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    Posted: February 11 2018 at 20:15
I know so much about/listen to 70s prog rock that I want to try music outside of the strict "prog" parameters, classic rock. I'm looking for classic rock songs that are underrated to the point where you will rarely, if ever, hear them on the radio. Also, I'm looking for only 70s (1969 and 1980-81 can be thrown in there too) songs, that have some aspect that can be called "proggy". Be it long duration, showy instrumental parts, or emotional, high-pitched vocals, I want a song that, to put it simply, is not mainstream... examples: "July Morning" - Uriah Heep, "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home" - Grand Funk Railroad
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Wigwam: Losing Hold (well this is totally prog, but I believe you haven´t heard it anywhere).
Janis Ian: She´s Made Of Porcelain
Laura Nyro: Map to the Treasure
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Prodigal´s Return
Nico: No One Is There
Johnny Winter And: Nothing Left
Mott the Hoople: Thunderbuck Ram
Taste: Blister On the Moon
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
Royals: More is What you give/get

Here´s few of my favourite, somehow proggy songs from the seventies I don´t think will play in the radio.
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anything by Robin Trower, maybe not high-pitched as such but great vocals from Jim Dewar.
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Spooky Tooth (psych bluesrock), everyone knows Humble Pie, but almost no-one knows their sister-band Spooky Tooth, wich has some really great albums. Try Evil Woman, wich has some high pitched vocals.

Al Stewart, everyone knows his period of Year of the Cat and Time Passages, but you should really try to get your hands on Orange, Modern Times, Love Chronicles, Past, Present and Future and Zero She Flies (all albums from 1969-1975), wich are almost prog-folk, featuring songs with Rick Wakeman, Jimmy Page, Gerry Conway, Fairport Convention. He has short folky songs but also larger 8 and 16-minute songs.


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Trapeze
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Mom's Apple Pie
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Spooky Tooth and Trapeze (as mentioned above) are two good choices for bands that did some longer tracks but didn't get much attention by the mainstream.
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Spooky is great! Also their first album as Art!
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Originally posted by ClosetothSupperBrick ClosetothSupperBrick wrote:

I know so much about/listen to 70s prog rock that I want to try music outside of the strict "prog" parameters, classic rock. I'm looking for classic rock songs that are underrated to the point where you will rarely, if ever, hear them on the radio.

Triumph falls into the category of "rarely heard on the radio" these days. At least in my area. Other may have different experiences. Triumph had some prog leanings.
Some good examples from the 70s would be the songs, Blinding Light Show / Moonchild and Rock N Roll Machine
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I always thought that Wishbone Ash was the best non-prog-prog-band, but they are on the website (getting bashed for no apparent reason, except that they are not prog).

But anyhow, a great band with lengthy tracks, except they have mediocre vocals sometimes.

Fun fact: prog-bassplayers John Wetton and Trevor Bolder played in the Ash. ;)
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Spooky Tooth is even on this website. These are my ratings:

It's All About: ***
Spooky Two: ****
Ceremony: ****
The Last Puff: ***
You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw: ***
The Mirror: ****

So the four star-albums are worth trying

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5316
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^I haven´t ever listened those two last albums, when you´ve given four stars into the Mirror, I think I should. Really like all the four first. What do you think their "Supernatural Fairy Tales" as Art?
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Not sure what album it was on but Spooky Tooth did a fantastic cover of I Am the Walrus Wink
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The Doobie Brothers - I Cheat The Hangman
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Big Star
The Modern Lovers
Suicide
The Only Ones
Pere Ubu 
Magazine

Is any of the above "classic rock"?
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Pat Travers, Robin Trower, Budgie, April Wine, Triumph, Man, Crawler, Graeme Edge Band, Jo Jo Gunne, Lone Star etc...off the top of my head.

Of course, I still consider Rory Gallagher the most underrated musician of all time, despite his loyal, cult following to this day! Should be up there in the top 5 in any guitarist polls - if talent rather than image won through! ✌️
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One of my favorites......
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70s artist? Proggy? Sort of high-pitched vocals. No one would ever expect...the Spanish Inquisition!                

Or Neil Young.
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Points: 46827 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2018 at 18:03
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

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you are the man doc... read the OP's first post.. and Humble Pie was the first band that jumped to mind.  Really quite hard to think of truly underrated and today largely forgotten 70's classic rock bands that truly deserve to not have such a fate. Humble Pie is first up IMO for that distinction.
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