S/D: Hi, I used to be in a prog band but it seems the times have changed and I now make pop music

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S: Peter Gabriel - I liked the third album (poppiness of this may be debatable) as well as "Solsbury Hill" and "Digging In the Dirt". This stuff is quite possibly better than early Genesis. Rush - "Free Will", "Limelight", (I'm considering "Tom Sawyer" and "Red Barchetta" too proggy still) "Subdivisions", "Distant Early Warning", "Show Don't Tell", "Vapor Trail". I now have "Marathon" in my head but I'm resisting writing it down. Styx - "Mr Roboto". If Journey used to be a prog band as is claimed, then "Any Way You Want It", "Don't Stop Believin'", and "Escape". "Open Arms" was in my head most of the day but I don't know if I'm abject enough to list it as a search.

I'm quite ambivalent about "Owner Of a Lonely Heart".

D: Gilmour-led Pink Floyd. Styx - any ballads ("Lady", "Babe"). Phil Collins and Collins-led Genesis. Rush - "Big Money", "Roll the Bones", late 80s ballads, "Nobody's Hero".

Anyone willing to take a stand on Mike & the Mechanics?

I feel so dirty now.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, i forgot to put the lil clause at the end of that last post: Please no mention of Phil Collins. haha

didn't wyatt score a top 10 or something w/his cover of the monkee's "I'm a Believer"??

― JasonD, Monday, 28 October 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually "The Living Years" really should be destroyed.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 28 October 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Chicago count?

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised Dave Q hasn't stood up for "Moonlight Shadow" (yes, I know Mike Oldfield wasn't in a prog *band*, but you get my point). I rather like "To France", which is also by Oldfield and Maggie Reilly.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 28 October 2002 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

kraftwerk - "trans-europe express" ?

― gygax!, Monday, 28 October 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll STAND on Mike and the Mechanics. But fine, Silent Running is probably their best song, and it's listenable.

Adrian Belew fits here too, no?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 28 October 2002 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

pinefox to thread!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

A reading from the Book of Love Beach (ahem):

"Ohhh, you look so hungry woman,
how come you strayed in here with your eyes so bright,
on this long hot night.
Could it be for a taste of my love?

Down on your knees with your face to the wall,
Saying please please please,
My friend said I should call...
well I do feel lonely, woman
to tell the truth, I could use some company
to come closer to me.
Help yourself to a taste of my love.

Call up room service, ordered peaches and creeeeeam,
I like my dessert first - if you know what I mean.
Yeah, taste it, taste it, taste it
Around the maze of pleasure to the gates of pain,
you're driving me insane.
Take all you need from the taste of my love!

I want to love you like nobody ever loved you,
Get on my stallion and we'll ride.
I want to hold you and enfold you beyond reason,
I want to DYN-O-MITE your mind...WITH...LOVE...TONIGHT!!!!!!!

Go down gently with your face to the East,
The sun may be rising but we haven't finished the feast.
Ohhh, you still look hungry woman
I'm glad you came in here with your eyes so bright,
on this long hot night,
You need love - I need love,
here it comes, the taste of my love!!"

-Greg Lake

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Open Arms" was in my head most of the day but I don't know if I'm abject enough to list it as a search.

I am. It's a bloody masterpiece.

D: ELP - "Black Noon"

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody hell Joe, no wonder they never had their "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" :).

Conversely, I have a soft spot for Genesis' first few Top 40 singles ("I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe", "Follow You Follow Me" etc), mainly because I like the melody lines. Their later hits were bludgeoning dirges, of course.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

And sure, count Chicago. I've never heard their 70s stuff anyway. I'd be interested to see what people are willing to search from their stuff. I don't really mind the one that goes "After all that we've been through. . ."

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know many Chicago songs (except "Free-Form Guitar", is this better or worse than Sabbath's "fx"? Probably worse since "Supernaut" doesn't come right after it), but the spazzy guitar solos always sounded good to me. Not so much the spazzy horns.

What about Ritchie Blackmore in general? Not that Deep Purple were ever really prog, but Rainbow Rising almost is, and from that to stuff life "Since You've Been Gone", which is almost power-pop. Or ELO?

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to admit a soft spot for "If You Leave Me Now". More the music than anything else. I wonder how good it would have been without the crap lyrics.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Chicago Transit Authority thru Chicago VII

Destroy: Almost everything since.

― paul cox (paul cox), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Funniest scene ever: Three Of A Perfect Pair-era King Crimson on Showtime's "Rock Palace" (or whatever it was called) playing to a bunch of dancing new wavers.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

And why hasn't anyone namechecked Asia yet?

Guess I just did.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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