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Posted: September 28 2012 at 23:23

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15-Bath/Leaving Your Body Map - maudlin of the Well

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Posted: January 08 2013 at 12:29

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63. Fripp & Eno - "Evening Star"

64. The Doors - "The Doors"

65. Devo - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo"

My f$%king god. How could I forget about The Doors?!! Angry

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Posted: January 08 2013 at 18:37

I always try to start this list but can never finish it. Angry

Anyway here's my top 3, as It never changes.

1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

2. Grace Under Pressure - Rush

3. Deloused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta

... maybe one day I'll be able to do 100.

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Posted: April 03 2013 at 00:27

With a little time, I think I could put my top 100 albums together.

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Posted: April 03 2013 at 05:02

In no particular order:
1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
3. Dream Theater - Images and Words
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
6. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
7. Tool - Lateralus
8. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
9. Metallica - Master of Puppets
10. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
11. Camel - Moonmadness
12. Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
13. Yes - Fragile
14. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
16. Depeche Mode - Violator
17. Muse - Absolution
18. Nightwish - Once
19. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
20. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
21. Trivium - Shogun
22. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
23. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
24. Judas Priest - Painkiller
25. Death - Sound of Perseverance
26. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
27. Devin Townsend - Addicted
28. Meshuggah - Obzen
29. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
30. Anathema - Weather Systems
31. Threshold - March of Progress
32. Enslaved - Riitiir
33. Opeth - Blackwater Park
34. Opeth - Damnation
35. Opeth - Still Life
36. Opeth - Deliverance
37. Isis - Panopticon
38. Isis - Wavering Radiant
39. Isis - Oceanic
40. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
41. Mastodon - Leviathan
42. Rammstein - Reise Reise
43. Astra - The Black Chord
44. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
45. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
46. Alice in Chains - Dirt
47. Nirvana - Nevermind
48. System of a Down - Toxicity
49. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
50. King Crimson - Red
51. Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase
52. Scale the Summit - The Collective
53. Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
54. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
55. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
56. Deep Purple - Machine Head
57. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
58. Deftones - White Pony
59. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
60. Periphery - Periphery II
61. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
62. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold, Dead Place
63. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
64. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
65. Agalloch - The Mantle
66. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
67. Cynic - Traced in Air
68. Orphaned Land - The Neverending Way of Orwarrior
69. The Sword - Age of Winters
70. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
71. Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly
72. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
73. Bjork - Homogenic
74. Portishead - Dummy
75. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
76. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
77. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
78. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
79. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
80. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
81. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
82. Testament - The Gathering
83. Wintersun - Wintersun
84. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
85. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
86. Symphony X - The Odyssey
87. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
88. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
89. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
90. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
91. Enslaved - Vertebrae
92. Yes - Close to the Edge
93. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
94. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
95. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
96. Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came
97. Ahab - Call of the Wretched Sea
98. U2 - The Joshua Tree
99. Coheed and Cambria - Afterman: Ascension/Descension
100. Haken - Visions

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Posted: April 04 2013 at 02:29

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For the truly ambitious and unemployed Wink

Iván

Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - April 20 2013 at 04:20

“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

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Posted: May 14 2014 at 00:40

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Posted: May 14 2014 at 01:39

Alright, I'll try to make a list, although I'm not going to put it into any particular order (except for #1, which I'll declare until I'm dead). There will be some repeat artists, however.

