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Topic: Prog songs by non prog bands
Posted By: madgo2
Subject: Prog songs by non prog bands
Date Posted: March 05 2005 at 21:11
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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? ------------- He whom life can no longer surprise |
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 05 2005 at 21:48
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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 ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 05 2005 at 22:38
Not the only Prog' songs by this bands, but the ones I remember more. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: starofsirius
Date Posted: March 05 2005 at 23:05
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"Green Eyed Lady" Sugarloaf is all I can think of right off hand. ------------- "I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down." |
Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 00:11
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Procol Harum - In Held Twas I Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 00:40
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The Who- A Quick One, While He's away. Definately has progressive elements to it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 00:42
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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ivan_2068 wrote:Posted By: Rob The Good
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 01:17
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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). ------------- And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..." Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 02:47
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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. ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 03:12
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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. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 04:28
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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
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 07:42
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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
------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
. The name of the track is "Ultima Thule".Posted By: Captain Fudge
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 08:54
Deep Purple - FOOLS- the best DP track ever -------------  Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic. |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 09:00
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'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"). |
Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:23
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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. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: lobster41
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:28
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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" |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:43
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Blue Oyster Cult...Astronomy Janes Addiction....Then She Did Quadrophenia is progressive throughout Achillies last Stand....Led Zeppelin
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Posted By: madgo2
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 10:46
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[QUOTE=richardh]
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 Madgo ------------- He whom life can no longer surprise |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date 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. |
Posted By: mirco
Date 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. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 13:26
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Cool. I've always considered their middle period ( Look At Yourself - The Magician's Birthday) progressive. They started out as a hard rock band similar to Deep Purple then their 80's and 90's output was more Metal-oriented.Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 14:18
Hi Madgo.I have both Lone Star's albums as well.The first album has some seriously proggy stuff and is very good IMO.They also employed Jeff Wayne to provide an orchestral arrangement for one of the songs on 'Firing On All Six'.I reckon they have enough Prog credentials for them to be included in the archive.What do you reckon?
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 14:51
Ultima Thule is the name of a rock band aint it?
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 15:03
| John Sloman of Lone Star went on to join Uriah Heep breifly, for their "Conquest" album. Good band LS, "All of us to all of you" and all that. Not sure about their prog credentials though. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 15:04
Yes, and this is their lead singer doing a stage dive
------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 15:05
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Posted By: madgo2
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 17:28
Hi Madgo.I have both Lone Star's albums as well.The first album has some seriously proggy stuff and is very good IMO.They also employed Jeff Wayne to provide an orchestral arrangement for one of the songs on 'Firing On All Six'.I reckon they have enough Prog credentials for them to be included in the archive.What do you reckon? Yeah I would imagine they belong in the archives as well. Have you ever heard the third album which was unreleased? I got a hold of it about a year ago and it was finished up by Paul Chapman. The production is a little shoddy but still worth having for the true fans of the band, not for the casual listener. ------------- He whom life can no longer surprise |
Posted By: frosty
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 17:35
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Jane's Addiction - Three Days Blue Oyster Cult - Subhuman, Veteran Of A Thousand Psychic Wars, Astronomy |
Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: March 06 2005 at 23:48
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Lots of 10cc is progressive. For example, their entire "How Dare You" album is progressive, and a fantastic listen to boot. Lots of their "Deceptive Bends" and "Bloody Tourists" is also progressive. Actually, I'm a bit surprised 10cc hasn't found its way onto ProgArchives. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 02:51
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It's not true to say that Uriah Heep are more prog than Radiohead - in fact it is very much the other way around: UH never came up with anything as progressive as "Kid A" or "Amnesiac" - and I've yet to hear anything UH have done that is even half as proggy as anything on "OK Computer". "Magician's Birthday" is not a prog track - it's a simple rock track that's been extended, and has that outrageously Nigel Tufnell style guitar solo at the end. "Evil Woman" by Spooky Tooth, from the album "Spooky Two" is a better prog track by a non-prog band (and it's 5 years earlier).
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 03:01
I wasn't aware of a third album.Very intriguing.i would be interested in getting that as well as the BBC studio sessions they recorded.
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Posted By: chorus of one
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 04:01
| Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) |
Posted By: Titan
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 04:49
| The Doors - Light my fire (whole 7 minutes version) |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 05:11
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At War with Satan - Venom Blow the house down - Siouxsie & the Banshees Down in the Sewer - The Stranglers Blue room (Extended) - The Orb (with Steve Hillage & Jah Wobble) Unto the ends of the Earth - Killing Joke The End - The Doors
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Posted By: Swinton MCR
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 06:08
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Death Trip - Cockney Rebel........ ------------- Play me my song, here it comes again |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 09:02
| Ghost Love Score - Nightwish |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 09:18
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"Danced", "Race Through Space", "Ieya", "Jungles of Jupiter", "The Packt" - Toyah |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 16:49
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I also think that "Monsters" (Cultosaurus Erectus) is a very proggy track - I love the way it drops into that jazz groove then flip-flops back into the searing metal riff.
