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Fischman wrote:

Interesting,

For non-prog, three Black Sabbath albums have now been cited. I don't think I would have predicted so much appreciation for Sabbath among progheads.

Hell yeah, one of the best first six album runs of all time.

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Fischman wrote:

Interesting,

For non-prog, three Black Sabbath albums have now been cited. I don't think I would have predicted so much appreciation for Sabbath among progheads.

During my young teenage years, Black Sabbath were my favourite group. It wasn't really until my late teenage years that I started listening to prog in earnest. I don't think it was because I wasn't exposed to prog when I was younger, but would've considered much of prog to be too "folky" to have appealed to me. Even the prog I did like I liked because it rocked. Also, even during my younger years, I was never really too far away from prog. For example, a favourite song when I was young was "Hold Your Head Up" (Argent), and my favourite part was the keyboard solo in the middle (which was disappointingly removed in the radio-edit version).

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Prog: Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans

Sort Of Non-Prog: XTC Drums & Wires

Really Non-Prog: Guided By Voices Bee Thousand

Dellinger wrote:

Prog: Wish you were Here.
Non Prog: Wish you were Here.

Does that make sense?

OK, really, I wouldn't really know which is my non-prog fav album, I only know that my very favourite album is Wish you were Here. Perhaps if I had to go with a non prog album, I could think of something like "Mother Earth" by Within Temptations or "Secret of the Runes" by Therion.

Within Temptation.... nice!

Although I've already named my favourite non-prog album I would also like to mention Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill . Superb rock album , everything came together perfect on that one. So that would be my choice for best 'non prog rock' album!

Prog: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Proto-Prog/Prog-Releated: STEREOLAB's Dots and Loops

Non-Prog: either GIL SCOTT-HERON's Pieces of a Man or JONI MITCHELL's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

Fischman wrote:

Dellinger wrote:

Prog: Wish you were Here.
Non Prog: Wish you were Here.

Does that make sense?

OK, really, I wouldn't really know which is my non-prog fav album, I only know that my very favourite album is Wish you were Here. Perhaps if I had to go with a non prog album, I could think of something like "Mother Earth" by Within Temptations or "Secret of the Runes" by Therion.

Within Temptation.... nice!

I still have got to get their latest... however, for me they never got near Mother Earth again... that one's something special, then they got gradually poppier, until they hardly were even metal on their previous album. Still, they always come out with some high quality material, whichever stile they choose to play. I guess that's what happens when they take their time between each release.

'Astral Weeks' is one of my favourite albums. Is it non-prog?

It's hard for me to think of it as not experimental, but I daresay it's not prog-rock.

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster

I prophesy disaster wrote:

Machinemessiah wrote:

I prophesy disaster wrote:

Favourite non-prog album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Nice choice!

it's an all too well rounded album imo..

love Irons' stark drumming with Flea's bass!

Although I don't have many non-prog (excluding prog-related, etc) albums to choose from, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" is an album that I like a lot (I think of it as a masterpiece).

What is your favourite track? There are four tracks in particular that are rather special to me:

Breaking the Girl
Suck My Kiss
Under the Bridge
Sir Psycho Sexy

Of these, my favourite is a choice between "Breaking the Girl" and "Sir Psycho Sexy".

I also believe it's a masterpiece.

This, along with 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn', was one of the last CDs I bought years ago (sort of completing the ones I've always loved but for some reason never owned).

A few years ago I took it to an old friends' reunion to the Lake where we used to spend our summers in the 90's (then and there, 'Suck my kiss' sounded every night at the local Disco). Evil Smile

I put it on an old radio outdoors somewhere at the middle of our little barbecue at night Beer

and it went inflamed! LOL

it sounded all way through between drinks. Unforgettable memories with this one.

Well you know.. favorites keep changing, 'Suck my kiss' of course was one at one point. As was 'I could have lied'.

Now I'd say:

The Power of Equality (always a fave)

The Righteous & the Wicked

Blood Sugar Sex Magik (love the drums)

Apache Rose Peacock

Sir Psycho Sexy

Edited by Machinemessiah - October 08 2019 at 08:28

patrickq wrote:

What’s your #1 favorite prog album of all time? Not the best, necessarily. And what’s your favorite non-prog album?

Am I allowed to choose a compilation album as my favourite prog album of all time?

If so, I'd choose the 2-CD "Echoes" compilation by Pink Floyd.