→Neo-progressive movement: I am not arguing that IQ are not Neo-Prog, but, like Martin Orford, I was there and the first time I heard the phrase "Neo Prog" was in the '90s (we used the phrase "New wave Prog" parodying the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from a couple of years before). It's a retrospective term so it's important to make that clear.
IQ were one of a number of British bands formed during the early 1980s, including [[Marillion]], [[Pendragon (band)|Pendragon]], [[Twelfth Night (band)|Twelfth Night]], [[Pallas (band)|Pallas]] and [[Solstice (UK band - progressive)|Solstice]], that continued with the progressive rock style forsaken by 1970s bands such as [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] and [[Yes (band)|Yes]]. The music press have subsequently coined the phrase [[neo-progressive]] to describe these bands (although this term was never used contemporaneously with the movement as described in Martin Orford's Essayessay referenced below), often accusing them of simply copying the styles of other bands. This accusation has been strenuously denied by Martin Orford, who is against the use of the term "neo progressive"<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dprp.net/vision/index.php?id=13 | title = Out With The Neo! | work = DPRP | year = 2000 | access-date =29 April 2019 | first = Martin | last = Orford | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606141947/http://www.dprp.net/vision/index.php?id=13|archive-date=6 June 2011}}</ref> and claims the band have wide-ranging and eclectic selection of musical influences.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.progweed.net/interviews/iq.html | title = Interview with Martin Orford | work = ProgWeed.net |date=April 2002 | access-date = 29 April 2019 | first = Mike | last = Prete|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120141509/http://www.progweed.net/interviews/iq.html|archive-date=20 November 2008}}</ref> Paul Stump's ''History of Progressive Rock'', while affirming the band's categorization as neo-progressive, argued that IQ "did at least offer a more individual palette which, while just as derivative [as Marillion] in its way, gave the impression that the choice of arrangements was indivisible from the choice of notes played - that the similarities with older bands arose ''accidentally'' from their own personal approach to music." [emphasis in original]<ref>{{cite book |last=Stump |first=Paul |title=The Music's All that Matters: A History of Progressive Rock |date=1997 |publisher=Quartet Books Limited |isbn=0-7043-8036-6 |page=279}}</ref>
