Screw the poll - favorite Prog Rock Band

[LynneSin]

Since Jethro Tull, Yes and Genesis (the early stuff) was not available.

My favorite would have to be in this order:

1.) Yes
2.) King Crimson
3.) Pink Floyd (although as a favorite band list they are higher than King Crimson)
4.) Rush
5.) The Moody Blues

What are your favorite Prog Rock bands?

Queen is my 2nd favorite all-time band but I barely consider them Prog-Rock.

[Beer Snob-50]

1. pink floyd is probably the best in this genre

but could we also consider frank zappa in this list? i think much of what he did could be considered prog rock (jazz influenced, use of other than your basic guitar, drums, bass instruments)

[bif]

2. Porcupine Tree

[bbernardini]

78. Glad to see a fellow PTree fan got this in early.

Absolutely one of my top five favorite artists of all time (along with Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren and Mike Keneally...the fifth spot changes on a regular basis).

[Danger Mouse]

3. Dream Theater and Pink Floyd.

[ACTION BASTARD]

6. Dream Theater FTW!

Pink Floyd, Rush and Pelican to round out the jams.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

4. Might add

Spock's Beard and Dream Theatre off the top of my head.

[Parche]

5. these beat Rush and Led Zeppelin by far

1.Pink Floyd
2.Genesis
3.U-2
4.Alice In Chains


:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[realisticphish]

7. Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes

[Mudoria]

8. Marillion

Pendragon
Nektar
King Crimson

[travelingtypist]

44. Fish or not-Fish?

For me it's Marillion w/Fish, Dream Theater, and Pink Floyd.

[Mudoria]

46. Fish

Definitely!

[travelingtypist]

50. Yeah.

Misplaced Childhood FTW!!

I saw them in Germany in the 80s. Then I came back to the States
and went for 15 years without finding another Marillion fan.

Luvs me teh Interwebs.

:hi:

[Taverner]

9. King Crimson

Every album is a masterpiece

[MissMillie]

10. 1. Yes

2. Moody Blues





that is all

[mvd]

11. Moody Blues

#1 on my list by far

Would have to think about the others.

[dysfunctional press]

12. porcupine tree.

[Kali]

13. I like your list

except for rush

do you consider Uriah Heep prog?

[GOPisEvil]

14. 1. Yes.

2. Pink Floyd.
3. Rush.
4. Genesis.
5. Moody Blues.

[LynneSin]

16. What ruins it for Gensis is all that pop commericial crap they did in the 80s

hence why Moody Blues made my list

[bridgit]

15. ELP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y1x04hAUT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy79vpwcB58&feature=related

They may not qualify, but I like Soft Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBzZ55De8k

And Tull :thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYbgE9yvFE0

But I'm tossing in Band of Gypsys just cause:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKsOTfFc2UU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kze4jqFgW2s&feature=related :headbang:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. I need a complete list of Prog Rock Bands before I can answer

kthxbai:hi:

[LynneSin]

18. Enjoy

http://www.progarchives.com/

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. Wow!! Who knew?

thanks for the link. I am learning a lot.

My top 2 Favorite Prog Rock Bands (I think)

1. Moody Blues
2. ELP

After reading this site, I am not sure I even understand what Prog Rock is :D

[kwassa]

19. "Hot Rats" Frank Zappa, "Trout Mask Replica" Captain Beefheart

Peaches En Regalia!

[Forkboy]

21. I'm picking Opeth.

Though it's more prog death than rock. But close enough for me.

[RoadRage]

28. My Arms.. Your Hearse...

My Fav. ;) Prog Death Metal anyway... on my list of just prog-metal.. fates warning, dream theater, symphony x, power of omens, queesnryche, angra.... I could go on.

Love Opeth though!

[MarthaMyDear]

30. I hadn't thought of Opeth...what a great band!

Though, for the prog rock, I would choose Pink Floyd, probably...or Peter Gabriel-era Genesis!

