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Topic: Favourite Non-prog BandPosted By: FatherChristmas
Subject: Favourite Non-prog Band
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 11:37
Post your favourite non prog band. For me... probably Dire Straits. Which is what I'm in.
What say you??
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Replies: Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 11:40
Sanatana, without a doubt. I have more albums by Santana than any other band - about 20 so far.
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 12:08
Tansads.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 13:45
Not just my favorite non-prog band but currently my favorite any genre band.
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 13:54
Air and Stereolab are up there.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 14:48
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Sanatana, without a doubt. I have more albums by Santana than any other band - about 20 so far.
Santana are actually in PA under Jazz Rock/Fusion.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 14:53
Probably the Beatles, even thought they are listed here as proto-prog.
Also, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Dire Straits, Stones, Clapton. Many Others...
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 15:09
If we are excluding Prog Related and Proto-Prog, then I suppose my favourite non-prog (not in PA) artist would be Robin Trower. But when it comes to non-prog, I operate better at the album level, in which case my favourite non-prog album is Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 15:20
I'll go with Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Swiss minimalist modern jazz combo. Seen them a few times live and love everything they've released.
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 15:42
In my rebel youth I got into punk/goth. Accordingly a couple of my favourites are still Bauhaus and Killing Joke
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 01:39
I have a few...
Skids, Big Country, Living Colour, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Arctic Monkeys (Yes, I actually do think they're great..... well, apart from their last pretentious album)
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 01:55
very hard to pick just one band, non-prog can mean a lot of things - metal, jazz, rock, blues etc ?!
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 02:00
Difficult to choose just one band, but I'll go for Siouxsie & the Banshees.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 02:01
Gentle and Giant wrote:
In my rebel youth I got into punk/goth. Accordingly a couple of my favourites are still Bauhaus and Killing Joke
Good choices. Love Killing Joke.
You have one of my favourite avatars on PA, btw..
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 02:38
I prophesy disaster wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Sanatana, without a doubt. I have more albums by Santana than any other band - about 20 so far.
Santana are actually in PA under Jazz Rock/Fusion.
Thanks! That's great news! I never knew Santana were in ProgArchives.
I guess I'll have to choose another band now. The Moody Blues would have been my second choice - if they weren't in ProgArchives.
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 05:13
not band but solo artist who gives solo concerts as well as concerts with a band: Barbara Dennerlein. she is actually my favorite musician period and the whole family (my wife Friede, my sister Bea and our daughters Alice and Dorothy) will again attend one of her concerts in a bit more than 2 weeks (Aug 23rd).
here an example of her music (watch her left foot)
by the way: Keith Emerson was a big fan of her
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 05:34
FatherChristmas wrote:
Post your favourite non prog band. For me... probably Dire Straits. Which is what I'm in.
What say you??
Sorry, got to add Cream and the Who. I used to love them... now, not so much, but defining bands for hard rock. I used to be into loads of genres, like hard rock, blues, pop, glam etc., but that was before I discovered Genesis - sadly long after their heyday.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 05:37
The Zombies. Still making great music and they're a great bunch of chaps.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 05:52
SteveG wrote:
The Zombies. Still making great music and they're a great bunch of chaps.
I didn't realise The Zombies had come back from the Dead, but I just noticed they released an album in the year 2000 titled "R.I.P."
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 05:59
Oasis.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 06:30
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I prophesy disaster wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Sanatana, without a doubt. I have more albums by Santana than any other band - about 20 so far.
Santana are actually in PA under Jazz Rock/Fusion.
Thanks! That's great news! I never knew Santana were in ProgArchives.
BTW, that's true for both Santana the group and Carlos Santana the solo artist.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 06:56
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
SteveG wrote:
The Zombies. Still making great music and they're a great bunch of chaps.
I didn't realise The Zombies had come back from the Dead, but I just noticed they released an album in the year 2000 titled "R.I.P."
RIP is a compilation of old tracks but Breathe In, Breathe Out (2011) and Still Got That Hunger (2015) are all new albums and totally kick butt.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 07:45
SteveG wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
SteveG wrote:
The Zombies. Still making great music and they're a great bunch of chaps.
I didn't realise The Zombies had come back from the Dead, but I just noticed they released an album in the year 2000 titled "R.I.P."
RIP is a compilation of old tracks but Breathe In, Breathe Out (2011) and Still Got That Hunger (2015) are all new albums and totally kick butt.
