Interesting to note that the wonderful percussive touch of Bill Bruford graced three of these bands! The man got around!

@MichaelRoy-hc3lz

5 ай бұрын

He toured with Gong also

@williammajkowski1976

5 ай бұрын

😊😅😮 4:00 ​@@MichaelRoy-hc3lz

@deadmanrunning6670

5 ай бұрын

Saw Bill Bruford in concert with King Crimson and Yes, but never went to a Genesis concert.

@alfredolegorreta8795

5 ай бұрын

@@deadmanrunning6670 He played drums very little in 1976 in concerts...

@deadmanrunning6670

5 ай бұрын

@@alfredolegorreta8795 June 30, 1974 Palace Concert Theater, Providence King Crimson Steeleye Span

1 - Pink Floyd 2 - Yes 3 - Genesis 4 - King Crimson 5 - ELP 6 - Jethro Tull 7 - Gentle Giant 8 - Camel 9 - Caravan 10 - The Moody Blues - Rush - Traffic - Fruupp - The Flower Kings - Asia - Kansas - Van der Graaf Generator - Soft Machine - Procol Harum - Marillion

@celestinodelrio5476

5 ай бұрын

Tool

@tombla5822

5 ай бұрын

Barclay James Harvest

@mikehubbard1067

5 ай бұрын

agree pink floyd is number 1think would flip 3&4

@Vince-lq3ve

4 ай бұрын

@@mikehubbard1067 Oddly enough, I think I grew up out of the Pink Floyd output, but back in my youth I really placed them on a pedestal. Now a playlist of prog bands works great for me, but Floyd seems out of place on it. Jethro Tull really stands out now -jumpy, positive, fun. I'm addicted to Genesis so that's hard to judge. I've only had one album in mind for King Crimson (Court of the ....). For the reaction listener's that I frequent, old Genesis is a treat because it really entertains, it is so original for them, so diverse from one album to the next. and so well written. It works so well because that old stuff works best with a hard attention vs background party music. Anywho, forgot what my point was. Cheers.

@straycat1551

4 ай бұрын

Birthcontrol

Probably YES in the mid-70's. They took hold and have remained my musical Gold Standard ever since.

Where was I when prog rock took hold? I was in high school 1969-73, but it all hit me at the same time. King Crimson, ELP, Tull, and Yes. Great thing about those times were the other bands and genres that were evolving. Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, ZZ Topp, Allman Brother's, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Traffic to name a few.

50 Best Prog Rock Bands Ever (uDiscover Music): 1. King Crimson 2. Yes 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums Of All Time (uDiscover Music): 1. Close to the Edge - Yes 100 Greatest Prog Artists of All Time (Louder Sound): 1. Yes The 150 Best Prog Rock Bands (Ranker): 1. Pink Floyd 2. Yes 100 Greatest Progressive Rock Artists (DigitalDreamDoor): 1. Yes Best Prog Rock Band (Talk Classical): 1. King Crimson 2. Yes Prog Magazine 100 Greatest Artists: 1. Yes Prog Magazine Top 100 Albums: 1. Close To The Edge - Yes

@user-xq1bc5qx2p

5 ай бұрын

How weird. All of this lists somehow misspelled King Crimson and their album Larks' Tongues In Aspic

Yes is number one for me.

@timwhite-stevens1721

5 ай бұрын

Me too

@SuperPaddyMac

4 ай бұрын

Me three. @@timwhite-stevens1721

@cl5619

4 ай бұрын

Yes

I heard 'In the Court of the Crimson King' on the radio and knew something new had arrived. Something fresh, not yet more R&B.

Marillion emerged in the 1980s as part of the UK neo-prog movement, with concept albums such as "Misplaced Childhood" and "Brave"

@Vince-lq3ve

4 ай бұрын

I clearly remember their arrival. They were heralded as rescuing the Genesis fans from the loss of Peter and Steve and the changes that Genesis was morphing into (I was ok with it, though). I admit I was excited at the prospect and bought the first two albums. It did herald back to old Genesis but alas it didn't stick for me and I stopped following them. But I think that was more about me than them as they have had a great career.

@straycat1551

4 ай бұрын

Omega

Good to hear you mention my favourite band, Gentle Giant.

@basshorseman998

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

@Jean88Lem

2 ай бұрын

Thé best of all those's!

