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    Posted: August 30 2014 at 15:20
Not sure why this guy limited things to just the golden age but on the flip side the older lesser known stuff deserves more attention among the younger prog fans imo. Anyway, here is the quiz. I got about maybe 25 of them but then the timer ran out. See how you guys do. Unfortunately I wasn't able to add the hyper link so you'll need to copy and paste. It's not that hard to do.Wink

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Turamarth/100-progressive-rock-bands




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 15:22
I not even going to humor the "deserves more attention" comment :|

Also: Quiz not found. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 15:25
Like I said, I wasn't able to insert the hyper link for whatever reason but if you copy or copy and paste it should definitely work. Also, I won't humor your comment about the humoring of my comment. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 15:49
I got 62% It prolly woulda been higher if a) I recognized all the non-English titles; might know the music but the titles didn't ring a bell. b) it accepted 'Il Balleto di Bronzo' as an answer; was about 99% sure that was the correct answer but it was not accepted.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 16:31
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

Not sure why this guy limited things to just the golden age but on the flip side the older stuff deserves more attention among the younger prog fans imo. Anyway, here is the quiz. I got about maybe 25 of them but then the timer ran out. See how you guys do. Unfortunately I wasn't able to add the hyper link so you'll need to copy and paste. It's not that hard to do.Wink

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Turamarth/100-progressive-rock-bands




Ageist BS, wonderful.

Anyway, 45/100. Far too much Italian prog on there, I missed 5 or 6 trying to get the spelling right, there was a few others that I couldn't recall the names of (Traffic for one, kept trying to put in Triumvirate for some reason). A lot of obscure stuff on there as well (T2?), I;d be surprised if their were many people that could score over 70.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 16:39
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

Not sure why this guy limited things to just the golden age but on the flip side the older stuff deserves more attention among the younger prog fans imo. Anyway, here is the quiz. I got about maybe 25 of them but then the timer ran out. See how you guys do. Unfortunately I wasn't able to add the hyper link so you'll need to copy and paste. It's not that hard to do.Wink

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Turamarth/100-progressive-rock-bands




Ageist BS, wonderful.

Anyway, 45/100. Far too much Italian prog on there, I missed 5 or 6 trying to get the spelling right, there was a few others that I couldn't recall the names of (Traffic for one, kept trying to put in Triumvirate for some reason). A lot of obscure stuff on there as well (T2?), I;d be surprised if their were many people that could score over 70.

Not ageist at all. I'm not even old enough to have been a prog fan in the seventies. Wink Also, I should have specified that I meant older obscure prog and not the big five or whatever. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 16:50
34/100 Ermm
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 18:06
Mostly prog, but I've created a few quizzes on that site if anyone is interested in playing them.

http://www.sporcle.com/user/Metalmarsh89/contributed

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 18:34
23/100, lots of foreign stuff I have no idea about. Pavlov's Dog was the rarest one I named.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 18:49
0 / 100 damn

I guess I should actually take the quiz if I want higher
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 19:48
11 / 100 lol

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 20:23
14 out of 100. Some of it was not Prog. I got Golden Earring right, and I like the band, but it's not Prog. I missed Spiro Gyra. They're a jazz band from my hometown, but they're not Prog. It's questionable how much they're even fusion, because it was so weak on the rock side of the ledger and was the reason a couple band members broke off to form Gamelon, which was a real kick ass fusion band in the 80s. I missed Traffic because I could only think of Steve Winwood at the time and not the band name. I should have gotten Atoll. I'd been listening to it enough lately, but I just plain missed it. I missed Soft Machine and all the other Canterbury bands except Gong. I listen to them without any regard to the song titles. I just play the music. On the other hand, others I've never gotten around to, like Goblin and Amon Duul and so on.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 20:24
I am one of the older guys and got 45/100. There was a couple I should have gotten, but there were a lot of bands I don't listen to, many RPI which I do not know very well. There were even a couple I did not recognize.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 21:09
42. Damned those Italian and French band names!Confused

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 21:20
I'm guessing that the Spiro Gyro was the English prog folk band and not the jazz band. The jazz band from the eighties was all instrumental afaik.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 21:44
Got 50/100. Knew right from the start that it wouldn't be all Prog with Golden Earring being answer #1, yet I still got to the Wishbone Ash one and thought "…nah. Couldn't be them!" without even trying… and missed it of course. Also feel dumb for missing the Comus one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 22:15
I got 61 out of 100. I would have gotten 62 but couldn't think of Quella Vechia Locanda in time. I knew the band but couldn't quite think of their name. I have to admit this is the second time I took it. The only one I remembered though was Steel Mill so if you guys want to deduct one point from me I'm ok with that. Lol. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2014 at 00:08
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:


I'm guessing that the Spiro Gyro was the English prog folk band and not the jazz band. The jazz band from the eighties was all instrumental afaik.

Mmm...yes. I forgot about them, and obviously don't recognize them by any of their songs anyway. The spelling of their name is slightly different too, 'Spiro Gyra' not 'Spyro Gyra'.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2014 at 00:22
Yep. Different band but their name sounds the same. 

And to be fair to Golden Earing they are listed on this site as prog related. That's good enough for me. I don't really consider the Moody Blues to be full on prog either and maybe some other bands. I've heard some people say the same about Curved Air. Plus Golden Earing DID have an album that was listed in a classic rock PROG magazine special under the forty comsic prog albums list. I believe it was Moontan. One of their songs was on the old Supernatural fairy tales box set which highlighted the golden(no pun intended)era of prog.
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