Prog singles
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Topic: Prog singles
Posted By: Stool Man
Subject: Prog singles
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 07:15
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What have been the best Prog singles? Prog has always been about albums, of course, but many bands have had chart single hits - "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", "Another Brick In The Wall", "Follow You, Follow Me", "Living In The Past", "Wuthering Heights", "Fanfare For The Common Man", "Kayleigh", and so froth. Please let's not turn this into a discussion about Genesis in the 80s  ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 07:55
Some 70's Dutch bands have released outstanding prog singles:
Other favourites (not Dutch) are UK's Rendezvous 6:02 and Traffic's Empty Pages. Some prog singles by non-prog artists:
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 09:27
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Two of my favorites are Triumvirat-Ride In The Night/Sing Me A Song (1972) Triumvirat-Dancer's Delight/Timothy (1973) neither of them charted, but they should have! |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 09:37
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 09:50
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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. ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 10:36
Every PT single is great.
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 12:59
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Singles that I know of through 1980. I've only included songs that I've heard on the radio. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, and anything on DSOTM Yes - And You and I, I've Seen All Good People, Roundabout Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (single version) ELP - Karn Evil 9, 1st Impression, Pt. 2 |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 13:04
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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. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 17:47
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Renaissance - Northern Lights ELP - From The Beginning Edgar Winter Band - Frankenstein East Of Eden - Jig A Jig Jethro Tull - Living In The Past Jon and Vangelis - I Hear You Now Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill Magenta - I'm Alive Radiohead - Paranoid Android Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings Genesis - Afterglow Rush - Tom Sawyer Mansun - Wide Open Space Marillion - Incommunicado |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 17:49
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 19:28
Awww yea Malkin Jewel too.
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Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 20:37
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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. ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 20:52
That's actually true, not one of their singles are less than 4 stars for me.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 20:56
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Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin, Voices in the Sky, Questions, Isn't Life Strange, Just A Singer, etc...
Family - In My Own Time, Burlesque
Babe Ruth - Wells Fargo, Private Number
The Enid - In the Region Of The Summer Stars, Dambusters March/Land Of Hope And Glory, Fand, Salome, Golden Earings
Beggar's Banquet - Classical Gas
Stackridge- Dora the Female Explorer, Do The Stanley
Robert Wyatt - I'm A Believer, Shipbuilding
Kevin Ayres - Sing a Song in the Morning, Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes, Caribbian Moon
Deep Purple - Black Knight, Never Before
Pink Floyd - Point Me At The Sky, Free Four
Roger Waters - Radio Waves
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Hatfield and the North - Let's Eat (Real Soon)
Talk Talk - Life Is What You Make It, I Believe In You
Sigur Rós - Glósóli, Hoppípolla
It Bites - Sister Sarah, The Old Man and the Angel, Kiss Like Judas
Sally Oldfield - Mirrors
Tori Amos - Crucify, Silent All These Years, Professional Widow
Atomic Rooster- Tomorrow Night, The Devil's Answer
Procol Harum - Pandora's Box
Rick Wakeman - Catherine
Curved Air - Backstreet Luv
Supertramp - Dreamer
Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour, Youth Of A Nation On Fire
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Greenslade - Catalan
Prog Related and Related to Prog
Donna Summer - State Of Independance, MacArthur Park
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Bowie - Space Oddity, Memory Of A Free Festival, Life On Mars, Sound and Vision, Heroes, Baal's Hymn
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama
Godley & Creme - 5 O'Clock in the Morning, Sandwiches of You, An Englishman in New York
Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor
Gordon Giltrap - Heartsong
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: March 18 2013 at 20:56
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Anything by Radiohead. Specifically, Fake Plastic Trees. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 04:08
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Van Der Graaf - Cat's Eye, Yellow Fever (Running)/Ship Of Fools
Peter Hammill - My Experience/Glue
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 04:54
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. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:01
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:04
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Then maybe Psychedelic Funk could be a new prog subgenre, like Jazz Rock, Raga Rock, or Electronic - it's just an idea.... ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 06:46
If we're gonna have Donna Summer here at P.A. then we may as well include Prince, Madonna, Run DMC and Beastie Boys...................... .........................
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 07:00
NB: Decided not to comment on Donna Summer inclusion, to avoid a possible ban for bad language. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 07:26
Carpet Crawlers was a single, and that is possibly the best prog single ever.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 07:31
Care to explain why? ------------- What? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 07:48
If a 16+ minute track with 23 faked orgasms and a Jon & Vangelis-cover (which is, btw better than the original) should suffice, then let's find a fitting subgenre to try a suggestion. I think this would be easier if there was already a Prog Funk subgenre  .-------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 08:05
Counting Out Time was the other single from the album (not Lamb), and that is possibly the worse prog single ever. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 10:05
I bet I can find three more proggish connections regarding Donna Summer. 1. In the 60s she fronted a psychedelic band. 2. Her 2nd & 3rd albums each had side one filled with one long track. 3. Her 6th album is a concept album. And then there's "I Feel Love" - electronic? ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 10:18
As far as I can see, this psych band did not release an album. I Feel Love is just electro-driven Moroder-style disco that has nothing to do with prog. -------------
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 13:24
I didn't state this to 'take the mickey' out of the suggestion, just that there are many artists that can fit the bill for P.A., even though they are not truly 'prog'......
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 13:40
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This Towns not big enough for the both of us.......da dad a daaa ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 14:17
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Poll question :
Best prog vocal :
1 : Peter Gabriel
2 : David Gilmore
3 : Donna Summer
4 : James LaBrie
5 : Gloria Gaynor
6 : Cedric Bixler-Zavala
7 : Holly Johnson
8 : John Wetton
 Im old, hopefully dead before this happens to PA
------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 19:11
Perhaps it might benefit from a different approach, say from http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3tfuva/" rel="nofollow - a more recent prog artist . |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 02:43
excellent choice, possibly best prog single ever by a non prog band another one that springs to mind: Babylon Zoo - Spaceman there was also a brilliant punk prog crossover in the late seventies The Headboys - The Shape Of Things To Come
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 07:58
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 13:41
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Quatermass-Black Sheep Of The Family Quatermass-One Blind Mice/Punting |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: March 26 2013 at 13:59
Especially love the 1999 version with Trevor Horn's production. Supertramp--I'm Beggin' You, Cannonball Pink Floyd--Run Like Hell Yes--Soon
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