Rearrange PA top 20 to your personal tastes
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Topic: Rearrange PA top 20 to your personal tastes
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Subject: Rearrange PA top 20 to your personal tastes
Date Posted: July 12 2019 at 15:38
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If you could rearrange PAs top 20 albums of all time to your personal tastes, what would your list look like? 1: Foxtrot 2: Court of the Crimson King 3: Moonmadness 4: Close to the Edge 5: From Silence to Somewhere 6: Animals 7: Wish You Were Here 8: Relayer 9: Red 10: Mirage 11: Selling England 12: Nursery Cryme 13: Pawn Hearts 14: Dark Side of the Moon 15: Fragile 16: Godbluff 17: Thick as a Brick 18: Larks Tongues in Aspic 19: Per Un Amico 20: Moving Pictures
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 12 2019 at 16:40
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01: Close to the Edge 02: Foxtrot 03: Wish You Were Here 04: Selling England 05: Thick as a Brick 06: Nursery Cryme 07: Moving Pictures 08: Fragile 09: Dark Side of the Moon 10: Godbluff 11: From Silence to Somewhere 12: Animals 13: Per Un Amico 14: Moonmadness 15: Relayer 16: Mirage 17: Itchycock 18: Pawn Hearts 19: Red 20: Larks Tongues in Aspic ------------- 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 12 2019 at 23:51
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ooo...fun. I'll give it a go: 1: Thick as a Brick 2: Pawn Hearts 3: Larks Tongues in Aspic 4: Animals 5: Godbluff 6: Relayer 7: Red 8: The Court of the Crimson King 9: Foxtrot 10: Fragile 11: Moonmadness 12: Selling England By The Pound 13: Nursery Cryme 14: Mirage 15: Wish You Were Here 16: Dark Side of the Moon 17: Per Un Amico 18: Close to the Edge 19: From Silence to Somewhere 20: Moving Pictures ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 00:14
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1: Close to the Edge 2: Red 3: Wish You Were Here 4: Moving Pictures 5: Foxtrot 6: Thick as a Brick 7: Animals 8: Godbluff 9: Fragile 10: Relayer 11: Pawn Hearts 12: From Silence to Somewhere 13: Per Un Amico 14: Court of the Crimson King 15: Moonmadness 16: Mirage 17: Nursery Cryme 18: Selling England 19: Dark Side of the Moon 20: Larks Tongues in Aspic |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 03:11
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Rearranging the PA top 20 to a top 18 list because there are two albums with which I am not familiar ("Moonmadness" and "Per Un Amico"): 01: Pawn Hearts 02: Close to the Edge 03: Fragile 04: From Silence to Somewhere 05: Relayer 06: Godbluff 07: Animals 08: Nursery Cryme 09: Thick as a Brick 10: Mirage 11: Foxtrot 12: Red 13: In the Court of the Crimson King 14: Moving Pictures 15: Wish You Were Here 16: Selling England by the Pound 17: Dark Side of the Moon 18: Larks Tongues in Aspic ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 05:27
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1 Pawn Hearts 2 Red 3 Relayer 4 Animals 5 Thick as a Brick 6 Dark Side of the Moon 7 Moonmadness 8 Larks Tongues in Aspic 9 In the Court of the Crimson King 10 Close to the Edge 11 Mirage 12 Selling England by the Pound 13 Foxtrot 14 Nursery Crime 15 Wish You Were Here 16 Fragile 17 Per Un Amico 18 Godbluff 19 Moving Pictures NA From Silence to Somewhere
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 08:02
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that might be fun.. but the honest truth is so few of those really rank at all in my personal favorites in the first place. By quick count.. only 5 of the 20 might find a place in my list of 20 ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 08:11
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Does "rearrange" include kicking some of them out and replacing them with others that I think should belong there but for some reason (usually because they are too little known) didn't make it there? -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 08:22
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I doubt it.. otherwise it would have been.. make your own 20 which we've seenless countless threads asking to do just that. Just rearranging.. which I guess we could do.. top to bottom.. just with the cavaet that .. well.. most of thee albums ..while 'great'.. aren't what floats our personal boats man... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 08:30
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There are some I would kick out, and I would definitely not have more than one album for each artist (that's nothing but fanboyism; no artist is that great, not even VdGG), so about half of them would have to go. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 08:50
