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While I commonly have problems with notions of best, other than perhaps best for the individual -- it is so subjective/ dependent on taste plus none of us have heard all of the albums -- and I could list many that I find superb, I will mention Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom even if I don't think of it as particularly prog per se. Perfection is not how I'd describe the album. I find the album to be poignant. It's melancholy, but also playful.
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Perfection doesn't exist because human beings aren't perfect. Even the most perfect painting, the Mona Lisa has a changing horizon and one half of her face slightly different to the other. If you look for perfection in a prog rock album you won't find it. If you look for the best you won't find that either because what's best today is relegated to something else the next day. And even if you settle on what is best, someone else will have another best and then which one is best, his or yours. Answer is they are both the best because no one opinion is superior to another.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Perfection doesn't exist because human beings aren't perfect. Even the most perfect painting, the Mona Lisa has a changing horizon and one half of her face slightly different to the other. If you look for perfection in a prog rock album you won't find it. If you look for the best you won't find that either because what's best today is relegated to something else the next day. And even if you settle on what is best, someone else will have another best and then which one is best, his or yours. Answer is they are both the best because no one opinion is superior to another.

I don't think the Mona Lisa is the most perfect painting, just the most famous.
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I think this has asked many times before, anyway Wigwam: Fairyport has been my all time best album in all the genres already many years!
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As expected I see a lot of people ranks CTTE as their all time favorite, I'll just say it's not in my top 20 although I would rate it 5 stars, for some reason the more obscure ones tend to connect with me more than the usual suspects. If I'd have to choose an album from the more well known bands it would be Red.
Otherwise my all time winners would be:
 
Dun - Eros
Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys (not prog)
Maxophone - S/T
Orphaned Land - Sahara
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For me, definitely not Larks or CTtE or Red. 

I think of Foxtrot without the first track and the very ending. I may think of Gentle Giant's Debut album or their Three Friends or TPATG. 

Spring and Fantasy made excellent debut albums. Cressida's Asylum is among my favourites, very vivid keyboards. 

GG's Three Friends is probably the one. 
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Ridiculous...The candidate for this acolade hasn't been written yet....and never will be...
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Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

Otherwise my all time winners would be:
 
Dun - Eros
Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys (not prog)
Maxophone - S/T
Orphaned Land - Sahara





Good shout for Maxophone, an album that has your habitually feisty rodent reduced to tears Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

As expected I see a lot of people ranks CTTE as their all time favorite, I'll just say it's not in my top 20 although I would rate it 5 stars, for some reason the more obscure ones tend to connect with me more than the usual suspects. If I'd have to choose an album from the more well known bands it would be Red.
Otherwise my all time winners would be:
 
Dun - Eros
Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys (not prog)
Maxophone - S/T
Orphaned Land - Sahara




Maxophone is awesome.
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My vote is (and always will be) for Tales From Topographic Oceans. Hardcore Yes. Haters be damned!!!
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My vote is (and always will be) for Tales From Topographic Oceans. Hardcore Yes. Haters be damned!!!

Aye. I would have to agree that it nails the zeitgeist of symphonic prog and is the paradigm of what a symphonic prog track should aspire to.....
GOOD CALL...😎

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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My vote is (and always will be) for Tales From Topographic Oceans. Hardcore Yes. Haters be damned!!!

The original "Tales from Topographic Oceans" is great. But the remastering is a catastrophe.


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Still a meaningless question.

The correct answer is Bubu's Anabelas.
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Still a meaningless question.

The correct answer is Bubu's Anabelas.

The correct answer is Mother Gong's "Fairy Tales".


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I can't even agree with myself as to the Best 100 Prog Albums of All-Time! How can I ever hope to agree with you hon-yocks?

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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Still a meaningless question.

The correct answer is Bubu's Anabelas.

The correct answer is Mother Gong's "Fairy Tales".
The correct answer is Henry Cow's Western Culture.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My vote is (and always will be) for Tales From Topographic Oceans. Hardcore Yes. Haters be damned!!!

The original "Tales from Topographic Oceans" is great. But the remastering is a catastrophe.

I didn't care for the Steve Wilson version for some reason. I'm not sure which one you are referring to though but if it's the SW one I agree.
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^ yep are we talking 'remix' or 'remaster'?

Anyway Gates Of Delirium pissed on everything else Yes had done to that point imo. Pity the whole album wasn't as good although Sound Chaser at least showed a band that was still trying to progress.

TFTO has some good parts but it just goes to sleep at times. The idea of it is so much greater than the actual reality.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ yep are we talking 'remix' or 'remaster'?

Anyway Gates Of Delirium pissed on everything else Yes had done to that point imo. Pity the whole album wasn't as good although Sound Chaser at least showed a band that was still trying to progress.

TFTO has some good parts but it just goes to sleep at times. The idea of it is so much greater than the actual reality.



GoD on YesShows pisses all over the studio version...The extended remixed version of TFTO is BOSS...extension and bombast are essential...for true symph prog...but for those who think that Turn it on again is good...I can see them HATING tobys graphic gocart...😎

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ yep are we talking 'remix' or 'remaster'?

Anyway Gates Of Delirium pissed on everything else Yes had done to that point imo. Pity the whole album wasn't as good although Sound Chaser at least showed a band that was still trying to progress.

TFTO has some good parts but it just goes to sleep at times. The idea of it is so much greater than the actual reality.



In terms of technical skill and musical prowess, I absolutely agree that GoD is the pinnacle of Yes tracks up to that point.

In terms of impact on progressive rock as a whole, Close to The Edge still holds that crown IMHO.

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