Do you imagine Prog in other genres?
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Topic: Do you imagine Prog in other genres?
Posted By: Canterzeuhl
Subject: Do you imagine Prog in other genres?
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 14:45
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Howdy-doo-dah. So do you? When you're listening to a favourite song do you ever wonder what it would sound like in another genre? I know I do, my favourite is to imagine the classic track from Automatic Fine Tuning, 'Gladioli', as a string quartet (I know you all know what I'm talking about  )Perchance you imagine Tarkus as a disco piece? Maybe 21st Century Schizoid Man as some acid skiffle? Let me know and I'll imagine with you. |
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 14:52
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I can not only imagine, but recall a disco version of "Comfortably Numb" from some time in the early 00's, but I can easily live without it. Fortunately it has not destroyed my enjoyment of the original song. "21th Century Schizoid Man" sounds like it would fit a metal version, but I guess there already is one, or multiple of them... I have been toying with making a choir version of "Vitamin C" for some time. "Time" would make a fine reggae track I imagine. |
Posted By: Canterzeuhl
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 15:22
Oh I do like this!
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The Anders wrote:Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 15:34
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You caught me...I sometimes hear a reggae version of Dancing With the Moonlit Night (Genesis, of course) in my head. It actually sounds kind of interesting. ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 16:23
| I am imagining a bluegrass version of Magma’s “Hortz Fur Dëhn Stekëhn Ẁest” and a country and western version of Can’s “Mother Sky”. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 16:33
I can imagine the Moody Blues classic Nights in White Satin as a Disco piece, and so can Giorgio Moroder.  |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 10:37
Try this: https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&source=hp&ei=MHO9XoyXDYH1-gSah7_ADg&q=dub+side+of+the+moon+time&oq=dub+side+of+the+moon&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgDMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAOgUIABCDAToHCAAQRhD5AToECAAQClDeD1jaKGCZP2gAcAB4AIABTIgBvgiSAQIyMJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=psy-ab" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&source=hp&ei=MHO9XoyXDYH1-gSah7_ADg&q=dub+side+of+the+moon+time&oq=dub+side+of+the+moon&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgDMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAOgUIABCDAToHCAAQRhD5AToECAAQClDeD1jaKGCZP2gAcAB4AIABTIgBvgiSAQIyMJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=psy-ab They did the entire Dark Side album, and Sgt. Pepper's as well. ------------- 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: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 10:53
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------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:02
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The United States Of America - The Garden Of Earthly Delights
Snakefinger - The Garden of Earthly Delights
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:16
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I often imagine many of Zappa's compositions as modernist classical pieces. But that's because he was basically a contemporary classical music composer trapped with rock/fusion outfits. This is why so many of the tracks on The Yellow Shark that were originally played with rock groups work so well with the Ensemble Modern. Just take a listen to the main theme or Dog Breath Variations off of Uncle Meat (original or 73-74 versions) and you can hear what I'm talking about. I suppose mine's less surprising or out there though.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:23
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Russell Morris - The Real Thing
Third Eye - The Real Thing ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:32
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No. Thankfully. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 12:12
 I wanted to recommend Anubis Gate's last album, a covers album (KC, Japan, Steely Dan, Beatles, Genesis among them), one of the best albums I listened to this year,but then remembered I am a minority enjoying this kind of music, so I'll go away quietly.  |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 12:27
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The Residents - Jailhouse Rock
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 12:59
Yeah, really. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 15:22
| I've never tried such a thing, but it sounds kind of fun. I might give it a try. |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 17:02
Didn't know it. Thanks. The verses work well, the chorus (perhaps) to a lesser extent, but absolutely not bad.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 13:49
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I've done the opposite: listening to non-prog songs and thinking how they would sound with a prog arrangement. This one for example: ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 13:56
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Or this (the singer Andrea Parodi is on PA in a collaboration witth Al Di Meola) Ok, this is Battiato, but the song is in an album by Giuni Russo. And let me say that it's a great song ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 15:34
How about a Prog version of any Radiohead album?   ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 16:47
| Not really... but I do like to think about how pop songs would sound with a prog treatment (just like some of the covers Yes did, or Rick Wakeman too). Also, sometimes I wonder (even though I don't like the genre) how it would sound if someone did rap with prog... and I think they could work nice enough together... it would have to be very synth driven, with loud bass and drums... better if it were sort of ethnical african drums... and perhaps some good black gospel-like choirs. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 17:23
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I like to think of prog down my pants then i can imagine prog cock rock -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 19:49
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Double post, apologies -------------
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 19:53
^ Try Songs from the Wood to alleviate soft cock rock  -------------
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 15 2020 at 21:23
Prog viagara? I love it! If i have to imagine prog in other genres i would love to hear Celine Dion break into Gentle Giant harmonics with Keith Emerson keyboards ripping up a storm. Of course she explodes and never heard from again. End of that story. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 16 2020 at 02:18
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I'm a fan of a great number of bands, and my friend Curt and I once mused how we would have enjoyed hearing Metallica do a version of "Warrior" by Wishbone Ash! Otherwise, not so much. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 16 2020 at 02:38
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There will be crossover points where classical music and 70's/modern prog "contact" and cross paths of similarity. This is a given, especially in a musical genre with such a high output of counterpoint, syncopation, and ROI in general IMHO. It's like asking "Do these ingredients remind you of other foods they are also an ingredient in?" Lol. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: May 20 2020 at 15:27
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I may be totally off-everything with this post, but I imagine prog in other forms of art than music. For example, computer games or plasticine cartoons ------------- Favourite Band: Gentle Giant Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |