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No musical genre exists in a vacuum. Not all of the bands that have been a part of the history and development of progressive rock are necessarily progressive rock bands themselves. This is why progarchives has included a genre called prog-related, so we could include all the bands that complete the history of progressive rock, whether or not they were considered full-fledged progressive rock bands themselves.

There are many criteria that the prog-related evaluation team considers when deciding which bands are considered prog-related. Very few bands will meet all of this criteria, but this list will give an idea as to some of the things that help evaluate whether an artists is prog-related or not.

1) Influence on progressive rock - The groundbreaking work of artists like Led Zepplin and David Bowie affected many genres of rock, including at times progressive rock. Although both of these artists created rock music in a dizzying array of genres, both contributed to the ongoing history of progressive rock several times within the span of their careers.

2) Location - Progressive rock did not develop at the same time all over the world. It may surprise some people that as late as the mid-70s the US had very few original progressive rock bands that did not sound like exact copies of British bands. Journey was one of the first US bands to present a uniquely American brand of prog-rock before they eventually became a mainstream rock band. We have collaborators from all over the world who tell us which bands helped the progressive rock scene develop in their corner of the globe, even if those bands were like Journey and were known more for being mainstream rock bands.

3) Members of important progressive rock bands - Although most of the recorded solo output of artists like Greg Lake and David Gilmour falls more in a mainstream rock style, their contributions to progressive rock in their respective bands insures them a place in our prog-related genre.

4) Timeliness - Like many genres, prog-rock has had its ups and downs. In the late 70s and early 80s prog-rock was barely a blip on the radar. During this time artists such as David Bowie and Metallica released albums that captured key elements of the spirit of prog rock and did so while contributing their own original modern elements to the mix.

5) Integral part of the prog-rock scene - Sometimes you just had to be a part of the scene during a certain time period to understand how some bands fit with the prog rock scene of their time. Although Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Wishbone Ash may seem like mere hard rock bands, in their time they stood apart from other hard rockers with their more serious lyrical content and more developed compositions. Put simply, in the early 70s every prog-rock record collector usually had full collections of all three of these artists. These three bands were very much part of the prog-rock scene without being total prog-rock bands them selves.

6) Influenced by progressive rock - From the late 60s till about 1976 the progressive tendency was in full effect in almost all genres of music. Once again, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century a melting pot of prog-metal, math-rock, progressive electronics and post-rock influences have once again made a progressive tendency in rock music almost more a norm than a difference. Yet in other periods of musical history receiving influence from progressive rock could really set a band apart and make them worthy of our prog-related category.
Being influenced by progressive rock is hardly the only factor we look at, and in some periods of musical history it is almost meaningless, but still, it is almost a given that most of the artists listed in prog-related were influenced by the development of progressive rock.

7) Common sense - Nitpicking over the above listed criteria is not necessarily the correct way to evaluate a band for prog-related. Sometimes you just have to use some common sense and look at the big picture.
A very good way to describe prog-related would be to imagine an exhaustive book that covered the history of progressive rock. Would such a book include references to led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', David Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World' or Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'? Probably so.
- Easy Money

Prog Related Top Albums


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4.42 | 1336 ratings
LED ZEPPELIN IV
Led Zeppelin
4.48 | 460 ratings
BLACKSTAR
Bowie, David
4.35 | 949 ratings
QUEEN II
Queen
4.32 | 1132 ratings
PARANOID
Black Sabbath
4.30 | 1093 ratings
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Queen
4.26 | 789 ratings
THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS
Bowie, David
4.24 | 1022 ratings
BLACK SABBATH
Black Sabbath
4.24 | 790 ratings
ARGUS
Wishbone Ash
4.20 | 880 ratings
SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON
Iron Maiden
4.21 | 615 ratings
RISING
Rainbow
4.15 | 847 ratings
POWERSLAVE
Iron Maiden
4.15 | 876 ratings
SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
Black Sabbath
4.16 | 610 ratings
HUNKY DORY
Bowie, David
4.13 | 852 ratings
MASTER OF PUPPETS
Metallica
4.11 | 723 ratings
RIDE THE LIGHTNING
Metallica
4.20 | 296 ratings
REMAIN IN LIGHT
Talking Heads
4.12 | 505 ratings
LOW
Bowie, David
4.08 | 902 ratings
MASTER OF REALITY
Black Sabbath
4.16 | 340 ratings
SECRET TREATIES
Blue Öyster Cult
4.05 | 1102 ratings
LED ZEPPELIN
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Latest Prog Related Music Reviews


 801 Live by 801 album cover Live, 1976
3.98 | 92 ratings

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801 Live
801 Prog Related

Review by TenYearsAfter

4 stars WHAT A LINE-UP!

