What is your number 1 prog band?
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Topic: What is your number 1 prog band?
Posted By: FloydCrafty
Subject: What is your number 1 prog band?
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 07:33
What is your number 1 prog rock band? Mine is Genesis! How about you? 
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Posted By: Rexorcist
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 07:40
| Changes recently from Floyd to KC. Second is Banco. |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 08:06
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I have three very common favorites King Crimson Procol Harum Genesis In that order ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 08:10
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Rush ------------- 
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Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 08:11
 Of Course! ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 08:15
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Van der Graaf Generator No other band amazes me with their music as much as they do. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 09:45
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Rush -------------   
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Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 09:56
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King Crimson... But at any moment it could turn into Cardiacs ------------- ⋆la faulx⋆ |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 10:13
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Genesis (especially before Steve left) and RRUUSSHH - depends on my mood. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 10:18
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Changes, but here's a few that stand out. Gentle Giant Rush Steely Dan The Aristocrats Dream Theater |
Posted By: Faul_McCartney
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 10:43
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King Crimson! All their stuff is so different I never get tired of them. ------------- If you think that it’s pretentious, you’ve been taken for a ride. |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 10:57
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Pink Floyd Yes ELP ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 11:44
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ELP (including ELPowell) Goblin Kansas Rush Tangerine Dream 1970 - 1990; 2005-2015 Vangelis Rick Wakeman ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Lobster77
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 12:06
| Yes,Genesis and King crimson perfected the prog genre in my opinion |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 12:37
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IQ ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 13:03
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Yes Genesis Saga Alan Parsons Project Moody Blues |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 13:28
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I guess there're two which stand out: early Genesis (Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEbtP, The Lamb) early ELP (the debut, Tarkus, Pictures, Trilogy, BSS) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 14:59
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I would have chosen Rush, but their 80s output didn't really appeal to me that much so I'm going to say Porcupine Tree - consistently good from the first to the last album. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 17:55
| Can if I include the solo work, otherwise probably Art Zoyd. King Crimson, Talk Talk and Cardiacs are further candidates. When I was young, Tangerine Dream and Eloy. |
Posted By: xhouse
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 18:11
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Back in the 70s, Yes with Genesis and Renaissance right behind. In the early 2000s, Flower Kings and IQ. Now Big Big Train, although that is waning with the untimely death of David Longdon. ------------- Between Thought and Expression Lies True Perception |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 18:30
| Triumvirat |
Posted By: Mudpuppy58
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 18:46
| TULL |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 19:04
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My tastes have changed a lot in the last 20 years but Rush, Anekdoten and Porcupine Tree are still my top three. I guess that's that first love thing. RUSH is my answer. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 20:31
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Kansas is my favorite. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 23:45
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ELP Gentle Giant Jethro Tull |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 30 2025 at 23:46
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Emerson,Lake and Palmer |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 07:38
| ELP...Triumvirat a close second |
Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 09:23
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King Crimson ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 09:40
| Kansas |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 09:55
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I don't have one. I have lots of favoured acts. Sometimes it just depends on what I am listening to at the time. Of the bands in PA, I guess I have listened to Fishmans the most of late, but while I wanted it in PA and remian glad that it is included, I feel like calling it Prog is not the best description for its discography. I actually don't like to segregate my collection into Prog and non-Prog. That does not work at all well for the kinds of music that I often listen. Not including artists: Art Zoyd, Magma, Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Cos, Stereolab, Can, Popol Vuh, Radiohead, Spirogyra, Tangerine Dream, Cardiacs, Comus, Soft Machine, The Residents, Embryo, Eskaton, Kayo Dot... are some of my favourites included in PA. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 10:08
