Your Top Ten Non Prog Bands That are Proggiest? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Not considered prog at all that are complex? Not a clue where to draw the line Tongue

Does Led Zeppelin count for example, or do you mean more classical stuff Confused

Seeing as I count pretty much everything I find proggy to be prog its tough to answer this, probably mainly jazz and classical

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Ultravox

Yello

Magazine

John Foxx

Al Stewart

ABC

Delerium

OMD

Telex

Thievery Corporation

I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.

Interesting question.....some of these are probably listed here but I'm too lazy to look.

Simple Minds

Echo and the Bunnymen

Ultravox

XTC

Steely Dan

Spooky Tooth

The Church

Magazine

Be Bop Deluxe

The Flaming Lips

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

Ornette Coleman and Judas Priest come to mind.

He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!

I'm leaving out all composers that has no relation to rhytmic popular music such as jazz or rock. While (early) Penderecki, Bach, Bartok etc. in no way qualify as a "band" their music is certainly more complex than most on PA.

I don't have an ultimate list, but here's a ten artists that I'm a big fan of who makes your average progrockin' band sound like Ramones (I'm exaggerating a little for effect). These aren't really bands either but they often performed/conducted a smaller "modern" ensembles and made music resembling RIO/Avant or the more experimental areas of jazzfusion.

Andrew Hill

Grachan Moncur III

Eric Dolphy
Ennio Morricone (ca. 1965-1978)
Patrice Sciortini

Egisto Macchi

Camille Sauvage aka Eric Framond

Art Ensemble of Chicago

Herbie Hancock

Mccoy Tyner

...also most 60's recording featuring Tony Williams, Richard Davis, Bobby Hutcherson, Cecil McBee. Just follow the drums, bass 'n vibes.

+ Selected albums by Middle Eastern/Asian/Arab/Indian artists such as Tafo Brothers, Baligh Hamdi, (Rahabani Brothers compositions for) Fairuz, Salah Ragab, Omar Khorshid, T.K. Ramamoorthy mm... should tickle the curious progger's ear.

Joni Mitchell.

brainstormer wrote:

My first thought is Nico Muhly, a new find.

I loved his debut Speaks Volumes but everything I've checked out after (Mother Tounge and his OST's) were huge disappointments so I've pretty much given up on him. Any reccomendations among the ones I haven't heard?

Ok, thanks that's two titles to investigate. You should seriously check out Speaks Volumes though. I'd even say its kinda overwhelming

How much proggyness would make a non-prog band prog enough to out-prog a nominally prog band that is not so proggy, like the last 30+ years of Genesis or Yes?

(I guessing you are asking what non-prog bands appeals to those with "discerning tastes"?)

Too many modern era jazz bands to mention. Let's say Herbie Hancock in the 1960s, or the best of Chick Corea in the 1970s, although a lot of his stuff is listed here as jazz-prog-rock (?). Newsflash: Chick Corea is jazz, which is not a subgenre of progressive rock.

Too many classical performers to mention.

Some Oregon

Some Joni Mitchell.

Some Sting and The Police.

Anyone who practiced the Third Stream with good taste and musicianship, let's say select Don Sebesky.

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