[lildreamer316]

22. Toto.

Don't believe me? Go listen to Falling In Between and get back to me...

[distantearlywarning]

23. Rush, by a mile!

I also like Led Zeppelin & Queen

[meegbear]

24. ELP! ELP! ELP! ELP!

[amyrose2712]

25. Can? prog rock?

[amyrose2712]

48. What I meant was , would CAN be considered Prog rock?nt

[harmonicon]

53. yes, absolutely, 100%

however, most of the bands that people are listing are not prog rock.

[amyrose2712]

57. wow. You know Can?

I only know some. But I truly dig them. My BF turned me on to them. Everyone thinks we mean Canned Heat. NOT!

[harmonicon]

58. I'm not a huge fan, but I certainly know who they are.

It's not that I don't like them, but when I was into rock/prog rock music, I was young and wanted to listen to flashy instrumental skillz, and Can don't really do that. Of course, now I realize they're a million times better than most crap I was listening to when I was 16, but I just don't listen to much rock music at all anymore.

Haven't they become quite popular with the younger generation over the last 10 years or so? Maybe thinking that means that I'm dating myself, and the kids haven't cared about them since the 90's.

[amyrose2712]

59. I am 35. I never heard of anyone else...

that ever heard them and that is my 40yr old BF. Who's father had a few radio stations back in the 70's. Personally, I only know a few songs. I just dig the feel. What type of music do you listen to these days?

[harmonicon]

60. well, you're just a few years older than me then

I think maybe they're known by people younger than us, because of a new generation of bands that list them as a big influence or rip them off. 90's grunge bands certainly weren't interested in them.

I'm an experimental musician by trade (my degrees are in music composition), and that's most of what I listen to. Things that most people have seriously never heard of. It's strange sort of musical ghetto, but not an unpleasant one. There are only a few hundred or thousand people in the world that are going to understand my music, but that's life, I guess. I don't let it get me down.

For some perspective, a name that many people will know is John Cage. He was sort of the grandfather of today's experimental music. If you're actually interested, this website has a great streaming experimental music radio station: http://www.wandelweiser.de/ also full of information on some great musicians, and a record label to boot (though they play far more things on the radio station than just the cds they put out).

[amyrose2712]

61. Do you hae your own site?

I am not going to say I will understand your right away, but I am certainly open to listening to anything new and different.

[harmonicon]

73. sorry for taking so long to reply to this

No, I don't have my own site. I often consider it, but then decide that it's not worth the effort. I really doubt that many more people would find out about me through the internet that are going to be interested than do so through word-of-mouth. I like some things to be old fashioned.

[amyrose2712]

77. How could I listen to your music?

[harmonicon]

79. can't

That's the beauty of it. Really, I haven't the faintest idea... sometimes some of my stuff is played on that wandelweiser radio station, but I'll be tight-lipped as to my name, so you wouldn't be able to know it was me anyway.

[amyrose2712]

80. ohhhh hoarding...makes me all the more curious of course.

[amyrose2712]

62. Also, what would I listen to that radio with?

[harmonicon]

74. it plays in my itunes

I think windows media player or real player should play it as well. I'm listening to it right now, in fact! It's basically that or NPR for me, most of the day.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

70. Probably the most progressive band ever

in the literal sense of the term "progressive." I have pretty much everything that they recorded and first heard them in the mid 1970s. There's nothing like them.

[4_Legs_Good]

26. Genesis

Gabriel years, of course. I enjoy post Gabriel Genesis too, but to even call A Trick of the Tale or Wind and Wuthering "progressive" is a stretch, never mind the rest of the catalogue.

David

[RoadRage]

27. Fates Warning, Power of Omens, Symphony X

Of course DT but they've already been mentioned a bit... When Dream & Day Unite is in my top 10.

