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Prog hits from the past 40 years |
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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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 Posted: September 26 2020 at 10:41 |
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It doesn't have to be a hit in the most literal sense just a song that was well known or played on the radio. I forgot about Saga. Kate Bush had "running up that hill" in the 80's but not sure it could be considered prog. I think many of these are sort of PINO(prog in name only).
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Progosopher
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 10:37 |
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Most of these are from the 80s. What about the 90s and beyond? I stopped paying attention to the charts around '95, so I can't say. There may have been a Prog revival in the 90s but there were apparently little to no hits.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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rushfan4
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 10:31 |
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Not to mention that Tom Sawyer and Limelight were from 1981.
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 10:29 |
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Not sure if a hit, but it did get some MTV play.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 09:25 |
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I was going to mention Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the World" until I realised it was released in November 1979, so I won't mention it after all.
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FatherChristmas
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 09:15 |
Not exactly prog, though, is it?  That reminds me - Mama and Abacab. Mr Crimson Flower King - apparently the Pot was a number five in the US, correct me if I'm wrong.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 08:22 |
Never heard of the Pot.
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 08:21 |
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The biggest hit from the 80s that I can think of at the moment, a song that I still hear even to this day, is "Owner of a Lonely Heart".
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 08:15 |
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Tool, The Pot, and others by them. SW has had minor hits. I believe the Mars Volta, DT and PT had a few. Other than that, I don't know.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 08:02 |
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Tull's "Farm on the Freeway" got a ton of airplay back in 1987.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 26 2020 at 07:56 |
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We all know the seventies had several prog "hits" such as "roundabout,""lucky man", "I know what I like","hocus pocus" and "money"(maybe a few others as well). What about the post 70's era though. All I can think of is one or two by Marillion in the 80's. Anything else?
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