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Poll Question: Who is the most overrated band of the 'Big Six'?
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None of them is overrated. All of them deserved their highest places in the hierarchy of 70s progressive music. Though, Pink Floyd weren't regarded as a progressive rock band but as a psychedelic rock band back in the day, and I say this as a big fan of the greatest psychedelic rock albums ever made, like Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, Wish You Were Here and Animals.
 
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ELP, but all good.
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Who is 'overrating' ELP? All I ever see is hate for them.


Many see it as hip to lash out against ELP.  Some cool kids who smoke outside the gymnasium told them it was so they submitted to peer pressure and it's now their reality.

Ah because we don't like a band it must be because we are sheep not that we don't actually like the band, glad you explained that for me. 
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ELP, IMHO
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

King Crimson-I like the first 3 albums, but after that, they kind of lose me.


Same here. Of the six choices, they all have some some things I did not like but KC probably did the most that I didn't like. The others, not as much.
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Who is 'overrating' ELP? All I ever see is hate for them.


Many see it as hip to lash out against ELP.  Some cool kids who smoke outside the gymnasium told them it was so they submitted to peer pressure and it's now their reality.


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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Who is 'overrating' ELP? All I ever see is hate for them.


Many see it as hip to lash out against ELP.  Some cool kids who smoke outside the gymnasium told them it was so they submitted to peer pressure and it's now their reality.

I don't see it as hip, I simply just don't like them.
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my personal big 6 are Gong, Magma, Amon Düül 2, Hawkwind, VdGG and Can


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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Who is 'overrating' ELP? All I ever see is hate for them.


Many see it as hip to lash out against ELP.  Some cool kids who smoke outside the gymnasium told them it was so they submitted to peer pressure and it's now their reality.


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Who is 'overrating' ELP? All I ever see is hate for them.
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for the perfect mix of meh music and insanely annoying vocals/front man it's got to be Genesis


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Nevermind, I should have voted KC. They are probably the most overrated even though I like a little bit of their stuff.
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I think this list includes the big-6 of "progressive rock", not prog, which is a genre as it stands these days, not an approach to writing/composing/orchestrating music, so this might lead to some confusion.
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Genesis - highly rated and thoroughly deserve to be for making some of the best albums ever recorded.
Pink Floyd - done many outstanding and some pretty poor albums, but they deserve their high rating
Jethro Tull - undoubtedly a tier 1 band based on longevity and success, and they've made at least 6 excellent albums, so not overrated.
Yes - on the strength of several excellent albums, they probably deserve their high reputation.
ELP - Trilogy and the debut are worth a listen and BSS and PAAE aren't bad, but they are a bit overhyped.
KC - deserve credit for innovation and being at the very start of the genre, but I find their music horribly self-indulgent and pretentious. I did quite like the debut when it came out, but I now find them almost unlistenable except for a few tracks.

So KC get my vote as most overrated.

As for VDGG, they never had anything like the success to make them a tier 1 band in the 70s. They're far more popular now than they were then - but Peter Hamill's voice makes  them a no-go area for me.
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Asia should be in this list.
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The most overrated band should be the one with the least votes. Think about it.
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interested in ELP, but not as good as the others, so that gets my vote
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If you're going to include Camel and VDGG and Gentle Giant, you might as well add in Magma and Caravan and Gong and Soft Machine and basically every other band anybody off this site has heard of.

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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

When I first arrived here, it was references to the big seven, including Rush.  Europeans don't like Rush though or don't consider them part of the Big group because they were a few years later to the party.  I've also seen it as a Big 10, including VDGG, Camel, and Gentle Giant. 

Wow, TEN?  That's too many!  (Six is pushing it, really.)

I could see a Big 5: Pink Floyd, King Crimson, ELP, Yes, Genesis (I'm less certain about Jethro Tull's impact and legacy compared to those five).  I would agree that Rush is too late, like a second wave of prog or something.

Of course, this all leans quite heavily on the Symphonic Prog style (including 70s Pink Floyd), so it's probably not as representative as it could be, but if we want to talk about popularity, impact, and legacy and things like that, it would be hard to include other styles of prog.  (Then again, I consider myself a prog newb, so I'm probably wrong.)
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Originally posted by Skalla-Grim Skalla-Grim wrote:

Originally posted by bj_waters bj_waters wrote:

However, I am curious about the idea of "The Big 6."  Is this a consensus of prog fans in general?  Are there no others that qualify?  Is six too many?


I also read about a Big 4 (which would be Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, and ELP) which i.m.o. makes more sense than the "Big Six" this thread is based on.

My personal choice would actually be a "Big Seven", consisting of Genesis, Gentle Giant, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Van der Graaf Generator.
When I first arrived here, it was references to the big seven, including Rush.  Europeans don't like Rush though or don't consider them part of the Big group because they were a few years later to the party.  I've also seen it as a Big 10, including VDGG, Camel, and Gentle Giant. 
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