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The Great Duck ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 07 2010 Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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So, even though there's a prog-related category on PA for bands that aren't strictly prog but have made proggy music at times, there's a lot of bands who also had prog influence, but not sufficiently enough to be included here. So I thought it might be interesting to talk about such bands here.
A few examples: Scorpions had some proggy stuff on their first few albums before Mathias Jabs joined, especially on the debut. Judas Priest's first four contained some songs which are somewhat proggy IMO (Deceiver/Dreamer Deceiver, Victim of Changes, Beyond the Realms of Death). Boston's music is mostly hard rock & AOR, but Foreplay/Long Time off their debut is longer than their other songs and has got a proggy feel to it. Foreigner's Star Rider could also qualify. Toto had some prog influences on their early albums, even though they were mostly hard rock/AOR/pop-rock. Just listen to title track from Hydra. Any others that come to mind? |
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Pastmaster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 23 2015 Location: Spiderwood Farm Status: Offline Points: 1774 |
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Well, I've always seen Incubus as a prog band, especially on albums like 'A Crow Left of the Murder' but not many people seem to agree. There is no denying though that this is a prog song:
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Raff ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
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Interestingly, most of the bands mentioned in the OP have been suggested for addition at one time or the other. Judas Priest's first three or four albums do have their share of prog-influenced (I hate the word "proggy"
![]() Personally, though, I hear progressiveness in a lot of bands active in genres not traditionally considered tangential to prog - such as new wave and trip-hop. The Stranglers, Wire, Ultravox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Portishead... In my opinion, most of them would deserve a spot in Prog-Related (though it is very unlikely to happen) - as would Faith No More, who have often been suggested without success. |
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Littlecarrots ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: August 12 2011 Location: Uruguay Status: Offline Points: 86 |
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Jambands usually have some prog-infused songs, at least some of them.
I've always considered this live-only song by The String Cheese Incident to be a lovely fusion of a prog epic with the typical happy jam sound of theirs. But then, SCI have lots of "proggy" moments on almost all their albums. Also related with SCI is their keyboard player, Kyle Hollingsworth, whose debut album is full of proggy moments, in a jazz-fusion vein, with some funk and electronic touches. I specially love how this three songs flow together. I even thought of suggesting him before the release of his last album last year (though I loved it, it's more of a funk, disco, electronic dance and afrobeat fusion album, and not really a proggy or even jazzy album). And then there's this Bee Gees' song. Really lovely opener from a great and overlooked album. Edited by Littlecarrots - February 17 2015 at 00:42 |
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Svetonio ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
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Crazy Eyes (1973) is a great prog song by Poco.
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Komandant Shamal ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: February 02 2015 Location: Yugoslavia Status: Offline Points: 954 |
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"Eagle" by ABBA. From their fifth album, The Album.
"Levity Ball" by Alice Cooper. From his debut album, Pretties For You, 1969
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The search function is your friend
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Good song, more people should hear the first two Alice Cooper albums, some very weird stuff there. |
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
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If you are going to cite that one you might as well include Hotel California by the Eagles... ![]() |
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
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I have always thought that many XTC songs have strong prog elements .....not to mention the Beatles and Beach Boys also.
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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Hotel California must be prog, after all, they stole it from Tull. ![]() I'm on an old Alice Cooper kick lately (reliving my disaffected teen years, obviously). This is proggier than a lot of alleged prog (complete with hints of Spanish and Arabic themes): |
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
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Great old track by Cooper...... ![]() I saw them once just after I'm Eighteen came out.
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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I saw them the first time just before the School's Out album was released.
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Ozzy does prog
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Svetonio ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
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I think that kraut lovers will like this song :
It's a song by former Belgrade's kraut band called Petrol. They dismissed two years ago; this is a band who recorded all the songs at their two full-lenght albums with analog equipment only and who has a "cult" fan base here. Sadly rejected for PA.
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Svetonio ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
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There needs to be a sticky topic at Proto Prog/Prog Related sub-forum (or at General Musiic Discussions sub-forum) which will be a summary topic for all "prog songs by non-prog bands". And then the forum moderator to put all of that in this one thread; that's actually the only way to avoid multiplied threads with the same subject.
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Intruder ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2206 |
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Put on any of the upteen versions of "Dark Star" from the good ol' Grateful Dead and link into the embryonic stages of a half a dozen genres of progressive rock. The omission of the Dead from PA is the single biggest problem with the site. Seriously, how can the Airplane, Phish, and Todd Rundgren be on the site and not the Dead? I mean, Tori Amos?!? C'mon!
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A great prog-ish song by one of my favorite country-rock bands. ![]() |
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