Your TOP 10 favorite NON-prog bands?
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Topic: Your TOP 10 favorite NON-prog bands?
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Subject: Your TOP 10 favorite NON-prog bands?
Date Posted: November 19 2015 at 19:46
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I'm interested to see which bands people like outside of prog, my favorites are: 1-Queen 2-Iron Maiden 3-Moody Blues 4-Red Hot Chili Peppers 5-The Beatles 6-Alice Cooper 7-The Eagles 8-U2 9-Bon Jovi 10-Bee Gees 11-Deep Purple 12-Keane 13-Led Zeppelin Yeah, there were supposed to be 10  . Some obviously do have prog influences, especially Moody Blues and Queen (and maybe Maiden).------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: November 19 2015 at 23:15
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1. The Smiths The rest.. The National The Appleseed Cast Dave Matthews Band Guided by Voices Sufjan Stevens The Microphones Modest Mouse James Brown Red House Painters ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 01:28
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In no particular order:
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 02:37
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Dirty Tricks Bloodrock Gulliver Accept Moxy Free Blue Cheer Pat Travers Black Sabbath Jail |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 03:30
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in alphabetic order: Atlantis (the German band featuring Inga Rumpf) Black Sabbath Blue Öyster Cult Budgie Deep Purple Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Iron Butterfly Led Zeppelin Wishbone Ash you can clearly see I am a bit on the heavy side outside of prog -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 04:53
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No order - Queen - Led Zeppelin - Gilberto Gil - Caetano Veloso - Gal Costa - Alceu Valença - Budgie - Eugenio Finardi - Humble Pie - The Clash - Spooky Tooth - Zeca Afonso 12 artists. Oh well... ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 05:50
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If I stick to the bands (excluding solo artists that would be a whole lot easier to list) that are not found - and would never be accepted - on PA database (which really narrows things down heavily!), I'd pick for example Dire Straits (was my first favourite as a kid), Nits, ... ... well, I enjoy also for example The Police, U2, The Eagles, Tears For Fears and Simple Minds, but they are not so big favourites for me. Just to reach ten, let's add ABBA  , Coldplay and Belle & Sebastian. This funny list is primarily showing how strongly prog-oriented my rock taste is! (Had to leave bands such as Talk Talk, Beatles, Doors and Roxy Music out because they are in the Archives.) |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 07:11
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Very hard too many to chose from, but this is 10 i listen to very often. (not counting Classical music and trad. Jazz) In no ordre: The The Sebastian (Denmark) Kitaro The Cure D-A-D Bob Marley Pearl Jam Sinéad O'connor John Lennon Pere Ubu ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 07:29
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The "THEY'RE NOT PRAWG" list Cardiacs Univers Zero Hawkwind Henry Cow Pink Floyd Tangerine Dream CAN Amon Duul II Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Radiohead The non-PA list Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Deep Purple Cream Dead Can Dance Leonard Cohen Nick Drake John Coltrane Thelonius Monk Pink Fairies ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 07:33
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(no particular order) 1. U2 (pre-Zooropa only) 2. Steely Dan 3. Massive Attack 4. Led Zeppelin 5. Fairport Convention 6. Home Service 7. The Beatles 8. Manic Street Preachers 9. Vampire Weekend 10. Tears for Fears
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 08:05
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Grateful Dead Quicksilver messenger service Ozark Mountain Daredevils New Riders of the Purple Sage Jefferson starship Black Sabbath Cream Hawkwind The Nice Edgar Broughton Band |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 09:11
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No special order and leaving out many ........ XTC Beatles Rolling Stones The Who Led Zep Jefferson Airplane Joe Walsh/James gang BOC Doors Nick Drake Roy Harper Dead can dance ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 11:51
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My list goes all over the place: 1. Gorillaz 2. Sublime 3. Led Zeppelin 4. The Beatles 5. Ween 6. The Flaming Lips 7. The Velvet Underground 8. The Rolling Stones 9. Queen 10. Cake ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 12:28
it seems to me that everyone's list goes all over the place. I've found the choices listed both interesting and surprising.