Phil Manzanera - guitar (Quiet Sun and Roxy Music)

Brian Eno - vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar and tapes (Roxy Music and Fripp & Eno)

Lloyd Watson - slide guitar and vocals (as solo artist support-act for Bowie, Roxy Music and King Crimson)

Francis Monkman - Fender Rhodes electric piano and Hohner D6 clavinet (Curved Air and Sky)

Bill MacCormick - bass and vocals (Quiet Sun and Matching Mole)

Simon Phillips - drums and rhythm box (The Who, Jeff Beck, Roxy Music, Mick Jagger, Toto, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, 10CC and flamenco guitarist Juan Martin)

The 10 songs on this live record are based upon the sparkling chemistry between six outstanding musicians, with many different musical backgrounds.

My highlights.

Lagrima - A short version, with an exciting distorted, very intense guitar sound, and some beeps and bleeps, in 1992 Phil Manzanera stunned the world with this composition on the Seville exhibition concert.

East of Asteroid - The moods shift frequently, fuelled by a powerful and dynamic rhythm-section, along fiery guitar leads.

Baby's on Fire - Now let's go funky, with the swinging Hohner clavinet sound, a powerful bass and great vocals by Lloyd Watson, halfway a biting guitar and then splendid work with the slide guitar (also Lloyd Watson). The interplay is amazing, what an awesome line-up.

Diamond Head - The focus is on wonderful, very moving electric guitar play with howling runs by Phil Manzanera, embellished with tender electric piano. How intense it sounds and what a build-up and climax, wow! Phil Manzanera his sound reminds me of David Gilmour, Steve Hackett and Andy Latimer, emotion, rather than scale-acrobatics, with the use of slide and sustain.

Miss Shapiro - This songs rocks with fiery guitar runs and a powerhouse rhythm-section, topped with excellent vocals.

You Really Got Me (The Kinks cover) - One of my favorite 60s rock songs, this is a great rendition, it sounds very inspired and powerful, all members rise to the occasion!

Third Uncle - A very dynamic goodbye with this encore, the rhythm-section Simon Phillips and Bill MacGormick (also vocals) really shines, in this exciting up-tempo song, embellished with harder-edged guitar work, Phil Manzanera rules on this live album.

EVERY SERIOUS PROGHEAD SHOULD HAVE HAD AT LEAST ONE LISTENING SESSION WITH THIS ALBUM!

 After Everything Now This by CHURCH, THE album cover Studio Album, 2002
3.30 | 21 ratings

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After Everything Now This
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

4 stars The Church greeted the new millennium with a sound that had largely abandoned the jangle pop of their early era but retained their neo-psychedelic sensibilities, shifting it to a basis rooted in more current indie rock/alternative rock styles of the era. Invisible, the epic album closer, is the sort of thing you get once the Church have listened to Spiritualized for long enough, for instance, and in general the album does a fine job of presenting a sound that's continually being updated whilst at the same time remaining true to a core aesthetic principle. Perhaps not as compelling as Magician Among the Spirits, but few items in their discography are.
 A Box Of Birds by CHURCH, THE album cover Studio Album, 1999
3.32 | 17 ratings

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A Box Of Birds
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

4 stars Sure, it's a covers album, and some will be inclined to mark it down solely on that basis, but I actually think this is damn good. The secret to a good covers album is to select material which either already suits the style of the performers in question, or lends itself to a suitable adaptation. Here, the selections are on point, with a take on the Beatles' It's All Too Much which perhaps also takes note of what Steve Hillage did with the track, an Iggy Pop selection (The Endless Sea) which is far from his most celebrated track but is probably the song most suited to a Church take in his body of work, and other picks which allow the Church to do what they do best. On the whole, a fine example of the form.
 Magician Among The Spirits by CHURCH, THE album cover Studio Album, 1996
3.68 | 30 ratings

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Magician Among The Spirits
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

