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^ One of my favourite tracks from a truly iconoclastic album but as challenging as the lyrical content and its delivery are...the music is the antithesis of Prog and is deliberately basic and primal (visceral) rock and roll
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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Extreme: The Truth (section 3 of Three Sides to Every Story):



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote octopus-4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2019 at 07:07
Ok, something very borderline then...

This is a ballad from an italian singer-songwriter who started in the 60s and has just announced his definitive retirement. He has never been a prog artist and never considered himself so, but try to imagine how this song would sound with a prog arrangement. 



 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote octopus-4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2019 at 07:14
...I like this game...
non-prog stuff which triggers my prog receptors...




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How about Al Stewart's Roads To Moscow or Nostradamus both on his Past Present & Future album.

I'll second the call for Steve Harley's Death Trip too!





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Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Cat Stevens - Foreigner Suite
Dead Kennedys - Ill In The Head
Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour
XTC - Travels In Nihilon 
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There's probably more examples of these than you might think. Here's some I thought of:

Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/ love lies bleeding
"        "     - Out of the Blue (I'm not an Elton expert but this is probably the most fusiony thing he has ever done) 
Aerosmith - The movie
CCR- ramble tamble, heard it through the grapevine
ZZ Top - cheap sunglasses 
Allman Brothers - Les Brers in A minor
Doobie Brothers - Don't cheat the hangman
Steely Dan - Aja (title track) (I hesitate to put SD on here but they were really more jazz rock/pop but this is pretty proggy/fusiony(in a more typical fusion way)
The Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer
Loggins and Messina - Angry Eyes
Prince - Computer Blue
Pearl Jam - W.M.A (not sure if they have others)
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Red Hot Chilipepers- Sir Psycho sexy(ok maybe not so much the lyrics ;), breaking the girl
The Rolling Stones - Can't you hear me knocking (always thought it sounded like Traffic), Moonlight Mile
U2- All I want is You, Exit
REM - Endgame
Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the vast oceans (maybe thru the eyes of ruby and tonight, tonight also)
The Tubes - Up from the deep, getoverture
Screaming Trees - Traveler  ( I remember thinking this could be an outtake from a trick of the tail; I'm not sure I still feel that way but there is some nice mellotron on it)
Soundgarden - Applebite

Phish have one also but jam band is close to prog. As for the Grateful Dead they were very experimental at times so I personally wouldn't include them. 




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^easy task isn't it? interesting list by the way, just some remarks I'd make - the Allman's track quite possibly inspired Fish's Marillion intro to "Assassing" hahah..... Wink  ,  and good picks on Elton John , a no-brainer here ,undoubtedly .... (to you prog fanboys LOL.)  I would pick Indian Sunset for one, but when it comes to his early works his album Tumbleweed Connection comes to mind, some really great tracks there. I suggest you  the Deluxe Edition , some unique BCC Session recordings in CD2.

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Steely Dan - Aja (title track)

Nah. Aja the song is jazz-rock. This one is way more close to progressive rock:


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Originally posted by Tillerman88 Tillerman88 wrote:

^easy task isn't it? interesting list by the way, just some remarks I'd make - the Allman's track quite possibly inspired Fish's Marillion intro to "Assassing" hahah..... Wink  ,  and good picks on Elton John , a no-brainer here ,undoubtedly .... (to you prog fanboys LOL.)  I would pick Indian Sunset for one, but when it comes to his early works his album Tumbleweed Connection comes to mind, some really great tracks there. I suggest you  the Deluxe Edition , some unique BCC Session recordings in CD2.

I suggest you to hear his Skyline Pigeon the song as a really proggy one.


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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."   -- John F. Kennedy
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Uriah Heep Wake Up (Set Your Sights)



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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

or 'Green Earrings' --

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/The_Royal_Scam_album_cover.jpg


Exactly. Also, this one:


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^ Hell yeah, two cuts that helped SD be listed on this site ~



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2019 at 18:16
Well, I disagree about the Steely Dan but anyway here's one I forgot to mention if they aren't considered prog enough. 






Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - December 04 2019 at 18:18
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2019 at 18:21
Originally posted by Anstey Anstey wrote:

Uriah Heep Wake Up 

Uriah Heep is listed as heavy prog on this website. 
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Easy choice for me!  


This. Or this....


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