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Favorite 70s Prog Band: Redux
Here it is, as requested.
Recommended listening. King Crimson: In The Court of the Crimson King Lizard Lark's Tongue in Aspic Starless & Bible Black Red Discipline Thrak Yes: The Yes Album Fragile Close to the Edge Tales From Topographic Oceans Relayer Going for the One Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates of Dawn Meddle Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here Animals The Wall Genesis: Nursery Cryme Foxtrot Selling England by the Pound Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Jethro Tull: Aqualung Thick as a Brick A Passion Play Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus Trilogy Brain Salad Surgery Rush: 2112 A Farewell to Kings Hemispheres Pernament Waves Moving Pictures Can: Monster Movie Tago Mago Ege Bamyasi Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste Three Friends Octopus In a Glass House Free Hand Van Der Graaf Generator: H to He, Who Am the Only One Pawn Hearts Godbluff Still Life Hawkwind: In Search of Space Hall of the Mountain Grill Warrior on the Edge of Time Space Ritual Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Magma: Magma (Kobaïa) Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh Uriah Heep: Salisbury Demons and Wizards The Magician's Birthday Henry Cow: Leg End In Praise of Learning Western Culture Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame Birds of Fire Gong: Flying Teapot Angel's Egg You Camel: Mirage The Snow Goose Moonmadness The Strawbs: Grave New World Hero and Heroine Focus: Moving Waves Hamburger Concerto Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North The Rotter's Club Barclay James Harvest: Once Again Octoberon Renaissance: Ashes are Burning Turn the Cards Scheherazade and Other Stories Eloy: Dawn Ocean Premiata Forneria Marconi: Per Un Amico Storia Di Un Minuto L'isola di niente Comus: First Utterance Soft Machine: The Soft Machine Volume Two Third Fourth Traffic: Mr. Fantasy John Barleycorn Must Die The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys The Moody Blues: Days of Future Past In Search of the Lost Chord On the Threshold of a Dream Procol Harum: Procol Haum Shine on Brightly A Salty Dog Wishbone Ash: Argus Wishbone Four |
Awesome, like the list, I'm still totally undecided, I voted in the last one out of pure convenience to see the current tally. Between Mahavishnu Orchestra (realllly growing on me after I put them on my MP3 player) Jethro Tull and King Crimson for me.
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I made a quick change and added Comus, you're welcome. :)
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Hahah awesome, cheers, I'm gonna vote them then since they are my namesake and all.
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Sorry about that. Go ahead and vote for em.
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My vote was discounted ;_;
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Yeah, my bad, vote for them again I wont change it anymore, I changed my mind about adding them, then I changed my mind again, lol.
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A few I have not heard, but to me its a simple decison. Pink Floyd takes it for me because they have the best quality/quantity ratio of all these bands.
Although naming a favorite band is always pretty pointless. It ultimately depends on your mood. |
I can't vote again :(
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can...
im kinda obsessed as of late |
I really wanted to vote for KC...but I couldn't resist Pink Floyd. My vote stayed the same from the first poll.
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Seriously? Someone already voted for fucking Rush?
I quit. |
King Crimson is kinda a given for me to vote for. Gotta love Court of the Crimson King.
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Recommended listening.
King Crimson: In The Court of the Crimson King Lizard Lark's Tongue in Aspic Starless & Bible Black Red Discipline Yes: The Yes Album Fragile Close to the Edge Tales From Topographic Oceans Relayer Going for the One Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates of Dawn Meddle Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here Animals The Wall Genesis: Nursery Cryme Foxtrot Selling England by the Pound Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Jethro Tull: Aqualung Thick as a Brick A Passion Play Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus Trilogy Brain Salad Surgery Rush: 2112 A Farewell to Kings Hemispheres Pernament Waves Moving Pictures Can: Monster Movie Tago Mago Ege Bamyasi Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste Three Friends Octopus In a Glass House Free Hand Van Der Graaf Generator: H to He, Who Am the Only One Pawn Hearts Godbluff Still Life Hawkwind: In Search of Space Hall of the Mountain Grill Warrior on the Edge of Time Space Ritual Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Magma: Magma (Kobaïa) Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh Uriah Heep: Salisbury Demons and Wizards The Magician's Birthday Henry Cow: Leg End In Praise of Learning Western Culture Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame Birds of Fire Gong: Flying Teapot Angel's Egg You Camel: Mirage The Snow Goose Moonmadness The Strawbs: Grave New World Hero and Heroine Focus: Moving Waves Hamburger Concerto Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North The Rotter's Club Barclay James Harvest: Once Again Octoberon Renaissance: Ashes are Burning Turn the Cards Scheherazade and Other Stories Eloy: Dawn Ocean Premiata Forneria Marconi: Per Un Amico Storia Di Un Minuto L'isola di niente Comus: First Utterance |
Thrak, Beat and Power To Believe are all better than Starless imo.
