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This is Rate Your Music's list of the Top 120 Neo Prog albums of all time. Thumbs Up

  1.  4 stars 1987: Marillion - Clutching at Straws - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZSj97j2ofIKq5xlVB5BKBp
  2.  3 stars 1985: Marillion - Misplaced Childhood - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZBUXGtztXiW6tnNWNsK3bp
  3.  5 stars 1983: Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYO9m_YiZnLF4CPjxkF2Cam
  7.  5 stars 1996: Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPs8D55DP7GCTRSM2Pddw3UFZJmKYUfj
  8.  5 stars 1993: Pendragon - The Window of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDQUkhpfsA
 14. 5 stars 2001: Pendragon - Not of This World - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXOXF3eG4urP2iz6VQmuE8bmIiB7auiAe
 17. 4 stars 1990: Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMVag1y9L4oOgK_gfnmIfQ6Kj3ceVmb9E
 21. 3 stars 1982: Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLmIu5oMNBdFumgD1EAAyWe
 22. 4 stars 2007: Satellite - Into the Night
 23. 5 stars 1994: Collage - Moonshine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4huhmXEPujs
 27. 4 stars 2012: Mystery - The World is a Game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijMsfboD2p0
 28. 3 stars 2008: Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYQePPBRr8surVblr86jmQi
 35. 5 stars 1991: Pendragon - The World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRLcDlUjyCU
 36. 4 stars 2003: Satellite - A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZHa53CX3Ww
 38. 4 stars 2005: Satellite - Evening Games -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95VBfqMS5J8
 41. 5 stars 1995: Arena - Songs from the Lion's Cage - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mWD3neilwkfPLXcOKjQnp8aET0I1Ym9sM
 45. 5 stars 2013: Comedy of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kMs2Mk1VbdXh1AngcFRSXyKG5i8JoHaEw
 46. 5 stars 2020: Pendragon - Love Over Fear 
 51. 4 stars 1996: Quidam - Quidam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRIamHbTHMI
 55. 3 stars 1983: Pablo El Entarrador - Pablo El Entarrador - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVHyj5fX0Iw
 56. 4 stars 2020: Logos - Sadako e le mille gru di carta - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ntxpYoCKNQ38_FDE0wFln8Wcgb7KoIb6w
 59. 4 stars 2011: Arena - The Seventh Degree of Separation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m_rTXGMgfWxZl0ZifVSy9b2VQfsF1H8WU
 62. 5 stars 2014: Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLix6azk3cllYQutUKbLOvLQyz0UXGHdqh
 65. 5 stars 2012: Galahad - Beyond the Realms of Euphoria - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRNXsrOuZ-VmsMVzVmu1hVu3dGhZctbv
 66. 3 stars 1983: Eddie Jobson /Zinc - The Green Album - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lW25qeD2Dmt904srf36qfr1UIV47-sQ8w
 67. 5 stars 2001: Pallas - The Cross & the Crucible - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKSPwLBWy-Z8KH7dzCuO8Us
 69. 5 stars 1981  Osiris - Osiris - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXk3dAPEx9A
 72. 4 stars 2005: Pendragon - Believe
 73. 4 stars 1985: Pendragon - The Jewel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGdFgsky5Xo
 76. 4 stars 1994: Citizen Cain - Somewhere But Yesterday - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ljpYQW3kKi_sfmYyUvaThutakDIIRQ-rA
 78. 5 stars 1995: Iluvatar - Children - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9CD595DC59A17E34
 79. 5 stars 2006: Proto-Kaw - The Wait of Glory - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMOvF5X8jSU
 81. 4 stars 2013: Cosmograf - The Man Left in Space - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqSqej01bW7MCvCZrGLan17OX_2JYxXcg
 82. 4 stars 1995:  Aufklarung - De la tempesta.... L'oscuro piacere - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpJP2dZWAcc
 86. 5 stars 2009: Satellite - Nostalgia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvoGQrPvZJc
 90. 4 stars 2020: Lazuli - Le fantastique envol di Dieter Bohm - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNQIBYbyu0vSArR_xbxR3Xbc2Ew8d123g
 92. 4 stars 1997: Timothy Pure - Blood of the Berry - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kRo5az6Y2OSgvBdJdGlifLhFKm89sRA9o
 93. 4 stars 2014: Anubis - Hitchhiking to Byzantium - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l26i9XQEIX8L6WX27TFdU6FKJLb6jb_T4
 95. 5 stars 2004: Knight Area - The Sun Also Rises - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lAgomwrBEED1wWMb5shGIIFl8JoKzOSvM
 99. 5 stars 2008: Abel Ganz - Shooting Albatross - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZponSTA09xnlmNI45uQdK7
104 4 stars 2004: K2 - Book of the Dead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbnOEmGpb0
105 4 stars 1998: Abraxas - Centurie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2mTv7Of74
110 4 stars 1999: Abraxas - 99 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPv9jVj9Qi4
111 4 stars 2021: Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR9TgcNbp0E
112 5 stars 2011: Knight Area - Nine Paths - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AlfY7SJUGs
113 4 stars 1995: Unicorn - Emotional Wasteland - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbfbcJP3Y30
115 4 stars 2008: Millenium - Exist - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlV1FMfBPgY
119 4 stars 2016: Southern Empire - Southern Empire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-GOIPoioyw
120 5 stars 1996: Collage - Safe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix0NmwOAb68



I'm surprised to see Echolyn & Spock's Beard aren't included in the list. Wink


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Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed

