Best of Prog Rock...
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Charmless Man
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Most songs change over time. My, Anaconda, and don’t are all different words.
fyl2u
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The bands themselves, I agree, are not generally considered prog rock bands. Those tracks I posted are prog rock tracks though.
Thackeray
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No they're not. Because Gillan screams a bit it's a prog track?
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I'd call Child In Time a rock ballad, great track mind.
Thackeray
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There's a band from Newcastle called Kylver doing the rounds at the minute, also worth checking out. Fair bit on YouTube.
Not sure whether they're Prog but, 'Can'
fyl2u
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Yes, but it's the degree to which they change over time that's the deciding issue. If a song is just "verse bridge chorus verse bridge chorus middle8 chorus end" with little or no change in style, tempo, key or emotion then it's what they call "pop structure" and is not a prog track. Most popular vocal music of the last 60 years fits that sort of structure (with minor variations in number of verses and choruses, additional instrumental breaks, dropping the bridges completely in some cases). The idea of prog is that it breaks that mould to explore different ideas throughout the song, often with long instrumental sections that go a long way away from the original verse/chorus ideas (like that Deep Purple track).
It uses classical composition techniques with rock instruments and sounds.
See above.
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zwartekat
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Since no-one seems able to agree on what Prog Rock is I think the mods should delete this thread.Fuck the haters.
Following the "Worst Prog Band" thread, I felt we needed a thread to showcase some of the best of Prog Rock.
(I'd say Prog Metal is also admissible, so feel free to chuck in your favourite Dream Theater or Symphony X tracks too. Post Rock, Math Rock and Mathcore all count too. As long as it's a rock subgenre and proggy, get it posted.).
So many great bands, so many great songs, so many different takes on the Prog Rock idea, it's hard to settle on three songs to start the thread off with.
I reckon let's start fairly commercial and well-known, and I'll get "deeper" later in the thread (if it goes well
Oh, and @fyl2u, I reckon most Prog bands had a decent song. It was nearly always the one that sounded most like a pop song. You need to get over this idea of equating musical 'cleverness' with being good. It doesn't work like that.
Teed
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I wouldn't class Purple or Kansas as prog, just rock and Meatball is just shite.Fuck the haters.
Following the "Worst Prog Band" thread, I felt we needed a thread to showcase some of the best of Prog Rock.
(I'd say Prog Metal is also admissible, so feel free to chuck in your favourite Dream Theater or Symphony X tracks too. Post Rock, Math Rock and Mathcore all count too. As long as it's a rock subgenre and proggy, get it posted.).
So many great bands, so many great songs, so many different takes on the Prog Rock idea, it's hard to settle on three songs to start the thread off with.
I reckon let's start fairly commercial and well-known, and I'll get "deeper" later in the thread (if it goes well
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
fyl2u
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Give owwer, man.
It certainly doesn't work in reverse - musical 'lack of cleverness' equating to it being good.
There are all sorts of reasons people might have for liking music. Some of my favourite music is written and performed by incredibly clever musicians and composers. Not all of it by any stretch of the imagination, though.
There are also different types of "clever" when it comes to music. Sometimes it's clever to be simplistic for example. Sometimes a nice groove that might sound pretty simple at first listen could actually be pretty difficult to perform for a less than "clever" musician.
We're straying wildly from the point of the thread though.
zwartekat
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fyl2u
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Purple were certainly "just rock" usually. They did write the occasional progressive track though.
Kansas were totally prog. Check this out, from the same album as Carry On Wayward Son...
That was the point
Aha! Meta humour!
I love it.The thread itself is progressive!
fyl2u
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Well, we've already had the ageing punks in, trying to make it 2 minutes long, full of anger, contempt and people spitting on each other.
zwartekat
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There is a drum solo in the middle of it when you can go for a crafty tab.
Harry Angstrom
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None of those are prog imho.Fuck the haters.
Following the "Worst Prog Band" thread, I felt we needed a thread to showcase some of the best of Prog Rock.
(I'd say Prog Metal is also admissible, so feel free to chuck in your favourite Dream Theater or Symphony X tracks too. Post Rock, Math Rock and Mathcore all count too. As long as it's a rock subgenre and proggy, get it posted.).
So many great bands, so many great songs, so many different takes on the Prog Rock idea, it's hard to settle on three songs to start the thread off with.
I reckon let's start fairly commercial and well-known, and I'll get "deeper" later in the thread (if it goes well
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
I love that song. Music at its best imho.
zwartekat
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We've already established that, man, Grandad. Try and have some positive input for a change.
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