THE WHO should be in protoprog
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Topic: THE WHO should be in protoprog
Posted By: Ekzodo
Subject: THE WHO should be in protoprog
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 07:09
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I recently re-listen some old work of the who an they are impresive, they start as a kind-a-like beat band but 1969 with "Tommy" touch the sky, I think that have a lot of prog moments, but before in 1967 thay play in Rolling Stones Circus a mini-opera song call "A quick one while she`s a away" is awesome. I even think THE WHO have more right to be here than DEEP PURPLE Also They have to be included: LED ZEPPELIN (stairway to heaven is a prog hymn) THE BEATLES (from revolver to abbey road) JAPAN ( if SYLVIAN is in why not his lead band) WHAT DO YOU THINK???
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 07:12
This has ALSO been discussed before 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 07:18
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I doubt any of the prog bands were really influence by The Who, so I would say no. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Ekzodo
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 07:27
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I this was discusted before I what to know what do you think anyway, Dón´t give me replies ------------- THERE`S TO MUCH MUSIC AND SO LITTLE TIME TO LISTEN TO IT VIVA LA ARGENTINA PROGRESIVA!!!!! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 07:36
I think you posted in the wrong section of the forum again1 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Ekzodo wrote:Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 07:52
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:00
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I agree with Japan, certainly their last two albums - based on the
music, not on the non-argument that David Sylvian was their
lead-singer. For the rest, no. IMHO of course.
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Posted By: Ekzodo
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:08
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ALSO MUST BE INCLUDED: SIMPLE MINDS THE DOORS FLEETWOOD MAC MEAT LOAF ------------- THERE`S TO MUCH MUSIC AND SO LITTLE TIME TO LISTEN TO IT VIVA LA ARGENTINA PROGRESIVA!!!!! |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:09
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^ You are pushing it |
Posted By: Ekzodo
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:14
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WHY IS DEEP PURPLE????? HOW PUT IT IN THE ARCHIVES I love that band but is not prog AND BLACKMORE`S NIGHT IS LIKE ENYA!!!!!
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:17
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^ Because of their earlier albums that where kind of proto-proggy and im certainly amazed to find Blackmoores night here I guess prog folk is a rather dubious term |
Posted By: Ekzodo
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:29
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But folk is Jethro Tull or Gryphon Blackmore Night is a little poppy ------------- THERE`S TO MUCH MUSIC AND SO LITTLE TIME TO LISTEN TO IT VIVA LA ARGENTINA PROGRESIVA!!!!! |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:30
Yes i disagree with Blackmoore night being in the progarchives |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 08:51
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"Tommy" and "Who's Next" may be considered 'Progressive' ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 09:11
I agree! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 09:21
Do you knoew their first two albums? ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 23 2005 at 09:24
Ive got Under a violet moon...nothing more than plain accoustic folk stuff on around 3 minutes each...not ANY prog there |
Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: May 10 2006 at 12:35
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I am a little late to join in this forum maybe (and I certainly doubt it will be viewed by anyone else!) but I searched, and only this one came out...
Otherwise I was going to suggest Who myself (I did, indeed... look at the topic "what the heck are the criteria"...). They certainly deserve a place a lot more than many other bands in proto prog and "so called" prog related sections... (I wouldn't defend Who against Deep Purple, either!!!)
They may not have influenced any following "prog" bands (but they certainly influenced many hard rock- heavy metal bands... look how many bands covered Who tracks, notably The Real Me...) but their work stand on their own. Please listen to Sell Out (released in 1967, for God's sake!), Who's Next, and Quadrophenia albums, if you're sick of the Tommy phenomenon...
By the way, I really don't understand why they are not considered at least "Art Rock" by music sites (notably AMG), though several of their albums are listed as such...
