British Prog is the best??

Brit prog has the most texture both in music and lyrics, for me that's the best!  

     It seems that you want the prove about my opinion , posted few days ago in this thread !!!!  Well i have about 16600 proves regarding my post  about  ( british prog is the best ) . Its my 40 years strugling to give the progressive rock the right pair of shoes to walk in the hall of fame in the Middle East and the arab countries ,
and i'm proud to be one of the first three proggers in this spot of the earth . WE use to have in 1974 about 15
bands , playing blues , pop , jazz , and disco songs . and that's only in Lebanon ( population  3.7 million )
  Today we have in Lebanon about 107 bands playing different kind of Progressive rock music . Some of them ( specially in Prog Metal genre ) are more than satisfying to me . Not to mention many other bands playing jazz - rock fusion , and blues - rock . This is only in Lebanon  . But we have 16 million lebaneses
immigrants around the world , and as an ex . pilot i knew this fact , they still believe in their origin , and they  are also productive in their new home lands . If you tell me Porcupine Tree is the best band in neo prog , i surely have so many other bands from different countries , i feel that they're better than P.T .
  If you tell me that Mahavishnu orchestra is the best  band in Jazz - rock fusion , i surely have many other bands deserves , maybe the same recognition . So , during the last couple of months i was trying very hard to introduce for Progarchives one of the most talented Lebanese artists , Rabih Abou Khalil , he's living between Germany & France , and he's one of the best Jazz - Rock fusion in this century  . Why he's not available in Progarchives  . And to be honest in this review , i don't know this artist at all , but i knew all his works . This is one Example of what is missing in our world of progressive . Still , i'm not against the idea that said that British Progressive Rock is <<< ONE >>> of the best /////////// 

Yes it is by far

In my opinion UK Prog is some of the most listenable, although in general proggy-ness, Germany, France and Japan have held the top of the list for quite some time.

this prog is better than that prog and blah, blah, blah, sounds like religion, my imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend, liking prog for where it comes from is ridiculous, a thread should spark the uplifting and not the oneupmanship, now that I got that off my chest I want to let you in on a little secret,  the 1970`s are gone for all but a few of the fortunate that absorbed a little too much orange sunshine

zafreth wrote: Rush is a great band but his origins are a Zepp-like band, just listen to his first album, it has all the hooks and cliches of a Led Zepp wannabee, mixed with some Budgie-like vocals of Geddy Lee.   Of course they improve his chords and record very good albums until 1981 Moving Pictures, but then...  fallen of the pinnacle of his better works.   Genesis and Jethro Tull for example have better albums, for example Thick as a Brick is far a more complex album that Rush masterpiece 2112, and not to mention Genesis Selling England or The Lamb. above Fly by Night, Hemispheres and Farewell to Kings, anytime of day.   And i do like Rush a lot, but facts are facts.   There are others very good bands enlisted and they are great!!!

At the very least, Signals is a stellar Rush record, and so is Grace Under Pressure. Just stating the facts!

Now, while I was once a rabid Rush fan, and still am not far removed from that, I wouldn't go so far as to exclaim that "Rush smokes all of those bands." That would be silly. The stylistic differences between all of those bands is off the chart. Floyd to Tull to Rush to Crimson. How different do just those four sound?

That's what I love about all these bands...something for everybody.

darkshade wrote: Rocktopus wrote: Tasartir wrote: Hmmm, Frank Zappa, anyone? So what? What do you mean? Everybody knows he is great, and that he is american. But Zappa (and Beefheart) hardly make up a "progscene" alone. idk, with his vast amount of material, he is a scene.

That's just silly. You might as well have said something like that about Peter Hammill or Klaus Schulze, but they are part of the significant british and german scene.

So the "scene" Zappa (and Beefheart) makes America, instead of Italy, Germany, France etc the relevant comparizon to the British scene (which was the context for my reaction)?

Well... British prog is one of the best and perhaps the most old of all prog country oriented list.

who cares! besides, we Americans have blues, which without, rock music basically wouldnt exist, and then we also started rock itself, plus we got jazz, jazz-fusion, funk, soul, Frank Zappa, and Rush (they're close enough).

and then we have the whole jam band scene, which IMO, is one of the better music scenes to happen in the last 25 or so years.

plus, we may not have started metal, but we perfected it (and then killed it lol) not to mention a lot of the current successful prog bands come from North America

however, this is not to defend current American music (which is some of the worst trash ever made, Indie and mainstream, with some exceptions)

so you Brits can keep your prog. actually no, i want it, nevermind...

70s English prog and rock is the best. I don't care for much rock music after 1982. That's when American music took over and ever since most prog has been too influenced by american guitar music(metal and hard rock) and you don't get great melodies these days so the music doesn't really last long at all