Battle of the (prog) bands round 1?

Great question. You put a lot of time and thought into it. You get a star :D The Innovators (proto-progressive rock): The Beatles vs. The Moody Blues: The Beatles The Jimi Hendrix Experience vs. The Doors: The Jimi Hendrix Experience The Who vs. Deep Purple: The Who Black Sabbath vs. Led Zeppelin: Black Sabbath The First Wave (early eclectic progressive rock): King Crimson vs. Van Der Graaf Generator: King Crimson Space Cadets (early space rock): David Bowie vs. Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd Bring on the symphony!(symphonic progressive rock): Genesis vs. Emerson Lake and Palmer: Genesis Camel vs. Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant Yes vs. Rush: Yes The Nice vs. Kansas: The Nice The odd-balls (these two are really quite unique amongst their peers): Frank Zappa vs. Jethro Tull: Frank Zappa They’ve locked themselves in the synthesizer room.(Synth-heavy crossover): Vangelis vs. The Alan Parsons Project: The Alan Parsons Project Who invited you?(early prog-related rock): Queen vs. Uriah Heep: Uriah Heep The middle period (neo-prog, zzzzzzz…): Marillion vs. Kate Bush: Marillion Metal but… smart, (proto-progressive metal): Iron Maiden vs. Metallica: Metallica Queensryche vs. Voivod: Voivod Nirvana, eat your heart out, (quintessentially 90’s progressive rock and metal) Soundgarden vs. Tool: Soundgarden Primus vs. Faith No More: Primus They’re still at it?(Modern progressive rock): Ayreon vs. Spock’s Beard: Spock's Beard Porcupine Tree vs. Riverside: Porcupine Tree Radiohead vs. Muse (They are prog-related okay, so shut-up!): Radiohead Oceansize vs. Doves: Doves So loud, yet so though-evoking, (Modern progressive metal): Dream Theater vs. Kamelot: Dream Theater Opeth vs. Between the Buried and Me: Opeth for sure Pain of Salvation vs. Karnivool: N/A Mastodon vs. The Mars Volta: Mastodon BQ: Black Sabbath BQ2: Wheels of Confusion - Black Sabbath BQ3: Sure thing.

The Innovators (proto-progressive rock): The Beatles The Jimi Hendrix Experience Deep Purple Black Sabbath The First Wave (early eclectic progressive rock): King Crimson Space Cadets (early space rock): Pink Floyd Bring on the symphony! (symphonic progressive rock): Genesis Gentle Giant Yes The Nice The odd-balls (these two are really quite unique amongst their peers): Frank Zappa They’ve locked themselves in the synthesizer room. (Synth-heavy crossover): The Alan Parsons Project Who invited you?(early prog-related rock): Uriah Heep The middle period (neo-prog, zzzzzzz…): Kate Bush Metal but… smart, (proto-progressive metal): Iron Maiden Queensryche Nirvana, eat your heart out, (quintessentially 90’s progressive rock and metal) Tool Faith No More They’re still at it?(Modern progressive rock): Ayreon Riverside Radiohead Oceansize So loud, yet so though-evoking, (Modern progressive metal): Dream Theater Opeth Pain of Salvation The Mars Volta BQ: King Crimson BQ2: In the Court of the Crimson King BQ3: ...

For shame, indeed. :P BQ1: Pink Floyd, the greatest prog band that ever lived. BQ2: "Us and Them" EDIT: Then that's something we're not gonna agree on.

And actually, I have heard BTBAM and no, they're not my cup of tea but I do find them a lot more tolerable than Opeth. EDIT2: Oh, so they are. Forgive my word-blindness, now I feel foolish.Sorry.

^^; And exactly, progressive DEATH metal; death metal with prog influence. In my opinion, it's not fair to pair those bands with actual progressive metal bands because it's not true progressive metal. That's just my views, you don't have to agree and I'm not trying to be a nazi either.

Just speaking my mind.

