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    Posted: November 03 2014 at 10:47
Now I have to check out Vernon Reid's solo work. Thanks.
And I'd also add a nod to Faith No More. Crack Hitler anybody?
More heavy prog, please!
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Originally posted by twalsh twalsh wrote:

How about Living Color? Metal, funk, R&B and hip-hop influences are certainly not typical.


Clap Listening to Vivid just now... Great album, one of my favourites from the late Eighties! I am not sure about them being prog-related, or more so than Metallica - who were extremely influential for the formation of prog-metal as we know it. On the other hand, LC are definitely eclectic and unconventional.

Personally, I'd like Faith No More to get a "prog nod", but I will continue to enjoy them even if they don'tWink.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

A 'prog nod'........hmmm,  probably many bands that could receive that.
Two that come to mind are The Flaming Lips, certainly psych prog at times,  and XTC have many of those elements that the Beatles embodied and are probably more 'prog' in their later albums than the Beatles were.
 
XTC gets my nod.
 
Though it is a very unusual rock band, in the end, their work is insanely progressive, strange and sometimes nutz, and yet ... it works ... and we're not talking just lyrics, which are also a very nice touch on their part.
 
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^Yes, Vernon is very under appreciated.
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Originally posted by twalsh twalsh wrote:

How about Living Color? Metal, funk, R&B and hip-hop influences are certainly not typical.


I put them up a few years ago and was shouted down. Definitely worth a "prog -related" category IMHO. Living Colour are more prog-related than Metallica ever were.

But I am really going to push for Vernon Reid to be added. His solo work and his other collaborations (with Masque for instance) is as prog as you can get and definitely in the eclectic or possibly Jazz-fusion category.
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How about Living Color? Metal, funk, R&B and hip-hop influences are certainly not typical.
More heavy prog, please!
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Alice Cooper's early 70's albums are prog imho. Halo of flies and black juju are two of my favorite prog songs.

Bonzo dog doo dah band, melvins, and kyuss also all very progressive and influential.
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Los Lobos for the kooky songs and album production on kiko and Colossal Head.

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Colin Scot, for his self-titled album that’s really more a folk/pop effort but got a lot of attention from proggers for the guest appearances from Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, Steve Gould and other luminaries.

 

Here’s an earlier thread on him (or an attempt at one):

 

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24580

 

 
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The good ol' Grateful Dead.....how can Phish or the Airplane....or Iron Butterfly be on PA and not the forerunners of psychadelic, electronic and ambient music not be considered at least proto? 
 
Inclusion of the Dead would open some memeber's eyes to a great progressive rock band.
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Joni Mitchell, especially during her undeniably more progressive period in the 1970s, from Court and Spark on through Mingus.
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Los Lobos: Kilko Live. Expanded  live versions of the unusual and sometimes fantastic songs from the Kiko studio album. 
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Clannad. Their move away from their trad Celtic roots in the 80s gave way to a sound that definitely gave a nod to 70s prog.

Mel Collins contributed some tasty soprano sax work on several of their albums, like on In a Lifetime, their collaboration with Bono.

A short instrumental on their album “Anam”, Wilderness, just about floored me when I first heard it. Are chord changes like that even legal? was my first thought.
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Elbow
The Tubes
XTC
The Who
Led Zeppelin
REM (some of it especially the "out of time" album)
U2 ditto above
Todd Rundgren
Moody Blues
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Points: 20617 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2014 at 08:46
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Midlake's latest is a prog rock record IMO.
Midlake is here...  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7010


I assumed they weren't...doh!  EmbarrassedLOL
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Midlake's latest is a prog rock record IMO.
Midlake is here...  http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7010


I assumed they weren't...doh!  EmbarrassedLOL
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Points: 24858 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2014 at 08:27
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

I'll also give a shout out to Dire Straits for the album Love Over Gold. Some sublime prog like moments on this lush album, especially the title track which is beautiful.

I fully agree that Dire Straits is worth a prog nod because of this album.

Another one I'd like to give to Alice Cooper, a non-prog artist who created a prog masterpiece (Halo of Flies) and some other songs with a proggy touch.

Ths third one is for the Velvet Underground, imho the inventors of Art Rock. I don't want to reopen the discussion about their inclusion, but I must mention them here.
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Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

Seeing the late great bassist Glenn Cornick from Tull has passed away this week; I'll put forward his band Wild Turkey.......their first album Battle Hymn to me is as prog as anything Uriah Heep ever did and only 100 times better. 

Wild Turkey also had the late Gary Pickford-Hopkins on lead vocals who also happened to be the vocalist on Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre of The Earth. Would someone please get these guys on PA...I'm too lazy!
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