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Gratuitously....an updated list Wink from me.
 
TFK - I Am The Sun (complete)
TFK - Monsters and Men
TFK - Garden Of Dreams
TFK - Stardust We Are
TFK - Retropolis
TFK - Just This Once
TFK - Silent Inferno
TFK - Theme For A Hero
TFK - One More Time
TFK - The Merrygoround
TFK - Driver's Seat
TFK - Babylon
TFK - End Of Innocence
TFK - Rumble Fish Twist
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Pink Floyd - Sheep
Pink Floyd - Cirrus Minor
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Pink Floyd - Shine On...(complete)
Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like
Pink Floyd - Time
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
Yes - Awaken
Yes - Gates Of Delirium
Yes - And You And I
Yes - Does It Really Happen
Yes - Parallels
Yes - Starship Trooper
Yes - Mind Drive
Yes - Turn Of The Century
Yes - The Revealing
Yes - The Ancient
Yes - The Remembering
Yes - Ritual
The Black Dog - Psil Cosyin
IQ - The Seventh House
IQ - Leap Of Faith
IQ - Sacred Sound
IQ - Sleepless Incidental
IQ - The Magic Roundabout
IQ - Ryker Skies
IQ - State Of Mine
IQ - Headlong
Eddie Jobson/Zinc - Resident
Eddie Jobson/Zinc - Who My Friends
Frost* - Black Light Machine
Frost* - Dear Dead Days
Frost* - Hyperventilate
ELP - Karn Evil 9 (complete)
ELP - The Endless Enigma
ELP - The Three Fates
ELP - Trilogy
Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape
Porcupine Tree - The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
Porcupine Tree - Always Never
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - Moonloop
Quasar - Mission 13
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - 6DOIT
Dream Theater - Home
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
Tomas Bodin - I Am (complete - is this cheating? LOL)
Tomas Bodin - What's Going On
Tomas Bodin - Me and Liz
Glass Hammer - Further Up and Further In
Glass Hammer - Chronos Deliverer
Glass Hammer - Behind The Great Beyond
Glass Hammer - Knight Of The North
Glass Hammer - Long and Long Ago
Glass Hammer - Time Marches On
UK - Carrying No Cross
Genesis - Cinema Show
Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
Genesis - One For The Vine
Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
Genesis - The Waiting Room
Genesis - Fly On A Windshield
Karmakanic - Send A Message To The Heart
Ozric Tentacles - Eternal Wheel
Ozric Tentacles - Toka Tola
Todd Rundgren - Theme From Utopia
Boards Of Canada - Left Side Drive
Boards Of Canada - The Beach At Redpoint
Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling
FM - Slaughter In Robot Village
FM - Journey
Roine Stolt - Dissonata
Roine Stolt - The Flower King
Luminatus - Hope
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Rush - Jacob's Ladder
The Orb - Oxbow Lakes
Hawkwind - Assault And Battery/The Golden Void
Opeth - Deliverance
ELP - Tarkus (Welcome Back My Friends version)
 
Now edited further - almost up to 100.  Don't expect me to put them in order though LOL.


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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM! Big smileTongue


Aww geez, thank you Pablo (and Roj and anyone elses posts that I didn't see yet), now I'm getting all gushy and stuff.

I get to pick my own presents this year so I'm going to take a trip to the local used CD store to see what deals I can find .  If nothing interesting is there, I'l dig around the internet for a bit.
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Originally posted by Roj M30 Roj M30 wrote:

Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

 
Top 50,  I reckon mine would differ considerably, but with some convergance. No Shine on You crazy diamond? and "One For the Vine" which is a strange pick, I am not familiar with Boards of Canada! I will deliver my 50 when I have completed a formula that I am satisfied gives me what I perceive to be my favourite music......
 
Shocked Oops Embarrassed.  How the hell did I leave Shine On out?  Whilst it wouldn't be in my top 10 it would certainly be in the top 30.  There's loads of others I missed out too.  I'm going to work on this list and maybe get to 100.  Putting them all in order is impossible but I might just manage a top 10 in order Wink.
 
