Foreigner, Journey, Toto, or Boston
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Topic: Foreigner, Journey, Toto, or Boston
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Foreigner, Journey, Toto, or Boston
Date Posted: December 26 2010 at 19:52
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the four greats of Melodic 80s american rock music which all spawned hits after hits and also had artistic integraty and skills by ten-folds.
all in some way or another related or related related to prog
let the ball roll -------------  
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 26 2010 at 23:44
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Never cared for Foreigner or Journey very much.
Boston's 'More Than A Feeling' will always be one of my favourite AOR tracks. There is other stuff I like by them as well although not as much. Bit of a one trick pony.
Toto are by far the most interesting band of the 4 for me. Some very great tracks (not just one!) ,with a bit more variety. Seem them play live as well. Gets my vote.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 06:16
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Boston, their first two albums are ok. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 06:19
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Boston by a galaxy. Journey is second.
------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 06:37
| Boston for me.They have less commercial songs. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 06:39
| They all creep me out and I have much better things to spend my musical time on. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 08:25
Yes! This!
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Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 09:05
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the four greats of Melodic 80s american rock music which all spawned
hits after hits and also had artistic integraty and skills by ten-folds.
I prefer Styx to all of them. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 09:18
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Four of my favorite bands. My votes goes to Journey, but could just as easily be Boston. ------------- 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 11:50
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I can actually say that the only one of this group that I haven't seen live is Foreigner. Thankfully I saw Journey open up for ELP before Steve Perry joined the band. I wish that they could have melded writing some poppy songs but have kept what they had on the first albums before he joined (much like Supertramp). Boston. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 15:24
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Very tough for me.....but I picked Journey. I like what Greg Rolie and Neal Schon put together with Journey after leaving Santana. What can you say about Boston, two amazing albums...some of the best. I lost interest in Foreigner after Head Games. And Toto featured some of the best studio musicians of the 80's.
All of them get plenty of listens with me. -------------   
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 15:26
I'll give them their due credit for being what they were whatever the hell they were. 
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 15:51
You are so negative Slarti......open your mind and let it flow....
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 16:51
| Toto |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 17:39
Yeah but whenever I do I smell my Marianne walkin' away. |
Posted By: Tychovski
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 17:52
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Journey. ------------- Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 17:58
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Foreigner gets credit for having Ian McDonald, Journey for starting out proggy, Toto for the Dune soundtrack, and Boston for the cool album covers. I actually cast a voto for Toto. The Dune soundtrack is totally awesome.  I can't give them any credit for the rains down in Africa. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 05:45
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[QUOTE=Slartibartfast] I actually cast a voto for Toto. The Dune soundtrack is totally awesome.
It sure is! I can't imagine the expression on some people's faces who have yet to hear it. I remember being blown away by it's force and the realization that I was listening to the group who once recorded "Rosanna". Sections of the music remind me of Camel and the points of comparison measure out in dimensional distance. There is also a piece by Brian Eno. I wonder how many P.A. members have actually heard this recording?
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 06:57
MIles Davis plays trumpet on one Toto record Fahrenheit, and Ian Anderson have a flute solo on their last album Falling in Between, and Jon Anderson sang background vocals on the Toto tune Can't Stop Loving You. so they have prog and jazz legends featuring on their studio albums. -------------
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 07:40
What's wrong with this song ? I voted for Toto...of course. None of the other bands have so many good and diverse albums as Toto. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 08:15
I made the exactly same poll a few years ago.  Toto gets my vote.
