Disco-Prog?
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Topic: Disco-Prog?
Posted By: Antoni
Subject: Disco-Prog?
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 04:44
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Similar to traditional prog-rock compositions, the late 1970s disco songs tend to have longer durations with multiple sections, allowing for musical exploration and development within the instrumental parts, often featuring lush orchestration with synths and horns. It should therefore not be surprising that disco music has sometimes served as an influence for several prog-rock acts. Which songs do you think best blend the intricate musicality of progressive rock with the infectious rhythms of disco, creating a unique style that we can tag as disco-prog? Camel's "Summer Lightning" serves as an excellent example. |
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 04:48
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How about a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_polo" rel="nofollow - Disco Polo cover of Time to Turn by Eloy? 🤣🤣🤣 ------------- On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became. Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 05:04
The first Disco-Prog song that comes to mind is Giorgio Moroder's Knights in White Satin. Ooh, I Feel Love, I Feel Love, I Feel Love, I Feeeeel Love....  |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 06:48
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the Belgian band Cos made a few (ill-advised) disco-beat prog tracks in their third album called Babel. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 06:57
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Utopia - Disco Jets |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 06:58
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From outside the ranks of prog, but looking in, pretty much in the same vein that Moroder's Knights evoked by Paul |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:02
Would 'Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots' count?   |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:11
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Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds is quite disco-y. ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:22
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Hi, Hmmmm ... how about some later CAN ? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:25
What on Earth (and Fire) were they thinking!?? An Invitation to Tell Me Why one of Holland's best Symphonic Prog bands in the early 1970's became an overnight, glittery Euro-Disco sensation by the end of that same decade.  Earth and Fire - Invitation (1971) Earth and Fire - Tell Me Why (1981) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 08:28
| Some of the songs on SFF's Ticket to Everwhere qualify imo. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 09:14
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Pain of Salvation - Disco Queen |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 09:17
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"Aristoclub" from the new Aristocrats album has a dance club vibe. |
Posted By: kreiff
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 09:27
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Can - I Want More: |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:28
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^ I love Can's I Want More and a more disco cover of it that exists (could not find it on youtube now).
I disagree on the ill-advised front. I thoroughly adore that album and the album feels like a breath of fresh air to me. In fact, it's the Cos album that I return to the most. Here is Magma's "Who's My Love". Automat is a very cool one, but it's more of the Kraftwert and electronica variety than in the OP. And for a more modern one, Chrome Hoof's "Tonyte". ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:30
good shout
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:34
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Michael Zager was a member of jazz rock band Ten Wheel Drive (although I've never heard of them). This has quite a classical inspired mid section. Love it! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:41
 1979: ELO - Disco Very - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSFqQ4XUA_Q1ovHY5XKFwZtR4_drD5O6S" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSFqQ4XUA_Q1ovHY5XKFwZtR4_drD5O6S |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:46
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:48
Also "set me free" from Utopia's Adventures in Utopia album. Maybe not pure disco but it at least comes pretty close with the drum beat.
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Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 13:52
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How about Kingston Wall's cover from I feel love?
