British Prog is the best??

For more information and to keep this battle going - I kind of got the idea from a Q Classic magazine entitled "Pink Floyd and the Story of Prog Rock" (2005 issue) in which Cedric Bixler-Zavala (an American/ Mexican type chappy) was quoted to say prog rock "has to be British.  They're the cream of the crop"

Ignorant, eh? (PS one of my friends is Norwegian!)

I expected to offend some Americans (shucks)

This picture says it all....  British prog is the best!

PinkPangolin wrote: The Beatles built Psychedelia, leading to Pink Floyd, then there' s Genesis, then there's Yes, then there's King Crimson, then there's ELP, Jethro Tull - the list goes on...

Brit Prog the best ?
I used to think so...until I heard those magnificent Italian Progressives

PinkPangolin wrote: Also the American stuff has a tendency to sound cheesy

Agree...

The only exception is Zappa.
The most gifted, talented, hard-working, totally independent rock musician America has ever produced.


Edited by Utah Man - June 15 2008 at 12:12

1. Germany
2. France
3. The United States
4. Great Britain

How about ARGENTINIAN Prog?!?!?

#1 Argentina
#2 Argentina
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#10 Argentina
#11 British
#12-20 the rest.

England is definitely up there, but I'd probably put Germany and France before it.

British the best hmmm not shore about that , most commercial and Successful  yes but best ?
but what i would say is Prog is mainly a European  genre   , North America just does not do  prog hence i have hardly any Prog music in my collection from North America  its mostly from Europe , but then we go in the Argument again about what is and what isn't Prog ? 

rileydog22 wrote: German prog is better, IMO.

As is French (Magma)
and American (Zappa/Beefheart/lots of avant-garde)

For the seventies? Yes!

Edited by schizoid_man77 - June 15 2008 at 14:06

Ah, it started to be the battle of the nations, and he already have european football championships under our belt (on Friday I wanted to write that I hate british prog due to Howard Webb's "prank" but the taunting scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail acted as a therapy).

I am so tired of the USA getting crapped on in threads like this.  I grew up in Orange County, California in the 70's graduating High School in 1974.  We had 5 bands playing symphonic progressive rock from 1972-1978 never getting signed. (ask Micky I gave him samples of some of the bands practice tapes) I remember a concert where all 5 played at and it drew 5000 kids and none of these groups had a deal.   That was 5 bands in one small part of the country.  I contend most American prog died on the vine and was never signed because the music industry was already consolidating the avenues of styles.  (The only real experimental music in the US came out of the 67-70 Psychedelic bands and other The Doors, The Byrds and Touch but even still much of this music was still processed for hit radio) The only reason we had Kansas was because they had drawn Don Kirshner's notice BEFORE Kerry Livgren joined the band.  It was Livgren that added the symphonic elements to the group.  It was a total fluke. Before people criticize this band I have heard more people in the US say their first introduction to prog, several dozen in the last year or so,  was through Kansas. Maybe they were not influential on an international level but here they certainly were.