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Re: Pop-progging out with Saga
Black Dog - 20.07.2006, 07:34Pop-progging out with Saga
TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC PUDDLES
Pop-progging out with Saga
By J. R. Taylor
So you were first in line for Acid Mothers Temple, Six Organs of Admittance and Coheed and Cambria. But are you ready for the real prog, punk? Well, actually, that would be either Van der Graaf Generator or Vincent Gallo. If you want some laughably fun prog, though, then don’t miss this week’s big Saga concert.
Saga—or as the fans say, SAGA—could have only emerged from a country where Rush ruled the airwaves. There weren’t many prog acts showing their faces around 1978. Canada, however, felt that they’d pretty much done their part for punk with D.O.A. A band like Saga was welcome to rock Canadian radio.
They started out with laughable excess, too, most notably with song titles sporting fake chapters. 1978’s self-titled debut, for example, featured “Tired World (Chapter Six).” Nobody figured they’d ever hear the first five installments.
Saga was a uniquely Canadian prog act, too. Where others aspired to classical structure, Saga relied on dinky keyboards that almost pioneered synth-pop. The albums were mainly triumphs in engineering. Paul McCartney would have envied the pop sheen that Saga put on their excesses.
None of this would lead to much success for Saga. We already had Toto in America. Not surprisingly, Saga decided that it was time to finally break out big with a concept album. In 1981. Produced by Rupert Hine, who was then the go-to simp for any number of new-wave bands.
Actually, Worlds Apart worked. It was packaged like a disco album, and the big narrative was a morality tale on the scale of a Chick pamphlet. Saga was still in the position to redefine prog through sheer stubbornness. Rush and Genesis were busy becoming pop acts, while Yes and King Crimson were on hiatus. Everyone else had been laid low by punk. Saga was prog by default.
That’s why a lot of prog fans still hate Saga. The band noticed that, too. They had nothing to lose by completely going pop with 1983’s Heads or Tales. Well, at least Saga did their best. The album cover—in which a leopard turns into a man while jumping through a magician’s hoop—was still a bid to ensnare high-school geeks instead of girls looking for the next Duran Duran.
Frontman Michael Sadler also sported a handlebar mustache that was only shared by Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü. Saga could’ve been bigger than Madonna if there were only more gay prog fans.
Rupert Hine also managed to do for Saga what he did for The Fixx—mainly, take moronic ideas and make them sound like Pink Floyd was writing bubblegum hits. Few of the songs cross the 5-minute mark, and they’re all genuinely catchy.
Sadly, that would be the high point for Saga—and that’s “sadly” because the band’s recorded at least 10 studio albums since. The funniest one was 1987’s Wildest Dreams, in which the band tried to become The Outfield. Nowadays, Saga tours on their early reputation, and prog fans take them more seriously. Maybe that’s because Saga recently did a live album compiling all those songs with chapters, and it turned out to be a concept album about Albert Einstein and aliens. Nobody saw that coming.
July 22. B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42 St. (betw. 7th & 8th Aves.), 212-997-4144; 8, $22.50/$25.
Re: Pop-progging out with Saga
SwingCat - 20.07.2006, 09:35
Ich verstehs nicht worum es geht!
Re: Pop-progging out with Saga
Black Dog - 20.07.2006, 10:01
Ich auch (noch) nicht. Ich hatte es heute morgen mit 'GOOGLE-Alert' bekommen...und schnell hier reingesetzt. Ich kam noch nicht zum Übersetzen...
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