Well hey I never said it was perfect and it was suppose to reflect how things are viewed now more than back in the day hence Genesis being in the big three and not ELP. It's an interesting thing because although ELP haven't entirely been forgotten or neglected, their influence on prog has definitely taken a back seat to Genesis these days.
As for The Who, I view them more as a seventies band even though they did get their start in the sixties but they didn't really start to get really big until the end of the sixties anyway. The Kinks would have been a much bigger band imo if they weren't banned in the US from sixty five to sixty nine. I put them in the sixties because for a while they were a major British Invasion Band. Like I said it's a personal thing. I heard a dj on a classic rock station say something like the Beatles are his "favorite British band from the sixties but the Kinks are his second. Sorry Rolling Stones" or something to that effect. Not sure I would go that far but they definitely deserve to mentioned right after the Stones imo. Like I said, the Who got huge in the seventies and did surpass the Kinks in popularity but.... ok I'm starting to repeat myself here and I'm not even under stress.
Anyway, like you said it is mostly about who I perceive to be the most popular for the most part but it's ultimately my personal opinion of that and how I want to spin it(ie the comment about Genesis and the Kinks in particular).
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