prog-ish albums by "non prog bands" you like
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Topic: prog-ish albums by "non prog bands" you like
Posted By: Disconnect
Subject: prog-ish albums by "non prog bands" you like
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 19:27
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mostly referring to bands/artists not listed as any sort of prog/prog related genre or subgenre. In this context, I lean towards things such as Bad Brains (I Against I, Quickness). Tons of odd meters and angular chord changes. I love it. ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
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Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 22:49
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Toto, their first self titled album and second album Hydra. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 01:49
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The Tubes - s/t Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Deep Purple - Whoosh! The Police - Synchronicity Bat For Lashes - Two Suns Elbow - Giants Of All Sizes Electric Light Orchestestea - Elo2 Muse - Origin Of Symmetry |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 02:49
Svetty, that's a weird accusation... |
Alanderie wrote:Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 03:14
| A Night at the Opera by Queen does qualify, I guess. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 03:15
Most 70s Queen does IMO. 
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Posted By: ken_scrbrgh
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 04:39
| Firstly, under Jazz/Rock Fusion or Prog Folk, We need to add Joni Mitchell to our website. Further, based on “Songs from the Big Chair” and “Goodbye Yellowbrick Road,” Tears for Fears and Elton John are “prog related.” |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 04:47
^ another band called Quill.  Third one for me, there's a stoner rock band and then there's the ELP clone (which is still surprisingly good). |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 04:48
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Here's a comprehensive list of releases that might range somewhere between non-prog and prog: https://awesomeprog.com/releases?ps=related&pa=1&v=cover-matrix" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/releases?ps=related&pa=1&v=cover-matrix (according to AP voters and not filtered by ProgArchives listing or genre, limited to one release per artist) ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 04:55
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Off the top of my head I'd say 'The Original Soundtrack' and 'How Dare You' by 10cc are two excellent Art Rock albums with definite proggy elements. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 09:44
And then, Godley & Creme's first 3 albums (Consequences, L, and Freeze Frame) would also fall into the prog category, IMO... |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 10:23
"Swords and Knives" from Tears for Fears's The Seeds of Love album sounds like Trevor Rabin-era Yes! My pick for a "prog-ish" album by a non-prog band would be Circle of Love by the Steve Miller Band, with its bizarre side-long "everything but the kitchen sink" track, "Macho City". |
Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 14:21
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Queen - Queen II (Black Side), Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera ------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 14:23
I agree with The Tubes, Iron Maiden and the Police. I don't know the others. I haven't heard that particular Elbow but their first one was a bit proggy. I would say some albums by the Who, Led Zeppelin, Styx and Journey (not just the first three). Also Santana and Steely Dan. I can't think of many others off the top of my head but I know they are out there. Maybe the second Jane's Addiction album and Angel Dusted by Faith No More. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 14:30
The only progressive rock band to play at Woodstock although maybe calling them prog is a stretch. Maybe more like proto prog. |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 16:23
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The thing is most of the progish stuff is under prog-related or crossover prog, so if you leave that aside it's hard to find. You have stuff like Queen, Radiohead, Moody Blues, Iron Maiden, etc that qualifies. I think some Megadeth stuff like "Rust in Piece" would fit the bill. For some reason, Metallica is in the website but not Megadeth when they have the same style. Logical thing would be either both are or none is. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 08:03
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WIRE - 154 is a good candidate here XTC - has a few albums that fit the bill Depeche Mode - has quite a few songs that feel proggish ('fragile Tension' an example) The Stranglers - bounce in and out of proggish territory ('Dreamtime' 'Gospel') Willie Nelson - 'Red Headed Stranger' (Sounds far fetched but...) The Who - Tommy and quad ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 08:07
I had a look at your list and agree with most on it. Comprehensive for sure! ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 12:26
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I'd vote for Metallica's "Black" LP! I never cared for much of their earlier music, but this one hit a sweet spot! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 13:08
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Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla. I love Priest's first 3 albums and this one certainly has some prog tendencies. I just wish they had carried on in this vane instead of the later metal albums. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 15:20
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The last three Ghost releases are prog-adjacent in my opinion. Just barely, but still ... especially Prequelle is really well constructed. I don't think there is any intention on their part to be seen as "prog", but it emerges from the way Tobias writes the music. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 15:48
