- ColinCamel wrote:
- IMO at that time Yes were not prog either.
Oh, come now - since when have Yes
not fallen squarely into the prog category? Even
90125 was well and truly in the progressive rock category, despite all the sampling and shiny digital synth
. Generally speaking (present company excepted, Colin!
) the only people who tend to dismiss the Rabin-era Yes as "not prog" are the sort of prog fans who think that unless it's all Mellotrons and 10-minute-plus songs, it ain't prog. By that yardstick, practically nothing released since 1976 counts as prog...
As far as the Frankie Goes To Hollywood question is concerned... Classic Rock Presents Prog magazine certainly seemed to think it counted as prog (it was one of their "It's prog, Jim, But Not As We Know It" albums a while back). I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but if fixing the prog label to it gets some people who might otherwise not have given it a chance to listen to it and broaden their horizons a bit, then hey, I'm all for it
.