well-known Pseudo-prog songs?

mostly these songs will have "unconventional" time signatures, and that is the ONLY difference from a normal non-prog song. These songs are annoying, especially to progheads' ears.

I know one example:

Neil Young / Stray Gators - "Words (Between The Lines Of Age)", sounds like a bunch of banjo-playing cowboys trying to rip off of prog.

any more examples?

I didn't realize prog bands had exclusive license to use 'unconventional' time signatures .  Words is a great song, a hazy window into what would come next from Neil Young.  That drunken, staggering, reeling 1-2-3-1-2 1-2-3-1-2 beat, I always thought that was a musical/rhythmic representation of Danny Whitten's drunken, stoned gait, right before he went down for the count.   I seriously doubt Neil was trying to make a prog record.

^C'mon, pedal steel in a prog song, even if it's a passing acknowledgment???   Blasphemy.

Edited by jammun - October 03 2009 at 19:28

jammun wrote: I doubt prog was forefront in his mind.  Now as for Tonight's The Night, well that's another topic.

How is Tonight's the Night prog? I like the album, reminds me of Pink Moon too. (both are dark and soft and nightly)

okay, it's off-topic, so you may as well not respond to me.

paganinio wrote: jammun wrote: I doubt prog was forefront in his mind.  Now as for Tonight's The Night, well that's another topic. How is Tonight's the Night prog? I like the album, reminds me of Pink Moon too. (both are dark and soft and nightly) okay, it's off-topic, so you may as well not respond to me.

Not saying Tonight's The Night is prog.  Far from it; in fact, almost the antithesis of prog.  Nonetheless a great album.  But we're getting off topic.  But back to the original point:  many songs incorporate aspects of what we consider prog with no intention of being such.  And now, my favorite reference (proggy pop songs):  Mouth & MacNeil's How Do You Do.  Yes, I'm a bit obsessed with this song.

When Europe released their first hit, I was calling that 'pseudo-prog' back whenever. Which begs the question is the majority of Meatloaf's Bat  American prog or pseudo-prog? Clocking in over 5 minutes with a few typical prog changes, John Miles' Music Is My First Love , should be considered.  And certainly that handful of teenage fans listening to my radio show in the 90's would ask whether a particular new band  and a particular album was or wasn't prog, (belatedly implying pseudo prog?) for instance, Mansun or Dave Matthews Band.

There is not only strange time signatures that make a song pseudo-prog, there is also songs made of really distinctive parts, 2 usually (when 3 I guessed it's becoming really prog!!).

The Strangler's Golden Brown ... does that count?