Top 5 Best Prog-Rock Bands

They go without saying, obviously

 

Magma
Soft Machine
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Hatfield and the North

 

Yes.
Faust
Can

 

Man
Floyd
Gentle Giant
Caravan
Supertramp

 

I voted Yes, but I think the best that is not mentioned up there is Rush

 

DREAM THEATER!!! They totally redifined what being progressive means!

 

But they've sounded the same since their first album...

 

You think so? Well, it's a matter of personal taste, I guess, but I found that Dream Theater has alot of variety, actually, alot more than most bands. But if it's sound the same to your ears that's okay, it's a matter of personnal taste. Dream Theater is always an inspiration to me however.

 

Honestly I don't think that's an opinion. They're still making the same type of music in the same style. It's falsifiable.

 

I think people get too caught up in genres instead of just thinking that there are only two real genres, music you like, and music you don't like. I understand why there are genres; to describe to people what it sounds like, but some people just think too narrowly about genres.

Anyways, my favorite "progressive" band would either be Porcupine Tree or Opeth, they make what I consider great music!

 

For me, excuse me if this will sound a bit rough, for me they are acrobats, not musicians, they are struggling through the whole album to have the best place of the song, to be the virtuoso of the song.

I am a big progressive fan, since my child days, all my friend at school laughted at me because I was a Rush fan or because i was listening the music that their parents like.

Dream theater seems like that a bunch of circus acrobats, playing to be the faster, the more complex of the whole song. not my stile. Sometimes their music make me a headheache.

 

Yes

 

Pick Focus!

Focus is the best prog. band from the 70s..
Check them out on youtube..

 

my favorite era.... know ones mentioned Strwabs AWESOME grp...

Genesis (gabriel years)
King Crimson
Yes
Asia
Bowie/Eno
Fripp/Eno
ELP
Hawkwind

 

King Crimson! The one and only.
After that... Maybe Pink Floyd.
Camel

Some Krautrock bands, Ash Ra Temple, Eloy, Can.

Weird prog Frank Zappa...

Finnish prog bands... Tasavallan Presidentti (kind of Jazz, rock prog)
Wigwam
Kingston Wall

Lots more of course, but those did come at first in to my mind...

 

King Crimson definitely. I don't really listen to Pink Floyd... but from what I've heard I just don't understand why they are considered prog. I guess I just haven't listened to enough of them.

 

King Crimson
Genesis
Yes
Gentle Giant - progressive rocks best kept secret
Camel - The snow Goose, Lady fantasy
Jethro
Floyd are my fav band, i wouldn't just call them progressive.
Rush

 

Pretty much a thread of my favorite music, definetely more love needed for Camel, PORCUPINE TREE, and never enough love for YES

Gonna get some of the music I've never heard of mentioned here.

 

can
faust
neu
henry cow
slapp happy
art bears

2 of those are not too prog, but they fit the rest, and i like em...

 

these days i would just put on the fela kuti or miles

or

SUN RA

if i were in that sort of mood