JaneEyre wrote on 6
th Mar, 2006 at 6:59pm:
You play The Who and Led Zep. Are
they Prog? Hmmmm?
If you're unsure of Queen, forget every time you've heard "Bohemian," "Under Pressure," and "Another One Bites the Dust," and listen to some of their other songs.
And I don't think The Pretty Things are Prog either. So there.
, whilst not being out-and-out 'Prog' throughout their career, do have some impressive Prog credentials. They wrote several Rock Operas which are most definitely
very 'Proggy' - tracks from these are featured on S.A. along with material from their Psychedelic classic '
Sell Out'.
Led Zeppelin have a 'bad boy' image and are overtly blues-based in their style of playing - like
The Who. Both of these attributes can alienate them from the world of Prog, however, I still feel their earlier material warrants playing here.
As far as
Queen go, '
Fat Bottomed Girls (You Make The Loving World Go Around)' has to be an all time favourite of mine ...
Pretty Things, apart from writing
the first ever Rock Opera (don't let anyone tell you otherwise - they're wrong, full stop) their output up until around 1972 was most definitely
very 'Proggy'. '
Parachute' being the prime example, as whilst not being a 'Rock Opera' per se., is a damn fine concept album. That and they were signed to
EMI's
Harvest label and several of their albums were produced by
Norman Smith - of
Pink Floyd production fame. He even co-wrote on a couple of tracks too.
Dee
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