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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:47

"The Five"

1, Genesis

2, Yes

3, Pink Floyd

4, King Crimson

5, Gentle Giant
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Is Gentle Giant any decent? Never heard it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:49

Originally posted by Kaztor Kaztor wrote:

One word I can't stand is 'The'. I get stomach-aches and green pimples each time I hear it.

  So u think "THE" is THE worst word in THE world? THE worst word..hahahaha.......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:51

Originally posted by Kaztor Kaztor wrote:

Is Gentle Giant any decent? Never heard it.

Gentle Giant and King Crimson are THE (haha) most progressive bands ever. Please listen to their first four albums...PLEASE!!!!!!
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Points: 61 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:53

Wow, you're insistent! I need to go to bed first!  

I'm actually in a sort of 'prog trip', trying out 'new' bands.
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Originally posted by lostrom lostrom wrote:

  So u think "THE" is THE worst word in THE world? THE worst word..hahahaha.......

You nearly killed me!
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Points: 3323 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:56
Originally posted by lostrom lostrom wrote:

Originally posted by Kaztor Kaztor wrote:

Is Gentle Giant
any decent? Never heard it.


Gentle Giant and King Crimson are THE (haha)
most progressive bands ever. Please listen to their
first four albums...PLEASE!!!!!!



these are much better than Samla Mammas Manna,
Bo Hansson and Ragnorok from your native
Sweden!

NOT - haha ha ha aha ha hee hee ho!
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Points: 1859 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:56
The is the funniest word, because you can say the like "da", or "de", or "ze"... It's so diverse...
And above all, is punk
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 22:00
Originally posted by DallasBryan DallasBryan wrote:

Originally posted by lostrom lostrom wrote:

Originally posted by Kaztor Kaztor wrote:

Is Gentle Giant
any decent? Never heard it.


Gentle Giant and King Crimson are THE (haha)
most progressive bands ever. Please listen to their
first four albums...PLEASE!!!!!!



these are much better than Samla Mammas Manna,
Bo Hansson and Ragnorok from your native
Sweden!

NOT - haha ha ha aha ha hee hee ho!

 I love u folks, woke up in the middle of the night(Sweden) feeling awefull, got a cold and every sh*t u can think of, but after a while with u two guys I feel just fine again Big thanks!!!
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Points: 61 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 22:04
Cool, I barely am online on here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 22:07

Originally posted by Kaztor Kaztor wrote:

Cool, I barely am online on here.

I'm barely alive, in fact I'm a living dead
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Points: 3323 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 22:14
the answer in america is plenty of rest!

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Lol I'm not into narcotics, peeps.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 22:25
Originally posted by Kaztor Kaztor wrote:

Lol I'm not into narcotics, peeps.

Niether am I.... Now go vote in my new poll - "Best Swedish prog", please



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Genesis isn't a band - its a religion.

Its much more than just music.


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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

Out of the 3 at the top of the thread

1. Genesis

2. ELP

6,986,987,982,254,000,000 Yes

Here we see the root of our incompatibility.  

Nothing against Genesis and ELP, they've just given me much more infrequent moments of listening pleasure than Yes (and all three take a backseat to King Crimson, IMAO).

It's nice to be able to disagree with you again...it's been too long!

Actually , I like King Crimson better as well....it was only betwen those 3...I was just trying to stress how much I am not impresssed with Yes.....again

Personally, I like Gentle Giant and of course Van der Graaf Generator better than any of those guys.
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To return to the original post  for some reason these three WERE often lumped together - probably something to do with No.1 Album sales, though Floyd should have been there on that basis: maybe they were just too INVISIBLE as musicians. Of COURSE GG, KC et al should be discussed, but the point of the thread was to comment directly on 'The Big Three' as a concept (accurate or not).

Though I bought all the ELP albums avidly, learnt to play as much as I could & loved them to bits, in retrospect they DO seem to be inferior to the others. It's not immediately apparent why - perhaps their post-Brain Salad Surgery legacy was just TOO terrible;almost certainly Jim Davidson's  championing of them ; maybe their albums were less consistently good. Arguably there is not a duff Yes track on any album before Tormato, and very few duff Genesis tracks. I feel uncomfortable criticising them (and of course risk a Threefates broadside lol ) but I see I am not alone. OK...

  1. Genesis
  2. Yes
  3. ELP

But it might change tomorrow...
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Points: 110 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 02:16

I like Genesis enourmously...

Yet, I only like a half of an ELP album ( namely, the Karn Evil composition ) and only ''Close to the Edge'' by Yes. I can't get into their other works...

I think the big three are Floyd, KC, Zappa.



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Points: 1475 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 02:47

On a scale of 1 to 10:

Genesis 10

Yes 8

ELP 4

Apologies to all ELP fans, but the band simply does nothing for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 02:56

Mine: Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes

Yours: Genesis, Yes, ELP



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