top 50 favourite bands
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Topic: top 50 favourite bands
Posted By: progrules
Subject: top 50 favourite bands
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 10:38
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I already participated in the challenge of naming the 50 best songs as well as the 50 best albums according to personal taste. I thought it was time for the ultimate challenge: name your 50 most favourite bands in right order.
It seems (too) hard but I had it done within 15 minutes and to make it a little easier: you're allowed to name non-prog bands. So take up the glove I'd say. Good luck.
By the way: these are my 50 (number 50 is still a great band as you can see):
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 02:32
| This is an awesome thread, and I will reply to it at some point with my 50 so you're not alone and so I know. HHowever its tough. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 21:53
There I go
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 02:47
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1. John Coltrane
Miles Davis The Mars Volta Tool Metallica Ralph Towner/Oregon Ravi Shankar RZA Battles Keith Jarrett Bob Dylan Neil Young Sigur Ros Bjork John Frusciante John Fogerty Chirgilchin Elvis Costello Hank Williams Richard Thompson Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Sunny Day Real Estate Elliott Smith The Velvet Underground 25. Yes Charles Mingus Built To Spill Cocteau Twins Masked Superstar Alamaailman Vasarat Pink Floyd Philip Glass Echo & The Bunnymen Muse The Dismemberment Plan The States Mew Dungen Acid Mothers Temple Tyr John Cale Curtis Mayfield Death John Lee Hooker Dio Black Sabbath Bill Frisell Tim Buckley Tortoise 50. The Wailers That order too as its what was on top of my head which seems like it would be the best bet. Looks pretty good to me. |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 12:30
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Appears I've been too hasty with my 15 minutes. I left out some significant bands with my 50. To prevent doing it all over again I will name the forgotten bands with the appr. range
The Tangent: no. 14
Glass Hammer: no. 21
Nexus: no.17
Ice Age: no.19
Vandenplas no.24
Royal Hunt no.32
And also honorable mentions for Guns & Roses, Explorers Club, Mangrove, Masterplan and Grand Stand who just fell out of the first 50. By the way I left out a few bands that had made only one album so far like Skeem, Frost, Apple Pie and Amaran's Plight. So you see, mentioning 50 great bands isn't really that hard (mentioning them all and putting them in the right order is, though  )------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 13:02
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1. The Smiths 2. David Sylvian 3. Leonard Cohen 4. King Crimson 5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 6. Tangerine Dream 7. Kate Bush 8. Chet Baker 9. Chris Isaak 10. The Doors 11. Genesis 12. Pink Floyd 13. Nick Drake 14. John Coltrane 15. R.E.M. 16. Yes 17. Japan 18. Suzanne Vega 19. Jethro Tull 20. Led Zeppelin 21. Rush 22. The Velvet Underground 23. Einstürzende Neubauten 24. Tom Waits 25. CMX 26. Talk Talk 27. Tuomari Nurmio 28. Kauko Röyhkä 29. Radiohead 30. Joy Division 31. The Stooges 32. The Birthday Party 33. Marillion (with Fish) 34. Interpol 35. Portishead 36. Captain Beefheart 37. U2 38. The National 39. Editors 40. The Beatles 41. Cocteau Twins 42. Echo and the Bunnymen 43. YUP 44. David Bowie 45. PJ Harvey 46. Bauhaus 47. Bon Jovi 48. The Sisters of Mercy 49. Pixies 50. Queen |
Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 13:45
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50 is too hard to think of
1. Dream Theater
2. Opeth
3. Porcupine Tree
4. Rush
5. Between the Buried and Me
6. Eric Johnson
7. Liquid Tension Experiment
8. Protest the Hero
9. Machine Head
10. Arch Enemy
11. The Red Chord
12. Jason Becker
13. ELP
14. Into Eternity
15. Tool
16. Caravan
17. Alice Cooper
18. VdGG
19. Joe Satriani
20. Steve Vai
21. Five Finger Death Punch
22. The Ocean
23. Three
24. Pink Floyd
25. Indukti ------------- 
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 16:11
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Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Dream Theater
Pink Floyd
Rush
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Meshuggah
Buckethead
Nightwish
The Beatles
System of a Down
Opeth
The Punch Brothers
Godspeed You Black Emperor
King Crimson
Metallica
Gentle Giant
Millish
Aphex Twin
Dethklok
Yes
Venetian Snares
Radiohead
Steely Dan
I couldn't think of 50 bands.
Yes, you can slap me for only liking the more popular artists.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 16:29
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*slap*
ProjeKct One ProjeKct Two ProjeKct Three ProjeKct Four ProjeKct Five ProjeKct etKc. ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 08:16
In no order, but still the top 50 favorite bands:
That's only about 36, i know. But that's all i have time for now! |
Posted By: RoidRageOnStage
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 10:16
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Alphabetic order... think it's 50 (who counts?).
