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Originally Posted by tore
No, I don't think you can make a list of 100 artists and please everyone with it. It's not a bad attempt at all, but I think a problem here is that you're trying to summarize influence over 40+ years. I mean, Procol Harum was a really big influence on early prog and it's birth, but today - perhaps not so much. To figure out it's place in the list then becomes very difficult.
Maybe it would make more sense to make a list of early prog and their influence on their time and then early prog and their influence today (and then you could include modern prog's influence on today too in that). Then and now are quite different so I think that might work better I think even though I understand you wanted to make a single 100 list.
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Yeah I want to keep it simple. Dont want to make any seperate lists.
Procol Harum and Moody Blues were basically the first prog bands. But even though Procol Harum set up the blueprints for prog, bands like VDGG and Gentle Giant did more to define the genre, became a bigger influence on future prog bands and are today more popular among prog fans.
I admit the list wont please everyone, everybody will find something wrong with it, and though I try to be as objective as I can I know it can't be comletely objective.
I just think lists are fun, I don't want it to be taken
too seriously.