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Posted: April 17 2011 at 14:14

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34. Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At 4

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34. Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At 4 L

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Posted: April 17 2011 at 14:14

haha...well I like more than just prog...and the reason I didn't have some albums in their is because I haven't heard alot of really critical ones...and if the albums aren't cool enough for you's, I don't care, it's my own taste...I do need to hear more music and get some more

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Posted: April 17 2011 at 14:28

No need to worry about being ''cool''... seriously. If you enjoy something that's all that matters. I have a few guilty pleasures, I don't mind telling you.

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 04:50

Atoms wrote:

I was going to counter your list with one of my own, but 161 is a big number, so... here's a 4th of your list! Enjoy.

1. Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage

2. Pink Floyd - More

3. Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff

4. Jethro Tull - A Passions Play

5. Genesis - Nursery Cryme

6. Genesis - Foxtrot

7. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

8. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome

9. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin!

10. King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic

11. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Sono Nato Libero

12. Magma - K.A.

13. Samla Mammas Manna - Måltid

14. Strawbs - Hero and Heroine

15. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso

16. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Eachother

17. Mando Diao - Ode to Ochrasy

18. Gong - Angel's Egg

19. Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance

20. Strawbs - Grave New World

21. Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant

22. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life

23. Gong - The Flying Teapot

24. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

25. Haikara - Haikara

26. Opeth - Still Life

27. Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He Who am the Only One

28. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

29. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink

30. Camel - Mirage

31. Camel - Nude

32. Soft Machine - Third

33. Bruford - One of a Kind

34. Can - Monster Movie

35. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye

36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A#

37. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse

38. Pink Floyd - Meddle

39. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

40. Herbie Hancock - Crossings

great list...some I need to hear but from what I see, great taste

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 04:53

King Manuel wrote:

What I like about your list, is that you have a variety in musical tastes. What I don´t like is that you included some really horrible stuff (IMO) in there, and even more than once, Simply Red, Björk, Michael Jackson! Those artist make me shudder!

I highlighted in Red what I agree with, I put a sad face to the stuff I can not stand and the things not marked, I don´t know or have a neutral opinion about:

1. Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura

2. Coheed & Cambria – From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness

3. Pain Of Salvation - BE

4. The Mars Volta – The Mute L

5. Dream Theater – Metropolis Part 2

6. Bjork – Post L

7. Spock’s Beard – The Light

8. Cradle Of Filth – Cruelty & The Beast

9. Dream Theater – Images & Words

10. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

11. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go

12. Prince – Purple Rain

13. Pain Of Salvation – Remedy Lane

14. Pure Reason Revolution – The Dark Third

15. Simply Red – Stars L

16. Yes – Close To The Edge

17. HIM – Deep Shadows & Brilliant Hightlights

18. Coheed & Cambria – In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3

19. Cathedral – The Garden Of Unearthly Delights

20. Megadeth – Rust In Peace

21. Mastodon – Blood Mountain

22. Rush - Hemispheres

23. Pink Floyd - Animals

24. Geneisis - Foxtrot

25. Dream Theater – Train Of Thought

26. Abba – Voulez VousL

27. Transatlantic – Bridge Across Forever

28. Genesis – Selling - By The Pound

29. Symphony X – V The New Mythology Suite

30. Avantasia – The Scarecrow

31. Ayreon – 01001001

32. Pink Floyd – The Wall

33. Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

34. Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At 4 L

35. Spock’s Beard – Beware Of Darkness

36. Nile – Annihilation Of The Wicked

37. Mew – And The Glass Handed Kites

38. Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet L

39. 3 – The End Is Begun

40. Michael Jackson – Bad L

41. Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible

42. Marillion – Script From A Jesters Tear

43. Gojira – From Mars To Sirius

44. Devin Townsend – Ziltoid The Omniscient

45. Nightwish - Wishmaster

46. Nightwish – Oceanborn

47. Deicide – The Stench Of Redemption

48. The Mars Volta – Amputechture L

49. Scat Symmetry – Pitch Black Perfect

50. Spock’s Beard - V

51. Judas Priest – Sin After Sin

52. Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

53. Spock’s Beard – The Kindness Of Strangers

54. System Of A Down

55. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood

56. Blind Guardian – Imaginations From The Other Side

57. Death – The Sound Of Perseverance

58. Hammerfall – Chapter V Unbent Unbowed Unbroken

59. Dream Theater – Awake

60. Stratovarius – Elements Part 1

61. Megadeth – Countdown To Extinction

62. The Darkness – One Way Ticket

63. Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding

64. Dream Theater – When Dream & Day Unite

65. Iron Maiden – Powerslave

66. System Of A Down - Toxicity

67. Opeth – Still Life

68. Michael Jackson – Thriller L

69. The Devin Townsend Band – Synchestra

70. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead

71. Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind

72. System Of A Down - Hypnotize

73. Opeth – Ghost Reveries

74. Michael Jackson – Dangerous L

75. Rush – A Farewell To Kings

76. Therion – Gothic Kabbalah

77. Yes – The Yes Album

78. Porcupine Tree – In Absentia

79. Iron Maiden – Dance Of Death

80. Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon

81. Helloween – Keeper Of The 7 Keys Part 1

82. Bjork – Homogenic L

83. Rush - 2112

84. Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time

85. Beck – Mutation

86. Iron Maiden – Seventh Of A Seventh Son

87. Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings

88. Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage L

89. Genesis – Wind & Wuthering

90. Janaelle Monae – The Archandroid

91. In Flames – Clayman

92. Machine Head – Through The Ashes Of Empires

93. Panic At The Disco! – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out

94. Eminem – Encore

95. The Prize Fighter Inferno – My Brother’s Blood Machine

96. Candlemass

97. Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Day

98. Simply Red – Life L

99. Dragonforce – Sonic Firestorm

100. Nevermore – This Godless Endeavour

101. In Flames – Come Clarity

102. The Darkness – Permission To Land

103. Cradle Of Filth – Damnation & A Day

104. Rhapsody Of Fire – Triumph Or Agony

105. The Flower Kings – The Sum Of No Evil

106. Coheed & Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade

107. Edguy – Hellfire Club

108. Blur – Parklife

109. Bjork – Debut L

110. Beck – Guero

111. Outkast – The Love Below

112. Carcass - Heartwork

113. Avenged Sevenfold

114. Opeth – Blackwater Park

115. Enslaved – Ruun

116. Strapping Young Lad – The New Black

117. King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King L

118. Nightwish – Dark Passion Play

119. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon

120. Primal Fear – New Religion

121. Slayer – Christ Illusion

122. Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines

123. Porcupine Tree – The Incident L

124. Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

125. Epica – The Divine Conspiracy

126. King Crimson – Red L

127. Biffy Clyro – Puzzle

128. Billy Talent II

129. Akercocke – Antichrist

130. Tiesto – Just Be

131. Nightwish - Once

132. Neal Morse - One

133. The Fall Of Troy – Manipulator

134. Outkast – The Love Below

135. Rush – Caress Of Steel

136. Weezer – The Red Album

137. Pixies – Trompe Le Monde

138. The Flower Kings - Rainmaker

139. Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine

140. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

141. Stratovarius – Visions

142. Melanie C – Northern Star

143. Children Of Bodom – Are You Dead Yet?

144. The Beatles

145. Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey & Thr Groo Grux King

146. Bjork – Vespertine L

147. Opeth - Damnation

148. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City

149. David Bowie – Scary Monsters

150. Pixies - Doolittle

151. Behemoth – The Apostasy

152. Anathema – A Natural Disaster

153. Helloween – Gambling With The Devil

154. Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn

155. Bjork – Medulla L

156. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – By The Way

157. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californiacation

158. Carcass - Necroticism

159. Beck – Sea Change

160. Stereophonics – Word Gets Around

161. Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica

each to our own...Im just not overly critical and like a very wide taste, and I admit I do need to hear more. Most of these albums also mean alot to me and are kind of like landmarks at points of my lives

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 05:00

lucas wrote:

you don't like classical music, jazz, blues and country ?

