Most Overrated Band of the 'Big Six'

I thought I had missed a Dean post upstream perhaps.

team ELP? Damn right. We rule and have the hottest chicks..

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Micky, following through on your logic, KC were never that big (despite me loving them) so your down to a big 2, stack up Yes & ELP and it's a no contest smack down, so we have a Big One, YES! That's it case closed.

for sure.

Yes is head and shoulders above everyone.  Pretty much anyone and anything comprehensive (and even those not so) will state Yes was the definative prog band.

K.C v. E.L.P.  that is a tough call man. Overall impact,  ELP defintely. What single insturment defines prog rock, the keyboard and just how the keyboard is used. Not laying down chords but stepping up as a lead.  ELP is to keyboards what keyboards are to prog.  Case closed there, even taking into account the overblown claim that K.C were the first prog band, had the first  true prog album.  We know that The Nice satisfied both a year earlier.  While ELP were far more popular and yes.. influential back then,  it doesn't take long here at PA's screening bands to know K.C. is far more influential today.  I'd consider popularity a draw.  Longevity and creativity?  I do think the Wetton years very much overrated, but think their true creavity mark was in their late 70's early 80's stuff when ... 'the wart' (full credit to my man Hercules on that one) came on and helped steer prog beyond the same old same old symphonic or just noodling kind of prog. Made it fresh, took it a large and new set of influences.  ELP? Love them as I do, were a one trick symphonic rock kind of band.  I'd give K.C the edge there, big time in creativity.

I'd give the very slight edge to K.C over ELP for the #2 slot if someone had a gun against my head I suppose.

"Who is hotter - Greg Lake or Micky?"

emigre80 wrote: As long as we all agree that Yes comes in head and shoulders above all the others, you can debate slots 2 through 6 as much as you like. Who really cares about the bronze medal, aside from the mother of the one who wins it?

The Dark Elf wrote: emigre80 wrote: As long as we all agree that Yes comes in head and shoulders above all the others, you can debate slots 2 through 6 as much as you like. Who really cares about the bronze medal, aside from the mother of the one who wins it?   Meh. Yes had three really superlative albums in a row, The Yes Album, Fragile (Fra-gee-lay, their Italian album) and Close to the Edge. There is a lot of dicking around and endless noodling in TFTO and Relayer, and they lost much of the melodic nature of their earlier albums. They came back with Going for the One, only to lay an egg or tomato thereafter.

The Dark Elf wrote: I'm not cranky, I'm just being contrary for argument's sake.

The Dark Elf wrote: emigre80 wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: I'm not cranky, I'm just being contrary for argument's sake.   With insufficient employment of emoticons, it's difficult to tell the difference.   I will say, to further aggravate Micky, that from 1969 to 1979 Tull was consistently great, particularly Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick,  Living in the Past, A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses. And even the average ones like War Child, Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll and Storm Watch had some superb tunes. That is a remarkable stretch of worthwhile releases when you realize they were cranking out so many albums in that decade.

Genesis

OMG! The b*****ds running this site censored my use of the word, b*****ds!