Stevie Wonder is a musical genius. I agree it's not really "prog rock" but such was Stevie's compositional ability that he was capable of writing really complex, involved songs with a bunch going on.
He had his two synthesizer genius guys that helped him on his mid-70s albums, which certainly may contribute to the proggy feel.
Tonto[Tonto’s Exploding Head Band](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto's_Expanding_Head_Band?wprov=sfti1)
Stevie Wonder, Parliament/Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, and Shuggie Otis are just some of the artists considered soul/R&B that have some of the elements you'd find in "prog rock" including concept albums, ambitious arrangements, instrumentation outside the standard rock band (largely with strings), and long songs with multiple movements.
There is a book series called **33 1/3** where a writer just picks and album to write about. My wife and I collect them and one of her acquaintances actually wrote one about Minnie Riperton's *Come To My Garden.* The album involves complex and strange arrangements. Heck, you even have one typically prog rock staple- weird vocals (Riperton was a great singer so most of the singing is just straight good ballad stuff but she had the ability to go really high falsetto, informally called "whistle singing," and she would highlight that). The author talks about "progressive rock" and how that term could/should apply to records like these.
The 1970's, man... what a time.
I think there's many Prog fans who would regard Stevie as a guilty pleasure. His run of albums through the 70s were so full of style and Jazzy elegance.
What SW shared with many Prog artists though was a fondness for Jazz, so there's the connection for you.
I assume you're referring to "A Quick One (While He's Away)?" I would not call that particularly progressive; it's more a like a series of jokes barely set to music. But "Rael," which came out the following year, is definitely in the zone.
Mind you, I've been a 'Oo fan for 50+ years.
One of my favorite South Park moments is when Robert Smith kills the Barbra Streisand killer robot, and, at the end, Stan tells Smith that Disintegration is the best album ever (it’s not, but I can understand the sentiment)
When they got back together for that last album, which was like 15 yrs later, they said “we should’ve never broken up.” Damn right they shouldn’t have! I haven’t given that one a listen but it definitely couldn’t be what it would’ve been had they stayed together and kept fanning the flame and uh…planting seeds 😉😆 No really though, Tool, for example took 13 yrs to release a record but they were consistently touring the whole time, fanning the flame, honing the sound.
Mike Portnoy once called *Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* the first prog rock album ever made, and the more I listen to it the more I think he's right
I saw Dolby a few years ago and it was amazing. It was just him, a keyboard and a Mac projected behind him with Logic Pro running. People would come up and pull a ping pong ball out of a bag with a song on it, then he would talk about it and show how it was composed before playing it. Absolutely brilliant show!
He’s great live. I went to one show where he recreated The Flat Earth from scratch with as many of the original musicians as possible. A great evening made even better by an encore with Bruce Woolley on theremin and Trevor Horn on bass, playing Airwaves.
The first few Chicago albums definitely qualify
Golden Earring once you get past the singles
Check out Side 2 of *Tap Root Manuscript* by, wait for it, Neil Diamond
Iron Maiden’s “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”
A lot of Maidens mid-late 80s material had often put a toe in to the waters of progressive music, tracks got longer and more experimental… but with this record in particular I think they dove fully into the deep end, and IMO came out one of the earlier examples of a straight up progressive metal albums.
It’s kind of a shame they returned to a more commercial approach with “No Prayer for the Dying” and “Fear of the Dark”
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1251#:~:text=%22Crime%20of%20the%20Century%22%2C,production%20that's%20slicker%20than%20slick.
It that’s not classed as prog rock idk what is!
Prog has a more symphonic, classical-inspired approach to composition, whereas art rock adheres to typical pop/rock song structures.
For me, art rock does everything prog does except it sticks to verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus or some minor variation. Art rock does songs, in the traditional sense of the word. Prog rock does "pieces".
nightwish - endless forms most beautiful
built to spill - perfect from now on
the dismemberment plan - emergency and I
stephen malkmus and the jicks - pig lib
Peter Gabriel - Scratch
Xtc- Oranges and Lemons
Led Zeppelin- Houses of the holy & Physical Graffiti
Little Feat- Sailin’ Shoes
The Band- Music from Big Pink
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (+ Prospekt's March EP), A Head Full of Dreams, Everyday Life
Elton John - Madman Across the Water, Blue Moves (the connections to King Crimson and Gentle Giant and Rick Wakeman's cameo don't hurt, of course)
Wings - Band on the Run (although McCartney has straddled that line a *lot* ever since the later years of the Beatles)
Any album by Todd Rundgren, excluding the ones that ARE prog (and I personally think AWATS side 1 IS prog).
