Why no 'USA' Prog bands made the big 5?

Is there a reason you're trying to antagonize King Crimson fans? Even you don't believe that last line.

 

"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!!"

 

This is his reason, dmiller458:

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I'm friends with a German woman who has a load of these records, including bands I had never heard of. Prog rock has never been the center of my experience as a musical listener, and I was surprised to find that I liked so much of it. I found it to be impressively well-crafted and creative. A really fresh, offbeat sound, to my ears. Which is how I define "new music"- by how recently I was first exposed to it, not by its original year of release.

 

I don't want to get the thread locked down.

 

It may not necessarily be locked down. But if the Gorts do decide to lock the thread, it won't be because people reported the trolling. It will be because of the trolling itself.

And the trolling needs to stop.

 

The OP is free to express his ignorance just as we're free to challenge him on it.

 

Unless it is some kind of serious abuse, i am unlikely to report anyone.

 

Yeah, let it roll. The OP is laff-out-loud funny.

Oh, I almost forgot...

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If that list of the bigs have to be extended to the eighties and to the nineties, i.e. if we are gonna make a list not only of greatest prog bands of the seventies but of the twentieth century, or to the present day if you like, then the list would look like this (not in any particular order) : King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Marillion and Dream Theater.

 

I like the idea of making a Big 5 for the classic era (late 60's and 70's) and a Big 5 for the modern era.

Classic Era: Moody Blues, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis
Modern Era: Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, Haken

My personal preferences played a big part in these choices.

I did not include bands like Rush or Opeth, because I wouldn't call either of them outright prog (Rush is hard rock that had a short prog phase, and Opeth is metal).

 

& vice versa!

 

Ah yes, the classic "I'm rubber, you're glue" defense is always convincing.

It is ignorant to state that you prefer Hillage's solo albums to his work with Can--that never happened, he was in Gong. I corrected you politely on it in the other thread, but you opted to stick with ignorance. How can we take your opinion seriously when you can't even get the name straight? I doubt you've even heard much Gong, but that doesn't stop you from pushing your uninformed opinions.

To claim that VDGG was bigger than KC or Uriah Heep was bigger than Black Sabbath is either ignorance or willful dishonesty. At this point, I'm leaning towards the latter. If you want to stubbornly persist in pushing your biased distortions as fact, expect to get called on it.