70s Pop Crossover Prog tracks

Voted For Love Lies Bleeding/ Funeral For a Friend over Fame, Band on the Run and Dreamer.  Personally, I would have chosen Fool's Overrture by Supertampm ( awesome track that I find very similar to the Elton John).  Bowie's my favourite act on the list, but particularly for the Berlin trilogy.

By the way, I love Cartman singing Come Sail Away.  I used to collect the South Park songs, and that was one of my favourites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmOe2geZ4Q


Edited by Logan - February 25 2013 at 12:34

Logan wrote: Personally, I would have chosen Fool's Overrture by Supertampm ( awesome track that I find very similar to the Elton John).  Bowie's my favourite act on the list, but particularly for the Berlin trilogy.

Well, I tried to choose those songs that received a lot of radio time - at least, in the U.S. when I was a child. I never heard Fool's Overture on the radio, nor anything by Bowie other than a very few tracks. (Which is criminal. Bowie was great - but mainstream America didn't get him.) I did think of going with School/Bloody Well Right (in my mind, those two songs have to go together, like We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions), or Give a Little Bit. I love all of it, it was a tough decision :-)

Actually, though, I did cheat: Barclay James Harvest's track wasn't a hit - at least not in the US - and I never even heard of this band till coming to PA. However, it's such a great song, and it really should've gotten massive airplay. (Octoberon's the only album I really like by them...)




Edited by jude111 - February 25 2013 at 13:05

I must confess that the Year of the Cat is my favorite here. The whole album is really not bad but life is too short to spend time with pop so I don't listen to it very much. 

Guldbamsen wrote: I voted for Dreamer. Love that song. Almost went for Steve Miller Band, but they were sooooo much better before they got big with Fly like an Eagle. Give me Children of the future, Sailor, You Saving Grace and Brave New World over anything they've/he's released since.

My methodology was to quickly skim through the Billboard 100 of each year in the 1970s and pick out tracks by prog bands, or prog-like tracks by non-prog bands. Plus I did a PA search of 'crossover' bands... Sounds like a lot of work, but took less than 30 minutes...

Having said that, it suddenly occurs to me that Jethro Tull had a big hit in the 70s. Oops, don't know how i missed it. "Bungle in the Jungle." [sigh]


Edited by jude111 - February 25 2013 at 13:13

I'm not in Love for me.

Hercules wrote: I'm not in Love for me.   Funny, in the 70s, 10cc were considered one of the archetypal prog bands alongside Genesis and Yes, yet a band like Rush wasn't (well not until c1978).

This is quite a poor list.

EWG I suppose.

Snow Dog wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat   I suppose if you hadn't used the US charts you would have come up with this lot ?     Wow. One of my  favourite singles and songs of all time. Brilliant.

 

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: It's funny, I started the STYX bio with this phrase STYX is one of those bands that are always mentioned with some fear and shame by the Progressive Rock fan, because they always played in the border that divides Prog from plain POP,  And I'm convinced it's true. Come Sail Away is winning, but nobody except me, admits having voted for them. } Iván

Ha, Ivan!  I love Styx and say so with no shame! 

Man With Hat wrote: This is quite a poor list.

What would your list be? Are there other prog-related stuff on the yearly Billboard 100 from the 70s that I'm unaware of? I'm sure I've missed a lot (Jethro Tull's "Bungle in the Jungle," Rundgren's "Hello It's Me" are what I've caught so far)... I did want to stay away from obvious stuff like Floyd's "Anotehr Brick in the Wall" and any late 70s Collins' era Genesis...