Top 10 Prog Folk Albums

I do wish that you did not duplicate the same artist in the listing ... I have no beef with JT and its popularity (they deserve it) but having 4 albums in the top 20 really hurts 3 other bands that deserve to be mentioned, and have not had the chances that JT has been so lucky and very good, to get!

I dig both views. Hey, Paul, could you list the top 40 Prog Folk albums as voted by members. I know it's a bit more work, but I'd like to ferret through a longer list.  

1. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

2. Midlake - The Courage of Others

3. Tusmorke - Nordisk Krim

4. Forest - Full Circle

5. Comus - First Utterance

6. Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three

7. The Strawbs - Grave New World

8. Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin d'une Cinquieme Saison

9. Trees - On the Shore

10. Tea & Symphony - An Asylum for the Musically Insane

(Best prog folk track - Tam Lin by Steeleye Span 10-minute live version)

I see I've missed out on a lot of interesting discussions regarding some of my dearest albums/bands/artists, and of course music - by not having noticed this thread until now. I don't care whether a favorite of mine is in PA's prog folk-section or not. The sub-sections here are sometimes handy, but mostly a joke. So I'm allowed to include Under Wraps but not Liege & Lief? (not that I would consider any of them). I try to keep the folk here "progressive" and not just folk. Don't really have a top ten, nor do I consider no. 2 as more of a favorite than no. 8 etc... I love them both equally. But made a list to join in on the "fun":

1 Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
2 Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes

3 Roy Harper - Stormcock

4 Pentangle - Cruel Sister

5 Ragnarok - Ragnarok

6 Comus - First Utterance

7 Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer

8 Robbie Băsho - Visions Of The Country

9 Jethro Tull  - Benefit

10 Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms

-just as wonderful and warmly reccomended...

Bridget St. John - Songs for the Gentle Man

Spirogyra - St.Radiguns

Woven Hand - Consider The Birds

Extradition - Hush

Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis - Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis
Continuum - Continuum
Nya Ljudbolaget - Nya Ljudbolaget
Strawbs - From The Witchwood

Hölderlin - Hölderlins Traum

Kolinda -  Kolinda 2
Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa - Wiosna Ludu
Zeit - Un Giorno In Una Piazza Mediterranea
Dulcimer - And I Turned As I Had As a Boy
John Renbourn Group - The Enchanted Garden
Merit Hemmingson - Huvva!
Turid - Bilder

Ptarmigan - Ptarmigan

Veronique Chalot -  À L'Entrée Du Temps Clair

I also love Dead Can Dance, but they are not prog folk to me. Love Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake as much as anyone, but well for some reason I didn't include them.

What a fine thread this has turned out to be, with many intelligent exchanges

Surprised that Gryphon is not as highly as I'd have expected them to be, though.

Saperlipopette! wrote: Veronique Chalot -  À L'Entrée Du Temps Clair I also love Dead Can Dance, but they are not prog folk to me.

Chalot's two albums are certainly very notable and in some ways adventurous & experimental (read medieval) enough to almost fit here, but the "rock" element is totally absent.

Yup, I must say the DCD is somewhat my personal fùck-up.

1- TBH, with insight and hindsight,  I'd prefer DCD not to be included in PA at all (or certainly not in Prog Folk)

2- But I really thought Aion deserved to be here, because it's as prog folk as possible, and I was a little blinded by the holy grail.

3- But IMHO, the rest of their (DCD) albums are not "prog" (it doesn't mean I don't like some of them)

4- We the team) tried getting DCD into prog-related (hoping the Gerrard-Schulze link would help), but this was refused by the admins, so we were condemned into taking in in Prog Folk - on the basis that their middle-era albums are "world/folk music" - or not include them at all.

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Just like we're kind of stuck with the PA system, with some originally folk singers such as Tim Buckley and Roy Harper or John Martyn (and to a lesser extent Al Stewart, because he's not in PA) and their middle-era best (and proggiest) albums:

Who in their right mind can only say that Lorca, Starsailor, Solid Air, Bullingswhat, Year Of The Cat (etc...) are prog-folk?? But everywhere on the web and paperpress, all three/four are cited in folk, because that's how they started.

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The list is getting longer after each round of voting. We're already up to 34 albums, so only another 6 albums to go now to make it a Top 40.