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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 21:11:02 GMT
June 7, 2012 www.avclub.com/articles/a-guide-to-the-best-and-a-bit-of-the-worst-of-prog,79776/ The concept album quickly became prog’s liberator and its jailor. While the movement strove to free itself from the single-oriented mindset of pop and treat the LP as a cohesive work of musical narrative, many prog bands wound up becoming equally constrained by the unwieldy format. Case in point: Jethro Tull. The band’s flute-adorned, folk-leaning prog is put to its limit on 1972’s Thick As A Brick, an album comprising a single, 44-minute song. Ironically, an edited segment of Thick As A Brick gained major airplay on radio and became one of the group’s biggest hits. That Jethro Tull made the album partly as a parody of prog—and specifically of ELP—only made it conceptually muddier.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Feb 7, 2018 21:14:40 GMT
Good article. Every genre has its apex which showcases the genre, is a major seller, and is often regarded as substandard. Look at an 80's pop hit such as Dancing in the Dark. It does all three. It was hugely successful (financially). But, is him at his absolute worst. Thankfully, IA was a mastermind over and above all his peers. Even 2112 and Topographic Oceans didn't come close to the brilliance of TAAB. As for ELP, they weren't even close.
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 7, 2018 23:59:18 GMT
I am of the minority opinion that everything Yes did before Tales was, at best, good practice and everything after, with the exception of 'Gates of Delirium' which could have been side 5 of Tales, was garbage. A recent reissue of Tales that included raw, un-overproduced versions of side one and three is awe inspiring. Tales From Topographic Oceans is a masterpiece.
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