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[Nail Soup]

38 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Stranglers weren't punk.

Might even have been prog 😉

[Leonard Smalls]

9 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

this

 Loved that when I was a wee-un!

Me and my m8 Swamp started a band called Bunsen Burner and the Peanut Roasters after hearing it...

We had a broken Farfisa organ, an out of tune Kay bass and a large pan. Our best song went:

I wish I was a Paramecium 

Cos then life would be very easium...

(Etc)

 

We never got as far as a gig!

 

 

 

[Misdee]

4 hours ago, ubit said:

I was just about to say, Prog Rock has developed quite a long way from the epic 70’s Hammond organ type offerings. Tool, Perfect circle and Porcupine tree showing that it can move with the times.  

Exactly this. It is now progressive rock because it has got progressively worse.

Edited April 3, 2022 by Misdee

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

Might even have been prog 😉

 

Obviously they were the new wave of post prog

[knirirr]

16 hours ago, paul_5 said:

I like Jazz, Mrs_5 less so.

 

We both like it. Unless I put some free jazz on; then, I tend to get dirty looks and complaints about it being "a bit too 'Desolate Shore'".

Edited April 3, 2022 by knirirr

[Barking Spiders]

23 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

If I was in your position I'd be demanding reparations for the crimes of prog rock. 

Let us never forget the atrocities of artists such as Focus with their yodelling and Yes with their half hour keyboard solos. 

The only good prog band was Tool.

Sure thing. During the days of empire the British did a lot of wrong things but foisting Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, Gong etc onto the world was a step too far

[SteveXFR]

Jeremy Clarkson is a big prog fan.  The man knows cars but if you have the same taste as him in music and fashion you need help.

[Barking Spiders]

1 minute ago, SteveXFR said:

Jeremy Clarkson is a big prog fan.  The man knows cars but if you have the same taste as him in music and fashion you need help.

The Clarkson association should be enough to put off anyone under 30 contemplating checking out DSOTM or Foxtrot

[Nail Soup]

2 hours ago, knirirr said:

Unless I put some free jazz on;

Free jazz. Free isn't enough, you'd have to pay me to listen to it.

 

 

 

Sorry, I'll get me coat......

[Cliff Edge]

10 hours ago, ubit said:

I was just about to say, Prog Rock has developed quite a long way from the epic 70’s Hammond organ type offerings. Tool, Perfect circle and Porcupine tree showing that it can move with the times.  

Isn’t that like saying modern R&B isn’t really just pop music?

[Cliff Edge]

8 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

Might even have been prog 😉

No. The Stranglers weren’t punk, they were a pop group. They just threatened to kill any promoter who didn’t pay up at the end of the gig. 

[ead]

@SteveXFR is there anything at all that you don't find offensive?

[SteveXFR]

2 minutes ago, ead said:

@SteveXFR is there anything at all that you don't find offensive?

 

I don't find you offensive. 

[ead]

Phew, I feel you may need a hug or some chocolate.  Seriously though, what is your preference?

[SteveXFR]

8 minutes ago, ead said:

Phew, I feel you may need a hug or some chocolate.  Seriously though, what is your preference?

 

I'm on a strict diet, no chocolate. A low calorie hug is acceptable. 

I like many musical things, mostly rock, punk and metal but the odd bit of blues, alternative, and some odd bits of pop (yeah yeah yeas, future islands, flaming lips etc) and even the odd bit of 80's electro. I don't like musicals, jazz, early prog, commercial pop or country music by people called Urban because you can't be country and urban. 

[knirirr]

1 hour ago, Nail Soup said:

Free jazz. Free isn't enough, you'd have to pay me to listen to it.

 

 

Getting paid to play it is difficult enough...

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited April 28, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[paul_5]

46 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

Well, she only has good things to say about you.

I beg to differ…

[Nail Soup]

8 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Obviously they were the new wave of post prog

FWIW, in my 'broad church' definition of punk, the Stranglers were punk. I certainly considered them so when they were my favorite band. 

I discovered them in 1979, got their first three albums (punk) and the first new material I got was The Raven.... it was relatively proggy, but I liked it anyway.

[SteveXFR]

5 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

FWIW, in my 'broad church' definition of punk, the Stranglers were punk. I certainly considered them so when they were my favorite band. 

I discovered them in 1979, got their first three albums (punk) and the first new material I got was The Raven.... it was relatively proggy, but I liked it anyway.

 

I would classify Stranglers as good music. 

[BreadBin]

I still think The Stranglers were prog, for all the reasons listed in this article.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/did-the-stranglers-go-prog-on-black-and-white

[Barking Spiders]

9 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

I still think The Stranglers were prog, for all the reasons listed in this article.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/did-the-stranglers-go-prog-on-black-and-white

 

I've just read the article. Talk about trying to force home a square peg into a round hole

[ead]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I'm on a strict diet, no chocolate. A low calorie hug is acceptable. 

I like many musical things, mostly rock, punk and metal but the odd bit of blues, alternative, and some odd bits of pop (yeah yeah yeas, future islands, flaming lips etc) and even the odd bit of 80's electro. I don't like musicals, jazz, early prog, commercial pop or country music by people called Urban because you can't be country and urban. 

 

I feel that we share a lot of common likes here (honorable exception of prog of which I am unashamedly a fan).  Apols to the OP for the thread derailing.

[tauzero]

I like most prog (not Rush, that voice is like fingernails on a blackboard), glam, and punk. Focus were a superb band.

 

Still, I think we can all agree that Prince is twee and inconsequential.

[SteveXFR]

7 hours ago, tauzero said:

I like most prog (not Rush, that voice is like fingernails on a blackboard),

 

I'm the opposite there. Rush are about the only early prog band I do like. I do get why some people dislike Geddy's vocals.