TOP 50 70’s English Prog

top 70's progressive rock from England

Daevid Allen - Good Morning
Audience - The House on the Hill
Brand X - Morrocan Roll
Camel - Snow Goose
Caravan - In the Land of Pink and Grey
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - same
                                                               - Tarkus
                                                               - Brain Salad
Surgery
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Genesis - Foxtrot
                      -&nb sp;  Selling England by the Pound
                      -&nb sp;  The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
                      -&nb sp;  Trick of the Tale
Gentle Giant - Octopus
                          - Free Hand
Gong - You
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Hatfield & the North - Rotter's Club
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
                          - Thick as a Brick
                          - A Passion Play
Khan - Space Shanty
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
                                 - Lark Tongues in Aspic
                                 - Red
Kingdom Come - Journey
the Moody Blues - To Our Childrens, Childrens..
                                     -   Question of Balance
National Health - same
Nektar - Recycled
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
                          - Wish You Were Here
                          - Animals
                          - The Wall
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Soft Machine - Third
the Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
UK - same
Van der Graff Generator - Still Life
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Yes - Close to the Edge
        - Fragile
        - Relayer


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NetsNJFan wrote: Take out Henry Cow and it's not a bad list god.....I hate Henry Cow.

Henry Cow hates you.

Not a bad list ,and does include most of my favourites except for:

ELP -Pictures at an Exhibition

UK - Danger Money

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn

Otherwise

replace Henry Cow with ? Peter Hammill(In
Camera)? Egg(The Polite Force)? Rick
Wakeman(Six Wives of Henry VIII)? Steve
Hackett(Voyage of the Acolyte)? Barclay James
Harvest(Everyone is Everybody Else)? Colosseum
2(Electric Savage)? Gnidrolog(Lady Lake)?
Greenslade(same)? Gracious(!)?

Queen - II

ELP - Trilogy (not certain about the year tough)

you missed about 7 gentle giant records~!!!

 

100th post...woot!!! haha

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Trouserpress wrote: I'd venture that Pawn Hearts is superior to Still Life, and obviously the absence of more than one Gentle Giant record is a bit of a shame if you ask me, it's not a bad list you've got there. I'm even willing to leave all the pop posers (ELO, Supertramp, Alan Parsons) uncontested because you've given Canterbury a fair crack of the whip, despite all your moaning! And Nets - Nobody's asking you to like Henry Cow. Though obviously you're missing out.

It seems to me that DB likes jazzy stuff(hence his love of Steely Dan)...with that said...Still Life is a perfectly understandable choice from him.

Great to see someone putting Daevid Allen's brillian 'Good Morning' and Gong's fantastic 'You' in a "best of" list - they're always overlooked and to me, are two of the all time great albums.

I'd prefer BJH's Octoberon to EIEE, but each to their own!

p.s. new here - first ever post - great site!

 

NetsNJFan wrote: Trouserpress wrote: And Nets - Nobody's asking you to like Henry Cow. Though obviously you're missing out. I'll stick to MUSIC thank you

So, a group of people using instruments and devices to create sounds arranged into definable rhythms, harmonies and so on doesn't constitute music?

'Cause that's what Henry Cow did.

Oh and gdub - I like me jazzy stuff too!


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NetsNJFan wrote: Trouserpress wrote: NetsNJFan wrote: Trouserpress wrote: And Nets - Nobody's asking you to like Henry Cow. Though obviously you're missing out. I'll stick to MUSIC thank you So, a group of people using instruments and devices to create sounds arranged into definable rhythms, harmonies and so on doesn't constitute music? 'Cause that's what Henry Cow did. Oh and gdub - I like me jazzy stuff too! Henry Cow is pretentious noise.

Look, you keep spouting this silly opinion as if it's fact and it's getting pretty tiresome. Have you actually given them a fair chance? Get hold of Unrest and listen to it properly three or four times. It might sink in then. You've got to remember that you're not just writing off a band but a whole GENRE of music here! I'm not trying to be cleverer-than-thou or appear more "enlightened" because I listen to Henry Cow - it's just satisfying music that you've not given a chance. It's challenging, it's bizarre, it won't become clear to you instantly but that doesn't mean it isn't f***ing music! Now grow up and start gaining a little respect for other people's taste.