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My 20 favorite Prog Bands, ranked |
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Larkstongue41 
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King Crimson
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Can Tortoise Penguin Cafe Orchestra Talk Talk Neu! Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Samla Mammas Manna Franco Battiato Faust Popol Vuh Boredoms Art Zoyd SBB Area Labradford Soft Machine Magma Ozric Tentacles
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"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."
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Rednight
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Yes not on any 20-slot favorite band list? Unthinkable!
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Think it! Think it! |
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Ian
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The Dark Elf
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Evidently, reading lists is not one of your particular reading attributes. There's probably 12 or 13 lists featuring Yes on the first page of this thread.
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tempest_77
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I think that person meant: how is Yes not on everyone's top 20 list?
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Guldbamsen
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I feel the same way about Amon Düül ll. Tastes differ eh? |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Cristi
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Marillion Genesis Yes Camel Renaissance Riverside Fates Warning Threshold Enchant Procol Harum Porcupine Tree Ange Sfinx Phoenix OSI Goblin IQ Rush Eloy Kansas |
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Mortte
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philipemery
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I don't have Yes because, to be honest, I am not super fond of the vocals (particularly the harmonies, which honestly I find StarCastle's mimicking of Yes to be even superior on a vocal level), and I feel they sacrifice musicality for showing off their virtuosity, which is somewhat my feeling with Gentle Giant as well, but their music is also rather appealing in a "what am I listening to" kind of way (definitely not the most accessible band in the world).
Take Pink Floyd for example. David Gilmour, in my opinion, is one of the most virtuosic guitarists to ever grace god's green Earth. BUT, he doesn't spend his time going insane and just speeding through a song with lots of fancy trills and arpeggios. No, he lets the sound of his guitar ring, and lets that instrument sing to us. He is a bloody amazing guitarist, but he reserves himself and doesn't spend his time going nuts. YES, on the other hand, does this frequently. And while I can appreciate it on a technical level, on when it comes to musicality I find that their antics detract from the music. HOWEVER, before people lose their minds, I am never going to ever say they are poor musicians or anything. Rick Wakeman is a god of the keyboards, Jon Anderson is one of my absolute favorite lead vocalists in history, and Steven Howe is just about unparalleled in the Prog world (the only guitarists I like better being David Gilmour and Robert Fripp). I just don't like it when they are together lol. Rush... I just consider Rush the single largest curse to the prog rock world. A) I don't care for blues hard rock (their early stuff), B) their prog stuff I only find passable at best, and C) I hate every fiber of Progressive Metal, sorry but if I want to hear a band stroke their heavy metal egos, I've got Iron Maiden and Yngwie Malmsteen for that. |
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But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd
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Cristi
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^ Malmsteen? who hasn't released anything interesting or worth it since 1996? :)
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Yup that Malmsteen, whose uninteresting and at times outright idiotic discography past 1996 I still find to be superior to the entirety of Rush's catalog in one single fell swipe.
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But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd
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Cristi
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I disagree, but if you feel this way for Rush, then good for you
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Rednight
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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The Dark Elf
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You were? Then writing legible sentences is also not one of your particular attributes. Your original sentence stated that "not on any 20-slot favorite band list". "Not on any" refers to multiple lists, not a single list, dolt. |
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Rednight
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^A little irritable, are you? Perhaps you need to relocate from that humid, stanky state you reside in to one that induces a calmer, clearer state of mind. And watch the name calling, Slappy.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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The Dark Elf
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That's the best you can do? You're the one who can't type out a legible sentence, then lie to try to cover your 5th grade writing skills, and now you bring states into this? Pathetic. You can keep Cali, I don't need to worry about wild fires, mud slides, smog, earthquakes, droughts and water shortages -- I have four seasons, thousands of miles of forest and the largest system of fresh water lakes in the world. As far as name-calling, braniac, I believe you started that one. But what can one expect from a poster who allows his cat to type for him.
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Lewian
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Can King Crimson Art Zoyd Talk Talk Cardiacs Pink Floyd Amon Düül II Van der Graaf Generator Swans North Sea Radio Orchestra Gong Camel Jethro Tull Genesis Kong Yes Manfred Mann's Earthband Jaga Jazzist Univers Zero Tortoise Honorable mention for some solo artists who'd have qualifiied for top 30 (i.e. beaten at least one of those listed above): Holger Czukay Kate Bush David Sylvian Mike Oldfield William D. Drake Fred Frith Peter Hammill Robert Wyatt Steve Hackett Björk |
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The.Crimson.King
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Cool idea. My top 3 haven't changed in 40 years, after that the bands would probably be about the same but in a different order... 2 King Crimson 3 VDGG/PH 4 Genesis 5 Jethro Tull 6 Yes 7 Zappa 8 Gentle Giant 9 Ange 10 Steve Hackett 11 PFM 12 Procol Harum 13 ELP 14 IQ 15 Greenslade 16 Pulsar 17 Marillion (Fish era) 18 Rush 19 Pink Floyd 20 Brian Eno
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tempest_77
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Yo calm down guys lmao. It's just a post on the internet.
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