1. Soundgarden - Superunknown
2. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
5. Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
6. Nirvana - In Utero
7. Nirvana - Nevermind
8. Rush - Hemispheres
9. Oceansize - Effloresce
10. Khan - Space Shanty
11. Rage Against The Machine - s/t
12. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
13. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
14. Opeth - Blackwater Park
15. Opeth - Damnation
16. The Doors - s/t
17. Tool - Aenima
18. Slint - Spiderland
19. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
20. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
21. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
22. Amplifier - The Octopus
23. Alice In Chains - Dirt
24. Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
25. Filter - Title Of Record
26. Rush - Permanent Waves
27. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
28. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
29. R.E.M. - Green
30. Steven Wilson - The Raven...
31. Wobbler - Rites At Dawn
32. Yes - Close To The Edge
33. Yes - Fragile
34. Led Zeppelin - II
35. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
36. Camel - Mirage
37. Silverchair - Frog Stomp
38. Haken - The Mountain
39. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
40. Soft Machine - Third
41. Tool - Lateralus
42. Toadies - Rubberneck
43. The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
44. Oceansize - Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up
45. Joy Division - Substance
46. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
47. Riverside - ADHD
48. cKy - Carver City
49. Astra - The Black Chord
50. Rush - Moving Pictures
51. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
52. The Beatles - Revolver
53. The Doors - Strange Days
54. Silverchair - Freak Show
55. Sloche - J'un Oeil
56. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
57. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
58. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
59. Pearl Jam - Ten
60. Rush - 2112
61. Yes - The Yes Album
62. Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
63. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
64. Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair
65. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
66. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
67. Sublime - s/t
68. Wolfmother - s/t
69. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
70. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
71. Deftones - White Pony
72. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
73. Tool - Undertow
74. Bush - Sixteen Stone
75. Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
76. Porno For Pyros - s/t
77. Oceansize - Frames
78. Oceansize - Music For Nurses EP
79. Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
80. Beardfish - Mammoth
81. Filter - Short Bus
82. Santana - Caravanserai
83. The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Come Down
84. Temple Of The Dog - s/t
85. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
86. June of 44 - Engine Takes To The Water
87. June of 44 - Four Great Points
88. Foo Fighters - s/t
89. Camel - Moonmadness
90. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
91. Garbage - s/t
92. Genesis - Trespass
93. Gong - Angel's Egg
94. Gong - You
95. Deftones - Around The Fur
96. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
97. Porcupine Tree - Signify
98. The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone
99. Alice In Chains - s/t
100. Karnivool - Sound Awake

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Posted: May 14 2014 at 18:22

It took me almost an hour to even come up with a top 100, let alone put them in order. I'll do that another time.

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Posted: September 18 2015 at 19:33

Top 100 Prog Albums

1)   Yes - Fragile
2)   Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
3)   Yes - Close To The Edge
4)   Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
5)   Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
6)   Genesis - Foxtrot
7)   Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8)   Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
9)   Pink Floyd - Animals
10) Yes - Relayer
11) Genesis - Nursery Cryme
12) King Crimson - Red
13) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
14) Gentle Giant - Free Hand
15) Yes - The Yes Album
16) Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
17) King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
18) Kansas - Leftoverture
19) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
20) Gentle Giant - Octopus
21) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
22) Transatlantic _ A Bridge Across Forever
23) Kansas - Kansas
24) Neal Morse - Testimony
25) Rush - A Farewell To Kings
26) Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
27) The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
28) King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
29) Anglagard - Hybris
30) Todd Rundgren - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
31) Rush - 2112
32) Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow
33) Neal Morse - Question Mark
34) King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
35) Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
36) Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
37) Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
38) The Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil
39) Neal Morse - Testimony 2
40) UK - UK
41) Brian Eno - Before And After Science
42) Happy The Man - Happy The Man
43) Dixie Dregs - What If
44) PFM - Por Um Amico
45) Camel - Mirage
46) Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
47) Yes - Going For The One
48) Kayak - Royal Bed Bouncer
49) Rush - Moving Pictures
50) Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
51) Triumvirat - Sparticus
52) Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
53) Camel - Moonmadness
54) Genesis - Wind And Wuthering
55) PFM - Storia di un Minuto
56) Anglagard - Viljans Oga
57) The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future
58) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
59) Neal Morse - One
60) Happy The Man - Crafty Hands
61) Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
62) National Health - Of Queues and Cures
63) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
64) The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
65) The Tangent - A Place In The Queue
66) Transatlantic - SMPT:e
67) Egg - The Polite Force
68) Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
69) Rush - Hemispheres
70) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
71) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
72) UK - Danger Money
73) Kayak - The Last Encore
74) Kansas - Masque
75) Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
76) The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
77) Spock's Beard - Snow
78) Dream Theater - Metropolis II, Scenes From A Memory
79) Brian Eno - Another Green World
80) Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
81) Nektar - Remember The Future
82) Camel - The Snow Goose
83) The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone
84) Echolyn - As The World
85) Sinkadus - Cirkus
86) Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Sono Nato Libero
87) Marillion - Brave
88) Big Big Train - English Electric, Part One
89) Le Orme - Felona E Sorona
90) Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
91) Kayak - Kayak II
92) Glass Hammer - If
93) Moon Safari - Blomljud
94) Focus - Hamburger Concerto
95) Opeth - Pale Communion
96) Styx - The Grand Illusion
97) Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
98) Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic, Part Two
99) Peter Gabriel - III
100) The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium

