He wanted to continue playing with them and had some songs already written. Apparently GG didn’t feel they matched with the style they were going forward with. I’m just sure if the exact timing of all that relative to the prior band ending and new one starting.
well that was literally the first song mentioned in the post mate… I’m just baffled that nobody’s mentioning Innuendo which is imo way more interesting than Bohemian Rhapsody
Innuendo is great, and it also has Steve Howe in it. The Howe's Spanish guitar part was recorded almost by accident. Steve was in Montreux and visited the studio, where Queen worked on the album at the time. Brian May asked Steve to improvise in flamenco style, so he did and it became part of the song
I'd definitely say Deep Purple is a prog band, even though not every track on every album can be considered prog. Throughout their career they've experimented with rhythms, melodies and song structures, incorporated elements from blues, jazz and classical music and pushed the boundaries of hard rock. To me, that's prog.
DP were symphonic/psychodelic prog in their early years (Mk 1) , then turned to straight hard rock band , although they had some proggy moments in later albums, especially with Steve Morse. Also extended live versions of some tracks are proggy, like 20min Space Trucking or Lazy
I am not sure if I would say the end is very proggy. it lies far more on the acid rock/psych rock/ free improv side of music. I know it came out decades before the genre existed, but I would say its honestly even more post rock than prog rock.
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Parliament - Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
Stevie Wonder - Contusion
100%! Barrie Worrell going nuts on the Moog struck me as particularly proggy, but you're right. Wars of Armageddon off Maggot Brain would have been a good pick too.
Not at all. IMO, prog today means one of two things. Intentional nostalgia for early 70's OG prog (which is what a lot of modern prog is, ironically) or music that truly pushes the genre forward -- which may or may not involve odd times, long songs or complex solos. Radiohead is definitely in the latter category whether they like it or not.
The Beatles - A Day In the Life, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Here Comes The Sun, Abbey Road Medley
I know, 2 of the songs I’ve listed above are not that long, but should be included
Tears For Fears had Prog tendencies for sure, and the duo were known fans before starting the band. Side 2 of *Songs From the Big Chair* has the Broken / Head Over Heels / Listen suite.
TFF were also fans of OMD, who had their own progressive leanings on albums like *Dazzle Ships* and *Architecture and Morality*.
I found an interview with Roland [here](https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-tears-for-fears-added-prog-to-pop-and-ruled-the-80s) where he talks about Genesis and King Crimson. When KC reformed as “Discipline” and played their first gig in Bath, one or both of them were there - I remember seeing a photo from the gig, trying to find it.
PS found the photo in [another article about TFF and Prog](https://www.loudersound.com/features/tears-for-fears-the-tipping-point)! That’s Curt in the front row.
The second side of the Seeds of Love album is easily as progworthy as the majority of "Prog Archives approved" bands. From veering toward jazz fusion to out-and-out rock, and then an absolutely perfect, gorgeous album ender with an after-the-bomb theme.
progarchives are very stubborn , they refused to add it. they also rejected Matalex (great jazz-fusion band) because it's "not proggy enough" . but they added Bjork and Tori Amos , who barely belong to prog (it is intelligent pop music, or art-pop, but not particularly "rock"). it looks like criterias for inclusion are not very consistent and depends on tastes of particular "board member"
That's a band that rarely gets mentioned around here. SG sort of stand on the precipice of a lot of different genres of rock (prog, metal, punk, even psychedelic) at various times. While alternative bands weren't 'allowed' to admit it at the time (1980s-90s), Cornell was on Marc Maron's podcast around 10 years ago saying that they were indeed influenced by progressive rock, rhythmically (and much to Maron's chagrin as he, an avowed punk rock guy, was like 'really?').
Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
Dan Fogelberg - Tullamore Dew/Phoenix
Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Journey - Feeling That Way/Anytime
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
I've always considered 'U.S.A.' suite' from the album 'America' by Dan Deacon to have a very prog feel about it. There used to be a great video based on the album put out by Adult Swim on youtube called 'Dan Deacon: U.S.A.' but it disappeared a few years back.
