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Poll Question: Which is the proggiest Beatles song?
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2 [3.39%]
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    Posted: June 13 2020 at 19:03
I know the Beatles are listed as proto prog on here but there is no poll option in the proto prog lounge. ;)

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Abbery Road side B. It's definitely one of my favorite "songs" by The Beatles. I love how seamlessly it flows.
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I vote for Happiness Is A Warm Gun; a lot of strange twists and turns in a very small package.
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Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

I vote for Happiness Is A Warm Gun; a lot of strange twists and turns in a very small package.

I tend to think of that as one of their heavy songs and while it does have a bunch of time changes I don't typically think of it as prog. Glad to see it mentioned anyway though.
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A Day In the Life. It IS prog!!
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Went for 'Other'.  You Give Me Your Money.

Isn't that part of the side two Abbey Road medley though?
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I forgot to list I am the walrus. Oh well.
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They came pretty close a lot of times. They ran the gamut on psych rock minus most of the soloing, so some of it was bound to start sounding a bit proggy. I voted for A Day In The Life, but Happiness Is A Warm Gun, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, Revolution 9, I Want You (She's So Heavy), side 2 of Abbey Road, and I guess Within You, Without You all get pretty close. I Am The Walrus tends to scan closer to psych than prog for me.

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A Day In The Life was the song that got reference by Robert Fripp and others as a big inspiration. I was tempted to go for Tomorrow Never Knows.

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

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Isn't that part of the side two Abbey Road medley though?

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Agree about Warm Gun, though I'm voting for Within You Without You. Two other great raga sounding tracks by them would be Love You To and Inner Light.
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Eleanor Rigby always had an early progressive feel to it for me.

I'm by no means a Beatles historian, however!

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Abbey Road's flipside... or A Day In THe Life.
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Interesting question with quite a few possible answers: Tomorrow Never Knows, A Day in the Life, I am the Walrus, Revolution 9, Abbey Road side 2 medley a.o. ...

But the first candidate I thought of was Happiness is a Warm Gun and another one, which I tend not to include in the Abbey Road side 2 medley, is Here Comes the Sun, which has some time signature changes as well.
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The Beatles were prog in a different way. I would go at this by album, not by track. Their proggiest album (and in my opinion definitely a prog album) is "The White Album". It is the sheer variety of this album that makes it prog. An album can in my opinion be prog even if there is not a single track on it that you might call prog.


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What is the closest prog got to the progressivity of Revolution 9? (And, relative to its day, TNK, A Day in the Life, etc.?)
TNK by the way will still sound fresh in 2050. So will I Am the Walrus and several others. Match that, prog!



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Good examples for albums that are prog without any (or hardly any) tracks on them being prog are "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters" and "Lucky Leif and the Longships" by Robert Calvert.


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I once watched a video that claimed that "Eleanor Rigby" accidently invented prog. I'm not sure if I would say that.
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