5 Favorite less famous 70’s Prog Bands

Happy the man

Gryphon

PFM

Renaissance  (SURE EVERYBODY FORGOT IT, IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE IGNORED!!)

Gentle Giant

How could I forget????

4. HAWKWIND!

(first post....)

1. Kayak

Brilliant and far less known than they deserve. They recently reunited and released a fabulous album (Merlin - Bard of the unseen)

2. Camel

I'll join the "surprised they were not included in the excluded list" crowd. Albums like Mirage and Moonmadness still sound fantastic.

3. Renaissance

I have not heard as much of this group as I would like, but what I've heard is great.

4. Alan Parsons Project

A bit unsteady in quality, but at their best (Turn of a friendly card) they were up there with the best.

5. Alquin

Gotta promote another band from my native Holland. Tracks like Mountain queen and You always can change are still favourites, and it's a pity that this band did not follow up on their initial promise.

Great spot on Queen, danbo - there's hardly a track on the first 5 albums that isn't more prog than anything Uriah Heep put together (sorry, UH fans, UH are a great band, but Queen out-progged 'em back in the 1970s, Roger Dean artwork aside!). Consider "The Prophet's Song" on "Night At the Opera".

Now I know...

Can I add Radiohead and Muse?

Thought not...

Certif1ed wrote: Useful_Idiot wrote: 1. Opeth 2. Rush 3. Frank Zappa 4. Tool 5. Porcupine Tree I thought Opeth and Tool were 1990s bands, and PT very late 1980s?

See my edit...

Here you can see the actual positions until Fragile’s vote. Probably will start a poll with the first 20, but this time giving 5 points to the first, 4 to the second ……, the way it should have been done.

1.-       Camel                           9

2.-       Caravan                       8

3.-       Renaissance               5

             Strawbs                       5

5          Hawkwind                    4

             Zappa                            4

7.-        Focus                             3

             Gryphon                       3

             Rush                              3

             The Enid                         3

             Uriah Heep                   3

12.-       Allan Parsons                 2

             Amon Dull II                 2

             Happy the Mann          2

             Kansas                           2

             Kayak                            2

             Moody Blues                2

             Nektar                            2

             PFM                               2

             UK                                 2

             Van der Graff G.          2

22.-       Alquin                            1

             Ash Ra Temple              1

             Banco                            1

             Brain Ticket                  1

             Colloseum                    1

             Curved Air                    1

             Dom                               1

             Dzyam                           1

             Family                           1

             Gentle Giant                1

             Gong                             1

             Greenslade                   1

             Grobschnitt                  1

             Hattfield & The N.        1

             Kaipa                              1

             Fraftwerk                      1

             Locanda de la Fate     1

             Matching Mole               1

             Mike Oldfield                 1

             Mythos                           1

             Queen                            1

             Refugee                        1

             Simarillion *                  1

             Spooky Tooth                1

             Steve Hillage                1

             Tangerine Dream         1

             The Enid                       1

             Triumvirat                     1

             Wishbone Ash               1

* Accepted vote for Simarillion

Total bands 50

Tough, Ivan, but fun!

In no order:

Gentle Giant (not really "less famous," but not on your "forbidden" list....)

Nektar

Strawbs

Tangerine Dream

PFM

Amon Duul II

Phil Manzanera/801 (I still think that Listen Now, K-Scope, Diamond Head  & 801 Live are at least mostly prog!) 

Eno (first 4 -- call it "art rock" or "prog pop" if you must....)

Horslips (closer to "trad-prog" than "trad-rock," IMHO....

Can

Van der Graaf Generator

Gryphon

Kraftwerk! (Damn it, if jazz fusion, Zappa, acts like Tool and all the "metal with keyboards" -- sorry, "progressive metal" -- bands belong here.... nuff said!)  

There you have it. If I can only vote for five, Ivy, take the first five --  & omit Giant if you must....

 Oh, plus The Village People, Donna Summer,  The Boy Shi**y Rollers, Menudo and Kiss:

"I, wanna rok and role all nigh-ite, and pardy ev-ery day!" (repeat x 197, or until your brains liquify and run out your ears....

Later,

Peter

Very few Italian bands  . So, my top five (altough I love Camel, Focus, Renaissance, Gryphon and Trace) is:

Le Orme

Banco

Museo Rosenbach

Allusa Fallax

Murple

ivan_2068 wrote: Probably Paco, but the group of best known bands is also known as The Big 5 and includes Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP and Pink Floyd, I went a little further adding Jethro Tull, because it's as famous (and mentioned) as the other 5, but Camel is definitely not in the Big 5 group, despoite their great  quality as musicians.

Mmm... you are probably right. I let my fandom for Latimer guide my hands while typing.