BIG FIVE

Crazy talk. As others have stated, for the most part, these are the "Originators" of the genre so why would you need to change that? If you feel the need to glorify the modern era artists that have "FOLLOWED" in their footsteps then knock yourself out. You've quoted three decades to pick from, that should tell you something. Even current prog bands run their course, Dream Theatre being an example. They came on strong with some good albums but have fallen into a dull and boring metal sound that has little to nothing to do with progressive music. But that's a discussion for another time.

BTW, to Horizons, ELP is NOT bad. They were without a doubt extremely talented and innovators in the field of music. You obviously just don't like them. Comments like that are useless in a conversation.

Sorry to say that, but without good sales and enough popularity the actual majors wouldn't have let the whole genre begin. So I'd replace King Crimson with Jethro Tull.  

From the perspective of the '70s, I would have to go with:

Svetonio wrote: Mind_Drive wrote: i´d probably replace ELP with Tull (...) I agree. ELP, formed as a "supergroup" in 1970, were released 7 studio albums in golden decade, and IMO three albums are essential masterpieces of the progressive rock - s/t debut, Tarkus and Trilogy . If you like, add Brain Salad Surgery and that's four. Jethro Tull in the period from 1968 to 1979 were released 12 studio albums of which at least 8 albums are essential prog masterpieces. Nuff said. p.s. Also, ELP never released so great live album that can be in comparision with outstanding Bursting Out

& Henry Cow

Guldbamsen wrote: The list will never be complete without Amon Düül ll. The bible says so.

Amon Düül II is so effifing good it will forever influenced my way of composing metal doom songs, as have Ash Ra Temple

Edited by Icarium - June 24 2014 at 15:22

dr wu23 wrote: Progosopher wrote: Everybody is going to have their own Big Five, but these are the clear leaders when it comes to the development of the genre. Tull, Rush, and VDGG should definitely get similar levels of attention for their contributions, which would make a Big Eight. I would be content with that. Maybe add Zappa and make it Nine? No one will ever fill their shoes and have the same impact. These are the bands who created Prog as we know it. Has Prog moved on? Are their great artists who came after? Yes, but it is all built on the foundations of these artists. ^this You must have been looking over my shoulder when you wrote that......

I have been known to sneak up quietly behind people.      The missus swears she is going to put a bell on me someday. She will have to catch me first.

A case could be argued about Mike Oldfield too, perhaps he did not release so many masterpieces but as for individual albums nobody can argue about the historical significance of Tubullar Bells for Prog Rock and its popularization to the big masses. In the 70's you would visit anybody's home and many people might not have albums by Yes, ELP or Tull, but rare was the home without one copy of TB.

richardh wrote: Svetonio wrote: richardh wrote: Svetonio wrote: Mind_Drive wrote: i´d probably replace ELP with Tull (...) I agree. ELP, formed as a "supergroup" in 1970, were released 7 studio albums in golden decade, and IMO three albums are essential masterpieces of the progressive rock - s/t debut, Tarkus and Trilogy . If you like, add Brain Salad Surgery and that's four. Jethro Tull in the period from 1968 to 1979 were released 12 studio albums of which at least 8 albums are essential prog masterpieces. Nuff said. p.s. Also, ELP never released so great live album that can be in comparision with outstanding Bursting Out This is of course very subjective and I am an ELP fan so I would put Welcome Back My Friends up against Bursting Out. Also Pictures At An Exhibition as a unique live album could easily be added to the 4 'essential prog masterpeices' that you name. In my mind though there is a big seven that includes Rush and Tull. 7 is a really annoying number though so we could easily add Camel , VDGG and PFM to make that special ten imo. bugger missed out Gentle Giant .. rips up list and starts again Imo, ELP's greatest are their first three album and Works Vol 2. I mentioned Brain Salad Surgery because that album is, if i am not wrong, widely concerned as an essential prog masterpiece. However, ELP's catalogue is not so large as Jethro Tull's, and ELP don't have so much essential prog masterpieces in their catalogue that to be enough to take Jethro Tull's place in Big 5. I mean, if some band deserved their place in this Big Five group of the great bands, that supposed band have to have a larger catalogue than e.g. ELP. Also, that supposed band ought to be way more popular than Camel, VDGG and PFM - the great bands you mentioned; Jethro Tull was / is more popular than these three bands altogether, imo. (...) and they do have a couple of later albums in their catalog that are highly regarded ( ELPowell and Black Moon). (...)

Five words you must read before you die:

You're all full of sh*t

Prog is considerably more bountiful that just 5 'biggie' bands so why not just celebrate the scores of fantastic bands that adorn our site whether they be from the early 70's or otherwise?
What the world needs now is love sweet love some clueless revisionist c*nt


Edited by ExittheLemming - June 25 2014 at 07:30