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Posted: January 18 2016 at 12:23

I've updated my list again. Keep pitching in, folks.

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Posted: January 19 2016 at 03:09

...

The Ultimate PA Album List 2015/16 Revival!

... just throwing it out there.

Alternatively I could probably just stick the the two sufficiently recent lists (Dayvenkirq, miamiscot) in as is, if there were no objections.

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Posted: January 19 2016 at 08:48

I'll probably have a crack at this on Thursday.
I've got the day off and I'll be too skint to go anywhere.

As I understand it, it should be favourite albums regardless of whatever genre?

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Posted: January 19 2016 at 14:42

Cambus741 wrote:

As I understand it, it should be favourite albums regardless of whatever genre?

I think so, although the OP started this thread as a reaction to Rolling Stone. However, as far as I'm concerned, you make the rules except for one: the entries have to be albums.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 19 2016 at 14:42

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Posted: January 21 2016 at 20:12

Here goes. my favourite 100 albums from all genres. Well 120 as it turned out. Found it impossible to narrow it down to 100

1) Ayreon                            - Into the Electric Castle.
2) Cosmograph                    - The Man Left in Space
3) Jean-Michelle Jarre              - Zoolook
4) Current 93                       - All the Pretty little Horses
5) Manfred Mann's Earth Band   - Somewhere in Afrika
6) Janison Edge                       - The Services of Mary Goode
7) Pink Floyd                           - The Wall
8) After Forever                       - Prison of Desire
9) Marillion                             - Radiation
10) Pink Floyd                           - The Division Bell
11) Electric Light Orchestra       - Time
12) Pink Floyd                          - Atom Heart Mother
13) Marillion                            - Afraid of Sunlight
14) Pink Floyd                          - Animals
15) Roger Waters                    - Amused to Death
16) Yes                                   - Close to the Edge
17) Porcupine Tree                   - The Sky Moves Sideways
18) Pink Floyd                           - The Final Cut
19) David Bowie    - Ziggy Stardust
20) Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
21) Radiohead      - OK Computer
22) Ayreon     - The Dream Sequencer
23) Marillion     - Misplaced Childhood
24) Hawkwind                           - Doremi Fasol Latido
25) Hawkwind                           - Warrior on the Edge of Time
26) Gong                                  - Angel's Egg
27) The Levellers                      - Levelling the Land
28) Hawkwind                           - Space Bandits
29) Hawkwind                          - Hall of the Mountain Grill
30) Mike Oldfield                       - The Songs of Distant Earth
31) Pink Floyd                           - Wish You Were Here
32) Camel                                - Stationary Traveller
33) Adam Ant                           - Friend or Foe
34) Queen                                - Queen II
35) Pink Floyd                           - The Dark Side of the Moon
36) Amaseffer                           - Slaves for Life
37) Rage                                  - Lingua Mortis
38) Tellergy                      - The Legend of Goody Cole
39) David Bowie                        - Diamond Dogs
40) Mostly Autumn                    - Passengers
41) Jethro Tull                          - Crest of a Knave
42) Propaganda                      - A Secret Wish
43) Faith no More                      - The Real Thing
44) Hawkwind     - Electric Teepee
45) Queen                                - Hot Space
46) Genesis                               - Foxtrot
47) The Flaming Lips                  - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
48) Tuomas Holopainen              - The Life and Times of Scrooge
49) R.E.M.                                 - Out of Time
50) Led Zeppelin                         - IV
51) Camel                                 - Dust and Dreams
52) Guns n' Roses                       - Use Your Illusion I
53) The Enid    - Tripping the Light Fantastic
54) Fleetwood Mac     - Rumours
55) Queen                                 - Sheer Heart Attack
56) Al Stewart                           - Past, Present and Future
