Fourth-rate bands

mystic fred wrote: I would hardly call Riverside 4th rate  but i voted for them

Indeed, they're all first-rate bands (despite their 4th place popularity ranking in each given subgenre, which is stilll high -- but I'm galdd, I thought it would be amusing terming them 4th rate).  Gentle Giant, for instance, is one of the most talked about bands here.  And I love Anglagard and Banco.  Hybris is my favourite prog album of the last two decades (my avatar's the Hybris cover with the gentle giant face clonestamped in... badly).

I had planned on continuing this with 5th-ranked albums, then 6th etc. -- therbey increasing the obscurity, but of course some prog, and not so prog lol - subgenres are pretty obscure already, and the top artists of those are largely undiscussed here.

Having noted that certiain bands dominate the top of the list with several highly-rated albums, this started as a minor exercise in stats. I wanted too see how the fourth band-names mentioned in the subgenres categories stacked up against other statistically speaking when comparing the general prog album ranking and subgenre album ranking.  I chose fourth place due to my love for Hybris, happily for me, Banco and Gentle Giant had albums which made them includable in the list.

Fourth place for an album is a high popularity ranking, by 10th (also high for most categories) there's gonna be some really obscure stuff (for most of this community).  There were already bands of 4th place standing who hadn't made the top 500 (all genres).

I wish there was a similarly ordered list here for the top 11, 747 albums.  What are the ten least popular albums at the site?

Wow! a poll with Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, Anglagard, Banco and Popol Vuh in it? Impossible to decide, really.

I went for Soft Machine, even though all those bands have at least one five star album!

I would hardly call Riverside 4th rate  but i voted for them 

Edited by mystic fred - July 08 2006 at 11:58

Anglagard

    As much as I love GG, I had to go for Banco. I find myself listening to "Darwin," and even the debut, more often than GG. The funny thing is that I only have those two Banco albums, but I have just about all of GG's studio output.
    
By the way, I have to agree that this is a great idea for a poll. It gets you thinking about some of our more unsung heroes.

Edited by bhikkhu - July 08 2006 at 10:48

A toss between Kate Bush and Tangerine Dream. Gentle Giant comes third.

Actually, come to think of it, I realy find "The Last Bright Light" better than any GG I've heard. Again, if I put my mind to it, I am having a hard time finding any album better than "The Last Bright Light"...

eloyyyyy ocean!

not sure if you are looking for group...or the album mentioned in your post...so...


the groups... Gentle Giant of course.


the albums....Popol Vuh - Tantric Songs.... I LOVE that album. Slight edge over Darwin which is not  my favorite BdMS album.

Arena is the only band on this list that is represented in my CD tower.

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