Big PROG ROCK names you never got into

[PeterG]

Despite repeated attempts, numerous listens, and even owning albums, I never got into:

Kansas
Asia
Saga
Happy The Man
Magma
Henry Cow
Tangerine Dream
Can

[Baribrotzer]

The list would be enormous. There's far more stuff I'm not into than stuff I am.

[Hyfi]

U2
Pearl Jam
Springsteen

[PeterG]

Sorry, I should have been clearer with the title, which I have now corrected. I mean big names within prog rock. I thought my list would have spoken for itself. Otherwise, as B said, the list would be enormous!

[Yves]

ELP
Renaissance
UK

[battema]

Shootin' fish, eh? All righty then...

Rush
Renaissance
Kansas
Hawkwind
Strawbs


Tried on several of these but for whatever reason, no go.

[zravkapt]

Marillion
Renaissance
Focus
Dream Theater
Fates Warning
Kansas
UK
Camel
Porcupine Tree
I don't consider Asia 'prog' but them too

Probably others.

[JJ88]

I certainly struggle with Dream Theater. I've tried so many of their albums (though not the last three/four) over the years in the hope that this will be the time where it clicks...but it only rarely has (some of Scenes From A Memory and Images And Words). I think some of it is down to personal taste- LaBrie's vocals, the keyboard sounds, the (IMHO) overplaying from Portnoy and Petrucci.

[mogrooves]

Camel
UK
Rush (are they Prog?)
Kansas
post-Benefit Tull
post-Tarkus ELP
post-Relayer Yes
post-Gabriel Genesis
post-Meddle Floyd
post-70s KC

[BobM]

Marillion
Most Italian Prog
Tangerine Dream
Rush
Henry Cow

[Morpheus]

Steve Wilson (all encompassing, from PT to solo,etc.)
ELP
Genesis
Marillion
Dream Theater

[klothos]

Jethro Tull (exception "Aqualung" album)
Marillion (exception "Misplaced Childhood" album)

........a good bulk of a lot of the lesser known bands you guys generally talk about........... I find a few albums here and there by these artists that I like (sometimes just a song or two) without really liking their whole discography

[Joe F.]

Transatlantic
Kevin Gilbert
Pineapple Thief
Neal Morse

[NogbadTheBad]

Kansas
Marillion
IQ
Dream Theater

[Rufus]

Genesis pre Foxtrot & post Wind & Wuthering
Strawbs
Magma
Caravan
Renaissance
Pink Floyd with the exception of WYWH & DSOTM
Kansas

[rickawakeman]

I have never been able to get into Rush due to Geddy Lee's vox. A friend made me an all-instrumental comp I liked.

I have never been able to appreciate Daevid Allen era Gong despite being a huge Hillage fan.

[The Dark Elf]

VdGG (the band is great, I'd buy their entire catalog if they'd masked out the vocals)
Camel
Caravan
Most of the insipid Canterbury bands

[Rufus]

VdGG (the band is great, I'd buy their entire catalog if they'd masked out the vocals)
Camel
Caravan
Most of the insipid Canterbury bands

Ditto VDGG

[simon moon]

Most stuff on the commercial side of prog, with a few exceptions.

Rush (not sure I consider them prog, but since many here do, for at least part of their career...)
Pink Floyd (don't consider them prog, or good)
It Bites (they do)
Post "Wind and Wuthering" Genesis
Post "Brain Salad" ELP
Asia (never were prog, and never were good. Not sure why they are mentioned so often here)
Neal Morse
Post "Drama" Yes
Saga

[markwoll]

Marillion, and most if not all early 80's neo

[moecurlythanu]

I hate the name Big Big Train for a Prog-Rock band. It's just silly. Not the silliest ever, but silly.The silliest ever is probably Steak, though I might be able to think of worse if I take the time to think about it.

[3LockBox]

I tried, but never took to:

ELP
SAGA
PALLAS
UK
FISH
Fish Era MARILLION
VDGG
CARAVAN (except for a couple of songs)
MAGMA
ARENA
PENDRAGON
JADiS
ASIA

Genres that I generally find off-putting: Canterbury and Zuel.

[Progbear]

Spock’s Beard, Porcupine Tree, Riverside, solo artists who used to be in prog bands too numerous to name.

[bob_32_116]

King Crimson
ELP
Zappa

Never heard anything from any of them that made me go "Wow".

There are plenty of other acts who get mentioned here on PE that I am not into, but not sure that "big" applies in the sense of well known outside the prog circle.

[Yodelgoat]

King Crimson, Early Genesis, Flower Kings, Marillion