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    Posted: July 08 2021 at 11:33
Yes, we're Going for the One year when Yes made the first of several comebacks with a new line-up.  Smile

Camel - Rain Dances
Emerson. Lake & Palmer - Works Vol. 1
The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense
England - Garden Shed
Illusion - Out of the Mist
Duncan Mackay - Score
Nektar - Live in New York
Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost
Renaissance - Novella
Yes - Going for the One

It's getting harder to decide on a Top 10, so I had to list every British prog album released in 1977 before I could make my selection. Smile





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1. Pink Floyd - Animals
2. Rush - A Farewell to Kings
3. Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land
4. England - Garden Shed
5. Atoll - Tertio
6. Pekka Pohjola - The Mathematician's Air Display
7. Modrý efekt - Svitanie
8. Eloy - Ocean
9. Locanda delle Fate - Forse le lucciole non si amano più
10. Airlord - Clockwork Revenge

Honorable mentions:
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros - Películas
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
Machiavel - Jester
Aksak Maboul - Onze danses pour combattre la migraine
Morse Code - Je suis le temps
Dixie Dregs - Free Fall
FM - Black Noise
Yes - Going for the One
Camel - Rain Dances
Zomby Woof - Riding on a Tear


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2021 at 12:07
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Zomby Woof - Riding on a Tear
Purely by coincidence, I'm listening to Zomby Woof's superb album for the very first time right now. Thumbs Up
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Progmind Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2021 at 12:24
In no particular order would be

1 - Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost
2 - Pink Floyd - Animals
3 - Island - Pictures
4 - Circus - Movin´on
5 - Evohé - Evohé
6 - Hands - Hands
7 - Locanda delle Fate - Forse le lucciole non si amano più
8 - Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
9-  Camel - Raindances
10 - Rush - A Farewell to Kings

honoralbe mention:

Alpha Ralpha - Alpha Ralpha


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 1. JONI MITCHELL Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
2. JAN AKKERMAN Jan Akkerman
3. RENAISSANCE Novella
4. ANTHONY PHILLIPS The Geese and The Ghost
5. SHAKTI (with John McLaughlin) Natural Elements
6. PINK FLOYD Animals
7. STEELY DAN Aja
8. EBERHARD WEBER The Following Morning
9. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT I, Robot
10. SUPERTRAMP Even in the Quietest Moments...

11. JOHN MARTYN One World
12. BILLY JOEL The Stranger
13. PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel ("Car")
14. YES Going for the One
15. BRIAN ENO Before and After Science
16. LOCANDA DELLE FATE Forse le lucciole non si amano più
17. ATOLL Tertio
18. PULSAR Halloween
19. ISLAND Pictures
20. KLAUS SCHULZE Mirage
21. ATILA Reviure
22. WEATHER REPORT Heavy Weather
23. TANGERINE DREAM Encore (Live 1977) 
24. RICK WAKEMAN Criminal Record
25. UNIVERS ZERO Univers Zero (1313)

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1. Brand X - Moroccan Roll
2. Happy The Man - Happy The Man
3. Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
4. Hugh Hopper - Hopper Tunity Box
5. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
6. Camel - Rain Dances
7. Pink Floyd - Animals
8. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Jet Lag
9. New Triumvirat - Pompeii
10. Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Dancing In Your Head

Honourable mentions:
- Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
- Island - Pictures
- Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
- Steely Dan - Aja
- The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
- Yes - Going For The One


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Pink Floyd - Animals
Univers Zero - 1313
Pekka Pohjola - Keesojen Lehto
Greaves/Blegvad/Herman - Kew Rhone
Archaia - s/t
Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness & Charm
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Potemkine - Triton
Tangerine Dream - Encore
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1. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
2. Klaus Schulze - Mirage
3. Pink Floyd - Animals
4. Yes - Going for the One
5. Kansas - Point of Know Return
6. Rush - A Farewell to Kings
7. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)
8. Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments...
9. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
X. Eloy - Ocean

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1. Animals - Pink Floyd
2. Going for the One - Yes
3. Elegant Gypsy - Al Di Meola
4. Moroccan Roll - Brand X
5. Point of Know Return - Kansas
6. A Farewell to Kings - Rush
7. Ocean - Eloy
8. Aja - Steely Dan
9. Out of the Blue - ELO
10. Even in the Quietest Moments - Supertramp

 Just missed the Cut - Heavy Weather - Weather Report
                                 Enigmatic Ocean - Jean-Luc Ponty




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1. Steely Dan - Aja
2. Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
3. Rush - A Farwell to Kings
4. Pink Floyd - Animals
5. Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece
6. Brand X - Moroccan Roll
7. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
8. Al DiMeola - Elegant Gypsy
9. Dixie Dregs - Free Fall
10. Kansas - Point of Know Return

Others:
Utopia - Ra
Genesis - Seconds Out
Gong Live, Etc.
Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool
The Soft Machine - Triple Echo


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Jethro Tull - Songs from the Woods
Pink Floyd - Animals
Peter Gabriel - Debut (Car)
David Bowie - Low
ELP - Works, Vol. 1
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Yes - Going for the One
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
ELP - Works, Vol. 2

Live Albums....
Moody Blues - Caught Live + 5
Genesis - Seconds Out




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No special order....

