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Poll Question: Which band/artist of these has your favoured album?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
29 [31.87%]
8 [8.79%]
3 [3.30%]
0 [0.00%]
7 [7.69%]
2 [2.20%]
5 [5.49%]
3 [3.30%]
5 [5.49%]
3 [3.30%]
3 [3.30%]
7 [7.69%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [5.49%]
2 [2.20%]
7 [7.69%]
2 [2.20%]
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Well, Gentle Giant, Soft Machine and Ulver are all excellent! I really couldn't decide between any of them.
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    As much as I love GG, I had to go for Banco. I find myself listening to "Darwin," and even the debut, more often than GG. The funny thing is that I only have those two Banco albums, but I have just about all of GG's studio output.
    
By the way, I have to agree that this is a great idea for a poll. It gets you thinking about some of our more unsung heroes.

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Mostly Autumn with no doubt. Beautifull band!!!
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Soft Machine.  I prefer Volume One, Third, and Softs to anything by Gentle Giant (but they would be #2).
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I would hardly call Riverside 4th rate LOL but i voted for them  Thumbs Up

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Very close between Mostly Autumn, Arena, Kate Bush and Riverside. I eventually plumped for Mostly Autumn.
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Wow! a poll with Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, Anglagard, Banco and Popol Vuh in it? Impossible to decide, really.

I went for Soft Machine, even though all those bands have at least one five star album!
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Blast! I misread the instructions -thought I was voting for a band I thought was fourth-rate - as in rubbish - so naturally voted for Gentle Giant, because to me they sound contrived and unpleasant... Ouch
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

I would hardly call Riverside 4th rate LOL but i voted for them  Thumbs Up


Indeed, they're all first-rate bands (despite their 4th place popularity ranking in each given subgenre, which is stilll high -- but I'm galdd, I thought it would be amusing terming them 4th rate).  Gentle Giant, for instance, is one of the most talked about bands here.  And I love Anglagard and Banco.  Hybris is my favourite prog album of the last two decades (my avatar's the Hybris cover with the gentle giant face clonestamped in... badly).

I had planned on continuing this with 5th-ranked albums, then 6th etc. -- therbey increasing the obscurity, but of course some prog, and not so prog lol - subgenres are pretty obscure already, and the top artists of those are largely undiscussed here.

Having noted that certiain bands dominate the top of the list with several highly-rated albums, this started as a minor exercise in stats. I wanted too see how the fourth band-names mentioned in the subgenres categories stacked up against other statistically speaking when comparing the general prog album ranking and subgenre album ranking.  I chose fourth place due to my love for Hybris, happily for me, Banco and Gentle Giant had albums which made them includable in the list.

Fourth place for an album is a high popularity ranking, by 10th (also high for most categories) there's gonna be some really obscure stuff (for most of this community).  There were already bands of 4th place standing who hadn't made the top 500 (all genres).

I wish there was a similarly ordered list here for the top 11, 747 albums.  What are the ten least popular albums at the site?
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definitely soft machine
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Eloy here!

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Gentle Giant (though I don't know much about the rest except for Soft Machine)
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The Soft Machine of course, pure manna they are.
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Eloy for me.

Although Banco and GG deserve honourable mentions.
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Kate Bush, no doubt. Riverside second, Banco third.
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My top candidates were Arena, Riverside and Gentle Giant, and finally, my vote goes to Arena.
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Gentle Giant, with Soft Machine coming close.
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