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bakerstreetmuse View Drop Down

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Posted: July 09 2005 at 05:43

"Lonesome Crow" and "Drifting Sun" by Scorpions

Maike

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Posted: July 08 2005 at 08:52

Sun hits the sky by Supergrass. great tune good prog vibe and a nice
keyboard solo.

46and2

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Posted: July 08 2005 at 02:58

gettysburg- iced earth. i dont know if any one considers them prog metal but metal none the less. they have extended tracks like dantes inferno (16 minutes i think) and gettysburg is half an hour.

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Posted: July 08 2005 at 02:55

yesman72 wrote:

Deep Purple - anyhing from their first three albums

Including Concert for group and orchestra we are up to four albums!

A flower?

BiGi

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Posted: July 08 2005 at 02:54

Wreath wrote:

Iron Maiden songs that I will sign as a prog songs:

1. Hallowed Be Thy Name
2. To Tame a Land
3. Rime of The Ancient Mariner - one of the most
4. Alexander The Great
5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6. Sign of The Cross
7. Fortunes of War
8. The Angel and The Gambler
9. The Clansman
10. Don't Look to The Eyes of a Stranger
11. Dream of Mirrors
12. The Nomad - one of the most
13. Dance of Death
14. Paschendale

Many, isn't they?

I was listening to them the other day and I thought: "Hey, Gengis Khan could well fit in the prog concept with all its time signature changes and intricated phrases!"
Doesn't it?

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AfanSpur

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 20:40

The Whole of In case we die by Architecture in Helsinki

There stands Olias to outward to build a ship
Holding within all we hope to retain
The frame will be so built to challenge the universe
Clasped with the skins of the fish of the plain

yesman72

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 20:37

Queen - March of the Black Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

Rainbow - Gates of Babylon, Stargazer

Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener, almost anything off Sabotage is kinda proggish

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

Deep Purple - anyhing from their first three albums

Judas Priest - Prelude/Tyrant(this is not a joke it really is proggish imo)

Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land, Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

Boston - foerplay(Long Time is pretty much standard rock'n roll)

Nobuo Uematsu - anything by him is pretty much prog(he actually has a prog metal band called The Black Mages)

The Beatles - A Day in the Life

Crosby Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes( why not?) well thats all i can think of thats remotely like prog from non prog bands

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 20:31

milla wrote:

Geck0 wrote:

Some friends of mine are in a band called "Old School Tie" over here in England and they are a great instrumental guitar band, with elements of progression in their music.

Is this them http://www.overplay.co.uk/band.asp?band_id=1000674?

Sound pretty good - especially "Old Man"

They remind of Explosions In The Sky a little (well, "She Had Her Reasons" does)

Aye, that's them Milla. Having seen them live 3 times, I must say they are a great live band too. I have both of their EPs and I believe they have new material out later this year. If you're interested, let me know. Perhaps I can send you some MP3s or something... _Old Man_ is a favourite of mine too.

It's great to get some positive feedback. It's nice for a reasonably small band to get recognition, I shall let them know.

Cheers.

James.

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 18:22

I'm surprised i haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody much here. That's a very proggy song in my opinion. Good Vibrations (in fact pretty much the whole of Brian Wilson's "Smile") is pretty proggy also.

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 17:02

Wasn't it said that The Stranglers were the Prog Rockers of Punk?

"The only notes worth bothering with come in wads"

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 13:56

Magnums first album "Kingdom Of Madness"

Elton Johns - Funeral For A Friend

milla

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 13:43

Geck0 wrote:

Some friends of mine are in a band called "Old School Tie" over here in England and they are a great instrumental guitar band, with elements of progression in their music.

Is this them http://www.overplay.co.uk/band.asp?band_id=1000674?

Sound pretty good - especially "Old Man"

They remind of Explosions In The Sky a little (well, "She Had Her Reasons" does)

Edited by milla

Wreath

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 12:29

Iron Maiden songs that I will sign as a prog songs:

1. Hallowed Be Thy Name
2. To Tame a Land
3. Rime of The Ancient Mariner - one of the most
4. Alexander The Great
5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6. Sign of The Cross
7. Fortunes of War
8. The Angel and The Gambler
9. The Clansman
10. Don't Look to The Eyes of a Stranger
11. Dream of Mirrors
12. The Nomad - one of the most
13. Dance of Death
14. Paschendale

Many, isn't they?

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 11:54

Led Zeppelin's 5th album "Houses of the Holy" contains lots of prog moments - The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song, Over The Hills and Far Away, No Quarter . Led Zep also had prog songs like "Achilles Last Stand", "Ten Years Gone", "In The Light", "Stairway To Heaven", "Dazed and Confused", and "The Battle of Evermore".

Iron Maiden i will always consider to be very proggy especially with songs like "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Alexander The Great", and they even produced a concept album (not to be stereotypical of prog bands though) - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 03:13

More Tears for Fears prog :

Break it Down

Head over Heels (this was brilliantly used on the
soundtrack to the Donnie Darko movie)

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 02:49

gdub411 wrote:

Geck0 wrote:

I Actually, I don't like the word "genre" all that much.

I never liked the word vat myself.

Seriously, though, if you have trouble with putting labels on the music you like then why are you at a "progressive" rock site? Perhaps you could just find a forum called music.

What's wrong with that word??? It's very respectable, and appeals to most of the community. So, why the cold shoulder to a word that underappreciated and underrated?? It should be used everyday with words like, "the" and "iron" and "erode". But, no it's people like you who keep it down in this socity. Shame on you gdub...i thought you were better than this.

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BiGi

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 02:43

mmm...Tears for Fears...how about Ladybird from their last effort Everybody loves a happy ending?
Its chorus has got such intricated time signatures...

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Posted: July 07 2005 at 01:01

Shout by Tears For Fears

Eden by Sarah Brightman

About defining Progressive Rock, I believe the whole idea of being a progressive rock band is to try to push the boundaries of what is accepted as "rock music". These bands that model themselves after Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd etc with epic - length songs, stunning solos, intricate time signatures and dreamy cover art may be good; and I don't mean to take anything away from them. But it's all been done before by the afore mentioned bands. They aren't doing a whole lot to "further the cause"; progress or transform rock music into a slightly different form. Experimental rock is different, still. Blending elements of experimental into rock and doing it very good, now thats progress, and that is progressive rock.

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be or seem to be self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free
time.

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Posted: July 06 2005 at 23:59

Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station (especially second half)
Led Zeppelin: Carouselambra, In the Light
Black Sabbath: Fairies Wear Boots (a little bit)

that's all I have right now

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Posted: July 06 2005 at 23:51

Hehe, well unfortunately we live in a mediatised world and genre-specifying is only natural. You need genres unfortunately. Plus there are so many different kinds of music that not everyone has heard (i.e. Progressive Rock), that you cannot just give a list of similar bands they sound like, unless the person asking has an idea.

It's not the pigeon-holing/genre-specifying I have a problem with, it's just the word "genre". It's used far too much in this digitised age.

James.