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The band I am mostly impressed by and that I listen to extensively is PFM. Even their later stuff is amazing. ------------- Jazz Rock / Fusion · Canterbury · Psych / Space Rock · Krautrock · Prog Electronic · RIO / Avant-Prog · Post Rock |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 12:50
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Yes. Fairly easy choice. Rounding out top 5 would be Genesis, Rush, Gentle Giant and ELP. Recent artists would be Steven Wilson / Porcupine Tree, Big Big Train, Plini and the Aristocrats ( they may be more properly a fusion band). |
Posted By: bsurmano
Date Posted: May 03 2025 at 17:09
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Pink Floyd King Crimson Jethro Tull ------------- 'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast..... Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.' Bob Dylan |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 03 2025 at 18:38
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Planet X ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Captain Midnight
Date Posted: May 03 2025 at 19:19
| Frank Zappa ftw |
Posted By: ELPmasters
Date Posted: May 03 2025 at 20:06
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 03 2025 at 22:12
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I don't know . . . Magma? . . . Pat Metheny Group? . . . Area? . . . The Don Ellis Orchestra? . . . Unaka Prong? . . . ??? ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 09:49
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Hi, I have nearly 2K CD's and about 1500 LP's of #1 progressive bands and individual folks ... choosing one over another? ... wtf ... are you drunk?  ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Progdigger
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 10:01
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70's Genesis 80's Marillion 90's IQ 2000's Moon Safari 2010's Quorum 2020's Quásar |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 10:26
I get the joke, but while I have a large collection, have known and loved a great many albums, I absolutely can have a favourite or favourites at any given time.. And that can depend on what album I am listening to at any given time and what band is my faccy du jour, and that can stretch much longer. I mentioned Fishmans before in this topic and yesterday was a Fishmans day with various releases -- especially 1997's Uchu Nippon Setagaya and what is my favourite of any live album, 98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare. I recognise that others at PA would not be be nearly so emotionally attached to it, and is not a popular choice here. Feel sad to be so alone in my passions sometimes, but then realise that others have their arts passions and I can be happy for that (and that there are others out there who feel similarly even if not in PA's forum or not at this time). The other act, not in PA, whose music has meant the most to me in recent time is Sufjan Stevens. These artists almost feel like end-game artists to me. But I know I'll be into and obsessing over other things in the future. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 10:37
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Hi, I take a smile with my ashes from a dream (I'm writing these and will have them ou one day!!! Maybe!) with well known musician and friend that said that I had a touch and feeling for the artist that was just like magic. The appreciation was pure poetry, and he said it was not better than what he did. I never actually "believed" that, but all the same the words were reassuring that I was right in my inner feeling, and that it might, one day, mean something to someone. For me, while I appreciate the THERAPY of PA and a lot of its folks that are special to me, the sad thing is seeing so much of the music treated like a song from the hit parades of hell! We don't stand here and do this to Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Debussy ... but when it comes to pop music, it's just a song ... and for me, a lot of work that I love to listen to IS NOT A SONG, and many times, I have had the chance to discuss this with many folks, and they agreed ... their love for music was more than just a song, but an expression that ... really ... is impossible to discuss in words, specially by folks that treat it as just a song, because that means another song will be there tomorrow and the special experience is no longer important or valid ... a life wasted listening to pop music ... most of it meaningless!!! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 11:25
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Just another rambling, tangential and rather pointless post by me. I wish I were much better at communicating my thoughts, feelings, perspectives and that those would connect with more people. I came to this forum looking for connection as I tend to feel isolated and alienated. I don't much like to get together with people in person as it is so draining for me. I have OCD, probably on the spectrum, and actually appreciate that I can obsess over certain things and hate it that I obsess over things. If this were a classical music (to use the broad term) forum, then one might be saying that about those others. All of those composers have moved me very deeply (well, never been as into Tchaikovsky nearly as much as those others). I don't agree with the difference or like generalised we statements, better to speak for oneself from one's own perspective as I often say). And I have had favourites from those. While classical music was my first love, and my main love in the 90s again, I moved away for it in part because I am a very emotional person and it affected me too deeply. I'm going off on tangent and flights to wherever... Not sure that many here would be all about a song, although a song (or a track) can be very, very meaningful to me. I'll be listening to an album and a song or track or a theme or a moment (doesn't need to be a "song") sings