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Hi, PASS. That list is way too commercial for me, and at least 10 of my choices would be material that most of you will laugh at and think it is stupid, and will never listen to it ... except Micky, of course! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 09:12
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I'm not sure whether even one of these is in my personal top 20 (although I like many of them a lot) but I don't mind. The game is to rank these. And I'm fine with that. I don't need to put my personal favourites up in every ranking of anything... |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 09:15
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1: Larks Tongues in Aspic 2: Animals 3: Pawn Hearts 4: Thick as a Brick 5: Red 6: Wish You Were Here 7: Close to the Edge8: Godbluff 9: Court of the Crimson King 10: Per Un Amico 11: Foxtrot 12: Fragile 13: Nursery Cryme 14: Mirage 15: Dark Side of the Moon 16: Relayer 17: Selling England 18: Moving Pictures 19: Moonmadness 20: From Silence to Somewhere ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 09:31
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1. Moving Pictures 2. Close to the Edge 3. Thick as a Brick 4. Mirage 5. Relayer 6a. Dark Side of the Moon 6b. Wish You Were Here 8. Per Un Amico 9. Animals 10. Larks in Tongues Aspic 11. Fragile 12. Pawn Hearts 13. Red 14. From Silence to Somewhere 15. Moonmadness 16. Foxtrot 17. In the Court of the Crimson King 18. Selling England by the Pound 19. Nursery Crime 20. Godbluff |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 09:37
true that.. what is the harm ehh.. putting an asterick by those I would probably put in my own personal top 20 and I think I grossly estimated how much my tastes overlap the forums... *01: Close to the Edge 02: Fragile 03: Dark Side of the Moon 04: Selling England 05: Wish You Were Here 06: Animals 07: Mirage 08: Itchycock 09: Per Un Amico 10: Relayer 11: Larks Tongues in Aspic 12: Nursery Cryme 13: Red 14: Foxtrot 15: Moonmadness 16: Thick as a Brick 17: Moving Pictures 18: Godbluff 19: Pawn Hearts 20: From Silence to Somewhere (ummm what the f**k is this album.. and what is it doing here on this list btw) ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 10:08
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Love that VDGG eh micky? ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 10:19
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oh yeah.. ranks up there in personal enjoyment along with castration, holes in the heads, trying to talk to Republicans on the internet and strangling cute animals ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 13:08
| I am in close agreement with Someone Else's ranking |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 13:18
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Anyone who puts LTiA last in that list is fundamentally wrong. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 13:20
| I said close agreement, not perfect agreement |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 13:22
| I'm just too lazy to rearrange that list |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 13:25
 I've never cared for that top...
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 13:31
| I'm just scratching my head as to how Moving Pictures can be #20 when it blows 3/4 of that list out of the water. Is it Opposite Day today? |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 16:13
That album is actually incredible imo, def deserves its place in the top 20 maybe even higher. Mindblowingly good. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 16:14
I’m not a huge fan of it, I like hemispheres a lot better, Tom Sawyer through the camera eye is all great. But the last two songs don’t do it for me. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 16:29
| It's not my favorite Rush album either (I prefer A Farewell to Kings) but even so it's better than 3/4 of this list. Vital Signs is one of my faves. So quirky in its 80s style. Everybody needs reverse polarity. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:04
Vital Signs is my least favorite from the album. I just don't find it very memorable. Witch Hunt at least has a very cool synth in it.
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:18
| Look folks. I think our signals are getting crossed. The balance is becoming distorted by internal incoherence. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:24
I wonder if that's where they got the name for their next album(kind of like the "relayer" part on tfto). I will say this though "vital signs" at least sounds like a preview for the next album since it sounds more like something on signals than the rest of MP(imo).