Thanks! I just had a look on Google at those two albums you mentioned and I noticed Rod Argent & Colin Blunstone are both still with The Zombies, so they must be good albums.
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 08:02
There are many ‘non-Prog’ bands I listen to, among them, my faves are Sade, Devo and Kajagoogoo.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 08:04
Tom Ozric wrote:
There are many ‘non-Prog’ bands I listen to, among them, my faves are Sade, Devo and Kajagoogoo.
I like Sade too.
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 09:34
Blacksword wrote:
Gentle and Giant wrote:
In my rebel youth I got into punk/goth. Accordingly a couple of my favourites are still Bauhaus and Killing Joke
Good choices. Love Killing Joke.
You have one of my favourite avatars on PA, btw..
Aww, thanks
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 10:13
Like many here, I have several.......I'd have to pick Earth, Wind & Fire. The first band I really immersed myself into as a kid and they inspired me to look into progressive rock bands.
Honorable Mentions:
Funkadelic/Parliament
Scorpions
Eric Clapton
The Police
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 10:32
Catcher10 wrote:
Like many here, I have several.......I'd have to pick Earth, Wind & Fire. The first band I really immersed myself into as a kid and they inspired me to look into progressive rock bands.
Honorable Mentions:
Funkadelic/Parliament
Scorpions
Eric Clapton
The Police
The Police... now there's a defining band. I can't think of a late 70s/early 80s band that weren't inspired by them.
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 10:42
BarryGlibb wrote:
Arctic Monkeys (Yes, I actually do think they're great..... well, apart from their last pretentious album)
I thought their last album was one of their best, even if still average. A lot of Prog is pretentious so I have absolutely no problem with that.
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 11:03
There`s quite a few non-prog musicians i listen too here`s a few:
The Police
Status Quo
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green`s Mac)
Tracey Chapman
Sade
Joss Stone
add the classical composers too!
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 11:23
FatherChristmas wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
Like many here, I have several.......I'd have to pick Earth, Wind & Fire. The first band I really immersed myself into as a kid and they inspired me to look into progressive rock bands.
Honorable Mentions:
Funkadelic/Parliament
Scorpions
Eric Clapton
The Police
The Police... now there's a defining band. I can't think of a late 70s/early 80s band that weren't inspired by them.
The Police were IMO, one of the most dynamic bands of that era. They were a supergroup almost, all 3 members coming from other groups to form The Police, and from progressive rock bands. Easily one of the greatest bands ever, the songs they wrote are legendary. Considering their short life together, what they did is brilliance.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 11:26
Tracey Chapman
Tori Amos
Susanne Vega
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 11:58
XTC Joe Jackson Elvis Costello The Bears McCoy Tyner Thelonious Monk Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan Them Moose Rush Jellyfish Alice Cooper FAT Freak Kitchen Jimmy Herring Simon Phillips Protocol Joe Henderson Kenny Barron Randy Brecker Woody Shaw Tons more jazz musicians...
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 11:04
As many have said hard to choose only one. In the 60's would have been The Beatles (and Stones), 70's Steely Dan and Allman Bros., 80's XTC, 90's got into obscure prog and proto prog and really didn't have a special non prog band...
Since 2000....I guess I would say The Beatles again. I never tire of playing their various albums. As I have gotten older I seem to be going back to many old groups.
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 11:20
As a universal rule, everyone likes the Beatles.
Catcher10 wrote:
FatherChristmas wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
Like many here, I have several.......I'd have to pick Earth, Wind & Fire. The first band I really immersed myself into as a kid and they inspired me to look into progressive rock bands.
Honorable Mentions:
Funkadelic/Parliament
Scorpions
Eric Clapton
The Police
The Police... now there's a defining band. I can't think of a late 70s/early 80s band that weren't inspired by them.
The Police were IMO, one of the most dynamic bands of that era. They were a supergroup almost, all 3 members coming from other groups to form The Police, and from progressive rock bands. Easily one of the greatest bands ever, the songs they wrote are legendary. Considering their short life together, what they did is brilliance.
Well, I agree with you, but according to the now defunct magazine Blender, Sting is the worst lyricist of all time. But that's now defunct, which shows you what people really think.
Nevertheless, I don't think you'd get on with the editor of Blender, because according to the mag, Neil Peart is the second worst lyricist of all time.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 11:29
P J Harvey is my all time favorite artist, but band...well I think it´s Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. But they´re progarchives...well then the Birthday Party.
