Most Outlandish Prog Suggestion

I'm very new to these forums (please let me know if I'm doing something wrong with this post) but one thing I have enjoyed massively as I've been scouring the site ingesting all the prog is the discussions people have over whether or not certain bands classify as prog or not. The hard core for and against stances amuse me immensely and it got me thinking, what are some of the most outlandish requests for a bands inclusion (or one that particularly irks you) that you've seen on the forums?

The usual suspects appear like perennial junk mail e.g. Grateful Dead, XTC, Phil Collins, Judas Priest, Velvet Underground, Tears for Fears, Allman Brothers, Television, Stranglers, Joe Jackson, PIL, Zombies, Magazine (the list goes on) Many of the aforementioned I enjoy hugely but don't consider them Prog or that this diminishes their music in the slightest. Most outlandish? the Beastie Boys

ExittheLemming wrote: The usual suspects appear like perennial junk mail e.g. Grateful Dead, XTC, Phil Collins, Judas Priest, Velvet Underground, Tears for Fears, Allman Brothers, Television, Stranglers, Joe Jackson, PIL, Zombies, Magazine (the list goes on) Many of the aforementioned I enjoy hugely but don't consider them Prog or that this diminishes their music in the slightest. Most outlandish? the Beastie Boys

BaldFriede wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: The usual suspects appear like perennial junk mail e.g. Grateful Dead, XTC, Phil Collins, Judas Priest, Velvet Underground, Tears for Fears, Allman Brothers, Television, Stranglers, Joe Jackson, PIL, Zombies, Magazine (the list goes on) Many of the aforementioned I enjoy hugely but don't consider them Prog or that this diminishes their music in the slightest. Most outlandish? the Beastie Boys I would consider The Grateful Dead, Velvet Underground, Judas Priest and the Stranglers to be worthy of addition. Honestly, albums like "Black and White" by The Stranglers, "Aoxomoxoa" or "Blues for Allah" by The Grateful Dead, "White Light, White Heat" by The Velvet Underground or "Sad Wings of Destiny" by Judas Priest are in my opinion full fledged prog albums. But apparently "progressive" does not mean the same for everyone.

I was happy the other day to see support for early JP. I posted on “Dreamer Deceiver” and, to my ears, it’s a great lead in for bands like Queensryche and Fates Warning. Not every Prog band is primarily rooted in the Big Six. It’s sometimes more like six degrees of Kevin Bacon. We had great fun with the Beastie Boys topic.   

Edited by Jaketejas - June 30 2020 at 07:08

Kajagoogoo coz Nick Beggs plays the bass 🤪

Gang of 4---I think I got into a lot of arty bands and confused arty with prog.

Has anyone ever suggested Big Country?

Michael Bolton was an odd suggestion not too long ago.  Not sure if they were serious though.

Beatles...proto-prog?? Which really means nothing other than a band recorded a rock album prior to the 70s, that's literally everybody.

Tom Ozric wrote: Cristi wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: Kajagoogoo coz Nick Beggs plays the bass 🤪 were they ever suggested?  No, not in the usual way as such, though I did plug their instrumental track ‘Introduction’ (B-side to the wonderful track Hang on Now) as a Prog-Electronic number. And it’s nearly 6 mins long.