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Mr ProgFreak 
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 Topic: Do Dire Straits Count as Prog?Posted: June 05 2023 at 06:33 |
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^ depends. It's a sophisticated song, harmonically, and difficult to play (on the guitar). But for most of my life I found it boring.
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Posted: June 05 2023 at 06:00 |
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eheeee, Sultans of Swing is not a boring song.
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Posted: June 05 2023 at 05:56 |
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They can be made not boring:
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Posted: June 05 2023 at 03:22 |
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Definitely dip their toes into prog sometimes, but are ultimately a classic rock band.
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Aye.
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Posted: May 30 2023 at 15:50 |
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Dire Straits does not count as prog.
In my opinion, they count as boring.
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Posted: May 27 2023 at 09:04 |
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In short, no way, at best (Love over Gold) Art Rock. Edited by David_D - May 29 2023 at 06:24 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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To that I would add it is only the obsessive fans who stay inside their box of choice. Most of us do demonstrate at least some element of flexibility.
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Posted: May 11 2023 at 08:06 |
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Most musicians keep going in and out of genres or styles, it's only fans who stay inside their box of choice. Dire Straits' foray into prog is as good and enjoyable as anyone's, whether it be an only song or an entire career.
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I've never thought that Ian Anderson sounded like Knofler in that trilogy of albums (Crest, Island and Catfish). TBH, that Crest album sounds more like ZZ Top in its Eliminator/Afterburner era, because of two tracks. Still laughing about the Best metal album grammy thing, though..
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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There are many Rock bands in the 60s, 70s, and 80s that played regular Rock, but had a tendency to play in a Progressive style ..either by doing it for the whole of 4 or 5 minutes in one of their songs...or...recorded an instrumental piece .You can literally plough through a large volume of Rock albums which extend over 30 years and find that.
Of course they were never thought to be Progressive Rock by their audience or the industry, but because they were professional musicians they did in fact play something which sounded like Progressive Rock for a whole of 2 or 4 minutes. The reason being that they had a spark of creative freedom and could get away with it sparingly because they sold consistently and made the record companies happy. It's a fact..however they were never labeled as progressive in any sense. It usually wasn't revealed through the publications industry that they possessed that quality. I'm assuming it wouldn't have been good for business since they were being promoted as something else..but obviously some fans took notice of it. Edited by Jacob Schoolcraft - May 10 2023 at 16:39 |
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Budapest, which is basically Jethro Full trying to sound like Dire Straits plus flute 
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Posted: May 05 2023 at 09:06 |
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dire straits is pure rock
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I also spent the 70's & 80's being unaware my music of choice was called "progressive rock". I only learned that in the early 90's. Most of us in the area (Toronto) called that genre "Art Rock" Real progressive rock from the big 70's band during the 80's were: King Crimson/Discipline era Emerson Lake & Powell Brother Were You Bound Crest of Knave ((see Budapest) |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: May 05 2023 at 03:32 |
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Posted: May 05 2023 at 00:45 |
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Not even remotely, although their masterpiece Love over Gold has some slightly progish hints.
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Posted: May 04 2023 at 19:34 |
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Dire Straits? Ha! No, not even remotely. Nope.
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But Queen 1973-1975 are prog lol
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