57) Blur                                     - Parklife
58) IQ    - The Wake
59) Mike Oldfield              - Five Miles Out
60) Al Stewart                             - Time Passages
61) Think Floyd      - Hope
62) Rhapsody    - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
63) UFO    - Misdemeanor
64) Solar Project     - Force Majure
65) Cardiacs    - Songs For Ships and Irons
66) Peter Gabriel                  - Ovo
67) Shadowland                           - Ring of Roses
68) Al Stewart                             - Between the Wars
69) Arena                                    - The Visitor
70) Peter Gabriel                          - Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)
71) Roger Taylor                          - Fun in Space
72) Rick Wakeman                       - No Earthly Connection
73) Adam and the Ants                 - Kings of the Wild Frontier
74) Robert Calvert                        - Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
75) Hawkwind                              - Church of Hawkwind
76) Electric Light Orchestra           - A New World Record
77) The Who                               - Tommy OST
78) Roger Waters                        - The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking
79) Marillion                                - Script for a Jester's Tear
80) Sophie B Hawkins - Timbre
81) Queen                                   - A Night at the Opera
82) Mike Oldfield                          - Tubular Bells II
83) Yes                                       - The Yes Album
84) Mike Oldfield                          - Islands
85) Chumbawumba                      - Anarchy
86) Sophie B Hawkins                   - Whaler
87) Iron Maiden                            - Somewhere in Time
88) Travelling Wilburys    - Vol 1
89) Al Stewart    - Year of the Cat
90) TATU                                     - 200Km/H in the Wrong Lane
91) Jeff Wayne                             - War of the Worlds
92) Roger Taylor    - Strange Frontier
93) Hawkwind    - Chronicle of the Black Sword
94) Men at Work     - Cargo
95) Adam Ant     - Strip
96) The Moody Blues                     - Days of Future Passed
97) Paul Roland                            - Sarabande
98) Gong - Flying Teapot
99) Mike Oldfield    - Amarok
100) Nightwish    - Imaginaerum
101) Spock's Beard    - The light
102) Hawkwind    - Alien 4
103) Temple    - Temple
104) IQ - Nomzamo
105) Scorpions                              - Moment of Glory
106) Led Zeppelin                          - Houses of the Holy
107) UFO                                      - UFO2 Flying
108) Paul McCartney                      - Give my Regards to Broad Street
109) Paul Roland                           - Gargoyles
110) Roxette                                 - Crash! Boom! Bang!
111) Rhapsody                              - The Dark Secret
112) RPWL                                   - Trying to Kiss the Sun
113) Rush                                    - A Farewell to Kings
114) Jean-Michelle Jarre    - Oxygene
115) Hanoi Rocks                          - Two Steps From the Move
116) Alanis Morisette                     - Jagged Little Pill
117) Al Stewart                             - Love Chronicles
118) Final Conflict                         - Stand Up
119) R.E.M.                                   - Automatic for the People
120) Deep Purple - In Rock

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Posted: February 18 2016 at 11:48

It's better to display my favorites as an image instead of a list (one album per artist)

I had to leave out about 15 albums that are as good as the stuff from the bottom of the chart, but, oh well...

What do you think?

Edited by Lachimo - February 18 2016 at 12:50

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Posted: February 18 2016 at 12:48

That's pretty cool, what did you use to create that?

Nice selection, anyone with Cardiacs, Beefheart & Henry Cow at the top end of their list is alright by me :)

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Posted: February 18 2016 at 12:52

I first started with a top 100 (+10 for recent favorites) template I found on the internet, but eventually changed it to replace the recent favorites part for favorite singles, and added an album name list at the right by myself.

All of this with GIMP.

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Posted: July 03 2016 at 22:25

I figured it's time for another bump.