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 08:32
WOW! I never followed their career close enough to notice. Thanks for this information! I find it interesting.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 08:39
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Miles said while "jamming" with them that he did not know white guyss could play funk before he met Toto, which made him deside to lend his Horn for their huge pleassure and for his honour,
they only let him do whatever he could on that song so it is improvised while, Toto do what they do best, became the backbone of the track while MIles (and David Sandborn on Sax) soloed over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msBp0l3_06M" rel="nofollow - -------------
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Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 09:30
------------- three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe, three dot four dot, is what will make a square, a bed to build on, it's all there, four dot |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 09:30
I have  -------------
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Posted By: steppenfloyd
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 11:11
| Boston, easily. The rest are just annoying, especially Journey. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 12:46
Nice......  -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 15:42
Man, if you have to explain a joke it is just ruined.  (Hint, I wasn't slamming the song.) ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 16:41
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^ ok, I see. Seems I didn't get the joke in the first instance. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 18:04
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 14:28
| Journey--for the first three albums only. Actual prog-like material. |
Posted By: michellemjk
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 23:02
| Toto |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: January 08 2011 at 19:30
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: January 08 2011 at 19:31
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I just had to post that . My vote goes to Boston though.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 09 2011 at 14:06
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Neither Foreigner, Boston or Journey wrote a song so full of emotions as this one (Luke at his peak) :
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 17 2011 at 09:46
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Boston, they actually made a good album, automatic victory. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs/?chartstyle=LastfmSuicjdeGirls" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Blue Effect
Date Posted: February 17 2011 at 22:25
| Journey. Dream After Dream is one of my all time favorite LPs. |
Posted By: Blue Effect
Date Posted: February 17 2011 at 22:32
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I mean c'mon, does anything by those other three measure up to the majesty of this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJrn5PGO1U" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJrn5PGO1U
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: February 17 2011 at 22:32
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: February 17 2011 at 23:55
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Preferably non of the above.....I mean I guess Foreigner.....but really I don't want any of that. Ian Mcdonald and a lack of constant power ballads was my reasoning for Foreigner I can't even take Journey the slightest bit seriously. To be fare though all of these groups are just not my kinda thing..too poppy and not enough instrumentation/lack of words.
And Boston are just criminals. The Riff for Smokin' is so stolen from Freddie King's Guitar Boogie (called Boogie Funk in the dominant live youttube vids)! I actually agree on the Styx comment. Still too poppy, but very good musicians. Any prog fan should be able to respect Dennis Deyoung's Hammond and Synth work, he's fantastic. An example that comes to mind is youtube video's of certain versions of Blue Collar Man in which Dennis tears **** up on the b3 before launching into that badass organ riff (which probably introduced me to the b3)
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Posted By: clarkpegasus4001
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 00:03
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I have to go for TOTO! I LOVE the first three Journey albums but not struck on the later stuff, Foreigner? well I like a some of their songs, and Boston, well most of the first album is great More than A Feeling is EPIC! Fourplay/Long Time is superb. Toto though are more diverse so get my vote, they are good live as well.
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Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 00:45
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Definitely Boston on this one. ------------- 
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 10:09
| toto and boston come first but i likejourney and foreigner too |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 20:22
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 07:08
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: April 13 2011 at 02:47
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Wow, tough call ! You're certainly throwing in a set of bands that are equally matched (qualitywise). In the eighties Toto and Foreigner were my favoriet bands, certainly where pop and AOR were concerned. Boston came a little earlier in time and was definitely one of the cracking bands in the AOR scene (you could have put REO Speedwagon also in the list by the way). Journey is my least favorite of the set but when I hear Don't stop believin' ....
not much wrong with it, is there ?
I will give my favorite songs of each of my personal fav bands:
Toto: White Sister, Girl Goodbye, 99 and Hold the Line
Foreigner: I need you, Tramontane, Blinded by Science, I'm gonna Win and Girl on the Moon
Boston: Foreplay/Long time, Amanda, Smokin', A man I'll never be and Hitch a Ride ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 15 2011 at 03:37
you seem to like melodic prog and music, have you or why not trye the some later Toto works, f.eks Mindefilds and Falling in Between both very eclectic albums where they at least on Mindfields, juggle five to six different genres, and even add some indian/raga tones, Falling have also some midle eastern and some even gospel like tunes. with awesome vocal work,
this song is quite proggy
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