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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2011 at 23:01
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2011 at 23:04
Opeth
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 01:55
I'm conservative so it's five from each period:

1) Genesis
2) Pink Floyd
3) Yes
4) ELP
5) King Crimson
6) Marillion
7) Flower Kings
8) Spock's Beard
9) Dream Theater
10) Porcupine Tree

With apologies to Camel, VGG, Renaissance, Rush, Pain of Salvation etc.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 02:30
Here we go:

1. Rush
2. Genesis
3. King Crimson
4. Yes
5. Fate's Warning
6. Pain of Salvation
7. Riverside
9. Marillion
10. VDGG
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 04:06
10. Phideaux
9. Opeth
8. Yes
7. Maudlin of the Well
6. King Crimson
5. Porcupine Tree
4. Genesis
3. Van Der GRaaf Generator
2. Marillion
1. Tool

That's more or less the order at the moment.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 08:01
1. Pink Floyd
2. Peter Gabriel/Genesis
3. Peter Hammill/Van der Graaf Generator
4. The Enid / Secret Green
5. Pain Of Salvation
6. Opeth
7. Ayreon
8. Mike Oldfield
9. Tangerine Dream
10. Kaleidoscope  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 08:23
1. King Crimson
2. Genesis
3. Yes
4. Supertramp
5. Renaissance
6. Colosseum
7. Gentle Giant
8. Van der Graaf Generator
9. Fish-era Marillion
10. Pink Floyd

and a honorary mention to the Beatles.

(PS: this is the list before I discovered PA. Now my taste might be in a slow process of changing...)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 13:55
1. Pink Floyd
2. Genesis
3. Yes
4. Rush
5. Mars Volta
6. King Crimson
7. Camel
8. Moody Blues
9. Led Zeppelin
10. Queen

The Beatles go without saying.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:00
1. Pink Floyd
2. Moody Blues
3. King Crimson
4. Tool
5. Porcupine Tree
6. ELP
7. Genesis
8. Camel
9. Supertramp
10. Talk Talk (newfound faves, thanks to this forum)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:23

Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Tangerine Dream
Can
Rush
VDGG
Anekdoten
Psychotic Waltz
Magma

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:52
1) King Crimson
2) Rush
3) Pink Floyd
4) Jethro Tull
5) Yes
6) Genesis w/Gabriel
7) Curved Air
8) The Mahavishnu Orchestra
9) The Moody Blues
10) ELP
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2011 at 13:27
Prog: 1. Rush                    Prog Related: 1.Blue Oyster Cult
           2.Queensryche                                2.Black Sabbath
           3.Voivod                                            3.Iron Maiden
           4.Yes                                                 4.Uriah Heep
           5.Porcupine Tree                            5.Deep Purple
           6.King Crimson                               6.The Beatles
           7.Camel                                            7.Led Zeppelin
           8.ELP                                                 8.Queen
           9.Eloy                                                 9.The Who
           10.Opeth                                           10.Wishbone Ash
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2011 at 13:42
In no particular order:

Camel
Spring
Queen
Gentle Giant
Curved Air
The Doors
Morgan
The Greatest Show On Earth
Ice Age
Nektar
Pink Floyd

11 was the best I could do.

EDIT: having regrets about this post. Kansas? Tull? Ayreon? Unitopia? I love them all, dammit!


Edited by Lozlan - February 07 2011 at 21:54
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magma
kraftwerk
talking heads
hawkwind
incredible string band
cosmic jokers
popol vuh
agitation free
fairport convention
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2011 at 16:53
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Marillion
Genesis / Gabriel
Jethro Tull
Rush
Yes
Riverside
No Man
Moody Blues
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2011 at 16:19
I like doing this from time to time to see if my tastes have changed. My top 4 is pretty set in stone though.

1. Transatlantic
2. Spock's Beard
3. The Flower Kings
4. Dream Theater
5. Moon Safari
6. Frost*
7. Yes
8. Gentle Giant
9. Phideaux
10. IZZ

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2011 at 16:31
Originally posted by BlindGuard BlindGuard wrote:

Here we go:

1. Rush
2. Genesis
3. King Crimson
4. Yes
5. Fate's Warning
6. Pain of Salvation
7. Riverside
9. Marillion
10. VDGG


Good choice, close to mine, i would replace fates warning by Dream Theater and put KC further down.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2011 at 21:52
Impossible to list favorites, but I can list what I've recently been really into:

Let's see...

Cardacs
Oceansize
Mastodon
King Crimson
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Shearwater (not on this site, though they should be)
Sigur Ros
Magma
Nick Drake

    
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2011 at 23:53
In no particular order (with some prog related and stuff like that) 

- Gentle Giant
- Cardiacs 
- National Health
- Hatfield & the North
- Nick Drake
- Joanna Newsom
- Frank Zappa
- Pain of Salvation (Pre-Scarsick)
- Egg
- King Crimson
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2011 at 12:44

Prog:

-Yes
-King Crimson
-Pink Floyd
-Genesis
-Jethro Tull
-Gentle Giant
-Porcupine Tree
-Gong
-Ozric Tentacles
-Frank Zappa
 
Crossover prog:
 
-Radiohead
-Bjork
-Roxy Music
-Mike Oldfield
-Todd Rundgren
 
Prog related:
 
-Led Zeppelin
-Black Sabbath
-David Bowie
-Talking Heads
-Bluen Oyster Cult
 
Proto prog:
 
-The Beatles
-Jimi Hendrix
-The Who
-The Doors
-Deep Purple
 


Edited by boo boo - February 09 2011 at 17:40
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