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Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
Forum Description: Suggest, create polls, and classify new bands you would like included on Prog Archives
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Topic: Status Quo
Posted By: Chris H
Subject: Status Quo
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 19:59
Hows about we add the psych giants themselves, Status Quo? I think they are a perfect band for the proto-prog guidelines, myself.
 
How about you?


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Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 20:09
Um....
NO.
 
Too much pop, not prog.


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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 21:48

Ah but pop is quite an integral part of proto-prog, is it not?

I believe The Beatles released a pop song or more in their career...



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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 03:38
I can't remember which one, but one of their early 1970's albums nearly qualifies...
 
Apart from that, the 1960s albums are archetypal psychedelic rock - very similar to the Small Faces in many ways.
 
While the SF's could stretch it to a point with their semi-concept album "Ogden's Nut Gone", there's nothing really out of the ordinary in the Quo's music of that time.
 
From about 1973 onwards, their direction is obvious and non-progressive.
 
Great band though - and, if I could remember the name of the album, there's definitely some surprises in their back catalogue for everyone that thinks they only knew 3 chords.
 
Not even vaguely Prog-Related really.


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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 07:56
You're having a laugh!


Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 08:04
No,but...I would partially agree to the inclusion. 25%

They made some proggy blues stuff from about 1970-1973 but thereafter,no way!

The albums; Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon,Dog of Two Head,Piledriver,Hello and Quo all have their (prog-ish) moments.

The reason that I wouldn't include them is because it would open up inclusion of similar artsists.

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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 08:05
Originally posted by Zappa88 Zappa88 wrote:

Hows about we add the psych giants themselves, Status Quo? I think they are a perfect band for the proto-prog guidelines, myself.
 

How about you?



depends.. are they popular enough?

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 08:16

No, not for me. Their psych material is hardly proto prog, it's bubblegum/pop psych really, imho. 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men', 'Ice In The Sun', 'Technicolor Dreams' and the like have a sort of kitsch appeal now but it is far removed from prog.

Their early 70s work is as close as they got, and then only VERY fleetingly, such as the fiddly guitar intros to 'Big Fat Mama' or 'Backwater', but even then I'd be genuinely stunned if they were ever added here. I speak as a fan of their early to mid 70s albums too, which are genuine heavy rock classics, imo.


Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 10:10
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

No,but...I would partially agree to the inclusion. 25%

They made some proggy blues stuff from about 1970-1973 but thereafter,no way!

The albums; Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon,Dog of Two Head,Piledriver,Hello and Quo all have their (prog-ish) moments.

The reason that I wouldn't include them is because it would open up inclusion of similar artsists.

Piledriver, Hello & QUo have proggish moments ? Confused


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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 12:24
Originally posted by debrewguy debrewguy wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

No,but...I would partially agree to the inclusion. 25%

They made some proggy blues stuff from about 1970-1973 but thereafter,no way!

The albums; Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon,Dog of Two Head,Piledriver,Hello and Quo all have their (prog-ish) moments.

The reason that I wouldn't include them is because it would open up inclusion of similar artsists.

Piledriver, Hello & QUo have proggish moments ? Confused
 
I'm not sure about Piledriver, but either Hello or Quo (can't remember which offhand) do meander vaguely into proggy territory - I didn't believe it myself until I heard them.
 
Not enough to be Prog-Related though Wink


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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 12:31
Status Quo? Is that a band ridiculed all over the world because of their C-F-G-chord knowledge? Is the the band often cited as an opposition to prog?

But then again...why are they so often included on different "best of progressive rock" compilations?


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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 12:35
I was a big Quo fan for years in my yoof Embarrassed
 
I saw them live 6 or 7 times and always had a great time - the boys achieved a hell of a lot and are still going strong, they are a national institution,  but i'm sure even Rossi and Parfitt themselves would fall about laughing if anyone suggested they were Prog!!LOL
 
 
and my Mum likes them..Shocked
 
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 13:08
Quo get unfairly knocked for 'playing the same three chords' when this patently isn't the case for their earlier work. 'Piledriver', 'Hello', 'Quo', 'On The Level', 'Blue For You' and 'Live' are just brilliant heavy rock albums with a far greater variety than they are given credit for. I must say though, after those albums I don't really like too much- the sound got slicker thereafter culminating in travesites like 'Burning Bridges'...


Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 14:35
Guess I might have been wrong, eh?

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