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I guess my all-time top 10 list will be something like this (trying to be diverse):

- Saga
- Queen
- Camel
- Jethro Tull
- Barclay James Harvest
- Gov't Mule
- Eloy
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Ozric Tentacles
- Al Stewart

10 examples of good-old AOR-dad-rock. Nothing extraordinairy, but I love it.
I used to be a big Marillion fan, but that's basically classic rock/AOR aswell.
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1.Camel
2. IQ
3. Pendragon
4. Twelfth Night
5. Enid
6. Renaisance 
7. Greenslade
8. Tangerine Dream
9. Supertramp
10. Stackridge
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ELP
Vlatko Stefanovski
Sweet Smoke
Ambrosia
Queen
Angra
Shadow Gallery
Yes
Sigur Ros
Renaissance
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Hi,

My apologies ... I have something like 432 TOP BANDS ... and I can not do a TOP 10, because I do not have it on account of 432 TOP BANDS.

Sorry! 

I don't really mind this, but I can not help thinking that music is not being heard ... only 10 bands! Thus, all my bands are top 10 or I would not have them!

Where do you sit with all your music? In the car with 3 songs?

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Not everything on this list can be called a band, but here we go (Place 1 first, then alphabetical order):

J. S. Bach: Everything

L. v. Beethoven: Sonatas
Leonard Cohen: Everything, "Songs of Love and Hate" in particular
John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"
King Crimson as a way of doing things
Diverse Artists (C. Monteverdi, G. P. d. Palestrina, O. d. Lasso, ...): Renaissance choral music
W. A. Mozart: Everything
F . Schubert: Songs
Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock / Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis
Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts
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Originally posted by austrianprogfan austrianprogfan wrote:

Not everything on this list can be called a band, but here we go (Place 1 first, then alphabetical order):

J. S. Bach: Everything

L. v. Beethoven: Sonatas
Leonard Cohen: Everything, "Songs of Love and Hate" in particular
John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"
King Crimson as a way of doing things
Diverse Artists (C. Monteverdi, G. P. d. Palestrina, O. d. Lasso, ...): Renaissance choral music
W. A. Mozart: Everything
F . Schubert: Songs
Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock / Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis
Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts

Huge Leonard Cohen fan, I might put New Skin For The Old Ceremony just ahead of Songs Of Love And Hate but those two are monstrously good.
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Ten is impossible. I finally made a list of my favorite artists but it is currently at 433 Pig

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Frank
Wishbone Ash
Yes 
Genesis
The Beatles
Gentle Giant
Steely Dan
Caravan
Saga
T. Rex
ELP 
Humble Pie

Couldn't do just 10. I tried but I COULDN'T. 
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1. Pink Floyd
2. King Crimson (early, first four albums)
3. Babylon
4. Gypsy
5. StarCastle
6. Gentle Giant
7. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
8. Eloy
9. Automatic Man
10. Ars Nova (USA band, not the Japanese and Italian ones on this site)
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by austrianprogfan austrianprogfan wrote:

Not everything on this list can be called a band, but here we go (Place 1 first, then alphabetical order):

J. S. Bach: Everything

L. v. Beethoven: Sonatas
Leonard Cohen: Everything, "Songs of Love and Hate" in particular
John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"
King Crimson as a way of doing things
Diverse Artists (C. Monteverdi, G. P. d. Palestrina, O. d. Lasso, ...): Renaissance choral music
W. A. Mozart: Everything
F . Schubert: Songs
Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock / Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis
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Huge Leonard Cohen fan, I might put New Skin For The Old Ceremony just ahead of Songs Of Love And Hate but those two are monstrously good.
To me itīs Songs Of Leonard Cohen that I put a little ahead of Songs Of Love And Hate, but it depends on the mood. His four first albums are all really great!
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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Frank
Wishbone Ash
Yes 
Genesis
The Beatles
Gentle Giant
Steely Dan
Caravan
Saga
T. Rex
ELP 
Humble Pie

Couldn't do just 10. I tried but I COULDN'T. 

I would be a huge fan of ELP, Yes Genesis and Caravan.....     But these bands never hit the mark for me, specially Genesis that went poppy on us!!..... Thumbs Down.....   Hackett/Phillips  era was excellent, were the only  members that made Genesis interesting.   

First 6 ELP albums are brilliant/excellent........  The rest Zzzzzz!....Unhappy

Gentle Giant is a Hit & Miss for me ...  made 2/3 great albums .... IMO 
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

To me itīs Songs Of Leonard Cohen that I put a little ahead of Songs Of Love And Hate, but it depends on the mood. His four first albums are all really great!

The first album has really great songs ("One of us cannot be wrong" may be my favourite Cohen song), but sadly some of them are drowned in unnecessary and unfitting sounds and instruments that were added by the producer for all I know (especially "Sisters of Mercy"). Also, while "Songs of LC" is more like a collection of great songs, the Songs of Love and Hate form a consistent album - for example, I can't imagine "Diamonds in the Mine" without "Dress Rehearsal Rag" preceding.

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Top 10...this goes way back...
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
Miles Davis Quintet
John Coltrane Quartet
Tony Williams Quintet
Frank Zappa 
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Allman Brothers Band
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
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Originally posted by austrianprogfan austrianprogfan wrote:

  the Songs of Love and Hate form a consistent album - for example, I can't imagine "Diamonds in the Mine" without "Dress Rehearsal Rag" preceding.

That's a real one two gut punch isn't it? Superb. Diamonds in the Mine always makes me want to sing very loud in the shower.


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Devin Townsend
Mew
Deerhoof
Joanna Newsom
Yes
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Tears for Fears
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Major Parkinson
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Originally posted by austrianprogfan austrianprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

To me itīs Songs Of Leonard Cohen that I put a little ahead of Songs Of Love And Hate, but it depends on the mood. His four first albums are all really great!

The first album has really great songs ("One of us cannot be wrong" may be my favourite Cohen song), but sadly some of them are drowned in unnecessary and unfitting sounds and instruments that were added by the prducer for all I know (especially "Sisters of Mercy"). Also, while "Songs of LC" is more like a collection of great songs, the Songs of Love and Hate form a consistent album - for example, I can't imagine "Diamonds in the Mine" without "Dress Rehearsal Rag" preceding.
Well, I think why I love that album so much is that I love also that production. I am a big sixties psychedelic fan and thatīs only Cohen album that has it. Specially Sisters Of Mercy is my big favourite - itīs easy to imagine first Cohen playing alone guitar and singing, then some "marching band" is coming back of him and continuing forward when theyīre gone so far you canīt hear them anymore. But yes, Songs Of Love and Hate is as great, but very different reasons.
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Well, I think why I love that album so much is that I love also that production. I am a big sixties psychedelic fan and thatīs only Cohen album that has it. Specially Sisters Of Mercy is my big favourite - itīs easy to imagine first Cohen playing alone guitar and singing, then some "marching band" is coming back of him and continuing forward when theyīre gone so far you canīt hear them anymore. But yes, Songs Of Love and Hate is as great, but very different reasons.


That's an interesting image with the marching band. I still think the album would have been better with just Cohen's voice, Cohen's guitar, and occasional background singers and maybe strings, but if you can enjoy it the way it is, that's great.
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Not all Prog, but here goes.

Rush
Moody Blues
Kansas
Kinks
Triumph
Jethro Tull
Black Sabbath
Dream Theater
Shooting Star
Blackfoot
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1. Marillion
2. The Flower Kings
3. Genesis
4. Echolyn
5. Pendragon
6. Galahad
7. Arena
8. Pain of Salvation
9. Pink Floyd
10. King Crimson
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