Fates Warning's No Exit is the best Prog Metal album of all IMO... closely followed by Perfect Symetry.. and I also like A Pleasant Shade of Gray.. but it's mellower then the other 2.

Queensryche's early stuff (Mindcrime, Warning & Rage for Order) Is also fantastic!

If you like Prog - check out Power of Omens: Eyes of the Oracle is unbelievable.. and they're based out of the US (Texas).. not overseas: http://www.myspace.com/powerofomens .

Angra's Holy Land album is a great Prog tribute.. fantastic depth

Symphony X - just listen to The Divine Wings of Tragedy on the Accolade album.. you'll be in love.


Sadly.. my husband loves none of what I have listed above... he prefers "Jenny Jenny" by Tommy Tu-tone :puke: :eyes: . Thankfully he has other attributes, and i have an iPod so I can rock out whenever I'd like... :)

Great Thread!

[Yukari Yakumo]

29. Tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglVqACd1C8

[MarthaMyDear]

31. I hadn't even thought of Tool as prog-rock...

...but you're absolutely right!

[rucky]

32. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

[HughBeaumont]

33. P.F.M. and Van Der Graaf Generator.

Also:

Emerson Lake & Palmer
Gong
pre-Invisible Touch Genesis
Jethro Tull
Le Orme
Voivod
Rush
Il Balletto Di Bronzo
King Crimson

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

36. Good to see another VdGG and Gong fan,

Hugh! Those aren't bands that are well known to most, but were tremendous. Nothing was more intense than Van der Graaf at their peak except maybe for Can at their improvisational extremes.

[bif]

65. I saw Gong live!

In London back in 1975. Great show.

[HughBeaumont]

75. "You" is a masterpiece.

Just Epic. "A Sprinkling of Clouds" is one of my favorite instrumentals.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

83. That is a great tune

and "Isle of Everywhere" is even better, imO. Hillage and Malherbe really tore the roof off the dodecahedron with their solos.

[midnight armadillo]

34. I freakin' hate Yes

I consider them to be as outrageously overrated as the Who. That's right, the Who. :puke:

Pink Floyd, ELP, Rush, King Crimson, they're the best of the genre.

Dream Theater (often mentioned as prog rock), well, they're all chops and no soul. One can only listen to so many 64th notes.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

35. So many

King Crimson
Yes
Genesis (as long as Gabriel or Hackett was in the band)
ELP
Can
Van der Graaf Generator
Pink Floyd
Renaissance
Gong (Daevid Allen/Steve Hillage era)
Ozric Tentacles
Caravan
Hatfield and the North
National Health
Camel
Magma
Porcupine Tree

come immediately to mind and I am almost certainly forgetting some of the more obscure ones. Edited to add Can and Porcupine Tree.

[KittyWampus]

37. Gentle Giant

and thanks for helping me remember Nektar and Jethro Tull

[Systematic Chaos]

38. Who the fuck are they?

:dunce:

[KittyWampus]

40. enjoy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4781222750582852771&ei=OZcjSYKCLYWiqgKbyPnnBg&hl=en

[Systematic Chaos]

41. I think you missed the joke I was making, cryingshame....

I love Gentle Giant so much I named myself after them in 2004 when they allowed us to change our user names.

Before that I was progrocker69, the 69 for my birth year, but I didn't like that people also use that as a sexual reference, so I changed it. :)

[KittyWampus]

43. ohhhhh

you are a wee bit younger than me.

LOTS of people have no idea who Gentle Giant were.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

39. Yes!!

I love Prog!

1. Pink Floyd
2. King Crimson
3. Porcupine Tree
4. Rush
5. Yes

Opeth is also a great Prog/death metal band (yes,you can combine the two!) who keep getting better with each passing year.

[Systematic Chaos]

42. Echolyn, Land of Chocolate, Spock's Beard, Bruford, UK, Dream Theater...

... Van der Graaf Generator, Kansas, Marillion, Renaissance....

What else am I forgetting???