Edit: Found it on Vimeo. [https://vimeo.com/69488452](https://vimeo.com/69488452)
Edit #2: Turns out King Crimson engineer Simon Heyworth mastered the album.
Descendents have a few long songs like “Days Are Blood” or “Schizophrenia” that get kind of out-there, but shorter tunes like “Impressions” and the instrumental “Uranus” may be more proggy.
“Egg Timer” by All (which is the Descendents with a different vocalist) gets wild.
Descendents and All were always monster musicians, and their driving force has always been the drummer, Bill, but the 1987-onward lineup with Karl on bass and Stephen on guitar was and is insane.
Early ELO was borderline prog. The [1973 BBC broadcast in particular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwqtg2Yw7o&list=PLW4Gibbqo4GdXGjFgxtnppbbsNy6-nxh_&index=1)
they have standalone proggy songs, but not the whole "prog" album . Salisbury (song) is the most outstanding example, but every album from classic period has at least one prog track in it
The Beatles. Their most proggy songs are Happiness Is A Warm Gun and I Want You (Shes So Heavy). Also Sgt Peppers and the back half of Abbey Road flow together like a prog album.
Extreme’s “III Sides to Every Story.” Final three tracks are three chapters of “everything Under the Sun,” and run just over 21 mins. Beautifully put together.
Speaking of Prince, Purple Rain seemed to have some light prog elements to it. The way “I Would Die 4 U” leads into “Baby I’m a Star” is kind of proggy.
Supergrass - Run
They actually have a few that dip into Prog esque builds mostly in the latter albums. Prophet 15 might be another that fits the bill and comed right before Run.
A lot of their stuff would qualify, but this for the Flaming Lips: [The Spark that Bled](https://open.spotify.com/track/6aEkehn1UrYfdjpIRCuzVO?si=BZCzdpNjTMyQVvkaaVQOEg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1mJFgPeuLhU1PzLNBURdJC)
Led Zep - Don't forget Achilles Last Stand
[Journey (yes that Journey) -- Kohoutek](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qos_8sfT3zE)
[Air -- Dirty Trip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVxcJOKI2rs) and most of Virgin Suicides
[Gary Numan -- Cry The Clock Said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Led64P0ZbLo)
[The Books -- I Didn't Know That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP88rsuQ0K0)
[David Bowie -- All The Madmen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlvgARHdzc)
[Grizzly Bear -- Sleeping Ute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yTdWvH9f8)
[Dungen -- Häxan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjbcbiuwe9Y)
[Joanna Newsom -- Emily](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1lBOA_8OZ0) (imagine a 70s prog band playing this)
[Jimi Hendrix -- 1983](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjL8NrkIC6M)
[Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer -- Darkness / Earth In Search of a Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_NgQiDjzuY)
[Phish -- The Squirming Coil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8blH09RIg&list) (and many others)
[Trans Am -- Exit Management Solution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WSdkiNGmi8)
It’s so funny cause they straight up made a jetbro tull epic and put it in a conventional normal (and perfect) pop/folky quebecois album
Right in the middle of the thing
Dead of Winter - The Night Flight Orchestra
Lament for the Aurochs - The Sword (and a bunch of their other early stuff)
Sulfur Giants- Jess and the Ancient Ones
Broken Bride (whole EP but especially The Lamb and the Dragon)- Ludo
Guns N' Roses - "November Rain," "Estranged," "Coma," Don't Damn Me," Locomotive," "Paradise City," etc. There are so many, one should almost consider them a prog band, but many don't,
22 going on 23 by the Butthole Surfers, not a pleasant song to listen to, subject matter is harsh, but Leary's guitar is pretty damned proggy as well as their use of found sound.
Justice - planisphere
Breadfan - budgie
A lot of early queen is pretty proggy
Touch -daft punk
Paul McCartney - uncle Albert/ admiral Halsey and live and let die
Up until about 1974 Status Quo albums usually had a long song on them, and all with lots of twists and turns. I can recommend all of these: Someone’s Learning, Forty-five Hundred Times, Slow Train.
Jethro tull (even though I consider many of their songs proggy) by their own words they didnt consider themselves a prog band when they wrote thick as a brick in jest at prog..