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sublime220 wrote:Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 12:42
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I changed my list a bit since I forgot one band I like a lot. it was difficult to kick out a band, but I replaced the Stranglers with the Grateful Dead ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Ozark Soundscape
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 12:47
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The Beatles St. Vincent Nirvana Death Grips They Might Be Giants The Flaming Lips Devo Ariel Pink Car Seat Headrest Soundgarden i mean some of them are sorta prog-y but whateves |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 12:53
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Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 12:58
Sufjan, Microphones, Modest Mouse, James Brown, and the Painters would make my top twenty definitely. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 13:16
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Not sure I can think of ten (and some of these are on PA, but as prog-related) Wishbone Ash Dire Straits Flying Colors After The Fire Status Quo Queen
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Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 13:22
For me, Flying Colors and After The Fire are 100% prog. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 14:26
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Queen Black Sabbath Whitesnake Testament Thin Lizzy Led Zeppelin Deep Purple Uriah Heep |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 14:29
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I always think more in terms of albums. There are many bands that have produced some of my favorite albums, but then I either haven't heard much of their other material or don't like their other material. When I say I like a band, it may only mean that band in their "heyday," so it's difficult to come up with bands that I like consistently through their careers. Some bands I may like consistently, but not as much as some other bands. And are bands with one or two album careers comparable to ones with extensive careers? I dunno. But I've tried to make a list with a good intersection of the two. Also, I'm excluding classical. Sonic Youth Led Zeppelin Fugazi Unwound My Bloody Valentine Wilco Mission of Burma Paul Simon The Beatles The Cure Joy Division ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 16:05
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I feel like this has been done a bunch of times over the years. It would be interesting to go back and see how some of the old-timers lists have changed (I'm sure mine has). - Cranberries - Rocio Durcal - Maria McKee - R.E.M. - Violent Femmes - Concrete Blonde - the Go-Gos - Rod Stewart (before he became a bitter old woman) - Johnny Cash - Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 17:31
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Iron Maiden Deep Purple The Smiths Led Zeppelin The Police Joni Mitchell Uriah Heep David Bowie Television CCR The Cure The Allman Brothers Band
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Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 18:40
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^^ Oh, yeah. David Bowie and Thin Lizzy. Should had put them in my list as well. ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 20 2015 at 20:17
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The Beatles Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath David Bowie Neil Young The Who Simon & Garfunkel Eric Clapton The Kinks The Doors ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 09:39
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This is impossible - mostly because my faves change all the time. Today the list looks like this: The Stooges The Future Sound Of London David Bowie Pharoah Sanders Wu-Tang Clan (though mostly side-projects from Wu members) The Doors Funkadelic Sun Ra Magazine Gasolin ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 10:23
Actually I do not much listen to artists outside of prog nowadays...  When I spin something which I do not regard as prog then it is: The Beatles Crowded House (the only album of) Blind Faith Simon & Garfunkel Tears For Fears The Eagles The Police U2 Billy Joel Elton John ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 11:14
Same here...but when i do.,they r among these- Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Deep Purple The Who The Kinks The Beatles The Doors Judas Priest Iron Maiden Dire Straits Soundgarden |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 11:25
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Iron Maiden Talking Heads Muse Led Zeppelin Allman Brothers Band The Head and the Heart Of Monsters and Men Megadeth Black Sabbath Creedence Clearwater Revival ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 12:11
I was thinking this over. I included both Manic Street Preachers and Massive Attack on my list, on the basis that I couldn't possibly live without either This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours or Blue Lines, but do those groups really belong on my top ten list? So how do you categorize a group that produced one brilliant album when you're kind of "meh" about the rest of their output? and how different would a top ten non-prog album list look from a top ten non-prog band list? Hmm, I sense another thread in the offing.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 13:17
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Joe Walsh Dave Mason Sly and the Family Stone Mountain The Grateful Dead The Spinners Buddy Miles Bob Marley and the Wailers Chicago Stevie Wonder Public Enemy |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 13:29