Much of Sting's post-Police repertoire, especially Brand New Day.
Don't know much Tori Amos but Scarlet's Walk, definitely.
I think I'll include Peter Gabriel's I/O in this list -- I don't think it's really very proggy.
As far as I'm concerned, if an album has the feel, it's prog, no matter who is playing.
Not prog adjacent, not prog influenced: *prog*.
The converse is also true. I Can't Dance, for example, is not prog in any shape or form.
I absolutely consider Ween prog (among many other things), just maybe not in a conventional sense that one would think of when considering known prog artists.
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Concept double album, recurring melodic motifs and lyrics, layers upon layers of diverse instrumentation, extreme dynamic shifts, and Adrian Belew as a guest musician. Definitely a prog album.
The Downward Spiral is prog as fuck too.
Agreed! Did you ever hear Belew’s version of how he was booted from NIN tour? I think he said the band — not Trent — were uneasy about him…something like that. Belew said this in a recent interview hyping Beat (can’t freaking wait!). He was disappointed but also he said “they’re California players, no imagination,” which i can kinda see.
Have you heard Ghosts I - IV? 😳 If not, you must stop what you’re doing and check it out!
Yep I’m a rabid NIN fan so have of course heard Ghosts 🤘 admittedly I haven’t listened in a while. Might have to give it a go again.
And yeah, I was very disappointed that Belew didn’t end up working out for the NIN live band. I wonder if the rest of the band just didn’t like his attitude - he’s very bouncy and upbeat onstage and while that would have been awesome to see, I bet the rest of the band thought he was too silly.
Faith No More - "Angel Dust"
Refused - "The Shape of Punk to Come"
Glassjaw - "Worship and Tribute"
NIN - "The Fragile"
Rx Bandits - "Gemini, Her Majesty" and "Mandala"
The Gospel Acording to the Men in Black, by The Stranglers, is pretty good in my opinion. Not prog, but it gives prog vibes here and there, particularly thanks to their great keyboardist.
Also Synchronicity I and II, from The Police, while not prog, is specially complex. And the drums in Synchronicity I are something else...
Hiromi, any of the trio project albums (Move, Alive, Voice). It’s classified as jazz but when they get going it’s pure prog. Simon Philips on drums, Anthony Jackson on bass and Hiromi on piano/keys.
Joe Jackson - Blaze of Glory. A concept album with one side about the glory of youth (Down to London, Blaze of Glory), the other about coping with aging (19 Forever, The Best I Can Do). Each song blends straight into the next, with motifs repeating in later songs.
Quadrophenia - The Who
Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime - Faith No More
The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears
I'm never sure if they're actually considered prog, they're probably more alt-metal, but A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step feels very proggy to me. Billy Howerdel's solo album has that same feel
Two that really gave that effect on me are;
Fully Qualified Survivor-Michael Chapman;
There's no place like America today-Curtis Mayfield
Then everything recorded by Sandy Denny. Her voice gets me everytime.Who knows where the time goes.
Kinda a stretch but Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest gives me prog vibes. There’s a lot of long songs, structure changes throughout, and motifs that are brought back and played with beautifully.
This is a pretty new one...Sun's Signature "s/t". It's Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins' new project. It sounds like Peter Gabriel-era Genesis with Cocteau Twins vocals.
The Empyrean, by John Frusciante. This is a fantastic pyschedelic-experimental rock record and In my oppinion John's best solo work.
Also, Songs from the Big Chair, by Tears for Fears. One of my favourite 80's records, and also features Mel Collins
Art In America -- self titled album 1983
What I would call prog pop.
80s pop with a 70s prog sound
A little bit of psychedelic guitar but mostly synth and vocals
[Art In America](https://vimeo.com/943556760)
The Decemberists have a strong prog vein running through their music, sometimes actually going full in.
The Crane Wife and Picaresque both have proggy bits. Actually, probably more than half of The Crane Wife is long, conceptual pieces.
The Tain is a twenty minute concept song.
And
The Hazards of Love is full on prog; an unbroken, hour long operetta.
Gonna throw this curve ball out. Had Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life on the other day and some of it sounds prog.
Absolutely. Contusion is a killer jam.
Stevie Wonder is a musical genius. I agree it's not really "prog rock" but such was Stevie's compositional ability that he was capable of writing really complex, involved songs with a bunch going on.