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: May 10 2006 at 13:34
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My feeling is that if Deep Purple is considered proto-prog (which they deserve to be) then so should the Who. Just because they didn't feature keyboards doesn't make their music any less progressive for their time. Give a listen to "Armenia city in the sky" and "Rael" from The Who Sell Out as proof positive of their early and considerable influence on progressive rock. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 05:10
Genesis were, I've read a critic review their first album saying some of their songs sounded like the Who. I also remember when I firsgt heard Harold the Barrel by Genesis, I originally thought it was a Who song!!  . Listening to Tommy I do hear similarities with Genesis but whether they should be on the archives I don't know.------------- |
Posted By: Zepology101
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 14:52
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 10:22
I love resurrecting old threads!!  I think some of The Who's concept albums are almost enough merit to add them. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 10:32
Please, let's not go into that again ... There was a recent thread in the Collabs section about a possible addition of The Who to the DB, and the result was overwhelmingly against it. So, I'd advise you not to hold your breath... Controversial additions only bring turmoil to the site, as I have discovered to my everlasting distress when I added Iron Maiden.
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 10:33
Now I feel bad for resurrecting this thread. 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 10:38
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Bad Ben, not this kind of thread revival! ------------- 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 10:41
I'M SORRY!!! |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 11:29
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Controversial additions and debates are the lifeblood of the site!
(Is that controversial too?)
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 11:30
Ben, please, don't.... You couldn't know about what happens in our inner sanctum! One thing, though: The Who couldn't be in PP, because their proggier albums - "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" - were both released after 1970, when Prog had already started. So, the only option would be Prog-Related, though there is very strong resistance to the idea of inducting them in the ranks of the Collabs. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 11:36
| Why is there a very strong resistance to the idea? I think The Who's rock opera's are wonderful! But thinking of how the front page would be possibly flooded with Who reviews, that doesn't sound like such a cool idea. But they do have proggy elements to them! I mean The Who's "new" release has a rock opera on it (an old one they rerecorded I think). |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 11:57
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It's not about the ratings flood or much of the controversy.
Except the elevated distinct music and movement that "Tommy" & "Quadrophenia" meant (and mean), plus a classic that's "Who's Next" for the band, nothing else of The Who is entirely progressive or strictly influential about prog. -------------
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 13:39
You have it wrong wrt Sell Out - Pete Townshend's idea (and no doubt Kit Lambert was involved somewhere) was to have an album reflecting the then current music output into the UK of off-shore pirate radio (a concept of sorts but no way prog) - indeed the Who were writing advertising jingles for Radio London, some of which are replayed on the album. Sell Out was an album of psychedelic rock interdispersed with real radio adverts - all largely written by Townshend. BTW I Can See For Miles was the Who's valiant attempt to achieve a UK No 1 for the first time - made No.2, only No. 1 in (guess what) Radio London's chart, and this failure was said to be then cause of the Who abandoning the UK to concentrate on full American success for a couple of years.
And isn't about time we stop reading the claim that Tommy was the first rock OPERA (thanks TR for the very quick spot). (I suppose now for the 50th time in PA we beg to report) SF Sorrow is Townshend's personal reference point - and then it was well known Mark Wirtz and Tomorrow's Keith West had started working on one - for goodness sake they had a No 1 in the UK Charts called Excerpts From A Teenage Opera. And I wonder how much Townshend was aware of the Kink's Ray Davis's first and what turned out delayed concept album, which were greatly impeded by the Kinks' inability to record for a year because of legal action. Read around and you will also find folks suggesting the first rock opera dates back to 1963 - but then other people suggest (the most notably Joe Boyd) that real rock didn't happen until the summer of 1964..........
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 13:49
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More a case for Pete Townshend's inclusion:
Lifehouse Project,
Psychederelict
Iron Man
White City
being 4 obvious concept albums issued under his own name.
Amazed so few people not made the effort to check out Lifehouse Project - although the cost of a 6 CD set is marginally off-putting - especially when there are claims of Who's Next being prog - surely a couple of tunes at best? Who's Next along with parts of albums through to Who Are You? were salvaged from the original wreckage of demos and ideas for the Lifehouse. It took Townshend 30 years to get Lifehouse into shape and be able to issue a significant amount of material generated between 1969 and 2000 on that 6 CD set. Psychederelict was another attempt to utilise a little of the Lifehouse material. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: giantenemycrab
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 22:28
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