Top 10 Non-Prog Bands.

Metallica

Bat For Lashes

Beatles
Kinks
Spirit
The Fall
Madness
Led Zeppelin
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Ariel Pink
Julian Cope
Liars
Minutemen
Dead Kennedys
Subhumans
Sonic Youth
The Who
Steely Dan
The Guess Who
Jandek

Edit: More than 10, sorry

Edited by HolyMoly - February 13 2021 at 08:56

Cristi wrote: non-prog can mean a lot of things, I don't know where to start  Blues, blues-rock, hard rock, AOR, metal, extreme metal, pop/pop-rock, the little bit of jazz I've enjoyed so far? I'm over-thinking this.

If it helps, the original post does say non-prog rock bands.

non-prog can mean a lot of things, I don't know where to start  Blues, blues-rock, hard rock, AOR, metal, extreme metal, pop/pop-rock, the little bit of jazz I've enjoyed so far? I'm over-thinking this. 

Logan wrote: Wich, presumably, is not as much as Stevie Wonder would pay to see you.

Guldbamsen wrote: Yeah...attending a Stevie Wonder gig may have been somewhat of a luke-warm experience if he just showed up with a piano and mic.

^^ As the OP I was using the term " bands" in a general way so if you wanted to put Stevie Wonder or Elvis Costello as the band / artist I'm fine with that. I think I put the collective projects of Clapton on my list so it's all good. 

Edited by Argo2112 - February 10 2021 at 11:05

JD wrote: Logan wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Lewian wrote: Thomas Dolby Peter Gabriel Leonard Cohen Barbara Dennerlein Ennio Morricone Stevie Wonder (...) Some of you have a strange definition of what a "band" is... (I'm tempted to nominate solo artists, too, but no, I won't.) I’m a lazy reader I guess Throw in some Magazine and Edgar Broughton Band perchance. Quite often when people say band they also are referring to solo artists, and a lot of so-called artists are not truly solo (the band name is the frontman's name, has a band backing it, or just has session musicians behind it -- depends on what one means by solo). For instance, I see topics made by people who use band in the title of a poll and themselves mention solo artists in the list. Personally, I think you guys are overthinking this. What about 'Bands' where one of the members writes all or most of the material and the rest of the band just plays along?

Overthinking? I think my problem is more when I underthink things.

That could also be considered solo or more of a solo type outing of a sort with a backing band even if under a band name. And also what about one man bands as I mentioned in another post? My point was that terms can take on various shades of meaning and be used differently, so I often try not to get too pedantic about such things (and also I am pedantic by nature, so I should try to be more aware of it). I've been genuinely confused when people used songs to mean any music, but I got to understand that people were using it in a much more general sense than I do.

As long as we can come to understand where others are coming from and what they mean, and vice versa, that's what matters most to me for communicative processes. That said, as David said, lingo can be fascinating and tricky. And it can be highly nuanced.

If the OP doesn't care about having artist rather than band names in this topic, then I don't really care either, and I thought that seemed to be the case from a response. Thus I included artist and band names.

Edited by Logan - February 10 2021 at 09:53