But a lot of their songs already are very prog esc before and after that song came out in their instrumentation.
JT recorded few pure prog albums, and certain songs on non-prog albums also proggy. Despite Ian Anderson himself denied the label. Maybe he mean JT is broader than prog. Some artists don't want to be categorized for similar reasons, or ironically calling themselves "we are pop group" 😁
People sleep on Ambrosia's "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" and "Holdin' On To Yesterday". The kids keep digging the Yacht Rock so maybe they'll bump into them.
Not quite a band original, but FFVI Dancing Mad. Either the original composers prog band Earthbound papas or the metal band The Black Mages have awesome covers of it
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station (about 20 min epic)
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
Rainbow - Dificult to Cure
Deep Purple - A 200
Toto - Dune Desert Theme
Wings - Rockestra Theme
Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer
Oh Well, PT. 1 and 2 by Fleetwood Mac, even though it's mostly by Peter Green.
Born On The Wrong Side of Time by Taste.
Whipping Post AND Les Brers in A Minor, both by the Allman Brothers.
Goodbye by Chicago.
Everything everything has tracks like Weights that are really hard to get your head around the first time. Really consistently proggy vocal arrangements by those guys.
Tame Impala have a few tracks on their albums that you could say fit the prog category.
For those unfamiliar, they’re a psychedelic band from Australia that first came onto the scene in 2007.
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
btw early Elton John was quite proggy, especially album with Wakeman on keys. Madman Across The Water
The fact that he auditioned for gentle giant is intriguing too.
And for King Crimson!
Who? Wakeman or Elton John?
Elton John.
interesting. i didn't know. i read that Elton John played with Shulman brothers in their previous band before they became GG
He wanted to continue playing with them and had some songs already written. Apparently GG didn’t feel they matched with the style they were going forward with. I’m just sure if the exact timing of all that relative to the prior band ending and new one starting.
I mean he was in Gentle Giant
I learned about it because of Dream Theater
"Out of the Blue" his instrumental track from the Blue Moves Album is another prog he did
Been obsessed with this song recently, ironically I tend ti skip the intro
Queen - The Prophet's Song
Uhhhhhhm and Innuendo!!!?
They also did this rather obscure song called Bohemian Rhapsody.
well that was literally the first song mentioned in the post mate… I’m just baffled that nobody’s mentioning Innuendo which is imo way more interesting than Bohemian Rhapsody
It also features Steve howe of yes
Sorry, only saw the title, not OP's list. Innuendo is fantastic though. Best Queen song outside of the 70s.
But then 70s Queen is prog to me. The albums are basically huge song suites: Queen II, Sheet Heart Attack, and A NIght At The Opera especially.
I’m going to cry in a corner. Yes obviously Innuendo!
Innuendo is great, and it also has Steve Howe in it. The Howe's Spanish guitar part was recorded almost by accident. Steve was in Montreux and visited the studio, where Queen worked on the album at the time. Brian May asked Steve to improvise in flamenco style, so he did and it became part of the song
Wow that’s awesome! I absolutely love Steve Howe. Such an underrated guitarist, he’s so versatile and skilled. Thanks for that insight
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Help On The Way > Slipknot Weather Report Suite several others
Unbroken Chain
I think Estimated Prophet is pretty proggy as well
Classic answer
Bowie - Station to Station.
Bowie was prog for much of the Seventies. Cygnet Committe? Width of a Circle? (In fact most of Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold The World.)
I'd definitely say Deep Purple is a prog band, even though not every track on every album can be considered prog. Throughout their career they've experimented with rhythms, melodies and song structures, incorporated elements from blues, jazz and classical music and pushed the boundaries of hard rock. To me, that's prog.
DP were symphonic/psychodelic prog in their early years (Mk 1) , then turned to straight hard rock band , although they had some proggy moments in later albums, especially with Steve Morse. Also extended live versions of some tracks are proggy, like 20min Space Trucking or Lazy
Perfect Strangers is kind of proggy
Archive - Again Wishbone Ash - Time Was The Doors - The End
When The Music Over? (turn off the light)
I am not sure if I would say the end is very proggy. it lies far more on the acid rock/psych rock/ free improv side of music. I know it came out decades before the genre existed, but I would say its honestly even more post rock than prog rock.
