How Our Top 25 Studio Albums Change Day After Day

2dogs wrote: Tangerine Dream - What A Blast

An ugly-looking 1999 Tangerine Dream-album taht I've never even heard of. Can it really be "desert island-great"? Guess I have to find out. 

After 100 reviews here is to you
my personal ranking;
Top 25 reviewed:

1) Sgt Pepper 9,5
2) Starsailor 9,5
3) In the Court Of... 9,5k

4) Musics in a Dolls House 9+
5) Roxy Music 9+
6) Gentle Giant    9+
7) Lorca 9+
8) Aqualung 9+

9) Islands 9
10) Fearless. 9
11) For Your Pleasure. 9
12) Quatermass 9
13) Collage 9
14) Mark Hollis 9
15) Tommy 9
16) Happy Sad 9
17) Felona e Sorona 9

18) Larks Tongues 9-
19) Close to the Edge 9-
20) Lizard 9-

21) Selling England 8,5
22) Hosianna Mantra 8,5
23) Valentyne Suite 8,5
24) Rubber Soul 8,5
25) Revolver 8,5


Edited by jamesbaldwin - April 11 2019 at 16:57

Barbu wrote: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Oh I didn’t realise NiN was Progressive . I’ll give it a spin on YouTube.

My 25 progressive studio albums then are:

Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
A.R. & Machines - A.R. IV
A.R. & Machines - Die Grune Reise
Art Bears - Winter Songs
Art Zoyd - Phase IV
Cluster - II
Deuter - Aum
Dom - Edge Of Time
Dzyan - Electric Silence
Edgar Froese - Aqua 2005
Eiliff - Eiliff
Henry Cow - In Praise Of Learning
Henry Cow - Western Culture
Magma - Kohntarkosz
Mort Garson - The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds
Silberbart - 4 Times Sound Razing
Soft Machine - Fifth
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
Tangerine Dream - Atem
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Tangerine Dream - What A Blast
Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors

This could be an interesting thread. I've made a list of my top 25 albums which has been a very worthwhile exercise, looking for those I enjoy all the way through without any tracks that spoil the work as a whole, and trying to get a bit of variety by not choosing too many from the same artist. I've stuck all these treasures on an iPod Nano to make a little collection of nothing but true masterpieces. Now I've come back to the thread though and realised a load of them are disqualified through not being listed as Progressive, and Tangerine Dream's Ricochet as officially a live album. I was surprised however to find Mort Garson classified as Progressive Electronic so maybe I just need to wait long enough until all my other artists appear on the site . In the meantime though I guess it could be a good thing as it now allows me to add more to the list to get 25 qualifying albums. At the moment then my list is:

richardh wrote: 1) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP 2) Close To The Edge - Yes 3) Red - King Crimson 4) Wish you Were Here - Pink Floyd 5) A Trick of the Tail - Genesis 6) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 7) 666 - Aphrodite's Child 8) PG1 - Peter Gabriel 9) Moving Pictures - Rush 10) Animals - Pink Floyd 11) Foxtrot - Genesis 12) The Power and The Glory - Gentle Giant 13) Ever - IQ 14) Danger Money - UK 15) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull 16) Heaven and Hell - Vangelis 17) Time To Turn - Eloy 18) Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman 19) Weather Systems - Anathema 20) The Inconsolable Secret - Glass Hammer 21) UK - UK 22) Relayer - Yes 23) Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream 24) The Wake - IQ 25) Veni Vidi Vici - Par Lindh Project .. so predictably nearly all 70's ( that will never change) , 3 from the 80's , one from the 90's , 2 from the 00's and one from the current decade.  I will never venture that far from symphonic prog but there it is. Also not much in the way of non UK artists and nothing at all in a foreign language. I am not adventurous at all but that is my personality.

Yes lists of top whatever can change or orders change in my mind quote a lot but the group remains intact mostly.
I wish Incould say I have some newer ones but no just the classics for the most part
1) Romantic Warrior Return To Forever
2) Elegant Gypsy Al Dimeola
3)Imanginary Voyage Jean Luc Ponty
4)BrainSalad Surgery ELP
5) Cross Collateral Passport
5)Aqualung Jethtro Tull
5) Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
6) Close to The Edge Yes
7) DSOTM Pink Floyd
8) Land Of The Midnight Sun Al Dimeola
9) Thick as a brick Jethro Tull
10) Tarkus ELP
11) The Yes Album
12) Upon The Wings of Music JeannLuc Ponty
13) Spectrum Billy Cobham
14) Head Hunters Herbie Hancock
15) Jurassic Shift Ozric Tenticles
16) Herbie Mann Push Push
17) ELP EL P
18) Rush A Farewell To Kings
19) Rush Hemispheres
20) JethronTull Stand Up
21) Fragile Yes
22)Song For America Kansas
23) Leftoverature Kansas
24) Point of No Return Kansas
25) 2112 Rush
26) Masque Kansas
27) Cosmic Messanger JeannLuc Ponty
28) Hand Made Passport
29) Infinity Machine Passport
30) Stanley Clarke Stanley Clark
I know I am missing some

Logan wrote: I can't do "best", but these are all five star out of five albums in my books. I would rather not rank them, but some of my favourites include (in no particular order -- I'm used to doing artist first): Magma - Kobaia Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur Zanov - Green Ray Igor Wakhevitch - Docteur Faust Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati Comus - First Utterance Cos - Viva Boma Soft Machine - Third Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assasin des Mouches Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer Dom - Edge of Time Herbie Hancock - Crossings Miles Davis - Big Fun Eddie Henderson - Realisation Julian Priester - Love, Love Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising Hellebore - Il y a des Jours Anna Sjalv - Tredje - Tussilago Fanfara Dun - Eros Area - Caution Radiation Area CLivage - Mixtus Orbis Eskaton - 4 Visions Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage Rahmann - Rahmann Vortex - Les Cycles de Thanatos Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts Picchio dal Pozzo - self-titled Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun Amon Duul II - Yeti Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde di Aries Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri Lard Free - Unnamed Can - Soundtracks Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You Embryo - Embryo's Rache I'll stop there.

Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Alan Sorrenti - Aria
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Anglagard - Hybris
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Le Orme - Uomo di Pezza
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Octobre - Les Nouvelles Terres
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Ange - Au-delà du Délire
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons
David Sylvian - Approaching Silence



Edited by Barbu - March 22 2019 at 13:48