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 14:59
STARBLASTER - 3am Disco Funk Dance Party, featuring bass player Leland Sklar, who's apparently on loan from ZZ Top.  |
Posted By: Antoni
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 18:30
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With this one, you might want to get up and demonstrate your dance abilities! The flowing disco groove of RTF's "Earth Juice" pairs perfectly with Al's incredible guitar work. Notably, the band's perhaps most progressive album, "Where Have I Known You Before," came out in 1974, the year disco music began to break away from its roots in funk and soul to become its own genre. |
Posted By: progmanjum
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 19:36
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 11 2024 at 20:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpIduDaggVA" rel="nofollow - - watch?v=vpIduDaggVA 
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Posted By: Antoni
Date Posted: July 14 2024 at 03:42
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"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" grooves its way into the disco realm with undeniable flair, proving that even Pink Floyd didn't resist making a good dance beat in the heyday of disco music. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 14 2024 at 04:05
 1981: Jan Akkerman - Oil in the Family - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kDREZafd0PqAB-Gxjw8MbN3IE9RcU-EW4" rel="nofollow - |
Posted By: Mystique
Date Posted: July 14 2024 at 06:44
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Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) - Prima che venga la sera |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 14 2024 at 07:14
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Following on from the enormous success of their Disco Very (1979) album, ELO went one better by recruiting Olivia Newton John for the album and movie Xanadu (1980), which is far preferable to the one other version of Xanadu I know of. Olivia Newton John & ELO - Xanadu (fully extended movie version with the roller disco drum roll)  |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 14 2024 at 10:16
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Two songs come to mind: Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell Alan Parson Project - I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ------------- ...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: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 15 2024 at 02:20
I think that if Run Like Hell had been included on Animals (a rather short duration album) as it was composed during that session, it might've sounded rather differently (not so much disco-beat) As for APP, there are a couple disco tracks on Pyramids as well. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 15 2024 at 08:50
If that's the kind of Disco-influenced Prog/Jazz-Rock we're talking about, then I could play along, I've just never thought of it as something disco-y. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: July 15 2024 at 09:22
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MOTHER GONG - Disco At The End Of The World/Woman's Place First song on second album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ipqj7FtmA&list=PLO4jexoxVdOTcUC_YRkO7qfvS5UK0ophJ&ab_channel=EarthRitual" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ipqj7FtmA&list=PLO4jexoxVdOTcUC_YRkO7qfvS5UK0ophJ&ab_channel=EarthRitual
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Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: July 15 2024 at 10:51
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This has some disco-y moments among the more jazz-rock leanings. T-SQUARE "Show Dance" |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: July 16 2024 at 07:43
"Rock Love" also, same album...
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 16 2024 at 07:56
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Threshold: Paradox (Club Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufNmRJFZhe4" rel="nofollow - Paradox (Club Mix) (youtube.com) ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 16 2024 at 10:08
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A fantastic satire of disco culture in the USA by Mr. Frank Zappa! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 16 2024 at 14:16
I don't remember that being very discoey but maybe a little bit. There is a Kit Watkins thread just below this one which reminds me that I hear a bit of a disco beat in the middle part of "Mt. St. Helens" from Laybyrinth and his Early Solo Works release.
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 16 2024 at 14:25
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22:20 timestamp ------------- On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became. Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Sebastianmoto
Date Posted: July 16 2024 at 15:18
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Mike Oldfield - Guilty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49TTYE5N3g" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49TTYE5N3g
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 17 2024 at 23:38
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2003: Jan Akkerman - C.U. - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mtPEE5kB1nOSe_mGW_tDCX0Pg44hRQKEM" rel="nofollow - |
Posted By: Antoni
Date Posted: July 18 2024 at 00:25
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Kansas' "Play the Game Tonight" successfully blended elements of disco music with the band's signature sound; the song's faster sections have a strong disco feel. Upon its release in May 1982, the song was well-received by both critics and fans, reaching No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: July 20 2024 at 22:27
Actually, most of the "Breathless" album was infected with disco.
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Posted By: Mystique
Date Posted: July 20 2024 at 22:52
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Baciami Alfredo |
Posted By: Antoni
Date Posted: July 22 2024 at 02:08
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I would like to mention Focus' 'Sylvia,' as, let's say, a proto-disco-prog instrumental piece. Released in 1972, although primarily recognized as a progressive rock track, if you listen closely, it is clear that 'Sylvia' has a disco-like rhythm that is associated with that era's dance music trends that further developed in the following years, leading to disco music as a distinct genre. |
Posted By: SpaceRockTraveller
Date Posted: July 22 2024 at 04:14
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Vangelis - 'Multi Track Suggestion' |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 24 2024 at 10:28
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1979: Goblin - Squadra Antigangsters (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxayFw6SQJ2tpplthw6Oz5-wQBf5m_h88" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxayFw6SQJ2tpplthw6Oz5-wQBf5m_h88 Goblin goes Italo-Disco like Sabrina Salerno - only without the tight leather trousers. |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: July 24 2024 at 13:45
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Surprised no one's mentioned this one yet! ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 24 2024 at 13:46
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This is an obvious choice! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 03:24
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Sandra - Nights in White Satin |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 27 2024 at 13:43
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You can bank on classic Italian prog bands cashing in on the Italo-Disco boom, and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso are no exception. 1981: Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Buone Notizie - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Mt3dp76i0NHfghaB1fEuqh6pxgU68bt" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Mt3dp76i0NHfghaB1fEuqh6pxgU68bt |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 08 2024 at 23:16
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Goblin is a good call, I immediately thought of Tenebre, Also, this super obscure occult euro-disco trio (!!!), also from Italy, who have a quite proggy intro to their sole album:  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 09 2024 at 07:25
Hi, Goodness ... I've heard this a hundred times on Guy's show and I never knew who it was ... insane, and that is so far away from their "jazz" stuff, it's not funny ... great track. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 09 2024 at 08:53
Soft Space is my all-time favourite Soft Machine track, mainly because it sounds nothing like Soft Machine.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 15 2024 at 10:22
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1984: Magma - Merci - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lCukWsfBpMoq1PE0W_1cqvGN4KNONro9I" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lCukWsfBpMoq1PE0W_1cqvGN4KNONro9I Magma go disco crazy! Merci for the music, the songs they're singing. Who can live without them, I ask in all honesty?  |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: August 15 2024 at 11:55
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Kinda funky, perhaps not disco but pretty dancey trancey for its time.. and for who it was.. The Steve Miller band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAxhvcJ-B2s" rel="nofollow - Macho City - YouTube ------------- |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 15 2024 at 22:51
great one! 16 minutes long as well. Never cared for anything else he did though.