1. Rush 2. Moody Blues 3. Yes 4. Pink Floyd 5: Todd Rundgren 6. Frank Zappa 7. Spirit 8. Wishbone Ash 9. Emerson, Lake and Palmer 10. Jethro Tull 11. Genisis 12: Kansas 13. Peter Gabriel

@user-bl6me5kf3y

4 ай бұрын

정신:Spirit 국적과인원수??몇명이죠.알고싶어요.😅 12:16 😅

My favorite program groups are number one Genesis and they also love Emerson Lake and Palmer king crimson and yes those are great bands. One of my favorite songs by us is awake and I was absolutely blown away not only how epic it is 15 minutes long and my other favorite song prank Roxanne would have to be supper’s ready by Genesis it’s an absolute masterpiece one of the best in the world.

@wendycrawford1792

5 ай бұрын

I agree. Supper’s Ready is brilliant!

@alphataurusii

4 ай бұрын

​@@wendycrawford1792This work always moves me to tears, a mixture of religious inspiration and the incredibly fantastic instrumental and vocal implementation👍🎵

My picks are: 10. Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) 9. Caravan 8. Omega (Hungary) 7. ELP 6. Mike Oldfield * 5. King Crimson 4. Moody Blues 3. Hawkwind 2. Jethro Tull 1. Pink Floyd * Artist, not band, but obviously the greatest artist in prog rock

These are personal preferences and really hard to put them in order: 1. King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill 2. Genesis, Jethro Tull, Yes 3. E.L.P, Pink Floyd, Renaisance, 4. Deep Purple 5. Led Zeppelin 6. Santana 7. Mahavishnu Orchestra 8. Supertramp 9. Harmonium 10. Camel Really great mentions: Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Mike Oldfield, Tool, Anglagard, Marillion, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Dream Theatre, Styx, Caravan, Rush, Opeth,

I was about 15 in 1977 and an older cousin gave me the album "Wind & Wuthering" by Genesis. That's where I was.

Apart from Queen the first "proper" prog band that caught my imagination was Rush when I heard "The Trees" on The Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 1, hosted by the legendary Tommy Vance.

@analogkidabc

6 ай бұрын

Hemispheres is a classic album.

@drmanny1957

5 ай бұрын

Rush would have easily made a "best of" list, but they're a Canadian band. The list is apparently limited to UK. Oh well. I am happy someone mentioned them. Thanx.

@JuanGregorGuitar-nn6pw

5 ай бұрын

Rush are the ultimate progressive band, in terms of an evolving sound, utilising technology while still retaining (unlike Genesis) an overall uncompromising 'outside' sensibility. Geddy Lee's distinctive vocal aside, it's hard to believe that Hemispheres and Signals were made by the same band, yet they are only 4 years apart. My introduction to prog was via my brother who played Bursting Out (the Tull double live album) to death when it came out. I was 7 years old and transfixed, especially by Conundrum; a kind of insane prog version of Moby Dick, complete with an unbelievable 10min drum solo by the legendary Barrymore Barlow. My infant peers at the time, were obsessed with the toys from a new blockbuster movie called Star Wars. I was at home listening to bearded men in fishing hats and capes searching for 'the lost chord' in 25 minute 'song cycles divided into 'suites'....... The attraction for me and what unifies bands who are so categorised yet can't really be described as a single genre stylistically, is a pure and earnest artistic ambition to make the best possible music for its own sake; to really push themselves to say something both lyrically and harmonically more thoughtful and cerebral than boy meets girl, girl dumps boy......not that that doesn't also have a significant place in my music library. The fantasy themes aesthetic and sartorial ludicrousness offered pure escapism. Martin Barre, Tull guitarist's stage wear consisted of a hand cut tweed suit, cravat. He shredded his Les Paul while wearing a monocle and smoking a huge fuck off Sherlock Holmes pipe! The common misconception that has evolved regarding death of prog at the hands of Punk; hailed as some revolutionary artistic force from the streets is of course utter horse shit. The sex pistols, were a band manufactured by two middle class graduates of London's prestigious Central Saint Martins Art School (Vivienne Westward and Malcolm McLaren) as a promotional tool for a clothes shop and who's music was produced and marketed by a rich public school layabout called Richard Branson....about as revolutionary as One Direction. The pistols fired their bass player (and main songwriter) because he didn't have the right image. The emptiness of the 'Punk ethos' reached heights more preposterous than Wakemans King Arthur on Ice gigs with The Clash's (dreadful) set at the US festival in '83. (Public School educated son of a British overseas diplomat) Joe Strummer kept interrupting the gig (no bad thing in and of itself) to make completely inarticulate speeches about the corrupting evil force of capitalism while performing a single show for a fee of $750,000 paid personally by the co-founder of the always welfare conscious Apple Computers.........The speeches, it later transpired, were pure sour grapes, Strummer having spent the previous fortnight complaining when he discovered that Van Halen and David Bowie were being paid double in secretly negotiated 'favoured nations' contracts. His tantrums came to a head in a series of press conferences in which (the infinitely sharper) Dave Lee Roth ran rings around him, showing him up for the hypocrite he was. The festival organisers got so pissed off during the clash set they projected an image of a copy of the bands 3/4 million dollar cheque onto the stage back screen while the band 'played' (if you could call it that).....Fast forward 30 years, whatever 'punk' that still exists can barely fill the back rooms of pubs with their amateurish twoddle, while Roger Waters rakes in a billion dollars performing the ultimate prog concept album The Wall. Salad Days of 'sticky black' hash, gatefold sleeves.....lost in the mists of time.....Which ironically could almost be a concept for a jazz infused triple album musical novella......

