Obscure Album That Should Be Famous... - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Mirthrandir - "For You The Old Women" 1976 - greatly underrated and vastly obscured, being however true masterpiece of 70's american prog scene

4/3 de trio - "Ersatz" 2002 - this is an absolute masterpiece of modern prog and to me this is the best album of this millenium so far

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Kalacakra - Crawling to Lhasa (70s krautrock with acid folk and bluesy guitars)

Xhol Caravan -Electrip- (Pyschedelic jazz with prog elements)

Paternoster -Paternoster- (70s Stoned rock from Germany)

philippe wrote:

Kalacakra - Crawling to Lhasa (70s krautrock with acid folk and bluesy guitars)

Xhol Caravan -Electrip- (Pyschedelic jazz with prog elements)

Paternoster -Paternoster- (70s Stoned rock from Germany)

Also:

DOM: Edge of Time
My Solid Ground: My Solid Ground
the two albums of Belgian group Recreation
and of course Tunnel by Abissi Infiniti

"Poets And Madmen" by Savatage.

Damn this album is fooking AMAZING!!! More people should know of it.

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Gentle Giant is not that obscure.

Jeremy Bender wrote:

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Hooray! Pudding en Gisteren owns them both though.

As for obscure albums that I think should get more attention... well, I could list for hours. Wouldn't be much point doing so. Just read my reviews on this website!

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=85

I think Rare Bird's 'Rare Bird' and 'As Your Mind Flies By' are two of the greatest prog albums ever, and deserve as much credit as all the more well known albums and bands.

Also, the Rare Bird spinoff 'Fields' is a wonderful album with great melodies and keyboard work.

Cressida's two albums are both masterpieces, and Raw Material's 'Time Is' is also a great listen (the first album is very good too but a little flawed in parts).

Man's '2 Ozs Of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle' (Man are surely the best prog band not to be in the archives now...) is a lost classic too, with the wondrous 9 minute 'Prelude/The Storm', and their 'Rhinos Winos And Lunatics' album is a masterpiece of 70s progressive tinged rock.

Gravy Train's first two albums are also excellent- Tull esque heavy prog rock.

I must also mention one of my favourite bands, Magnum, who made a whole run of melodic progressive tinged albums, of which the best is 'Chase The Dragon', in my opinion- a really heavy album with tons of great keyboards solos, and wonderful singing by Bob Catley.

In alphabetically order:

Affinity, Andromeda, Arcadium, Arzachel, Atomic Rooster, Bakerloo, Beggar's Opera, Ben, Black Widow, Bram Stoker, Edgar Broughton Band, Catapilla, Circus (Uk), Circus (Swi), Cirkus, Clear Blue Sky, Cressida, Dr.Z, East of Eden, Fairfield Parlour, Fruupp, Fuzzy Duck, Ghost, Greatest Show On Earth, Icarus, Indian Summer, Ithaca, Jade Warrior, Jan Dukes De Grey, Jericho, Jody Grind, Julian's Treatment, Junior's Eyes, Khan, Leaf Hound, Lucifer's Friend, Marsupilami, May Blitz, Mighty Baby, Monument, Morgan, Necromandus, Oliver, Out of Darkness, Panama Limited, Patto, Pink Fairies, Quintessence, Ramases, Raw Material, Running Man, Saturnalia, Second Hand, Skin Alley, Spring, Steamhammer, Steel Mill. Still Life, String Driven Thing, T2, Tea & Symphony, Third Ear Band, Titus Groan, Tonton Macoute, Tractor, Trees, Velvett Fogg, Warhorse, Web, Wigwam, Writing on the Wall, Zao, Zior...