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Poll Question: How many of these do you recognize?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
30 [15.79%]
21 [11.05%]
20 [10.53%]
23 [12.11%]
14 [7.37%]
21 [11.05%]
16 [8.42%]
17 [8.95%]
28 [14.74%]
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In my opinions these are the essential knowledge of a modern day proghead.
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I know them all... but how am I supposed to vote? :P
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Huh?
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I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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You would have been sleeping under a rock for ages not to know these guys.
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Perhaps a better question would have been: "Which of these are you not familiar with?" along with a  "Recognize them all" choice as these are fairly popular and well-known names.
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I've heard of all these except for this Phil Collins you mention.  Who's he?
 
Aaaaaahh.  Now I remember.  I know who you mean, he's the guitarist with Def Leppard isn't he?
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Maybe Joan Collins' husband (many of...)
I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Originally posted by Lofcaudio Lofcaudio wrote:

Perhaps a better question would have been: "Which of these are you not familiar with?" along with a  "Recognize them all" choice as these are fairly popular and well-known names.

well, I didn't think many people would recognize them all. And  "Which of these are you not familiar with?" is not a good question because the newbies usually aren't that eager to vote
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The only one i know is the Frippster, the rest, total strangers to me...
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I think I may have voted for Åkerfeldt twice Embarrassed
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I confined my votes to those that were in my collection somewhere.  If you're on this site long enough I think you will have heard of all of them.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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not necessarily. Not every prog fan listens to metal, so certain people are out.
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I know them all. I only had to check if my guess to which band Daniel Gildenlöw belongs was right. But since multiple voting is not allowed here, I voted for David Gilmour: his music is the one I'm most familar with. And I couldn't stand it that one of the others had one more vote, even if his name is Robert Fripp...

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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

I know them all. I only had to check if my guess to which band Daniel Gildenlöw belongs was right. But since multiple voting is not allowed here, I voted for David Gilmour: his music is the one I'm most familar with. And I couldn't stand it that one of the others had one more vote, even if his name is Robert Fripp...
1. The Flower Kings right?
2. Multiple votes are allowed in the poll.
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Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

Originally posted by Lofcaudio Lofcaudio wrote:

Perhaps a better question would have been: "Which of these are you not familiar with?" along with a  "Recognize them all" choice as these are fairly popular and well-known names.

well, I didn't think many people would recognize them all. And  "Which of these are you not familiar with?" is not a good question because the newbies usually aren't that eager to vote


I'd be utterly astonished if there had been people on this site for more than a week, month at the outside, that hadnt at least heard of every name on that list.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

I know them all. I only had to check if my guess to which band Daniel Gildenlöw belongs was right. But since multiple voting is not allowed here, I voted for David Gilmour: his music is the one I'm most familar with. And I couldn't stand it that one of the others had one more vote, even if his name is Robert Fripp...
1. The Flower Kings right?
2. Multiple votes are allowed in the poll.
 
1. Wrong. Pain of Salvation.
2. Thanks for correcting me, Dean. I did not understand how multiple voting worked until now.
    Being a native computer nerd, I expected check boxes instead of radio buttons, but this was caused by my own tunnel vision. This means that I must allow Robert Fripp having one more vote than David Gilmour once again...Ouch


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I know them all from the first look at the list, if you know prog is almost impossible not to know these guys.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

I know them all. I only had to check if my guess to which band Daniel Gildenlöw belongs was right. But since multiple voting is not allowed here, I voted for David Gilmour: his music is the one I'm most familar with. And I couldn't stand it that one of the others had one more vote, even if his name is Robert Fripp...
1. The Flower Kings right?
2. Multiple votes are allowed in the poll.
 
1. Wrong. Pain of Salvation.
2. Thanks for correcting me, Dean. I did not understand how multiple voting worked until now.
    Being a native computer nerd, I expected check boxes instead of radio buttons, but this was caused by my own tunnel vision. This means that I must allow Robert Fripp having one more vote than David Gilmour once again...Ouch


In the vein of the Miller Lite commercials, "Let's have both," 

Gildenlow is in Pain of Salvation and was a member of The Flower Kings for both Unfold the Future and Adam and Eve.
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I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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I have heard of them all, but I haven't listened to them all, although  I have a good idea what the music they play sounds like. Speaking of David Gilmour, I heard "On An Island" on the radio yesterday at the store, I was amazed that it stills gets airtime since it wasn't that big of a hit.
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