Top 10 Non-Prog Bands.

Off the top of my head, in alphabetical order, not in PA (including prog-related):

Edited by Lewian - February 10 2021 at 04:03

Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
XTC
The Stranglers
Cocteau Twins
Depeche Mode
REM
The Cure
The Smiths
Japan
Manic Street Ptreachers

Edited by Blacksword - March 09 2021 at 07:13

Guldbamsen wrote: Lewian wrote: Thomas Dolby Peter Gabriel Leonard Cohen Barbara Dennerlein Ennio Morricone Stevie Wonder (...) Some of you have a strange definition of what a "band" is... (I'm tempted to nominate solo artists, too, but no, I won't.) I’m a lazy reader I guess Throw in some Magazine and Edgar Broughton Band perchance.

Quite often when people say band they also are referring to solo artists, and a lot of so-called artists are not truly solo (the band name is the frontman's name, has a band backing it, or just has session musicians behind it -- depends on what one means by solo). For instance, I see topics made by people who use band in the title of a poll and themselves mention solo artists in the list.

It's quite like with songs, a lot of people include fully instrumental music with no singing when they talk about songs. So I don't think one need to be that exact or pedantic commonly.

I decided to include both "solo" artists and bands because the OP (Argo) wrote early on in response to a list with both bands and solo artists "Nice list BTW" without taking issue with the solo artists. I took that as tacit support from the one who is conducting this exercise. Had Argo said, "Nice list, but I would rather focus on bands proper" then my approach would have been different. Nice means precise (or accurate), and so I took it to precisely mean that the OP is okay with artists. :P People do use terms in different ways, and what matters is intent. Perhaps the OP was just being quite nice in a polite and tolerant way by calling it a list nice. I do think that was added more as a polite aside (it wasn't the main thrust of that post which was addressing a concern).

If it's important to the OP for whatever reason this topic was made, then I will happily give a list of ten bands proper.

Edited by Logan - February 10 2021 at 07:50

It is fascinating, and in Wonder's case he definitely could pull it off. :D Imagine Bobby Beausoleil without his Freedom Orchestra. It still would be killer (oops, that's bad taste).

And then there's the case of the one man band. A solo artist which is also a band (or like, or imitative of a band) as it's not a solo instrument.

Edited by Logan - February 10 2021 at 08:03

Logan wrote:   Quite often when people say band they also are referring to solo artists, and a lot of so-called artists are not truly solo (the band name is the frontman's name, has a band backing it, or just has session musicians behind it -- depends on what one means by solo). For instance, I see topics made by people who use band in the title of a poll and themselves mention solo artists in the list. It's quite like with songs, a lot of people include fully instrumental music with no singing when they talk about songs. So I don't think one need to be that exact or pedantic commonly.

Ooh, Portishead should have been on my list. Big omission from me to the point of embarrassing.

Edited by Logan - February 10 2021 at 09:04

top 10 non prog BANDS (as in not currently listed in a 'pure prog genre' on PA):

Yello

The Dark Elf wrote: The Beatles Led Zeppelin The Doors Black Sabbath Neil Young Alice Cooper (band, 1969 - 1973) Allman Brothers The Rolling Stones (Mick Ronson era) Simon & Garfunkel Nick Drake Fairport Convention (up to Full House)