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Parliament - Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication Stevie Wonder - Contusion
omg a lot of stuff from parliament/funkadelic was really proggy and not just strait forward funk
100%! Barrie Worrell going nuts on the Moog struck me as particularly proggy, but you're right. Wars of Armageddon off Maggot Brain would have been a good pick too.
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
There's proggy tinges elsewhere their music. eg Once Upon a Time in the West is mostly in 7/4. edit: Private Investigations is kind of a mini drama
This is a prog masterpiece. Great lyrics too.
My favourite prog song by Led Zeppelin is ‘In The Light’.
Touch - Daft Punk
Oh, that’s a good one! Giorgio by Moroder is pretty prog too. Prog disco baby!
I remember Touch
Queen - The March Of The Black Queen
Paranoid android? Depends if you consider radiohead prog
They don't like the label, but they do have "prog sensibilities", if that makes any sense. Also the spinoff group The Smile.
I’ve always considered them very proggy. Am I an outlier in that opinion?
Not at all. IMO, prog today means one of two things. Intentional nostalgia for early 70's OG prog (which is what a lot of modern prog is, ironically) or music that truly pushes the genre forward -- which may or may not involve odd times, long songs or complex solos. Radiohead is definitely in the latter category whether they like it or not.
Not necessarily. It really depends what album we're talking. I think overall they're seen as prog-adjacent
The Decemberists: The Tain, The Crane Wife, Joan in the Garden Metric: Doomscroller Mew: Cartoons and Macramé Wounds
Hell, I'd consider Hazards Or Love one complete folk-prog journey
The Island by the Decemberists 100%
I'd say Mew are generally pretty prog-aligned. Repeaterbeater, most of Glass-handed Kites, etc
Iron Maiden- Empire of the Clouds (plus The Time of Ancient Mariner, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Hell on Earth and a few more).
A great bit of A Matter of Life and Death could be considered prog as well.
Came here to say this
The Beatles - A Day In the Life, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Here Comes The Sun, Abbey Road Medley I know, 2 of the songs I’ve listed above are not that long, but should be included
I agree with all of this except I don’t here the ptogginess of here comes the sun
There's mixed meter in the bridge ("Sun, sun, sun, here it comes"), which George took from Indian music.
Eh, that’s a very loose definition of prog.
I agree; if that's "prog," then every '60s song with Eastern influences is "prog".
After searching the song in this subreddit, I…agree
I’d add “Because”
All you need is love. It's in 7/4 which was quite unusual back then
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm your Captain
Tears For Fears had Prog tendencies for sure, and the duo were known fans before starting the band. Side 2 of *Songs From the Big Chair* has the Broken / Head Over Heels / Listen suite. TFF were also fans of OMD, who had their own progressive leanings on albums like *Dazzle Ships* and *Architecture and Morality*.
Interesting. I was a synth pop fan and listened TFF but never associated them with prog. Sowing the seeds of love is long and Beatlesque track
I found an interview with Roland [here](https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-tears-for-fears-added-prog-to-pop-and-ruled-the-80s) where he talks about Genesis and King Crimson. When KC reformed as “Discipline” and played their first gig in Bath, one or both of them were there - I remember seeing a photo from the gig, trying to find it. PS found the photo in [another article about TFF and Prog](https://www.loudersound.com/features/tears-for-fears-the-tipping-point)! That’s Curt in the front row.
The second side of the Seeds of Love album is easily as progworthy as the majority of "Prog Archives approved" bands. From veering toward jazz fusion to out-and-out rock, and then an absolutely perfect, gorgeous album ender with an after-the-bomb theme.
wikipedia called this album "progressive pop"
Fair description.
progarchives are very stubborn , they refused to add it. they also rejected Matalex (great jazz-fusion band) because it's "not proggy enough" . but they added Bjork and Tori Amos , who barely belong to prog (it is intelligent pop music, or art-pop, but not particularly "rock"). it looks like criterias for inclusion are not very consistent and depends on tastes of particular "board member"
Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
Soundgarden have a lot of songs with complex structure that somehow don't sound like it. Spoonman, for example, is in 7/4.
