best underrated progressive band ever

yea, the best underrated progressive band ever?
For me definitly is Arthur Brown's Kigdom Come

Strawbs

could compile a list a page long of great underrated prog bands but they are the best. have two of the top ten greatest prog albums of all time in my opinion (Grave New World and Hero And Heroine) and still dont get much cred.

Definitely Mainhorse

Gentle Giant and Caravan - they should be up there with Yes, ELP, Genesis & Co.

I think Camel is rather well known. But it may be different in different countries.

Gentle Giant. The band has a strong fanbase, but many prog fans don't know this unique and great band.

As I've been listening to alot of New Prog (for want of a better tag) recently I would say that Aereogramme they disbanded in 2007.What a shame the best sounding progressive group from the general Indie rock base I have heard.

Aereogramme

everyone in prog knows Camel, Gentle Giant, and now Beardfish

the answer is still Strawbs

Strawbs btw are super hit and miss they have some really bland albums with no material worth listening too. On the other hand some albums are definetly worth the listening

Wow!
I didn't know that someone not from Poland knows SBB. Amazing band that was just unlucky to have been formed on wrong side of Iron Curtain.
If they started in western Europe they would be at least as famous as Camel or Gentle Giant.
There are some free tracks on last.fm. Check it out.

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Cardiacs, they are not even considered "progressive"

Pink Floyd instead are wide known as progressive, but I continue to hear ballads and psychedelia when I listen to any record by them.

I bought Relics decades ago :-D, but Interstellar Drive to me is psichedelia at 101%.

The problem in my opinion is that "changing the key" is common in psichedelia and progressive. In psichedelia is something following sudden typical LSD turns, change the key as change the "mental" key in one who took LSD. Or go for extremely long repetitive loops.
Progressive in my opinion is working with polythythm, arrangments far more eclectic than Pink Floyd, key changes but to astonish listener, not to follow the typical trips by LSD-already-astonished users. Here progressive and psychedelia are the opposite: one pushes while the other pulls.

But there is another thing, maybe the most important: when I listen to pink floyd, I hear blues and classical. Everybody say "What a song is Money!!!".

Yeah, what an invention: it's blues. An invention, make blues in a blues fashion!!! :-D

Underneath P.F. there's a solid and already-heard carpet of musical common places. I think that there are more revolutionary ideas in 1 Cardiacs album than all Pink Floyd discography.

For Instance, Silver Apples, a very psychedelic band, isn't it?, are more similar to Pink Floyd (almost all, except ballads) than Genesis, Gentle Giant or Yes.
I think that Gentle Giant got NOTHING to share with pink floyd. Same for Genesis. Even more with Yes. Totally different.

No, to me Pink Floyd are 100% "Psychedelic Rock", can't change my mind.

Maybe they made some progressive-sounding song, but not when they go for slowed down Segovia/Paco de Lucia arpeggios :-D or they play 1950 blues with two moog default effects. If one say yes all the same, then he got to say also that Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best prog musician of last century.

All IMHO, needless to say.