Top 5 bands from each era...

My greatest Bands:

 

Classic

1 Van der Graaf Generator

2. Genesis

3. Yes

4. Jethro Tull

5. Camel

 

 

Neo

1. Pallas

2. IQ

3. Arena

4. Galahad

5. Pendragon

 

 

Third Wave

1. Phideaux

2. Carptree

3. Spocks Beard

4. The Flower Kings

5. Dream Theater

1. Gentle Giant

Classic:
1. Genesis
2. Yes
3. Van Der Graaf Generator
4. Gentle Giant
5. King Crimson

Second Era:
1. Rush
2. Marillion
3. Steve Hackett
4. Peter Gabriel
5. IQ

Third Wave:
1. Porcupine Tree
2. The Mars Volta
3. Anglagard
4. Sigur Ros
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor

I would put Pink Floyd way ahead of Genesis or Jethro Tull 

infocat wrote: Thinking Plague's first album is from 1984...

Then back them up into Neo in place of Ozrics and add DAAU or Finnegans Wake.

Thinking Plague's first album is from 1984...

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: So what time periods are we talking about so I can have some idea how to answer this? When did neo start? 1983 with Marillion's Script? Presumably that's when Classic ended? When did the third wave start? 1995 with Spocks Beard & Flower Kings?

Snow Dog wrote: Logan wrote: Snow Dog wrote: zumacraig wrote: not necessarily you top five, but the top tier, big names of the classic era, neo era and third wave. Classic 1,Yes 2. Genesis 3. ELP 4. KC 5. JT (i'd actually put floyd and or rush in there, but they aren't the big names, maybe floyd.) Maybe Floyd? Floyd are/ were bigger than any band on your list. More popular, but the most popular albums are not as quintessentially "Prog" (as genre) as the other's classic popular in Prog circles releases to me.  It doesn't mean that, say, Dark Side of the Moon, can't be described as Prog, but it's not something that I would have particularly described as Prog when I was discovering Prog, unlike, say, Close to the Edge (which I never much liked), Trilogy, or Thick as a Brick (to use examples of ones I had heard decades ago). He asks for top tier bands...big names. Floyd definitely qualify. He even says maybe he should put Floyd in there. But comments maybe they aren't big enough. Hard to find any bigger I'd say.

Fair enough, and didn't mean to dismiss your comment in adding my discussion point (I understood your point).  It's just that I didn't think of Pink Floyd as as a quintessentially Prog band when it comes to the popular classic releases as the others he listed, and that's why I, personally, would choose the other classic ones he mentioned as top tier Prog bands (this is a Prog section) even if they are not nearly as popular outside of Prog circles.  I supect that most people who own an album by Pink Floyd don't think of Pink Floyd as a Prog band, but I think it's more likely that someone who owns, say again, Close to the Edge, would consider Yes a Prog band (at least for their classic era).   It's my personal perspective.


Edited by Logan - January 31 2012 at 16:30

Snow Dog wrote: zumacraig wrote: not necessarily you top five, but the top tier, big names of the classic era, neo era and third wave. Classic 1,Yes 2. Genesis 3. ELP 4. KC 5. JT (i'd actually put floyd and or rush in there, but they aren't the big names, maybe floyd.) Maybe Floyd? Floyd are/ were bigger than any band on your list.

More popular, but the most popular albums are not as quintessentially "Prog" (as genre) as the other's classic popular in Prog circles releases to me.  It doesn't mean that, say, Dark Side of the Moon, can't be described as Prog, but it's not something that I would have particularly described as Prog when I was discovering Prog, unlike, say, Close to the Edge (which I never much liked), Trilogy, or Thick as a Brick (to use examples of ones I had heard decades ago).


Edited by Logan - January 31 2012 at 15:59

Snow Dog wrote: zumacraig wrote: not necessarily you top five, but the top tier, big names of the classic era, neo era and third wave. Classic 1,Yes 2. Genesis 3. ELP 4. KC 5. JT (i'd actually put floyd and or rush in there, but they aren't the big names, maybe floyd.) Maybe Floyd? Floyd are/ were bigger than any band on your list.