Favorite progressive rock bands?

[Lord Grendel]

^^I have all of Pagan's Mind's CD's except their latest live one, another very good Scandinavian band.

[METALPRIEST]

[Rika]

Haha I had no idea any of these bands were "progressive" til reading this thread. Guess I really suck at genre categorizations. Thankfully I have CRF to enlighten me
The Progressive bands I'm familiar with are

Yes
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Rush
Jethro Tull
Mothers of Invention
The Moody Blues
Frank Zappa
Queensyrche
Electric Light Orchestra
Tool
Primus

and some others that don't come to mind right now or I'm still uncertain about their "progressive" status

[vizou]

Hard to choice....!!!!!
but
finaly
1 GENESIS
2 BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
3 PINK FLOYD
4 MARILLION

[Belexes]

1. Genesis
2. Kansas
3. Marillion
4. Yes
5. Jethro Tull
6. Focus
7. IQ
8. King Crimson
9. The Soft Machine
10. Magma
11. Pink Floyd
12. Barclay James Harvest
13. Eloy
14. Gentle Giant
15. Van Der Graaf Generator

[CREAM'd]

YouTube - Krokodil - 04 - Green Fly

[Dreams]

- Glass Hammer
- Iona
- Rush
- Darkwater
- Yes
- Styx...pre 80s
- Enchant
- Thought Chamber

[Nololob]

Curved Air with sexy voice of Sonja.

[Prime]

Myrath
Dream Theater
Harmony
Yes

[Mr. Flee]

-camel
-uk
-astra
-pink floyd
-gentle giant
-yes
-transatlantic
-black bonzo
-genesis
-iq
-kansas
-porcupine tree
-beardfish
-marillion
-vdgg
-rush
-nektar
-flower kings
-spocks beard
-king crimson
-focus
-neal morse
-anekdoten
-liquid scarlet

[gratefulfunk]

Originally Posted by Nololob Curved Air with sexy voice of Sonja.

Hey Nololob, I was at Reading in 1975.
You know who performed?
Yes, Hawkwind, Soft Machine, Supertramp, Caravan, John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra...

[Cannons Ahoy]

Yes
Pink Floyd
Genesis
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

[Khor1255]

King Crimson (up to 3 of a perfect pair)
Yes (up to 90210)
Rush (up to GUP)
Crack the Sky (up to Safety in Numbers)
Jethro Tull (up to Heavy Horses)
The Beatles (yeah, I know)
Pink Floyd (up to The Wall)
70s Kansas
70s Styx
ELP

[Magic]

Originally Posted by Khor1255 The Beatles (yeah, I know)

I have to place ELP #1 in my top 5 along with Rush, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and early Genesis which would tie with Kansas.

[Big Ears]

The Premier League:

Atomic Rooster
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
King Crimson (prior to Discipline)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Pink Floyd
UK
Yes
Wigwam

The Rest of the League:

Anyone's Daughter
Aphrodite's Child
Argent
Barclay James Harvest
Birth Control
Camel
Curved Air
Dream Theater
Electric Light Orchestra
Eloy
Focus
Fruup
Genesis (with Gabriel)
Gentle Giant
Gong
Greenslade
Guru Guru
Steve Hackett
Hawkwind
Steve Hillage
Illusion (Renaissance)
IQ
Jane
Kansas
Moody Blues
National Health
Nektar
Novalis
The Nice
Mike Oldfield
Ozric Tentacles
Pallas
Alan Parsons Project
PFM
Quintessence
Refugee
Renaissance
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Spock's Beard
Spooky Tooth
String Driven Thing
Supertramp
Transatlantic
21st Century Schizoid Band
Uriah Heep (with Ken Hensley)
Vangelis
Rick Wakeman
Yellow Matter Custard

Depends whether you consider them progressive:

Ambrosia
The Byrds
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
City Boy
Fifth Dimension
Golden Earring
Home
John Miles
Jethro Tull
Man
Roxy Music
Rush (first six studio albums)
Wishbone Ash
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Has anyone started a comparable favourite heavy rock band list?