Venom totally rock, and are true pioneers... that's an incredible album (if purely for its audacity) - but I just gotta laugh http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSXXXXXXXXGB"> As a prog album, it's certainly got a side-long track... |
Posted By: Chris Stainton
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 18:27
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I always thought the keyboard solo in "Strawberry Letter 23" by the Brothers Johnson sounded cool. Progressive Funk. ------------- "The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools. If we make it we can all sit back and laugh. But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying." |
Posted By: Aqualung31
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 20:08
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The Doors - LA Woman Jane's Addiction - Ted Just Admit It The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 20:46
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At last some people agree with me. Janes addiction did some progressive songs. Then She Did Ted, Just Admit It Of Course and Three Days What pisses me off is I remember reading in Rolling Stone magazine that the 3 songs mentioned above that was on Ritual de Lo Habitual as self indulgent, meandering and too long. Then She Did, Of Course and Three Days is what made that cd great.....the rest was just simple alternative...naturally the critic thought the rest of good, but was weighed down by these three tunes and thus gave the effort 2 stars. |
Posted By: madgo2
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 21:33
I wasn't aware of a third album.Very intriguing.i would be interested in getting that as well as the BBC studio sessions they recorded. Hey Richard - I would be happy to burn you copies of both if you cannot find them or whatever as I have the BBC sessions as well. Let me know and we can work something out. ------------- He whom life can no longer surprise |
Posted By: madgo2
Date Posted: March 07 2005 at 21:36
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[QUOTE=gdub411]
At last some people agree with me. Janes addiction did some progressive songs. Then She Did Ted, Just Admit It Of Course and Three Days What pisses me off is I remember reading in Rolling Stone magazine that the 3 songs mentioned above that was on Ritual de Lo Habitual as self indulgent, meandering and too long. Then She Did, Of Course and Three Days is what made that cd great.....the rest was just simple alternative...naturally the critic thought the rest of good, but was weighed down by these three tunes and thus gave the effort 2 stars.  ------------- He whom life can no longer surprise |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: March 08 2005 at 02:10
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Baba O'Reilley by The Who ?
------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Captain Fudge
Date Posted: March 08 2005 at 08:20
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The Doors - The End Acid prog ------------- Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic. |
Posted By: panagos
Date Posted: March 15 2005 at 02:55
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Well what about deep purple's early albums-like The book of taliesyn and their third -deep purple?? With songs like Fault line and April or their astonishing live bootleg from Aachen Germany called Sonic Zoom ?? There is this instrumental called wring that neck which has this brilliant and exciting hammond solo. Also for more relaxing music what about Sweet smoke live album??? |
Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 18:09
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*casts thread necromancy* Status Quo - Ring of a Change - the first 30 seconds are very prog! ------------- I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8 |
Posted By: ProgWizard2112
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 19:21
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Achiles last stand- led zeppelin Nofx- The decline Guns n' roses- Coma Are some I can think of |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 04:40
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Sixties/Seventies: The Bee Gees - 'Odessa' Incredible String Band - 'A Very Cellular Song' Alice Cooper - 'Black Juju' and side two of 'Welcome to my Nightmare' Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello The Pretty Things - 'Defecting Grey' Steeleye Span - 'King Henry' Now: Sufian Stevens - 'Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part I and II' Enslaved - 'The Dead Stare' The Dears - 'Postcard from Purtagory' They all have lots of proggy songs. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 05:37
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Many hard rock and heavy metal bands have proggy songs in their repertoire. Here's a few: Rainbow - Stargazer Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (especially the live version), Achilles' Last Stand, Kashmir Black Sabbath - Spiral Architect Iron Maiden - Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, To Tame a Land Metallica - The Call of Cthulhu Blue Oyster Cult - 7 Screaming Dizbusters, Veteran of the Psychic Wars
As to The Doors, I'd mention at least The End, When the Music's Over and Riders on the Storm. I also noticed somebody mentioned Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, which I have always found great - a guilty pleasure?
