I don't listen to non-prog rock bands any longer, so this list will have to be from my pre-prog days.
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Uriah Heep
Grand Funk
Cream
I don't listen to non-prog rock bands any longer, so this list will have to be from my pre-prog days.
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Uriah Heep
Grand Funk
Cream
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
The Beatles
The Free Design
The Steely Dan
The Prefab Sprout
The Earth Wind & Fire
The The TheOriginally Posted by Luckie
In no order:
Max Webster
Traffic
Bebop Deluxe
The Stranglers
Stephen Fearing (Canadian singer-songwriter).
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
I'm a fan of those three
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
two more real good bands right there
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
They Might Be Giants
The Who
Phish
Talking Heads
R.E.M.
In no particular order:
Phish
U2
Steely Dan
Dire Straits
Led Zeppelin
I guess... I didn't read the other thread, so hope none of these are ineligible for this one.
So many others, hard to limit to five.
Not sure if this is "non prog", but stuff I adore outside of the norm discussed here:
The Baltimore Consort (my all-time favorite early music ensemble)
Philip Pickett and the New London Consort (my second favorite early music ensemble)
Tom Waits (although he is more progressive than some stuff discussed here)
The Beatles (I guess folks consider them "non prog" so here they are)
Planxty (The greatest Irish group regardless of genre IMO)
The Police
Led Zeppelin
Devo
The Beatles
Hendrix
Bee Gees
Tears For Fears
Nazareth (hair of the dog)
enough for now...
Very difficult question, and could change depending on the day, but off the top of my head I will go with:
The Who
Blue Oyster Cult
Alice Cooper
Manic Street Preachers
Joe Bonamassa
CSNY
XTC
Laura Nyro
Joni Mitchell
Simon and Garfunkel
Not sure what the 'The's' are about, but that is almost my 2nd list of top five, at least four of them anyway.
It's partly because I'm annoying, but I'm also emphasizing that I'm obeying the thread title to the letter. I mean Laura Nyro is my second fave musical artist (see my avatar), and Nick Drake's up there too, but a band is a band.
While she may not be my second fave, she is most definitely waaaay up there for me as well.
It's partly because I'm annoying, but I'm also emphasizing that I'm obeying the thread title to the letter. I mean Laura Nyro is my second fave musical artist (see my avatar), and Nick Drake's up there too, but a band is a band.
Absolutely unique gifts as both a writer and a singer. Italian soul at its very best. Some of the lesser known songs on her debut album, "He's A Runner" and "Buy And Sell" for instance, are chill-inducing for this old man every time I hear them to this day (so glad I was still in NYC until 1970 & got to see her twice).
Luckie pressed my Laura Nyro button, so blame him!
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
The Beatles
Steely Dan
Phish
Led Zep
U2
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
In no particular order
Zep
Heart
Grateful Dead
Pat Metheny Group
Phish (up through Billy Breathes)
No love for the Allman Brothers? - Definitely my first.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Bob
I did not include them, but they would rank right up there for me.
Wow, I envy you beyond words. I was re-reading Ian MacDonald's* superbly insightful essay about her just last week. She was an exceptional star.
* he wrote Revolution In The Head about The Beatles, as you probably know. I came very close to pasting it here, but managed to restrain myself.
^^
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Beatles
Steely Dan
Beck (Devil's Haircut, not Beck's Bolero)
Primus
The Police
Trying to limit the answer to bands that are Not Prog at all
No particular order
Steely Dan
The Rain Parade
They Might be Giants
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Police
Dire Straits, Devo, REM, U2 get an honorable mention
The English supergroups (The Who, The Beatles, Jimi, Cream etc) of the 60s are disqualified in as almost all of them were progressive with a small p or hugely influential to the canonical Prog bands.
Traffic is prog on its own
I don't love the Stones enough to include them in any case
XTC, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, are more or less New Wave Prog.
The best of southern Rockers (Allman Bros, ZZ Top) and the Jam Bands are disqualified by virtue of all that soloing. But if you said they COULD NOT be Prog (or Jazzlike) they would be competitive
Now back to Hockey. GO HAWKS!
regards
KGH
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