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: August 15 2024 at 22:55
How can that be preceeded by 12 other posts in this thread? Shame on all of you. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 05:10
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I don't know if this qualifies, but here it is anyway: ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Sir Prog-a-lot
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 03:02
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Chrome Hoof - Tonyte (Live at Koko) |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: August 22 2024 at 09:14
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------------- On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became. Ernest Vong |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 23 2024 at 12:24
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Camel - "Highways of the Sun", Rain Dances (1977) Not that I like it, but I find the whole album quite okay (now, I've got it and couldn't sell it again ), except from the disco-y artwork and even worse, the highschool-boyisch grimace on the back-cover photo - so it needed some extra cover   .------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2024 at 07:29
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^ Actually, I think that "One of These Days..." on Rain Dances is some disco-y too, but neverthereless, I may be becoming more fond of this album, as there's something special, interesting and definitely enjoyable about it; but "Highways of the Sun" surely still doesn't hit while I've kind of improved the back-cover artwork. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 24 2024 at 21:56
| ^ Not sure why Rain Dances was left off the recent Air Born box set (which I have) so didn't get the new mix treatment that Nude and the first 4 got. (I don't mind as I prefer Nude anyway) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 01 2024 at 11:23
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Alphonse Mouzon - By All Means question whether this is really Disco Prog, but I like it. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: October 10 2024 at 17:57
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Maybe not disco, but groovy https://youtu.be/eSBybJGZoCU?si=AW_S7V6kvS9bLnGY" rel="nofollow - Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator I would roller skate to it. |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: October 10 2024 at 21:53
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Magma's "Who's My Love" is another splendid example of the delightful mingling of prog and disco. |
Posted By: Vex_Ortega
Date Posted: October 20 2024 at 06:10
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Hi, I'm new to this forum. I was exploring some topics an this one looked particularly interesting. Speaking of something ascribable to disco-prog there's a song which made me fall in love by the french duo Justice. I think it could fit the definition. Give it a chance. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 20 2024 at 07:13
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Jean-Michel Jarre's hits have quite some disco feel (I see he's only "prog related" here). Amon Dόόl II took on disco influences on some of their more hated albums in the later seventies and after  . I find some of these quite enjoyable. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 20 2024 at 08:39
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: October 20 2024 at 10:44
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Chicago - Street Player ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: October 20 2024 at 21:23
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https://youtu.be/SLi7Ljcy6n8?si=VkXRF9ULKZI8dIe3" rel="nofollow - Games People Play The Alan Parsons Project |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 21 2024 at 07:57
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------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 22 2024 at 10:33
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^ not a Kayak track I was familiar with. Weird video as well. There is also this, the title seems well appropriate |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 22 2024 at 11:21
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Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 29 2024 at 00:16
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Proto-disco prog from 1973! Smoog Smoogin' |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 29 2024 at 01:01
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Not too much prog disco out there, at least according to the aggregated tags at AP: https://awesomeprog.com/releases?sg=disco&ps=prog&v=cover-matrix" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/releases?sg=disco&ps=prog&v=cover-matrix
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