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So, Who Exactly is a Member of the Big Six? |
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Scorpius 
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 Topic: So, Who Exactly is a Member of the Big Six?Posted: September 06 2020 at 14:44 |
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I've been on this site for several years now and often times in discussions or in polls I will see the name "Big Six" occasionally pop up. The Big Six of Progressive Rock seems to be a definitive list of the 6 most popular, influential and widely-recognized prog acts. However, every time I see a discussion of the Big Six, the list being discussed is almost always different, even though this seems to be an extremely popular blanket term referring to a set number of specific bands. Today I create this topic to see if one of several things will happen:
A: progarchives comes to a final consensus of who exactly is in the "Big Six" B: Everyone has a different idea of who the big six are, which is cool in its own right C: I'm an idiot and there IS a defined and specific group of bands called the Big Six D: Ringo In order to decide who's officially a member of the Big Six, I will adopt a method I saw on a previous post about pink floyd songs in this forum. Everyone will list out their big six picks and each spot will be awarded a specific number of points. For example, this is my list. 1. Pink Floyd (10 Points) 2. King Crimson (8 Points) 3. Yes (6 Points) 4. Genesis (4 points) 5. ELP (3 Points) 6. Rush (2 Points) Your number one pick is the band you think is most deserving of being in the big six, hence the points system. Ill tally up every couple posts and see what happens. So what's it gonna be folks? let me know in the comments who you think is in the big six. ... god I hope I posted this in the right part of the forum
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 14:55 |
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2 King Crimson 3 Yes 4 VDGG 5 Gentle Giant 6 PFM Edited by Easy Money - September 06 2020 at 17:47 |
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Interesting. When I see the Big Six mentioned I have no doubt about what people mean. ELP, KC, PF, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, in no particular order. I'm not saying that's my choice (although I'm by and large fine with it, even if there's only one overlap with my personal Big Five), and neither am I saying it should be like this, but I'm pretty sure that's the one and only Big Six for those in the know. (If you don't want it to be these by the way, there is no reason to make it six, or to fix any number at all.) Edited by Lewian - September 06 2020 at 15:02 |
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 15:20 |
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Van der Graaf Generator, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Gentle Giant.
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 15:24 |
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 15:39 |
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 15:40 |
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Genesis Pink Floyd King Crimson ELP Gentle Giant To my understanding these are the big six. I didn't include Jethro Tull because then it would be unfair to the Moody Blues. GG were more firmly a prog band so they get my vote instead. I was tempted to add Rush but they didn't really make their mark until a bit later so they are not really part of the first wave. Also, this is not a list of personal favorites for me and I hope no one treats it that way.
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 16:17 |
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No order: Yes ELP King Crimson Genesis Jethro Tull Pink Floyd
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 17:15 |
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so far the rankings are as follows:
Yes - 52 points King Crimson - 48 points Genesis - 31 points ELP - 27 points Pink Floyd - 22 points Jethro Tull - 21 points As of now the rankings seem pretty predictable, but who knows if PFM will come back from 2 points so save the day!!! Yes and King Crimson are the clear top picks right out of the gate with Floyd a little farther back than I would have expected this early on.
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 18:53 |
This is how I understand the Big Six, no matter how the numbers add up. Clearly there are other excellent bands of influence, and everybody seems to have a personal favorite whether on this list or not, but these are the ones that stand out.
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 19:11 |
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this type of thing has been talked about a lot here.....  Edited by dr wu23 - September 06 2020 at 19:15 |
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 20:12 |
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1 Yes
2 Pink Floyd 3 Genesis 4 King Crimson 5 Gentle Giant 6 Jethro Tull
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 21:06 |
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Pink Floyd
Yes Jethro Tull ELP Genesis King Crimson
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Posted: September 06 2020 at 22:27 |
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Pink Floyd Genesis Yes King Crimson ELP Rush
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Since the term 'Big Six' is mostly associated with the heyday of prog:
1. Pink Floyd 2. Genesis 3. Yes 4. ELP 5. Jethro Tull 6. King Crimson |
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Yeah my understanding of the big 6 is that they were the biggest selling prog acts of the very first wave of prog, similar to how the big four of thrash metal are the very best selling bands bands of the first thrash wave. King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, ELP, Jethro Tull, and Pink Floyd. Then the only one that strikes me as odd is KC, being all super uncommercial and all, but they also inarguably kicked the whole thing right off and even opened for The Rolling Stones in their golden period, so certainly they have the clout if not the record sales to belong.
So for the purpose of trying to define what they are, I'll say this is the order of both importance and commercial success: 1. Yes 2. Pink Floyd 3. King Crimson 4. Jethro Tull 5. Genesis 6. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer and here is a list of six which would probably make my personal big six: 1. Rush 2. Genesis 3. Pink Floyd 4. Yes 5. King Crimson 6. Premiata Forneria Marconi |
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Posted: September 07 2020 at 01:42 |
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Pink Floyd Genesis Supertramp Rush Jethro Tull King Crimson
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My lists, in no order
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