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    Posted: August 05 2020 at 10:40
NOTE: I may have made this thread before. I can't remember. Someone close it if I have.
If you remember, a while ago I started a thread called "Most Famous Prog Bands" on people's favourite prog bands that were very successful outside the prog scene. Here, I'm returning to the same bands, but the subject is which was most successful. I don't mean commercial success - in that case Pink Floyd would win, and that's a fact, not an opinion. I mean which was the most inspirational, which left their mark on prog the most and which really defined the genre as we know it.
So, I'm voting Genesis. Not because I love Genesis, but because no prog band at the time sounded quite like them, and yet loads of bands after their heyday (well, proggy heyday) are compared with them, and nearly every neo prog and post 70s symphonic prog band claims inspiration from them. And I am yet to here an album that sounds like Selling England by the Pound or Duke.
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On influence, either Yes or PF I guess.


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Toss up between Yes and Genesis.

Went with Genesis.
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Success ranking:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Genesis
3. Rush
4. Yes
5. ELP
6. King Crimson


As for influence it would be different. If we are talking influence in hipster/music snob circles it would be PF then KC.

As for strictly influence in prog without taking sales into much consideration: 

1. King Crimson
2. Genesis
3. Yes
4. Pink Floyd
5. Rush
6. ELP

Prog popularity(as in over all popularity among prog fans):

1. Genesis
2.Yes
3.King Crimson
4.Pink Floyd
5.ELP/Rush tie


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I don't mean commercial success - in that case Pink Floyd would win, and that's a fact, not an opinion. 

Well, I agree with you there. See my first set of six(also fact and not opinion) which is based on album sales/commercial success.
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If by successful you mean sales, no contest. Pink Floyd by a country mile. If you mean by influence, then that is something prog fans will argue about all year long, and it depends upon who, precisely, you are talking about the influence onWink
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another thread about the most famous progressive rock bands ever. Right... Disapprove
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

If by successful you mean sales, no contest. Pink Floyd by a country mile. If you mean by influence, then that is something prog fans will argue about all year long, and it depends upon who, precisely, you are talking about the influence onWink
There might be one way to determine which was the most influential: round up every band in the world and see which prog band they take the most inspiration from. God help the person who does that. 
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Based on influence I'd have to say Yes, they're the closest to genre defining.
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Or do you mean longevity?

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It's a Yes vote for me, seeing as their more recent albums sound just as good to my ears as their classic albums. Smile
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For being influential to the prog genre, then it's got to be King Crimson, or else Yes. I went with Crim just because of Court.
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Or do you mean longevity or monetary gains of a certain version of a group (one set group of artists along a band's timeline)?
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Based on influence I'd have to say Yes, they're the closest to genre defining.

I'm tempted to say Yes but I'm leaning towards KC. If it wasn't for King Crimson you wouldn't have Yes, Genesis or even the whole genre as we know it. 
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Based on influence I'd have to say Yes, they're the closest to genre defining.

I'm tempted to say Yes but I'm leaning towards KC. If it wasn't for King Crimson you wouldn't have Yes, Genesis or even the whole genre as we know it. 

I personally much prefer Crimson but I see more bands following the Yes symphonic approach rather than KC's more angular stuff. For pure impact of one album then yes its' KC - ITCOTCK.
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A case can be made for any of these bands, but I have to choose ELP. Keith Emerson's fusion of rock and classical music pretty much defined progressive rock in the 1970's, and he almost single-handedly introduced the synthesizer as a lead instrument...hard to beat that.
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People often forget how successful Kansas were, their first 3 went gold but leftoverture and POKR both went somewhere from 4-6x platinum in the states and monolith went platinum.

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Yes, at their poignantly brief peak.  I just don't think anyone else was in the same universe.

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