Boards Of Canada are electronic progressive but I wouldn't have thought they'd be your bag.  As you know, I've always loved my electronica.
 
One For The Vine a strange choice?  I'd say not, it's a wonderful track.  I've always thought those two post-Gabriel but with Hackett albums to be outstanding and I much prefer them to Trespass, Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme.  They are my 3rd and 4th faves, after Selling England and The Lamb.  I really should include something off The Lamb, but it's tough to pick out one, the whole album is outstanding and stands together brilliantly as one piece. 


I'm kind of with Roj on this one.  "One for the Vine" is a fantastic song, I really like the live version from "Three Sides Live" as well.  I forget where I put it on my list, but it should be top 30 I would guess.

Regarding Genesis, "A Trick of the Tail" is in fact, my all time favorite album with "The Lamb", "Selling England" and "Wind and Wuthering" also being in my top twenty.  I think they had a string of four fantastic albums there.  I think their first three (not including . . . from Genesis to Revelation) are still a little weak compared to the following four. 


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Well, I got a $25 Amazon gift card, so I get to buy some music after all.  I went with the new Tangent album and the new Izz album.

As to the Genesis comments, I like the two post Gabriel with Hackett albums  well enough.  I love Wind and Wuthering, but find Trick to be pretty weak (the first two tracks are great, and Los Endos is good, but the rest I just can't get into).  Strangely enough my favorites go almost in order:  Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Trespass, Selling England, Wind And Wuthering, The Lamb, Trick.  Genesis Live fits in there somewhere as well (probably number 2 or 3).
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Have you listened to the new IZZ album yet? I keep wanting to get it, but I'm not sure if it's worth my money (considering I aint got much of it right nowLOL)

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For what it is worth, I love the new Izz album, but Padraic thinks that it is just OK, but not as good as their previous album.
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Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM! Big smileTongue


Aww geez, thank you Pablo (and Roj and anyone elses posts that I didn't see yet), now I'm getting all gushy and stuff.

I get to pick my own presents this year so I'm going to take a trip to the local used CD store to see what deals I can find .  If nothing interesting is there, I'l dig around the internet for a bit.


Happy belated b-day Tom! I haven't been around much lately, so sorry for the delayEmbarrassedSmile

Anyway, best wishes and happy birthdayClap

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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

For what it is worth, I love the new Izz album, but Padraic thinks that it is just OK, but not as good as their previous album.


The only IZZ album I have of now is Sliver of a Sun, which I've enjoyed (though I've only heard it once or twice so far). Would you recommend getting the new one or My River Flows? I've heard really good things about that one.

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I'd probably go with My River Flows first.  That one really is excellent. 
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I'd probably go with My River Flows first.  That one really is excellent. 


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Originally posted by J-Man J-Man wrote:

Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM! Big smileTongue


Aww geez, thank you Pablo (and Roj and anyone elses posts that I didn't see yet), now I'm getting all gushy and stuff.

I get to pick my own presents this year so I'm going to take a trip to the local used CD store to see what deals I can find .  If nothing interesting is there, I'l dig around the internet for a bit.


Happy belated b-day Tom! I haven't been around much lately, so sorry for the delayEmbarrassedSmile

Anyway, best wishes and happy birthdayClap

-Jeff


Thanks Jeff, no belated, today is still the day (I've got another four hours of birthday left so I'm living it up)

. . . (and by living it up, I mean that I'm putting my daughter to bed and watching a Dream Theater video)
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Whoah!  This thread needs a bit of a bump.
 
A few observations on Kaipa's Keyholder which I've been playing a lot recently (another Christmas present).  I think this is a really fine album.  It didn't blow me away on first hearing but there was plenty to make me sit up and take notice.  After about 5 spins I'm really loving this and am a bit surprised they got slated so badly.
 
Roine and Jonas are sublime as usual and the rest of the band sound good to me.  It's quite TFK-ish to these ears so no surprise I like it Wink, and with a fair old smattering of Yes influence too.  I'm even quite happy with the Freddie Mercury- sounding vocalist.
 