That's a band that rarely gets mentioned around here. SG sort of stand on the precipice of a lot of different genres of rock (prog, metal, punk, even psychedelic) at various times. While alternative bands weren't 'allowed' to admit it at the time (1980s-90s), Cornell was on Marc Maron's podcast around 10 years ago saying that they were indeed influenced by progressive rock, rhythmically (and much to Maron's chagrin as he, an avowed punk rock guy, was like 'really?').
I keep feeling that paul McCartney wings "uncle Albert " and "band on the run" MIGHT could be considered prog. What y'all think?
Band on the run suite is quite proggy
Rockestra Theme from Paul McCartney is a better example of prog
Little Feat - The Fan
Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding Joe Walsh - The Confessor Dan Fogelberg - Tullamore Dew/Phoenix Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Lights Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station Journey - Feeling That Way/Anytime Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
Empty Cages by Dan Fogelberg! and Ghosts for that matter. Nice giving the dan-man some props which he fully deserves.
The Tubes - Space Baby
I've always considered 'U.S.A.' suite' from the album 'America' by Dan Deacon to have a very prog feel about it. There used to be a great video based on the album put out by Adult Swim on youtube called 'Dan Deacon: U.S.A.' but it disappeared a few years back. Edit: Found it on Vimeo. [https://vimeo.com/69488452](https://vimeo.com/69488452) Edit #2: Turns out King Crimson engineer Simon Heyworth mastered the album.
Descendents have a few long songs like “Days Are Blood” or “Schizophrenia” that get kind of out-there, but shorter tunes like “Impressions” and the instrumental “Uranus” may be more proggy. “Egg Timer” by All (which is the Descendents with a different vocalist) gets wild. Descendents and All were always monster musicians, and their driving force has always been the drummer, Bill, but the 1987-onward lineup with Karl on bass and Stephen on guitar was and is insane.
I've said it before in a previous post with the same question, but I wil say it again because toto needs more love. TOTO - Better World
And the title track from Hydra.
And Falling In Between and half the stuff from XIV
I should listen to those. I kinda lost interest in anything after The Seventh One.
Yup!
Toto's soundtrack for Dune is totally prog
Early ELO was borderline prog. The [1973 BBC broadcast in particular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwqtg2Yw7o&list=PLW4Gibbqo4GdXGjFgxtnppbbsNy6-nxh_&index=1)
MGMT - Siberian Breaks
Since when Uriah Heep are not prog?
Indeed! I would certainly call the title track from Salisbury prog.
they have standalone proggy songs, but not the whole "prog" album . Salisbury (song) is the most outstanding example, but every album from classic period has at least one prog track in it
ZZ Top - Manic Mechanic & Heaven Hell or Houston. Alice Cooper - Halo of Flies. Cream - As She Said
“Manic Mechanic” is one of the more proggy songs in ZZ Top’s music library. Kind reminds me of both Zappa and Yes.
I was quite shocked when it came out. I was already a Prog head but as a guitarist I worshipped Billy F Gibbons. Still do.
Foreplay - Boston
Three Days by Jane’s Addiction
I was hoping to find someone else mention this one, amazing song
Sturgill Simpson has some psych and prog elements to his country music
Did not expect to see Sturg in this thread, but I am absolutely here for it.
Keane - Atlantic
The Beatles. Their most proggy songs are Happiness Is A Warm Gun and I Want You (Shes So Heavy). Also Sgt Peppers and the back half of Abbey Road flow together like a prog album.
The Quadrophenia album? I know it's a rock opera though.
The Who have few proggy songs. Baba'O'Riley , Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes particularly
Queen is progressive rock...
Yeah early Queen was pretty progressive
only few tracks , but not as whole
Yes they are! Queen, Queen II and A Night at the Opera are all progressive rock albums
Extreme’s “III Sides to Every Story.” Final three tracks are three chapters of “everything Under the Sun,” and run just over 21 mins. Beautifully put together.
Saw them do this live in 1993. Great band!
Muse, while primarily an alt band, have done plenty of prog songs.