The Innovators (proto-progressive rock): The Beatles The Doors Deep Purple Led Zeppelin The First Wave (early eclectic progressive rock): King Crimson Space Cadets (early space rock): David Bowie Bring on the symphony! (symphonic progressive rock): Emerson Lake and Palmer Gentle Giant Yes n/a The odd-balls (these two are really quite unique amongst their peers): Jethro Tull They’ve locked themselves in the synthesizer room. (Synth-heavy crossover): n/a Who invited you?(early prog-related rock): n/a The middle period (neo-prog, zzzzzzz…): Kate Bush Metal but… smart, (proto-progressive metal): Iron Maiden n/a Nirvana, eat your heart out, (quintessentially 90’s progressive rock and metal) Tool Primus They’re still at it?(Modern progressive rock): n/a Porcupine Tree Radiohead n/a So loud, yet so though-evoking, (Modern progressive metal): n/a Opeth n/a The Mars Volta.

Im gonna delete my answer because my answer is too big to be seen, so ill just give you the reply to your statement as an edit. **first off, if im an entity that causes you to drink, you need to open your eyes to some sunlight son. Second of all, I took the time into reading some of those links you provided and didn't really convince me otherwise.So if a website decides to create a made up term called "prog-related" everything is tagged another way?

Lol. "Not all of the bands that have been a part of the history and development of progressive rock are necessarily progressive rock bands themselves." -that line itself is a contradictory. "This is why progarchives has included a genre called prog-related" -so they can call irrelevant artists progressive rock and thats that?

Just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true, it takes an ear to tell what kind of music contains jazz-like improvisation and progressive technicalities to determine progressive rock, not a mouth that labels bands. Just because they were developing progressive rock into a more diverse genre, doesn't mean they play, perform, write, compose, etc.. progressive rock in any way. Even though I stated this as a contradictory before, it still would be useless because "prog-related" isn't a genre, it just means bands that supposedly "helped" diversify the term, it doesn't make their music any different.

If say, The Doors actually did help diversify progressive rock in very proto outcomes, it's still basic knowledge to any music head that it doesn't mean The Doors themselves are prog in any way, they are still irrelevant and they should be unmentioned, just like the 50% of mediocre bands you mentioned here today. However you did open my eyes, that progarchives is just as, if not more pathetic than metalarchives.

I'm just disappointed Meshuggah wasn't on this list. :( Then again, there aren't exactly any bands they can really be matched up against....

Oh poopies. I was actually thinking of doing one of these, but was afraid there'd be an extreme lack of answers, like in most of my questions. NOBERDY LAIK DUH SHERP.Anywho... THE INNOVATORS The Moody Blues (na na na I prefer them progressively.) Jimi Hendrix Experience Deep Purple Black Sabbath (although I prefer Led Zep progressively!

) THE FIRST WAVE Van der Graaf Generator (not too big on King Crimson; I can get into VDDG more easily) SPACE CADETS Pink Floyd (easily for me :/) SYMPHONIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK (one of my favorite sub genres) Genesis (only hard one for me so far) Gentle Giant Yes Kansas THE ODD-BALLS Jethro Tull (I'm only just being introduced to Zappa; so far, Tull surpasses Zappa IMO) SYNTH-HEAVY CROSSOVER The Alan Parsons Project WHO INVITED YOU? Uriah Heep NEO-PROG Marillion (contains one of my favorite bassists, Pete Trewavas) PROTO-PROGRESSIVE METAL Iron Maiden Queensryche '90S PROG Tool (although I absolutely despise them, I dislike Soundgarden more) Faith No More MODERN PROGRESSIVE ROCK Ayreon (another hard one for me, both amazing..) Riverside (although I can't really get into either) NO. Hate both here.

Go away.Shoo. BLEH. Oceansize MODERN PROGRESSIVE METAL Dream Theater (still love them despite abandoning Portnoy) Between the Buried and Me (dislike both, but whatever) Pain of Salvation Mastodon (couldn't get into The Mars Volta no matter how hard I tried) BQ: Ayreon, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes.

BQ2: LOL. "Time" by Pink Floyd. BQ3: sure.

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