JethroTull-Songs from the Wood
Kansas-Point of Know Return
Steely Dan-Aja
Circus-Movin On
Happy The Man-st
Pulsar-Halloween
Eno-Before and After Science
Rush-Farewell To Kings
Gabriel-Car
Eloy-Ocean
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England-Garden Shed
Yes-GFTO
Floyd-Animals

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^ At least I'm not the only one who doesn't have Pink Floyd's Animals in their Top 10. Smile
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^I've only heard Yes from your top ten. Embarrassed 

Animals is a bit commercial for you?
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Rush AFTK
Jethro Tull SFTW
Yes GFTO
Pink Floyd Animals
Styx The Grand Illusion.
Gabriel 1st
Renaissance Novella
Canel Raindances
Supertramp EITQM
ELP Works 1


England Garden Shed is also a fine album. As is Kansas POKR.

Studio only.



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Giger Lenz Marron-Beyond
Wallenstein-No More Love
Passport-Iguacu
Triumvirat-Pompeii
Helmut Koellen-You Won't See Me
Birth Control-Increase
Rush-A Farewell To Kings
PFM-Jet Lag
Procol Harum-Something Magic
Rose-A Taste Of Neptune
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Luciano Cilio - Dialoghi del Presente
Van der Graaf - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
Pink Floyd - Animals
Camel - Rain Dances
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
Al di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Skywhale - The World at Mind's End
Yes - Going for The One
Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool
Ashra - Blackouts


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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^I've only heard Yes from your top ten. Embarrassed 

Animals is a bit commercial for you?

It makes a nice change for me to have heard more albums in your Top 10 than you've heard in my Top 10. Wink

Duncan Mackay's Score is probably the least known album in my list, which is really worth checking out. Thumbs Up

As for the Animals album, it's in my Top 20 for this year, but didn't quite make it into my Top 10. Smile
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no particular order (well slightly alphabetical) inside their own gradient


14           Circus   - Movin' On
13           Genesis  - Seconds Out   

13           Pink Floyd - Animals   
13           Plat du Jour  - Plat du Jour     
12           Brel, Jacques  - Les Marquises       
12           Cano - Au Nord de Notre Vie 
12           Dionne / Bregent   - Deux  
12           F.M.Black Noise      
    
12           Conventum - A l'Affut d'un Complot 
12           Maneige  - Ni Vent... Ni Nouvellle      
12           Rush - A Farewell to Kings

12           Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments   

12           Crucis   - Los Delerios Del Mariscal        
12           Iceberg   Sentiments           
12           Jaivas, Los  - Cancion Del Sur                      

 

Bubbling under            
11           Jeff Beck & Jan Hammer Group  -  Live          

11           Clivage (Andre Fertier) - Regina Astris
11           Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell                           
11           Fermata              Huascaran         
11           Golden Earring - Live                        
   
11           Gong     Live Etc.                      
                         
11           Ibrahim, Abdullah (Dollar Brand)            Journey                            
11           Island   Pictures            

11           Jones, Elvin       Time Capsule
11           Lard Free            Lard Free III                   
11           KlaatuHope
                    
11           Ungava - Ungava

11           L'Engoulevent   L'Ile ou Vivent Les Loups 
11           Morse Code       Je Suis le Temps                   

11           Max Webster    High Class in Borrowed Shoes                  
11           Mitchell, Joni    Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
                 

11           Modry Efekt      Svitanie                                                   
11           Nuit Caline   La Villa Mon Reve                    
11           Potemkine         Triton                   

11           Rainbow             On Stage                             
11           Tangerine Dream            Encore

11           Triana   Hijos del Agobio                                 

11           Univers Zero     Univers Zero (aka 1313)

 

Please not the tir groupé from Canadian acts

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Edited by Sean Trane - July 09 2021 at 01:32
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1. Yes: Going for the One
2. Starcastle: Fountains of Light
3. ELO: Out of the Blue
4. Kansas: Point of Know Return
5. Alan Parsons Project: I Robot
6. Anthony Phillips: The Geese and The Ghost
7. Styx: The Grand Illusion
8. Supertramp: Even in the Quietest Moments
9. Barclay James Harvest: Gone to Earth
10. FM: Black Noise

I'd also like to make a shout out for 1977's J.GEILS BAND Monkey Island - emphatically NOT prog, but still a masterpiece and does include their proggiest moment, the nine-minute title track!
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