I checked out a "Prog-Rock" site today and as well as seeing bands that I expected, I also noticed some I didn't expect listed: Kansas, Styx, Journey and a few others.
2007-07-16 19:54:50 · 7 answers · asked by Lori F 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Well, I don't like every group that may be prog just like I don't like every rock band. Journey originally was a spin-off of Santana when several key members left Santana well before Steve Perry joined. Maybe the site thinks of Santana's early stuff as progressive. Kansas was a southern version of prog rock in the beginning, although aside from a couple of okay songs on their first few, I wasn't a big fan. I never did like Styx although they did rip off Yes(check out Prelude 12 by Styx and then listen to Steve Howe's acoustic passage in And You And I), Emerson, Lake and Palmer(Styx has a song called A Day which is a rip of Take A Pebble) and King Crimson(Styx has a song called Serpent which is a rip of a song called Pictures Of A City by King Crimson).
2007-07-16 21:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Grateful Jerry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the real Prog-Rock is more meaningful, and the music is far superior to anything Styx or Journey ever recorded.
What do I mean by Prog-Rock? Here's a list:
1. Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow 1976
2. Aphrodite's Child - 666 1971
3. Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - The Galactic Zoo Dossier 1971
4. Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif & The Longships 1975
5. Egg - The Polite Force 1970
6. Faust - The Faust tapes 1973
7. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 1974
8. Gentle Giant - Interview 1976
9. Dave Greenslade - The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony 1979
10. Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three 1974
11. Bo Hanson - Lord of The Rings 1972
12. Henry Cow - Legend 1973
13. Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh 1973
14. Patrick Moraz - The Story of I 1976
15. The Nice - Five Bridges 1970
16. PFM - Per Un Amico 1972
17. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts 1971
18. Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1974
Were any of these on the Prog-Rock site you checked out today?
2007-07-17 11:25:15 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prog rock is short for Progressive rock. I would describe the bands as trying to make an original sound and trying to make musical progress.
2007-07-17 07:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I always used Queen as an example.Styx I get. Early Kansas prolly. Journey????
I define it as large, operatic {in a cool way} well-written "thinky" music, rich in imagery, using myth and folk lore as themes. That's just me though.
2007-07-17 03:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a difficult genre to define. I find this article to be pretty definitive:
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive-rock.asp
2007-07-17 02:57:48 · answer #5 · answered by McLovin 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
music that "progresses" beyond rock
2007-07-17 13:24:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive-rock.asp
That should make it more clearer.
2007-07-17 03:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