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    Posted: March 05 2005 at 21:11

I heard the song "Terrapin Station" by the Grateful Dead and thought it had a lot of prog elements to it.  Last week I heard the old Sweet song(I think it is by Sweet) "Love is like Oxygen" and aside from it's bubble gum chorus and such I thought I heard a few prog elements there as well.  Which leads me to this topic.  What prog songs have been released by bands, who are not considered prog bands, but have somehow managed to voyage into the territory if for only one, or a handful of songs?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2005 at 21:48

al stewart - year of the cat

frankie goes to hollywood - pleasuredome

simple minds - some tracks of the street fighting years album

vangelis - heaven and hell

black sabbath - fairies wear boots

iron maiden - genghis khan and rhyme of ancient mariner

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2005 at 22:38
  1. Overture and Underture (The Who)
  2. Fooling Yourself and Lights (Styx)
  3. Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Iron Maiden)
  4. Cryme of the Century (Supertramp)
  5. The Prophet's Song and Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

Not the only Prog' songs by this bands, but the ones I remember more.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2005 at 23:05
"Green Eyed Lady" Sugarloaf is all I can think of right off hand.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 00:11

Procol Harum - In Held Twas I

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 00:40

The Who- A Quick One, While He's away. Definately has progressive elements to it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 00:42
Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

  1. Overture and Underture (The Who)

I'd have to agree with you there. I'd also consider Tommy to be Progressive Album in it's own right, likewise with Quadrophenia, which is my favorite album.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 01:17
Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday ?!!!

Umm..I think you'll find that Uriah Heep IS a Prog band (certainly more Prog than Radiohead could ever dream about being).

And I agree with you Greenback: FGTH's 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' has Prog elements (even Steve Howe on guitar).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 02:47
oh, i forgot a HUGE one:  80%  of the CD 1 of art of noise's seduction of claude debussy is pure prog "drum'n bass" classical opera.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 03:12
Telegraph road - Dire Straits
Bat out of hell - Meatloaf
Tien tang - Tengger

and as she is not included in the archives yet:

Kate Bush - The Ninth Wave.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 04:28

Madgo,did you hear the extended version of Love Is Like Oxygen? This is a prog track!

A few others off the top of my head:

Lone Star - The Bells Of Berlin

Be Bop Deluxe - Blazing Apostles

Al Stewart - Nostradamus

Iron Maiden - Ryme Of The Ancient Mariner

Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (to Owens Coffin)

Simple Minds - Waterfront

Beatles - Day In The Life

Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields Pt1

Deep Purple - Child In Time

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 07:42

The long-standing Polish punk band Armia have just relased a new album with a 30-minute epic that is very much prog and a good listen,too. The name of the track is "Ultima Thule".

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 08:54
Deep Purple - FOOLS- the best DP track ever

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 09:00

 

'Vienna' by ULTRAVOX!! 

Also, from the same band, 'Astradyne', 'Private Lives', 'Western Promise' ("Vienna"), 'Stranger Within', 'Accent on Youth'/'The Ascent' ("Rage in Eden"), 'Hymn', 'Visions in Blue', 'We Came to Dance' ("Quartet"), 'Heart of the Country' ("Lament").

They could also make some almost heavy metallic rock with a bass synth replacing the bass guitar and a synth replacing a second lead guitar -- 'All Stood Still' ("Vienna").

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:23
Sweet has another song with prog elements: Fox on the run (the intro, mainly). There is the obvious Zeppelin, with No quarter, Achille's last stand and The song remains the same. Deep Purple's Made in Japan has some atmospheres that reminds me prog. By the way, there is some kind of link between Deep Purple and Uriah Heep? MiJ has some choirs that sounds exactily as the choirs of UH.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:28

Quite a bit of Iron Maiden - "Dream of Mirrors", "Fear of the Dark", "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"

Springsteen - "Jungleland"

Dire Straits - "Telegraph Road", "Romeo and Juliet"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:43

Blue Oyster Cult...Astronomy

Janes Addiction....Then She Did

Quadrophenia is progressive throughout

Achillies last Stand....Led Zeppelin

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:46
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Madgo,did you hear the extended version of Love Is Like Oxygen? This is a prog track!

A few others off the top of my head:

Lone Star - The Bells Of Berlin

Be Bop Deluxe - Blazing Apostles

Al Stewart - Nostradamus

Iron Maiden - Ryme Of The Ancient Mariner

Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (to Owens Coffin)

Simple Minds - Waterfront

Beatles - Day In The Life

Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields Pt1

Deep Purple - Child In Time

Hi Richard - yes that is the version I heard and I thought it was very good actually, I had always remembered Sweet as being a top forty band but they obviously had some very good elements to them.  I always thought they had the Queen type vocals early on, maybe even before Queeen  I see you mention "Lone Star" and that must be the band from Wales with Paul Chapman later of UFO and Waysted.  I have their albums and enjoy them quite a bit.  Thought I was the only one who remembered them...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 11:52
Vangelis' album Albedo 0.39 sounds prog to me. I also love Beaubourg but I doubt you can classify it as anything except maybe wierd sounds , strange noises and effects. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 12:19
What about Billy Paul War of the gods? I'm listening to it right now and (and I swore I'm not drunk yet ) it has a prog mood, in a very godspel way.

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