prog-related/prog songs by bands not on PA
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Topic: prog-related/prog songs by bands not on PA
Posted By: The Great Duck
Subject: prog-related/prog songs by bands not on PA
Date Posted: February 16 2015 at 03:56
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So, even though there's a prog-related category on PA for bands that aren't strictly prog but have made proggy music at times, there's a lot of bands who also had prog influence, but not sufficiently enough to be included here. So I thought it might be interesting to talk about such bands here. A few examples: Scorpions had some proggy stuff on their first few albums before Mathias Jabs joined, especially on the debut. Judas Priest's first four contained some songs which are somewhat proggy IMO (Deceiver/Dreamer Deceiver, Victim of Changes, Beyond the Realms of Death). Boston's music is mostly hard rock & AOR, but Foreplay/Long Time off their debut is longer than their other songs and has got a proggy feel to it. Foreigner's Star Rider could also qualify. Toto had some prog influences on their early albums, even though they were mostly hard rock/AOR/pop-rock. Just listen to title track from Hydra. Any others that come to mind? |
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Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: February 16 2015 at 14:48
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Well, I've always seen Incubus as a prog band, especially on albums like 'A Crow Left of the Murder' but not many people seem to agree. There is no denying though that this is a prog song: |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 16 2015 at 15:29
Interestingly, most of the bands mentioned in the OP have been suggested for addition at one time or the other. Judas Priest's first three or four albums do have their share of prog-influenced (I hate the word "proggy" ) tracks, though the prog flavour was never as strong in their music as in Iron Maiden's. As to AOR bands, their connections to prog are well documented: indeed, the likes of Kansas and Styx have often straddled the line between the two genres. Personally, though, I hear progressiveness in a lot of bands active in genres not traditionally considered tangential to prog - such as new wave and trip-hop. The Stranglers, Wire, Ultravox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Portishead... In my opinion, most of them would deserve a spot in Prog-Related (though it is very unlikely to happen) - as would Faith No More, who have often been suggested without success. |
Posted By: Littlecarrots
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 00:42
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Jambands usually have some prog-infused songs, at least some of them. I've always considered this live-only song by The String Cheese Incident to be a lovely fusion of a prog epic with the typical happy jam sound of theirs. But then, SCI have lots of "proggy" moments on almost all their albums. Also related with SCI is their keyboard player, Kyle Hollingsworth, whose debut album is full of proggy moments, in a jazz-fusion vein, with some funk and electronic touches. I specially love how this three songs flow together. I even thought of suggesting him before the release of his last album last year (though I loved it, it's more of a funk, disco, electronic dance and afrobeat fusion album, and not really a proggy or even jazzy album). And then there's this Bee Gees' song. Really lovely opener from a great and overlooked album. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 01:49
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Crazy Eyes (1973) is a great prog song by Poco. |
Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 05:27
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"Eagle" by ABBA. From their fifth album, The Album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEieLT0QfLo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?
"Levity Ball" by Alice Cooper. From his debut album, Pretties For You, 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL8cZgvlxAQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 05:37
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 06:10
Good song, more people should hear the first two Alice Cooper albums, some very weird stuff there. |
Komandant Shamal wrote:Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 09:26
If you are going to cite that one you might as well include Hotel California by the Eagles... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 09:31
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I have always thought that many XTC songs have strong prog elements .....not to mention the Beatles and Beach Boys also. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 09:33
Hotel California must be prog, after all, they stole it from Tull.  I'm on an old Alice Cooper kick lately (reliving my disaffected teen years, obviously). This is proggier than a lot of alleged prog (complete with hints of Spanish and Arabic themes): ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 14:31
Great old track by Cooper......  I saw them once just after I'm Eighteen came out. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 14:34
I saw them the first time just before the School's Out album was released. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 17 2015 at 15:09
Ozzy does prog ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 04:52
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I think that kraut lovers will like this song : It's a song by former Belgrade's kraut band called http://petrol.bandcamp.com/album/80-prole-a" rel="nofollow - Petrol . They dismissed two years ago; this is a band who recorded all the songs at their two full-lenght albums with analog equipment only and who has a "cult" fan base here. Sadly rejected for PA.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 10:03
 , are you coyly trying to imply that this is an old and oft repeated topic? ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 17:09
There needs to be a sticky topic at Proto Prog/Prog Related sub-forum (or at General Musiic Discussions sub-forum) which will be a summary topic for all "prog songs by non-prog bands". And then the forum moderator to put all of that in this one thread; that's actually the only way to avoid multiplied threads with the same subject.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 24 2015 at 14:58
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 27 2015 at 18:14
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Put on any of the upteen versions of "Dark Star" from the good ol' Grateful Dead and link into the embryonic stages of a half a dozen genres of progressive rock. The omission of the Dead from PA is the single biggest problem with the site. Seriously, how can the Airplane, Phish, and Todd Rundgren be on the site and not the Dead? I mean, Tori Amos?!? C'mon! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: February 27 2015 at 20:11
A great prog-ish song by one of my favorite country-rock bands.  ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |