Prog Rock Sucked!

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

ELP's Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery are fantastic albums. I do agree though that a lot of Prog was just tiresome noodling.

 

[PragueBlue]

It’s a genre I would like to love - but I’m just a basic melody man at heart

Interestingly though we’ve had very few Prog rock nominations in the Album nominations

I was trying to decide between the Dylan album I nominated and another album which is apparently classed and prog rock (though I don't really see it that way). Maybe next time!

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Like who? Post punk all the number albums 1 of 1980
DATE TITLE ARTIST WKS AT NO.1
12/01/1980 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2 ABBA 1
19/01/1980 PRETENDERS PRETENDERS 4
16/02/1980 THE LAST DANCE VARIOUS ARTISTS 2
01/03/1980 STRING OF HITS SHADOWS 3
22/03/1980 TEARS AND LAUGHTER JOHNNY MATHIS 2
05/04/1980 DUKE GENESIS 2
19/04/1980 GREATEST HITS ROSE ROYCE 2
03/05/1980 SKY 2 SKY 2
17/05/1980 THE MAGIC OF BONEY M BONEY M 2
31/05/1980 MCCARTNEY II PAUL MCCARTNEY 2
14/06/1980 PETER GABRIEL PETER GABRIEL 2
28/06/1980 FLESH AND BLOOD ROXY MUSIC 1
05/07/1980 EMOTIONAL RESCUE ROLLING STONES 2
19/07/1980 THE GAME QUEEN 2
02/08/1980 DEEPEST PURPLE DEEP PURPLE 1
09/08/1980 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC 2
23/08/1980 FLESH AND BLOOD ROXY MUSIC 3
13/09/1980 TELEKON GARY NUMAN 1
20/09/1980 NEVER FOR EVER KATE BUSH 1
27/09/1980 SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER CREEPS DAVID BOWIE 2
11/10/1980 ZENYATTA MONDATTA POLICE 4
08/11/1980 GUILTY BARBRA STREISAND 2
22/11/1980 SUPER TROUPER ABBA 9

Mud, Showaddywaddy, The Sweet, Gary Glitter, Mott The Hoople, Bay City Rollers, Slade, Sparks, The Rubettes, Smokie, etc.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Hairy beardy feckers

Yes

 

[blueparrot]

Mud, Showaddywaddy, The Sweet, Gary Glitter, Mott The Hoople, Bay City Rollers, Slade, Sparks, The Rubettes, Smokie, etc.

Sweet, Slade , Sparks were still around after punk, and still are in one form or another. Mud Showaddwaddy Rubettes, Smokie were just pop bands that had a natural life, Punk had nothing to do with it.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

No mention of Asia yet...

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Sweet, Slade , Sparks were still around after punk, and still are in one form or another. Mud Showaddwaddy Rubettes, Smokie were just pop bands that had a natural life, Punk had nothing to do with it.

Punk finished them all off, stop fuckin' arguing.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

More is more.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

There is good prog and bad prog shocker! Who knew....?

 

[blueparrot]

Punk finished them all off, stop fuckin' arguing.

No I won't, you're wrong. Punk was great for a short period, but was very short lived 3 maybe 4 years and everything it supposedly killed off was around long after punk, and is still around. As punk itself became more arty and bloated.