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Poll Question: Who’s the greatest prog nation?
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    Posted: December 16 2005 at 14:32

England has failed a drugs test(presumedly not enough!) and shall not be taking be taking part in the competition!

If an important nation is not named feel free to mock my limited Prog knowledge!

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well, if my team failed the test, I guess I am not eligible to vote!

UK is DEFINATELY the greatest prog nation!
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Sweden because of Anglagard, which is more than enough
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I vote for United States of America, there you can find SHADOW GALLERY; DREAM THEATER; QUENSRYCHE; SYMPHONY X and SAVATAGE and I think that is enough progressive music for any competition!!!!
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Definitely England, otherwise I chose Italy from the list.  I love Italian prog.  Also missing France.

1)  England

2)  Italy

3)  Germany

4)  France

5)  Sweden

6)  America

7)  Canada

8)  Japan
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Let's add to the thread ladies & gents.

Medals will be awarded in the following categories:

Best Artist

Best Concept Album

Best Epic Composition

Best Male Vocalist

Best Guitarist

Best Bassist

Best Keyboardist

Best "Other" Instrumentalist

Best Use of Effects

Best Guest Appearance

Best Instrumental Composition

 

Feel free to add to the list.

 
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From the list: Italy!

Why is the UK banned from the Olympics? Did they use some forbidden medication? Too much tea? Or just because there would be no competition if the UK were around? Because that would probably be true.

Wait, now I see, I should have read the 1st post  . My guess was not so far from the truth then.



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SWEDEN!
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We all know England was banned because they would have walked it 

OK A'swepe here's my nominations.

Best Artist

Dream Theater

Best Concept Album

Pain Of Salvation-Be

Best Epic Composition

Spocks Beard- The Great Nothing

Best Male Vocalist

Fish (he's Scotish)

Best Guitarist

John Petrucci

Best Bassist

Geddy Lee

Best Keyboardist

Ryo Okumoto

Best "Other" Instrumentalist

Trey Gunn- Warr Guitar/ Chapman Stick

Best Use of Effects

The Mars Volta

Best Guest Appearance

I'll leave this to others

Best Instrumental Composition

Dream Theater- Instrumedley

I'll add:

Best Prog Metal

Best Symphonic Prog

Best Neo

Now someone els can do the thinking.



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There are so many good prog bands(all genres)coming out of Sweden and Norway right now,they win,hands down.


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Italy - just listening to BMS Darwin! - weird, crazy - two countries are missing - where is France and Poland - come on, we have Riverside, Collage, Quidam, Satellite!!
yet you still have time!
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Italy of course!!!

 

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Italy.

PFM

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Le Orme

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Svveden, Canada #2 (for rush!!)
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Let's add to the thread ladies & gents.

Best Artist

At first Pink Floyd won... but They failed the drug test ...

Gold Medal: USA(Frank Zappa)

Silver Medal: France(Magma)

Bronze Medal: Germany(Can)

 

Best Concept Album

Gold Medal: Italy(Zarathustra from Museo Rosenbach)

Silver Medal: Greece(666 from Aphrodite's Child)

Bronze Medal: Canada(Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison from Harmonium)

 

Best Epic Composition(Let's say songs over 10 minutes )

Gold Medal: France(The isles of Everywhere from Gong)

Silver Medal: Sweden ( Beyond the pale from Pain of Salvation:it's 9min56 but what the heck)

Bronze Medal: A suprising third place from Chile (La poderosa Muerte from Los Jaivas)

 

Best Male Vocalist

Gold Medal: Canada(Serge Fiori from Harmonium)

Silver Medal: Italy ( The Quella Vecchia singer... I forgot his name )

Bronze Medal: Sweden ( Daniel Gildenlow)

 

Best Guitarist

Gold Medal:USA(Frank Zappa with his second medal!!!)

Silver Medal: USA(Steve Vai the only one-two american win)

Bronze Medal: Spain(Eduardo Rodriguez from Triana)

 

Best Bassist

Gold Medal: USA(Tony Levin)

Silver Medal: Canada(Geddy Lee)

Bronze Medal: Sweden (Michael Stolt...I love him!)

 

Best drummer

Gold Medal: Canada (Neil Peart who else?)

Silver Medal: France ( Christian Vander from Magma)

Bronze Medal: USA (Billy Cobham)

 

Best Keyboardist

Gold Medal: Switzerland(Patrick Moraz)

Silver Medal: Greece(Vangelis)

Bronze Medal: Italy(Flavio Premoli)

 

Best "Other" Instrumentalist

Gold Medal: Italy(Mauro Pagani from PFM)

Silver Medal: France(Jean-Luc Ponty)

Bronze Medal: Netherlands (Thijs van Leer from Focus)

 

Best Use of Effects

Gold Medal: Germany(Klaus Schulze)

Silver Medal: Germany(Tangerine Dream)

Bronze Medal: USA (The Mars Volta)

 

Best Instrumental Composition

Gold Medal: France(The Isles of everywhere from Gong)

Silver Medal: Germany(Nietsche from Klaus Schulze)

Bronze Medal: USA(The Gumbo Variations from Frank Zappa)

 

                        G         ;         S           ;      B           ;    T

France              2           ;        3           ;      0           ;    5

USA         &nb sp;      2           ;          1           ;     2           ;    5           ;     

Canada             2           ;         1           ;     1           ;    4

Italy         & nbsp;      2           ;          1           ;     1              4

Germany          ; 1           ;         2           ;     1              4

Switzerland       1           ;         0           ;     0    &nbs p;         1

Sweden            0           ;           2           ;     1           ;     3

Greece              0           ;         2           ;     0               2

Chile         & nbsp;      0           ;           0           ;     1    &nbs p;         1

Netherlands      0           ;           0           ;     1    &nbs p;         1

Spain                0           ;           0           ;     1    &nbs p;         1

There may be some errors... but these are my olympics (of course... it is wihtout UK wich would kick the entire world's ass!!! It's no suprise they took steroids...hehe)

 

 

 
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Germany, Sweden, Canada
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Originally posted by Page to Squire Page to Squire wrote:

England has failed a drugs test(presumedly not enough!) and shall not be taking be taking part in the competition!

If an important nation is not named feel free to mock my limited Prog knowledge!

Vote Fair!

why i gods name have you gone an done that? we all know Uk is the ome of prog!
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I vote for Italy (since UK is out for drug treatment).

P.S.: considering that Brazil was not listed our national team will not play the next World Cup

 
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I can't choose between Italy, Sweden and Poland. The Netherlands have produced some top class prog too.
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