5 stars Though many would give the accolade to Priest = Aura, which admittedly paved the way for this stylistic experiment, I'd have to say that for me the highlight of the Church's 1990s outputs is the magnificent Magician Among the Spirits, in which obsessions with occult, philosophical, sexual, and narcotic topics merge into an intoxicating aesthetic vision which sees the Church emerging from their jangle pop chrysalis entirely to deliver a neo-psychedelic masterpiece, taking them the furthest from the roots they'd ever gone up to this point and bringing the stylistic experiments of the decade to a wonderful culmination, despite the core band being essentially reduced to a duo by this point.
 Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) by SCHMIDT, IRMIN album cover Live, 2020
4.00 | 1 ratings

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Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)
Irmin Schmidt Prog Related

Review by Lewian
Prog Reviewer

— First review of this album —
4 stars This is a live album recording a solo show by Irmin Schmidt on piano plus some additional sounds (at least partly manually made but in parts also from recordings) in 2020. There are three tracks, the first of which, Klavierstück II, already appeared in 2018 on the 5 Klavierstücke album. It is extended to twice the length here without actually playing that much more; he just gives it more space and draws out the dynamics/crescendo more. The other two, Nocturne and Yonder, are new. The three tracks span 55 minutes. At the time this was recorded, Irmin was 82, and at the time I'm writing this he is 86 with nothing further released in the meantime, so this may well be his last album, but who knows?

The album follows the minimalist and meditative approach of 5 Klavierstücke. Occasionally there are long waiting times between notes, and when they come, there are often not many of them. The piano is apparently to some extent manipulated and detuned, so that in many places the music doesn't conform to classical tonality. There is the occasional rhythmic and percussive part to shake things up a bit. Nocturne has a water dripping sound going most of it. Yonder has the most interesting sound world adding quite something to the very skeletal piano chords.

So I tried to list some objective facts here, so that you know what kind of animal you're dealing with, but of course this doesn't give that much hint regarding the (emotional) quality of this. None of this follows any conventional path, so I can't say that this is optimistic or dark or light or heavy or whatever. Calm it is, of course, but then some bits are really not that calm. It creates an open atmosphere. There is some hesitation, something indefinite and also mysterious in this. I'd assume that at this age the transience of life is an important theme, and one could understand this music as between this side and beyond, or being about wondering what will come. There is certainly some intensity and life in this, but the music also leaves much space to the listener, who needs to concentrate to catch the subtleties, and may or may not be able to connect with this (I do).

Certainly this is more classical music than prog, but then as classical music very special and actually progressive if on the minimalist and meditative side. The album becomes stronger from beginning to end, and Yonder is actually very impressive, potentially also for the progressive electronic listener (although it isn't really electronic). What a way to end a career if it really is an end! This kind of thing is almost impossible to force into the rating system, but I like it enough and I appreciate the uniqueness of the approach and the depth so that I'll happily give it 4 stars. I will however warn you, be open minded for this and don't look for conventional music (even prog) elements. Also hands off if you need too many notes or volume in your music.

 Sometime Anywhere by CHURCH, THE album cover Studio Album, 1994
3.47 | 27 ratings

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Sometime Anywhere
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

4 stars Though a shade less compelling than the wonderful Priest = Aura, Somewhere Anywhere by the Church is very much a continuation of that album's sound, blending the jangle pop bedrock of the Church with a dreamy atmosphere that hovers between the neo-psychedelic and dream pop sounds of earlier Church material with then-current shoegaze approaches. If it seems a bit deflated compared to its predecessor, this is likely to be due to the departure of Peter Koppes and Jay Dee Daugherty, and its status as a contractual obligation album for Arista knocked out by the last band members standing - but given the headwinds against them, they do remarkably well all things considered.
 Gold Afternoon Fix by CHURCH, THE album cover Studio Album, 1990
2.94 | 36 ratings

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Gold Afternoon Fix
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

3 stars Doomed to be somewhat overlooked as the album that came between the much better-regarded Starfish and Priest = Aura, Gold Afternoon Fix finds the Church in a slightly more conventional mode than either of those two albums - not completely, but enough to give the sense that they are coasting just a little. At nearly 10 years into their career, they'd seen their jangle pop sound go from being cutting edge to a widely-imitated subgenre, and perhaps that's what makes this album feel a little slight - it doesn't quite have the edge of experimentation which allowed other efforts to stand apart from the sea of imitators.
 Persia by CHURCH, THE album cover Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 1984
3.00 | 2 ratings

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Persia
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

