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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 21:04
Well Frank Zappa might be the most popular solo artist, simply because his music is so diverse, and his discography so large.

Well I have to agree with the initial question then, I guess your MySpace data doesn't lie... However, since it says "PA artist", and you have MySpace data, it could differ, but I find in unlikely.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 20:44
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Incidentally, I just started checking various artist names (listed in the PA band/artist pages) official sites at myspace to see how many "friends" are listed:

Frank Zappa has 92819 friends.
Peter Gabriel has 39137 friends.
Miles Davis has 23125 friends.


You gotta remember the vast majority of myspace users are scene kids, and because Zappa is the most trendy of out of him, David and Gabriel, of course Zappa will have more friends on myspace due to scene kids boosting his friend count. As the scene kids say "ZAPPA IZ TEH TRENDYZ".

And sometimes they do this too after the sentence: ^_^.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 20:26
I don' know about most popular on here, but he's certainly most popular with me!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:58
Incidentally, I just started checking various artist names (listed in the PA band/artist pages) official sites at myspace to see how many "friends" are listed:

Frank Zappa has 92819 friends.
Peter Gabriel has 39137 friends.
Miles Davis has 23125 friends.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:45
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

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The real big 5 is certainly more popular here, except for ELP.
 
ELP is underratedCryCryCry It's all Camel's fault!!LOL
 
Back on topic  , I think FZ is much more interesting to talk about than the most popular prog bands. Except for KC. He covered so much ground and innovated so much in the use of instruments and the studio that pages or books could be written about that. And don't get me started on conceptual continuity.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:42
Zappa certainly gets mentioned a lot in topics.  I think he may be the most mentioned "solo artist" and is one of the most mentioned musicians.  I think we can exclude "band-names" from this discussion and focus on artists with so-called "solo" careers (and ones where the name or nickname is mentioned in the project name) such as Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Arthur Brown etc.  The topic is specfied as most popular "artist", not "band".


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:32
Maybe they are second tier, but 90% of eclectic prog is desrcribed using Gentle Giant as a base. Yes, i seem to have forgotten Pink Floyd, they are undoubtedly big as well...

But the answer to the top remains No for me. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:18
Originally posted by OzzProg OzzProg wrote:

I simply don't think he is.

Most people use the classic 5 to describe other music (well the majority of prog music on this site IS described with these 5). I think that these 5* are the MOST famous. Frank Zappa sure is know though, and I like him a lot, just not THE single most famous.

*Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, ELP
No, Gentle Giant are very clearly second tier, you mean Pink Floyd. The real big 5 is certainly more popular here, except for ELP, but a lot of people outside of this website who don't consider themselves prog fans and probably would never listen to Yes listen to Zappa, so I don't know in that respect. Or care, to be honest.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:10
I simply don't think he is.

Most people use the classic 5 to describe other music (well the majority of prog music on this site IS described with these 5). I think that these 5* are the MOST famous. Frank Zappa sure is know though, and I like him a lot, just not THE single most famous.

*Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, ELP
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 19:02
im talking about on the forums. zappa clearly doesnt have as many album reviews as Yes, PF, KC, etc but Zappa is mentioned very much (especially in the last year or so) on these forums. maybe because the classic prog bands have been talked about to death and beyond and Zappa has more of a discography than all those bands combined.

at the least he's the most talked about well known prog artist on these forums
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 18:56
I don't think he is the most popular prog artist. But probably since he was into many scandals in the 80's everybody knows who he is at least in the US. However I think Pink Floyd is the most popular artist if not , how can you explain 3 albums in the top 10 and WYWH being the most popular album of the last weeks?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 18:52
None of the statistical date backs that assessment up in any respect, but it is possible people like myself merely aren't bothering to review him.
 
But even taking that into account, I doubt it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2009 at 18:46
i think he is. i remember the days on this forum where Zappa barely got mentioned. now it seems i see his name everywhere on PA. anyone agree and/or know why this may be? maybe newer forum members have made him more popular?
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