Hello MICHAEL.
23 Nov 96 07:50, MICHAEL DOYLE wrote to JOSH RYMAN:
JR>SVI>> That's true, look at Alan Parsons. Mostly 80's, and still some
JR>SVI>> classics. It even doesn't have to be classic to be progrock, I
JR>SVI>> think.
MD> IMHO, aside from the very Pink Floyd influened "I Robot", a great
MD> album, most of parsons' stuff is rather pedstrian, not prog. at all.
First of all, this message encourages me to buy 'I Robot'. Thanks.
Secondly. IMHO, APP is VERY prog, albeit perhaps not very rock. 'Tales...' is 
a concept album, has classical music AND a classical structured song. The 
instrumentals have titles which appear in the lyrics, and the lyrics are 
really litterary. Then there's the vocoder on 'The Raven', and the voice of 
Orson Welles. Conclusion: definately prog.
Then, there's 'Turn of a friendly card', which also has a classical song. I 
think Andrew Powell does a very good job on all the project albums, and most 
of the time, classical music in modern music leads to progrock.
The concept of the group is also very prog. Free-lance singers are NOT 
common, and therefore progressive. And since APP started in the 70's, some 
people could agree that we can call it -P-rogressive.
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Steven
NP: Marillion - Brave
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