British R&B, Beat, Mod or Whatever
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Topic: British R&B, Beat, Mod or Whatever
Posted By: Lynx33
Subject: British R&B, Beat, Mod or Whatever
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:18
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Let's have a vote for the best one to our taste. You know that all these bands went on to very much DIFFERENT directions, but here let's CONSIDER ONLY EARLY RELEASES. And don't forget, if you listen to this kind of music, make sure you do it in mono  .------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:27
| How early is early? |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:28
| Wow, quite a difficult poll seeing as Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, and The Stones are in there but it's gotta be Procol Harum for me. Can't stop listening to them. |
Posted By: Lynx33
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:33
It's that much early when they played the kind of music the title tries to suggest. Example, Pink Floyd first two albums. ------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
chopper wrote:Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:35
| I love Procol Harum, but early Kinks is just brilliant |
Posted By: Lynx33
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:37
 ------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:39
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Erm, sorry, but this poll doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. No vote. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Usandthem
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:42
| Well, early for bands like Pink or Procol Harum is completely different from early for The Yardbirds or the Stones. |
Posted By: Lynx33
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 12:49
Then, probably you don't know which one you like the best ------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 13:14
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The Yardbirds for this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 13:38
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Early....The Animals. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 13:45
I can't say that this poll makes sense to me either because it includes the Beatles who, in one way or another, really inspired the others so I'll vote for the Fabs, if that makes any sense either.  "Doing the right thing is never superfluous." |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 14:08
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voted for Pink Floyd mainly due to confusion, The Who a close second. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 14:09
Yea glad i'm not the only one.  ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Lynx33
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 14:21
Yes, "certain" people always recognize each other  ------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 14:54
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The first vote for the Hollies. Their vocal harmonies were sublime and I believe they were the best in the early years. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 16:36
Early enough to be available in mono as opposed to stereo.  Lots of greats here - Kinks, Hollies, Yardbirds, but I had to go with what was possibly the most obvious. And no, they weren't all influenced by the Beatles except for the fact that the Beatles were the most popular. The Liverpool sound was not the only one in Britain at the time.------------- 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: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 18:54
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I meant to identify the Beatles. Seemed obvious to me. ------------- 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: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 19:33
| If I'm getting this poll right, I prefer early Kinks to early Beatles, so The Kinks get my vote. But The Kinks were influenced by mature Beatles, so really my vote should have gone to The Beatles. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 13 2014 at 23:51
| The Who |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 03:33
I agree. I think Procol Harum have serious credentials to be considered the first genuine incarnation of a prog band and their early music is first class, which can't be said of most of the others in that list. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 06:36
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Floyd followed by Procol Harum. ------------- 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 06:42
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the Zombies, Procol Harum and Cream -------------  
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 07:06
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Beatles. Kinks were pretty good too. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 12:53
Hmm you're right Dean, it doesn't actually say what we're supposed to be voting for - the best presumably?
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 13:51
the best one to our taste (see the poll's first post) ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 18:26
I can actually read thanks, it did not make a great deal of sense to me when I originally read it and it still does not make a great deal of sense now. This is a Prog site, this thread is in the Prog Polls section of the Prog Music Lounges yet only three of these bands are remotely Prog and not one of the early albums by any of them are Prog. The only thing these bands have in common is that they are British (one is from Northern Ireland, the rest are English). Their début albums were released over a 4 year time span during the most creative time in British Pop music which makes comparison meaningless, with the exception of two of the bands, those débuts were composed mostly of cover songs. Couple that with the simple fact that there are at least four different distinct styles of music here, all of which adequately fit my taste without one being more "best" than another, then I don't see what I or anyone else is supposed to be voting for. How can Please Please Me/With The Beatles be more "best" for our tastes than Days of Future Past, Saucerful of Secrets? How does anyone compare Stop Your Sobbin' with Repent Walpurgis or Don't Ever Change with A Quick One, While He's Away?
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Posted By: Lynx33
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 19:15
What is this grousing? If you don't like the poll, don't vote. But keep degrading, fake-elevated opinion to yourself. Polls are for fun and not for schooling each other. There is always some antisocial, community ruining factor about people's behaviour who THINK they know things better than anybody else  ------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 14 2014 at 19:36
Really? I just don't understand the poll or what I'm supposed to be voting for. I don't see how this is a fake-elevated opinion of myself, if anything it is quite the contrary. So dry your tears and tell me what the connection is that I'm expected to vote upon here. ------------- What? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 06:38
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 06:41
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Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 06:51
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Not on the list,but could be. Small Faces. From the list,probably Kinks. ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 15 2014 at 15:36
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Strange list and poll as others have pointed out.....many of the songs by 4 or 5 bands up there were equally as good in those days. Can't choose.....
...a better poll might have been picking a representative song from those bands roughly the same time period. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: September 16 2014 at 21:19
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While I like all of the bands listed, it's the Moody Blues by far for me. While they were not strictly "all Prog, all the time", they were my first taste of what became a lifetime of Prog music for me. Legend of a Mind was the first song I ever heard that really got inside my head and "changed" me. My God, 1968 was so long ago. ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 03:08
| Lol, good poll links. I vote Stones. Time is on My Side, Heart of Stone, Ruby Tuesday, good stuff. |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 22:42
Pink Floyd.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |