Songs from non-prog bands - Progressive Rock Music Forum

This is the first post this noob has begun, so please Mods - if it's in the wrong place, move it where it should be.

My theme is (sorry if this has been done before...) songs you think are properly progressive, but done by a band or artist you wouldn't normally class as "prog". Up to 3 songs at one go?

I'll kick this off with The 'Orrible 'Oo, as Keith Moon dubbed them. aka The Who.

I've got two songs:

1. Baba O'Riley (from Who's Next)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g

2. Underture (from Tommy - this sounds like a remix?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgrd-O7pw5U

Edited by TiddK - August 09 2018 at 09:19

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead

In Memory of Elisabeth Reed - Allman Brothers

Great Expectations - Toto (The middle section at least)

I think there are a lot of Who & Zeppelin songs that you could name also.

Edited by Argo2112 - August 09 2018 at 11:05

1. Architecture and Morality by O.M.D.

2. Genetix by The Stranglers

3. Western Promise by Ultravox

"Why, she's no fun, she fell right over".--Nick Danger (Third Eye)

TiddK wrote:

Perhaps I was a bit by Donovan, but then thinking about it so many of his singles were mould-breakers - Sunshine Superman, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Barabajagal, etc.

Another mold breaker is my Donovan prog choice, "Breezes of Patchouli". Recorded in the first half of '66 for the Sunshine Superman album, it didn't make the cut and has only appeared on compilations or extended reissues. It features a mellotron and was recorded around the same time the Beatles first use of the tron by John on Tomorrow Never Knows. Since Donovan was hanging around with The Beatles I wonder who had the idea to use the tron first, Donovan or John Wink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPHDrT-OvFU

Edited by The.Crimson.King - August 09 2018 at 14:06

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Siberian Breaks and Metatonia from MGMT might be good examples?
They get rejected for inclusion on here enough as it is!

Awsome experimental band, now already around for quite some time... something of a misuse of this thread because indeed they're not listed here but I'd think they're progressive and would fit into RIO night and day.

Marius Popp "Inscriptie" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCgXSenFhk

Matt Berry "The Pheasant" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_3iqHpnVM

Matt Berry "Solstice" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_3iqHpnVM

That was my three, but there's also lots of great JRF such as Janko Nilovic's Underground Session and Donald Byrd's Estavanico.

Risto: Turvaluola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_810LiKf4

Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen

Love is Like Oxygen (full length version) by Sweet

East-West by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

A Lincolnshire Posey... by Home Service

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Some of the album Sleepwalking, by Gerry Rafferty is pretty progressive, such as Standing at the Gates. And it's incredible.

Some of the Celtic Rock bands stray into progressive folk territory (Wolfstone - The Howl, Runrig - A Day in a Boat, Capercaillie - some of Secret People).

A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.

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