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Ed_The_Dead View Drop Down

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Topic: Your fav non prog songs
Posted: August 14 2005 at 11:14

Make a list of 10 non prog songs You love, but remeber - 1 band = 1 Song

In no particular order:

1.Children of Bodom - Everytime I Die

2.Norther - Last Breath

3.Alice in Chains - Sunshine

4.Black Label Society - Suicide Messiah

5.In Flames - Jotun

6.Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction

7.Paradise Lost - I am Nothing

8.System of a Down - Aerials

9.Lacuna Coil - Swamped

10.Static-X - Cold

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 11:27

dire straits-sultan's of swings

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 11:32

I'll define a non prog song as being by an artist/band not in the archives.... in order of preference:

1. Jesse (Janis Ian)
2. Ghosts (Japan)
3. Private investigations (Dire Straits)
4. The ninth wave (Kate Bush)
5. Desperado (Eagles)
6. Vincent (Don McLean)
7. I'm not in love (10 CC)
8. Cup of coffee (Garbage)
9. Samba pa ti (Santana)
10. The sound of silence (Simon and Garfunkel)

For more, see my home page.

EDIT: I might as well go for top 50 while I am at it....

11. Baker street (Gerry Rafferty)
12. This masquerade (Carpenters)
13. The winner takes it all (ABBA)
14. Time in a bottle (Jim Croce)
15. The first time ever I saw your face (Roberta Flack)
16. Bat out of hell (Meat Loaf)
17. Perfect day (Lou Reed)
18. Through the barricades (Spandau Ballet)
19. Where or when (Bryan Ferry)
20. Wildflower (Skylark)
21. Hou me vast (Volumia!)
22. Silent all these years (Tori Amos)
23. Song to the siren (This Mortal Coil)
24. Gollums song (Emiliana Torrini)
25. Homeless (Paul Simon)
26. Promises (Cranberries)
27. White rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
28. Life on Mars? (David Bowie)
29. Breaking us in two (Joe Jackson)
30. Afscheid (Robert Long)
31. Nur zu Besuch (Die Toten Hosen)
32. Year of the cat (Al Stewart)
33. Under your thumb (Godley and Creme)
34. Testament (Boudewijn de Groot)
35. Bedshaped (Keane)
36. New year's day (U2)
37. Tian tang - Paradise (Tengger)
38. Uncertain smile (The The)
39. Con te partiro (Andrea Bocelli)
40. Broken bicycles/Junk (A.S.v.Otter/E.Costello)
41. Belfast child (Simple Minds)
42. Listening wind (Talking Heads)
43. Torn (Natalia Imbruglia)
44. Do it again (Steely Dan)
45. One day in Paris (Martha and the Muffins)
46. Sebastian (Cockney Rebel)
47. Kristallnaach (BAP)
48. Give up your guns (Buoys)
49. Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)
50. Vienna (Ultravox)

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:36

-Fancy Colours-Chicago (Chicago's I-VII+Live in Japan=Prog)

-Aja-Steely Dan (Couldn't decide on one, but this song is perhaps the zenith of their jazz-pop craftsmanship...prog fans check out their material at once!)

-Baba O'Reilly-The Who (What prog fan doesn't love Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia?)

-Suite on Side Two of Abbey Road-The Beatles (This may be cheating, but its all the reasons why they were great)

-Everyone-Van Morrison (Astral Weeks and Moondance sure as hell aren't prog, but their fusion of jazz, blues, pop, soul, and rock were daring and groundbreaking in their own right)

-Take Five-Dave Brubeck Quartet (Most trad-jazz is way over my head, but I just love the way he combined great melody with stunning rythmic experiments on the Time Out lp)

-The Epic-Pat Methany (Some of his work verges on new age drivel, but on American Garage, the musicianship is great and the composition better. I would actually classify this album as prog, and if you want to argue with me, listen to this 12-minute opus.)

-God Only Knows-The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile stand alongside the Beatles later work in my eyes as the logical stepping stones to art rock, if not quite there in subject matter and in musicianship, on the mark in techniques and mindset.)

-Surf's Up-Brian Wilson (Maybe this is cheating since it was written for the Beach Boys, but this song needs to be heard to be believed)

-Suite: Judy Blue Eyes-Crosby Stills and Nash (I'm a sucker for great harmonies, and its in a suite! What more could you expect from a non-prog group?)