@andu1854

5 ай бұрын

Good jump on point, Rush is great

@timwhite-stevens1721

5 ай бұрын

I agree

All of these bands, except for one, have one thing in common -- they have the 70s sound. And this is why Yes deserves to be #1 - their sound and compositions are always fresh sounding, which makes them timeless. And this is beside the fact that every one of the core members was a musical genius.

@Vince-lq3ve

5 ай бұрын

Selling England by the Pound is ageless music.

@roygaiot7968

5 ай бұрын

@@Vince-lq3ve Agreed, that it's a great album - but, if one, not knowing the band, were asked what decade that album was made, there would be a very good chance they'd get it right - because the style of instrumentation and the production quality of the album are very typical of 70's prog.

@Vince-lq3ve

5 ай бұрын

@@roygaiot7968 So you're saying they would listen to a Genesis album and immediately say, that's 70's Prog music but with Yes they wouldn't know where to place it -kinda unrecognizable. Hmmm, so maybe you are actually saying Yes wasn't a Prog band at all. I still think Yes should be left somewhere on the list, though. (just havin fun)

@roygaiot7968

5 ай бұрын

@@Vince-lq3ve You got a point there -- Yes transcends 70's prog.

@Vince-lq3ve

5 ай бұрын

@@roygaiot7968 I just listed to YES Big Generator not sure I agree.

It's impossible not to agree with these, though every one of us has a different order for these. THANKS for including the hidden gem CARAVAN which is one of my favorites and STILL making albums! "It's None of your business" was released on 2022!

Once again Renaissance is forgotten. A string of excellent albums between 1972 - 78. I could easily live without Caravan and Soft Machine. Genesis were great only till Steve Hackett's departure.

@DavidB.Rockin

6 ай бұрын

This ^

@drmanny1957

5 ай бұрын

After "Wind & Wuthering" Genesis ceased to be, and should/could have been renamed. (I would have still followed them, but still...) As for Renaissance, their omission from this list was genuinely painful !

@Vince-lq3ve

5 ай бұрын

@@drmanny1957 it would be easier to dismiss Genesis after Steve left except for the fact that those three remaining members wrote virtually the entire Lamb music -without Peter who wrote the lyrics in another room. Steve wasn't writing at that point and never really did with Genesis though he did add a great sound to it when he had a chance. The core was Tony first, then Mike and then Phil (once Peter left).

@christopherarchuleta3669

5 ай бұрын

Disagree on Genesis. The Hackett/Gabriel lineup was by far superior and Hackett minute Gabriel was likewise great but post-Hackett has its own allure. That being said, Renaissance is awesome and I mention them whenever I get the chance.

@eren7350

5 ай бұрын

I couldn't!

saw Yes in the round in NYC three times in the late 70s as a kid.....excellent shows always

So many great Prog bands it's hard to choose just a few -

Not a bad list. Top 3 picks are absolutely correct since Yes, Genesis and King Crimson are 3 most significant prog bands.

King Crimson!! Without doubt my all time fav. Number one talking about being progressive going forward. Yet as a genre, Yes would be my nr1 pick progrock band. Sadly missing: the amazing Renaissance!

@johntiggleman4686

5 ай бұрын

@hansmoerenhout Agree. Mother Russia is amazing.

@jugogamer2487

5 ай бұрын

Great band!! and too Rush, Nektar, U.K and Colosseum.

@wendycrawford1792

5 ай бұрын

Yes, King Crimson were unbelievable and unfortunately one of the bands l didn’t get to see. I love Renaissance! however, they are definitely in a different genre than the ten bands mentioned.