3 stars Persia is perhaps the more conventional of the two EPs that The Church put out between Seance and Heyday, in that the Remote Luxury EP (which later lent its name to the compilation album that collected the two) was somewhat more eclectic whilst this was squarely within The Church's musical territory. Solid jangle pop stuff, perhaps a little slight compared to their album material, but nonetheless reasonably interesting even if it's a bit forgettable compared to the material on their first few albums (especially Seance or The Blurred Crusade). Inessential, though since the easiest way to get these tracks is on the Remote Luxury compilation, why turn your nose up at it?
 Remote Luxury by CHURCH, THE album cover Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 1984
4.00 | 1 ratings

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Remote Luxury
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

— First review of this album —
4 stars This intriguing release - one of two EPs eventually compiled in the collection also confusingly called Remote Luxury, and which bridge the gap between Seance and Heyday - finds the Church roving a bit further from their jangle pop centre of gravity, undertaking wider-ranging stylistic explorations than they'd allowed themselves on their studio albums up to this point whilst still existing in the same jangle pop/post-punk/new wave/neo-psychedelia demimonde they'd staked out for themselves. Once again, the Church would demonstrate themselves as deft crafters of melancholic arthouse pop in a distinctly 1980s style, and whilst this isn't quite on the level of the albums preceding or succeeding it, it's still worth a listen (by itself or combined with Persia on the compilation release).
 The Blurred Crusade by CHURCH, THE album cover Studio Album, 1982
3.31 | 33 ratings

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The Blurred Crusade
The Church Prog Related