to my proverbial soul. For everyone it is a quite unique experience, and I think we should be careful about not denigrating, invalidating another's experience, or to think that we fully grok what's going on in another's psyche or think we know how they feel and what they think. Asking questions to try to understand what others think and feel can help (but questions really can be burden to others). It's important to try to show a genuine, non-judgmental interest in others, I feel. To actively listen instead of projecting what one already thinks generally onto others. Hopefully over time we get to know, empathise with, and understand others better here. Side note: to me the individual is important, not just the idea, and we are all unique even though we all share attributes that make us human. I cannot put into words how much music can affect me (the form is not so important) and I know that no others will be affected in exactly the same way. I am an emotional person and I am passionate about music. Often it is transcendent experience, and what saddens me sometimes is feeling that I am alone in this. Others have their own interests and passions. I can never really share my experience and I find trying to share that often makes me feel more isolated. Lots of people just don't seem interested to explore and chat about feelings (their own and others). I believe in taking meaning from the moment, appreciating the moment, and living in the moment as as well as preparing for the future and appreciating the past. I can be watching a sunset and be moved and transfixed with it, that I am most appreciating that sunset as I watch it does not lessen the others sunsets I have seen. It's like that with music for me. It is sad to me how difficult it is for others to grok not just how one feels but what one is trying to express -- very alienating. I come to the forum in large part to hopefully connect with, laugh a bit with, and maybe grow with others. It's nice to share one's passions when others can appreciate the passion and express that appreciation even if they have their own passions. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 14:16
| Just following Logan’s thoughtful post and responding to his What If scenario. It might go something like this: My number one Baroque artist is Bach, followed by Handel and Scarlatti. Bach has the complex chord progressions and fugues while that concept album by Handel we blast every Christmas really boosts my spirits. But you know I can’t get enough of those sonatas by Scarlatti. They are whimsical and I could listen to them all day. Honestly, though .., I have to agree with Logan. The ears want to hear what the ears want to hear and that changes almost daily. I’m on a bit of a late 1970s early 1980s Saga kick right now, but that will change. I do think that Ian Crichton is an underrated guitarist, though. Years ago they did a magazine cover with Alex Lifeson, Rik Emmett, and Liona Boyd … and another guitarist I cannot recall. But, I think Ian Crichton deserved to be on there, too. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 15:21
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When I had fewer albums in my teen years, this was a much easier task to determine my favorite prog band. Even so, it wavered between two or more bands. As the collection grows over time and the listening experiences expand, this becomes a much harder task. I would say picking a number 1 band is more of a "in the moment" kind of thing than anything else. Sometimes the number 1 is fleeting, sometimes it stays for a prolonged visit. Sure, I could be methodical about it, but that takes time and often leads to boredom pondering over statistical analyses of ratings I've done over the years. Even the ratings change over time. I'm sure I've had about 50 or more different number 1 bands over the course of my life. Some of them make repeated visits. I think at this very moment, my favorite is Present. And I think this one is going to last for a good while before I change my mind again. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 17 2025 at 20:48
| Depends on how I want to focus the answer. My favorite band is Pink Floyd, and I do consider them to be prog, and they might just as well fit the answer. Yet, somehow if I have to go for my favorite PROG band, I feel compelled to say Yes, for they are quintessential prog, unlike Floyd which we might argue that don't fit the bill 100%. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 17 2025 at 22:21
| Normally I would say Yes but lately I've been thinking that Rush may have taken over the number one spot for me. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 08:23
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I don't think I have a favorite prog band anymore. I like way too much music for such notions. I find the ability of people here to make long lists ranking their favorites of this or that to be quite astonishing in that ability. To me, it would take me months of consideration to come up with accurate answers to some of the elaborate list questions posed here. Okay. Maybe that's putting way too much into what is supposed to be a quick and fun kneejerk answer to a forum question. Don't get me wrong. I'm not being critical, and I enjoy reading your responses. I just am not able to come up with answers most of the time. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 10:52