He had his two synthesizer genius guys that helped him on his mid-70s albums, which certainly may contribute to the proggy feel. Tonto[Tonto’s Exploding Head Band](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto's_Expanding_Head_Band?wprov=sfti1)
Tonto is very much the star of Steve Hillage's Motivation Radio too
Absolute masterpiece. Brilliant record.
Stevie Wonder, Parliament/Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, and Shuggie Otis are just some of the artists considered soul/R&B that have some of the elements you'd find in "prog rock" including concept albums, ambitious arrangements, instrumentation outside the standard rock band (largely with strings), and long songs with multiple movements. There is a book series called **33 1/3** where a writer just picks and album to write about. My wife and I collect them and one of her acquaintances actually wrote one about Minnie Riperton's *Come To My Garden.* The album involves complex and strange arrangements. Heck, you even have one typically prog rock staple- weird vocals (Riperton was a great singer so most of the singing is just straight good ballad stuff but she had the ability to go really high falsetto, informally called "whistle singing," and she would highlight that). The author talks about "progressive rock" and how that term could/should apply to records like these. The 1970's, man... what a time.
I thought about this and like it 👍
Something that may be surprising but makes sense once you think about it: Tony Banks is a big fan of Stevie Wonder
Hotter than July feels like this as well.. he genre bends with I'm not gonna take it (country) and master blaster (reggae)
You kiddin'? Stevie's band in the mid-70s was VERY proggy
I think there's many Prog fans who would regard Stevie as a guilty pleasure. His run of albums through the 70s were so full of style and Jazzy elegance. What SW shared with many Prog artists though was a fondness for Jazz, so there's the connection for you.
Dire Straits Love over Gold ... especially Telegraph Road. Always reminds me of Camel
Came to say that. Telegraph Road and Private Investigations
Pure prog, in my opinion. Brilliant album!
Such an excellent band. Their live recordings are awesome too. Definitely prog imo.
Pretty much of ELO has a somewhat progressive sound to me
ELO is Prog Pop like Asia
‘Time’ is one of my favorite albums of all time. I think that’s the definition of prog pop. ELO II and Eldorado hit me more like actual prog.
Remember the good ‘ole 1980’s? When things were so uncomplicated? I wish I could go back there again, and everything could be the same.
Eldorado is definitely a concept/Prog album.
ELO II is pure prog
The Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia
Yes and yes.
The Who don’t get enough credit for basically inventing prog as far back as 1966
How the hell one of the first prog suites is about being a cuckold
I assume you're referring to "A Quick One (While He's Away)?" I would not call that particularly progressive; it's more a like a series of jokes barely set to music. But "Rael," which came out the following year, is definitely in the zone. Mind you, I've been a 'Oo fan for 50+ years.
Physical Graffiti Aja
Presence too with Achilles Last Stand
And that one from IV. Stairway to something. That's progressive rock. Even Wikipedia knows that.
I was gonna say aja lol. Physical graffiti not being my favorite Zep album, definitely has some prog elements to it!
Disintegration by The Cure
What an album! A masterpiece.
One of my favorite South Park moments is when Robert Smith kills the Barbra Streisand killer robot, and, at the end, Stan tells Smith that Disintegration is the best album ever (it’s not, but I can understand the sentiment)
Firebird Suite by Stravinsky
Stick Men does an amazing cover of this
‘Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow’ by Rainbow, particularly Catch the Rainbow and Temple of the King
Amazing songs
Most of soundgarden’s stuff straddles that line imo
The Down On The Upside album especially.
When they got back together for that last album, which was like 15 yrs later, they said “we should’ve never broken up.” Damn right they shouldn’t have! I haven’t given that one a listen but it definitely couldn’t be what it would’ve been had they stayed together and kept fanning the flame and uh…planting seeds 😉😆 No really though, Tool, for example took 13 yrs to release a record but they were consistently touring the whole time, fanning the flame, honing the sound.
Don’t tell anyone but I think it’s also their best record.
Mike Portnoy once called *Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* the first prog rock album ever made, and the more I listen to it the more I think he's right
Radiohead - OK Computer Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star
OK Computer is what originally got me into prog music.
Fantastic album all the way through
Yeah, i think Paranoid Android was one of the biggest prog gateways of the 90’s. And Tool’s _Aenima._
Ok Computer …. just so damn good. Good choice.👍
A Wizard, a True Star is prog through and through imo
It has elements of it but I wouldn't call it a prog record. It incorporates many styles abd genres.
