Progressive Punk?

I dont see any reason why punk and prog should be in contradiction, again genre tags are only invented by press to easily categorize music and sell it to the people.

Here is an example of "prog-punk":

"Amazon.co.uk Review
Cruelly denied the Number One slot when an administrative cock-up at the UK chart returns office credited thousands of album sales to The Police, 1979's The Raven--now re-issued with bonus tracks--found tuneful toughnuts The Stranglers striding purposefully away from the faltering punk scene with a renewed artistic agenda and a head full of hard drugs. A new direction and an overhauled musical vocabulary (gone was the growly bass and the organ, in came futuristic keyboard sounds, odd time signatures, intricate arrangements and extended instrumental passages) The Raven--as perennially acknowledged by the band's large and dutifully black-garbed cult following--is The Stranglers magnum opus. From the epic title-track--a questing, valorous Norse saga adorned by Dave Greenfield's wuthering Artic synths and sung in breathless fashion by JJ Burnel--to the quirky prog-rock science of "Genetix" (on which former biochemist Hugh Cornwell got to show-off his knowledge of pioneering 19th-century Austrian geneticist Gregor Mendel). The Raven was--and remains--enthrallingly fresh, musically daring and downright ominous. Paranoia abounds--there's the grimly pretty (but rather hypocritical) anti-heroin lament "Don't Bring Harry" and the helium-inhaling vocal freakinessof "Meninblack", a portentous slab of psychedelic lethargy detailing the existence of a black-suited extraterrestrial mafia. But there's pop too--"Duchess" (a Top 20 UK hit later covered by My Life Story) and the doleful "Baroque Bordello", a song almost compassionate and empathic compared to the leerier lyricisations of old but also featuring a keyboard intro which seemed to be cribbed from--of all things--"Inchworm" from the Danny Kaye film Hans Christian Anderson. Blame the drugs? Whatever reason, The Raven is The Stranglers' finest achievement." --Kevin Maidment

Dave Greenfield, keyboardist of the Stranglers, once in an magazine interview, admitted to listening to YES.

This is easy:

1. Wire

2. PIL

3. Gang of Four

4. Television

I have not read all posts (probably the first 15) but to me the only historical prog punk band would be the Police. Sting was a jazzman, Andy Somers had been around the the greats of prog since 67 (played in Soft Machine , the new Animals , with Fripp) and Stewart Copeland (brother of Miles the producer) had played with Curved Air.

And those  SMBBWMSP (stupid & mindless brutish British weekly music press - NME and MM and even sadly Sounds) journalists accepted it without knbowing who those guys were. Had they found out , they might have tried to reject them.

It is well documented that Howard Devoto & Pete Shelley of The formative Buzzcocks were massive Can and Hawkwind fans.Devoto went onto form Magazine and the Prog/Kraut influence is obvious especially on Magazine's sophomore album.Secondhand Daylight.