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My brain has become hard-wired in storing and cataloguing music, and I have my lists at, say, awesome prog that I spent time making and were based on earlier lists that I can draw on at any time. The more you list, the easier it gets. I have a good memory for such things, and a bad memory for more important things, such as I forgot my wife's birthday last year (it's tomorrow, but she'll be in California for her work. There's always next year, hopefully). Those lists focus much more on albums that I have been playing over the last few years. I don't just knee jerk react to say, polls, I try to consider all of the ones I know and like from the poll and compare, and then decide. And I often try to check out music I don't know from them (a reason I can like track-based polls, easier to check out the music). And I almost always vote after thinking through my posts even if I tend not to think them through as well as I would like. That decision on what to vote for often depends on the day, my current mood, or which album I listened to last. I'm more likely to choose an album that both excited me and is fresher to my ears than one I have known for many years but haven't played recently. I don't have a favourite today yet, but later on I might. My fave du jour. I want some new musical passion now. I can say that in recent years bands like Boards of Canada, Swans, Portishead, Fishmans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stereolab, Beach House, Natural Snow Buildings, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Broadcast, Pram and artists like Nick Drake, Sufjan Stevens, Weyes Blood, Lingua Ignota, Nick Cave (and the bad Seeds) have been very important. And my usual suspects for 20 or so years such as Air, VdGG, Art Zoyd, Magma, Can etc. are still getting played regularly. Tomorrow it might be something different. Like I was trying to say to Pedro, and then took the idea for my signature, my favourite can be that which I am listening to right now or is freshest in my mind because that's what most excites me in the moment. That does not lessen all of the others I have appreciated and I can continue to think of and play the music in my head fondly since I often feel that I know them so well that I don't feel the need to hear them externally. Some music affects me more emotiuonally at different times, and those tend to be my top picks at a given time. Even just thinking of them, and specific music comes to mind (plays in my head) off the mentions, some will resonate with my mood and most current interests more. Like many here, I have listened to and enjoyed thousands of albums over the years, but I commonly still have particular favourites at different times (it might be the newest discovery that I am passionate about). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 18:23
I listen to tons of stuff too but still make time to listen to my old favorites. I think it's been a while since I played any Yes though and Genesis too but more recently than Yes. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 18:51
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For me, bands are relational. I love eras of bands, but hardly never their entire catalog (unless, of course, like Hendrix, the Doors or Nick Drake, their careers were cut short tragically). My tastes change and the band goes in a different direction to those tastes, and we part ways. So, I'm not sure I have a number one prog band. Tull for 13 albums over a dozen or so years, Genesis up until Hackett left, Yes up to Going for the One, etc. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 19:29
Oh, I absolutely make time for my old faves too. I just couldn't really tell you with certainty which faves are more beloved than other faves. Love em all. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: Themistocles
Date Posted: May 22 2025 at 23:35
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Rush It would be King Crimson if it were just their live stuff though... every live recording from them Ive heard is pure fire and superior to the studio recorded versions. ------------- Sjå, my first album in 25+ years is out now: https://jeffjahn.bandcamp.com/album/sj I am told its quite original |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: May 23 2025 at 16:24
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Genesis from Trespass to W&W ------------- "You must not talk to idiots, it instructs them" (Michel Audiard) " Je ne parle pas aux idiots , cela les instruit" |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 29 2025 at 17:57
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It has been King Crimson since the very early days.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 29 2025 at 19:34
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I listen more based on mood and feeling but if I say what am I most likely to reach for it will likely be from these first Univers Zero Henry Cow King Crimson Cardiacs Pink Floyd Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 29 2025 at 22:06
Likewise. There can only be one. This song spoke to me in my youth, with all of the concern about the Viet Nam war, environmental destruction etc. https://youtu.be/vXrpFxHfppI?si=p73HxP5gklrSTHD-" rel="nofollow - Epitaph ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 30 2025 at 12:58
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Pink Floyd of course - my #1 prog band since 1972. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: May 30 2025 at 13:08
| Best not to think about it too much - for me, it's either Henry Cow or ELP. |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: June 01 2025 at 04:46
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King Crimson Pink Floyd VDGG Genesis Gentle Giant |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 01 2025 at 11:17
Pick one. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: June 01 2025 at 15:14
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I have yet to find an alternative No.1 PROG band to King Crimson. But Non Prog number one is The Stranglers and has been for a long time. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: jesusmarc
Date Posted: June 02 2025 at 15:38
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I'd have to say King Crimson is the quintessential prog band. I know this sounds extremely cliche for this site but they've basically covered every genre listed on this site (even Electronica if I could stretch it). As far as my personal favorite, I'd say Genesis. ------------- Jesus |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: June 03 2025 at 11:09
King Crimson |
Posted By: TenYearsAfter
Date Posted: June 03 2025 at 15:29
| 70-77 Genesis and Rush second best. |
Posted By: BasedProgger
Date Posted: June 04 2025 at 08:52
| Top three are King Crimson, Yes, and Van der Graaf Generator. |
Posted By: ProcolWho?
