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JD ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 07 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18446 |
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I just finished listening to a copy of Gowan's Strange Animal LP that I just bought and what an absolute pleasure. A perfect pristine copy beginning to end, but it got me thinking, he has all the elements of a prog band and album here but it clearly seems to be a pop album to me. And I'm fine with that, most of his others are in that same category, but there are other great examples as well. Yes' 90125, GTR, ASIA, Zon, Styx, Supertramp etc. But what less obvious ones am I missing? Who are the Top of the Pop-gressive bands and what albums straddle the line of Pop/Prog ?
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 20770 |
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When anyone says Pop-Prog, I always thing of A.C.T their first three albums are absolute killers in this regard.
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Lewian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 15575 |
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Two of my pop-gressive favourites: Nik Kershaw. The video version actually starts like a piece of avantgarde-electronic. ![]() Everything Everything |
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EduTatsumi ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 12 2020 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 541 |
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Tears for Fears would be another example of Progressive Pop?
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Nogbad_The_Bad ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 21680 |
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XTC
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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Grumpyprogfan ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 09 2019 Location: KC Status: Offline Points: 12949 |
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Izz, Genesis (80's), and Utopia.
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JD ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 07 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18446 |
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Some other standard bearers... Saga 3 Thomas Dolby Buggles ELO
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enigmatic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 14 2007 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 554 |
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I am shocked to see Nogbad_The_Bad posting in pop progressive thread. Ian - I thought you are more of a RIO/Avant-prog enthusiast. XTC is pretty good choice. I watched recently Thyme's Jones interview. He mentioned that "The Why Album", Cheer-Accident pop prog album was influenced by XTC. What else? Some of 10cc and Supertramp songs are both: pop-y and prog-y at the same time. How about early Talk Talk? My all-time favorite pop progressive song is "Golden Brown" by the Stranglers. I always considered Renaissance and Curved Air (at least some of their albums) to be part of pop progressive subgenre. |
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Nogbad_The_Bad ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 21680 |
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I am more RIO / Avant but I'm a fan of XTC, Supertramp, Talk Talk, Cardiacs.
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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PhideauxFan ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 14 2007 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 4579 |
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-Blackfield,
-White Moth Black Butterfly.
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30435 |
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It Bites
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Blacksword ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
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Everything Everything is a great example of contemporary prog pop. Love that song. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Jared ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 20770 |
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I love the Nik Kershaw Video Still... everything about it screams 1985!!
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TerLJack ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 18 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1135 |
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Those first two Ambrosia albums are pretty yummy!
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Progishness ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 10 2020 Location: Planet Rhubarb Status: Offline Points: 2565 |
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The Tourists - Luminous Basement (1980) The third and final album of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart's pre-Eurythmics band has quite a few proggy moments - such a shame that it was somewhat overlooked. Possibly the best proggy track... This is actually a non-album b-side which is also quite interesting. Edited by Progishness - December 06 2021 at 08:08 |
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Progosopher ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
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Well known, but The Moody Blues, Alan Parsons, and David Bowie are all on that line.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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kenethlevine ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Prog-Folk Team Joined: December 06 2006 Location: New England Status: Offline Points: 9189 |
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Anyone's Daughter's Neue Sterne is a great progressive pop album
Here is a live version of "Der Plan" |
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miamiscot ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 23 2014 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 3635 |
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XTC
Tears For Fears Talk Talk Talking Heads Ultravox All the above acts sound progressive to me!!!
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Cosmiclawnmower ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2010 Location: West Country,UK Status: Offline Points: 4019 |
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Yep, pretty much.. ![]() Edited by Cosmiclawnmower - December 06 2021 at 13:54 |
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Progmind ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 29 2010 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 3458 |
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love XTC too
another good prog pop band its the Blue Nile
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