Highest ranked Top Album completely unknown to you

Kotro wrote: #28 Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is my highest rated album on both accounts. It is followed by #47 Miles Davis' In a Silent Way, same criteria. So I guess my prog credentials are good.

Skalla-Grim wrote: Albums from the PA top100 I haven't listened to: #28 Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue (does anybody really consider it "prog rock"??) #47 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (see #28)

#28 Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is my highest rated album on both accounts. It is followed by #47 Miles Davis' In a Silent Way, same criteria. So I guess my prog credentials are good. 

Again with that c*** about non-English-language albums being ignored... I wonder how many people will tune in to the RPI show tonight just to debunk this old, tired stereotype. Thankfully, in real life I know a lot of English-speaking prog fans who absolutely love music from non-English-speaking countries (including Kobaia).

As to the original question, these are the albums in PA's Top 100 that are completely unknown to me:

S. Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
Hiromi - Time Control
Death - Symbolic
Gorguts - Obscura

Those I have heard only partially are many more, and include both Pain of Salvation's albums, the Hammill album, Zappa's One Size Fits All and The Grand Wazoo, and Harmonium's long-titled one. On the other hand, I have heard (and in most cases own) 85 out of 100 albums in that list. Therefore, I believe my "prog card" is safe for now.

Not sure why non-English albums would be excluded anymore than instrumental albums would be excluded.

yeah man.. fanboys.. gotta love them.

akaBona wrote: Nro 28 Steven Wilson: Hand. Cannot. Erase. Never heard.

  sure you aren't missing anything

#28? of what... steven wilson/PT/collaboration albums...  don't tell me that is all albums.  I'll puke in my mouth if you say it is so.  You all are nuts...

Hybris by Anglagard is the highest ranked album I haven't finished, and Per Un Amico by PFM is the highest ranked album I've heard little to nothing from. I really need to listen to more Italian prog.

Highest ranked album never heard in full: Harmonium - blah blah blah

Guldbamsen wrote: ^Agreed. ...... Key thing to remember: not all prog reveals it's beauty on the first date. Some times you need to have patience with music.

Rosscoe wrote: As a relative newbie with a fairly narrow spectrum it would be much quicker for me to list the music I have heard.   Anyway, in order to more fully embrace the prog genre and find out what the fuss is about in terms of the classics, I ordered Close to the Edge and Selling England by the Pound a few months ago, as, believe it or not, I had never (knowingly) heard any of either.  From the reviews, it seemed I had nothing to lose.  However...   I listened to SEBtP first, and was immediately impressed.  It was clearly brilliant, and First of FIfth has become one of my favourite prog tracks.  I intend to get hold of some more early Genesis at some point.   Buoyed by this, I was looking forward to trying out the #1 rated album on the whole site - but boy, was I disappointed!  My first impressions, even beyond the first 3 minutes which include some of the worst music I have ever heard, was that the album was mostly uninspired self-indulgent twaddle.  Had it not been for that fact that CTTE is considered seminal I would not have bothered listening to it all, but I had to be missing something, so I pressed on and reluctantly listened to it again.   I have to admit it has improved after 3 listens, but I still cant' say I enjoy it.  THe first 3 minutes are at best misguided, at worst unlistenable musical w**kery.  The rest of the title track has its decent moments, but still plenty of dead time.  It doesn't help that I prefer a more modern bass tone (I am a bassist) and Squire's tone is about the worst I can imagine.  The second track (can't even remember the title) has mostly passed me by without retaining anything - I just don't find it memorable or inspired.  I felt nothing.   I'm quite expecting to be chased physically from this site at such heresy, but I am just being honest.  It wasn't as if I was prejudiced either - in fact I was fully expecting to love it. Perhaps my expectations have actually hindered my ability to enjoy it properly.  Maybe I'll come back later with my tail between my legs admitting it's actually quite good, but right now it gets 2 stars.   Anyway, back on topic - I can say with some certainty that I have never heard any of #2 Thick as a Brick!

I wud suggest that you keep that gem aside at this moment. Go through the reviews of top albums from ur preferred genres and chose to listen to only those albums which compliment your present taste..sometimes it cud be a particular reviewer who might guide ur journey for some time..and then the next one.. See where it goes from there..come back to CttE after maybe a year or so and see if you can enjoy..great! if u do..but no worries if u can't. U can always come back later or maybe just avoid it.
So many gems out there, not all of us can enjoy every single one. No wonder 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is still an enigma to many of us here.