According to Stuart Maconie on today’s Freakier Zone show. Some right bobby dazzlers on the list. Do you agree? Could you suggest other Prog tracks that would get you on the dance floor? Here’s mine. I used to “freak out” at the BIT disco on many a Saturday night I can tell you. Proper shook my hair about (when I had it).
Prog-Rock Disco
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A splendidly bizarre stop-start disco track on Old Flower Face’s first album. And can you dance to Solsbury Hill? Yes you can. It’s a 70s Waterfall.
Staying with Gabriel, I’d go so far to say that Sledgehammer is something of a floorfiller.
Living in the past by the Tull would be perfect for a linedance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8
It’s a great song, but although PG has prog form, Sledgehammer is solid gold soul, dipped in pop.
You can dance to Tull’s Christmas single, though can’t you mins?
You askin’?
Aye lass, let’s boogie!
Is Frank Zappa Prog?
Well, he appears on a Prog Rock compilation, so in my mind meets the criteria (sort of?)
Peaches En Regalia
Could anybody recommend any other Zappa tracks similar to Peaches as I really like this & have always been quite intimidated by his blokey back catalogue?
Not a big Zappa fan (I’ve only got 4 albums) – my Zappa introduction came via the compilation Strictly Commercial.
Is it wrong to suggest a compilation as a starting point?
I think SC is a perfect intro if you’ve already been put off diving down some of the other Zappa alleyways – its really all the tuneful bits on one one album.
Ah, Peaches. My ring tone. Great tune. Great album. His best I reckon.
Asia – Heat of the Moment…prog lite maybe but gets in due to the band members.
You could boogie to this very nicely. One of those 70s disco sequential/choreographed dances
This sort of thing…
I used to bring the Discipline album to teenage parties and if allowed near the record player would slap this on and show those honkies what their hips were for… I can’t believe it’s not Talking Heads was the usual response.
http://youtu.be/yrdvvGQtKDw
…apart from “turn that shite off!”
I knew this track for years before I knew who it was. And I also use it to show that my mother is not a civilian.
In 1987 my mum picked up an old reel-to-reel in a junk shop. We had a few old reels knocking about and she thought it would be fun to hear them again. The previous owner had left a reel on the machine, which we naturally played out of sheer nosiness. There were bits of radio (speech and pop) and ^ that turned up.
My teenage interest was piqued. “Who’s that?” I asked mater. “Don’t know it…. sounds like Frank Zappa”. It would be more than twenty years before I found out what a good guess that was – Belew had, only just before this, done hard time with FZ (before presumably deciding that Zappa wasn’t quite tyrannous enough and transferred his loyalties to the Frippster).
In the meantime, to my great surprise it turned up on this by 3D. Listen! hipperty hopperty people sampling the ‘Crim, 15-odd years before old Sweaty Ken got round to it.
Discipline is a quite superb record, although James Blast (may he rest in peace) diskarded it uterly, due it containing Adrian Belew.
Thela Hun Ginjeet has a good beat, too. *does the Hugh Dennis dad-dance*. . .
being an anagram of ‘heat in the jungle’ Thela Hun Ginjeet, that is.
Radiohead: Idioteque. Despite the electro noodlings they are prog
And if those staples of prog like tape loops and soaring organ are included then the Two Tribes remixes are highly likely to drag me onto the dance floor
Led Zep- not really prog, but reckon you could slide this in amongst the prog for a bit of a stompy wig out.
Mainly due to the fact that its Stevie Wonder’s Superstition.
I imagine people once danced awkwardly to this (and in student sitcom “Fresh Meat” , Howard played this on his student radio DJ slot)
Chop the acoustic bit off the front, crank it up a bit, and Yes’ “Roundabout” becomes quite the bopalong track…
Perfect. Chris Squire was funky as anything.
Bought this on 7″ single. Cover had Mike in a groovy hall of mirrors. Video very similar to the Floyed one in the OP. Very definition of prog disco surely?
Aquatarkus – if you’re a three-legged dog with a book of logarithms.
I always thought that Gentle Giant were second only to Yes in Prog Funkiness, in my world anyway! This is well danceable.
https://youtu.be/c2WcGggmnmg
Dancing is an alien concept to me – I don’t understand why anyone would. But people – women, even, for heaven’s sake – appear to be dancing here (in that angular very early 70s TOTP way) to Atomic Rooster.
Prog Rock Disco Drummer!
That’s it!
And for the slowy….
I’m claiming Wishbone Ash as Prog. Even @Colin-H could boogie to this.