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Argo2112 
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 Topic: " Big Six " 1980 and forwardPosted: December 03 2019 at 10:58 |
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We all know about the " Big Six "of prog. Someone recently had a thread asking for peoples second tier bands & most of those seem to come from the late 60's to mid 70's. (Gentle Giant, Camel, VDGG,.....)
My question is who would be your "big six" bands that started releasing material after 1979. (The post 70's prog era.)
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 11:13 |
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A good question which I find hard to answer, so I'll leave it to others in the progosphere to decide, who are far more knowledgeable about modern prog than I am. I could give a list of which six modern prog bands I like best of all, although I doubt if anyone would agree with me that they should be in a first tier "Big Six" list of modern prog bands.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 11:37 |
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Marillion and 5 others.
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Argo2112
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 12:03 |
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^ Yea, That's what I think most people will say.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 12:16 |
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First guess, though I think this will be a lot more spread out than the 70's. Marillion
Dream Theater Anglagard Porcupine Tree Opeth Rush |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 12:34 |
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I think it's 3 undisputed ones: Marillion, Porcupine Tree, and Dream Theater. Then we can try to go further, and it can become tricky.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 12:36 |
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Spock's Beard/Neal Morse
Marillion IQ The Flower Kings Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson The Tangent |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 13:07 |
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Marillion
IQ Dream Theater
Spock's Beard/Neal Morse The Flower Kings Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 13:11 |
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Spock's Beard Dream Theater Djam Karet After Crying Pineapple Thief Anekdoten |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 13:11 |
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I wouldn't include Spocks Beard or The Flower Kings, each only has one 4 star album with large discographies.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 13:47 |
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Really, really hard to pick only six. Big Big Train Izz Frost* The Aristocrats Thank You Scientist Riverside Others.... The Psychedelic Ensemble Mike Keneally Echolyn Sanguine Hum Thieves' Kitchen Haken Spock's Beard Dream Theater
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 14:10 |
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Anathema Anekdoten Airbag Anubis Anglagard Arena ... to be continued.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 14:29 |
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Dream Theater
Opeth Anglagard Porcupine Tree Marillion Wobbler |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 14:51 |
Eh? Both have produced some of the best symphonic prog since 1975....definately in the six.. IQ DREAM THEATER FLOWER KINGS SPOCKS BEARD STEVE HACKETT THE TANGENT .... |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 14:52 |
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Spock’s Beard and Flower Kings are parody prog
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 15:53 |
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I would put The Flower Kings in the big six, and Spock's Beard would be number 7. Mike Keneally, I Am the Morning, The Aristocrats, Pocupine Tree and Tricantropous would be the other five. If we count new bands formed by old timers, then The Steve Hackett Band and The Martin Barre Band would top the list. Of course this is my personal list, and I know many will not agree, and that's ok I guess.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 16:40 |
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My personal list would probably be something like... Cardiacs - Talk Talk - Swans - North Sea Radio Orchestra - Tortoise - Porcupine Tree. If I think of an "official big 6" defined by innovation, influence, impact, and some kind of centrality to prog, Porcupine Tree would still be there. Cardiacs and Talk Talk tick all boxes except centrality (what ever that is); even Tortoise and Swans don't seem to be too far off. Anyway, I'd probably not vote against one of Dream Theater or Opeth, Anekdoten, IQ. I love iamthemorning and After Crying, but they're probably also not so central to the genre. Marillion is accepted grudgingly. I'm somewhat surprised Mars Volta, Tool and Radiohead haven't been nominated yet, but fair enough, they won't tick centrality either, except Mars Volta may, just about. I'd like to see post/math rock represented and if you don't want Talk Talk or Tortoise, Goodspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, and Battles could also be contenders. Mr. Bungle is also super awesome.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 16:51 |
There's a sad single sentence commentary on prog, post-1980.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 19:42 |
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Marillion, Spock's Beard.. umm.. Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree.. I've run out of bands, sorry.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 19:54 |
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If we look at how many top 100 albums bands have had and how many ratings bands have for top 100 albums we get
Top 100 Albums (2nd sort by # of rankings) Porcupine Tree / S Wilson - 5 Opeth - 5 Marillion - 3 Riverside - 3 Cardiacs - 3 Dream Theater - 2 Rush - 2 Anglagard - 2 Pain Of Salvation - 2 Phideaux - 2 Top 100 album rankings Porcupine Tree / S Wilson - 10183 Opeth - 6199 Dream Theater - 5737 Marillion - 5368 Rush - 4762 Riverside - 4110 Anglagard - 2738 Pain Of Salvation - 2362 Phideaux - 1788 Big Big Train - 1751
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