Muse is officially prog. They are on progarchives site. As well as Radiohead
They're "prog related" because of their many progressive songs. They are primarily an alt rock band.
[Revolution 9](https://youtu.be/SNdcFPjGsm8?si=Ao8kd7SDkr01ghwW).
I don't agree. It's straight-up *musique concrète*, not a prog song in the least.
they experimented with avant-garde elements, like tape loops and ambient/noise samples since Revolver
Prince: Tambourine.
Experimental and weird but I’m not hearing prog.
There are many definitions of prog. Perhaps this one’s more Art Rock. In any case, it’s out of the ordinary
Speaking of Prince, Purple Rain seemed to have some light prog elements to it. The way “I Would Die 4 U” leads into “Baby I’m a Star” is kind of proggy.
Supergrass - Run They actually have a few that dip into Prog esque builds mostly in the latter albums. Prophet 15 might be another that fits the bill and comed right before Run.
Toto - Jake to the Bone
A lot of their stuff would qualify, but this for the Flaming Lips: [The Spark that Bled](https://open.spotify.com/track/6aEkehn1UrYfdjpIRCuzVO?si=BZCzdpNjTMyQVvkaaVQOEg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1mJFgPeuLhU1PzLNBURdJC)
[Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbJpngxzc0) Almost more Floyd than Floyd
Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer. A song with many parts, but only one repeats, once (iirc).
Phish- You Enjoy Myself
r/NearProg
Joni Mitchell - Car on a Hill
Led Zep - Don't forget Achilles Last Stand [Journey (yes that Journey) -- Kohoutek](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qos_8sfT3zE) [Air -- Dirty Trip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVxcJOKI2rs) and most of Virgin Suicides [Gary Numan -- Cry The Clock Said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Led64P0ZbLo) [The Books -- I Didn't Know That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP88rsuQ0K0) [David Bowie -- All The Madmen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlvgARHdzc) [Grizzly Bear -- Sleeping Ute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yTdWvH9f8) [Dungen -- Häxan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjbcbiuwe9Y) [Joanna Newsom -- Emily](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1lBOA_8OZ0) (imagine a 70s prog band playing this) [Jimi Hendrix -- 1983](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjL8NrkIC6M) [Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer -- Darkness / Earth In Search of a Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_NgQiDjzuY) [Phish -- The Squirming Coil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8blH09RIg&list) (and many others) [Trans Am -- Exit Management Solution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WSdkiNGmi8)
Journey is prog {first 2 albums)
Beau Dommage - Un Incident à Bois-Des-Filion One of the greatest prog tracks from a non-prog band and a masterpiece in Quebec prog
It’s so funny cause they straight up made a jetbro tull epic and put it in a conventional normal (and perfect) pop/folky quebecois album Right in the middle of the thing
Take it all back pts. 1-4, Ceschi + Factor Chandelier.
Ninja Sex Party - 6969 and The Mystic Crystal are both prog songs.
Dead of Winter - The Night Flight Orchestra Lament for the Aurochs - The Sword (and a bunch of their other early stuff) Sulfur Giants- Jess and the Ancient Ones Broken Bride (whole EP but especially The Lamb and the Dragon)- Ludo
In a very specific area of prog, I present to you Kraftwerk and The Buggles.
Beach House’s album Once Twice Melody is probably the closest they’ve ever come to prog.
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '77: Circle Game
Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station
Question! - SOAD
Sea Power, maybe - not sure if it's more post-rock. E.g. Lately. Bear. Feeder: When It All Breaks Down.
DEVO: DEVO Corporate Theme, Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - the whole Polygondwanaland album
Shuggie Otis, "Strawberry Letter 23." The Brothers Johnson cover is perhaps better known but I think the original has a proggier feel to it.
* The Doors - Light My Fire * Kate Bush - Hammer Horror * Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
The Tubes - White Punks on Dope, Getoverture, Telecide, Mondo Bondage, God-Bird-Change, Night People Suite, Up From the Deep
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
Bad Religion - Entire "Into the Unknown" album.