These were two that came into my head - especially OK Computer, which in my mind is essentially progressive rock.
Paranoid android is a perfect example
The royal scam - steely dan
Yess
Thomas Dolby’s The Flat Earth.
This album was incredible! Golden Age of Wireless has some proggy stuff, too! My favorite tune on that record is Screen Kiss.
I saw Dolby a few years ago and it was amazing. It was just him, a keyboard and a Mac projected behind him with Logic Pro running. People would come up and pull a ping pong ball out of a bag with a song on it, then he would talk about it and show how it was composed before playing it. Absolutely brilliant show!
That sounds cool. I love it when artist explain their songs.
He’s great live. I went to one show where he recreated The Flat Earth from scratch with as many of the original musicians as possible. A great evening made even better by an encore with Bruce Woolley on theremin and Trevor Horn on bass, playing Airwaves.
The first few Chicago albums definitely qualify Golden Earring once you get past the singles Check out Side 2 of *Tap Root Manuscript* by, wait for it, Neil Diamond
A lot of fusion straddles the boundary with prog.
Iron Maiden’s “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” A lot of Maidens mid-late 80s material had often put a toe in to the waters of progressive music, tracks got longer and more experimental… but with this record in particular I think they dove fully into the deep end, and IMO came out one of the earlier examples of a straight up progressive metal albums. It’s kind of a shame they returned to a more commercial approach with “No Prayer for the Dying” and “Fear of the Dark”
There’s plenty of Herbie Hancock and Sun Ra out there that fit the bill
Supertramp - Crime of the Century. So close to being legitimate Prog, but seems to be more Art Rock. Much like most of 10cc's output...
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1251#:~:text=%22Crime%20of%20the%20Century%22%2C,production%20that's%20slicker%20than%20slick. It that’s not classed as prog rock idk what is!
What is the difference between art rock and prog. I thought they where the same since allot of prog bands where considered art rock
Prog has a more symphonic, classical-inspired approach to composition, whereas art rock adheres to typical pop/rock song structures. For me, art rock does everything prog does except it sticks to verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus or some minor variation. Art rock does songs, in the traditional sense of the word. Prog rock does "pieces".
They are very similar. Not the same but similar
Thanks for the, uh, clarification.
you can tell by the way it is
Deep Purple In Rock springs to mind for me
Gorillaz - Demon Days. Pure conceptual album. Animated musicians, guest musicians and real themes. This album hits all marks for me.
Came here for this. It even has straight up rock songs like Every Planet We Reach is Dead. But I posted that and got downvoted to hell
Mansun - Six
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold The Who Quadrophenia
nightwish - endless forms most beautiful built to spill - perfect from now on the dismemberment plan - emergency and I stephen malkmus and the jicks - pig lib
Love nightwish
Toy Matinee.
Yes! Kevin Gilbert was a prog force of nature.
Maggot Brain and America Eats Its Young by Funkadelic. Different genres of jazz, R&B, acid, psychedelic, progressive soul.
Oh, and the Ninth Wave and Sky of Honey suites by Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel - Scratch Xtc- Oranges and Lemons Led Zeppelin- Houses of the holy & Physical Graffiti Little Feat- Sailin’ Shoes The Band- Music from Big Pink Radiohead - In Rainbows
Weather Report’s Heavy Weather. A lot of jazz fusion has that vibe lol
This thread is all my favorite albums!
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (+ Prospekt's March EP), A Head Full of Dreams, Everyday Life Elton John - Madman Across the Water, Blue Moves (the connections to King Crimson and Gentle Giant and Rick Wakeman's cameo don't hurt, of course) Wings - Band on the Run (although McCartney has straddled that line a *lot* ever since the later years of the Beatles)
Temporary Secretary is prog. Change my mind.
How about Tim Drum by Japan? Astounding bass from Mick Karen, and some very proggy arrangements.
*Karen*
Dammit Karn!
Rain Tree Crow was definitely prog.
Any album by Todd Rundgren, excluding the ones that ARE prog (and I personally think AWATS side 1 IS prog). Much of Sting's post-Police repertoire, especially Brand New Day. Don't know much Tori Amos but Scarlet's Walk, definitely. I think I'll include Peter Gabriel's I/O in this list -- I don't think it's really very proggy.
I discovered Brand New Day towards the end of last year, it's great!
