Talk:List of progressive rock bands and musicians
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Why is Tool on here, but not A Perfect Circle? They are very similar (sharing a vocalist and general music tendencies). if there is a good reason, though... ugen64 02:24, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)
For some reason Citizen Cain was changed to Citizen Cain (band) - but since the article wasn't renamed this only removed the link. I have now restored it. If there is an alternative definition for Citizen Cain, please move the band article accordingly and add a disambiguation page. Lee M 02:53, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- The article has now been AFD'd so I've removed the link. I personally feel that once again an article has been deleted for the wrong reasons, and worse still there was no attempt to remove the links to the article. Lee M 14:26, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
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Is Queen (band) prog rock? If not, why not?
- No synthesizers!
Fire Star 05:34, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Just wondering...
Is there a reason this list's TOC is in groups A-C, D-G, etc.? Is there some sort of convention regarding this, or did it just happen?
[edit] The Beatles
I see that the Beatles have just been added to this list. While I know that there are already some groups included whose status as "progressive rock" musicians is dubious, I do not think that the Beatles should be included. They were certainly "progressive" in many ways, but "progressive rock" as a genre refers to something that the Beatles had little to do with. - Aiwendil42
- agree, we can't just call everything prog --LimoWreck 19:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- Disagree. The Beatles have many characteristics of prog:
- Long compositions
- Songs are made up of shorter parts
- Lyrics that focus on themes other than love (after 1965, the majority of their songs fit this)
- Concept albums (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heats Club Band was originally meant to be a concept album)
- Use of unusual time signatures, etc.
- Use of instruments unusual in rock
- Inclusion of classical music--well, they had quite a large orchestra for a while. Also Because (song) was inspired by a Beethoven piece.
- Linking the music with visual art--the article on progressive rock uses the Beatles as an example!
The beatles started progressive music with their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band as music that drew influence from other styles and broke boundaries. that is a way better definition of what prog is than the crappy one on wiki. Also, side two of Abbey Road is pretty much one long medley that influenced many early prog acts --NecroVMX
- That's a rather broad criteria that isn't necessarily specific to prog rock. And "Lyrics that focus on themes other than love"--that's pretty much the majority of rock songs since the late 60s. WesleyDodds 08:03, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thirty Years' War
Hello, I added Thirty Years' War, a Swedish progressive rock band to the list, but caught myself adding a link to the 17'th century war "Thirty Years' War". I wonder if someone could either make some sort of split or tell me how to do one. I'm keen on writing an article about the band.
[edit] Bands and musicians
The list title should be: List of progressive rock bands and musicians
The list should also include solo composers (e.g. Kit Watkins, Eddie Jobson) and musicians who play or played in several bands (Mel Collins, Dick Parry. Dlvmx 18 October 2006
