2010 Rock & Roll HOF Nominees -- Potentially Righting Some Wrongs?

Pink Lady ... do this now.

 

Oh sure, Pink Lady but no Jeff..

 

All personal preferences. Yes was outstanding prog, but Genesis made prog rock listenable without overly compromising the format IMO. Again, opinions.

But this blogger has twisted a fact or two.

- "Follow You, Follow Me" was off " ... And Then There Were Three," which was released in 1978. That's not the 1980s.

- Also a sticking point with this excerpt:
"After soldiering on proggishly but not that successfully for a couple of albums after Gabriel’s departure in 1975, the remaining members cannily transmogrified (uncanny transmogrification having been a core theme of the band’s earlier music) into a cuddlesome, MTV-ready trio led by that endearing, nonthreatening chap Phil Collins."

Those couple of albums - "A Trick of The Tail" and "Wind and Wuthering" - were easily among the top five albums released by the band (the other four are "Foxtrot," "Selling England By The Pound" and "Duke). Not only were they thoroughly progressive (except for perhaps "Your Own Special Way" on "W&W"), but they also outsold any of the Pete-era albums. And they compromised nothing artistically. Not very successful? Um, try again, Mr. Blogger.

The other points are pretty salient, though. No doubt that albums such as "Invisible Touch" and "We Can't Dance" were much more accessible, though they didn't forget their prog roots ("Domino," "The Brazilian," "Driving The Last Spike," "Fading Lights" and especially "Home By The Sea" off the self-titled album). Thing is, let's not get carried away and claim that Yes was pure prog all the time, either. It could easily be argued that "90125" was to Yes as "Invisible Touch" was to Genesis.

Hopefully, this won't be a token. Genesis was loooong overdue and so are Yes and Rush, for starters.