Happy Music Monday! Prog isn't just for white guys who came of age in the 1970s, though. It's for everybody! Today Scott will attempt to prove it. Maybe you'll agree, maybe you won't. We'll see.
Even people who don't know prog know this song. Some people who know prog don't like calling it prog, since it was a hit. But for a lot of people, this was the gateway into a whole new type of rock. Even if it did happen while roller skating.
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Of course you know Yes. Yes has done everything it's possible for a band to do. Yes has been all over the place, from pop to neo-classical to songs about the cosmic dance in which we all live. I particularly like this one, because it's so much different (and yet so similar) to the Yes we all know.
Catherine Ribeirio + Alpes - Ame Debout
Once you get out of the popular prog, though, things can get more complex. Like here, you're listening to a band from France that I think most people would have called prog. But there are some people who might say this is just plain rock or maybe even call it "folk math" or some other cobbled-together genre. That's just the magic of sub-genres. And it's why I'm a sucker for the more interesting kinda prog.
Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
The great Vangelis (from Blade Runner fame) was a part of this little prog rock band. They didn't last super long, and I'm not sure you could always consider all his later soundtrack work to be technically prog rock but any song with wind chimes, keyboards, guitars and horse-counting? That's GOT to be considered prog.
Coheed and Cambria - The Suffering
Of course, outside of the "golden age" of prog, there's some debate, but most people consider Coheed and Cambria to be a variant of modern prog. And if you don't, don't worry. Some prog head with a brand new account will be along in like ten minutes to explain everything I glossed over.
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