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keith a
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Re: Prog Britannia
Dec 29, 2008, 23:49
Stevo wrote:


IanB wrote:


Without the musical and economic climate produced by Prog then there's probably none of these ....

"Nadir's Big Chance"
Magma's MDK
"Stormcock"
John Martyn's echoplex guitar
"Correct Use oF Soap"
Fripp's "Exposure"
"Liege & Lief"
Stereolab
Spiritualized
"Jehovahkill"
"Sons & Fascination"
"Tago Mago"
"Bat Chain Puller"
PIL
Radiohead
Eno's Ambient releases
Kate Bush
Thomas Koppel's piano music
"Low"
"Yellow Shark"
Nonesuch


Not sure about that list.




Understatement of the year there, Stevo!

Personally I can't see how, for example, prog is even remotely responsible for Jehovahkill (regardless of what I may or may not think of prog).

As for Magazine...well this is fast becoming one of music's great cliches.

Just because Devoto has apparently stated that he liked Yes and just because Magazine slowe d things down after the 1-2-3-4 straightahead punk scene doesn't make Magazine 'prog'. Other than one or two numbers on Second Hand Daylight I think the Magazine/prog connection is well and trtuly over-stated.

When I listen to Magazine these days I think they sound more like a post-punk Roxy Music (though this likeness passed me by at the time) than anything remotely Yes-like.

Incidentally, I played The Yes Album recently and although I didn't hate all of it, I did wonder what exactly made me think all those years ago that there was something akin to pleasure to be dervied from lisrtening to it.
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