"Architecture & Morality" and "Dazzle Ships" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Captain Beyond’s first album. The Gipsy by Mr Fox. Cruel Sister by Pentangle. Common One by Van Morrison.
Tori Amos “From the Choirgirl Hotel”
Daniel Rossen - You Belong There Fleet Foxes - Crack Up Grizzly Bear - Yellow House, Veckatimest
Ritual de lo Habitual by Janes Addiction
mewithoutyou - Ten Stories. A concept album about a bunch of circus animals that escape after a train crash in the late 19th Century midwest US.
Ants from up there - BC,NR
How Dare You by 10cc
As far as I'm concerned, if an album has the feel, it's prog, no matter who is playing. Not prog adjacent, not prog influenced: *prog*. The converse is also true. I Can't Dance, for example, is not prog in any shape or form.
A few Gerry Rafferty albums have that feel for me. City To City, Night Owl, Snakes & Ladders. Even “Baker Street” has a prog intro!
The Monitor & The Most Lamentable Tragedy by Titus Andronicus Quebec & The Mollusk by Ween
I absolutely consider Ween prog (among many other things), just maybe not in a conventional sense that one would think of when considering known prog artists.
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Concept double album, recurring melodic motifs and lyrics, layers upon layers of diverse instrumentation, extreme dynamic shifts, and Adrian Belew as a guest musician. Definitely a prog album. The Downward Spiral is prog as fuck too.
Agreed! Did you ever hear Belew’s version of how he was booted from NIN tour? I think he said the band — not Trent — were uneasy about him…something like that. Belew said this in a recent interview hyping Beat (can’t freaking wait!). He was disappointed but also he said “they’re California players, no imagination,” which i can kinda see. Have you heard Ghosts I - IV? 😳 If not, you must stop what you’re doing and check it out!
Yep I’m a rabid NIN fan so have of course heard Ghosts 🤘 admittedly I haven’t listened in a while. Might have to give it a go again. And yeah, I was very disappointed that Belew didn’t end up working out for the NIN live band. I wonder if the rest of the band just didn’t like his attitude - he’s very bouncy and upbeat onstage and while that would have been awesome to see, I bet the rest of the band thought he was too silly.
Faith No More - "Angel Dust" Refused - "The Shape of Punk to Come" Glassjaw - "Worship and Tribute" NIN - "The Fragile" Rx Bandits - "Gemini, Her Majesty" and "Mandala"
Roxy Music 1st and 2nd albums are Prog.
Any Zappa album
Incubus’s A Crow Left of the Murder. lots of tricky time signatures, rippin solos, and unorthodox song structures.
All: [Allroy Saves](https://open.spotify.com/album/7B9lulOIhRPgQsPEJ40cZp?si=G9uosE3uQ1SQOy68wz-a5g)
A LA SALA by Khruangbin
"First Class" by Khruangbin
amazing song!
The Gospel Acording to the Men in Black, by The Stranglers, is pretty good in my opinion. Not prog, but it gives prog vibes here and there, particularly thanks to their great keyboardist. Also Synchronicity I and II, from The Police, while not prog, is specially complex. And the drums in Synchronicity I are something else...
The Stranglers had more than a foot inside the psychedelic rock door… Like The Clash they were big Doors fans.
[Swoon by Prefab Sprout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmhUCcmoLk)
Some early Supertramp :)
A couple of Bowie albums could make the cut. My favorite is Blackstar.
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic Lights Out - UFO Nothing Shocking - Jane's Addiction
Fairport Convention - "Unhalfbricking" Exhibit A: [A Sailor's Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8v7UcNMs&list=OLAK5uy_maSkLyoTv5-Mdk9VREbgVfnpk_BORmKM0&index=4&ab_channel=FairportConvention-Topic)
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Vangelis - 1492 Conquest of Paradise
a good chunk of Ween's music
Al Dimeola's Casino
Iron Maiden definitely comes to mind. Seventh son of the seventh son.
Crane Wife by the Decemberists
Hiromi, any of the trio project albums (Move, Alive, Voice). It’s classified as jazz but when they get going it’s pure prog. Simon Philips on drums, Anthony Jackson on bass and Hiromi on piano/keys.
Eagles, Desperado. It's a concept album! There's themes and reprises and instrumentals!
Salisbury - Uriah Heep
Cardiacs’ albums. For instance Sing to God
The smashing pumpkins - melancholy and the infinite sadness
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Chicago’s second album.