Review by Warthur
Prog Reviewer

5 stars This early peak for The Church sees their pioneering jangle pop style mature, offering a more seamless integration with the gothic, post-punk/new wave, and psychedelic sounds which also influenced them whilst still staking out a musical identity which was at the time distinctive - although many bands would explore this sort of territory in subsequent years, to my ears only the UK's intrepid Felt really compare, particularly when it comes to the wistfully melancholic atmosphere. The original wave of psychedelia didn't do melancholia that much (passing that off to the folk rock crowd for the most part), what with the sunny 1960s optimism that spawned it, but The Blurred Crusade is a fine example of psych-influenced jangle pop from an era much happier to explore being sad.
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10CC United Kingdom
14 BIS Brazil
801 United Kingdom
ABEDUL Spain
ABSOLUUTTINEN NOLLAPISTE Finland
ACIDENTE Brazil
AERODROM Yugoslavia
AGNUS DEI Austria
DON AIREY United Kingdom
ALBERO MOTORE Italy
ALWAYS ALMOST United States
THE AMBER LIGHT Germany
AMBROSIA United States
JON ANDERSON United Kingdom
ARIEL Australia
ASIA United Kingdom
ATLANTIS United States
PETER BARDENS United Kingdom
SYD BARRETT United Kingdom
LUCIO BATTISTI Italy
BEAU DOMMAGE Canada
BIJELO DUGME Yugoslavia
BLACK SABBATH United Kingdom
BLACKFIELD Multi-National
BLODWYN PIG United Kingdom
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT United States
JEAN-PASCAL BOFFO France
THE BOLLENBERG EXPERIENCE Belgium
DAVID BOWIE United Kingdom
BRAM STOKER United Kingdom
BUCKETHEAD United States
BUDGIE United Kingdom
BYZANTIUM United Kingdom
JOHN CALE United Kingdom
CARNEGIE United States
CASA DAS MÁQUINAS Brazil
THE CHURCH Australia
CITY Germany
CITY BOY United Kingdom
CLOUDS United Kingdom
STEWART COPELAND United States
CRUACHAN Ireland
MARTIN DARVILL & FRIENDS United Kingdom
BRIAN DAVISON'S EVERY WHICH WAY United Kingdom
FABRIZIO DE ANDRÉ Italy
CHRISTIAN DÉCAMPS France
DEUS Belgium
DIABOLUS United Kingdom
DIR EN GREY Japan
DRAGON New Zealand
DREAMLAND United States
ER. J. ORCHESTRA Ukraine
ESQUIRE United Kingdom
EVOLVE IV United States
EX CATHEDRA United States
EXIT Switzerland
FAIRPORT CONVENTION United Kingdom
THE FIRE THEFT United States
FLIED EGG / EX STRAWBERRY PATH Japan
FLIGHT 09 Uzbekistan
FLYING COLORS United States
FOTHERINGAY United Kingdom
ELOY FRITSCH Brazil
FUGATO ORCHESTRA Hungary
AVIV GEFFEN Israel
DAVID GILMOUR United Kingdom
GORDON GILTRAP United Kingdom
ROGER GLOVER United Kingdom
GOD BLESS Indonesia
GODLEY & CREME United Kingdom
GOLDEN EARRING Netherlands
GROUNDHOGS United Kingdom
GTR United Kingdom
GUDDAL (YNGVE) & MATTE (ROGER T.) Norway
GYGAFO United Kingdom
THE HAPPENINGS FOUR Japan
HAPPY END Japan
HELP YOURSELF United Kingdom
KEN HENSLEY United Kingdom
ROGER HODGSON United Kingdom
HORIZONT Sweden
INDIGO Austria
IRON MAIDEN United Kingdom
JACKSON HEIGHTS United Kingdom
BERT JANSCH United Kingdom
JAPAN United Kingdom
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE France
JON & VANGELIS United Kingdom
BRYAN JOSH United Kingdom
JOURNEY United States
KALEVALA Finland
ERIC KAMPMAN United States
KESTREL United Kingdom
KING'S X United States
KINO United Kingdom
KLAATU Canada
KORNELIJE KOVAč Yugoslavia
KREUZWEG Germany
GREG LAKE United Kingdom
LANA LANE United States
LED ZEPPELIN United Kingdom
GEDDY LEE Canada
LIFE United Kingdom
ALEX LIFESON Canada
JOSIPA LISAC Yugoslavia
JON LORD United Kingdom
MAGELLANMUSIC United States
MAGNA CARTA United Kingdom
MAGNUM United Kingdom
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Sweden
MÅNS MOSSA Sweden
GERARD MANSET France
PHIL MANZANERA United Kingdom
NICK MASON United Kingdom
MASTERPLAN Multi-National
MATTER OF TASTE Austria
PETER MATUCHNIAK United States
MAX WEBSTER Canada
MERCURY REV United States
METALLICA United States
MINDFIELDS Poland
MOONDANCER Japan
MUSE United Kingdom
NATURE AND ORGANISATION United Kingdom
NOW United States
OFFENBACH Canada
OM ART FORMATION Bulgaria
OYSTERHEAD United States
JIMMY PAGE - ROBERT PLANT United Kingdom
THE PARLOUR BAND United Kingdom
ALAN PARSONS United Kingdom
SHAWN PHILLIPS United States
PHISH United States
I POOH Italy
DAVORIN POPOVIć Yugoslavia
PRIMUS United States
QUEEN United Kingdom
RAIN FOR A DAY Germany
RAINBOW Multi-National
JOHN RENBOURN United Kingdom
TERRY RILEY United States
LAZA RISTOVSKI Yugoslavia
ROCKFOUR Israel
MIKE RUTHERFORD United Kingdom
SADISTIC MIKA BAND Japan
SATIN WHALE Germany
THE SAVAGE ROSE Denmark
IRMIN SCHMIDT Germany
SERÚ GIRÁN Argentina
WILLIAM SHELLER France
SIGNS OF ONE Canada
DAVE SINCLAIR United Kingdom
PETER SINFIELD United Kingdom
SLINT United States
SOLSTICE COIL Israel
STEELEYE SPAN United Kingdom
STRAWBERRY FIELDS Poland
STREAM OF PASSION Netherlands
STYX United States
SUI GENERIS Argentina
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS United Kingdom
SVANN Poland
SYMPHONIC SLAM Canada
SYNERGY United States
SYNOPSIS Estonia
ALDO TAGLIAPIETRA Italy
TALKING HEADS United States
TAMOUZ Israel
TANTALUS United Kingdom
TIRED TREE Sweden
TITANIC Norway
TOY MATINEE United States
TRAVELLERS Poland
TRIANGLE France
TRIANGULUS Sweden
TRICANTROPUS Spain
TRIUMPH Canada
STEVE VAI United States
ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN Netherlands
VANGELIS Greece
OLIVER WAKEMAN United Kingdom
SCOTT WALKER United Kingdom
WALRUS Japan
JOHN WETTON United Kingdom
WHALEFEATHERS United States
WHEATSTONE BRIDGE United States
WHIMWISE United Kingdom
WHITE United Kingdom
ROBIN WILLIAMSON United Kingdom
WISHBONE ASH United Kingdom
THE WISHING TREE United Kingdom
ERIC WOOLFSON United Kingdom
ZON Canada

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