I liked it so much I even ordered Notes From The Past, and that arrived yesterday along with Karmakanic's Entering The Spectra and Feel Euphoria by The Beard.  I know that album (Feel Euphoria) isn't too popular but at £4.50 I thought it was well worth a pop....
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Roj - You Have mail, I'm too nervous to listen to music tonight - I listened to All of the Above on the way to work this morning - that is an EXCELLENT piece of prog - and the solo at the end is one of Stolts best IMO.
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According the Hasse Froberg on Facebook, there will not be a Flower Kings disc this year. With Sum Of No Evil a few years old, we're going to go a pretty big span between FK discs.

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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

For what it is worth, I love the new Izz album, but Padraic thinks that it is just OK, but not as good as their previous album.


I agree with Patrick. I like the new disc, but My River Flows is so amazing.

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Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

Roj - You Have mail, I'm too nervous to listen to music tonight - I listened to All of the Above on the way to work this morning - that is an EXCELLENT piece of prog - and the solo at the end is one of Stolts best IMO.
 
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OK, I've taken the plunge.  Here's my (official) Top 14 prog tracks of all-time.....
 
1.  Flower Kings - I Am The Sun (complete)
2.  Yes - Awaken
3.  Pink Floyd - Echoes
4.  Flower Kings - Monsters & Men
5.  Flower Kings - Garden Of Dreams
6.  Pink Floyd - Sheep
7.  Genesis - Cinema Show
8.  Yes - Gates Of Delirium
9.  IQ - The Seventh House
10. Frost* - Black Light Machine
11. Glass Hammer - Further Up And Further In
12. Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamcape
13. Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
14. ELP - Karn Evil 9 (complete)
 
Honestly, choosing number 15 was impossible, so it's the top 14 that are set in stone.
 
 
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Originally posted by E-Dub E-Dub wrote:

According the Hasse Froberg on Facebook, there will not be a Flower Kings disc this year. With Sum Of No Evil a few years old, we're going to go a pretty big span between FK discs.

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On one hand this bums me out, I love the Flower Kings material and am always eager for more.

On the other hand, with the band members spread out, we're actually getting more Flower King type music from a variety of different sources. 

I know Hasse Froeberg is putting out an album himself this year, I'm really looking forward to that.  Tomas Bodin is growing on me, I'm probably going to pick up "You Are" soon, The Agents of Mercy CD wasn't bad either. 

Oh, and how could I forget, Karmakanic is probably the best off shoot of them all.  I'm really hopeful that Jonas will get them together for another album this year.  "Who's the Boss" was great at the first listen and it gets better with every listen.  Goran Edmon has a great voice, very distinctive.
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There is also the 3rd World Electric jazz album, and a Weaveworld album with Jonas and his keyboardist from Karmakanic. 
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Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by E-Dub E-Dub wrote:

According the Hasse Froberg on Facebook, there will not be a Flower Kings disc this year. With Sum Of No Evil a few years old, we're going to go a pretty big span between FK discs.

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On one hand this bums me out, I love the Flower Kings material and am always eager for more.

On the other hand, with the band members spread out, we're actually getting more Flower King type music from a variety of different sources. 

I know Hasse Froeberg is putting out an album himself this year, I'm really looking forward to that.  Tomas Bodin is growing on me, I'm probably going to pick up "You Are" soon, The Agents of Mercy CD wasn't bad either. 

Oh, and how could I forget, Karmakanic is probably the best off shoot of them all.  I'm really hopeful that Jonas will get them together for another album this year.  "Who's the Boss" was great at the first listen and it gets better with every listen.  Goran Edmon has a great voice, very distinctive.
 
I agree, 'Who's the Boss' by Karmakanic is probably the best TFK album that the TFK never released, lol. Goran's voice is superb, and the keyboardist is outstanding way more present and virtuosic than Tomas Bodin in the TFK albums, IMHO.
 
Entering the Spectra is pretty good, but by no means in the standards of 'Who's the Boss'.
 
Sorry if I missed the discussion, but what do you think of The Whirlwind and Down and Out in Paris and London?
 
 
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