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Antoni 
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 Topic: Disco-Prog?Posted: July 11 2024 at 04:44 |
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Similar to traditional prog-rock compositions, the late 1970s disco songs tend to have longer durations with multiple sections, allowing for musical exploration and development within the instrumental parts, often featuring lush orchestration with synths and horns. It should therefore not be surprising that disco music has sometimes served as an influence for several prog-rock acts. Which songs do you think best blend the intricate musicality of progressive rock with the infectious rhythms of disco, creating a unique style that we can tag as disco-prog? Camel's "Summer Lightning" serves as an excellent example. |
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 04:48 |
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How about a Disco Polo cover of Time to Turn by Eloy? 🤣🤣🤣
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 05:04 |
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The first Disco-Prog song that comes to mind is Giorgio Moroder's Knights in White Satin. Ooh, I Feel Love, I Feel Love, I Feel Love, I Feeeeel Love....
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 06:48 |
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the Belgian band Cos made a few (ill-advised) disco-beat prog tracks in their third album called Babel.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 06:57 |
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Utopia - Disco Jets
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 06:58 |
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From outside the ranks of prog, but looking in, pretty much in the same vein that Moroder's Knights evoked by Paul
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:02 |
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Would 'Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots' count?
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:11 |
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Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds is quite disco-y.
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:22 |
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Hi,
Hmmmm ... how about some later CAN ?
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 07:25 |
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What on Earth (and Fire) were they thinking!?? An Invitation to Tell Me Why one of Holland's best Symphonic Prog bands in the early 1970's became an overnight, glittery Euro-Disco sensation by the end of that same decade.
 Earth and Fire - Invitation (1971) Earth and Fire - Tell Me Why (1981) |
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 08:28 |
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Some of the songs on SFF's Ticket to Everwhere qualify imo.
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 09:14 |
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Pain of Salvation - Disco Queen
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 09:17 |
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"Aristoclub" from the new Aristocrats album has a dance club vibe.
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 09:27 |
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Can - I Want More: Edited by kreiff - July 11 2024 at 09:34 |
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:28 |
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^ I love Can's I Want More and a more disco cover of it that exists (could not find it on youtube now).
I disagree on the ill-advised front. I thoroughly adore that album and the album feels like a breath of fresh air to me. In fact, it's the Cos album that I return to the most. Here is Magma's "Who's My Love". Automat is a very cool one, but it's more of the Kraftwert and electronica variety than in the OP. And for a more modern one, Chrome Hoof's "Tonyte". Edited by Logan - July 11 2024 at 10:35 |
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:30 |
good shout
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:34 |
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Michael Zager was a member of jazz rock band Ten Wheel Drive (although I've never heard of them). This has quite a classical inspired mid section. Love it!
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:46 |
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Posted: July 11 2024 at 10:48 |
Also "set me free" from Utopia's Adventures in Utopia album. Maybe not pure disco but it at least comes pretty close with the drum beat.
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1979: ELO - Disco Very -