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Points: 49 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 12:51
If you like the Alan Parsons Project albums you'll LOVE the first 2 albums by Ambrosia.
Alan mixed their first self titled one and produced their second one "Somewhere I've Never Travelled". Both albums are full of Classic Prog Pop songs that are brilliantly performed and recorded.
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Points: 59 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 13:07
Good call, phil...
 
The first 2 Ambrosia cd's are spectacular; the song "Drink Of Water" on the debut is just a classic.  Chris North's organ playing is inspiring.
 
I'm fond of all of their albums, with "One-Eighty" being the least favorite due to a few weak songs.  "Road Island" from 1982 is an undiscovered gem.
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Points: 7 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 13:48
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by Harry Hood Harry Hood wrote:

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
 
They'll never make it onto the archives, but this album is a great demonstration of a "pop" band making unique, challenging, progressive music.


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That's a fantastic record from a great band. I was all in favour of their inclusion, but some people had a fit at the very thought. But then we have Nightwish and Rhapsody in PA...Cry


I agree wholeheartedly.  Talking Heads are an amazing band, and should be included if we're going to include cheesy power metal like Rhapsody, which hardly dabbles prog.
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slowly dying like a fire in a pouring rain.
No sparks of hope inside,
no shooting stars on my sky.
On broken wings, no flying high..."
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Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 15:54
I'd say Spock's beard - Octane
or PT - Stupid Dream..
Both very poppy (I love Stupid Dream though)
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Points: 4338 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 16:00
Check out Spiraling with Tom Brilin on keyboards or Kino is another one that comes to mind.  Arena also.
 
 
 
 


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Points: 46365 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 18:32
  There are a lot of examples: first of all Asia, any album for me works great, whether it is from the Wetton era or from the Payne era.
  Also, any Queen album is an enjoyable music "trip"; 80s Yes, 80s Kansas (sorry, I love these albums)
  Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast
  80s Camel
  Any Manfred Mann's Earth Band album.
 That's all for now, some other examples later on...
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Points: 12600 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2006 at 19:15
Porcupine Tree's Stupid Dream- and I suppose radiohead.



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Points: 24438 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2006 at 05:21
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

  There are a lot of examples: first of all Asia, any album for me works great, whether it is from the Wetton era or from the Payne era.
  Also, any Queen album is an enjoyable music "trip"; 80s Yes, 80s Kansas (sorry, I love these albums)
  Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast
  80s Camel
  Any Manfred Mann's Earth Band album.
 That's all for now, some other examples later on...


Maybe it's just me, but I don't find "Broadsword and the Beast" that poppy... If I were to call any of JT's records poppy, I'd rather choose "Too Old to R'n'R..." or even "A". Just my two eurocents, of course...Wink
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Points: 3497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2006 at 10:11
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

  There are a lot of examples: first of all Asia, any album for me works great, whether it is from the Wetton era or from the Payne era.
  Also, any Queen album is an enjoyable music "trip"; 80s Yes, 80s Kansas (sorry, I love these albums)
  Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast
  80s Camel
  Any Manfred Mann's Earth Band album.
 That's all for now, some other examples later on...


Maybe it's just me, but I don't find "Broadsword and the Beast" that poppy... If I were to call any of JT's records poppy, I'd rather choose "Too Old to R'n'R..." or even "A". Just my two eurocents, of course...Wink
 
I would say that Broadsword and the Beast is a good call for this thread. The very presence of Peter John Vettese automatically makes an album he's featuring in a poppy one (for me, of course).
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Points: 4981 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 12:34

Styx - Grand Illusion

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Alan Parsons Project - I Robot, The Turn of a Friendly Card, Eye in the Sky
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Points: 658 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 12:54
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
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pop prog=oxymoron IMO
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Points: 20705 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 13:11
I think the 3 ACT albums fit into this thread very well; Today's Report, Imaginary Friends & Last Epic are all great albums...Clap
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Points: 80 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 13:14
Pure Reason Revolution, maybe...

Also, Pineforest Crunch.
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2006 at 15:21
Originally posted by ldlanberg ldlanberg wrote:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band played a direct  type of 'space rock' progressive (I guess it can be called), for a few albums in the early 1970s. I believe the example I am thinking of is Solar Fire, or something like that. Solar something.
 
Pretty enjoyable -- no complex time signatures or mellotrons or anything like that, but it did have a futuristic, astral quality. Wasn't really Pop though, but it didn't have over-the-edge prog bombast either. Genesis Wind and Wuthering would be the closest comparison I could reasonably make.
 
There are actually Mellotrons in their BOB DYLAN cover "Father of Day Father of Night". I have only heard that song, not space rock imo, but quite psychedelic and very, very great! I'll have to hunt down this album.
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2006 at 17:47
On the Babyblaue Seite site, the best german prog site and one of the most eclecctic prog sites, they have a subgenre called 'artpop', in which they gather artists such as :
Laurie Anderson
Kate Bush
Lisa Dalbello
Rain for a day
Björk
David Bowie
The Beatles
 
See the complete list here :
 
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2006 at 17:48
Originally posted by Garion81 Garion81 wrote:

Check out Spiraling with Tom Brilin on keyboards or Kino is another one that comes to mind.  Arena also.

How so?
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Points: 183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2006 at 21:53
I'm suprised no one has mentioned the first two Genesis albums after Steve Hackett left. And Then There Were Three and Duke stand out as prog-pop in my mind.
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Points: 2546 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2006 at 22:15
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned The Beatles!!

"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
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Points: 12 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2006 at 22:33
It all started when I picked up a copy of yessongs at a garage sale.  I was instantly hooked.  I'd heard fragile before, but didnt like it at the time(now's a different story).  Then I got into king crimson and gentle giant.  And of course I already liked pink floyd...and emerson lake and palmer...
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