the most cool guy said:
Mathguy64 said:
the most cool guy said:
deadhead aggie said:
Greatest prog band of all time? If no, who?
No.
Tool, easily.
You misspelled Rush.
Geddy Lee sounds like a screeching drunk parakeet. His vocals are some of the worst I have ever heard. If they had decent vocals, I probably could have gotten into them because I like Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart was obviously fantastic. Although as a drummer I was always disappointed that Neil didn't do more on the albums.
But even disregarding the vocals, nothing Rush did holds a candle to Tool's Lateralus, 10,000 Days, or Fear Inoculum albums.
Since there was no specific prog genre specified (the question was 'Greatest prog band of all time'), I'm gonna say the album run of Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Damnation, Ghost Reveries and Watershed tops what Tool did.
And I am a huge tool fan of 30 years., seen them live 7 or 8 times.
The amount of genre exploration on the Opeth 5 album run blows Tool out of the water. And damn near 100% of it is God tier level. Tool is nearly always Drop D as well, which pulls it out of the highly progressive box.
Tool does take the cake on meter/poly-rhythms. .