:woohoo:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

45. Electric Light Orchestra

[DBoon]

47. Jethro Tull

A couple of years ago I was ripping my old LPs to MP3s, so I had a chance to listen to them after many years.

Jethro Tull struck me as amazing musicians with an excellent talent for composition

ELP - I thought "What did I ever see in those guys?"

Yes - "I sure smoked a lot of dope back then"

[IndianaJones]

49. Styx...then Supertramp. nt.

[slutticus]

51. Have you guys heard of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

http://www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com/

Some wicked shit.

[Systematic Chaos]

52. Math rock, essentially.

Reminds me a lot of Between the Buried and Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8Aoy8dH-A

This kind of thing would be, in my warped opinion, some of the best stuff going right now - except - for the life of me I just can't get into this harsh, screechy vocal style. If they would sing or talk through the lyrics like a narrative that would be fine, but when I must have a lyric sheet handy to understand the gravel in the blender I just get annoyed.

Oh, and I checked out SGM's website, and I just loved the interview video in the media section. That dude is so funny, in a cool kind of way, when he's expressing the band's modus operandi more in sounds and gestures than in words. :)

[HughBeaumont]

76. Seen them live 5 times.

Almost everything they do is analog - no synths and barely any pedals. Dan makes a lot of their stringed instruments and said he makes a specific new instrument for each new CD.

[harmonicon]

54. hmm.... good question

I used to be a huge prog fan, but don't listen to that much of it now....

so.... the top five, in no particular order:

King Crimson
Genesis
Anglagard
Gong
IQ

[enigmatic]

55. Simply Saucer

The greatest Canadian Band of the 1970's too:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2008/11/mole-machine-simply-saucer.html

[MilesColtrane]

56. Gentle Giant

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

63. Anybody ever heard of Triumvirat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumvirat

[bif]

64. Sure

I bought one of their LPs back in the early 70s.

[imnothere]

66. Rush is so not prog rock!

There are many characteristics of prog rock (and this is from my head and not Wiki):

*bombastic

*silly overblown concepts (with sci-fi elements, sometimes)

*long instrumentals

*classical music influence

[greendog]

67. Hawkwind

Because no one else has mentioned them.

"We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqFpTSsaeY&feature=related

"Assault and Battery / Golden Void" (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD37VuL3AcE&feature=related

[Westegg]

68. Zeppelin and Queen are not Prog Rock. My list follows...

...
---Genesis
---Floyd
---Tull
---Yes
---Moodies
---Crimson
---Rush

Based on how often I listen to them now, after 30-plus years of listening to them. There are many other fine Prog Rock bands I only occasionally delve into now. But ultimately, these labels are kind of limiting. "Queen II," for example, is one of my favorite albums of all time, but while Queen may have had a glam-rock component to its early days, the band turned out to be wholly unique, in large part because of Mercury. Yet I don't care for Queen after "Day at the Races." Likewise, Roxy Music is one of my favorite bands, but they, too, transcended boundaries. As did Eno, and so many others. As far as the traditionally accepted definition of pure Prog Rock, those bands above are what I listen to most often in '08.

[Twillig]

69. Dream Theater

Kicking this thread back to the top!

Best fucking Rock Guitarist extant(Petrucci)--although I'm a Satch man to the end.

Nobody can play like they do.


Dream Theater - Endless Sacrifice (Budokan 2/2)
Jesus Fucking H. Christ.

[CBGLuthier]

71. I can not beleive no one has mentioned Klaatu

If this isn't prog rock then I don't know what is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apmPkbR5xMk

[6000eliot]

81. I love Klaatu!

Also, Roxy Music, ELP, Genesis, Barclay James Harvest, etc.

[greendog]

72. KEVIN AYERS

Great stuff. It's been years since I've listened to it, though.

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1803

[Zavulon]

82. Rush.

Yes is a close second. I also like Pink Floyd but have almost no use for any other band in your OP.