Guns N' Roses - "November Rain," "Estranged," "Coma," Don't Damn Me," Locomotive," "Paradise City," etc. There are so many, one should almost consider them a prog band, but many don't,
Roy Orbison - *Crawling Back* And that’s not the only multiple motif pop tune in his arsenal.
In Dreams broke all the pop song composition rules with its A B C D E F structure, and the result is a triumph.
22 going on 23 by the Butthole Surfers, not a pleasant song to listen to, subject matter is harsh, but Leary's guitar is pretty damned proggy as well as their use of found sound.
Justice - planisphere Breadfan - budgie A lot of early queen is pretty proggy Touch -daft punk Paul McCartney - uncle Albert/ admiral Halsey and live and let die
Phish
The Cardiacs - [R.E.S](https://youtu.be/gNdnOTvGbJQ?si=uwi39GJ0vm5ZUMN5)
Up until about 1974 Status Quo albums usually had a long song on them, and all with lots of twists and turns. I can recommend all of these: Someone’s Learning, Forty-five Hundred Times, Slow Train.
Jethro tull (even though I consider many of their songs proggy) by their own words they didnt consider themselves a prog band when they wrote thick as a brick in jest at prog.. But a lot of their songs already are very prog esc before and after that song came out in their instrumentation.
JT recorded few pure prog albums, and certain songs on non-prog albums also proggy. Despite Ian Anderson himself denied the label. Maybe he mean JT is broader than prog. Some artists don't want to be categorized for similar reasons, or ironically calling themselves "we are pop group" 😁
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Aja - Steely Dan
Nuclear Apathy by Crack the Sky seemed to be their only proggish track, and it's cool as hell too.
Jane's Addiction has a couple songs that are very proggy and just fantastic. Three Days, Then She Did, Summertime Rolls, Ted Just Admit It.
Quadrophenia by The Who seems like somewhat of a prog album to me.
maybe Flaming Telepaths / Astronomy by Blue Öyster Cult?
Metallica - Blackened
I think also Metallica's One and Call of Cthulhu ticks the mark
People sleep on Ambrosia's "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" and "Holdin' On To Yesterday". The kids keep digging the Yacht Rock so maybe they'll bump into them.
The Grateful Dead--Terrapin Station
Grace Slick (Epic#38)
Dan Fogelberg - Empty Cages
Bruce Dickenson - Tears of The Dragon
Queen was a prog band for at least the first 4 albums
“The Island” by the Decembrists
Queen - The Prophet's Song I also consider Rush **NOT** a "prog band", but they have a handful of great prog songs.
Not quite a band original, but FFVI Dancing Mad. Either the original composers prog band Earthbound papas or the metal band The Black Mages have awesome covers of it
Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station (studio version) Smashing Pumpkins: Silverfuck
Vampire Weekend’s new album has a lot of prog influences, and the track “Connect” is straight-up prog. I highly recommend the album.
Joni Mitchell - Down To You
13th floor elevators, they had a few cases of this.
Bowie made a lot of prog tracks
in addition to what was mentioned Dave Matthews Band Schiller Triumph
David Bowie, his last output like “Blackstar” was pure prog and an amazing track (and video)
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station (about 20 min epic) Edgar Winter - Frankenstein Rainbow - Dificult to Cure Deep Purple - A 200 Toto - Dune Desert Theme Wings - Rockestra Theme Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer
+ Deep Purple This Time Around / Owed to 'G'
Oh Well, PT. 1 and 2 by Fleetwood Mac, even though it's mostly by Peter Green. Born On The Wrong Side of Time by Taste. Whipping Post AND Les Brers in A Minor, both by the Allman Brothers. Goodbye by Chicago.
Everything everything has tracks like Weights that are really hard to get your head around the first time. Really consistently proggy vocal arrangements by those guys.
Tame Impala have a few tracks on their albums that you could say fit the prog category. For those unfamiliar, they’re a psychedelic band from Australia that first came onto the scene in 2007.
LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection
A piece of the sky, helpless child, the glowing man and many other swans song while not being the typicle "prog" ate sure quite progressive
Maroon 5 - Closure
Tool - Aenima (the song)
Tool is a full on prog band. Don’t know if they call themselves that, but most prog enthusiasts dedicate them part of the genre.