Best Double Album

Well, I consider it a terrible album, with slightly over average  40 minutes of music,  and the rest if filler, so your expression also affects all of us who don't believe Tales is a brilliant album.

I reply to what you write, I can't read your mind about who you were referring ot who you claim you were referring.

About Wakeman: Yes he made less than brilliant albums due to a bad contract with A&M that forced him to release a series of albums in order to survive, but he created at least 10 masterpieces and 10 excellent albums, something with what most musicians can only dream.

Wakeman's comment was explained by him on a  Creem Interview: 

WAKEMAN: I love Yes dearly, but I didn't enjoy Topographic Oceans. At the time I actually said it was an over-padded pile of shit. Those were the days when things were very black and white; we weren't mature enough to sit down and discuss things. The truth of the matter is, I still don't like the album. There's a lot of very good things on it; there's some very good moments on it. But there's tons of padding. When we went in to do it, we had too much material for a single album. So you either made it into a double album—which means write a lot more stuff—or you just reduce the size and make it into a single album. The fact of life is, we went the wrong route and we didn't have any other material. So there was padding for days on it. And Yes had never done that and I really objected to it. Vehemently objected to it. http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/Yes/ChapterAndVersePt001.html

I always support what I say

Iván  

Yeti

Tales

OUTSTANDING list!  I forgot about "JC Superstar," Ian Gillian's vocals are just insane on that!  Thanks!  

In no order and excluding Live albums or compilations, because with Live albums, would have to mention at least 50.

Reverse the order and you've got mine, too. 

 

Bob Dylan's album B on B, is a monster and deserves the mention ... it was one of the first albums to really blow folk music out of the water and you should have seen the cockroaches and bad folksters come out of the woodwork. It's almost like at the time, it belonged in each small area, and to no one else ... and all of a sudden, most of the local "folk" is nothing compared to this new kid.

 

In many ways, that album blew out radio and the value of the music and the lyrics, a lot more than the Beatles or Rolling Stones or anyone else.

 

CTA and Chicago 2 ... deserve the mention, and they are 2 albums I love dearly, and think that PA should start the American version of "Progressive" music to validate a lot more work, other than just pop music. Chicago was not pop music in its first 4 or 5 albums, although they did have some hits. And I have never seen a bad Chicago show!

 

Allman Brothers -- that album is a keeper. But I am not sure it needs to be listed as "progressive" ... it's just great music by a band that really did something nice at a time when it was needed, and it meant more than ... just nothing and pop music, or plain top of the pops.

 

The Who - Quadrophenia ... I always felt it was very good. Just not sure that everyone at the time had listened to it properly and given it a good listen, because at the time, things were turned nasty against long cuts and "conceptual" music ... and The Who, was one of the bands that said ... I don't care! This is what I'm doing! ... and they stood out for it. It might not be considered progressive, as music per se, but it is in every other aspect of the whole thing, and a conceptual idea, not different than DSOTM at the time, or Genesis, and in many ways, it was much more honest music, and a heck of a lot more honest, and it did not have to dress up in drag, or costumes to get the point across, or use ten fancy keyboards to create great music, which is the bad part of the "progressive" definitions demanding groups to have a big keyboard sound.

 

I am not adverse to the idea of progressive music ... I am only adverse to the finnicky and attitude that limits the music designs to one thing and one thing only, when it could easily encompass many others and show that ... there were a lot of people that really wanted to do more with their music ... than just a pop song ... but then, we're only interested in top of the pops anyway ...we even have a "top list" ... and we love to discuss the monsters ... just exclude the very people that inspired so many of these monsters, and were also there at the time, also doing quite good and important things.