What are your top 10 progressive rock albums?

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Topic: What are your top 10 progressive rock albums?
Posted: August 05 2023 at 06:35

1. Marillion - Brave

2. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are

3. Echolyn - As the World

4. Pendragon - Not of This World

5. Genesis - Foxtrot

6. Galahad - Following Ghosts

7. Arena - The Visitor

8. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon

9. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Pt. I

10. Kate Bush - Aerial

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Posted: July 08 2020 at 21:25

FatherChristmas wrote:

Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!?

Watch this from them, got quite good picture:

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Posted: July 07 2020 at 08:54

FatherChristmas wrote:

Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!?

Really?

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Posted: July 07 2020 at 08:51

No order.....

In The Court of the Crimson King- KC

Red- KC

Close To The Edge- Yes

Hatfield and the North- Rotters Club

Caravan- In The Land of Grey and Pink

ELP-ELP

Selling England- Genesis

Aqualung- Tull

Acquiring the taste- Gentle Giant

Rites At Dawn- Wobbler

as always lists are subject to change.. Wink

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: July 07 2020 at 07:37

In no real order:

Trinity - Ekspetion

Trick of the Tail - Genesis

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead

Free hand - Gentle Giant

Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull

Death walks behind you - Atomic Rooster

Six Wives - Rick Wakeman

To Watch the Storms - Steve Hackett

Going for the One - Yes

Sing to God - Cardiacs

Levitating downwards,
atomic feedback scream.

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Posted: July 07 2020 at 02:42

Going by one album per band,

1. National Health - National Health

2. The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat

3. Soft Machine - Third

4. Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior

5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

6. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

7. Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory

8. Henry Cow - Legend

9. Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte

10. King Crimson - Red

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Posted: July 05 2020 at 23:53

1) Dark Side of the Moon

2) Selling England by the Pound

3) Tales from Topographic Oceans

4) Larks Tongue's in Aspic

5) Thick as a Brick

6) Marbles

7) V (Spock's Beard)

8) English Electric Part one

9) Triliogy

10) Stardust We Are

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Posted: July 02 2020 at 04:58

One album per band rule. I'll go with chronological order, some comments; a bit boring list I know.

KING CRIMSON. Lizard

Maybe the furthest detour to weird lands in their history. Brilliant and picturesque.

JETHRO TULL. Thick as a Brick

They have a few more masterpieces and perhaps the biggest "Very Good!" collection in prog. Hard to choose one so let's take the safest route. Everyone knows it by heart, but if not, LISTEN AGAIN.

FRANK ZAPPA. Waka/Jawaka

Unless we're talking live material (i.e. Roxy), this has been my favorite FZ album for the last couple of years. Entire 1972-75 run was mindboggling.

GENESIS. Foxtrot

Now I'm not hip anymore because Foxtrot edges out Selling England more often these days.

FOCUS. Hamburger Concerto

How good is it? Well, to steal a spot from Pink Floyd you must be dang good!

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR. Godbluff

Scorched Earth or Arrow intensity are almost impossible to match. On par with Pawn Hearts and that means a lot.

MIKE OLDFIELD. Ommadawn

Again a safe pick, there are days I'm more fascinated with Amarok, Incantations, or even Five Miles Out era. But Ommadawn is always there at the top for me, love the atmosphere, would like to live there.

YES. Going for the One

Awaken is usually my go-to Yes song, but all compositions here impress me to this day. If not for male buttocks, it'd have 4.30+ rating!

ANEKDOTEN. Vemod

For some it's just a bunch of KC fanboys, for me it's the definitive balls-out mellotron-storm take-no-prisoners summon-ghosts autumnal extravaganza. Well, in prog.

ÄNGLAGÅRD. Hybris

Incredible band in its most potent incarnation. If success depended on talent and merit, they would fill the Cowboys Stadium three nights in a row.

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 14:32

I will try to pick other albums than Jean's, but one has to be on my list too, and that's "Fairy Tales" by Mother Gong. This album is so very special to us because it directly connects to our kids.

The other nine, in no specific order:

Amon Düül II - Yeti

Klaus Schulze - Picture Music

The Residents - Eskimo

Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher (1999 version)

Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale

Can - Tago Mago

Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn

Khan - Space Shanty

Peter Baumann - Romance '76

Like Jean listed with the caveat that this list will be totally different on a different day, with the exception of the Mother Gong album that I cannot praise highly enough.

Just for comparison Jean's list:

Mother Gong - Fairy Tales (this one will always be on the list. one of the greatest albums EVER)

Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

Magma - MKD

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time

Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Gong - You

Klaus Schulze - Mirage

Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift

Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge

Edited by BaldFriede - July 01 2020 at 14:34

BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 11:48

Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!?

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:19

Yes - Close to The Edge
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
U.K. - Self Titled
Yes - Relayer
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:07

And I forgot Night at the Opera, I like that too.

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:04

richardh - even if LOG isn't prog, it's still one of my favourite album. Everything else I like is Genesis or Rush or Pink Floyd or KC

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 01:14

I absolutely cannot do a top ten prog albums, lol. I can barely organize my top ten Genesis albums. I will say though, if Queen's A Night At The Opera is prog enough for inclusion, that's my number one seeing as it's already my number one out of any genre.

Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 01:10

richardh wrote:

FatherChristmas wrote:

1. Duke - Genesis

2. Love over Gold - Dire Straits (this album is actually prog)

3. SEBTP - Genesis

4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

5. Moving Pictures - Rush

6. Lark's Tongues In Aspic - KC

7. Trick of the Tail - Genesis

8. Foxtrot - Genesis

9. Hemispheres - Rush

10. Abacab - Genesis

are you Tony Banks?

and no it isn't

Nah, Tony Banks would be arguing for a bunch of classical stuff and his favorite Genesis record would be Wind And Wuthering, definitely above SEBTP where Gabriel spat his loads of gibberish words all over Tony's nice and clean epic instrumental...or at least that's how he would put it, lol.

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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)

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Posted: July 01 2020 at 00:25

FatherChristmas wrote:

1. Duke - Genesis

2. Love over Gold - Dire Straits (this album is actually prog)

3. SEBTP - Genesis

4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

5. Moving Pictures - Rush

6. Lark's Tongues In Aspic - KC

7. Trick of the Tail - Genesis

8. Foxtrot - Genesis

9. Hemispheres - Rush

10. Abacab - Genesis

are you Tony Banks?

and no it isn't

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Posted: June 30 2020 at 14:37

In no particular order:

1. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso

2. Gentle Giant – In a glass house

3. Invisible – Durazno sangrando

4. King Crimson – Larks tongues in aspic

5. Los Jaivas – Alturas de Machu Picchu

6. Genesis – Nursery cryme

7. Pink Floyd – Live in Pompeii

8. Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet

9. Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff

10. Yes – Tales from topographic oceans

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Posted: June 30 2020 at 09:43

Thank you for your mention of Dire Straits's Love Over Gold (1982). I've always loved the Wakeman-esque keyboard contribution of Alan Clark on this album. It is by far their magnum opus, and as you mentioned, their "proggiest" performances.

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