Prog Related

Groundhogs eh? I think they were more blues than prog, mind you Split was a great concept album and I seem to remember Thank Christ For the Bomb being quite proggy.

Interesting story about Groundhogs (well, vaguely). When I was in a band in about 1986, we had a Welsh drummer and we all trekked down to stay the night at his place. On the Saturday evening he took us down to his local club (which was a bit like a working men's club) as he said there was usually a band playing there. Anyway, we went and the band turned out to be Tony McPhee and Groundhogs. Shame they never quite made it big.

ANDREW wrote: ALAN PARSONS PROJECT SUPERTRAMP QUEEN ROXY MUSIC KATE BUSH STYX MUSE STEVE VAI ASIA BE BOP DELUXE 10 CC DAVID BOWIE MAGNUM KINGS X GROUNDHOGS

I've hi-lighted those that are already in the archives.

1. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
2. SUPERTRAMP
3. QUEEN
4. ROXY MUSIC
5. KATE BUSH
6. STYX
7. MUSE
8. STEVE VAI
9. ASIA
10. BE BOP DELUXE
11. 10 CC
12. DAVID BOWIE
13. MAGNUM
14. KINGS X
15. GROUNDHOGS

Snow Dog wrote: Blacksword wrote: XTC - NO (They are New Wave) They were, are they still? no! Echo & the Bunnymen - NO (See above) Never were New wave Yngwie Malmsteen - NO please, just no..!  Spare me.. We'll see! The Doors - No (Blues)  I agree Coldplay - Thats got to be a joke..  Its a good long shot? I would support the inclusion of Black Sabbath and The Who above the above mentioned. That doesn't mean I dont like those bands.

Ok, I'm out of touch with XTC. I lost interest after English Settlement (I like that album, and have re-visited it recently) and by the time I heard the Mayor of Simpleton, I knew I'd moved on.

What sort of music was Echo & the Bunnymen? I always heard them as alt/indie/semi goth and emerging from the new wave scene at the end of the 70's/early 80's. Were they not?? I've certainly never regarded them as prog or prog related.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: Black Sabbath is just hard rock songs which revolves around one riff and simplistic song builups and standard time signatures...i dont understand how on earth they suddenly are so proggy

Albums like Sabotage, Master of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Technical Ecstasy all had prog elements to them. I would agree that they were just hard rock at the core, but they had their thoughtfull and innovative moments.

I would say that an album like Sabotage is more prog than any Metallica I've heard, although I'd say Metallica have the upper hand as musicans.

XTC - NO (They are New Wave)

Echo & the Bunnymen - NO (See above)

Yngwie Malmsteen - NO please, just no..!  Spare me..

The Doors - No (Blues)

Coldplay - Thats got to be a joke..

I would support the inclusion of Black Sabbath and The Who above the above mentioned. That doesn't mean I dont like those bands.

Eetu Pellonpää wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Budgie Thats a very nice band, I like their 5 first albums much. But are there much progressive elements in their songs? They had couple bit longer songs, some mellotrons and covers by Roger Dean, but musically they mostly resemble the good old BLACK SABBATH, no?

True, but maybe its enough for Prog related?

Prog Related
Rock and Pop Bands and Artists after 1970 who were not truly “prog” (as that term is generally and broadly defined, even by the site), but who were clearly not “mainstream” or simply “rock” bands.

A wide subgenre that encompasses two kinds of bands/artist, that either consist of progressive artist that strayed away from their progressive roots into mainstream rock or were influenced by progressive rock.

Even though the music by these artists is sometimes unrelated it had things in common with prog music in that it was very structured and even adventurous, sometimes hard or heavy, sometimes mellow, strong melodies, good hooks are an integral part of most of the material. Sometimes these artists pioneered other rock genres.

Though most of these artist can't really be considered progressive themselves, their relation to progressive music is not to be underestimated.

Snow Dog wrote: Budgie

Thats a very nice band, I like their 5 first albums much. But are there much progressive elements in their songs? They had couple bit longer songs, some mellotrons and covers by Roger Dean, but musically they mostly resemble the good old BLACK SABBATH, no?