Prog Albums That Deserve More Credit

bhikkhu wrote: A fine list of albums indeed. I would like to pick out "In the Wake of Poseidon." I am one of the few who think it is better than "In the Court of the Crimson King."

Definitely Of Tide and Trail by Dan Arborise seeing as I'm the only person to have reviewed or rated it and it's one of my favorite albums.

Xonty wrote: Hi there! Just wondering if anyone thinks that there are some albums on PA that deserve much more credit than they're given. A few examples for me:  Caravan - s/t Egg - s/t ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (should really be a bit higher ) Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation Genesis - Duke Gong - Flying Teapot King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon King Crimson - Islands Peter Sinfield - Still Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (not their best, but still great) Rush - Fly By Night Rush - Caress Of Steel Tangerine Dream - Zeit Yes - Time And A Word I know a lot of you will disagree with most of these but anyway, just post your own thoughts on albums which are too underrated for your liking. As always, thanks for any feedback!

This is the one that always comes to mind when that question is asked...

Free Hand - Gentle Giant

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Triceratopsoil wrote: All of the ones I like, and none of the ones I don't

*wish I'd said that*

I have often liked to provide links for reference purposes, as well.  Not only can the older topics be interesting for a person interested in the topic to look back-on for the first time (say the topic starter and others), but also it makes it easy for others who posted in the earlier topics to see what they mentioned before, and I like it as a means to acknowledge the contributions of people to past topics.  Not to side-line this topic, but of course a search is often a  good idea not to replicate topics, especially, say when it's a very specific topic -- say a band appreciation thread or more importantly when suggesting a new band when one should bump the older thread if it's not locked (helps to see what was already said, and can save a lot of effort -- though the search function is a little unreliable for me).

That aside aside, and onto another aside, I would also focus on the more obscure if I were a reviewer.  Far too much that I think superb languishes in obscurity.  Some believe that quality readily equated to popularity/ knownness, but not really to me.  We have had so many polls with the qualifier that only albums with one hundred plus ratings are to be included, for instance, which perpetuates the popularity of the already popular in a way.  Even in topics, I would generally rather focus on the less known.

One of my old favourite obscurites (only one thousand copies were originally pressed) is this:

3.59 | 16 ratings Il y a Des Jours
1985

That said, 16 ratings is quite a lot for PA when it comes to so many of my faves.

David, that you are still the only one to rate/ review this album blows my mind:

5.00 | 1 ratings Christian Lucifer 1973

I adore that album.  Maybe I'll add a second review for it when I have the time and patience.



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Personally, replication of topics doesn't tend to bother me, but as sai, this has been done a number of times.  Each thread will have it's own uniqueness and I haven't the patience to read through really long threads these days, so I like to see fresh starts on old ideas. :)

Xonty wrote: Hi there! Just wondering if anyone thinks that there are some albums on PA that deserve much more credit than they're given. A few examples for me:  Caravan - s/t Egg - s/t ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (should really be a bit higher ) Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation Genesis - Duke Gong - Flying Teapot King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon King Crimson - Islands Peter Sinfield - Still Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (not their best, but still great) Rush - Fly By Night Rush - Caress Of Steel Tangerine Dream - Zeit Yes - Time And A Word I know a lot of you will disagree with most of these but anyway, just post your own thoughts on albums which are too underrated for your liking. As always, thanks for any feedback!

Without checking the rankings, based on memory, I think I could agree on almost all of those.  Zeit in particular has struck me as rather underrated -- a word some hate in these parts, but it works for me as shorthand -- (though I don't think Zeit as original as some do, so I could say that some may give it too much credit in terms of originality).  Looking at the ratings of it, it it seems to be doing much better than when I last looked.  I think Tangerine Dream's Electronic Mediation to be a much stronger work than many do (that's the album that made me fall for TD).

For one that is sometimes sneered at, I really like Magma's Merci (but then I also love Offering).  I sometimes wonder whether persons who dismiss it very easily have really listened to the whole album.

Mixtus Orbis, by the way, is one of my favourite albums in PA.  Although it has a high rating, and is the top ranked album in Indo Prog/ Raga Rock, I do wish it got more attention at PA (at least a few people, including myself, have been vocal about it).  I don't feel like Indo Prog/ Raga Rock gets enough attention here either, and tens to be fr too readily dismissed (lots of very high quality music in that category for my tastes).

There are lots of albums that I don't feel get enough attention, but of the bands that do get quite regularly mentioned, I do wish that Cos' third album, Babel, got more love.  It has a good rating, and a decent numbe rof ratings, but still doesn't nearly as much attention as the first two Cos albums, and not nearly as much as the superb Viva Boma.  I love Babel, and actually eturn to that one by Cos the most.

Can's first two albums dont get as much attention as the following three albums, but I think they're great.
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I wouldn't mind seeing some clivage