Big 5 band I stopped listening to years ago.

[PeterG]

ELP. I've got all the essential albums, but somehow ELP and I just never gelled. I haven't listened to an ELP album for at least five years, but probably closer to ten.
So, amongst whatever 5 bands make up your Big 5, which one have you stopped listening to?
And if I ask the same Q of my Big 10, then the answer is VDGG. I probably haven't heard a VDGG album in at least 20 years. Never got my head round them really, plus I can't stick his voice.

[NogbadTheBad]

I still listen to all of them but with ELP I very rarely reach for an album. The next one would probably be Genesis, I have everything through SEBTP and along with Yes were my first prog bands in my mid teens. Nowadays I rarely reach for anything, maybe Foxtrot but that's it. Crimson, Tull, Floyd & Yes all get lots of listens.

[nosebone]

All of em!

[Digital_Man]

I don't currently own much big five on cd. I did eventually start to rebuy some about two years ago but to be honest they just sounded too familiar to me like I'd heard them a million times.

So my vote(at the moment anyway)would have to go to King Crimson. At the moment I only own the first two. A close second would be Pink Floyd. I do plan on revisiting these bands again at some point in the not too distant future but to be honest there's just so much out there that I haven't heard that I want to that I might have to put the bands who got me into this stuff on the backburners.

[2steves]

ELP. I've got all the essential albums, but somehow ELP and I just never gelled. I haven't listened to an ELP album for at least five years, but probably closer to ten.
So, amongst whatever 5 bands make up your Big 5, which one have you stopped listening to?
And if I ask the same Q of my Big 10, then the answer is VDGG. I probably haven't heard a VDGG album in at least 20 years. Never got my head round them really, plus I can't stick his voice.

agree --never liked VDGG at all--but I used to like but never listen to--ELP, Tull to name a few

[Watanabe]

Don't listen to any of the bands that usually show up in the big five\ten discussions other than on very rare occasions where i'll pull out an album or two.

I've listened to them all enough as far really digesting the albums i like goes, and would rather keep discovering new stuff.Luckily i've managed not to become an egomaniac while having this hardly unique approach like some around here, who take a tiresome, consistently patronising tone to those that still like to focus\heavily discuss or big up and\or get a bit too zealous over them.

[GuitarGeek]

I put them on once in awhile, but not as much as I used to. I used to listen the Yes records all the time, but haven't really lately, except for the one or two that I have on my mp3 player.

To tell you the truth, although I own quite a few Gentle Giant records, I just never listened to them very much in the first place.

I think Genesis and Pink Floyd are the ones I tend to listen to most these days, besides Yes. Those three bands were the ones from that lot that always did the most for me. I guess if we put Tull in that same category then I do play their stuff from time to time. I need to load the rest of their albums onto my mp3 player (lately I've had Heavy Horses and Warchild on the thing).

I sort of have a love hate relationship with ELP. Sometimes I put their stuff on and I think it's amazing, then other times, I just wish I could stand behind Emerson and slap him in the back of the head.

[Obscured]

Agreed on the haven't/can't listen to those ELP albums anymore but, I enjoy the life Carl has brought back into the old tunes-
"Jerusalem":
"Trilogy":

[Dave (in MA)]

I still throw the ELP debut on once in a while, and I have a playlist of Works 1 & 2 that takes out Lake's ballads.

[Rick Robson]

Thanks to the Internet, since some years ago I've been more interested in knowing better some Rock bands that I used to enjoy, and so I no longer listen to some of the Big 5 or 6, except for ELP (that I never tire of) and some Floyd music which I still enjoy listening to. Bands that never manage to be top 10 in my whishlist are: Jethro Tull, King Crimson, VdGG, and GG (this one would be my first to check out from these.)

That said, occasionaly I listen to my Yes DVDs Keys to Ascension and Yes in The House Of Blues, both outstanding imo.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Still listen to (some) Camel & Caravan, (some) KC and (some) Tull, on occasion (some) Yes and (some) Genesis. Rarely to ELP, but it does occur once in a brief while.

With other well-known 70s UK progressive acts I listen most frequently to Hatfield, NHealth, GGiant, VdGG, Soft Machine (1968-71), Wyatt, HCow (plus entire family), Gryphon - and then lesser known stuff. Mostly to the latter, I find.

