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Michael678
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Posted: July 12 2013 at 07:49 | |
id say it's the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and/or "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack in my opinion
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: July 12 2013 at 07:34 | |
Lots of instrumentals on his first solo...moreso to just get the album out there fast I think, before Lennon's solo release.
Ram had a reprise as well, and that Uncle Albert tune does have some strange stuff going on along with some meter changes.
Red Rose Speedway had that medley thing with four tunes slotted together, a real oddball track with "Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)", and "Little Lamb Dragonfly" sounds like "Hey Jude" with weirder lyrics.
Band On The Run's Picasso tune is kinda offbeat for inclusion in a pop album, and the famous title track starts off rather schizo before it settles into its groove.
Get's tougher after Venus and Mars, maybe Denny's "The Note You Never Wrote" to some small degree..
Never heard early release Wild Life.
Agree in that I wouldn't consider any of his albums actual prog though. Edited by Prog Sothoth - July 12 2013 at 07:35 |
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AreYouHuman
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Posted: July 11 2013 at 18:49 | |
Just listened again to the first two Alice Cooper albums, Pretties for You and Easy Action. PFY is rather sloppy and unfocused though it has its moments, but EA is as eclectic as eclectic gets, with every track leaning in a proggy direction, though they had yet to develop a signature sound.
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Second Life Syndrome
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 23:28 | |
I always thought that A Perfect Circle's "The Thirteenth Step" was proggy. Anyone else?
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 22:09 | |
I second Smiley Smile, a revelation-- or B.W.'s rerecorded Smile also brilliant.
I'd add Ozzy's Diary of a Madman |
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Polymorphia
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 20:57 | |
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 15:18 | |
I always thought that the Cure's PORNOGRAPHY had some prog related material on it.
Very little though. ;) |
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Logan
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 14:42 | |
William Sheller's Lux Aeterna (a great album):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFIQCtWDHfw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjqAeEPKM1c |
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Gerinski
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 14:12 | |
'Venus And Mars' by Paul MacCartney's Wings was not strictly Prog by the rules, but it had many attributes which could clearly link it to Prog (maybe something like what one could say about Bowie's Diamond Dogs).
The fact that the title song had a reprise in the end being just one example.
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MFP
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 13:06 | |
Sui Generis - Pequeñas Anécdotas Sobre las Instituciones
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Manuelmoreno
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 12:01 | |
I second that.
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Ronnie Pilgrim
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 11:00 | |
I would offer up Quadrophenia by The Who and Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin, with an overwhelming urge to throw in Eldorado by Electric Light Orchestra.
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The Mystical
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 03:15 | |
Wow, I have though this before. It even contains an epic.
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dr wu23
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 23:10 | |
Well....,.I have had that on vinyl since it first came out and I always thought of it as fusion....ala Mahavishnu or Return To Forever. I can see why someone might put it in a prog rock area but not me. PA has it listed as crossover prog...I would place it in jazz/rock fusion.
ps: the title track Watercourse Way sounds like Oregon to me which is definitely jazz fusion. Edited by dr wu23 - June 24 2013 at 23:30 |
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 16:07 | |
I can see AOX, Hope, & Satanic as arguable but not Watercourse Way. I consider "Linear Dance" an amazing prog track and the rest of the instrumentals a cross between mid 70's Mahavishnu, Crimson, & Gryphon. I don't run into many people who know this album, so I'm curious, what would you classify it as?
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dr wu23
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 15:16 | |
1) Shadowfax - Watercourse Way 1976
2) Split Enz - Mental Notes 1976
3) Grateful Dead - AOXOMOXOA - 1969
4) Klaatu - Hope - 1977
5) Rolling Stones - Her Satanic Majesties Request - 1967
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I don't really consider any of these 'prog rock'., maybe Split Enz first........but they are all good lp's.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any ....have to look at my collection.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 12:35 | |
CARLA BLEY - Escalator Over the Hill.
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 10:43 | |
Light Bringer's 'Genesis' album was a weird shift in the J-rock/power metal band's sound. It sounds like a complete meshing of Jpop and Dream Theater style progressive metal. Real happy melodies and virtuoso excess...rather odd, but I find it very entertaining (some of the band members are progressive rock fans, and I think the album title was more a homage to Genesis themselves than anything else). Too bad they shifted back to a more "normal" sound afterwards. |
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progbethyname
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Posted: May 17 2013 at 13:50 | |
PORNOGRAPHY. --THE CURE.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: May 17 2013 at 12:49 | |
Lou Reed - Berlin
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