Album of the day (#2652): The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley - Music

YoungPunk

Yeah! The British invasion and the resulting prog music were enormously important, but I find a lot of the early prog music (Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, The late Beatles) rough and not as refined as prog artists that were big in the 70's like Pink Floyd and Supertramp, So what I currently enjoy listening to the most is

1 "Refined" 70s prog rock

2 Straight classical music

3 Elvis

4 "Rough" prog rock like I mentioned above

may change later...

PurpleHazel

sethmadsen wrote:

I mean Elvis was like God at one point and still considered great to many.

James Brown equally doesn't have very high rankings. Or Little Richard.

I'm curious if this was a rate the artists page if that'd be different.

The artists above don't have the greatest albums, even if they have some pretty good albums. They really aren't album artists

Think Elvis' and Little Richard's low rankings are a combination of not being album artists and being pre-British Invasion era, which is just less popular than the late 60s and 70s.

In James Brown's case, it's definitely because of him not being an album artist. He has some good albums, like you say, but he's one of the greatest singles artists of all time. Also not being rock hurts him. The highest ranked R&B artist, Stevie Wonder, is only at #64 (not counting Prince and Michael Jackson since they're multi-genre).

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PurpleHazel

YoungPunk wrote:

I find a lot of the early prog music (Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, The late Beatles) rough and not as refined as prog artists that were big in the 70's like Pink Floyd and Supertramp

Interesting that you classify some Dylan and Beatles as prog! One could make the case that "A Day In The Life," "Revolution #9," "Yesterday" and some of the most psychedelic songs like "I Am The Walrus" are art rock, but I wouldn't personally call them prog! Similarly, one could argue that Blonde on Blonde, based on the adventurous lyrics, is art rock too, though folk-rock or singer-songwriter still seems like a better fit.

To me prog is Genesis, King Crimson, Yes, ELP, OK Computer etc. Calling Pink Floyd prog is totally reasonable, though I'd characterize them more as art rock myself.

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PurpleHazel wrote:

sethmadsen wrote:

I mean Elvis was like God at one point and still considered great to many.

James Brown equally doesn't have very high rankings. Or Little Richard.

I'm curious if this was a rate the artists page if that'd be different.

The artists above don't have the greatest albums, even if they have some pretty good albums. They really aren't album artists

Think Elvis' and Little Richard's low rankings are a combination of not being album artists and being pre-British Invasion era, which is just less popular than the late 60s and 70s.

In James Brown's case, it's definitely because of him not being an album artist. He has some good albums, like you say, but he's one of the greatest singles artists of all time. Also not being rock hurts him. The highest ranked R&B artist, Stevie Wonder, is only at #64 (not counting Prince and Michael Jackson since they're multi-genre).

For sure.