Amon Düül II
Ash Ra Tempel
Atomic Rooster
Beggar's Opera
Birth Control
Black Sabbath
Brainticket
Camel
Can
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Curved Air
Deep Purple
Eloy
Embryo
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Focus
Frank Zappa
Frumpy
Genesis
Gentle Giant
Golden Earring
Gong
Grand Funk Railroad
Grobschnitt
Gryphon
Guru Guru
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
Led Zeppelin
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Marillion
Mike Oldfield
Moody Blues
Nektar
Out Of Focus
Pink Floyd
Rainbow
Rare Bird
Return To Forever
Roxy Music
Soft Machine
Steve Hillage
Tangerine Dream
Ten Years After
Uriah Heep
Van Der Graaf Generator
Weather Report
Yes
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 13:02
------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 13:04
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It's hard to choose: right now, last 5 years, all time?
I deferred to my library on last.fm a little bit. And I'm sure I'm missing some. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 18:00
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Ok for me the top ten is pretty simple, but after that it's only a ROUGH order, too much thought required to go any more detailed than that:
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Savatage
Andromeda (prog metal)
Blind Guardian
The Black Mages
Fates Warning
Megadeth
Metallica
Mike Oldfield
Dominici
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Saga
Fozzy
Rush
Shadow Gallery
Michael Jackson
Marillion
Genesis
Iced Earth
Axel Rudi Pell
Yes
Stratovarius
Scorpions
Enchant
Kamelot
Eternity X
Dreamscape
Iron Maiden
Deep Purple
King Diamond
Faith No More
Extreme
Liquid Tension Experiment
Crimson Glory
Conception
Mullmuzzler
Spock's Beard
Rammstein
Steve Vai
Chris Caffery
Anthrax
Iron Savior
Joe Satriani
Rainbow
Elegy
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
Kiss
Queensryche
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 15:28
Great list !  (and then to think I left several great ones out like Rush, Andromeda, Metallica, Deep Purple, Yes, Genesis, Kamelot, Conception, Iron Maiden etc.)------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Valarius wrote:Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: November 01 2008 at 14:56
| Looking back I left out quite a few good ones. I wish I could have squeezed Magnum in there somehow. |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 12:31
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This is based purely on my music charts on LastFM: 1 Dream Theater 2 Camel 3 Pink Floyd 4 Ayreon 5 Phideaux 6 Eloy 7 Le Orme 8 Jethro Tull 9 Porcupine Tree 10 Goblin 11 Premiata Forneria Marconi 12 Pain Of Salvation 13 Dredg 14 Tangerine Dream 15 Mostly Autumn 16 IQ 17 Van Der Graaf Generator 18 Anekdoten 19 Discipline 20 Marillion 21 Blue Oyster Cult 22 Nemo 23 King Crimson 24 Caravan 25 Djam Karet 26 Yes 27 Riverside 28 Arena 29 Devin Townsend 30 Pure Reason Revolution 31 Queensryche 32 Amon Duul II 33 Genesis 34 Museo Rosenbach 35 Days Between Stations 36 Rush 37 Gentle Giant 38 Il Rovescio Della Medaglia 39 Green Carnation 40 Uriah Heep 41 ACT 42 Liquid tension Experiment 43 Deep Purple 44 Agalloch 45 Magenta 46 Spock's Beard 47 Nuova Era 48 Art Zoyd 49 Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso 50 Ange Strangely enough, I wouldn't classify Dream Theater as my favourite band by a long way - guess I must have played Scenes From A Memory a lot! -------------  Open the gates of the city wide....
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 13:37
This is according to Last.FM. I can't say it's completely accurate but it's as close as I'm going to get with one glaring ommission I can think of: High Tide. I love them but have so little material I can find to listen to they haven't made a splash yet, they'd most likely be in the top 20. -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: anoah
Date Posted: November 12 2008 at 22:54
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I love the classics: Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, ELP, Rush, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, Frank Zappa, etc. And the semi-prog to non-prog classics: Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Who, Spirit, The Kinks, Jefferson Airplane, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, David Bowie, etc. And the other fairly famous classic prog bands: Uriah Heep, Gong, Soft Machine, Return to Forever, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Hawkwind, Kansas, Focus, Caravan, ELO, Dixie Dregs, Camel, Atomic Rooster, The Moody Blues etc. And the classic modern prog bands like: Liquid Tension Experiment, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, etc. And the semi-prog modern bands like: The Gathering, The Decemberists, The Mars Volta, Phish, Tool, Pelican, etc. So, after all that, I will list my top favorites that not everbody has heard of: Kevin Gilbert (just amazing) Crack the Sky (more rock than prog) OSI (electronicy metal) Raw Material (jazzy heavy prog) Umphrey's Mcgee (jam band) Oysterhead (Primus + Phish + X / 3) Man Man (just weird) Niacin (light fusion) UFO (listen to "Flying" and tell me they're not prog) The Paul Winter Consort (world fusion) Ween (love 'em or hate 'em) Idiot Flesh (hmmm...) Esperanto (odd singer, great music) Gravy Train (some early 70's prog) John Zorn (free-jazz/jewish/something else) Invisible (Argentinian prog) ------------- 
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 14:44
It's funny, for a long time now I am planning to suggest them for prog related. This album is from their spacey years but I also love their hardrock years in which they were pretty progressive for a rock band ( Michael Schenker was brilliant of course). Their live album Strangers in the Night was legendary !
