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chopper wrote: Forgotten Son wrote: richardh wrote: What about a big six prog bands where English is not their first language? Coheed and Cambria Is this some kind of deprecating joke? Sanchez's lyrics are a little strange in style and delivery I'll grant you, but he was born and raised in New York. I wondered the same thing. It might be Richard's little joke.

My personal 60¨s / 70´s 

Lewian wrote: Catcher10 wrote: I also thought CAN would have been higher, I don't think people appreciate CAN for what they did...I would swap CAN and VdGG. Just my 2 centavos.... Although I love VdGG as well, I'm always delighted when you write about Can; they seem quite far from what you usually listen to, as is much of my taste, but both of us can see the genius there.

Forgotten Son wrote: richardh wrote: What about a big six prog bands where English is not their first language? Coheed and Cambria Is this some kind of deprecating joke? Sanchez's lyrics are a little strange in style and delivery I'll grant you, but he was born and raised in New York.

richardh wrote: What about a big six prog bands where English is not their first language? Coheed and Cambria

^ Sorry, it's Cristi without an "h", and he's male.

^ Christi will be pleased that Marillion are #11 in the poll, putting them in the "second tier" of prog.

These prog bands were voted the all-time Top 20 in a recent PA poll:-

Manuel wrote: My understanding is that they are considered the big six not because they’re the best, but the most successful in record sales and in making the people aware of the genre.

This kind of topic has been done many times before, but I can merge this with the last topic (a very time-consuming process when it comes to long threads as I need to do it one post at a time) if the OP is okay with that. That said, it might get a little confusing. If you are specifically trying to make the case that in a just world Gentle Giant would be considered part of the big six (despite it's lack of popularity/ knownness/ success during the classic era), then that becomes its own subject.

To me the justice angle is of little interest. The big six are the big six because they were more commercially successful and had more recognition. I like Art Zoyd much more than Yes, but I don't think it unfair that Art Zoyd never had the same level of recognition. That said, Art Zoyd is still in my Prog Archives big six. Popularity does not equal quality.

And if GG were there in the big six, then I think that VdGG also should be in it.

Edited by Logan - October 06 2020 at 16:26