@delby66

4 ай бұрын

I'd include Strawbs.

@wendycrawford1792

4 ай бұрын

@@delby66 Yes, Strawbs were amazing, think Benediction. One of the first albums l bought. I had the good fortune of seeing them in concert, Massey Hall, Toronto. Saw Camel in England-didn’t know a thing about them. Couldn’t believe how good they were! Smiling a lot. Snow Goose was brilliant and beautiful! Focus was another brilliant band, and Exception both Dutch. Vangelis was brilliant but a different genre maybe. Gentle Giant had my heart though. Got to see them 4 times. So lucky! Cheers

Genesis really ended when Hackett left. Then it was downhill.

@peterrabson3383

5 ай бұрын

Leave Mr Downhill out of this!

My top 10 (PF incloded): 1) PF 2) Genesis 3) Yes 4) King Crimson 5) Camel 6) ELP 7 ) Kansas 8) Jethro Tull 9) Marillion 10) Van Der Graaf Generator

grew up in Detroit and Windsor. left home to play Jr hockey, @ 15. 1st concert that i ever went to was; Floyd, Crimso, yes and Rennaissance, @ the Maple Leaf gardens, with my teamates, and then the next year ,73, with my highschool mates from Farmington Michigan. a year later, saw Gentle giant, Soft Machine and Roy Woods Wizard with the great unknown UK band Audience, at The red Wings old Barn, The olympia. Cheers from SpoCanada

The Moody Blues are the grandfathers of prog rock

@a2ndopynyn

5 ай бұрын

And the creators of what would come to be called _New Age,_ also.

My number 1 is CAMEL ! I love CAMEL !

Nobody playes the Flute like Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull , NOBODY !!!! ✌️

@fabiorabelo3506

6 ай бұрын

But a lot people try ...

@anthonymaughan6103

6 ай бұрын

@@fabiorabelo3506 2 no avail ??

@julianaylor4351

6 ай бұрын

Totally agree. 🪈🎶❤️

@soulbodyca9019

6 ай бұрын

Watch a classical flutist doing a first listen of Jethro Tull. He has a unique style doing things a classical artist wouldn't think of.

@user-cj4df7vs7w

5 ай бұрын

Chris Wood from Traffic was great.

Moody Blues and Renaissance could definitely have been added. You could also add Strawbs post Grave New World album.

@BlueberryStinkFinger62

5 ай бұрын

Moody Blues were the greatest of all of them..

@delby66

4 ай бұрын

@@BlueberryStinkFinger62 King Crimson and Moody Blues were truly the first prog rock bands, both brilliant bands.

If you want to include modern prog, Porcupine Tree are modern classics as well!

@samuelstephens6904

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. PT, The Mara Volta, and Tool are probably the three most notable bands from the prog revival of the aughts. All three of them stand up to the 70s greats.

@Vince-lq3ve

4 ай бұрын

@@samuelstephens6904 i somehow find Radiohead's OK Computer the ultimate new age prog for me (me being a late 70's prog listener in my teens). That album is just so immersive and inventive -prime stuff. Didn't think I would get so caught up in a "new bad " when I started that listen on my early 50's (a young 61 now).

@samuelstephens6904

4 ай бұрын

@@Vince-lq3ve I wouldn’t really call _OK Computer_ capital P Prog, except the song “Paranoid Android.” That being said, I do think Radiohead were a major influence on the British prog bands of the 00s. Porcupine Tree, Muse, Oceansize, Marillion, and others had obviously been listening to Radiohead. Not so much the American prog bands though.

@Vince-lq3ve

4 ай бұрын

@@samuelstephens6904 I kinda self labelled that on them thinking of the album and it's overall musical theme but true enough they sure aren't 70's prog. Course then I start to wonder if the Lamb Album is capital prog. I think there is a similarity to the two albums in the way they speak from an inside your head kinda psychedelic vibe.

1- Genesis 2- Jethro Tull 3 Moody Blues 4- Yes 5- Pink Floyd 6-E:L&P-7 Supertramp 8-Gentle Giant 9- Dream Theater 10 Haken

If you don't know not eastern Prog bands, recommend Japanese prog. Yonin Bayashi(四人囃子), shin getsu(新月), Bi kyo ran(美狂乱), Koenji hyakkei(高円寺百景), NOVELA, Mr.Sirius, kenso, Ain Soph, Black page, Pageant, and Flower travelin' band.

@Vonnot

5 ай бұрын

Also Susumu Hirasawa's first band Mandrake!!

