My Top 100 Obscure British Prog Albums

 

AFFINITY - Affinity (1970)
AGINCOURT - Fly Away (1970)

ANDROMEDA - Andromeda (1969)

AQUILA - Aquila (1970)

ARCADIUM - Breathe Awhile (1969)

ARMAGEDDON - Armageddon (1975)

ART - Supernatural Fairy Tales (1967)

ARTHUR BROWN'S KINGDOM COME - Journey (1973)

I've sneaked a couple of Irish albums into the list too. 

These are the only albums I own on CD from the list above:-

Lots of uneven gems here that I sort of love anyway, such as Gracious, Spring, Circus, Clouds, Fuchsia, Asgaerd... and more. Here's fifteen favorites amoung the ca. 70-75 or so I'm familiar with:

ART - Supernatural Fairy Tales (1967)

The thing is, even a name like King Crimson is obscure outside prog circles (in comparison to Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Genesis, etc.), so the idea of obscurity needs to be in relation to the average PA member, I would have thought. In that case, there’s probably half a dozen names or so in there that aren’t particularly obscure. So much so, in fact, I wondered if you were using them as clickbait, just so you could get a response of  “that’s not obscure, Paul!”. This does often appear to be your MO, as so many of your posts seemed geared to get a reaction. I wouldn’t go as far as some, and call it trolling, but you do like fishing for reactions.

So, you’d not need to have gone so far as increasing to a list of 110, so much as removing some of the less obscure (if not well known) names, and replacing them with some more obscure gems.

Then again, there will of course be people out there who have not heard of the bands/albums I don’t consider to be obscure, which is why I’ve not named them. Because anyone who finds them for the first time from your list, is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. In that respect, every single one of these bands is obscure to someone. But then, so is King Crimson the first time someone hears of and listens to them….

I'm green-eyed with envy for anyone who owns that outstanding album.

Remembering now better, I'm in fact most satisfied and got it on CD by the very purpose, as I find this album at its very best when playing the tracks in another order than the original - which I can do very well on my CD-player, as it's programmable. 

 

Thanks Ken. That sounds like a tasty Welsh rarebit for me to sample, and although I'd vaguely heard of Pererin, I had no idea they were Welsh until now.