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The Police - Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity (complex suspended chords) The Fixx - Shuttered Room and Reach the Beach (complexity in sound) Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind, Powerslave, and Somewhere in Time (use of interesting scales and harmonies, concepts) A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls (complexity of guitar sound / synth blends) Barnabas - Approaching Light Speed and Feel the Fire (Rush and Van Halen influences) Donna Summer - I Remember Yesterday (Tangerine Dream connection?) Jefferson Starship - Spitfire (psychedelic) Descendants of Kraftwerk (Krautrock influences) Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (Films) Devo - Freedom of Choice (Gates of Steel) Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric’s (Situation, version with State Farm) Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth (version with Antarctica) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 17:19
| ^I agree with A Flock of Seagulls. In fact there's a track on that first album called "you can run" which has pretty much the same melody as the one in the Revealing Science of God by Yes. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 17:37
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For an artist name, Serge Gainbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (one of my very favourite albums that has the participation of Jean-Claude Vannier who is in PA) and Cannabis I put under the progressive umbrella. And I consider Donald Byrd's Electric Byrd to be JRF (suggested it to the JRF team many years ago). A lot of what I listen to not in PA could be considered to be Progish album by non-Prog bands, and actually I could say that of a lot of my favourites in PA (especially if one is a Prog purist -- depends on one's parameters). Quite lot of my favourites that are not stereotypically (I would say) Prog have been added in recent years. Nina Hagen Band's self-titles has Prog qualities. I think of Naturtrane as Prog. Air's 10 000 Hz Legend is one I would mention. Incidentally, the Prog/non-Prog dichotomy commonly does not work for me or my collection. It's more like a spectrum, and amorphous..., no clear boundaries. But some that one would not associate with Prog have tried Prog albums. Here's another artist name, William Sheller with Lux Aeterna. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 17:37
| I'm waiting for some wise guy to say something like "pretty much all neo-prog." ;) |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 17:50
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There's prog elements running through at least 2 Alice Cooper albums: Killer School's Out ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 18:23
| The first Foals album Antidotes has clear influences of prog and post rock. And I like it, so it fits here. Some elements also occur in their later work, but they have become few and far between. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 18:58
The album was a collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, with a lot of Moog synth lines courtesy of Moroder and Thor Baldursson. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 19:27
Excellent! I had read that the band composed "Halo of Flies" to show that they could be like King Crimson! One of my favorite tunes by the original band! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 19:56
Ooo … I’m going to check that out! |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 20:09
That’s interesting. I Feel Love has such a futuristic vibe to it and respect for Donna Summer on those sliding vocals. Tangerine Dream does a lot of these kinds of spacey hypnotic rhythms / patterns and it’s as though these disco cats seized on that and took it more mainstream. At some point we were roller skating to it. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 20:21
| I wouldn’t say the artists I mentioned are dabbling in Prog, but rather I think there are some connections (loose) to Prog. I’m not sure if that was the intent of the thread. I do find those artists interesting because they elevated their music in creative ways, and I think Prog had an influence in spicing things up, albeit tenuous in some cases. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 01:20
Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine has that vibe, more or less ("Skylab," for one). ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 01:54
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Posted By: jayjayl48
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 07:26
| Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and The Police - Synchronicity are both really good albums that I enjoy also. Seventh Son of A Seventh Son is one of Maidens most progressive albums. I also love the keyboards on the album. I know most metalheads have mixed opinions on that. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 10 2025 at 03:31
Most metalheads?! I would not generalize like that. The album is respected and beloved in the metal community. 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 11 2025 at 02:43
| ^ anyway it's guitar synths not keyboards. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 11 2025 at 05:22
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Freak Kitchen - Move They Might Be Giants - s/t The Bears - s/t |
Posted By: Themistocles
Date Posted: May 12 2025 at 21:47
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Dont know if it is ever mentioned in Prog circles but Wilco's Sky Blue Sky satisfies. Some of their other stuff when Tweedy is doing his blissed out santa thing rubs me the wrong way but Sky Blue Sky can do no wrong. ------------- Sjå, my first album in 25+ years is out now: https://jeffjahn.bandcamp.com/album/sj I am told its quite original |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 11:56
Glad to see a mention of The Tubes. They were a great band and my first live concert. Everything they did before they broke into the mainstream was brilliant. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 16:33
