Top 10 Prog Folk Albums

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Only prog folk I listen to is Tull. 1. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

Sean Trane wrote: except that TAAB is not a prog folk album, not even close.

dr wu23 wrote: Well..imho the whole category is screwed up.....how is Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span not in prog folk when Tull, Strawbs and Stackridge are....seriously..?

Edited by kenethlevine - March 14 2020 at 12:18

This is how the poll looks so far after the first count-up of the votes:-

kenethlevine wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Well..imho the whole category is screwed up.....how is Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span not in prog folk when Tull, Strawbs and Stackridge are....seriously..? Tull and Strawbs are way more proggy than Fairport and Steeleye.  They are both primarily prog artists, with folk thrown in here and there to varying degrees, Strawbs obviously more than Tull, while Steeleye and Fairport are the opposite.  There may be some other possible miscategorizations but I don't think these are inexplicable at all.   I think the best way to visualize this is looking at the core run of albums by each artists during their commercial and artistic peaks, which are more or less coincident for arguments sake.  Those of Fairport and Steeleye are folk rock albums, with a bit more prog creeping into Steeleye than into Fairport.  Those of Strawbs are prog folk and those of Tull are eclectic prog, I mean prog folk!  Stackridge?  Who cares?  The best thing they ever did was "Everyone's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Korgis

dr wu23 wrote: Btw..some of those that are in the category probably wouldn't even be there..or exist even... if it weren't for bands like Fairport and Span who blazed a path for them.

Edited by Sean Trane - March 15 2020 at 05:08

I'll give this a go as progressive folk is one of my favourite catagories. There are so many to choose from. I'm much more of a folky than a rocker at heart. I do tend to favour acid folk.

1. Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer
2. Comus - First Utterance
3. Spirogra - St. Radigunds
4. Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun
5. Aktuala - Aktuala
6. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
7. Ragnarök - Ragnarök
8. The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
9. Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft
10. Pearls Before Swine - The Use Of Ashes

There are so many others I could have gone for.

Edited by Logan - March 14 2020 at 15:16

The Dark Elf wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Well..imho the whole category is screwed up.....how is Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span not in prog folk when Tull, Strawbs and Stackridge are....seriously..? Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief by Fairport certainly should be viewed as "Progressive Folk", as should an album like Pentangle's A Basket of Light or Cruel Sister.

Sean Trane wrote: I prophesy disaster wrote: Grumpyprogfan wrote: Only prog folk I listen to is Tull. 1. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Same. Psychedelic Paul wrote: Grumpyprogfan wrote: Only prog folk I listen to is Tull. 1. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick That's 30 points coming Jethro Tull's way from you plus another 30 points from Mortte for the same album, so they're off to a storming lead in the poll already. And another 30 points for "Thick as a Brick" for me as well. except that TAAB is not a prog folk album, not even close. If Tull is in PF, it's mainly because of their SFTW, HH and Sw albums We've had talks about changing them from genre, but there was a poll that said they were thought of the epitome of PF.