Personally, when I rank my favorite bands I consider their entire oeuvre. As a side effect, Genesis would never be in my Top 10/20/etc list being they produced albums after Wind & Wuthering. I can forgive a dud or two if their discog is a) huge and/or b) there are many 5 star albums involved. Perhaps that's unfair, but that seems the easiest way to do it (for me). ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 13:37
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There will be a lot of jazz: Sun Ra Peter Brotzmann J Coltrane A Braxton Bang On A Can J Zorn The Thing Merzbow I can only think of 8 atm it seems. It seems I like prog. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 19:41
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1. Allman Brothers Band 2. Deep Purple 3. Marshall Tucker Band 4. Lynyrd Skynyrd 5. Joe Satriani 6. Strunz & Farah 7. Grateful Dead 8. Ted Nugent 9. Judas Priest 10. Molly Hatchet ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 20:19
Albert Ayler? Ornette Coleman? George Adams? Derek Bailey? ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 20:25
------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 20:26
^so much for formatting  ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 20:41
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 22:37
Hmm...Ayler was a big miss for me. He totally deserves to be on my list. Asmuch as I love Bailey, his solo discog has too much solo guitar for me to rate it too highly. But he has produced some great stuff. Good suggestions all.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Terakonin
Date Posted: November 21 2015 at 23:46
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Jeff Buckley Blue Oyster Cult XTC Nick Drake Queen The Who Radiohead (I know they're prog on this site, but let's be real here.) The Beatles Deep Purple St. Vincent ------------- You left a note in your perfect script Stay as long as you like I haven't left your bed since |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: November 22 2015 at 04:57
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Cheap Trick The Who U2 Faith No More Jane's Addiction Led Zeppelin Pearl Jam Prince Funkadelic Blue Oyster Cult |
Posted By: starless2112
Date Posted: November 23 2015 at 20:37
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Wow I really have to think about this one! Leo Kottke Joe Satriani Neil Young Crosby Stills and Nash Dire Straits Steely Dan Simon and Garfunkel Joe Walsh Black Sabbath Type O Negative
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: November 23 2015 at 21:05
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Yello Ultravox John Foxx The Fixx New Muzik Simple Minds The Beloved Icehouse ABC Bob Marley ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 24 2015 at 17:01
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In no particular order. 10cc Big Star The Who Pete Townshend solo Joni Mitchell Ohio Players Jakson Browne Bruce Springsten & E-Street Band Azra Atomsko sklonište |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: November 26 2015 at 21:04
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Posted By: Blinkyjoh
Date Posted: November 30 2015 at 12:48
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Off to of head Led Zeppelin Allman brothers ELO Asian Parsons project Tom petty Bad company Robert plant Kim Mitchell Gary Moore Willie Dixon If elo and Parsons don't count, hmm Dire straits and the eagles. |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: November 30 2015 at 20:17
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Asian Persons Project.
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Posted By: Dead Sea Fisherman
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 02:53
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Arcade Fire Camper Van Beethoven The Cure David Bowie Phish Radiohead Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Simple Minds Talking Heads Talk Talk
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 07:24
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I'm going to do this in alphabetical order rather than attempt to list them in order of preference. Adam & the Ants/Adam Ant The Beatles David Bowie Chumbawumba Current 93 Sophie B Hawkins Led Zeppelin Queen Al Stewart UFO |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 08:35
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I left out 3 on my list because the Op wanted 10, but I have to mention 3 more of my favorites: Steely Dan Neil Young Allman Bros band ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 11:51
That was me last time. Today it looks like this: Dead Kennedys Lou Reed / VU Jimi Hendrix Wire The Brian Jonestown Massacre Coltrane F*ck Buttons Bob Dylan Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti Animal Collective ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 11:59
New list, not much has changed: 1. Gorillaz 2. Sublime 3. Led Zeppelin 4. The Beatles 5. Ween 6. The Flaming Lips 7. The Velvet Underground 8. Animal Collective 9. The Rolling Stones 10. Beck ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 12:01
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Nice one ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 12:21
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I'm a Prog/Indie/Experimental man ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 12:33
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1. Led Zeppelin 2. Van Halen 3. Queen 4. Judas Priest 5. Metallica 6. The Beatles 7. Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne/Dio 8. Deep Purple 9. Boston 10. 80's hair metal bands
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 06 2016 at 14:33
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99.9 % of my library is Prog. Let's see........the ones I constantly mix in with my Prog which aren't listed in any manner here at P.A. ; Kajagoogoo Bruce Cockburn Sade Haircut One Hundred Grateful Dead Quicksilver Messenger Service Jefferson Starship Magic Mushroom Band Pink Fairies Dave Stewart / Barbara Gaskin |