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 01:16
Take a wild guess |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 01:22
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It's still Pink Floyd, better before Dark Side, but I equally love Yes, ELP, Camel, Renaissance and Magma ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 03:43
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Just don't have one; far too many faves, but if there was a band I have just consistently reached for over the past 30+ years... it would be Eloy. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 07:59
Hi, I suppose that I could say, easily enough, that Amon Duul 2 is my favorite of all bands, and the next choice is scary as my brain will heave death fights over it ... Ange? Banco? ... and where do we fit Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze? That is the main reason why I say I really do not have a "favorite" to prevent spending the rest of the day fighting with my brain, that I selected such and such as the first, and ignored the rest. As many LP's as I had at one time (nearly 3K), I learned early on in the days of Space Pirate Radio that selecting something was a crap shoot, as tomorrow, something else would show up and blow everything out of the water! When "Au Dela Du Delire" showed up it blew out anything along the way ... it was just way up there and a really special album, and not the only one by ANGE, which did excellent work all the way to the early 90's. AND a lead singer that stood up as well as Francesco did with Banco ... you lived and died with their words and music! Fast forward to the 21st Century and the age of the numbers and everyone has a choice of some sort, things get even more confusing, but in all honesty, not a whole lot of stuff in the past 30 years has surpassed the ones I have always thought were the best ... though there are many I have fallen for, and loved dearly. Music changes, like the arts do ... the only place it doesn't change is on a site, like PA where the fans get to "demand" their choice as the number 1. Which, when it comes to the music itself, is a real turn off ... feels like the sons and daughters of the jerks that fought for pieces of the pig at Anaheim Stadium! And I don't want to be anywhere near that, regardless of who the band is. But there are things that just go over the top ... if you ever hear Guy Guden's 'Audio Alchemy" as he did for several LP's, the choices change and my special one is Tomita's Firebird Suite ... done in the most incredible way, with the third dimension right there slapping you around to listen! It is that phenomenal, but sadly, it will never be heard by any one else, and even the one I caught was missing the first few minutes (had just gotten off work!!!), in taping it, but even with the couple of minutes missing, it is easily the very best thing I have ever heard ... just sad I can not share it per Guy's wishes and my respect for a friend, even though I probably don't fit next to all the girls and groupies in his time! Favorites? What's that? A new salad? A new dessert? ... hmmm ... maybe a new soup? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Proggle
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 14:06
Never heard of Fishmans and now I am streaming and enjoying Long Season, so thank you! (#1 band? Transatlantic maybe.) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 14:29
| So few people here have Yes as their number one. Kind of weird to me. Maybe you guys just don't like them anymore. |
Posted By: Themistocles
Date Posted: July 08 2025 at 14:37
There is much wisdom to this approach. I really enjoy finding new things... something that challenges me. That's my favorite thing and the probalem is most stuff isnt all that original. ------------- Sjå, my first album in 25+ years is out now: https://jeffjahn.bandcamp.com/album/sj I am told its quite original |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 03:36
Hi, There has never been a time, or place, where new works and arts are not available. The big "fight" is getting past the commerciality around it all and then be able to comment and discuss something new. While PA is quite OK about new things, folks (in general) are afraid of commenting on new stuff, because it makes them feel like their favorites are not as good, or not up to par. For me, the issue is the "favorites" taking away your ability to listen to anything else properly, and without comparison. From my experience, you and I would have a much harder time finding something new if we constantly compare and think of our favorite ... the new thing does not have a chance, and this is the main issue with a commercially designed and defined process, that wants you to stay with your favorite and not dissipate the numbers in sales any further, and somehow, we don't see, or understand how that plays into the record company more, one of the very things that "progressive" fought against in its start and wake up days ... but we dislike history ... and ignore it ... and continue with the same program. The courage, the desire, and the inner depth that can define it, is missing, and I doubt it can remake itself within the current confines ... tomorrow it will be called something else and everyone will leave for that new land! And "progressive" will dissipate ... because the understanding of the art form and its history is not important and has been ignored! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 22:45
