Your favorite of the "big seven"

Tales wrote: Yorkie X wrote: Rush have a very loyal fanbase and that says everything ,I`ll always go for Rush in these type polls I don`t think a prog band could be more successful or more acknowledged                      There lies the problem, they arn't successful as a prog band but as a rock band!

There lies the solution many mainstream bores find out about prog thanks to bands like Rush, Kansas & Floyd ... In my opinion Rush are progressive  in many ways not just the music 


Edited by Yorkie X - July 28 2007 at 02:40

King Crimson, but these aren't my big 7 at all. A band like Amon Düül 2 with at least 4 classic albums ("Phallus Dei", "Yeti", "Tanz der Lemminge" and "Wolf City") definitely belong into the big 7 for me, for example. But the least common denominator of course always supports the average rather than the exceptional.

Rush have a very loyal fanbase and that says everything ,I`ll always go for Rush in these type polls I don`t think a prog band could be more successful or more acknowledged                   

All the bands, except Rush, belong to the first wave of progressive rock, so why not count Gentle Giant, instead of Rush...?

schizoid_man77 wrote: Okocha wrote: Forgot VDGG!!!!!!It's not seven!!!!!   (sigh) We are talking about the original poll made about a month ago, I simply souped it up, so lets play the not complain anymore game!

What is Rush doing in this poll???And where are VDGG???

I picked Genesis who barely edged out KC.  Genesis from 1971-1977 did more that was in a style I liked than KC, who after the first couple of albums, would tend to put one song per album that I would like - you know, The Night Watch, Starless, and Exiles for instance.  Just a personal preference, and a slight one. 

Well, this thread is doing suprisingly bad, in contrast to the anti thread!

Rush is definitely my favorite of the above big 7.  I am a big fan of 5 of the 7.  I enjoy a lot of Jethro Tull's music but they are an acquired taste and are not one of my favorites.  The same with King Crimson.  I don't know if it is a this side of the ocean thing, but I have heard songs from all of the big 7 on the local classic rock radio station.  I have never heard a song from VDGG or Gentle Giant on the classic rock station.  I started subscribing to Progression Magazine about two years ago, and it was the first I had heard of either of these bands when they were referred to in other bands reviews.  When Progression did a special 30th year anniversary edition to celebrate Gentle Giant, I was intrigued enough to go out and purchase a number of their albums.  I am still "Acquiring the Taste" and enjoy what I have heard.  All the talk of fans on PA have piqued my interest in VDGG.  I just ordered Pawn Hearts and H to He and will hopefully receive them in the next couple of days so that I might be able to profess an opinion on them. 

Okocha wrote: Forgot VDGG!!!!!!It's not seven!!!!!

as usual no vdgg.. and what is rush doin there? well i go with pink floyd.

Edited by Zargus - July 16 2007 at 06:47