Best of Progressive Blues - Final Vote!
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Topic: Best of Progressive Blues - Final Vote!
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Subject: Best of Progressive Blues - Final Vote!
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 15:55
Okay then, I've run through 50 great progressive blues songs in four separate polls. I've picked the top vote-getters from each poll to see which song you think is the bestest blues, progressively speaking, on PA. This time, it's a single vote poll so we don't get any voting anomalies (or least none unless you have multiple sign-ins, which isn't unheard of here  ). Nice to see the majority of the contestants are listed on PA as prog bands, proto-prog or prog-related.Whippin' Post - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSuoW8MTbZY" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoSOuYNNXjU&feature=related When the Levee Breaks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbrjRKB586s" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8 Shine on You Crazy Diamond - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwEFG7pU-8" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Dhz90oJXo Fat Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQHooKFSMQ" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoq8aoWB4E In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcpwMZKPsQM" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNDPc7kIdU Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OTvz1lJzmI" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5SSOoLuUlM Dazed and Confused - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwSEVbBZl4" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_LMAINrHbQ Have a Cigar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARzJY8o-7Ww" rel="nofollow - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op2JJC4xGpo Definitely a tough choice. I'd probably go with Nothing Is Easy, When the Levee Breaks and Green Manalishi, in that order. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
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Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 17:14
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So tough! I went with Dazed and Confused but I was torn between this and a half dozen others. Whippin' Post, When the Levee Breaks, Green Manalishi, Voodoo Child, Have a Cigar. ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 18:16
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PF's Shine On …??? Sorry, for me that is in no way prog blues. That's all. I went with Trower. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 19:04
You aren't the first to make this comment, but as a guitarist I will simply have to disagree with your assessment. "Shine On" is a progressive composition with blues guitar overlaying it; in effect, David Gilmour has used a prog-rock song as a vehicle for playing blues leads. But rather than rabbit on about the blues-based chording, read this: http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=287" rel="nofollow - http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=287 ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Dr. Occulator wrote:Posted By: Cailyn
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 20:38
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This is a weird poll. I went with Hendrix Voodoo Chile which is far and away the bluesiest track on the list. I'm just not sure it's prog. Trower is the only other track that really sounds bluesy to me but again, is it prog? I'd have voted for Bridge of Sighs if it was on the list. I'm also not sure that bluesy guitar can make a track a "blues" track. I'm inclined to think not. Just an opinion. ------------- http://www.cailynmusic.com |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 20:42
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Went with a non-prog band again in support of The Blues - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, more proggy than many of the other tracks listed, and there are a lot of great tracks here. Great series! ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 21:11
You've come late to the party. There have been four polls already and this is the final vote. "Bridge of Sighs" was in a previous poll and did not make the cut (which is a shame really, as it is definitely a progressive blues piece). But the question is not necessarily "is it prog", but it is progressive blues, i.e., has it progressed beyond the standard 12 bar blues and morphed into something different. Not completely different, but still recognizable as blues. As far as your comment that nothing but Trower and Hendrix are "bluesy" to you in this final poll, I, being short of patience, would simply ask how is "When The Levee Breaks", "Oh Well", "Whippin' Post", or "Rattlesnake Shake" not "bluesy" to you when they are, in fact, acknowledged blues songs? The bands acknowledged they are blues songs, critics review them as blues songs, other musicians play them as blues songs. So, no, this is not a "weird poll", I would simply suggest you study blues a bit more. Perhaps a lot more. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 21:49
| I still think in one of this polls "Since I've Been Loving You" should have been included. And then perhaps "Lazy" from Deep Purple too. |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 22 2015 at 23:29
Have to agree. Any song with a dim7 chord in it is entering jazz/prog territory. At any rate, I went with Riders on the Storm. Love that song.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 01:47
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I'm Floydian, but Riders On The Storm is THE prog-blues song. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 02:44
| Voodoo Child |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 03:16
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Riders On The Storm is the only track on there that is both blues and progressive. To suggest Shine On You Crazy Diamond is blues is getting into the realms of ludicrousness. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 06:38
ahhh no multiple vote here, so i thought i had that in mind when i voted for When the Levee Breaks; should've gone for Shine On You Crazy Diamond instead to be quite honest. but what the hell... ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 06:44
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Riders on the Storm
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 13:26
Except David Gilmour is playing G minor pentatonic blues scales, and dim7 chords are found throughout blues tunes (see standards like Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign", or any number of Robert Johnson songs featuring dim7 chords in a circle of fifths). Get back to me when you understand what you're talking about.
I suggest you do some research before spouting inanities. The song is not blues, but how could I actually expect you to read what I said previously? It is a prog song with blues lines running all through it. It is the best example of a prog song relying on blues chording and structure - a rarity in prog. Here, directly from PINK FLOYD ONLINE: “In ‘Part III’ (6:29), a hint of the funeral mood of the coda is heard in the somber horn melody of the next blues transformation – now a slow straightforward G-minor blues 12-bar…” http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/faq/question46/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/faq/question46/ And also from the damn engineer of the album itself regarding Part I: "On the finished record, Part I commences with the looped sound of wet fingers rubbing wine glass rims, originally recorded for an album titled Household Objects. Rick Wright then builds on this with a Hammond organ as well as the synth sounds of an EMS VCS3, ARP Solina and Minimoog before Dave Gilmour plays an extended G-minor blues solo on his Fender Strat." http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec14/articles/classic-tracks-1214.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec14/articles/classic-tracks-1214.htm I can give you another 20 or so references, but I still don't think you'll get it. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: May 23 2015 at 13:57
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Gonna have to go with Levee. Every time I hear it, it sounds like Bonham's gonna make a hole in the bass. Probably the ultimate LZ song besides Achilles. P.S. anyone who says Shine On isn't fit for this poll has never heard the solo. That is blues at heart. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: May 24 2015 at 07:20
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i voted for "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by The Allman Brothers Band. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: May 24 2015 at 12:09
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Jade Warrior - Barazinbar would be my choice I constrained by the list. I voted for Jethro Tull - To Cry You A Song, but I'd like to change it to Nothing Is Easy. I made a mistake !@&$!!! @The Dark Elf: You're right about Shine On..., but I think you know that. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 24 2015 at 20:35
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There's not a song on that list that I don't like....some of those are favorite tracks for me....but in the end has to be Whipping Post ...imho it epitomizes the blues with a progressive bent. Tull and Zep are close seconds for me. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: May 25 2015 at 16:59
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In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. There's something strange magic in this song, I feel bewitched everytime I hear it. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 25 2015 at 18:13
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Jimi ------------- |