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 11:57
The Beatles followed by Led Zep, The Jam and XTC
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 12:48
I initially chose Santana as my favourite non-prog band, until I discovered they're included in ProgArchives, so I'll choose The Doors and Jefferson Airplane as my second & third favourite non-prog bands.
If we can choose individual artists as well as bands, then my favourite male singer is Chris Rea, and my favourite female singer is Sarah Brightman.
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 17:44
Probably the Comsat Angels followed by Pinback. Obviously there are many great ones, and I consciously ignore solo artists here.
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 05 2020 at 19:14
Really hard to say. I’d have to do one for each genre, and maybe even by decade. Way to hard to narrow down. Let me sleep on it.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 02:16
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I initially chose Santana as my favourite non-prog band, until I discovered they're included in ProgArchives, so I'll choose The Doors and Jefferson Airplane as my second & third favourite non-prog bands.
If we can choose individual artists as well as bands, then my favourite male singer is Chris Rea, and my favourite female singer is Sarah Brightman.
The Doors & Jefferson Airplane are also in progarchives as proto-prog . But some reason that I don´t understand Grateful Dead not. But that is just so dead subject to discuss. Have to say Chris Rea and Sarah Brightman leaves me totally cold.
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 06:15
Crikey! You mean to say The Doors & Jefferson Airplane have both been here on ProgArchives all the time without me even knowing!? In that case, maybe it's time for me to put together a tribute thread to the music of The Doors. I like the Grateful Dead too, but I guess you already knew that.
It looks like I'll have to pick a fourth favourite "non-prog" band now, seeing as my first three choices are already included in ProgArchives. I would have chosen Tangerine Dream, but I have a feeling that they're already here on PA too. Maybe I have more "prog" in my CD collection than I realised, if The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Santana & Tangerine Dream are all here on ProgArchives.
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 14:10
Grandaddy
The Idle Race
Scott Walker
Chetarca
The Shaggs
The Fixx
Violinski
The Alarm
Steve Miller Band
Billy Joel
The Cars
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 15:16
The Doors?? I'm thinking of the sixties band, are they on PA?
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 15:19
^ As Mortte said at the top of this page, the Doors are in progarchives in the Proto-Prog category.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 15:44
Like w/Paul, my first four choices are already here on PA as prog related or jazz rock (Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Journey, and Chicago) so I will go with an old favorite that pre-dates my prog fandom, and the headliner band at the first concert I ever went to see: Van Halen. OY! Who am I kidding? I love Van Halen, but my real answer is Judas Priest!!!
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 16:40
I'll go with Fleetwood Mac as my fifth choice of favourite non-prog band, unless they're on ProgArchives too.
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 17:01
They might be prog related, you never know. They're UK no.1 was an instrumental. I'll look into it - if they're not on PA I think they have a right to be, despite the 80s pop years.
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 17:05
No,not here.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 17:26
FatherChristmas wrote:
No,not here.
That's fair enough. It would require a stretch of the imagination to consider Fleetwood Mac as even being remotely prog-related.
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 17:37
Hi,
Too many well known and famous bands ...
I'm going with THE MASKED MARAUDERS ...
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 17:38
Well, you never know, even with prog being such a niche genre.
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: August 06 2020 at 18:12
Too many to choose from. But I'm a big fan of The Clash.
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 02:35
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I'll go with Fleetwood Mac as my fifth choice of favourite non-prog band, unless they're on ProgArchives too.
Really love Peter Green´s Fleetwood Mac, Kiln House & Future Games are also ok albums, but after that I think they become really boring band. FM really is one of those sixties started bands I understand they´re not in PA. Of course there are some prog Then Play On and also those two albums I mentioned, but still...
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 04:52
There are many, but first one that came to mind,Bee Gees.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 05:08
^ I love plenty of 60s to 1970 Bee Gees.
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
FatherChristmas wrote:
No,not here.
That's fair enough. It would require a stretch of the imagination to consider Fleetwood Mac as even being remotely prog-related.
Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac was a gravedigger, and the band Janus (included in Crossover) debut album is called Gravedigger, but that would not be considered sufficient Prog Relation. ;) Nor would Santana being in PA -- Santana, of course, famously covered Peter Green's "Black Magic Woman".