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:54

1. Another Satellite - XTC

2. Buckets of Rain - Bob Dylan

3. Campaigner - Neil Young

4. Celluloid Heroes - The Kinks

5. Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

6. Unchained - Van Halen

7. Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants

8. Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone

9. Mountain Jam - Allman Brothers

10. Angry Young Man - Billy Joel

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 13:51

not dark yet bob dylan

redhill mining town U2

see the lights simple minds

one for rock n roll cinderella

dirty deeds done dirt cheap ac/dc

dont look back in ange oasis

baba orielly the who

mandinka sinead oconnor

satellite the hooters

she sells sanctuary the cult

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Logos

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:08

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Coldplay - Clocks
Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb
System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood
Sentenced - Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
Vintersorg - För Kung och Fosterland
Venom - Countess Bathory
Radiohead - Karma Police
Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time

Well.. as you can see.. apart from prog my main interests lies in metal. Death / black / doom , anything goes really as long as it has growls

. Some British rock/pop is also great and Sab and Zep are classic acts.

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:17

Too many to mention, so a sample of songs and/or bands that I've always loved or I am into at the moment:

chamberlain - "drums and shotguns"
mineral - "a letter"
the gloria record - "a lull in traffic"
youcodenameismilo
canyon
coheed and cambria (seeing as they're not on this site yet!)
elliott
cave in
santana
led zep

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chopper

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:21

OK, here's mine: -
1) Strawberry Fields Forever - a work of genius and two different versions of the song (in 2 different keys) stuck together!
2) I Say Nothing - Voice of the Beehive
3) Maid in Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
4) Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
5) Baba O'Reilly - The Who
6) Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
7) This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
8) New Rose - The Damned
9) When the Levee Breaks - Led Zep
10) And You And I - Yes

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:30

a day in the life - the beatles
strawberry fields forever - the beatles
bridge over trouble waters - simon & garfunkel
tonight tonight - smashing pumpkins
imagine - john lennon
since i've been loving you - led zepellin
i've seen it all - bjork and thom yorke
this mess were in - pj harvey & yorke
horse with no name - america
perfect day - lou reed
space oditty - david bowie
kashmir - led zepellin
paint it black - rolling stones
blowin in the wind - bob dylan
luna - zurdok (mexican group)
and a lot of more that i don t remember right now

you and whose army?

Fritha

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:38

A hard but interesting task... This in no order whatsoever:

Elvis - Suspicious Minds

Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Love - A House Is Not A Motel

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Yeah, that will do...

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:53

chopper wrote:

OK, here's mine: -
1) Strawberry Fields Forever - a work of genius and two different versions of the song (in 2 different keys) stuck together!
2) I Say Nothing - Voice of the Beehive
3) Maid in Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
4) Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
5) Baba O'Reilly - The Who
6) Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
7) This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
8) New Rose - The Damned
9) When the Levee Breaks - Led Zep
10) And You And I - Yes

Are you suggesting that And You And I isn't prog? I can see where you're coming from with Carpet Crawlers, but there's no way that AYAI isn't prog.

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:54

Red House - Hendrix
Black Dog - Zeppelin
I'm Going Home Live at Woodstock - Ten Years After
Suite Judy Blue Eyes- Crosby Still and Nash
On the Road Again - Bob Dylan
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel
Across the Universe - The Beatles
The End - The Doors
Take Me Away - Ween
Voodoo Chile(Live) - Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 15:32

In no particular order.

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Richard Ashcroft - Check the Meaning
The Darkness - Love is Only a Feeling
The Verve - Lucky Man
Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby (jaja)
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Filter - Take a Picture
NIN - The Perfect Drug
War - Why Can't We Be Friends

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 15:33

To go a bit "Private Eye" on you...

Almost everything by the Bonzo Dog Band
Er...
That's it.

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 15:47

Pentagram - Bir
Pentagram - For Those Who Died Alone
Jorn Lande - Sunset Station
Jorn Lande - Christeen
Pentagram - Anatolia
Mercyful Fate - Into The Coven
Testament - D.N.R.
Forbidden - Through Eyes of Glass
Metal Church - End of The Age
Trouble - The Tempter
.....

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 15:48

I can't narrow it down to 10

AC/DC - Walk All Over You, Thunderstruck
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Led Zeppelin - Friends, When the Levee Breaks
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Golden Earring - Candy's Going Bad, Vanilla Queen
Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
Metallica - Disposable Heroes
Nirvana - You Know You're Right, Come As You Are
KISS - Under the Rose, The Oath
The Who - Dr Jimmy, Bellboy, Cobwebs and Strange
Black Sabbath - War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
The White Stripes - Blue Orchid, Black Math, Girl You Have No Faith in Medicine
Blood Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel, Smiling Phases
Bee Gees - Tragedy, This is Where I Came In
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Michael Jackson - Thriller, Billie Jean