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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2015 at 19:32
I think that the Grateful Dead could be put into this category. 

Though their 60's and early 70's live psychedelic performances certainly weren't "pop", the vast majority of their catalog, and especially on their studio albums, was very commercially accessible and straightforward. Take American Beauty, for example, which is just folk rock and country. However, by the mid-70's, they definitely took a step into prog territory with Blues For Allah. The title track on 1977's Terrapin Station could also be considered prog, with its more elaborate, carefully constructed structure. Obviously this progressive Dead didn't last for too long but I think that going from stuff like "Truckin" to "Franklin's Tower" definitely counts as "pop to prog".
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Points: 4460 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2015 at 07:33
David Sancious left Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band in 1974 and released a series of very progressive albums.
 
 
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2015 at 06:22
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

The members of the band Japan branched out into the world of Progressive music, even reforming in the 90's, re-naming themselves Rain Tree Crow. I haven't heard that album, but it's alledgedly more 'Prog' than Japan.
Yes it is, and it's a brilliant album as well.
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Points: 355 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2015 at 18:18
The Moody Blues, definitely. May I even dare to say that The Seeds Of Love by Tears For Fears has a bit of a prog flavour?

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Points: 1063 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2015 at 22:48
The Mooody Blues are very similar to Genesis in their career when it comes to pop/prog.
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Points: 14270 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2015 at 23:30
Originally posted by Terakonin Terakonin wrote:

The Moody Blues, definitely. May I even dare to say that The Seeds Of Love by Tears For Fears has a bit of a prog flavour?
Yes, a bit.
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Points: 2601 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2015 at 19:38
Golden Earring from the '60s (be v. careful) to the seventies... I llike some bands who mix it up Roxy Music and 10cc spring to mind.
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Points: 1719 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2015 at 02:21
Jeff Beck, albeit from R&B-flavored rock into prog.
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If Abbey Road is prog (as I think), Beatles is one.
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Points: 14898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2015 at 07:20
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

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Exactly what I was going to say.

What's wrong with this answer?
Would've been my first and probably still best stab at this question.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

The members of the band Japan branched out into the world of Progressive music, even reforming in the 90's, re-naming themselves Rain Tree Crow. I haven't heard that album, but it's alledgedly more 'Prog' than Japan.
 
I dont think it is, sounds more Sylvian'ish but not "more" prog than some other Japan tracks.
I would say this is "more" prog that the Rain Tree Crow set :  
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Points: 3167 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2015 at 08:12
Not from pop to prog...

But there are a LOT of black metal bands that eventually became prog metal
http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/



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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2015 at 09:28
Lucio Battisti deserves a mention. Ask most Italians about him and they'll tell you he is one of the country's best singer song writers/ pop artists. Yet his Anima Latina is widely considered part of the upper echellons of 1970s prog. Especially among RPI connoisseurs.
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Points: 8258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2015 at 15:05
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