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 05:19
^ Purely by coincidence, the last album I reviewed was "Gravedigger" by Janus.
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 06:07
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
I'll go with Fleetwood Mac as my fifth choice of favourite non-prog band, unless they're on ProgArchives too.
You know it's pretty easy to search for bands on here, right?
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 15:35
I think he does, but couldn't be bothered.
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Posted By: Rrattlesnake
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 16:37
Liars are a really good experimental band. Always change things up on every album
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: August 07 2020 at 17:00
FatherChristmas wrote:
As a universal rule, everyone likes the Beatles.
Catcher10 wrote:
FatherChristmas wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
Like many here, I have several.......I'd have to pick Earth, Wind & Fire. The first band I really immersed myself into as a kid and they inspired me to look into progressive rock bands.
Honorable Mentions:
Funkadelic/Parliament
Scorpions
Eric Clapton
The Police
The Police... now there's a defining band. I can't think of a late 70s/early 80s band that weren't inspired by them.
The Police were IMO, one of the most dynamic bands of that era. They were a supergroup almost, all 3 members coming from other groups to form The Police, and from progressive rock bands. Easily one of the greatest bands ever, the songs they wrote are legendary. Considering their short life together, what they did is brilliance.
Well, I agree with you, but according to the now defunct magazine Blender, Sting is the worst lyricist of all time. But that's now defunct, which shows you what people really think.
Nevertheless, I don't think you'd get on with the editor of Blender, because according to the mag, Neil Peart is the second worst lyricist of all time.
I've never heard of Blender, seriously. Wonder why.......
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 07:59
In general there's a lot of non-prog in my music collection (that is, artists that are not on Progarchives).
From the English speaking countries:
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
The Velvet Underground / Lou Reed
Joni Mitchell
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Television
The Clash
The Police
Nirvana
Portishead
Blur
Idles
Plus a lot of music from Denmark and the other Nordic countries, as well as some gems from many other countries.
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 10:02
The list is long. Here are a few...
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
The Band
The Pogues
Cat Stevens
The Allman Brothers
Any number of Clapton iterations (Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, etc.)
Van Morrison
I guess these are proto-prog or prog-related....
The Beatles
Zeppelin
Sabbath
The Doors
Bowie
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 10:23
To me Cream is something of an omission for Proto-Prog, but I shouldn't get into that again. I made my case many years ago and will accept that the majority of PAers didn't buy my arguments, and don't feel like trying to make the case again even if I could be successful.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 10:30
I'd agree with you on Cream
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 10:33
Logan wrote:
To me Cream is something of an omission for Proto-Prog, but I shouldn't get into that again. I made my case many years ago and will accept that the majority of PAers didn't buy my arguments, and don't feel like trying to make the case again even if I could be successful.
I would think an argument could be made for Cream's inclusion. I would say it would be more for their live extended improvisational versions of songs, some stretching to 16-17 minutes. That was quite different for rock in the mid-60s.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 10:57
The Dark Elf wrote:
Logan wrote:
To me Cream is something of an omission for Proto-Prog, but I shouldn't get into that again. I made my case many years ago and will accept that the majority of PAers didn't buy my arguments, and don't feel like trying to make the case again even if I could be successful.
I would think an argument could be made for Cream's inclusion. I would say it would be more for their live extended improvisational versions of songs, some stretching to 16-17 minutes. That was quite different for rock in the mid-60s.
I think Wheels of Fire a quite progressive album taken as a whole, as well as Disraeli Gears. It's much more than just a bluesy and jam rock kind of band to me, and there's the psychedelic qualities. Furthermore, since Prog relation matters, BAKER GURVITZ ARMY is included in the Heavy Prog category and JACK BRUCE is included in the JRF category. The whimsy too is one of those things that makes me relate Cream to early Prog. Aside from the longer improv version of songs, music like Pressed Rat and Warthog, Anyone for Tennis, Passing the Time which opens in a bluesy fashion show something of the whimsy quite commonly found in Prog (and Proto-Prog). Rather bombastic songs like Tales of Brave Ulysses (off Disreali Gears - 1967) and White Room have something of an early prog pedigree to me too.
