Most Overrated Prog Bands Of All Time Poll

No band or artist is over rated. Usually quite the reverse.

The over or under rating (where is the balance? (Rhe.) is done by the audience and is actually criticizing  - the audience. The audience are the subject and anyone, the object may or may not be overrated. The only objective constant is you, the listener, critic, fan, consumer, concert attendee. The object is the ball in play, the game is rating, and if you have an opinion that someone disagrees with then you are wrong. Thus some one is overrated despite not actually being involved in the process except to be kicked, passed and other wise knocked into touch.

Or, to be blunt ,if someone says someone is over rated they are talking about you. They may say they talk about Band X (...) or whoever but that all changes all the time. Only the over rating is perpetual.

Rush, of course.

Probably ELP, because GG wasn´t as respected in the seventies as many others.

Chilltoss wrote: Perhaps ELP. They do have their moments with songs like "Lucky Man" or "The Sheriff", however the rest of their work is filled with pretentious, self-indulgent, and bombastic noodling(half the bands on your list are probably similar in this regard, but I've yet to listen to them and don't plan to). Look no further than Karn Evil 9. ab-so-lute rub-bish

there is in my opinion no such thing as "noodling". it is just a derogatory term used by people who can't appreciate certain musical passages

I certainly don't think ELP is 'underrated'...their first 4 albums are all rated over 4 stars........

No, ELP really haven´t been underrated at all. Of course they got lot of mocks after the middle seventies, but so did all the progbands, even Pink Floyd. And when these days here seem to be many who liked ELP, it´s one proof it has never been underrated. There are many really much greater progbands from the seventies really few still respect. I think the main problem to me in ELP is Emerson. He has always been the one, who wanted to show every album how skillfull he is. Also, he had a really bad taste of synth sounds, if he had just stayed in the organ and piano, ELP albums would have been much more better. Greg Lake is the main reason why I listen ELP albums. His voice is absolutely great, also love his playing, also he was the one who kept on doing shorter, melodic pieces in ELP albums.

micky wrote: they.. along with Yes.. were the face of prog and still are today like it or not...and did as much.. or more than anyone to create it, influence it, and popularize it. And pound for pound were probably its more talented group.

ELP transcended the genre - they brought jazz into prog and probably were the most successful band to do so.  They were actually exciting!!  The ELP bashing reminds me of the time in the late 70s when us ELP fans had to put up with the high priests of punk telling us that they were crap.  Yet, for example, 'Welcome Back My Friends' went to 4 on Billboard and 'Tarkus' was a number 1 UK album - not many prog bands can make similar claims...

Chilltoss wrote: Perhaps ELP. They do have their moments with songs like "Lucky Man" or "The Sheriff", however the rest of their work is filled with pretentious, self-indulgent, and bombastic noodling(half the bands on your list are probably similar in this regard, but I've yet to listen to them and don't plan to). Look no further than Karn Evil 9. ab-so-lute rub-bish

Congrats! Your comments just mirrored the mainstream press for most of their work (how ordinary). As for Lucky Man and The Sheriff being "moments," correct! They were moments of filler while the grander stuff came elsewhere on their respective albums.

ELP are not under or overrated imho....and considering how talented all 3 members were...I was always a bit disappointed that they didn't write even better material and  wrote some awful junk .