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Poll Question: Which band was the most successful?
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

If by successful you mean sales, no contest. Pink Floyd by a country mile. If you mean by influence, then that is something prog fans will argue about all year long, and it depends upon who, precisely, you are talking about the influence onWink
There might be one way to determine which was the most influential: round up every band in the world and see which prog band they take the most inspiration from. God help the person who does that. 
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another thread about the most famous progressive rock bands ever. Right... Disapprove
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If by successful you mean sales, no contest. Pink Floyd by a country mile. If you mean by influence, then that is something prog fans will argue about all year long, and it depends upon who, precisely, you are talking about the influence onWink
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I don't mean commercial success - in that case Pink Floyd would win, and that's a fact, not an opinion. 

Well, I agree with you there. See my first set of six(also fact and not opinion) which is based on album sales/commercial success.
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Success ranking:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Genesis
3. Rush
4. Yes
5. ELP
6. King Crimson


As for influence it would be different. If we are talking influence in hipster/music snob circles it would be PF then KC.

As for strictly influence in prog without taking sales into much consideration: 

1. King Crimson
2. Genesis
3. Yes
4. Pink Floyd
5. Rush
6. ELP

Prog popularity(as in over all popularity among prog fans):

1. Genesis
2.Yes
3.King Crimson
4.Pink Floyd
5.ELP/Rush tie


Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - August 05 2020 at 12:41
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Toss up between Yes and Genesis.

Went with Genesis.
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On influence, either Yes or PF I guess.


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NOTE: I may have made this thread before. I can't remember. Someone close it if I have.
If you remember, a while ago I started a thread called "Most Famous Prog Bands" on people's favourite prog bands that were very successful outside the prog scene. Here, I'm returning to the same bands, but the subject is which was most successful. I don't mean commercial success - in that case Pink Floyd would win, and that's a fact, not an opinion. I mean which was the most inspirational, which left their mark on prog the most and which really defined the genre as we know it.
So, I'm voting Genesis. Not because I love Genesis, but because no prog band at the time sounded quite like them, and yet loads of bands after their heyday (well, proggy heyday) are compared with them, and nearly every neo prog and post 70s symphonic prog band claims inspiration from them. And I am yet to here an album that sounds like Selling England by the Pound or Duke.
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