Uriah Heep are my guilty pleasure band.
Though I'm not really guilty about it.
He was the wizard of a thoooousand kings, and I chanced to meet him one night waaaandering. He told me tales, and he drank my wine. Me and my magic man kinda feeeelin' fine.
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
you still left the gigantic stain that is ELP on that list?
and what about Roxy Music? Ferry may not be as good a songwriter as Eno but they're certainly influential enough.
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Well I love ELP and while most of you hate them. They are still one of the most influencial and defining bands of the genre. So they get their credit.
Roxy Music. I don't know. I certainly consider early Eno prog. But Roxy Music I'm not sure about, they are such a unique band, but they are often more associated with glam rock and proto punk than prog. Eno is respected in prog circles, at least he is now. He has a good deal of influence on krautrock too.
But Roxy Music were greatly despised by prog fans back in the day, because they felt they were trying to take the sound and make it more "rock n roll", the idea of which prog fans obviously hated, and while their influence outside of prog is great, their influence within prog itself is miminal.
Their status as a prog band is highly debatable and I feel if I included them, there would be no reason not to include Radiohead or Queen either.