They could have ended 20 years ago and that would have been fine, or perhaps they sort of did and it's now a 'zombified' band. Perhaps carrying on too long plus you can't just ignore the current version of the band that is a million miles away from the classic era and best line up (CTTE and Fragile era imo) |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 23:02
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Most, if not all of the greatest prog bands did their best works as very young men, and the doors were just opening… Around 67 through 75 or so. Sudden bursts of creativity, new and seemingly out of nowhere. It’s happened a few times in my / our lifetime with different genres. Rock, soul, Prog, punk, disco, new wave, electronica, hip hop/rap, to name a few grand and memorable landmarks of popular music. Are we ‘hangers on’ or ‘die hards? Probably. YES had its huge day in the sun, right? I gave Alice Coopers new release a listen and it made me sad. Seeing Ozzy on his “throne” with his cake also made me sad… and a little proud to have been young and present in such an era. Watching newer bands trying to re-create the magic with the same old formulas is fun, but futile. What’s Next, I wonder? And I hope I live to hear it! Whatever it is it will probably be created by 16 - 20 year old kids. I just hope it isn’t full of the angst that has infected so much popular music recently. Enough of that! Edited for horrible grammar. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: July 10 2025 at 00:58
| Number 1 prog band for me? Probably King Crimson, the epitome of progressive. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 10 2025 at 03:06
Yep. I agree they did dilute their career and they are no longer my favorite band because they just went on too long and didn't know when to quit. I didn't want to assume others felt the same way though but it seems that's probably the case. Not a lot of people said ELP either (although that's to be expected). Genesis also sort of diluted their career in a way when they moved away from pure prog but it seems some still had them for their number one band. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 10 2025 at 03:43
Hi, I think it is not as clear cut ... and it varies. The musicians and prog bands that did their work for the value of their work, and not the fame, have survived just fine, but it is the behemoths that don't look good, and the ravages of time, seemingly eating them all up. But many did just fine. If we look at the arts and their history, folks like Picasso, Dali and many writers, got way better in their later years, and Picasso? He was not going to stop painting unless he was in his death bed ... and he kept on changing, which likely was a part of his disdainful attitude towards a lot of folks in the business and in the Spanish Government. And in the end, they could not even complete his catalog with thousands and thousands of works ... and still, today, they don't have a complete catalog! That's art to the max of its truth! Rock music is so stuck in the fame business and in the record company curses, that it can not fathom anything else, and allowing BS and many others one more go is like a thank you for all the money you made for us all! And the only sad thing I do not see is the humility for it all ... of course Ozzy is going to say thank you ... for all the drugs and the fun along the way ... because the music is not exactly the great pantheon of the arts. Youth has a say in things, but it depends on the nature of the social group ... right now, the media has all the youngsters tied up with their rap and hit songs, and those folks will not likely be at the forefront of anything new artistically, I do not think. Like the 1960's, there has to be a sort of fight and things to go after that causes changes, and one could say that at this time and place in America, the disconnect is so harsh that even here ... no one cares, and all they can say is RW is a jerk, and that the other RW is cool with a cape ... never mind the egocentric stupidity involved, and what might be a well thought out view of the world, even if we're not smart enough to study it and find if it is true or false, the one thing that PA has shown ... the facts are ignored and instead the senseless one line comments are made for us to think they are important comments about the situation. All it's doing is hiding the cynicism behind it all, and we make a point of not looking, because it takes away our own doing of it! As writer Doris Lessing once said ... the country that has the most freedoms, rarely uses them! ... because having a "favorite" is freedom, not something else that has a bigger meaning in life! That's objectivity for you! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 10 2025 at 03:59
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Exceptions confirm the rule. Most artists are most creative before they reach 30, but some really go above and beyond in their 50s. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 10 2025 at 04:04