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Well Thrak is. KC's most underrated album.
Beat is decent, but I'd say it's Crimsons worst after ConstruKction of Light. It also has Heartbeat, the worst KC song ever. |
Phew, no queen!
Last time it was KC, but I'll think about it a bit more this time. |
I like 17 off that list, that's not really narrowed down is it? :D
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As of right now and subject to change
Can |
Can for me. My favourite does change fairly often though.
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Jethro Tull does it for me, even though I'm a mighty fan of VDGG.
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It's tough for me, because I love all these bands.
But when I get down to it, it's gotta be either KC or Yes, I'm not sure who to vote for yet. |
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I went for class this time, Mahavishnu Orchestra. John McLaughlin has the capacity to sound like a genius or a crackpot, and too often he seems the latter, but The Inner Mounting Flame is simply glorious. Shame the last 25 years he's devoted himself to not much more than jerking off.
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Dunno how anyone can pick Pink Floyd, Yes or VDGG over KC honestly: their debut all the way though Discipline is damn near perfection on every front, though I'm sure there will be those who disagree....
Btw boo boo, why isn't Gryphon or Lucifer's Friend on this poll? (five and nine albums respectively, and Gryphon's Red Queen to Gryphon Three is a classic for Pete's sake). :D |
I don't think Griffin is all that incredible.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_(band) If so, I completely agree. :) |
Yes, KC, or Comus.
First Utterance is a great album. |
The list was a vast improvement! It's a bit hard to choose, so I just went with what I'm liking the most these days .. and then it was down to one of the Canterbury bands.
I went with Caravan. If I get to vote again in a week or so, I'm guessing my vote will go to Camel. |
eh, if you put Hatfield on there, you should have put Egg on there too. they're great, and probably would have got my vote...
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either Can or Amon Düül II. i need to get ALOT more prog though.
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I know it's the cliche choice, but I went with Pink Floyd. Their grace and restraint puts them above most other progressive bands IMO.
King Crimson and Yes also did many great things in the '70s though, and I really need to hear more Can. I also dig both Soft Machine/Robert Wyatt and Neu!, and was surprised that neither were included in the poll. |
A group should only be listed if it's one you would vote for. You could add every prog band from the 70s, but there's not much point except for having a more complete list - but such a list would also contain a lot of useless info that you'd have to mentally filter out (every band with 0 votes).
A way to construct a more proper poll may be to start with one band and then just add more as they get votes by posts in the thread .. then you'd just have to make sure the people who posted actually vote for the band after it's been added to the poll. |
Pink Floyd are my favorite, but King Crimson are equally great. It's impossible to really compare them since they're pretty different.
I really like Yes, Can, and Jethro Tull too, but I have more of an attachment to KC and Floyd. |
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So many great bands up there.... but I had to go with Pink Floyd.
Only one thing.... No Supertramp??? |
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I'm not a psychic, I don't know which bands people will and wont vote for, I added the most well known prog bands of the period, I forgot about a few yes (Soft Machine), I can't cover them all hence the other option, but I wanted to get as specific as possible. People here tend to like the more obscure bands. |
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What you do with that is up to you. F.ex you can sulk or you can take the suggestion and make a new and improved 70s thread. ;) |
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