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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

1. Duke - Genesis
2. Love over Gold - Dire Straits (this album is actually prog)
3. SEBTP - Genesis
4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
5. Moving Pictures - Rush
6. Lark's Tongues In Aspic - KC
7. Trick of the Tail - Genesis
8. Foxtrot - Genesis
9. Hemispheres - Rush
10. Abacab - Genesis

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

1. Duke - Genesis
2. Love over Gold - Dire Straits (this album is actually prog)
3. SEBTP - Genesis
4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
5. Moving Pictures - Rush
6. Lark's Tongues In Aspic - KC
7. Trick of the Tail - Genesis
8. Foxtrot - Genesis
9. Hemispheres - Rush
10. Abacab - Genesis

are you Tony Banks?

and no it isn't

Nah, Tony Banks would be arguing for a bunch of classical stuff and his favorite Genesis record would be Wind And Wuthering, definitely above SEBTP where Gabriel spat his loads of gibberish words all over Tony's nice and clean epic instrumental...or at least that's how he would put it, lol.


Edited by Sacro_Porgo - July 01 2020 at 01:11
Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sacro_Porgo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2020 at 01:14
I absolutely cannot do a top ten prog albums, lol. I can barely organize my top ten Genesis albums. I will say though, if Queen's A Night At The Opera is prog enough for inclusion, that's my number one seeing as it's already my number one out of any genre.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote FatherChristmas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:04
richardh - even if LOG isn't prog, it's still one of my favourite album. Everything else I like is Genesis or Rush or Pink Floyd or KC
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote FatherChristmas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:07
And I forgot Night at the Opera, I like that too.
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  1. Yes - Close to The Edge
  2. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
  3. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
  4. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
  5. Genesis - Foxtrot
  6. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
  7. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
  8. U.K. - Self Titled
  9. Yes - Relayer
  10. Weather Report - Heavy Weather

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Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!?
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I will try to pick other albums than Jean's, but one has to be on my list too, and that's "Fairy Tales" by Mother Gong. This album is so very special to us because it directly connects to our kids.

The other nine, in no specific order:

Amon Düül II - Yeti
Klaus Schulze - Picture Music
The Residents - Eskimo
Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher (1999 version)
Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
Can - Tago Mago
Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn
Khan - Space Shanty
Peter Baumann - Romance '76

Like Jean listed with the caveat that this list will be totally different on a different day, with the exception of the Mother Gong album that I cannot praise highly enough.

Just for comparison Jean's list:

Mother Gong - Fairy Tales (this one will always be on the list. one of the greatest albums EVER)
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Magma - MKD
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Gong - You
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge


Edited by BaldFriede - July 01 2020 at 14:34


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One album per band rule. I'll go with chronological order, some comments; a bit boring list I know.

KING CRIMSON. Lizard
Maybe the furthest detour to weird lands in their history. Brilliant and picturesque.

JETHRO TULL. Thick as a Brick
They have a few more masterpieces and perhaps the biggest "Very Good!" collection in prog. Hard to choose one so let's take the safest route. Everyone knows it by heart, but if not, LISTEN AGAIN.

FRANK ZAPPA. Waka/Jawaka
Unless we're talking live material (i.e. Roxy), this has been my favorite FZ album for the last couple of years. Entire 1972-75 run was mindboggling.

GENESIS. Foxtrot
Now I'm not hip anymore because Foxtrot edges out Selling England more often these days.

FOCUS. Hamburger Concerto
How good is it? Well, to steal a spot from Pink Floyd you must be dang good!

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR. Godbluff
Scorched Earth or Arrow intensity are almost impossible to match. On par with Pawn Hearts and that means a lot.

MIKE OLDFIELD. Ommadawn
Again a safe pick, there are days I'm more fascinated with Amarok, Incantations, or even Five Miles Out era. But Ommadawn is always there at the top for me, love the atmosphere, would like to live there.

YES. Going for the One
Awaken is usually my go-to Yes song, but all compositions here impress me to this day. If not for male buttocks, it'd have 4.30+ rating!

ANEKDOTEN. Vemod
For some it's just a bunch of KC fanboys, for me it's the definitive balls-out mellotron-storm take-no-prisoners summon-ghosts autumnal extravaganza. Well, in prog.

ÄNGLAGÅRD. Hybris
Incredible band in its most potent incarnation. If success depended on talent and merit, they would fill the Cowboys Stadium three nights in a row.

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1) Dark Side of the Moon
2) Selling England by the Pound
3) Tales from Topographic Oceans
4) Larks Tongue's in Aspic
5) Thick as a Brick
6) Marbles
7) V (Spock's Beard)
8) English Electric Part one
9) Triliogy
10) Stardust We Are
 


Edited by iluvmarillion - July 05 2020 at 23:56
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mirakaze Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2020 at 02:42
Going by one album per band,

1. National Health - National Health
2. The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat
3. Soft Machine - Third
4. Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
6. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
7. Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
8. Henry Cow - Legend
9. Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
10. King Crimson - Red
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In no real order:

Trinity - Ekspetion

Trick of the Tail - Genesis

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead

Free hand - Gentle Giant

Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull

Death walks behind you - Atomic Rooster

Six Wives - Rick Wakeman

To Watch the Storms - Steve Hackett

Going for the One - Yes

Sing to God - Cardiacs

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2020 at 08:51
No order.....

In The Court of the Crimson King- KC
Red- KC
Close To The Edge- Yes
Hatfield and the North- Rotters Club
Caravan- In The Land of Grey and Pink
ELP-ELP
Selling England- Genesis
Aqualung- Tull
Acquiring the taste- Gentle Giant
Rites At Dawn- Wobbler

as always lists are subject to change.. Wink


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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!?
 
Really?
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!?
Watch this from them, got quite good picture:
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1. Marillion - Brave
2. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
3. Echolyn - As the World
4. Pendragon - Not of This World
5. Genesis - Foxtrot
6. Galahad - Following Ghosts
7. Arena - The Visitor
8. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
9. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Pt. I
10. Kate Bush - Aerial
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