Are you talking about "Road", his 2023 release? Yes, that one was a major let-down. New album is coming out in two weeks: https://awesomeprog.com/releases/79784" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/releases/79784 Listening to the first single, the cringe factor is noticeable. Don't care much for the "yayayayayayayaya" section ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: July 10 2025 at 06:12
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Yes I heard two pre released tracks off of this new one and it was a let down too. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: RockHound
Date Posted: July 13 2025 at 06:33
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It's Yes for me. My wife and I watched the Yes Symphonic video last night, and we were pretty sure the crowd got their money's worth out of that show. I could easily discount them since Heaven and Earth, but the Topographic Drama tour was one of the best Yes concerts I have attended. Down but not out. But I look at King Crimson, and the totality of their work gives them a case for the greatest prog band of all time. I wouldn't have thought that until recently, even though I have loved them since they first appeared in 1969. But in retrospect, their contributions just keep on coming (especially with the news of a new studio album), and every work has been a step forward in one way or another. When I look at prog as a whole, there are so many bands who are totally great. I could never discount Genesis, Jethro Tull, Zappa, Gentle Giant, Spock's Beard, Dream Theater, The Flower Kings, and so many other bands I listen to routinely who have made enormous contributions to the genre. Although I'm a lifelong Yes-head, there are so many bands who are essential for making life worth living. |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: July 13 2025 at 07:28
| I rarely listen to prog these days, but it's always gonna be Genesis, even though Marillion's debut is the most important album in my life |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 13 2025 at 07:40
Hi, A lot of their contributions were on account of personnel changes, which gave the group another identity, though we always knew that it was based around Robert Fripp, in general, but none of it was really a let down, and compared to what they did before was always different and new. This time, though, I'm not sure that it will be "new" as we can look at all the members, and there really is not new person/name that might add a bit more or less to the whole thing and make it more interesting. I would like to see the "boys' band" thing busted up and a super song with Toyah singing all the way to the top and gasping! Robert is in the later years, and I think that he might just let things go some and allow the other folks to put most of it together and then he can add what he comes up with and maybe even change some things here or there and go from there, but I'm not sure that he will be into the creative side of it heavy duty ... he knows KDC is established and has nothing to prove to anyone. A new album, better or worse, is not going to make much of a difference, and he is having much more fun with Toyah and able to smell the roses and not have to deal with various group this or that ... and at his age, it makes a massive difference. And I think he knows it, but the "demand" by fans and everyone else, is for another album, though I'm not sure he will be the boss this time, which I think will make the album possibly more towards known areas of their work, than something totally new and different. In listening to the various members during this wait, none of them have done neat and far out bits and pieces, that any of us would sit here and go ... wow ... that is outstanding (even comparing to KC proper) ... so us thinking it will be another show stopper, might be asking for too much. In all honesty, I want to see the band shine the rest of the way, and then smile. They did well ... and don't need to show it again to no one, except the universe of time ... and that has already been in place for 60 plus years! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: July 13 2025 at 16:30
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It's still The Flower Kings. No changes there. :v ------------- 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 14 2025 at 15:11
Really? What do you mostly listen to these days then? And please don't say K-Pop.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: July 14 2025 at 16:58
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The good ol' Grateful Dead, of course. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 14 2025 at 17:10
Are you serious? |
Posted By: Error Code 864G
Date Posted: July 14 2025 at 17:20
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Van der Graaf Generator or maybe Harmonium. ------------- A Human Being, Existing. |
Posted By: Mikich
Date Posted: July 14 2025 at 17:21
| Genesis |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: July 14 2025 at 17:40
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Posted By: vidcom
Date Posted: July 17 2025 at 13:33
| It changes one moment to the next but YES - Topographic Oceans era... |