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    Posted: June 27 2021 at 07:53
This is the year when it begins to get easier to narrow it down to ten choices..... at least that's the theory anyway. Smile

Absolute Elsewhere - In Search of Ancient Gods
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination 
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Ashra - New Age of Earth
Camel - Moonmadness
The Enid - In the Region of the Summer Stars
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection
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Henry Cow - Concerts
Art Zoyd - Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités 
VDGG - Still Life
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Cos - Viva Boma
Rainbow - Rising
Hermann Szobel - Szobel
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Sloche - Stadacone
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Best i can do at the moment

Rush - 2112
Art Zoyd - Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités 
VDGG - World Record
Et Cetera - S/T
Magma - Udu Wudu
Area - Maledetti
Picchio dal Pozzo - S/T
Hermann Szobel - Szobel
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Sloche - Stadacone

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What a year!

1: Moonmadness - Camel
2: Moonmadness - Camel (It's so good it get's both second and first!)
3: Trick of the Tail - Genesis
4: Leftoverture - Kansas
5: Still Life - Van Der Graaf Generator
6: Interview - Gentle Giant
7: Rising - Rainbow
8: 2112 - Rush
9: Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever
10: L'Heptade - Harmonium

Honorable Mention/Real Number 10: Et Cetera 

Ashra New Age of Earth is great immersive music too!


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actually, I think I have more favourites from the late 1970s than early 1970s 

Barclay James Harvest - Octoberon
Camel - Moonmadness
Celeste - Principe..
Clannad - Dulaman
Eloy - Dawn
Garolou - Lougarou (original group name)
genesis - Trick...
Horslips - Book of Invasions
Malicorne - Almanach
Nigel Mazlyn Jones - Ship to Shore
Le Orme - verita Nascoste
Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery..
Ragnarok - Nooks
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Triumvirat - Old Loves..



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Rush - 2112
Kansas - Leftoverture
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Gentle Giant - Interview
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Jean-Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage
Gong - Gazeuse
Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun
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Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Santana - Amigos
Rush - 2112
Jethro Tull - Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll (particularly the 40th Anniversary Remix)
Rainbow - Rising
Harmonium - L'Heptade
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Horslips - The Book of Invasions
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Jeff Beck - Wired


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Led Zeppelin - Presence
Stanley Clarke - School Days
APP - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
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1. JAN AKKERMAN & KAZ LUX Eli
2. GENESIS A Trick of the Tale
3. PICCHIO DAL POZZO Picchio dal Pozzo
4. RETURN TO FOREVER Romantic Warrior
5. NOVA Vimana
6. COS Viva Boma
7. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Tales of Mystery and Imagination
8. SBB Pamiec
9. GENESIS Wind and Wuthering
10. CAMEL Moonmadness 

11. RAGNARÖK Ragnarök
12. CELESTE Principe di un giorno
13. JEAN-LUC PONTY Imaginary Voyage 
14. POLLEN Pollen
15. BRAND X Unorthodox Behaviour
16. HARMONIUM L'heptade
17. SLOCHE Stadacone
18. GOBLIN Roller
19. WEATHER REPORT Black Market
20. AREA Maledetti

21. FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Parallel World
22. FINCH Beyond Expression
23. SCHICKE & FÜHRS & FRÖHLING Symphonic Pictures
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1. Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
2. Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
3. Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
4. Gentle Giant - Interview
5. Area - Maledetti (Maudits)
6. Gong - Gazeuse!
7. Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
8. Weather Report - Black Market
9. Al Di Meola - Land Of The Midnight Sun
10. Soft Machine - Softs

Honourable mentions:
- Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness
- Camel - Moonmadness
- Harmonium - L'Heptade
- Hermann Szobel - Szobel
- Hopper, Dean, Tippett & Gallivan - Cruel But Fair
- The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
- Triumvirat - Old Loves Die Hard


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Genesis W & W
Genesis ATOTT
Rush 2112
Rainbow Rising
Al Stewart Year of the Cat
Gentle Giant Interview
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
David Bowie Station to Station.
Steeley Dan The Royal Scam
Kansas Leftoverture.

A couple of artists here are not prog but I love both albums.






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Originally posted by Earl of Mar Earl of Mar wrote:

Genesis W & W
Genesis ATOTT
Rush 2112
Rainbow Rising
Al Stewart Year of the Cat
Gentle Giant Interview
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
David Bowie Station to Station.
Steeley Dan The Royal Scam
Kansas Leftoverture.

A couple of artists here are not prog but I love both albums. 

