SRG>   GE> "Yellow Brick Road", like most Elton John albums, is really just a
SRG>   GE> collection of songs. Most of the songs on YBR are just forgettable
SRG>   GE> songs. But some of the musical structures on "Funeral for a 
riend"
SRG>   GE> are as "progressive" as the later works of ELO or Pink Floyd. As 
o
SRG>   GE> whether "Funeral for a Friend" influnced ELO or Pink Floyd, or 
ere
SRG>   GE> preceeded it, I do not know.
SRG>   SRG> Something tells me it is getting suspiciously close to being the 

SRG>   SRG> tha are supposed to haul out the Mike Taylor definitive 
efinition
SRG>   SRG> just ex WHAT in tarnation prog rock IS and IS NOT.
SRG>   GE> I've read that definition, and I believe the songs I've mentioned
SRG>   GE> conform to it.
SRG> Seems that it's a good thing I'm a packrat.
SRG> The following is a defintion of Progressive Rock written by Mike Taylor:
SRG> Now is a good time to define the style of Progressive Rock.  I can hear 

SRG> album and decide for myself if it is Progressive.  But I lack the verbal
SRG> skills to translate what I hear into words.  However, a friend, Mike 
eat
SRG> once wrote a very apt defintion of the genre.  By far, this is one of 
he
SRG> successful attempts at defining the style as I have seen:
SRG> "Progressive seems to be more like the mixture of a style and an 
ttitude
SRG> style may have the following elements (but doesn't need all of them to
SRG> qualify): shifting meters and keys, episodic sectional compositions, 
eav
SRG> reliance on harmony from western classical music, early psych, or jazz 
u
SRG> All of this is usually approached from the rock perspective using the 
yn
SRG> and aggressive approach of that form of music.  The attitude is one of
SRG> exploration and ruthless exploitation of complexity in all its forms: 
hy
SRG>  melodic, harmonic, and architectural.  Again, not all these elements 
ay
SRG> present at once, but they often are.
Now, after re-reading Mike Feather's definition of Progressive as it was
quoted in Mike Taylor's definition of Progressive, I stand by my
original claim that the song "Funeral for a Friend" is just as much a
Prog-Rock opus as anything that any artist who is accepted as a Prog
Rocker has ever produced.
And after re-reading the definition, I am more convinced than ever that
what makes a work of music Prog-Rock is the SOUND of the song, not the
credentials of the musician. With apologizies to those who don't need to
have everything spelled out, "If it SOUNDS like the music described in
the official definition of Prog-Rock, then it's a Prog-Rock song".
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