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Poll Question: What is your favourite (not the "best") prog genre?
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4 [2.01%]
1 [0.50%]
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4 [2.01%]
7 [3.52%]
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2 [1.01%]
8 [4.02%]
27 [13.57%]
1 [0.50%]
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14 [7.04%]
14 [7.04%]
61 [30.65%]
4 [2.01%]
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    Posted: August 16 2006 at 12:58
This is purely for your FAVOURITE genre, not what is in your opinion the BEST genre. Please please keep this in mind. Music is not a popularity contest for me!

I simply wish to find out which genre seems most justified with the people on this site. This is in alphabetic order, not in any biased order just so you know! :)
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According to PA, most of my favorite bands are Art Rock, so Art Rock for me !
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Well, that should be quite obvious from my tag...Wink Symphonic Prog for me, followed by Art Rock, Folk Prog and Jazz-Rock/Fusion.
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Symphonic, although some of my favorite bands are under Art Rock (most notably VdGG and KC).
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Though I have many favourite bands in art rock and quite a few in avant-prog, I chose symphonic.  However, I'm including Italian symphonic in the category.  There have been  quite a few bands I've listened to which are listed at this site under Italian symph which are not really symphonic prog (and several bands under symph that I think better categorised as neo-prog).  Nomenclature truly is the bane of the archivist.

I particularly like symph prog bands that hail from non-English language countries (France, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Holland, Sweden etc.) -- plus a province, Quebec.
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Originally posted by Melomaniac Melomaniac wrote:

According to PA, most of my favorite bands are Art Rock, so Art Rock for me !
 
Same here.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Though I have many favourite bands in art rock and quite a few in avant-prog, I chose symphonic.  However, I'm including Italian symphonic in the category.  There have been  quite a few bands I've listened to which are listed at this site under Italian symph which are not really symphonic prog (and several bands under symph that I think better categorised as neo-prog).  Nomenclature truly is the bane of the archivist.


What you say here about bands in Italian Symphonic is 100% true. As a matter of fact, the section is due for a major overhaul, which however will only be conducted when we Three Horsemen have finished cleaning up the main Symphonic Prog section.
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1) Symphonic Prog
2) Art Rock
3) Progressive Metal
4) Krautrock
5) Progressive Electronic
6) Canterbury Scene
7) Progressive Folk
Other Sub-Genre... Ex-acqueo!!!
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Progressive Metal
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Prog Metal
Symphonic Prog
Canterbury
Art Rock
Fusion
Post Rock
 
I find Symphonic Prog to be the most "respectable".

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I would leave Progressive Electronic as an affinity of mine (though I'm considerably into the genre). By excluding the preferential one.

I would definately say Art Rock, (half of my favourites being in this genre Crimson, VdGG and Hammill, Gentle Giant, Rush and so...) are so, plus Symphonic Prog (meaning the other half).

In a second plane of things, Psychedelic and Post-Rock, the latter one being incipient as material (just GYBE! and Silver Mt. Zion), but God I love it.

Just Folk and Related in the shadow (they're nothing concrete as a genre).

Metal as the opposite.
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Prog folk (hardly surprising) followed closely by symphonic prog.

Bands like Mostly Autumn, Iona, Horslips, Gryphon, Strawbs, Fairport form an incomparable listening experience for me.

(I see someone has given Iona's Book of Kells and Mostly Autumn's The Last Bright Light 1* ratings. What a sad person he/she must be. Shame he/she didn't have the guts to justify his opinions in a review. Coward.)
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Hmm, Symphonic is winning out.. how unexpected Wink. I'd have to say the genres which earn my greatest respect come to Symphonic, Art Rock, Electronic, Post-Rock, then Space Rock and the rest is under that Pantheon of gods. In my opinion, Italian Symphonic Prog doesn't really seem to resemble Symphonic Prog... at all. I mean, apart from some gratuitous use of Mellotron (and you can never have too much of that) nothing stands out in Italian for me.

Apart from the Nationalism part. Why not have sub-Saharan tribal music; if anything, that's progressive compared to today's pop standards!
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i declare myself unable to choose.
 
but, IMO I consider Prog Metal, Neo-Prog and Prog-Related weaker than the others


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Top 5 in no particualr order:
 
Symphonic
RIO/avant
Jazz rock/fusion
Neo
Post-rock/Experimental
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2006 at 17:17
Disapprove I find myself not wanting to hear much of the 70s dinosaurs lately, so I'll go with Neo, but Symphonic is close behind and Art Rock shouldn't count.
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Ah, c'mon guys! Where's the avant lovin'?
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