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In your paragraph about the lyrics of proggressive bands you completely ignore the fact that there are proggressive bads who do make clear statesments, to name a few- Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull ,ELP (at least the disk I know). you can't say that they are exeptions, without more proof.

Hi Fire Bat.

I'm amazed that anyone read my piece on this at all. How on earth did you find it?

Please don't take any of it very seriously - I don't even know much about the subject and was just trying to get myself used to writing again.

As a matter of interest, can you give me any examples of clear statements that these (or other) progressive bands made? Maybe I could work something into the article on a future rewrite.

Cheers
Om

First of all- thanks for replying. I found your entry while searching progressive rock.
As for statements from the lyrics of the bands I mentioned above:
1.(Pink Floyd) The Wall- all of the albom (and the movies), Animals especially "Pigs (Three Different Ones)"

"We don't need no education" is not just a Cliché, it's a cry against the education system in England. The song starts with "there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they chould" and continues with "we do't need no thoughts control"

About Pigs you should find the full lyrics. In another song- Sheep, there is a part you can't really understand without the lyrics (you barely notice it exists that goes "The lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me down to lie"

2.(Jethro Tull) Thick as a Brick (a one track albom), Aqualung (most of the albom if not all of it)

Statements such as "how can you tell me, that I'm my father's son, when that was just an accident of birth", the preface of the almob aqualung -starts "In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him"
3. (ELP) "Paper Blood" (I don't know them soo much)-"Caught in the river/Can't stop the flood/It's the power of money, paper blood"
"Black Moon" also.

As for something that do support you thesis from the very early period of Pink Floyd (first albom to be exact)- the song "Astronomy Domine", which is pretty wacky - written by Syd Barrett, probably influenced by drugs. I don't see much reason in it.
Anyway, it does'nt prove a thing.
Hope to change your mind a bit,
Fire Bat