@noahnas1587

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, I was looking for Japanese Prog Rock but couldn't easily find any, the only one I found was Moondancer.

@straycat1551

4 ай бұрын

Far East Family Band

@TheEternalhunter

3 ай бұрын

Far east family band was a great prog band too

I grew listening great legends of rock since ends of sixties until now, Deep Purple, Grand Funk, Led Zeppelin, Rare Earth, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Kraftwerk, Jethro Tull, Cream, Santana, uff and many others. In fact here in Chile we have a couple bands remarkables like Los Jaivas or Congreso whith a nice tracks that perfectly qualifying within prog music. But from this list, I remember some Genesis albums as the first that I listen and blow me high. And I wouldn't let to mention to the master Robert Fripp and the first King Crimson albums as the biggest. I agree with these list, specially the five first bands. Thanks for share.

@mrdemocracy7106

4 ай бұрын

URIAH HEEP British LEGENDS. With the great vocals of David Byron

Hands down, In the Court of the Crimson King is the mother of Prog-Rock with prelude from The Beatles, The Moody Blues and Family's Music in a Dolls House.

Marillion and porcupine tree surely should have a mention.

@Vince-lq3ve

6 ай бұрын

I clearly remember when Marillion arrived. As Genesis had started to move to a more commercial sound with Phil as lead, Marillion were touted as a new "old Genesis sounding" band with lead Fish portraying a Peter Gabriel-style to satisfy fans of that 70's version of Genesis. I was definitely excited and still own the first two original vinyl's. Hence, they were a derivative of Genesis, not a pioneer of Prog -so unfortunately they wouldn't go on this particular list which is really leaning on the first prog outfits. Great band though.

@samuelstephens6904

5 ай бұрын

Porcupine Tree for sure.

Thank you for this video

So many great and inventive Prog albums were released in the early 70's but any of the albums released by Van Der Graf Generator , Gentle Giant and Caravan from this period must rate as some of the best of the genre .

The Moodies, along with the Beatles invented Prog in 1967, but they don't get included?

Great to see Van Der Graaf Generator on the list (though I'd have them n.1 lol). Peter Hammill is truly one of the greats.

@RobinsTaste

5 ай бұрын

Heavily underrated prog-band. Was very surprised to see it on the list.

1. Yes

I would have like to have seen The Strawbs and Gong on this list but overall good job especially with Van Der Graaf Generator and Gentile Giant included.

King Crimson is my favorite prog band, but if the question who's the number 1 prog band,the answer is Yes. They have hits song every decades, and they always progression every year and still release new albums.

'72 when a friend played me his Aqualung 8 Track I was Impressed. The next time we went to town I picked it up, and Thick As A Brick... after hearing "I Really Don't Mind If You Sit This One Out... I may Make You Feel, But I Can't Make You Think..." I was Hooked. Tull resonated with me. Tull made me think. Dubito, Ergo Cogito, Ergo Sum (I Doubt, Therefore I Think, Therefore I am)

@johntiggleman4686

5 ай бұрын

@user-ng2nt2tx4p Cogito Cogito Sum Ergo Sum Cogito. I may have made a botch of that...trying do the spoken intro to The Moody Blues "On The Threshold Of A Dream: "I Think. I Think I Am. Therefore I Am. I think." I am very bad with Latin.

For me, the most painful omission was Renaissance. Also, if still deemed to be "unworthy" for inclusion by some, bands deserving AT LEAST a mention (IMHO) include: Procol Harum, Hawkwind, Curved Air, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Supertramp. The list seems to be "old school" / "OG" prog rock. However, if the list DID include "modern prog"...Marillion and Porcupine Tree would demand representation. As for the order, I feel it's up to one's personal taste, background, opinion, etc. and will therefore vary greatly. Nevertheless, I would like to weigh in and affirm that if KING CRIMSON were the only band listed for all 10 slots, I would be absolutely content !😁😄😃😀😃😄😁

@DeadnWoon

5 ай бұрын

Carmen (Spanish motifs), Yezda Urfa (Gentle Giant on steroids), Spring (3 mellotrons!), Fantasy, Cressida, Cirkus, Beggars Opera...

@christopherarchuleta3669

5 ай бұрын

Curved Air sounds really good to me and it would've been nice to have them mentioned.

