prog-related/prog songs by bands not on PA

Put on any of the upteen versions of "Dark Star" from the good ol' Grateful Dead and link into the embryonic stages of a half a dozen genres of progressive rock.  The omission of the Dead from PA is the single biggest problem with the site.  Seriously, how can the Airplane, Phish, and Todd Rundgren be on the site and not the Dead?  I mean, Tori Amos?!?  C'mon!  

SteveG wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: The search function is your friend http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=100602 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91494 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=84391 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91494&PN=1 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=74557&PN=1 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52911 David, you sly devil  , are you coyly trying to imply that this is an old  and oft repeated topic?

Edited by Svetonio - February 19 2015 at 17:29

I think that kraut lovers will like this song :

dr wu23 wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Svetonio wrote: Crazy Eyes (1973) is a great prog song by Poco.   If you are going to cite that one you might as well include Hotel California by the Eagles...     Hotel California must be prog, after all, they stole it from Tull.   I'm on an old Alice Cooper kick lately (reliving my disaffected teen years, obviously). This is proggier than a lot of alleged prog (complete with hints of Spanish and Arabic themes):       Great old track by Cooper...... I saw them once just after I'm Eighteen came out.

dr wu23 wrote: Svetonio wrote: Crazy Eyes (1973) is a great prog song by Poco.   If you are going to cite that one you might as well include Hotel California by the Eagles...

Svetonio wrote: Crazy Eyes (1973) is a great prog song by Poco.

The search function is your friend

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 17 2015 at 05:39

Crazy Eyes (1973) is a great prog song by Poco.

Interestingly, most of the bands mentioned in the OP have been suggested for addition at one time or the other. Judas Priest's first three or four albums do have their share of prog-influenced (I hate the word "proggy") tracks, though the prog flavour was never as strong in their music as in Iron Maiden's. As to AOR bands, their connections to prog are well documented: indeed, the likes of Kansas and Styx have often straddled the line between the two genres.

Personally, though, I hear progressiveness in a lot of bands active in genres not traditionally considered tangential to prog - such as new wave and trip-hop. The Stranglers, Wire, Ultravox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Portishead... In my opinion, most of them would deserve a spot in Prog-Related (though it is very unlikely to happen) - as would Faith No More, who have often been suggested without success.

So, even though there's a prog-related category on PA for bands that aren't strictly prog but have made proggy music at times, there's a lot of bands who also had prog influence, but not sufficiently enough to be included here. So I thought it might be interesting to talk about such bands here.

A few examples:
Scorpions had some proggy stuff on their first few albums before Mathias Jabs joined, especially on the debut.
Judas Priest's first four contained some songs which are somewhat proggy IMO (Deceiver/Dreamer Deceiver, Victim of Changes, Beyond the Realms of Death).
Boston's music is mostly hard rock & AOR, but Foreplay/Long Time off their debut is longer than their other songs and has got a proggy feel to it.
Foreigner's Star Rider could also qualify.
Toto had some prog influences on their early albums, even though they were mostly hard rock/AOR/pop-rock. Just listen to title track from Hydra.
Any others that come to mind?