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Thank you for that little tid bit Paul. I'm pretty sure I've heard their name but don't know anything about them.

Hrychu wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I started this poll because I always found it interesting how a band could be so talented and so popular among prog fans yet unheard of by most non-prog fans. King Crimson, Marillion and Porcupine Tree sort of occupy the grey area but I felt they were too well known among most regular music fans to include them. You can say most of these are the next level down. I suppose there are non prog fans who know about Renaissance, Gong, Magma, Ozric Tentacles, Camel, VDGG and GG too but not as much as the others I mentioned here.

Invisible (L.A. Spinetta's band) is not very well known to non-proggers outside of South America, but in the prog circles, the group seems to be quite recognizable worldwide.

They have an album that is rated pretty highly on rate your music but I don't think they are that well known in prog circles. There's probably at least half a dozen more well known S.A. prog bands including Bubu and Bacamarte. I would say Nexus also.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 14 2023 at 17:49

Van der Graaf Generator

Anglagard

Magma

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

I started this poll because I always found it interesting how a band could be so talented and so popular among prog fans yet unheard of by most non-prog fans. King Crimson, Marillion and Porcupine Tree sort of occupy the grey area but I felt they were too well known among most regular music fans to include them. You can say most of these are the next level down. I suppose there are non prog fans who know about Renaissance, Gong, Magma, Ozric Tentacles, Camel, VDGG and GG too but not as much as the others I mentioned here.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 14 2023 at 15:16

No bands that I don't like here...

Voted Camel, Renaissance and GonG, but there's Magma, Anglagard, Eloy, PFM (I missed their gig this evening, it was sold out).

I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

Hrychu wrote:

My favorite Halloween costume is a bus station.

Mine is this:

🤣🤣🤣🤣BTW that's me on Hallowen 2014.🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's really cool. I once dressed up in a beep-beep box. It was a large PC box (before flat screens!) and I wrote the word "beep" all over it in different colored markers, with cut-out holes for my arms and eyes so that I could see where I was going. I don't have a picture of it. I should ask the few people that saw me in it whether they have any pictures. Another in a long string of embarrassing moments in the timeline of my life!

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that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
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So far everyone is on the board except Le Orme and Magma. I'm actually more surprised that there are also zero votes so far for "other."

Änglagård, Discipline, and Spock's Beard. My favorite Halloween costume is a bus station.

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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag
that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
nothing beats a good video about fractions

Very tough competition. I'll vote for Van der Graaf Generator, Camel and Gong, but Renaissance, National Health, Magma, Eloy, the Ozrics and Banco would also deserve a vote.

Manuel wrote:

Gentle Giant, Camel, UK. Most of these bands would cualificación though.

Huh?

Poll Question: Which band(s) do you like the best?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Anglagard	8	[5.71%]
Banco	5	[3.57%]
Big Big Train	7	[5.00%]
Camel	16	[11.43%]
Caravan	3	[2.14%]
Discipline	7	[5.00%]
Eloy	7	[5.00%]
The Flower Kings	4	[2.86%]
Gentle Giant	9	[6.43%]
Gong	4	[2.86%]
Hatfield & the North	1	[0.71%]
IQ	4	[2.86%]
Magma	5	[3.57%]
National Health	3	[2.14%]
Le Orme	2	[1.43%]
Ozric Tentacles	2	[1.43%]
Pendragon	2	[1.43%]
PFM	3	[2.14%]
Renaissance	10	[7.14%]
Spock's Beard	6	[4.29%]
The Tangent	1	[0.71%]
U.K.	6	[4.29%]
Van der Graaf Generator	17	[12.14%]
Wobbler	5	[3.57%]
Other band or artist you think qualifies (list in comments)	3	[2.14%]
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