Who knows I will suggest them shortly.
By the way do you also know Ufo 1 and Live and Japan ? I have the vinyls (re-issues 1982). UFO 1 is from 1969 so in fact they are proto-prog. Actually it was more space rock than psychedelic/space prog but ok. ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: anoah
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 17:39
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I love Strangers in the Night. Don't know the others, but I should try them. Flying is one of my top...30...albums ever. It gets mediocre reviews, but I love every track on it.
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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 18:26
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 21:07
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Here is mine: 1Mahavishnu Orchestra 2 KC 3 Magma 4 Amon Duul 2 5 Can 6 Yes 7 Genesis(1969-1977) 8 Faust 9 Mars Volta 10 Acid Mothers Temple 11 Secret Oyster 12 Algarnas Tradgard 13 Atomic Rooster 14 Hawkwind 15 Eloy 16 Area 17 Present 18 Ruins 19 Black Sabbath 20 Cream 21 Jimi Hendrix Experience 22 Soft Machine 23 Gong 24 Caravan 25 Rush 26 Guru Guru 27 Out of focus 28 Return to forever 29 PFM 30 Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso 31 Ash Ra Tempel 32 Focus 33 Deluge Grander 34 SBB 35 Modry Efekt 36 Circle 37 Pharaoh Overlord 38 Cosmic Jokers 39 Guapo 40 Wishbone Ash 41 Uriah Heep 42 Man 43 Jethro Tull 44 Weather Report 45 Tony Williams Lifetime 46 Ozric Tentacles 47 Orange Peel 48 Lee Dorrian's Cathedral 49 Turzi 50 Pink Floyd and many more!  ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: listen
Date Posted: November 15 2008 at 01:51
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I had to axe about 150 quality bands to get down to 50, but here is an approximation of my 50 favorite bands based on taste over time and taste right now: agincourt/ithaca, agitation free, alkaline trio, allman brothers, amon düül II, ash ra tempel, asia minor, beatles, broselmaschine, camel, can, caravan, C.O.B., comus, CSN(Y), death cab for cutie, deftones, emtidi, espers, faust, genesis, gordon lightfoot, grateful dead, harmonium, hoelderlin, jan dukes de grey, kalacakra, king crimson, led zeppelin, magma, mark fry, nektar, pinback, pink floyd, police, renaissance, rush, santana, simon/garfunkel, soft machine, spirogyra, subway, synanthesia, tangerine dream, third ear band, traffic, trees, univers zero, van der graaf generator, yes |
Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: November 15 2008 at 03:46
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in no order (except no 1..)
1-eloy
2-pink floyd
3-kansas
4-jethro tull
5-yokeshire
6-porcupine tree
7-djam karet
8-overhead
9-mastermind
10-lands end
11-barclay james harvest
12-blue oyster cult
13-landberk
14-flower kings
15-minimum vital
16-grace
17-red jasper
18-galahad
19-iq
20-pineapple thief
21-amaseffer
22-osiris
23-camel
24-solar project
25-birth control
26-fruup
27-pulsar
28-hoelderlin
29-ramses
30-jane
31-grobschnitt
32-marillion
33-rush
34-caravan
35-wishbone ash
36-ozric tentacles
37-hidria spacefolk
38-janus
39-atomic rooster
40-gracious
41-jonesy
42-proto-kaw
43-yes
44-triggering myth
45-isildurs bane
46-flower kings
47-kingston wall
48-pure reason revolution
49-anyone's daughter
50-ephrat
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Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: November 15 2008 at 19:21
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Jethro Tull Tool Gentle Giant Yes Mastodon Rush Genesis King Crimson ELP Metallica Queens of the Stone Age Pantera Megadeth The Libertines Slipknot Anthrax Iron Maiden Arctic Monkeys Pearl Jam Led Zeppelin Zyklon Babyshambles Testament Trivium System of A Down Biohazard Black Sabbath Forbidden Van Der Graaf Generator Slayer Roger Waters Napalm Death Mudvayne Coheed and Cambria Mushroomhead Nine Inch Nails The Mars Volta Nuclear Assault Machine Head Kyuss Marilyn Manson Powerman 5000 Jetplane Landing Guns n Roses Fear Factory Exodus GreenDay Entombed Cannibal Corpse ------------- Let the maps of war be drawn ! 
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Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 10:46
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The Beatles Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin David Bowie Charly Garcia Paul McCartney & Wings Genesis Aerosmith The Who ELP Queen Elton John Oasis The Rolling Stones U2 Stereophonics Foo Fighters The Killers Jimmy Hendrix Deep Purple John Lennon Black Sabbath Lou Reed King Crimson Jethro Tull Seru Giran Sui Generis George Harrison Bob Dylan Yes Supertramp Fito Paez Nirvana Guns & Roses Stone Temple Pilots Manic Street Preachers The Kinks The Small Faces The Velvet Underground Travis Peter Gabriel Pearl Jam Billy Joel Inxs Radiohead Ozzy Osbourne Cheap Trick Alice Cooper Van Halen Iggy Pop ------------- 
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