Your top 15 progressive music albums IN the '70s?

Emerson,Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

^ Oh I didn't really get that either. In that case it would be most of ELP's albums and a bit of Yes and Genesis. It wasn't until the 80's that I explored a lot more. Also I was still at school and relied on Xmas and Birthday's for a few albums here and there. 

In alphabetical order:
Alquin - The Mountain Queen
Camel - The Snow Goose
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Focus - Focus II (later known as Moving Waves)
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
Yes - Close to the Edge

Others worth mentioning:
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Anthony Phillips - Wise after the Event

Reference date mid-1979 (6 or 7 years to discover prog and just before I dropped out of my teens). I had not discovered Magma, Rush, King Crimson or Van der Graaf Generator back in the day and UK's Danger Money just falls out

The only album I definitely listened to in the 70s, and regard as prog, is War Of The Worlds!😎

Unless Nightflight To Venus by Boney M counts. Or Suberwombling by The Wombles?…..

Seeing as it's one per artist, these are the prog albums that most influenced me in the 70's and would shape my future musical tastes (including one or two crossover or prog-related)...

Argent - All Together Now
Camel - The Snow Goose
Caravan - In the Land of the Grey and Pink
Curved Air - Live
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
ELP - Emerson Lake & Palmer
ELO - Electric Light Orchestra
Focus - Moving Waves (aka Focus II)
The Nice - Five Bridges
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII
Santana - Caravanserai
Yes - Close to the Edge

So hard to nail it down to only 15 seeing as it's the golden era of prog for us baby boomers.

Honourable mentions for 'Deep Purple in Rock' and 'Led Zeppelin IV', whilst neither album is bona fide prog, they both had a massive influence on my musical listening tastes and appreciation in my teenage years (and later!).


Edited by Floydoid - September 07 2024 at 08:05

Floydoid wrote: So hard to nail it down to only 15 seeing as it's the golden era of prog for us baby boomers.

Hrychu wrote: Jared wrote: I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog! I agree. The good news is that 99% of the PA userbase are boomers or gen. Jones-er's. B)

Well, I was born in the 70s and am Gen X. I do remember hearing The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot near the tail end of the 70s as my brother had bought the record and that was one of his that I liked. And I am confident that I had heard Camel's The Snow Goose by then and Caravan's the Land of Grey and Pink. Oh, and I had heard ELP's Trilogy I think by then, but that could just be an acid flashback. In my day we started young, okay, maybe not quite that young. Kids, just say no to drugs (unless prescribed, possibly).

Edited by Logan - September 06 2024 at 09:58

Hi everyone, here goes my top 15- one album per band:

Gentle Giant- The power and the glory
Genesis- Selling England
Yes- Close to the edge
ELP- Tarkus
Camel- The snow goose
King Crimson- Larks' tongues
Gryphon- Red queen
BMS- Darwin
PFM- Per un amico
Le Orme- Felona e Sorona
Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra
Secret Oyster- Sea son
Frank Zappa- Joe's garage
Rush- A farewell to kings
Invisible- El jardin de los presentes

Hrychu wrote: poseído del alba wrote: Hi everyone, here goes my top 15- one album per band: Gentle Giant- The power and the glory Genesis- Selling England Yes- Close to the edge ELP- Tarkus Camel- The snow goose King Crimson- Larks' tongues Gryphon- Red queen BMS- Darwin PFM- Per un amico Le Orme- Felona e Sorona Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra Secret Oyster- Sea son Frank Zappa- Joe's garage Rush- A farewell to kings Invisible- El jardin de los presentes It kind of blows my mind that you had access to all these international releases back in the 70's. Was there some cool radio station in Argentina at the time that would play this stuff?