox rejection mentioned in that other thread. Wonder if anyone in here are familiar with a side project of Midge Ure - a one off early project called "The Bloodied Sword"?

Would have been interesting to se how that one would have fared on an eval somewhere. That is, if samples can be found - to my knowledge that one has yet to see a CD release...
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2010 at 18:26
Originally posted by Windhawk Windhawk wrote:

Hmmm - I saw Ultravox rejection mentioned in that other thread. Wonder if anyone in here are familiar with a side project of Midge Ure - a one off early project called "The Bloodied Sword"?

Would have been interesting to se how that one would have fared on an eval somewhere. That is, if samples can be found - to my knowledge that one has yet to see a CD release...
... yup, I've got that. Embarrassed There is a fair chance I haven't played that in 27 years. Pig
 
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Points: 3596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2010 at 20:29
didn't Gary have a hit about cars ... Little Chevy Coupe , or Honda Honda, or She loves my Automobile ?
wait, that last one was ZZ Top . Or am I thionking about Krautwerk and the Highway Song ...
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Points: 114 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2010 at 20:59
I actually listened to I, Assassin a little today and was thinking, "this is a tad on the proggy side."

The bass playing (Pino Palladino) on that album is awesome.
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Points: 11401 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2010 at 22:53
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

... yup, I've got that. Embarrassed There is a fair chance I haven't played that in 27 years. Pig
 



Used to have that one myself. One of hundreds of vinyls that were sold when my first marriage broke up - when I was in dire need of money to be able to cover my daily costs ;-)
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Originally posted by debrewguy debrewguy wrote:

didn't Gary have a hit about cars ... Little Chevy Coupe , or Honda Honda, or She loves my Automobile ?
wait, that last one was ZZ Top . Or am I thionking about Krautwerk and the Highway Song ...


Gary had Cars. Look it up on youtube :-)
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Points: 10732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2010 at 23:50
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

I noticed as much, though I haven't clicked on the thread yet... I can only imagine some of the reactions from the grumpier membersLOL!
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