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:28
| Vital Signs is the Devo's "Whip it!" of prog. I really think you should elevate from the norm here. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:32
| (Good call on album name AFKC) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:35
Crack that whip. Give the prog a slap. Step on something thick as a brick.........
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:36
But there's only us who can change it only us to rearrange it.....;) Yes, I'm bored.
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:38
If I use an ounce of perception, and speaking of the function and the form, Vital Signs even has that cool octaves jumping riff a la The Knack's My Sharona. 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:41
I never noticed. I always considered "my Sharona" kind of an accidental prog song though.
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:45
| Accidental prog! We can add it to the list of genres < maybe we can finally sneak Gary Numan in there, too > It would definitely be a mood lifter! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 17:48
Yeah and the Tubes also while we're at it.
 There is prog related though so I don't think "accidental prog" will go over too well. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 18:05
| < Not with the people who made this list! > But courageous convictions could drag the dream into existence! |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 18:31
| Witch Hunt is awesome. The most perfect evocative of mood as well as the best exposition of the confluence of fear and religion. An amazing song in every way. Vital Signs took a while to grown on me, but I now hold it in very high regard as well. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 18:32
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01: Close to the Edge 02:Dark Side of the Moon 03: Fragile 04: Wish You Were Here 05: Thick as a Brick 06: Nursery Cryme 07: Moving Pictures 08: Relayer 09: Court of the Crimson King 10: From Silence to Somewhere 11: Animals 12: Foxtrot 13: Per Un Amico 14: Selling England by the Pound 15: Larks Tongues in Aspic 16: Moonmadness 17: Red 18: Pawn Hearts 19: Mirage 20: Godbluff |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 19:32
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This thread is about our personal Top 20, very similar to my thread about our personal 25... Compare with http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=119736&PN=1" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=119736&PN=1 ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: July 13 2019 at 21:23
This is about Progarchives top 20, not personal. Personal ranking of PAs top 20 |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 09:14
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01: Dark Side of the Moon 02: Wish You Were Here 03: Close to the Edge 04: Thick as a Brick 05: Fragile 06: Selling England by the Pound 07: Nursery Cryme 08: Foxtrot 09: Red 10: Moving Pictures 11: Lark's Tongues in Aspic 12: In the Court of the Crimson King 13: Relayer 14: Animals 15: Per Un Amico 16: Mirage 17: Moonmadness
18: From Silence to Somewhere 19: Godbluff 20: Pawn Hearts |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 11:37
^ nice.. here ... have one on the house.  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 12:30
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OK, I'll bite... 01: Close to the Edge 02: Larks' Tongues in Aspic 03: Red 04: In the Court of the Crimson King 05: Fragile 06: Animals 07: Wish You Were Here 08: Thick As a Brick 09: Selling England by the Pound 10: Relayer 11: Moving Pictures 12: Dark Side of the Moon 13: Per un amico 14: Moonmadness 15: Mirage 16: Godbluff 17: Pawn Hearts18: Nursery Cryme 19: Foxtrot 20: From Silence to Somewhere I understand this is about people's tastes, which do not necessarily coincide with my own. However, the reason why, in my opinion. From Silence to Somewhere sticks out like a sore thumb can be expressed with a single word: originality. And I'll leave it at that.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 12:31
and Raff comes out to play.. yeah!!!   ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 12:34
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surprised I had Mirage higher than you do.. and Nursery Crime for that matter. I have the rep as the hater around here.. don't be thinking of taking my crown darling. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 12:44
