Your 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1972

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: ... Amon Duul II - Wolf City Gentle Giant - Octopus Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick Yes - CTTE Premiata Fomeria Marconi - Per Un Amico CAN - Ege Bamyasi ...

1 Herbie Hancock - Crossings
2 Can - Ege Bamyası
3 Chick Corea - Return to Forever
4 Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia di un minuto
5 Faust - So Far
6 Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans
7 Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Clear Spot
8 Curved Air - Phantasmagoria
9 Kraan - Kraan
10 Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley

Doesn't feel rigt to be leaving out a at least dozen masterpieces by the likes of Embryo, Franck Dervieux, Weather Report, Jean-Claude Vannier, Tangerine Dream, Banco, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Dom, Gentle Giant, Stomu Yamash'ta, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes... and plenty more (but I did find a way to mention them)

moshkito wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^^ It's very impressive that the first three albums on your list have picked up 21 votes so far out of 26 votes cast in total. I must be one of the few here who didn't vote for any of those three classic albums.  Hi, Normally, I do not vote for JT, because it doesn't need it. I would rather that BANCO's DARWIN be listed in there, specially after such an incredible first album of theirs. The only issue I have with JT's album being mentioned, is that everyone has heard it 32 times. AND, you can't say the same thing about any of the majority of the other albums. That doesn't make JT, one of the best ... it makes it a "favorite" ... and that is when "progressive music" stops being about the music, and more about the fame.  JT and Ian, deserve the acclaim, but I think that compared to so much other music around the world, they are very good, but saying they are the best is the same thing as saying that you have not heard all the others at all!

Edited by The Dark Elf - February 06 2022 at 22:44

The Dark Elf wrote: What a fraud you are. You b*tch and moan about "songs", and here you have an album from a very popular group who had the balls, the audacity and the belief in themselves to go against convention (and the record industry) and provide a release without a single, and without any songs whatsoever, just continuous music over 2 sides of an album.  I have heard all the others albums mentioned, and own most of them, but you know what? TAAB is simply a remarkable album, and what's even more remarkable is it went to #1 in the States because of how good it was.  Great album design, great lyrics, masterful playing, no individual songs and actually popular among a wide swathe of listeners, not merely pretentious tw*ts who namedrop authors and film directors because they themselves are bankrupt of any original ideas -- tell me, how many bands can pull that off?

Edited by enigmatic - February 07 2022 at 08:31

The Dark Elf wrote: ... What a fraud you are. You b*tch and moan about "songs", and here you have an album from a very popular group who had the balls, the audacity and the belief in themselves to go against convention (and the record industry) and provide a release without a single, and without any songs whatsoever, just continuous music over 2 sides of an album.  ...