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CPicard

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Posted: September 01 2014 at 12:28

Boo-hoo, you're cheating.

Prog_Traveller View Drop Down

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Posted: September 01 2014 at 13:25

paulindigo wrote:

I got 91/100... But I should add that I'm Italian...

I'm not saying that doesn't play a role in your high score but to be honest I think being a hardcore prog fan has more to do with it. From what I understand most Italian prog bands were not that popular or well known even in Italy.

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Posted: September 01 2014 at 16:05

Interesting collection of prog classics. Refreshed my memory.

Progosopher View Drop Down

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Posted: September 01 2014 at 19:36

Turamarth wrote:

<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Hi! I'm that guy who created the quiz, I'm glad to see that you liked it!<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">I'll try to answer to some of your doubts:<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">@Prog_Traveller, I chose to limit it to the "classic era" simply because I wanted to. Smile

Also I'm not extremely knowledgeable about more recent prog and even with help from this and other sites (which of course I used a lot to create the quiz anyway) I surely would have missed something important. And lastly, for more recent artits it's also much more difficult to decide if they "truly" belong to progressive rock or not, take for instance progressive metal, or post-rock.<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Anyway, I'm sure that you know better than me that the distinction between what is prog and what is not has never been completely clear, so I thought it was fair to include some bands that may not be prog rock in the strictest sense (e.g. Golden Earring, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep and others), but are definitely "prog-related", as you say here.<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">The "obscure" inclusion were forced by the number, but if you feel that I should take out some and you can suggest some good alternatives, I'll be happy to do some improvements.<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Also, I've added a couple more minutes since some of you said time was not enough.<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">@CPicard, I might be wrong, but it seems to me that Catapilla has more than enough recognition (on this site and everywhere else) to make this list. About Culpeper, well, you're right, but as I said I was forced to include some VERY obscure bands to make the number, and having one from Denmark instead of the nth from UK looked better to me. Big smile

Still, they are a good band and very well-rated on rateyourmusic, too.<div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">@TheH, some short forms are accepted when possible, and I've just added some more. Typing just Raccomandata should be enough. Smile

Hi, Turamarth. I thought it an interesting and good quiz. The continental tradition is less well know on the U.S. west coast than in the east, which is what threw me.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

paulindigo View Drop Down

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Posted: September 02 2014 at 02:31

Of course you're right, I was just joking.
Bands like Biglietto per l'inferno, Raccomandata con ricevuta di ritorno and even Balletto di bronzo must have sold many more records in the last two decades thanks to CD reissues than they did in the 70s

gents

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Posted: September 02 2014 at 06:44

45/100

didn't know italian bands also

t2 and catapilla are not that obscure.....specially if you are on this place

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Posted: September 03 2014 at 23:12

Like ProgTraveler, I got 61 out of 100 (wouldn’t it be a riot if we got all the same ones). I too was stumped by most of the RPI bands, though I should have caught Osanna, not to mention Wishbone Ash, Eloy and Cressida.

It seems like a bit of an unfair advantage with some of them, time-wise; it takes far less time and effort to key in Yes or Rush than a few of those Italian band names. I’m a decent speller but my main problem is fat-finger mistakes.

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Posted: September 04 2014 at 00:18

Well we didn't get the same bands then because I did get Eloy and Wishbone Ash. I think I got Osanna but did not get Cressida(nor did I get Catapilla or T2).

friso

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