I love a good amount of classical music, although their not really albums, if I was to make a list of favourite pieces of classical music, it would be quite odd, but off hand what I love is Mozarts Symphony in Gm, Debussy's Preldue l'apres midi du faune, Grieg's Peer Gynt, Faure's Requiem, Rutter's Requiem, Dvorak's New World etc..

I do like a good bit of jazz, and I was considering putting Dave Bruebecks Time Out their, maybe along with Mahavishnu Orchestra's Inner Mounting Flame, Miles Davis' Bitches' Brew & Kind Of Blue and whatever jazz I have. Oooh and Herbie Hancock's Headhunter.

I really can't stand blues, i really detest it, it bores the life out of me. My dad really likes it and I think that's why i dislike it. One or 2 songs or albums now and then maybe, but its a very lifeless genre to me at times.

And I do dislike alot of country, and any country I'll listen to has to be quite poppy, e.g. Shania Twain, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks etc.

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 05:02

Triceratopsoil wrote:

I read the first 5 off that list, was struck with great misery and stopped looking at them

why whats wrong with them?

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 05:03

Dean wrote:

Thanks for forewarning us of the bands you'll be suggesting in the next few months.

The day I take over this site and label the Spice Girls as Prog, you shall bow before me!

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 05:44

seventhsojourn wrote:

34. Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At 4

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34. Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At 4 L

It is an amazing album, flawless and very beautiful...altho I'm getting into Teser & The Firecat as well

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 12:30

I have to say, it takes courage to admit to the whole internet that a HIM album is in your top 20...

if you own a sodastream i hate you

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 14:37

I love HIM and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Their a great band and they got a bit of fame for a while, and the everyone stoped liking them, and they shouldn't have, cause their a great band

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 14:41

I don't know any HIM and I havern't even heard of him.

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 15:49

Henry Plainview wrote:

I have to say, it takes courage to admit to the whole internet that a HIM album is in your top 20...

I might have had a little sn****r expect I havn't the slightest clue what or whom 'HIM' is.

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 15:50

^ sn1gger is actually a banned word??! I am so out of touch with things

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 15:52

richardh wrote:

^ sn1gger is actually a banned word??! I am so out of touch with things

It's the n****r in sn****r.

Can we say raccoon?

Edited by Snow Dog - April 18 2011 at 15:53

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 16:07

Snow Dog wrote:

richardh wrote:

^ sn1gger is actually a banned word??! I am so out of touch with things

It's the n****r in sn****r.

Can we say raccoon?

Apparently so!

No sn****ring at the back please!

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 16:29

Henry Plainview wrote:

I have to say, it takes courage to admit to the whole internet that a HIM album is in your top 20...

HiM, lead by the talented DOug Sharin, is a band playing very good worldy jazz-rock :

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 16:41

akamaisondufromage wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

richardh wrote:

^ sn1gger is actually a banned word??! I am so out of touch with things

It's the n****r in sn****r.

Can we say raccoon?

Apparently so!

No sn****ring at the back please!

The word filter is arbitrary and dumb. I've tried to fix it where I can, so we can use words like sweetwater without the interfering busybody stepping in, but this one eludes me. As naff as sound (and I can believe I'm actually suggesting this), all I can suggest is snicker and snickering.

What?

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 16:42

You should swap #12 and #38.......both great albums but you missed the mark on those two.

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Posted: April 18 2011 at 16:44

arcane-beautiful wrote:

I love HIM and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Their a great band and they got a bit of fame for a while, and the everyone stoped liking them, and they shouldn't have, cause their a great band

I have three words for you: they're, stopped, because.

What?