Focus - songs - Hocus Pocus needless to say
also Hamburger Concerto, Sylvia, & House of King(you'd swear was Tull)
less high tech but still forward, outside of the box thinking:
Alice Cooper - Killer - Halo of Flies
kinda heavy kinda progressive, Desperado & the last song which name escapes now, great album even the rockers but I bet Mathias alreadys knows this.
early pre Steve Perry Journey was a bit progressive but this stuff is hard to come by and I no longer have any. I liked them better then, before they went poppy. I remember theres one song in particular that blew our minds but I forget what it even sounded like.
Uriah Heep - Salisbury - the title track, one side of the album, is at least worth a few listens. With Mic Box turning in some damn good early rock shredding toward the end of the song, a kinda cool trivial point is you can hear the "click" on the old fuzz box everytime he enters a solo. I still play it every once in awhile. Its really a great piece of work.
Some people would say Im crazy but I still get off on many of the tracks from Chicagos first two albums. Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago II, instrumentally, that band with the horn arrangements and certain compositions and instrumental sections of other songs had a thing of their own going on.
Along the same lines, while maybe not "progressive" as much as a wall of big band sound, a song I feel is a must have for an occasional listen is "Vehical" by "Ides of March"
The origional Jesus Christ Superstar with Ian Gillan, Murry Head and Yvonne Elliman has its moments
Gentle Giant & The Nice, their names ring a bell but I remember nothing....
Genesis & Renaissance - alright but not my kind of thing, much
Procol Harum - not very fimilar with and probably not my thing on many songs either but I havent heard enough to judge.
