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    Posted: March 22 2014 at 09:56
Basically, just wanted to see what are the favourite albums with no/very little progressive elements people on PA. Nice to see if there are any trends with what everyone with a prog-biased perspective thinks about specific albums that are completely not prog. I know this definitely shouldn't go under "Prog Polls", but wouldn't fit under any others Ermm

Anyway, here are some of my favourites! Tongue

AC/DC - Back In Black
The Clash - s/t
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Hoosiers - The Trick To Life
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Sex Pistols - (debut album)

Some that are arguably related to prog would be:

Cream - Disraeli Gears
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Carole King - Tapestry
Lynyrd Skynyrd - all of them! Big smile
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Rolling Stones - too many
Van Halen - s/t,1984

Hopefully you can see what I mean by completely against prog in the first list. Anywho, thanks for any feedback Smile
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I think I get what your trying, the first list is the no/little list, the second possibly related

Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Pearl Jam - Vs
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
John Lee Hooker - The Healer
Motorhead - Overkill
Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
CSNY - Deja Vu


Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah
Rainbow - Rising
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Zoe Keating - Into The Trees
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Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2014 at 11:00
Why do you think that music that is not Prog is the antithesis of Prog? I admit it's maybe slightly unusual but I adore London Calling and Brain Salad Surgery but don't believe they're mutually exclusive. Not having a go at your poll which is a nice idea but it's just I'm very sensitive to music styles being presented as being either antagonistic or incompatible etc
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Pretty much all the jazz albums listed here
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This thread makes me realize that almost any album that I like is in some way prog related.
Maybe Los Lobos' Kiko, but they were so eclectic that it is almost proggish.
So... I really wouldn't know.
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The Stooges' first three albums
Never Mind the Bollocks
all Motorhead's early albums

Also I like some free jazz / improv stuff, but I'm not sure whether that is truly unprogular, as there's some crossover with RIO / avant. Though I reckon it is hard to hear much that is 'prog' in e.g. Coltrane's Ascension, Brotzmann's Machine Gun, Charles Gayle's Touchin' on Trane.
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I really love some driving hard rock/heavy metal, though not too much of it.  Most, if not all of it, would not qualify as even slightly prog related but anyway:

Van Halen - 1984
Dio-Sabbath, especially Dehumanizer
UFO - Lights Out/Strangers in the Night
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith (not considering the 70s albums which have at least slight connections to prog)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju (post punk but..)



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I read the question as which prog album is the least prog; I'd say Abacab or something (which I like a lot)
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Some Albums i have listened to a lot for diffrent reasons, not saying they are the best :
The The - Infected
Japan - Oil on Canvas
Poul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Thelonius Monk - Round Midnight
1 Giant Leap - What About Me
Vaya Con Dios - The best of....
Laurie Anderson - Mr. Heartbreak
Bob Marley - Uprising
Christina Aguilera - Stripped
Stravinsky -  Les Ballets (directed by Stravinsky)
Pearl Jam - Ten
U2 - Actung Baby
Poul Kanter & Grace Slick - Sunfighter
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
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Edited by tamijo - March 23 2014 at 04:30
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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A lot of the Beach Boy's surf-era stuff
Simon & Garfunkel
Some early Neil Diamond
Judy Collins

Be-bop era jazz
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Stray Dog -Stray Dog
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Al Stewart - Russians and Americans (although Rumours Of War is a great prog track)
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain
The Tubes - Remote Control
The Sweet - Give Us A Wink
Chris Fry - Composed
Christina - Broken Lives & Bleeding Hearts
White Stripes - Elephant

I have various compliations that cover the likes of The Stranglers, Ultravox, OMD , Motorhead and Siousxie and The Banshees that I like as well



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Three (relatively) new non-prog all-out rock bands that caught my attention because all three of them have female singers that sound so off the norm great and unusual that they have my full recommendation:

Halestorm
The Pretty Reckless
Maragold

No Nightwish - Within Temptation - Epica - After Forever cheesy pap here!


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Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior, Mock Tudor, Rumor and Sigh, You? Me? Us?
Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs and For Earth Below




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Points: 9449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2014 at 19:43
Some great nominations Clap. 

I'd like to add:

Megadeth - Rust in Peace
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
CCR - Cosmo Factory
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Far too many to list but I am still a big fan of XTC-  especially Senses, Skylarking, and   Oranges and Lemons,
imho one of the greatest bands ever.
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Les Discrets
The Unthanks
Massive Attack
Christian Scott
The Strokes
The National
The Flaming Lips
Smoke Fairies
Dead Weather
Olafur Arnalds
Cannibal Ox
Blue Sky Black Death
God is an Astronaut
Joni Mitchell
And so on...

I've kind of fallen out of love with prog recently, and am transitioning to metal and folk. Agalloch being my gateway band (they're just so good!)
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I don't like anything that is truly antithetical to prog. The pop I like is generally highly melodic and has rich chord progressions. I guess I can name some of the more simplistic things I still like though.

Arrival - ABBA
Zenyattŕ Mondatta - The Police
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks - Brian Eno
Treasure - Cocteau Twins
Violator - Depeche Mode
East of the Sun, West of the Moon - a-ha
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Antithetical:  .
directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible.
"people whose religious beliefs are antithetical to mine"
synonyms: (directly) opposed to, contrasting with, contrary to, contradictory to, conflicting with, incompatible with, irreconcilable with, inconsistent with, at variance with, at odds with
 
 
Might have been easier to just ask what 'non prog' bands we liked.
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Anti-quoi?
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