@mikehubbard1067

5 ай бұрын

thing about Genesis is yea start out prog rock but after Peter Gabriel left they because a pop rock band

@vikingar

5 ай бұрын

I agree with this statement 100%! I would also have liked to see the bands Pallas, IQ, and Kayak get a mention. I am a huge Mike Oldfield fan right from the beginning but you just never see him mentioned in these kind of poles/queries, so it was great to see you do so. One other would be ‘Starcastle’. I know their sound was very much similar to classical era ‘Yes’, but still… they did it very well… and hell, if it had been yes that produced those songs I expect they’d have been excepted with open arms. Besides, at this point Yes was moving on to a different sound anyway, (not to mention changing players enough to consider them as a different band every few albums) lol.

@Blockoumi

5 ай бұрын

@@mikehubbard1067 they were still prog after Gabriel left. they became pop after hackett left but even then, they'd keep at least one or two or even 3 prog songs/long songs

Where was I when prog rock took hold? In my buddy's car when he cranked up Abacab and the speakers where right behind my head. Genesis burned themselves into my brain at that point.

King Crimson, Hawkwind, and Van Der Graaf Generator are 3 of my absolute favorite classic uk prog bands

@ephrimvael

5 ай бұрын

defo! ..we have the same ears!!

@Yarin4ever

5 ай бұрын

Crimson are definitely the best

@Vince-lq3ve

4 ай бұрын

I am cursed as I can't handle VDGG. The music is very well done but the singing just kills me. I have tried again and again...maybe one day it will work.

@BriskyShark

4 ай бұрын

@@Vince-lq3ve ironic, peter hammill is my favorite singer of all time and is part of the reason why I love them so much

@Vince-lq3ve

4 ай бұрын

@@BriskyShark Funny how our ears can work differently. Hammill definitely has a passionate fanbase. i guess it wasn't meant to be. I also don't like Turkey stuffing and I believe I am the only one.

Gentle Giant , King Crimson ,Jethro Tull ,Genesis , Pink Floyd in any order !

All the favourites are here! 🎸

It was Yes that got me as a teenager. Still do today at age 62.

@edljnehan2811

4 ай бұрын

You're a youngster compared to some of us. It was Emerson Lake and Palmer who yes even opened up for in 1971 which you wouldn't have been going to concerts by then

I was fortunate enough to see king crimson at their 2021 tour and had a photo opportunity with them after the show. It was also Pat mastelotto birthday too, definitely an amazing night

@delby66

5 ай бұрын

King Crimson and Moody Blues were really the first 2 bands to bring prog rock to the forefront.

@MichaelRoy-hc3lz

5 ай бұрын

Met Adrian Belew at Gruen's Music about 20 years ago. Very nice guy who is just a mind blowing guitarist

1. Camel 2. Barclay James Harvest 3. Genesis 4. YES 5. ELP 6. Gong 7. Moody Blues 8. King Crimson 9. Pink Floyd 10. Arthur Brown (The Crazy World... and Kingdom Come)

Moody Blues...YES...King Crimson 👍👍👍

Great list, but I would swap your top two. King Crimson is the definition of Prog Rock.

Nice list! Maybe do another with those who took the baton stick into the modern era, such as Marillion, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Haken etc?

I utterly disagree on the ranking, but still, if you mentioned Gentle Giant - I am obliged to press Like.

I was hoping to see Soft Machine on this list. I recently saw "Watcher Of The Sky"...very different! My first exposure to Genesis was the album Nursery Crime.

I like Mike Oldfield. He is prog rock. I know that is not a band it is an artist. In all fairness they did say prog rock artists at the start of the video.

Très très très bon choix pour le TOP 10 ! ! ! ! !

None of them touched the Moody Blues not even slightly close

Emerson Lake and Palmer should have been number one not only were they the world's first progressive rock supergroup put the musicianship was second to none. Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer won all of the polls back in the seventies and all of these guys were considered the standard for excellence in musicianship that all other bands were measured against back in that era. All technical virtuosos and Maestro musicians they will forever be the Bach Beethoven and Mozart of our times😮😊

Nothing beats Camel!!

Good list , omissions Renaissance and Man.

By far my favourite prog band and one of my favourite bands ever is rush. So many great prog epics mixed with surprisingly heavy tracks and all 3 members as top musicians. Near perfect band

@robertglisson6319

5 ай бұрын

Rush is more prog metal.

Prog Rock grabbed me in the 70's with Yes and has never let go.

