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Frank Zappa
Genesis
Estradasphere
Mr. Bungle
!T.O.O.H.!
Negura Bunget
Bacamarte
Old Crow Medicine Show
Grand Belial's Key
Shpongle
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Too few lists feature Fleetwood Mac. It worries me.

'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..'
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Ah.. i see i was one of the first too post in this tread but that was some time ago its time for an updated list:
 
VdGG+ PH solo
Caravan
Egg
Judas Priest
Soft Machine
Amon Duul II
Tangerine Dream
Gentle Giant
Monster Magnet
Camel
 
 
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I hope "band" includes anything, because I don't mind naming composers.
1. Pink Floyd
1. The Velvet Underground
3. The Beatles
4. Charlie Parker
4. Mozart
6. Uncle Tupelo
7. The Pogues
8. Jethro Tull
9. Gentle Giant
10. King Crimson

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I'll include my current favourite album :)
 
 
I'ts a rather conservative list, but I enjoy this stuff.
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Originally posted by Hirgwath Hirgwath wrote:

I hope "band" includes anything, because I don't mind naming composers.
1. Pink Floyd
1. The Velvet Underground
3. The Beatles
4. Charlie Parker
4. Mozart
6. Uncle Tupelo
7. The Pogues
8. Jethro Tull
9. Gentle Giant
10. King Crimson
I like how the Velvet Underground beats Mozart on your list : ) Not that i don't agree, it's just that so many members would have a fit if they saw it, haha! (if they had actually HEARD VU, that is...)

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Hmmm.. currently?
 this is a very general and nobody is ever number one but you'll get the rough idea

Devin Townsend
Godspeed you! Black Emperor
Yes
Pain of Salvation
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Alice in Chains
Toby Driver (cant chose kayo dot or maudlin of the well)
and recently... Ulver
What im listening to
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going with non prog...  posted my top 10 so many damn times probably many here can repeat them by memory... losts of bands that sound like dishes at the Olive Garden and a few big name groups LOL


1. Allman Brothers Band
2. Jefferson Airplane
3. Steely Dan
4. Fleetwood Mac
5. Duran Duran
6. Steve Winwood
7. Willie Nelson
8. Talking Heads
9. Judas Priest
10. Pat Benatar


Edited by micky - February 19 2008 at 21:17
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oh God, not Duran Duran againPinch, we should program the sensor to block every post with D***n D***n.  This is the same fellow who likened Nursery Cryme to a bullet through the cranium DisapproveLOL
 
Since I opened my flapper, I might as well come up with a list...'r two.
 
 
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Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young....or Crosby and Nash, etc.)
The Allman Brothers Band
Grateful Dead
Simon and Garfunkel (laugh, and I SWEAR, by the grace of God I willCensored...*easy, deep breath*)
Led Zeppelin
Bob Dylan
The Who
Blue Oyster Cult
Judas Priest
Jackson Browne
 
close:  Styx, Elton John, Deep Purple, Eric Clapton, Cream
 
 
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Genesis & Yes
Jethro Tull
Kansas
Van der Graaf Generator
IQ
Le Orme
The Moody Blues
Barclay James Harvest
Strawbs
 
close: Banco, PFM, Steve Hackett, Supertramp, Area
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Dude...you ever listen to Duran Duran's first two albums? Absolute jems....this coming from me...a total prog-geek. Absolute stellar basslines...some of the greatest and edgiest pop tunes ever.
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hmmmm

Radiohead
Porcupine Tree
The Decemberists
Gentle Giant
Genesis
Peter Gabriel
The Mars Volta
Sigur Ros
Jethro Tull
Animal Collective
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1. Genesis- up to 1977 but I get PG and SH solo as a consolation prize for Phil murdering my favorite band.
2. Pink Floyd
3.Marillion
4. Jethro Tull
5. Rush
6.Happy Rhodes- I know none of you have heard of her but she's amazing and does "the Yes medely" on her album "the Keep"
7.Talk Talk
8. Porcupine Tree
9. Kate Bush
10. Split Enz-  they don't get much love around here
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1. Dream Theater
2. Porcupine Tree
3. Steve Vai
4. Opeth
5. Jason Becker
6. Eric Johnson
7. Between the Buried and Me
8. Alice Cooper
9. King Crimson
10. AC/DC (The first real band I got into..and I can't stop listening to them.)
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Originally posted by MisterProg2112 MisterProg2112 wrote:

1. Dream Theater
2. Porcupine Tree
3. Steve Vai
4. Opeth
5. Jason Becker
6. Eric Johnson
7. Between the Buried and Me
8. Alice Cooper
9. King Crimson
10. AC/DC (The first real band I got into..and I can't stop listening to them.)
 
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Here are my top ten (hard)-rock bands :
 
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
The Who
Ten Years After
Queen
Uriah Heep
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Golden Earing
 
OK, there are only nine....
 
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Here are my top ten prog bands :
 
Genesis
Yes
Floyd
Tull
Ange
Van Der Graaf Generator
Marillion (the genuine one of course)
La Maschera Di Cera
Pendragon
ELP
Camel
 
Sorry, there are eleven ones...
 
 
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Here are my top ten classic rock ones :
 
Jimi Hendrix
10CC
Roxy Music
Simple Minds
Echo & The Bunnymen
Lou Reed
Santana (although difficult to categorize)
Supertramp
The Beatles
The Doors
 
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Here are my top ten new wave ones :
 
Patti Smith
Magazine
Ultravox!
Television
Doctors Of Madness
Talking Heads
Fisher-Z
Lene Lovitch
Blondie
Devo
 
 
 
 
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Here are my top ten punk ones :
 
The Clash
The Stranglers
The Damned
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
Buzzcocks
Generation X
The Adverts
The Jam
Green Day (post, post punk)
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top ten prog:

Yes
Floyd
ELP
Gentle Giant
Supertramp
Jethro Tull
Uriah Heep
King Crimson
Soft Machine
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