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    Posted: November 26 2008 at 02:35

Here is a list of my top 5 countries that have produced excellent prog bands over the years,

1-UK..well they invented the genre and saw it through the hellish 80s..
2-Germany-..with so much output from early on. with excellent bands in most prog sub genres , they deserve my no 2 spot..and then there is Eloy...
3-Sweden..caught the prog fever relatively later , but made up for it with brooding, atmospheric, dark, and totally engrossing music from excellent bands
4-USA-I started with Kansas, but then discovered many other fantastic  bands
5-Italy- with dozens of excellent symphonic bands..they know a thing or two about prog..  
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Japan
Sweden
Italy
France
Tie U.S./UK

Those are my favs right now. I'm just beginning to explore some South American stuff. Pretty good but not as prolific.

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Though I've sniffed around the prog output from a  number of countries, I find that the main output that appeals to me seems to come from the UK, Scandinavia and the USA (in that order).
 
Prog from Italy of France usually really blows it for me with the foreign lyrics, and lyrics by any Geman Prog bands in English would be a success in any bloopers show.
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1 UK
2 Germany
3 Italy
4Japan
5 France
6 Argentina
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1. UK
2. Sweden
3. U.S.A.
4. Canada
5. Poland
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U.S.
Sweden
Norway
Japan
UK
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My choice is:-
 
1.  UK
2.  Sweden
3.  Germany
4.  USA
5.  Canada
 
 
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1. UK
2. US
3. Sweden
4. Canada
5.Germany

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Originally posted by progrocker2244 progrocker2244 wrote:

1. UK
2. US
3. Sweden
4. Canada
5.Germany
 
Hi progrocker 2244.  Our Top 5s are very similar!
 
Incidentally, I just posted on your DT Eras topic!
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sweden
norway
france
u.k.
u.s.a

japan/italy  have to be in there somewhere. this is hard


Edited by moe_blunts - November 27 2008 at 11:01
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1. UK
2. Germany/Sweden
3. U.S.A
4. France?

Or something
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I try to be objective.

1. U.K. - needs no comment 

2. Germany - the 'cosmic school' is a really original alternative to British proto - and symphonic prog

3. Italy - so many good bands came from that country, giving their own twist to symphonic prog from the early seventies on

4. Sweden - important for more or less contemporary prog

5. Japan - not the most original prog country, but many good prog bands came from that country too
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UK/Italy
USA
Germany
France
Sweden
Spain
Canada
Holland
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Italy
Germany
UK
France
Japan
Brazil
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1. UK
2. France
3. Gemany
4. Italy
5. Sweden
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1. UK
2. Italy
3. Germany
4. USA
5. Sweden


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UK
Sweden
Poland
Germany
Netherlands
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Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden

Being an Opeth, Meshuggah, Flower Kings, Thomas Bodin and PoS fan, I don't think I'm too bias.
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1. UK / Germany / Italy

2. Sweden

3. France

4. Norway

5. Canada, / U.S.A./ Argentina / Brazil


Edited by inrainbows - December 11 2008 at 16:56
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1. UK
2. Italy
3. Germany
-after these three it becomes a lot less about a country with a wealth of great bands and more about a few great bands being from the same country-
4. Zappa, er I mean US (don't care for the majority of what passes for prog in the US so this is a solely Zappa based rank)
5. Canada (Rush, Harmonium)


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