A lot of good tracks here. Steve Miller is just some great classic rock- I've always loved that album. Elton's always great. Fly Like An Eagle though, like I've grown up on that album, it's just classic. That gets my vote easily.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 15:24
Tough choice as I like several of those tracks. I voted Hotel California just because I've tried to play along on the drums on one those rock star computer games and you wouldn't believe how difficult it is.. and Don Henley used to sing at the same time. Credit due where credit due.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 15:40
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songs that also is pop-prog is Good Vibration by Beach Boys, and Ladrytron by Roxymusic, and this
Right, Good Vibrations was from 1966 - I was focusing on the 70s. Also, I considered Roxy Music but I don't think they charted on Billboard (I don't remember seeing them). Roxy was another band, like Bowie, that mainstream America just didn't "get." Better to dress up as cartoon demonic aliens (a la Kiss) then wear bras, lipstick and rouge (a la Gabriel, Eno, Bowie et al, all of whom mainstream America ignored). Not to be a cultural imperialist, I was just going by the Billboard charts. :-)
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aginor wrote:
songs that also is pop-prog is Good Vibration by Beach Boys, and Ladrytron by Roxymusic, and this
Right, Good Vibrations was from 1966 - I was focusing on the 70s. Also, I considered Roxy Music but I don't think they charted on Billboard (I don't remember seeing them). Roxy was another band, like Bowie, that mainstream America just didn't "get." Better to dress up as cartoon demonic aliens (a la Kiss) then wear bras, lipstick and rouge (a la Gabriel, Eno, Bowie et al, all of whom mainstream America ignored). Sorry for all this "America" crap, I was just going by the Billboard charts.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 15:51
im a lover for 70s crossover pop/prog, it is the most interesting thing to search for, good progressive pop, have a lightness i sometimes like to listen to.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 16:03
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding would be my favorite from this list. Tough choice because there are many bands on this list I enjoy, especially Styx, Chicago, Queen, Supertramp, and the Beach Boys (someone mentioned them). I didn't grow up around prog at all, but I did know a lot of these songs during that time.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 16:34
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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).
No one I knew though 10cc prog.
They were classed as "art rock" (indeed, they were probably the defining band of that ilk), which was a branch of prog and included Supertramp, Barclay James Harvest and The Moody Blues.
Indeed, Sheet Music and The Original Soundtrack were both ranked in the top 10 progressive albums in their respective years (74 and 75) by Melody Maker (how do I remember? I shared a flat in London with one of the journalists and used to go to gigs with Chris Welch, who decided the list!!).
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 18:22
These songs were all on the radio when i was a boy, and I love most of them. My favorite is the Alan Parsons one, with 10cc, Steely Dan, and ELO close behind.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 19:49
Had to vote for Frankenstein, since I will probably never again have the opportunity to do so on this site. Great song, and a killer extended version of it on that video. I like how E.W. plays keys, sax, and drums during the performance. I was a big fan of the group way back in the day but lost interest in them when I got into more proggy stuff. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding is also a great track. Other good ones: Dream Weaver, The World Goes On, and Band on the Run. I have a no-guilt policy for listening, so I will unashamedly say I enjoy Styx.
John Mellencamp hated being called John Cougar. The only song of his I ever liked was I Need a Lover. Cool instrumental opening, well structured. I saw him get booed off stage opening for Rainbow (go figure) and he only played that one song. I was fine with it, but all the Black(ers)heads weren't.
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 19:50
aginor wrote:
im a lover for 70s crossover pop/prog, it is the most interesting thing to search for, good progressive pop, have a lightness i sometimes like to listen to.
Me too. Please add more tracks to the list, if you can think of any
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 20:22
Progosopher wrote:
John Mellencamp hated being called John Cougar. The only song of his I ever liked was I Need a Lover. Cool instrumental opening, well structured. I saw him get booed off stage opening for Rainbow (go figure) and he only played that one song. I was fine with it, but all the Black(ers)heads weren't.
You must've saw my post before I deleted it. (The shame of mentioning John Cougar in PA was too great, so I censored myself
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Posted: February 25 2013 at 21:22
If we're choosing progressive songs from related and not very progressive artists, then "March Of The Black Queen" is easily better than You're My Best Friend. One of the very few songs I rank higher than Elton's 11 minute opus.
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