Prog songs by non-prog bands/artists
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Topic: Prog songs by non-prog bands/artists
Posted By: Tommy
Subject: Prog songs by non-prog bands/artists
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:20
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Led Zeppelin - No Quarter Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years David Bowie - Width of a Circle |
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Posted By: wallace
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:25
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ABC "4 ever,2 gether" (frae "Lexicon of Love") Wallace always thought tha' wert somehoo proggy. |
Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:40
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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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Posted By: eze231084
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 01:13
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Led Zeppelin - Aquilles' last stand Deep purple - Child in time |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 01:51
Lonely lovers symphony / Giorgio Moroder. One of the best prog-singles ever
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Posted By: Poxx
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 08:02
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Guns N' Roses - Estranged Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody are obvious picks. |
Posted By: lynton samuel
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 09:02
| something from metallica's "and justice for all..." may slip in here. |
Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 23:53
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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
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 04:09
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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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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 07:57
Heres another! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 10:21
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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"... |
Posted By: DolphinFan
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 12:10
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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 |
Posted By: Apination
Date Posted: June 29 2005 at 23:09
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Also: Led Zeppelin - In the light |
Posted By: Odd24
Date Posted: June 30 2005 at 17:36
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The Rolling Stones - The lantern Duncan Browne - The wild places ------------- Right down the line |
Posted By: basurero de pie
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 16:34
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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?? |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 18:56
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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! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 19:09
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Elton John - Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding |
Posted By: Vanwarp
Date Posted: July 27 2005 at 19:21
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Iommi - "I Go Insane" ------------- "Only sick music makes money today." Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: July 27 2005 at 22:16
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." |
Posted By: basurero de pie
Date Posted: July 27 2005 at 22:19
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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?? |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 01:08
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The Who:
They got some great progressive songs in my opinon. ------------- 
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 07:22
Miles Davis (every note from his Argatha album is progressive) ------------- 
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Posted By: Shack Man
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 14:40
| Cake - Arco Arena |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: August 01 2005 at 17:49
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Agree about Lennon's Mind Games. I've always thought it's an unheralded prog classic! Also: Lou Reed - Sad Song Propoganda - Dr Mabuse ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 08:49
Wishbone Ash - Time Was. Abbey Road - no way. Just because side 2 has a load of songs strung together, it does not become prog. |
DolphinFan wrote:Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 03 2005 at 15:43
Amen to that. Or I will start calling Yesterday once more by the Carpenters (the album version) prog in these threads... |
Posted By: basurero de pie
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 00:49
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j.mitchel-help me..................wow!!!! ------------- por que el sol no es de mitad y la otra mitad de aquella mitad?? |
Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:53
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sorry for the thread revival... Barenaked Ladies - Box Set prog as fxck! ------------- I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8 |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 18:49
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I recommend Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento's albums: "Clube da Esquina" and "Clube da Esquina 2", both from the 70s. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 13:20
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Mind if I suggest, As Falls Witcha So Falls Witcha Falls as perhaps a better candidate for Metheny in prog mode?
Said it before: Jeff Buckley deconstructing and covering Back in New York City |
Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 15:23
| Billy Joel - Miami 2017 |
Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: December 06 2005 at 19:17
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Has anybody heard of the French Canadian band, Beau Dommage?. Well they have this really awesome 20 minute song on their 2nd album called Un Incident a Bois-des-fillion. -------------  |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: December 06 2005 at 21:44
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Finger Eleven - Panic Attack Phish - Rift Phish - Maze The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun Metallica - One Zebra - Who's Behind the Door ------------- 
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 07:16
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It all depends on your definition and opinion of what prog is. My list: U2 - "Bad" (let the flaming begin) Gowan - "Criminal Mind" Procol Harum - "Conquistador" and "Whiter Shade of Pale" Phil Collins - "In The Air Tonight" Tom Petty - "Don't Come 'Round Here No More" (... ok maybe not.) Lisa Dalbello - "Gonna Get Close To You" The Police - "I Burn For You" Edit: I almost forgot Sarah Maclauchlan - "Posession" Leonard Cohen - "Dance Me To The End Of Love" ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Gomurisu
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 10:36
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Hmm... Here's some songs: Scorpions - Lonesome Crow Iron Maiden (several ones, but let's say) - Rime of the Ancient Mariner Metallica - One Neil Young - Words (Between the Lines of Age) (well, not really, but it's got a few weird bar changes) X JAPAN - Art of Life |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 17:22
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 17:37
Hey Iván, "She's a rainbow" is my favorite Stones' song ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
