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    Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:20

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years

David Bowie - Width of a Circle
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ABC "4 ever,2 gether" (frae "Lexicon of Love")

Wallace always thought tha' wert somehoo proggy.
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No Quarter isn't even close to the most proggy Zepp song.  Down by the seaside is more prog, and  take a listen to Carouselambra's synth bass, heavy synth by Jones and changing themes, oh and by the way it's like 10 minutes long.  Makes you wonder how their music would have evolved if Bonham didn't pass on.  


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Led Zeppelin - Aquilles' last stand
Deep purple - Child in time
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Lonely lovers symphony / Giorgio Moroder. One of the best prog-singles ever
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Guns N' Roses - Estranged

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

are obvious picks.
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something from metallica's "and justice for all..." may slip in here.
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You may be stunned to hear this, but the Creed song, "Who's Got my Back?" is actually very progressive. Find the MP3 and listen for yourself if you don't believe me;  even though most of their stuff is pretty sh*tty
OBQM: www.soundcloud.com/onebigquestionmark (solo project)
nQuixote: www.soundcloud.com/n-quixote (ambient + various musical ideas)
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Black Sabbath - Warning

Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life

Deep Purple - Concerto for Group and Orchestra

Uriah Heep - Salisbury

 



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Heres another!
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Several songs from Toyah:

"Elusive Stranger", "Danced", "Race Through Space", "Blue Meanings", "Visions", "Bird in Flight", "Angels and Demons", "Jungles of Jupiter", "Marionette", "Castaways", "The Packt", "Revive the World", "Turning Tide", "Homeward"...
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Interesting topic.  I will have to check out some of the lesser-known suggestions above. Defining artists/bands as progressive or not is a hard enough task; defining individual songs is almost impossible.  However, using the progarchives band listing as a litmus test for artists, here are some songs that have always struck me as "prog-rock" to a lesser degree:

Paul McCartney - Band on the Run, maybe Live and Let Die

Blood, Sweat, & Tears - Spinning Wheel

Phish - Maze, maybe some others...

Chicago - Beginnings, others...

Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come

Beatles - Most of Abbey Road, especially 2nd half beginning with You Never Give Me Your Money, have other songs that could be considered prog-lite I suppose
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Led Zeppelin - In the light
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The Rolling Stones - The lantern

Duncan Browne - The wild places
Right down the line
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unquity road, pat metheny(bright size life,1976)
por que el sol no es de mitad y la otra mitad de aquella mitad??
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Several Iced Earth songs are VERY progressive. Even AMG allmusic guide says that Iced Earth is Prog-metal.
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway!
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Elton John - Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
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Iommi - "I Go Insane"
"Only sick music makes money today." Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Surely the greatest prog-country hybrid ever ... Poco's 10 minute epic Crazy Eyes
"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”

"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Points: 50 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2005 at 22:19
mind games-john lennon..... a lovely song, but a prog sound.
por que el sol no es de mitad y la otra mitad de aquella mitad??
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