1, Yes 2, King Crimson 3, Genesis 1970-77' 4, Jethro Tull 5, Gentle Giant 6, Nektar 7, ELP 8, Pink Floyd 9, Hawkwind 1970-75' 10, Camel 11, Van Der Graaf Generator 12, Focus

@ThomasRogan-gc5pi

5 ай бұрын

Where's Renaissance? Nectar was a Huge commission also

@ronniefarnsworth6465

5 ай бұрын

@@ThomasRogan-gc5pi The are very good, more Folk Prog in the Top 20 no doubt. I saw them with Gentle Giant in 1977' 🎶

@loziockeme3995

5 ай бұрын

7 ELP?!?! Nah bro

@ronniefarnsworth6465

5 ай бұрын

@@loziockeme3995 Lol well saying Nah Bro means your quite young my guess and most likely don't know the other bands well ? I'm 65' and seen all these guys many times in the 70s from Boston, RI, CT and NYC. We all have our favorites and trust me the are all very close and my choice is how they were Live in concert and their albums and how interesting their writing was and musicianship for that music okay man !! 🎶✌

@robertglisson6319

5 ай бұрын

I'm 68, and saw ELP sell out Madison Square Garden for a week, stadiums, headlining pop festivals and over 50 million albums. For five years, they were as big as any band in the world. But at your age, ELP wasn't considered prog because the term largely didn't exist.

Where are Yes?

@DavidPerez-fr3rx

5 ай бұрын

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Numéro un : King Krimsom Numéro deux : Gentle Giant Numéro trois : Jethro Tull Numéro quatre : Genesis Numéro cinq : Yes Numéro six : Soft Machine

King Crimson and Gentle Giant>>>

VDGG must be on the first place

Camel's (Music Inspired by) The Snow Goose was the first 'serious' LP I bought. The band are regarded as coming from Guildford, Andy Latimer being born in the town. (Fun fact: The Stranglers were also from Guildford. J.J. Burnell attended the Royal Grammar School.)

@gerthoffmann5436

5 ай бұрын

I love CAMEL ! My number 1

The list is pretty good. I would have liked Star Castle to be on it.

@jankafka7330

5 ай бұрын

Starcastle were an American band. Hardly fitting for a list of UK bands.

Not a bad list, though I'm guessing someone forgot to proofread the title.

good list. old Genesis is top of the list for me.

OK here's my "Top Ten" 1-Genesis Yes King Crimson Peter Gabriel Steve Hackett Gentile Giant Jethro Tull Acqua Fragile PFM Maxophone...GENESIS IS MY TOP PICK, the rest are interchangable depending on mood.

I was into progressive rock since I was 15 with yes’s fragile I’m now 67 years old and still intoprog

Easter Europe 1970s : Poland's SBB and Omega from Hungary .

Trick of the Tail is one of the best for Genesis in my opinion.

We can argue about these rankings, but virtually all of these bands are of interest to prog fans, and I am certainly familiar with most of them. A wonderful period of music from 1968-74.

Renaissance are missing.

For anyone looking for an evolution of prog, check out Mr. Bungle. I promise every other modern prog act will look like retro tribute bands in comparison. Their live shows were like none other in terms of pure chaos. It's so incredibly innovative for the 90's and possibly the weirdest mainstream band in existence as it constantly switches between genres, has lyrics that do not hold any punches and musicians that regularly surpass expectations (Mike Patton the singer has the widest range of any vocalist, the man can do anything with his voice). It possibly uses heavy metal in the best way too, to give tunes extreme contrasts with the right amount of weight to it, then transition into a soothing soundscape right after. Creative (to say the least XD) use of sampling too throughout songs. Frank Zappa was supposed to produce the first album, but was very sick at the time and couldn't. It was renowned experimental jazz musician John Zorn that ended up doing it. When the final result was out, Zappa apparently said he'd wished it was him instead, which gives you an idea of the genius on display. They remove all sense of "honor" and "distinguished" appearance from music to simply parody everything and anything without remorse.

You had me until #1. To me the battle for #1 was obviously between Yes, Crimson and ELP. How Procal Harum wasn't included ( In Held Twas I) while such also rans as Soft Machine were....boggles the mind.

@user-cj4df7vs7w

5 ай бұрын

Indeed, Grand Hotel my personal favourite by them.

@bookhouseboy280

5 ай бұрын

Yes, Crimson and ELP are widely regarded as the classics and the pioneers of prog. That has been the consensus among prog aficionados and anyone who knows anything about the genre. A no-brainer. I suspect Procol Harum weren't included for the same reason The Moodies and The Nice were omitted.

Please my friend! Stop the clock, I want to return to this beautiful time! ❤ Plenty of wonderful bandas, great musicians, and TALENT! Can be posible? ... Not? Then, at least, I have my récords for to dream. Thank you my friend !

