All-Time Top 10 Progressive Rock Bands

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: ...there aren't many avantheads here and plenty of haters.  I can say the same of the niche of music I listen to. At least some avantheads participate in forum discussions related to the genre, how about the black midi thread? Many other threads, especially modern prog, get little to no response. That is the way of PA, endless talks about what shoes Steve Hackett wore when tracking the guitar solo for "Firth of Fith".

Well I like avant progressive metal (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Unexpect, Stolen Babies, Behold The Arctopus, etc), I'm pretty sure avant-symph and avant-neo are oxymorons.

1. Yes

2. Genesis

3. King Crimson

4. ELP

5. Pink Floyd

6. Jethro Tull

7. Gentle Giant

8. Rush

9. Kansas

10. Transatlantic

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11. Renaissance

12. Van Der Graaf Generator

13. PFM

14. Banco 

15. Le Orme

16. Styx

17. Wobbler

18. Big Big Train

19. The Flower Kings

20. Camel

I love to hear what's on your heart, Grumpy. 

you misunderstood

they are an experimental, avant-garde band  

Don't know them, off to explore

I like their Clivages (2010).

David_D wrote: Anyway, I surely wonder what "favourite bands" means to you, guys, even there are some answers on that in a new thread started by me, "Is music (albums) or bands most important for you?".

Well, I have probably 100+ favorite bands, including experimental/avant-rock bands. Every band, even with 1 album in discography but exceptional, unforgettable, life changing gets my vote as favorite.  Unfortunately there is only 10 slots in Top 10 category. Why these particular 10 bands, not others? There are different factors: bands that I know for many years and I never got tired of listening to their music. For each band in my Top 10 - I remember when I heard their music for the first time, which album or track and where that was. I followed their musical journey and couldn't wait for the release of next album. So as you can see - plenty of sentimental values. One quick look at the shelves with my CD collection and I know which are my favorite 10 Progressive-Rock bands, the ones with the most CDs on the shelf. :)

I am pretty picky and choosy. I used to have large collection of CDs, but sold most of them because I rarely listened to them. They were simply gathering the dust. I only kept about 500 CDs which are the most relevant to my taste in music. Just for the record, some of my favorite bands include: Cheer-Accident, This Heat, Camberwell Now, the Residents, Present, Pere Ubu, Egg, Khan, Marsupilami, Gracious, East of Eden, Rare Bird, Gnidrolog, Stormy Six, Picchio dal Pozzo and another 20 RPI bands.