Best prog album by a non-prog band

Certif1ed wrote: Queen I, Queen II, Night at the Opera. Prog classics!

Can I add Sheer Heart Attack?

Dick Heath wrote: Certif1ed wrote: Queen I, Queen II, Night at the Opera. Prog classics!   Can I add Sheer Heart Attack?

Of course you can add it, DH - you can do anything you like on this forum as head guru!

I don't find it very proggy on the whole, though - it doesn't have the concept of NOTO or DATR, even though the latter contains many moments of pure stadium rock rather than prog. SHA also contains a lot of stadium rock - the massive chants of "In the Lap of the Gods" for example. The one real concession to prog, I think, is "Brighton Rock", although intrinsically that's a silly pop song about little Jimmy meeting a girl on holiday then unceremoniously dumping her with some nice prog tacked onto the end! "Bring Back Leroy Brown" is my personal favourite on this album - I love Barbershop music and I'm not afraid to admit it!

I think "Innuendo" was a more proggy album, and even "The Works" has some nice prog touches 

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Good call on "OK Computer", arcer - pure prog from start to finish, with only slight concessions to their mainly indie audience! Did you see their amazing set at Glastonbury in 1997? One of the greatest gigs I never went to

I hear it as the album Barclay James Harvest wouldn't dare to make 'coz it's too experimental! Actually, I got the BJH link from the Iron Lung EP, which shows Radiohead's natural progression from "Pablo Honey" to "The Bends" and their growing proggy sound which they then spectacularly demolished with "Kid A". Several of the tracks on the IL EP seem to have a BJH "wash" to them.

"Argus" by Wishbone Ash for me.

"A night at the opera" is indeed classic prog though, even though "no synthesisers were used".

Can't say I've ever noticed the BJH connection with Radiohead Cert, I'll need to listen for that.

Kitaro's "Cirque Ingenieux"

1.- Rolling Stones......Their Satanic Majesties Request: A real masterpiece of Psychedelic/prog' genre, is more than just inspired in Sgt. Pepper's, but I believe it's far batter, songs like She's a Rainbow and 2000 Man, 2000 Light Years from Home among others are simply excellent. 

2.- Aphrodite's Child......666: As Richardh already mentioned, great album.

Also important: The Roaring Silence by Manfred Mann and The Earth Band, Woyaya by OSIBISA, STYX II by STYX, etc.

Iván

Certif1ed wrote: The one real concession to prog, I think, is "Brighton Rock", although intrinsically that's a silly pop song about little Jimmy meeting a girl on holiday then unceremoniously dumping her with some nice prog tacked onto the end!

That was the specific tune that had me thinking - I know it was against their principles at the time to include electric keys, but it is easy to imagine some of the May solo taken by a suitable synth. And how many prog lyrics aren't silly 0r even incomprehensible -  I think I've accidently suggested a new thread prog songs with meaningless lyrics (aka metaphysical poetry/rhymes???). Which reminds me of a  line from the HeeBeeGees one and only hit: "Meaningless Songs In Very High Voices, Ah, AHhh AAAHHHH".

And as to "head guru"  - bloody hell man, amongst the seriousness sometimes I want to take the urine, that notion could be very constraining.

threefates wrote: Welcome To The Canteen - Traffic

I'm on that album (you can hear me clapping and hand whistling - amongst 500+ others...............).  It was recorded as part of the Oz Benefit Concerts, it was recorded at the Central Middlesex Poly's canteen in central London. Traffic started at 7.30pm (incredibly early in those days), stopped because of power failure around 7.40pm, started briefly at about 8pm, and stopped instantly. The support went on, and Traffic eventually went back  on for the 4th or 5th time about 8.45pm, and the electrics sort of behaved themselves. The enthusiastic applause on Gimme Some Good Lovin' (the final number of the set), was probably more a measure of  relief that Traffic  had got to the end with only 4 breakdowns.)

Richard Neville who the benefit was for,(notorious to the fuzz, but heroic to the hippies), was the editor of one of London's main underground magazines, Oz. He was sitting literally in front of me on that canteen floor, cassette-recording the gig; (I trod on ithe recorder going to the bar and got some choice Australian expletives). BTW in it daft way, the OZ trial  (on publication obscenity charges) at London's Old Bailey was equivalent to the Chicago 7 trials* in the US - authority attacking the underground/youth alternative  -  and in both cases some of the accused have subsequently become stinking rich, one can surmiss using methods quite opposite to the hippy views they expressed in the late 60's, (to name names Dennis and Hoffman respectively).

But 3Fates, not prog - undergound blues rock. 

*That's where Chicago, the brass rock band, took their original name.