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Guldbamsen 
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Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:49 |
I don't have a favourite. When you've stretched out beyond the top 100 lists and ventured out among the non English speaking world and all of it's different scenes from just as many different countries, it quite quickly becomes clear how bonkers a poll like this really is............well at least for me that is. I love too many different styles of music to be able to pick between years. Symph and psych were great in the start of the 70s while RIO and avant really packed a punch toward the end of that decade. Depending on my mood I could vote for any year really.
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Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:22 |
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Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:17 |
Was there Prog after 1972? I haven't noticed as I'm still playing the albums from '72. 
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Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:15 |
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Probably 75, because of WYWH, Ommadawn, Rubycon, Ricochet (best TD live), Voyage of the Acolyte... but it is a tough poll, too tough for me, I think.
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Posted: September 17 2014 at 17:43 |
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its so hard to choose that i can't vote here, but i do know the best period is '71-'75 for sure.
Edited by Michael678 - September 17 2014 at 17:46
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Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:56 |
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Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:56 |
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If KC released a decent album in 1970, that would probably get my vote. Since they didn't, I'll have to think about this a little bit.
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Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:51 |
Mamamia. Hard to choose between 72 and 73. 
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Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:20 |
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1972: Close To The Edge, Foxtrot, Per Un Amico & fabulous Storia Di Un Minuto, Darwin! by Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso.. No brainer to me - 1972.
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 19:46 |
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Went with '76, but that could change tomorrow or any other day.
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 16:41 |
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I'll go with 73
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 16:19 |
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tough choice... I'm kind of leaning toward '71 and '72
Voted '71 had a lot of awesomeness going for it, too many to mention
Edited by bloodnarfer - April 08 2014 at 16:20
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 10:00 |
Hi,
If I have to make a choice and vote, I'm gonna regret it in contortions and thinking ... how can I forget this or that!
It's terrible!
You're forcing me to split my mind and appreciation, specially when there are bands that had great work in more than one year. How can we say that 72 was better than 74 or 69 for Peter Hammill and his band? See?????
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 09:30 |
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1973 was my first real year of being totally lost in prog. It was also the year of Hawkwind's Space ritual tour which I was lucky to catch in Glasgow.
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 09:26 |
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 08:45 |
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72, and it always wins this poll.
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 08:06 |
 Chris S wrote:
^ Genesis did not release an album in 77 OK 76- Wind & Wuthering
75 for me
Wish You Were Here Ommadawn Rubycon-------------and Ricochet Scheherazade Snow Goose Nightingales & Bombers Cunning Stunts
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 03:16 |
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'72 might have more great albums, but I've always thought of '73 as the peak of rock music. The great albums from that year take things out of the stratosphere. '74 refines things even further in some ways though.
'72:
Foxtrot - Genesis
Octopus - Gentle Giant
Per Un Amico - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Three Friends - Gentle Giant
Light As a Feather - Return to Forever
Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Grave New World - Strawbs
'73:
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Larks Tongues’ in Aspic - King Crimson
Ashes are Burning - Renaissance
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Io Sono Nato Libero - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
In a Glass House - Gentle Giant
'74:
Red - King Crimson
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Mirage - Camel
Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
Red Queen to Gryphon Three - Gryphon
Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 03:15 |
^ Genesis did not release an album in 77 OK 76- Wind & Wuthering
75 for me
Wish You Were Here Ommadawn Rubycon-------------and Ricochet Scheherazade Snow Goose Nightingales & Bombers Cunning Stunts
Edited by Chris S - April 08 2014 at 03:41
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 02:57 |
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1977 has always been my favourite year for prog. Take my favourite
albums by Floyd, Yes and Genesis for starters. Add to that classics by
Klaus Schulze, Eloy, J-M Jarre and TD (Encore) plus another all-time top
10 album of mine in Black Noise by FM plus many others I've not
mentioned and there you have it.
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