A couple of those I wouldn't consider neo-prog, but hey, other listeners must or it wouldn't be that way on RYM.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed

Not as embarrassed as I am - I only own two albums on the list. Embarrassed

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Fugazi


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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed


62 here... Wink
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed


why would you be embarrassed? Confused
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed


why would you be embarrassed? Confused

I'm not actually, but there is a segment of the forum population that oozes elitism and tends to look down their noses at neo-prog as some sort of peasantry in the prog landscape and they make their disdain of it known in many a thread here. Thus my sentence was a bit of a joke and a little knock at that elitism. Hopefully this doesn't ruffle any feathers (I think it's known here that I love both neo/symph and avant simultaneously).
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I'm surprised to see Echolyn & Spock's Beard aren't included in the list. Wink
Neither Echolyn or Spock's Beard are neo-prog.

I'm surprised there is no Sanguine Hum, The Psychedelic Ensemble, or Lifesigns on the list. Good to see K2 made the list.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed


why would you be embarrassed? Confused

I'm not actually, but there is a segment of the forum population that oozes elitism and tends to look down their noses at neo-prog as some sort of peasantry in the prog landscape and they make their disdain of it known in many a thread here. Thus my sentence was a bit of a joke and a little knock at that elitism. Hopefully this doesn't ruffle any feathers (I think it's known here that I love both neo/symph and avant simultaneously).



I own about a quarter of the 120 but have heard almost all.
While I value and respect those who cherish and seek to emulate (and preserve) the sounds and styles of the past (like Neo and Retro artists), I get excited for the new edges forward-thinking boundary pushers come up with--these are the minds and spirits I wish to commend and celebrate more.



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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed

Not as embarrassed as I am - I only own two albums on the list. Embarrassed

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Fugazi

I also own 2, both by IQ.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed
why would you be embarrassed? Confused
I'm not actually, but there is a segment of the forum population that oozes elitism and tends to look down their noses at neo-prog as some sort of peasantry in the prog landscape and they make their disdain of it known in many a thread here. Thus my sentence was a bit of a joke and a little knock at that elitism. Hopefully this doesn't ruffle any feathers (I think it's known here that I love both neo/symph and avant simultaneously).

I know, I've been mocked for enjoying Marillion and a few other neo-prog bands a few times. Also for loving Camel and progressive metal, but that's another story. 


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Interesting to see how few albums from the 2010s or 2020s made the list. Wonder what number of ratings/reviews/citings an album has to receive in order to qualify for a list.

The fact that Sylvan's Home and One to Zero made the list but not Posthumous Silence or Force of Gravity boggles my mind more than a little.

Love seeing Milliontown, Seven, and Moonshine, up there in the top 20.

Weird that I still can't hear/see the Neo Prog in any of Arena's stuff.

And no Glass Hammer, Shamall, The Watch, The Flower Kings, Silhouette, Edison's Children, Darwin's Radio, Believe, Willowglass, Cirrus Bay, Unitopia, Nine Stones Close, or Spock's Beard!

And not enough Mystery! 


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I own five:


55. Pablo El Entarrador - Pablo El Entarrador (Symphonic)

56. Logos - Sadako e le mille gru di carta (RPI)

69. Osiris - Osiris 

83. Carptree - Man Made Machine

90. Lazuli - Le fantastique envol di Dieter Bohm (Eclectic)


Only two of those are considered Neo Prog in PA, so I had a look at an equivalent chart (I assume) here. From the PA top 120 Neo Prog albums, I own only four, but three are from one artist:


50. Chris - Days of Summer Gone

72. t - Solipsystemology

80. t - Psychoanorexia

89. t - Anti-Matter Poetry
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

Only two of those are considered Neo Prog in PA, so I had a look at an equivalent chart (I assume) here. From the PA top 120 Neo Prog albums, I own only four, but three are from one artist:


50. Chris - Days of Summer Gone

72. t - Solipsystemology

80. t - Psychoanorexia

89. t - Anti-Matter Poetry



On PA's top 120 I own

IQ - The Road Of Bones
IQ - Frequency
Asturias - Fractals 
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96 of the 120 but please tell the judges that I have a massive collection (I started in 1969) so it's all a question of proportions LOL. BTW, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Neo-Prog ! 
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My Neo Prog Top 10

1. Mostly Autumn
2. Magenta 
3. Edison's Children
4. Like Wendy
5. Differences
6. Osiris
7. Pallas
8. Solstice
9. Pendragon
10. Arena

Where's Marillion?  They're at #12 in my list, just below Abel Ganz, even though Fugazi & Misplaced Childhood are the only two Neo Prog albums I have on CD. Wacko

Bizarrely, Marillion's highly-acclaimed Brave & Marbles albums didn't even make it into the RYM Top 120. Ouch


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Marillion and Pallas aside, as far as we were concerned in 1985, neo-prog was best represented on that 'Fire and Harmony' compilation album which caught the spirit of the age.  And then it was suddenly over following 'The Wake'...
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

Marillion and Pallas aside, as far as we were concerned in 1985, neo-prog was best represented on that 'Fire and Harmony' compilation album which caught the spirit of the age.  And then it was suddenly over following 'The Wake'...

I'd never even heard of IQ before I joined ProgArchives. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Should I be embarrassed that I own 70 of those albums? Embarrassed


62 here... Wink
You both have more Neo Prog albums than I've actually listened to in the Top 120 list, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Embarrassed
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