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Hi, I'm not comfortable mentioning a lot of things ... for me, many of them were expressive, strong, and did some far out things for a long time, and mentioning them ... is crazy. But there are a couple of really special groups/players for me ... Family/Streetwalkers/Chappo ... is very special. Trying to define this band as "progressive" may be a bit tougher, but Chappo's ability to carry a song, is too good, and it raises the level of the band quite a bit ... not to mention that the guitar work in all of these is truly special! The Edgar Broughton Band is really special, even though some folks only seem to know their one famous song for the open air concerts against the war, but the album that really took me away ... OORA ... really special. Though not considered "progressive" MAN deserved some appreciation, and at the end of it all, reading Deke Leonard's book (Man on the Road to Nowhere) ... is so sad, but you gotta give it to them ... they continued as much as possible. And there were, along the way, some neat things ... hearing Mickie yodel against a male choir is just superlative and amazing ... but we are too concerned with some "progressive" ideas, that prevent a player from doing something that is above and beyond everyone's abilities and touch ... that live version of C'MON is historical in my book. I thought Seventh Wave deserved more, and the first album is astounding and insane, if you have a strong sound system ... I doubt that you can get the effect on earphones, unless they are studio quality at the very least, which most of us won't have as they are not cheap! Robin Williamson/Incredible String Band, probably deserves a nice placement and a pat on the back .. he doesn't sit on his butt and not create something new, or find a new way to have fun with the lyrics and get a giggle from them by acting them out weirdly and funny ... but, we forget that Robin is nuts and funny ... and he show cased it on an interview with Guy Guden, that was fantastic and not only had history, but also some nifty surprises. Not many here seem to relate to the "poetry" being put to music (Jim Morrison did it!), and tried to make it work, but by the time we hear Earth Span, that is so progressive and neat, as to leave us ... scratching our heads ... that's folk? Yep, and then some, but not the way we think! It's about the artist and how he/she relates, and the work on this album makes it one my my top ten albums EVER if I ever made a list! I always thought of Roy Harper as "progressive", and really with it ... and he makes perfect sense, and his words are not crap, or the kind of stuff that ends up on radio as a hit, and is mediocre at best. The Groundhogs ... with the very special guitarist Toni McPhee ... Crosscut Saw is fabulous, and very strong and it loves being played LOUD ... on the best sound system you can find, and their next album, is just as important ... Black Diamond also fits, and by the time you play Live Right out loud ... you can tell half the "progressive" listings to take a flying dive into the ocean. You don't mix lyrics and sound, so beautifully like that ... and it's not a moment if let's believe ... it's real! A wonderful player and then some. Carmen. In three albums, a band from LA, showed us what Spain had not figured out could be done with a Spanish Guitar and music ... that was massively progressive, but sadly, probably too weird to be appreciated ... no progressive rock fan would pay to go watch a band that plays spanish guitar and is very adventurous and expressive! They will spend their money on some guy that is only going to buy another cape tomorrow, because his music is not a good or colorful as the cape is! There are many others, but I will leave it here for now ... as I said, if I started a list I'll probably strangle myself before being done ... there's way too much stuff that is far out ... and in my book, they are not the usual suspects and well known bands that had "hits" that got folk's attention ... those I left behind because there was better stuff out there ... and that's not saying that they were not good or great ... just that there are people out there around the world that also had the talent but will never get your ears ... a real shame in my book! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 22:56
I would love to have seen them play live so that must be a great memory. I actually enjoy the presumbaly mainstream record Remote Control a lot but after that I struggle to find anything by them I like. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: May 20 2025 at 04:47
Completely agree - Prequelle is a “proggish” masterpiece!😎 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: May 20 2025 at 04:48
And Welcome To My Nightmare….. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: ProgEnStock
Date Posted: May 25 2025 at 15:51
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I really recomend this fast-made organ-driven bleusy prog rock album : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfMXB6ywMs&list=PL2cSXRDnzx-114orCVSk_LfR48CWFL--k&ab_channel=QuebecRock It was done in one week I guess in the Oratoire Saint-Joseph, enormous church at the edge of Mont-Royal mountain and it hard rockin naturally with a fast-made symphonic prog approach. There is also a movie on this show. |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: June 05 2025 at 13:52
| Fleetwood Mac: TUSK |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: June 05 2025 at 15:42
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prog-ish albums by "non prog bands", that's literally my favourite genre some Alice In Chains and Jerry Cantrell's recent solo work Blur's side-project The Waeve recent era of Deftones A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step HIM - Venus Doom The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori mhori mei Soundgarden - Superunknown Grizzly Bear - Shields Jeff Buckley - Grace The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge The Cure - Disintegration, Wish, Bloodflowers Days Of The New - s/t In Solitude - Sister The Weeknd - Dawn FM Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind Thrice - Vheissu The Verve - Forth Zeal & Ardor - Greif etc etc
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