Top 20 Best Progressive Rock Songs From Non Progressive Rock Bands

[mapper]

I would say A Day in the Life and I Want You (Shes so Heavy) by the Beatles are close to prog as well. The former probably Prog Pop but still

[ВіталійРентюк]

Paranoid android is missing - best song by Radiohead

[gabrielc.fariacruz]

Good list, but Uriah Heep is a prog band (Salisbury/Look at Yourself/Demons and Wizards/Magician's Birthday is a pretty proggy sequence).

[jagle]

Queen's Innuendo, Prophet's song and Bohemian Rhapsody should be on the list

[thekivster]

Styx is basically a progressive rock band

[thehunter]

well, actually the early Queen were a progressive rock band mixed with hard rock. perhaps until 1976. but later they also returned to progressive, for example on albums such as The Miracle and Innuendo

[christianrounds]

Both BOC picks were great. Imaginos tends to be a bit less well known than some of the other albums, but it's songd are amazing.

[fran]

I love this type of videos because I always get to meet new rock tracks

[fenderstratocastertelecast]

Queen's innuendo with Steve Howe on flamenco guitar, and of course "bohemian raphsody"

Toto's "hydra" and "better world"

A lot of prog die hard fans do not want to considere ASIA as a prog band. Since that, they have following tracks:

Time again
Cutting It fine
The heat goes on
Open your eyes
Free
Parallel worlds
Ghost of a chance

And so on

[r-elportadordelarueda]

Manfred man earth band-Blinded by the light.. Iron maiden-Phantom of the opera, Seven son of seven s, Rhyme of ancient mariner, Alexander the great.. Black sabbath-Heaven n hell, Fallin off to the edge of the world...

[gergelystechnicmodels]

Baba O’Reilly counts as a prog song I think. A synthesizer intro, rocking middle section, and tempo-changing violin solo at the end seems pretty prog to me.

[warmingupfast]

Bowie's Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise), from Diamond Dogs, could have made the list. Same with Station to Station. How about Blackstar? And there are a couple of instrumental tracks on side 2 of Low which have an avante garde yet proggish feel.

Edit: just through of Hendrix's 1983....(A Merman I Should Turn to Be).

[alistairblack]

How about the songs in this list?
One Night in Paris - 10cc
Paprika Plains - Joni Mitchell
Sister Seagull - Be Bop Deluxe
Blackberry Way - The Move
How Does It Feel - Slade
Shangri-la - The Kinks

Some good songs which could be classed as prog.

[johngerygooz]

Doesn't "Bohemian Rhapsody" count as a progressive rock song? I think it does.

[twelveouncetrance]

I consider a few of these bands as prog- Heep, Styx- for example. Interesting post!

[anasoumelek]

The end ? It's a psychedelic rock song

[randomguyontheinternet]

Although technically not a single song the batshit insane My Generation/Proto-Naked Eye/Tommy Medley played at the end of The Who's Live in Leeds (1970 tour) is an immaculate powerhouse of raw Rock Energy that gets sustained for nearly 16 minutes.

[lucashernandez]

"Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band" (song)
"A Day In The Life"
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

I think they are progressive Beatle's songs, I think that these could be here too. Nice video.

[glycineman]

Dire Straits' Love Over Gold is quite prog to me, with rock/pop sound

[TheWatcherofsky]

Another songs in my list:
-Victim of Changes, Judas Priest
-Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Iron Maiden
-Rumble Tumble, Creedence Clearwater Revival
-The Chain, Fleetwood Mac
-Polar Nights, Scorpions
-A Day In The Life, Beatles
-Love Alive, Heart
-In A Gadda Da Vida, Iron Butterfly