Which is the best "prog-pop song" ever?

Henry Plainview wrote: thellama73 wrote: UndercoverBoy wrote: thellama73 wrote: The Final Countdown! Europe is a prog band? No, but the Final Countdown is prog pop song. Listen to those synthesizers in the beginning! And it's about migrating away from earth to a galaxy far far away. It doesn't get any more prog than that. I hadn't really listened to The Final Countdown until Arrested Development, but I have to admit, it's so bad it wraps around and becomes one of the best songs ever. To a less extent, so does Take On Me. And I can't decide whether I like What Is Love ironically or seriously.

Edited by UndercoverBoy - July 02 2010 at 22:55

Atavachron wrote: 'Back in NYC' (followed by more Genesis like 'Abacab' or 'Robbery,Assault and Battery'), also ELP's 'Lucky Man' and 'Cinema/Leave It' from 90125

Back in NYC? A pop song in 7/8?

Indeed, Drifter!

"I Want More" or "Moonshake" by Can

"See Emily Play" or "Arnold Lane" by Pink Floyd

"This Is A Man's World" by The Residents

Heat of the Moment.

Breakfast in America (as well as many other Supertamp songs).

I'll think of more good prog pop later.

There are so many I can think about. Right now I want to say "High Hopes" by Pink Floyd, but then as it was already mentioned, "Comfortably Numb" could also be included as "pop prog"; and then, "Wish you were here" and "Another Brick in the Wall 2" also. And ofcourse Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is great, but so is "Roundabout". And ELP did lots of pop, even during their most prog era, I particularly like "In the Beginning" from them, and "Touch and Go" is rather cool too. Jethro Tull's got many "pop" things too, I guess "Aqualung" would be the biggest. Genesis is very big with pop, ofcourse, and here I like "I know what I like", as well as "Mama" and "Land of Confusion". From Asia, I never really liked "Heat of the Moment" so much, but I do like "Only Time will Tell" a lot. However, I liked "Never Again" from Phoenix better, and best of all they did for me is "Parallel Worlds / Vortex / Deja", for me that should be the definition of "Pop Prog". Alan Parsons Project has lots of Pop Prog that I completly love, I guess almost all of their good songs should fit this category, one of my favourites is "La Sagrada Familia". And I'm amazed "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas hasn't been mentioned (but then, it might just as well be because that one is a purely pop song played by a Prog group). I think "Le Orme" was very good at this too (as far as I've heard). Ah, and I was forgeting, Dream Theater has done their on share on "Pop Prog Metal", as with Pull me Under, As I Am, The Root of all Evil, Forsaken, A Rite of Passage.

cannon wrote: "The Grand Illusion" by Styx.

i saw a concert from that tour in March, 1977-best concert of my life

"Der Plan" by ANYONE's DAUGHTER always comes to mind for me, but some of their other short songs might fit too, like "Superman"

I just scrolled through most pages, so I might have missed it.

But I can not belive no one has mentioned Bohemian Rapsody, it wins hands down easily.
I think it will also beat all entries anyday

Nakatira wrote: I just scrolled through most pages, so I might have missed it. But I can not belive no one has mentioned Bohemian Rapsody, it wins hands down easily. I think it will also beat all entries anyday

Bohemian Rapsody is more prog than most progressive rock imo. Not really anything to do with pop other than it sold shed loads.