Least Prog Album

Each of the albums above I consider to have non-prog elements.  Which one do you think is the least prog?  I chose Aqualung because the only progressive track on it is My God.  Everything else just seems like classic rock (albeit great classic rock).  If I forgot an album, go ahead and say which one.

Got to admit, I'm a little bit confused...I thought these were all quite prog?  I have to admit to not knowing the 'Tull album.

I suppose big Yes fan though I am I'd have to say Wonderous Stories is not very prog, neither is Turn of the century...but then again the album has the title track and Awaken, two of their best tracks.

They're all prog. No question about it.

I´ve always said "Dark side" is not prog. I once even opened a poll on that. The question was: "Is Dark side contemporary adult prog". (contemporary adult, as that cathegory in records stores for old musicians making soft ballads)...Irony of course.

 The only almost prog composition in it is "Any colour you like", which lasts for only 3:25 minutes.

 About the others, ..Probably Tull´s could be on the list, but still, it has a lot of complex ideas within. "The Lmab" should definitely not be there. Listen to "in the cage", "Lamia", "Anyway", "riding the scree", the title track etc. There´s way too many prog elements all around. That could never be "clasicc rock" nor "pop"....What´s the point?, just bashing "The lamb" ?. You should have listed "The wall" instead. An album that hardly has any rock.

rockandrail wrote: I voted for "The Lamb..." Tune like "The lamb' and "Back in New York City", or "It" are everything but prog. They set the path for "Sledgehammer" and other 80ies dance-pop-funk PG forgettable things.

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I'm sorry I guess we listen to TLLDOB a little differently. You can't judge
the album by a few songs. It is the album as a whole (which is obviously
prog.) These songs sound that way to convey a certain purpose in the
music and in NO way did this album set the path for 80s dance pop funk
hahahhaa.

And for Peter Gabriel, his solo career is very good IMO. He may have a
couple forgettable dance/pop/funk songs but they all have good ideas
and value behind why he's singing them. Have you heard his newest
album "UP"? I think it's fantastic and it conveys a lot of emotion (the most
I've heard him have since PG3.)

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FragileDT wrote: rockandrail wrote: I voted for "The Lamb..." Tune like "The lamb' and "Back in New York City", or "It" are everything but prog. They set the path for "Sledgehammer" and other 80ies dance-pop-funk PG forgettable things. ? I'm sorry I guess we listen to TLLDOB a little differently. You can't judge the album by a few songs. It is the album as a whole (which is obviously prog.)

 Also, "The lamb" (song) could not be anything but prog, listen to the piano intro, the middle section, the bizarre aproach to the music and sounds. That could never make of this song a danceable number.  

 Anyway, "Dark side" is right now 9 times less progressive than "The lamb" according to this poll.

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Aqualung. The rest is really, really prog, I think.

Ah, wonderful, one of my favourite private prog musings is pondering how on earth DSOTM became to be seen as a progressive rock album -and surprisingly often the most essential one a that! It came out in 1973 when prog already had a strong precense in the world of popular music so it wasn't exactly influencial in a prog-sense, was it? Of course, it might have acted as a gentle gateway for many people into the world of prog and thus add to prog's popularity. In either case, I would be very interested to read people's reasons for thinking that DSOTM is prog so go ahead and try to swaye me!

Must be that time signature change during Money. How radical. 

Don't get me wrong, I love most of the tunes, I really do, but they do have more in common with classic rock than anything else. I never list any of my PF albums as part of my prog collection. The band experimented, true, but that does not prog make in my mind. After all, The Beatles experimented, as well, and I don't see them listed in the archives.

As for the rest of the poll nominees, well, Aqualung is quite a good choice, too, not too proggy as far as I can tell.

Going For The One has more than enough prog elements, no question about that.

Can't comment on Lamb as *gulp* I've yet to hear it... 

Garbs wrote: They are all classic prog albums !!

For me too!!! I think the original question is rather ridiculous.

I wouldn't cast a vote on this one. I don't think none of albums from the list are less progressive than the other...

Instead of Genesis' Lamb Lies Down on Broadway I would have We Can't Dance and there we have the least progressive of all...