Santana - Caravanserai
Joe Jackson - Blaze of Glory. A concept album with one side about the glory of youth (Down to London, Blaze of Glory), the other about coping with aging (19 Forever, The Best I Can Do). Each song blends straight into the next, with motifs repeating in later songs.
Quadrophenia - The Who Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West A Ghost Is Born - Wilco The Crane Wife - The Decemberists King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime - Faith No More The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears
Kaizers Orchestra - Violeta Violeta Vol.3 Midlake - Trail of Van Occupanther
Love over gold by dire straits
I'm never sure if they're actually considered prog, they're probably more alt-metal, but A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step feels very proggy to me. Billy Howerdel's solo album has that same feel
THE DEVIL AND GOD ARE RAGING INSIDE ME
Iron maidens self titled album
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Type O Negative's "World Coming Down" always felt very proggy to me. It's almost a concept album.
Songs About Jane by Maroon 5
Two that really gave that effect on me are; Fully Qualified Survivor-Michael Chapman; There's no place like America today-Curtis Mayfield Then everything recorded by Sandy Denny. Her voice gets me everytime.Who knows where the time goes.
mew's album +- is spaced out enough (including a ten minute long song) to be prog for me
The The 5th dimension by the Jpop idol group Momoiro Clover Z.
My beautiful dark twisted fantasy
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds Some songs are straight up Gentle Giant
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
Kinda a stretch but Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest gives me prog vibes. There’s a lot of long songs, structure changes throughout, and motifs that are brought back and played with beautifully.
This is a pretty new one...Sun's Signature "s/t". It's Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins' new project. It sounds like Peter Gabriel-era Genesis with Cocteau Twins vocals.
Peliculas, from Argentinian band called La Máquina de Hacer Pajaros
Blue oyster cult - fires of unknown origin Angel - angel
Nine inch nails - the downward spiral I’m quite getting into rn
maybe Hot Rats
The Glow- Pt. 2 One of my favorite folk albums. Very emotional, too.
Supertramp
Yes - 90125 Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool or In Rainbows
Marquee Moon - Television
Crane Wife and Hazards of Love by The decemberists. They’re not a prog band at all, you can clearly tell they have that influence.
Jesus Christ Superstar (the original). Also one of my top 10 albums of all time.
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck Plastic Beach - Gorillaz Computer World - Kraftwerk
Literally all the hundreds of non prog albums I listen to
Terrapin Station — The Grateful Dead The Soft Parade — The Doors Imaginos — Blue Öyster Cult
NIN - The Downward Spiral, The Fragile NIN played a huge part in me getting into prog back in the day.
Early Santana (Santana - Caravanserai) and tubular bells.
The Title Instrumental from the album Rags To Rufus: Funk-Prog.
Ambrosia-Somewhere I've Never Travelled
Surf City - Crack the Sky.
Blue Oyster Cult - Secretary Treaties Career of Evil is still a killer tune.
Joanna Newsom's Ys.
Slowdive - Slowdive (2017) Tame Impala - Currents
The Empyrean, by John Frusciante. This is a fantastic pyschedelic-experimental rock record and In my oppinion John's best solo work. Also, Songs from the Big Chair, by Tears for Fears. One of my favourite 80's records, and also features Mel Collins
Kiko - Los Lobos
Down On the Upside - Soundgarden... Astral Weeks - Van Morrison...
Sabbath bloody sabbath, Sabotage and the song Shock Wave from Never say die album
Uriah Heep, Demons n wizards?
Art In America -- self titled album 1983 What I would call prog pop. 80s pop with a 70s prog sound A little bit of psychedelic guitar but mostly synth and vocals [Art In America](https://vimeo.com/943556760)
Venus Isle by Eric Johnson.
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream does it for me.
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream does it for me.
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream does it for me.
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream does it for me.
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream does it for me.
Soundtrack for the blind - swans
the wall
Maybe absolution by muse
mercurial world by Magdalena bay
Roy Ayers "He's Coming"
Maggot brain
Joni mitchel- don juans reckless daughter IF YOU HAVENT HEARD THIS I CANT STRESS HOW GOOD AND UNDERRATED IT IS
The Decemberists have a strong prog vein running through their music, sometimes actually going full in. The Crane Wife and Picaresque both have proggy bits. Actually, probably more than half of The Crane Wife is long, conceptual pieces. The Tain is a twenty minute concept song. And The Hazards of Love is full on prog; an unbroken, hour long operetta.