One is tempted to look up one's old Camel albums. Yeuch!
To me now it seems almost all prog is, 'pon reflection, bollocks; alas. Technically speaking, are Floyd 'Prog'?
Fripp & Crimson I can manage, mainly for the muscular angularity. ELP made a good single, once: based on Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man. Genesis....ah Genesis. 'Selling England' has one good verse (the bare folk opening) one great verse (where the school organ kicks in and you're back in chapel) and then what appears to be hours of meandering nonsense. Honestly, you bastards, edit. Even Zeppelin's songs always go on at least one verse and chorus too long. When it comes to folk writing modern music over a period longer than ten minutes Floyd's 'Shine on' seems to me to be the only candidate that stands up, with honorable mentions to Fripp and 'Starless' and 'Fracture' etc. Another oft quoted example, Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' is too quaint by half: where is the Sturm und Drang, my dears? Worked well as a soundtrack, however.
Maybe it's time for his lordship to do a poll of songs over ten minutes long that it's actually worth listening to.
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Date: 2010-01-20 11:21 pm (UTC)To me now it seems almost all prog is, 'pon reflection, bollocks; alas. Technically speaking, are Floyd 'Prog'?
Fripp & Crimson I can manage, mainly for the muscular angularity. ELP made a good single, once: based on Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man. Genesis....ah Genesis. 'Selling England' has one good verse (the bare folk opening) one great verse (where the school organ kicks in and you're back in chapel) and then what appears to be hours of meandering nonsense. Honestly, you bastards, edit.
Even Zeppelin's songs always go on at least one verse and chorus too long.
When it comes to folk writing modern music over a period longer than ten minutes Floyd's 'Shine on' seems to me to be the only candidate that stands up, with honorable mentions to Fripp and 'Starless' and 'Fracture' etc.
Another oft quoted example, Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' is too quaint by half: where is the Sturm und Drang, my dears? Worked well as a soundtrack, however.
Maybe it's time for his lordship to do a poll of songs over ten minutes long that it's actually worth listening to.