Rank the Focus albums - Progressive Rock Music Forum

1. Hamburger Concerto

2. Focus III
3. Moving Waves (aka Focus II)

4. In and out of Focus

The rest I don't know well enough to judge.

Edited by WJA-K - March 30 2022 at 03:26

1. Golden Oldies (2014)

2. Moving Waves (1971)

3. Hamburger Concerto (1974)

4. Focus 3 (1972)

1970: Focus - In and Out of Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o34Hftlard4

1971: Focus - Moving Waves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCBMPdqDAS0

1972: Focus - Focus 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfuSi2Un_ng

1973: Focus - Live at the Rainbow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mmcuSI99sNs9poiX4tIFzGGhCsTQkpsuo

1974: Focus - Hamburger Concerto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8RbU1hXuQ

1975: Focus - Mother Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L2pyAqDBg&t=1946s

1976: Focus - Ship of Memories - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mF05MUeQF0jgcCtqICpxi-tPO1LJSnPzY

1977: Focus - Focus con Proby - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC8ao1-JpsqMhvAr7jZMWOBd96duBh3Ot

1985: Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer - Focus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC8ao1-JpsqNhBg7mEYbc5TraqAOO4o-P

2002: Focus - Focus 8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvIr9PblntI

2006: Focus - Focus 9 / New Skin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObrMhsmqYg

2012: Focus - Focus X - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kuWjUdtNK8kLnPT-HfMQ5xFUfieoXBvHg

2014: Focus - Golden Oldies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGrGFkNxGM

2016: Focus & Friends - Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llmzo08kuLBSxn4ZDWKXQ3x66Ppy1PAOw

2017: Focus - The Focus Family Album - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD3mRTKBTkySigAnBbvjqhqm8AVOk6mcx

2018: Focus - Focus 11 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k919voWhc7cQJA-ptHR8NhPIUBpNvR1JE

2021: Focus - Focus 50: Live in Rio / Completely Focused - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l72j_QYARhHUH1yUz4OaidXvMC6G1WPOo

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 01 2022 at 09:09

I'm surprised noboby so far has included the more recent Focus albums: 8, 9, 10, & 11. These are all good albums if you ask me, and I would rank them higher than some of the 70's albums.

The gossip is going around that Focus 12 will come out this year!

If the recent Completely Focussed album will be released separately (it was only part of the Focus 50 set), I would rate it with five stars - it is fantastic! Highly recommended!

Will return will a full ranking later.

Ship of Memories

III

Mother Focus

II

Hamburger Concerto

Con Proby

In and Out of Focus

New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385

Hamburger Concerto is the most important to me, a meaty masterpiece....

I see what you did there! Wink

Hamburger Concerto

Focus 3

Moving Waves

Rainbow (live)

Ship of Memories

In & Out Of (FPF)

Con Proby

Mother

The rest

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Edited by Sean Trane - December 28 2021 at 07:14

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

No definitive ranking from me, although Focus 3, Focus II and Hamburger Concerto would top my list. I also really like the debut as well as the commonly lower rated Ship of Memories and the often low-rated Mother Focus (Bennie Helder!)

Hamburger Concerto is the most important to me, a meaty masterpiece, and I guess Focus 3 would be second with the second third and the first fourth.... In my collection I only have the albums up to 9.

Focus and Gryphon may have been my first Prog loves.

Despite placing the most personal significance on Hamburger Concerto, I do miss the drumming of Pierre van der Linden on it and for that reason have sometimes ranked it lower than earlier ones (Focus 3 as well as II).

Edited by Logan - December 27 2021 at 20:21