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Good job Scot. I enjoyed watching that. I agree with it also.
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Actually...member of The Big 9...if you get my drift.  LOL
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The six who know the secret handshake are the only members.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Actually...member of The Big 9...if you get my drift.  LOL

No. Please explain it to us. 
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:




That’s an impressive number of LPs (big CDs, as my niece once said). It is so cool to see all those Big 6 album covers. Also, it makes me miss going into the store and seeing LPs, where each one was a real work of art.

My list would round off a Big 10 with Rush, Kansas, Sky, and UK.

Are any of those 4 bands in your Top 100? I’m pretty sure I know the answer to at least one.

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Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:




That’s an impressive number of LPs (big CDs, as my niece once said). It is so cool to see all those Big 6 album covers. Also, it makes me miss going into the store and seeing LPs, where each one was a real work of art.

My list would round off a Big 10 with Rush, Kansas, Sky, and UK.

Are any of those 4 bands in your Top 100? I’m pretty sure I know the answer to at least one.

Rush and Kansas are definitely Top 10 bands for me!!!

UK is Top 50 (only two albums...)

And Sky is cool but I'd rank them a little lower.

I did a Top 100 Prog Bands series on my YouTube channel (over five episodes a couple weeks back.)
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:




That’s an impressive number of LPs (big CDs, as my niece once said). It is so cool to see all those Big 6 album covers. Also, it makes me miss going into the store and seeing LPs, where each one was a real work of art.

My list would round off a Big 10 with Rush, Kansas, Sky, and UK.

Are any of those 4 bands in your Top 100? I’m pretty sure I know the answer to at least one.


Rush and Kansas are definitely Top 10 bands for me!!!

UK is Top 50 (only two albums...)

And Sky is cool but I'd rank them a little lower.

I did a Top 100 Prog Bands series on my YouTube channel (over five episodes a couple weeks back.)


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Jethro Tull
Le Orme
Gentle Giant
Camel
Oblivion Express
Van Der Graaf

I always forget a band lol
I have Yes just outside my 10 and Genesis just in
Pink Floyd probably 20
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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1. Pink Floyd
2. Yes
3. King Crimson
4. Genesis
5. Rush
6. The Jins (they’re not prof but I just love them so listen to them now. I can use my vote for whatever I want so haha)
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

and Embryo were more or less the inventors of World Music

I love Embryo, and own most of their albums. But there were literally hundreds (maybe even thousands considering their "world-approach" was quite modest up until their 1973-release We Keep On) of jazz artists  ahead of them in that department. Sun Ra, Yusef Lateef, Sabu Martinez mm... started fusing jazz with all kinds of music from all over the world in the late 1950's (and Les Baxter before them, really). Ever heard Ahmed Abdul-Malik's albums Jazz Sahara (1958) or East Meets West (1959)?




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Big Six

1. Genesis (851 points)
2. Yes (759 points)
3. Pink Floyd (696 points)
4. King Crimson (683 points)
5. Rush (399 points)
6. Emerson, Lake & Palmer (333 points)

Middle Six

7. Van der Graaf Generator (304 points)
8. Marillion (268 points)
9. Jethro Tull (261 points)
10. Gentle Giant (248 points)
11. Camel (162 points)
12. IQ (148 points)

Little Six

13. Renaissance (106 points)
14. Soft Machine (102 points)
15. Porcupine Tree (99 points)
16. Magma (85 points)
17. Spock's Beard (80 points)
18. Can (72 points) 
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That old chestnut.  The big six are those who dominated their contemporaneous charts while transcending the genre, so...

Pink Floyd
Genesis
Yes 
ELP
King Crimson
Jethro Tull
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Good job Scot. I enjoyed watching that. I agree with it also.

Thank you!!!
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

That old chestnut.  The big six are those who dominated their contemporaneous charts while transcending the genre, so...

Pink Floyd
Genesis
Yes 
ELP
King Crimson
Jethro Tull


"Big" here refers to most popular, most famous, so we can agree these 6 bands fit the criteria. Not that this "big 6" term helps in any way. Maybe to a beginner to the world of progressive rock. 
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I disagree with the above assessments. Rush were/are far more popular than King Crimson ever was. KC is more like an "insiders" god--the all-powerful hero who lurks in the shadows, creates awe, wonder, and chaos in the foundational concrete and pavement of the civilized world. Though they were/are tremendously influential within the prog (and perhaps rock) world, they were never a stadium-filling band like the others.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

I disagree with the above assessments. Rush were/are far more popular than King Crimson ever was. KC is more like an "insiders" god--the all-powerful hero who lurks in the shadows, creates awe, wonder, and chaos in the foundational concrete and pavement of the civilized world. Though they were/are tremendously influential within the prog (and perhaps rock) world, they were never a stadium-filling band like the others.


True I guess, but like many said before, Rush debuted in 1974, had they started earlier, they would have made the list. In 1974, KC went on their first hiatus after having released Red which is one of the most beloved albums. 
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^ But then we open a whole new debate as to whether Rush were 'progressive'... At school, in the late 70s, Rush fans tended to be with the heavy metal/rock crowd and they took the piss out of us prog-rockers.  I have bitter experience of this.  
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

^ But then we open a whole new debate as to whether Rush were 'progressive'... At school, in the late 70s, Rush fans tended to be with the heavy metal/rock crowd and they took the piss out of us prog-rockers.  I have bitter experience of this.  

I'm not starting any debate like that. I think Rush are progressive, whether categorized as heavy-prog or progressive hard rock (as I've seen them labelled sometimes). 
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

^ But then we open a whole new debate as to whether Rush were 'progressive'... At school, in the late 70s, Rush fans tended to be with the heavy metal/rock crowd and they took the mickey out of us prog-rockers.  I have bitter experience of this.  

I'm a Rush fan, but I wouldn't even include Rush in the Top 100 of Progressive Rock bands, mainly because they've always been a Hard Rock band to me. One of the biggest surprises when I first joined PA was discovering that Rush were included here too. Smile


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