Albums You Own In The Top 100

I have 75 of the top 100.  Just filled out 5 of them last week with an Italian prog purchase.  Ordered 3 from PFM and 2 from Banco.  Received them a couple of days ago, but haven't listened to them yet.  Prior to that I finally got Godbluff a couple of months ago.  It was pretty good.  I've not really been able to get into VDGG.  I don't care for the cat strangling saxophone from H to He and Pawn Hearts.  Their first two albums were pretty good though.  I've not heard Still Life yet.

Neo-Romantic wrote: The.Crimson.King wrote: Neo-Romantic wrote: HemispheresOfXanadu wrote: Thick as a Brick Dark Side of the Moon Fragile Crime of the Century Lateralus Definitely need more. I'd probably start with Opeth and Edge of Sanity. Then King Crimson, more Tull, Gentle Giant, Townsend, Focus, Rush, Floyd, Genesis... in addition to the dozens of other non top-100s I want. All I can say is I hope I get some iTunes cards or music store giftcards for my birthday or christmas. Or I might actually have to spend my own money.  Don't forget about Van der Graaf Generator  Wiser council I have rarely seen  Why thank you sir  So Hemispheres, not sure how you feel about peer pressure, but..... well, you can trust the two of us. We'd never steer you wrong  But in all seriousness, don't pass up that group. Everyone is divided on them, but there's something significantly respectable about music that so pointedly forces you to take a side.

Do I have a choice?  Okay, okay--I'll check them out a bit more.  I was shifting from classic prog to tech metal  when I first tried them out so I wasn't paying that much attention at the time. 

The.Crimson.King wrote: Neo-Romantic wrote: HemispheresOfXanadu wrote: Thick as a Brick Dark Side of the Moon Fragile Crime of the Century Lateralus Definitely need more. I'd probably start with Opeth and Edge of Sanity. Then King Crimson, more Tull, Gentle Giant, Townsend, Focus, Rush, Floyd, Genesis... in addition to the dozens of other non top-100s I want. All I can say is I hope I get some iTunes cards or music store giftcards for my birthday or christmas. Or I might actually have to spend my own money.  Don't forget about Van der Graaf Generator  Wiser council I have rarely seen

Why thank you sir 

So Hemispheres, not sure how you feel about peer pressure, but..... well, you can trust the two of us. We'd never steer you wrong 

But in all seriousness, don't pass up that group. Everyone is divided on them, but there's something significantly respectable about music that so pointedly forces you to take a side.

HemispheresOfXanadu wrote: Thick as a Brick Dark Side of the Moon Fragile Crime of the Century Lateralus Definitely need more. I'd probably start with Opeth and Edge of Sanity. Then King Crimson, more Tull, Gentle Giant, Townsend, Focus, Rush, Floyd, Genesis... in addition to the dozens of other non top-100s I want. All I can say is I hope I get some iTunes cards or music store giftcards for my birthday or christmas. Or I might actually have to spend my own money.

Don't forget about Van der Graaf Generator 

Thick as a Brick

I have 34 of the Top 100. Don't enjoy Krautrock, Progressive Metal, RIO/Avant-Prog, Tech/Extreme Prog Metal, Zeuhl and Canterbury Scene all that much, so, that's where the gaps are.

41. I'm so lame. The only ones I've gotten within the last 20 years are by Big Big Train, Porcupine Tree and Mars Volta. Most I got over 30 years ago. I guess I'm slowing down a little.

8 of the top 10
11 of the top 20
23 of the top 50
24 of the top 100

Wow, I only own 1 of the 51-100 group (ELP's debut). It seems to me that I own many of the 'prog essentials' and from there it's just personal preference, or  random albums. If I buy an album from a band I've never heard before and generally like it, I tend to purchase the rest of their discography before I pursue other new bands.

Just over half, I have 51

Apparently I have 64.  The top 100 has changed a fair amount since I last looked at it.