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Post by lollygagger on Jan 12, 2020 8:02:32 GMT
No offense to Rush fans but really? For me just another band of great musicians doing it for the sake of it but without any real spark.
Motorhead on the other hand were 99% spark. I know which I prefer.
Jolly glad was I when prog rock was stomped under the heel of punk.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 8:18:44 GMT
No offense to Rush fans but really? For me just another band of great musicians doing it for the sake of it but without any real spark. Motorhead on the other hand were 99% spark. I know which I prefer. Jolly glad was I when prog rock was stomped under the heel of punk. I was about 13 when I found a copy of 'Caress of Steel' together with 'In Search of Space' at a church jumble sale. I loved prog, and still do. I realise it had its faults, and one of them was possibly the proliferation of classically trained public school types given a licence to do as they please. Punk was the natural antithesis. I like punk too - Ian Dury and the Blockheads anyone?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 8:22:36 GMT
Any mention of genesis or Phil Collins just makes me think of American psycho
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 8:35:07 GMT
Did you notice the line where Christian Bale's character complains he never really understood the earlier work (of Genesis) on the basis it was 'too intellectual'?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 8:55:20 GMT
Yes.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 12, 2020 10:17:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 10:49:16 GMT
"...the chances were slender, the beauties were brief Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine And a black handkerchief?" (Sweet Gene Vincent)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 10:57:58 GMT
Both of those songs rely on an interpretation of Ovid...you don't get that in punk.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 11:15:21 GMT
Both of those songs rely on an interpretation of Ovid...you don't get that in punk. I don't get any of it at all, punk
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Post by ianali on Jan 12, 2020 11:15:34 GMT
No offense to Rush fans but really? For me just another band of great musicians doing it for the sake of it but without any real spark. Motorhead on the other hand were 99% spark. I know which I prefer. Jolly glad was I when prog rock was stomped under the heel of punk. Never really got punk. Love prog even though I’m a little young to have been there. Motörhead were one of the great live acts for me, Rush were more for mellow summer nights...
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 12, 2020 11:21:47 GMT
All that wizard mystical stuff too (apart from Gong). Glad when that ended, what were they thinking?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 11:41:14 GMT
All that wizard mystical stuff too (apart from Gong). Glad when that ended, what were they thinking? With Rush (Well, Neil actually) it was an eclectic mix of Greek mythology, Tolkien and popular science. For example, when Neil penned 'Cygnus X-1 Book II' the existence of a black hole at the centre of the constellation of Sagittarius was unproven. The Tolkien thing was an element of lots of prog rock; Led Zeppelin were not immune. I bet you hate Yes as well.
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 12, 2020 11:50:16 GMT
All that wizard mystical stuff too (apart from Gong). Glad when that ended, what were they thinking? With Rush (Well, Neil actually) it was an eclectic mix of Greek mythology, Tolkien and popular science. For example, when Neil penned 'Cygnus X-1 Book II' the existence of a black hole at the centre of the constellation of Sagittarius was unproven. The Tolkien thing was an element of lots of prog rock; Led Zeppelin were not immune. I bet you hate Yes as well. I certainly do. Mystical nonsense aside as I suppose some of it has some sort of charm in retrospect, there's a thread that runs through all the stuff I don't care for and that is music who's prime purpose is to display musicianship. I prefer a good tune played with heart, even badly played.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 12:00:49 GMT
Sit back and relax for eight minutes Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 12:03:34 GMT
With Rush (Well, Neil actually) it was an eclectic mix of Greek mythology, Tolkien and popular science. For example, when Neil penned 'Cygnus X-1 Book II' the existence of a black hole at the centre of the constellation of Sagittarius was unproven. The Tolkien thing was an element of lots of prog rock; Led Zeppelin were not immune. I bet you hate Yes as well. I certainly do. Mystical nonsense aside as I suppose some of it has some sort of charm in retrospect, there's a thread that runs through all the stuff I don't care for and that is music who's prime purpose is to display musicianship. I prefer a good tune played with heart, even badly played. I think you have it wrong, the idea was to push the boundaries of what was considered possible in a convention-defying stylee...pass the mellotron dude. This is what all pop music purports to do. Punk was no exception.
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