Invariably, I have two or three "non-prog" albums in my lists as well, but I weed them out for these polls.
For 1976's Top 20, I would have included Al Stewart's Year of the Cat, Boston's debut, Bill Conti's soundtrack to Rocky, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life, and Stephen Bishop's Careless.







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Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Camel - Moonmadness
Gong - Gazeuse!
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
Schicke, Fuehrs & Froehling - Symphonic Pictures
Birth Control - Backdoor Possibilities
Magma - Udu Wudu
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
Art Zoyd - Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités
Novalis - Sommerabend


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I understand and will put in Camels Moonmadness and Caravans underrated Blind Dogs at St Dunstens instead.
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Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Gong - Gazeuse
Crucis - Los Delirios Del Mariscal
Magma - Üdü Ẁüdü
Van der Graaf Generator - World Record
Invisible - El Jardín de los Presentes
Alas - Alas
Crucis - Crucis
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Camel - Moonmadness
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Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Rush - 2112
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Kansas- Leftoverture 
Jethro Tull - Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll 
Rainbow - Rising 
Corte dei Miracoli- Corte dei Miracoli
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Area- Maledetti
APP - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

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Yet another worthy year:

1. Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
2. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
3. Horslips - The Book of Invasions
4. Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
5. Kansas - Leftoverture
6. Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
7. Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
8. Clannad - Dúlamán
9. Camel - Moonmadness
X. Eloy - Dawn

Honourable mentions:
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Triumvirat - Old Loves Die Hard


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No oreder preference inside the same grade (on the left)

13           Genesis               Trick of the Tail      
13           Opus-5 Contre Courant                Can      
13           Picchio Dal Pozzo             Picchio Dal Pozzo         

12           Judas Priest       Sad Wings of Destiny      
12           Madore, Michel               Le Komuso a Cordes      Can     
12           Dionne / Bregent            Et le Troisième Jour        Can       
12           Harmonium       L'Heptade         
12           Iceberg Coses Nostres Spa      
12           Rainbow Rising
 
12           Sloche  Stadacone          Can     
12          Cos        Viva Boma          Bel         

12          Celeste Celeste (aka Principe Di Un Giorno)  
12           Mombasa           African Rhythms & Blues 2          Ken           
12          Brand X                Unorthodox Behaviour
12           Morse Code      Procreation   Can
12           Reloj, El               El Reloj (aka Second)     Arg     
12           Rush      2112     
12           Ragnarök            Ragnarök            Swe        


bubbling under....
11           Art Zoyd              Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités (original LP)      Fra       
11           Cano     Tous dans l'Même Bateau          Can     
11           Cosmos Factory               Black Hole           Jpn       
11           Crucis    Crucis    Arg  

11           Deep Purple      Made in Europe   

11           Et Cetera             Et Cetera   Can
11           Finnforest          Lahto Matkalle     Fin 
11           Genesis               Wind and Wuthering  

11           Gong     Shamal  

11           Haizea  Haizea Bsq     

11           Hopper, Hugh   Hopper Tunity Box       

11           Jarre, Jean-Michel          Oxygène                       
11           Magma Udu Wudu   

11           Mariano, Charlie              Helen 12 Trees

11           Marino, Frank & Mahogany Rush            IV           Can   

11           Max Webster    Max Webster    Can     

11           Mayer, John      Dhammapada

11           Muffins, The     Chronometers USA    

11           Musica Urbana Musica Urbana                 

11           Schulze, Klaus   Moondawn   

11           Secret Oyster    Straight to the Krankenhaus      Den      
  
11           Suzuki, Hiromasa             High-Flying    

11           Tangerine Dream            Stratosfear         

11           Trower, Robin   Live      
11           Yamashta, Stomu, S. Winwood & M. Shrieve     Go
11          Lord, Jon             Sarabande  
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1976 - the year it all started to unravel - for some:

Henry Cow - Concerts
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Camel - Moonmadness
Wigwam - Lucky Golden Stripes and Starpose
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Magma - Udu Wudu
Gong - Shamal
Gong - Gazeuse!
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Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Eloy - Dawn
Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
The Tubes - Young and Rich
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
Tomita - Holst: The Planets








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Quite "unimaginative" as I think this is pretty much the PA website's 10 top rated for 1976 but I'm still digging the archives of the 70s having only been born 20 years later...

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Kansas - Leftoverture
Rush - 2112
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Camel - Moonmadness
VDGG - Still Life
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Sloche - Stadacone
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
Zao - Kawana
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