Maybe I would have included Curved Air amongst the top 10

@RobinsTaste

5 ай бұрын

I just started listening to them today! I really like them.

@garyaizen8699

5 ай бұрын

@RobinsTaste to quote a somg of theirs. When did you start listening? Answer "it happened today"

Much as I'm a massive Crimso fan, I'd actually have them in Prog Jazz! Happy to have them in a Top 3 in any category, tho.

Was "It's A Beautiful Day" considered prog? I love "White Bird."

I would've added. The Sensational Alex Harvey band somewhere to this list.

i quite agree with this classification..and Pink Floyd obviously are another level ❤

Genesis' commercial success was due to the change in their style after Hackett left. In the seventies, Genesis lagged behind in album and ticket sales compared to Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, and Jethro Tull. The stadium tours came when they transitioned to pop. As for the top four, they could be interchangable...

My Top UK Prog Bands 1) Pink Floyd (started as Brit Psychedelia but went Prog as of Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother) 2) ELP (Prog from the get-go) 3) Genesis (started as 60s Brit Pop but went Prog on Nursery Cryme then Pop on Invisible Touch) 4) Jethro Tull (started as a blues rock band then went Prog with Thick As a Brick) 5) Supertramp (began as a Prog band then kept the Prog vibe but eventually dabbled in Jazz Rock) 6) Yes (started as a British Psychedelic band and went Prog on The Yes Album when Steve Howe joined) 7) Moody Blues (started as a Mersey Beat band but went Prog with Days of Future Passed) 8) King Crimson 9) Gentle Giant 10) Hawkwind Prog Bands from other countries : 1) Rush 2) Styx 3) Kansas 4) Queensryche (Prog Metal band) 5) Dream Theater

@boosted_builds_n_customs5391

6 ай бұрын

Glad to see hawkwind finally mentioned on here 😅

@midnite_rambler

Ай бұрын

There was also an Australian band: Sebastian Hardie. They had 2 albums: 'Four Moments', and 'Windchase'.

There was no one better than Emerson Lake and Palmer😊

I would put URIAH HEEP at the No.1 spot, yet they weren't mentioned at all.

Obviously Pink Floyd should be number one. What' about Uriah Heep, Alan Parsons Project, and the forgotten Mahogany Rush!

As someone who dipped into this video knowing nothing of Prog Rock, and wanting to learn, it is rather disappointing that you didn't include more music. You mentioned many songs thus, as a Prog Rock ignoramus, it would have been good to have heard more of them. hey-ho!!

1. GENTLE GIANT. The best band of all times!!!

@louislafontaine5984

5 ай бұрын

I was 13 when I discovered them (1973) on records and in live concerts. I still listen to Gentle Giant first 7 (up to Free Hand) albums + their live albums with awe and delight. Octopus and In a Glass House remain masterworks.

@Jean88Lem

2 ай бұрын

You're right! Thé only prog rock band i listen yet today. Very Big influence in Quebec in the 70's.

Keith Emerson created Prog ! Nothing more needs to be said.

@edljnehan2811

20 күн бұрын

Yes and thank you he did😊

Pink Floyd?

@eren7350

5 ай бұрын

Do y'all not watch the video

I can see how Soft Machine fits in the Canterbury category but ultimately much of their music seems to have more in common with Weather Report and Miles Davis than Yes or Genesis.

@johntiggleman4686

5 ай бұрын

@mikereiss4216 I have only their eponymous album, but that could be prog..."Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle/Why Are We Sleeping." And years ago, a friend had there 3rd album on 8 track tape...I did't care for it, as it seemed a bit too jazzy for me...but then, I was only 20, and it was 1971 or there about. I was more into rock and psychedelia at that time.

Last 6 I know and THEY ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST SAW YES IN HOUSTON WITH RICK HE HASN'T BEEN WITH THEM IN 25 YRS ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW WOW AMAZING IT WAS ABOUT 10 YRS AGO. ❤❤❤❤❤ SAW GENESIS 2 TIMES WITHOUT O.G. BUT SAW HIM 2 TIMES SOLO OMG. ALSO SAW ELP WAS REALLY WASTED DONT REMEMBER MUCH ONLY LUCKY MAN KARN 9 😢I ADORE GREG RIP KEITH 2 U MR. LAKE THANKS UK 4 BRILLIANT ARTIST

There’s no excuse to leave The Moody Blues off. They basically started it and were the best.

All that progress, leading up to ... Invisible Touch?