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Posted By: rockandrail
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 06:18
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Love is like Oxygen by Sweet. This famous glam rock outfit released a last album that was quite different from their straightforward previous ones. And this number is really good. ------------- Pierre R, the man who lost his signature |
Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 06:21
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BLACK SABBATH - "The Writ", "Who are you", and many others BLUE OYSTER CULT - "Black blade", "Flaming telepaths", and many others DEMON - "The Plague" (whole album), "British standard approved" (whole album) THE BEACH BOYS - "Friends" we have said that beatles are already in prog, did we? if not, Abbey Road is a prog album LUCIO BATTISTI - "Anima latina" (whole album) LED ZEPPELIN - "The rain song", "In the light", and many others RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - many songs in "Blood sugar sex magick" THE WHO - many parts of Tommy THE CURE - "The funeral party" JANES' ADDICTION - the whole second side of "Ritual de lo Habitual" IRON MAIDEN - many mid-period songs
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 06:48
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Gowan "Criminal Mind". (rather obscure, I know) Sarah MacLaughlin "Possession". Leonard Cohen "Dance Me To The End Of Love". Neil Young "Country Girl". The OMD album "Dazzle Ships". Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness". A brilliantly deceptive piece of music. It sounds like just another R&B tune until you listen carefully. XTC "Dear God". Talking Heads... well, so many to choose from. The Police "I Burn For You". That's all I can think of now. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 07:22
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Led Zeppelin: albums House of the Holy, Physical Graffitti, Presence. All of them have progressive rock elements. A good example is the song "No Quarter", very atmospheric and preogressive. Same for Black Sabbath's albums Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage. |
Posted By: harm s.
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 07:35
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David Bowie: the title track from "Station to Station" and some of the ambient stuff he did together with Brian Eno on "Low" and "Heroes".
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Posted By: ridingonacamel
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 07:54
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BLACK SABBATH are PROG |
Posted By: stechell
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:01
Tommy and Quadrophenia are 100% Prog. Many few songs are Prog like A quick one, Won't get fooled again, Baba O'Riley, among others. The Who has more merits to be in this page than The Beatles?? Queen?? |
Posted By: stechell
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:01
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Many few songs are Prog like A quick one, Won't get fooled again, Baba O'Riley, among others. Many WHO songs... |
Posted By: Sit Ubu Sit
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:23
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Iron Butterfly - "In-a-gadda-da-vida" The Doors - "When the Music's Over" and "The End" Steppenwolf - "Monster" Chicago Transit Authority - "It Better End Soon" Led Zeppelin - "How Many More Times" Great Thread - a lot of interesting suggestions....
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Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:30
That's funny that you would mention the decline. I was going to post that but you beat me to it. I've always thought of this song as semi-progressive, well progressive for punk at least. I mean the tune is twenty-something minutes long, and although it could be thought of as just a bunch of little songs mixed together, there is a flow to them and it does feel like one long dynamic song. I think the decline is a perfect example of a non-prog band doing a prog song because many of the bands listed so far are almost prog or art rock to begin with, so it is not that much of a stretch, but a PUNK band doing a prog song is more amazing and unexpected. I always thought Steely Dan was pretty progressive, as well as the Doobie Brothers. Many of Rainbow songs are progressive as well. The one that sticks out the most in my mind is Edgar Winter's Frankenstein. That song sticks out like a sore thumb at the end of that album and is completely different from anything he did to my knowledge. -------------   |
Posted By: White Feather
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 08:48
Have you ever heard the extended version of "Love is like oxygen by THE SWEET ? also Action ... both those songs are kind of progressive  I think it was the sweet when I was a kid that influenced me to like Kansas that led to Rush that led to Yes that led to King Crimson, that went Neo prog (fish Marillion, twelth night) then I did I back flip and went back to vintage Genesis then I started exploring VDGG , ELP and then I got into modern prog only to find I like prog metal (shadow Gallery , DT , Pain of Salvation, ect) , what a journey and you know what ? its only just beginning damn I love prog !!!!!!!!!  ------------- |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 09:00
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Let Forever Be - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS (Psychedelic/ Space Techno/Dance Electronic) Are You Experienced -JIMI HENDRIX (Psychedelic/Experimental Atmosphere - JOY DIVISION (Experimental/Art Pop Rock) Seeland - OMD (Electronic Prog/ Experimental Pop) International Feel - TODD RUNDGREN (Space/Art AOR Rock) Back to the Grind - WHITE SPIRIT (NWOBHMB/ Art/ Symphonic Metal Rock) The Charlatons (Psychedelic/Indie Rock/ 60s influenced)
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 09:04
I've got it on the Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus (1968) video. Who there seem to be under some drug's influence... |
Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 10:50
 Absolutely outstanding! I was immediately charmed the first time I heard it!!! And it has a definitely beatlesque feel... ------------- A flower? 
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 06:48
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"Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" by Stars. From what I've heard so far, they're fairly prog. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: helofloki
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 11:16
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I've got some ones here that might be a little stretches, but at the same time I think they fit: System of a Down-Question Morbid Angel-Invocation of the Continual One, God of Emptiness Nevermore-This Godless Endeavor Brutal Truth-Blue World |