Is that Possible? Progressive Punk RocK?

The stranglers described their own music as "angry psychedelia" and it was sort of progressive punk

Cardiacs are also a non-conventional punk band with keyboards and very well vrafted choirs

The Mars Volta could also be described as progressive punk

BaldFriede wrote: [QUOTE=lucas] The Stranglers never were punk; in fact they made use of real polyphony in some of their songs, a very advanced technique that even most progressive rock bands don't master. Only the music industry called the Stranglers "punk" because it sold well at their time. An album like "Black and White" is progressive and not punk! One will get you ten that if you play that album to someone who does not know it without telling him what band the music is played by, he or she would classify the music as "prog".

Like 'prog', the term  'punk' covered a mulitude of sub genres. And I have to disagree (this once) with you BF, to me the Stranglers were punk and most certainly had (originally) punk attitudes. I thought they were the punk Doors when I first came across them. Their No More Heroes, Hanging Around, Peaches were great punk hits at the height of the UK punk period, be it by a group of nearly 30's who for the most part had been around the music industry for some time (but so were the Police, all of whom had been involved in prog). And further I hear the Black & White album as the last of the Stranglers true punk albums -  it is interesting to hear what Fripp and Hammill do to the Stranglers' tune Tank with the Stranglers backing them - here Fripp is Fripp  but Hammill gives the clues in his punk delivery of why Johnny Rotten was into him and VdGG. As a reminder bands clumped in the punk genre in the mid/late 70's included XTC (btw Primus's cover of Making Plans For Nigel is punk), Police, Stranglers, Squeeze (sometimes I agree with the pundits that Glenn Tilbury and co. were the punk Lennon & McCartney), Joe Jackson (blimey he's now written a concerto!!!) and even Dire Straights (check out the double vinyl Hope & Anchor album released 78/79 to hear the breadth of bands doing punk)