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 17:02
Cream took part in the beginnings of progress from more normal music, I think, and I reckon Cream deserves credit for that. It would have been very interesting to see what they'd have been doing in the 70s, if they'd have carried on until then, and how they'd have reacted to progressive rock.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 17:15
Quicksilver Messenger Service Country Joe and The Fish Anthrax Suffocation Slayer Jefferson Starship Nile Megadeth Grateful Dead
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 19:59
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bob Dylan
R.E.M
The Cars
Leonard Cohen
Tim Buckley
Rolling Stones
Kinks
CCR
U2
That's excluding the proto/related like Beatles, Moody Blues, Radiohead, Iron Maiden, Queen, The Who, etc.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: August 08 2020 at 23:53
TheLionOfPrague wrote:
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Tim Buckley
Rolling Stones
Kinks
CCR
Beatles, Moody Blues, Iron Maiden, Queen, The Who, etc.
These are my big faves too, well Iron Maiden & Queen not as big as those others. And I think Roy Harper is much bigger than Dylan & Cohen!
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 06:25
If you mean bigger as in success, I think Dylan would win there.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 12:33
A non-prog band that I've been listening to quite a lot in recent times is Foals. I don't know if they've become my favourite non-prog band, but they certainly have impressed me with their music.
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Posted By: ssmarcus
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 12:39
I gotta go with everything Chris Cornell has done (except Scream). Soundgarden, Temply of the Dog, Audioslave, and much of the solo stuff. I am of the personal opnion that his 1999 solo record Euphoria Morning is something a progressive rock album in and of itself.
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 15:33
Probably too many for me to name.
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 15:35
ssmarcus wrote:
I gotta go with everything Chris Cornell has done (except Scream). Soundgarden, Temply of the Dog, Audioslave, and much of the solo stuff. I am of the personal opnion that his 1999 solo record Euphoria Morning is something a progressive rock album in and of itself.
Plus his brother was a singer in a prog band back in the 90's. I always thought SG had some prog elements at least. Very good band regardless.
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 16:11
Just one? No can do ... but a few artists (not necessarily 'bands' per se) that are up there include:
The Police, Dire Straits, Big Country, early Gary Numan, Yaz (or Yazoo, depending on where you're from), Kraftwerk (are they in here?), Devo, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Michael Hedges, Christopher Parkening, Julian Bream, John Williams (from Sky but as a solo artist), and Andre Segovia ... but the list is pretty much endless ...
If I had to list every metal, punk, new wave, soul, blues, jazz, fusion, funk, classical, and disco band/artist that I liked, it would fill pages and pages and you would become even more bored reading it than you are right now.
Chances are ... if you say ... "Well, what about bla bla bla?" ... then I'll probably either say something like ... "Oh yeah! You rock!" with my two thumbs up, or "What a bunch of posers!" with my cringe-face.
Posted By: satanellus
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 23:38
If we're traveling a long way from prog, for me it's Tom Waits or Igor Stravinsky.
I'm also among the many here that enjoy Led Zep and Cream. Also a fan of Alice Cooper.
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 23:45
The Deep Freeze Mice. A band that was rejected by the archives. I consider them to be prog, but for this site they are not.
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Posted By: satanellus
Date Posted: August 10 2020 at 23:47
geekfreak wrote:
There`s quite a few non-prog musicians i listen too here`s a few:
The Police
Status Quo
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green`s Mac)
Tracey Chapman
Sade
Joss Stone
add the classical composers too!
Status Quo was the first concert I went to.
I agree with you about classical. If I'm listening to the radio it's usually classical and I go to as many classical concerts as I see prog/metal/rock bands.
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 11 2020 at 04:44
On the subject of classical composers, is everyone here agreed Wagner is included with Mozart and Beethoven as a great composer, or is there some debate on that? Is there a thread on it?
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Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: August 11 2020 at 05:19
Al Stewart Nick Drake The Stranglers The Police/ Sting. AC/DC Foreigner Eagles Del Amitri Amongst others plus
Many classical composers and film composers. Oh and 50s Sinatra as well.
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 11 2020 at 05:20
I see this thread has become favorite non-prog bands
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 11 2020 at 05:36
Good point there. Bands is more interesting, I suppose. I'll edit the title, if you can do that.
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 11 2020 at 05:41
I don't think you can.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 11 2020 at 06:34
Hard to pinpoint just 1 favourite.......so it becomes a list.
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: August 12 2020 at 11:18
What about Wings? They're a great band. According to Wikipedia, Band on the Run is progressive rock, but I'm not really seeing it myself.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 12 2020 at 16:04