I probably listen just as much to artists from the northern European countries, France, Germany, Benelux, Italy and Eastern Europe. Lots of US and Canadian/Quebecois, and lots'n'lots of Latin American. Some Japanese and Australian, quite a bit, in fact.

[Morpheus]

I'm not much of a Big Whatever guy, from an interest in "outsider rock" (Beefheart, Residents, etc.) I gravitated more towards Cantebury, Zeuhl, RIO, Kraut, etc. I very much enjoy 72-74 era Crimson, For Yes, I lke CttE quite a bit but nothing after Relayer, and I do not care for ELP or Genesis at all really, even though people have continually tried to sell me on the latter because of my love of Cardiacs. I like some Floyd but not so much DSotM or The Wall and Tull has songs I like, but I've never quite latched on to them. I do like GG, are they in the Big 8 or whatever?

[Scrotum Scissor]

I do like GG, are they in the Big 8 or whatever?

Big 11, my friend. Big 11.

I have to admit that I never listen to Floyd at all except for Piper.

[Morpheus]

Piper is my main interest with them as well

[PeterG]

It's strange, I used to think 'The Nice were better' brigade were on another planet

I belong to that brigade and still quite regularly listen to The Nice. As recently as 3 weeks ago, I bought a Nice album on vinyl; and not an album I had on CD either rather an album I didn't have at all. So that was Nice..... to hear music new to my ears on vinyl from an old band.

[Joe F.]

I still listen to them all. Maybe once a year, or so. ELP is the one I listen to the least. They've haven't held up all that well for me.

[PeterG]

Of the Big X, I listen mostly and still pretty regularly to Jethro Tull - mostly late 70s onwards; and PF - Piper, Saucerful, UG, Relics, Meddle, AHM, More, OBC, DSOTM.

Then there's quite a big drop off in listening frequency for Genesis, and then it's only 2 albums Trick and W & W, and KC - itcotck, Red, Islands, and GG - ATT, Octopus, Three friends

Then there's a huge drop off down to the bottom end of my Big X listening, where I still occasionally spin a bit of Camel, Caravan and Yes, but not that often and nearly always the same albums: Snow Goose (or Moonmadness), Grey & Pink, Fragile (or CTTE)

[PeterG]

As for listening frequency for Neo - I'll still give Fugazi and Script the odd spin, as well as Twelfth Night- Live
As for 2nd Wave Neo - Arena quite regularly, and Jadis and Shadowland occasionally, and that's it really.

[spacefreak]

I listen to the Big ones on very rare occasions. Probably I've revisited ELP once during the last 25 years, and Genesis / Yes 3-4 times. I don't feel the need since I got their interesting albums in the 70s and I know them by heart. Camel, King Crimson, Caravan, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Van der Graaf Generator and Pink Floyd get more regular spins however (once every 2 years)... From Rush I still occasionally play only their first two albums + Hemispheres and Signals. The limited neo stuff I own, almost never since the late 80s.

[Galactic Bulldozer]

Whenever I listen to artists other than the big 5/10, I'm constantly reminded of them... thats PF influenced, that's KC influenced etc. After a while I think, lets hear the original again and put them all in to perspective.

[PeterG]

Whenever I listen to artists other than the big 5/10, I'm constantly reminded of them... thats PF influenced, that's KC influenced etc. After a while I think, lets hear the original again and put them all in to perspective.

Yea, that happens to me quite a lot too. I'll hear something and think, "that reminds me of..." and then I HAVE to go and listen to that album.

[NogbadTheBad]

Was listening to 5UU - Crisis In Clay today and a section of a piece screamed Yes at me.

[mx20]

Crimson & the Floyd, with a few exceptions (Poseidon, ToaPP and More & Animals).

[Zeuhlmate]

Was listening to 5UU - Crisis In Clay today and a section of a piece screamed Yes at me.

That was on purpose according to Bob Drake, its hommage. The choirs and in one track an imitation of Steve Howes guitar from Tales.

[Zeuhlmate]

I never stopped, I spin them once in a while (at least yearly), but again, I never overplayed any of them.