Prog singles

Some 70's Dutch bands have released outstanding prog singles:

• Earth & Fire (Wild and Exciting, Invitation, Storm and Thunder)
• Kayak (Lyrics, Mammoth)
• Focus (Hocus Pocus, Sylvia)
• Ekseption (Air, Feelings, Peace Planet)
• Supersister (A Girl named You)

Other favourites (not Dutch) are UK's Rendezvous 6:02 and Traffic's Empty Pages.

• Halo of Flies by Alice Cooper was released as a single in the Netherlands.
• Time Is What I Need by The Shoes (a Dutch band) is the B-side of Daylight, released in 1969.
  Daylight is not interesting from a prog point of view, but Time Is What I Need is a true proto-prog gem.

 

someone_else wrote: Some 70's Dutch bands have released outstanding prog singles: Earth & Fire (Wild and Exciting, Invitation, Storm and Thunder)

Absolutely.  One of my favorite bands, and their singles are a big reason for that.

ole-the-first wrote: Porcupine Tree's 'Lazarus' single is great, but not only because of the title track, but also because of B-side (if that term is applicable to CD single) consisting of two great non-album tracks.

Kansas has what is probably my favourite list of prog singles: Song for America, Carry On Wayward Son, What's On My Mind, Point of Know Return, Dust in the Wind.

Close contenders:

Kate Bush: probably more successful, both commercially and artistically - Wuthering Heights, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Wow, Breathing, Babooshka, Army Dreamers, Sat in Your Lap, There Goes A Tenner, Running Up That Hill, Cloudbusting, Hounds of Love, The Big Sky, The Sensual World, This Woman's Work, Love and Anger, Deeper Understanding.

Peter Gabriel: Solsbury Hill, Modern Love, Games Without Frontiers, No Self-Control, Biko, I Don't Remember, Shock the Monkey, Big Time, Red Rain.

Mike Oldfield: In Dulci Jubilo, Portsmouth, Five Miles Out, Family Man (covered by Hall & Oates), Moonlight Shadow, To France - although for sheer whimsy, you must hear Don Alfonso.

The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes

Everything by Rush.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, I believe, was the single from that album?  One of Genesis' best.  Also Follow You Follow Me, as previously mentioned.

Roundabout, Owner of a Lonely Heart, I've Seen All Good People are some great ones from Yes.

DT's latest.  Cotopaxi, The Malkin Jewel, and everything else the Mars Volta has ever released.

Van Der Graaf - Cat's Eye, Yellow Fever (Running)/Ship Of Fools

Stool Man wrote: Dean wrote:   Prog Related and Related to Prog Donna Summer - State Of Independance, MacArthur Park   I've long thought Donna Summer should be Prog Related, or that there should be some sort of Prog Funk subgenre that can include Funkadelic, the late 60s-early 70s Temptations, etc.

Donna was more psychedelic funk than prog funk as was Funkadelic, as their name suggests.

If we're gonna have Donna Summer here at P.A. then we may as well include Prince, Madonna, Run DMC and Beastie Boys...............................................