Thanks micky! taken already by now...  ...cheers!Also watched yours very closely... together with Ompha's, I think the most similar to mine... Man.. good to see everyone's list (great thread).  |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 12:53
Love your Crimsonesque top 5 'Red' gave me lots of troubles placing it... a fave of mine! difficult task in general... if one slightly changes the criteria for ranking the ordering changes dramatically.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 13:39
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Here's how I'd renumber them: 111: Foxtrot 12: Court of the Crimson King 73: Moonmadness 24: Close to the Edge 55: From Silence to Somewhere 6: Animals 207: Wish You Were Here 8: Relayer 99: Red 310: Mirage 11: Selling England 112: Nursery Cryme 113: Pawn Hearts 14: Dark Side of the Moon 15: Fragile 116: Godbluff 117: Thick as a Brick 318: Larks Tongues in Aspic 19: Per Un Amico 253: Moving Pictures or, for you people in need of linearity: 8: Relayer 11: Selling England 12: Court of the Crimson King 14: Dark Side of the Moon 15: Fragile 16: Animals 19: Per Un Amico 24: Close to the Edge 55: From Silence to Somewhere 73: Moonmadness 99: Red 111: Foxtrot 112: Nursery Cryme 113: Pawn Hearts 116: Godbluff 117: Thick as a Brick 207: Wish You Were Here 253: Moving Pictures 310: Mirage 318: Larks Tongues in Aspic ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 14:42
^Nice to see I'm not the only one who is fundamentally wrong  .-------------
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 22 2019 at 17:22
I love being fundamentally wrong. (I think it's my middle name.) Plus, I absolutely despise, hate, cannot tolerate, and feel nothing accessible in Larks Tongues in Aspic. I feel nothing, find nothing appreciable in the musicianship, collaboration, or composition. It's pure noise, fingers scratching across blackboards, metal tail pipes dragging down the road. Rubbish, trash, dissonant dissonance, white noise, black noise, noise. I prefer elevator music and Barry Manilow. And this is a band with my favorite drummer of all-time! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: July 22 2019 at 21:32
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Foxtrot Moving Pictures Per Un Amico Close to the Edge Red Animals Dark Side of the Moon Selling England By The Pound Fragile Thick as a Brick Nursery Cryme Wish You Were Here Pawn Hearts Relayer Moonmadness Haven't heard the others yet. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 06:39
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1: Selling England 2: Thick as a Brick 3: Foxtrot 4: Wish You Were Here 5: Dark Side of the Moon 6: Moving Pictures 7: Moonmadness
8: Court of the Crimson King 9: Animals 10: Nursery Cryme 11: Fragile 12: Relayer 13: Mirage The next 3 I don't know well enough: 14=: Red 14=: Larks Tongues in Aspic 14=: Pawn Hearts The next 3 I don't know at all: 17=: From Silence to Somewhere 17=: Godbluff 17=: Per Un Amico 20: Close to the Edge And SEBTP, and maybe TAAB, would be the only one(s) to challenge my top 20.... |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 07:10
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Something like this: Close to the Edge Per un Amico Nursery Cryme Red Mirage Wish You Were Here Dark Side of the Moon Animals Selling England by the Pound Larks' Tongues in Aspic In the Court of the Crimson King Fragile Foxtrot Relayer Moonmadness Moving Pictures From Silence to Somewhere Godbluff Pawn Hearts Thick As a Brick
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 07:53
So I'm guessing you don't like it? ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 09:13
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 13:13
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Something like this although the last 4 I haven't heard all the way through> 01: Close to the Edge 02: Moving Pictures 03: Animals 04: Selling England by the Pound 05: Larks' Tongues in Aspic 06: Fragile 07: Dark Side of the Moon 08: Red 09: Wish You Were Here 10: Foxtrot 11: Thick As a Brick 12: Mirage 13. Moonmadness 14: In the Court of the Crimson King 15: Relayer 16: Nursery Cryme -- From Silence to Somewhere -- Per un amico -- Godbluff (sorry , not a big VDGG fan. ) -- Pawn Hearts (see above) |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 14:04
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I am only sure of the top three!!! :-) 1) Pawn Hearts --------------------------------------------Five stars 2) In The Court Of... --------------------------------------Five stars 3) Red -------------------------------------------------------Five stars (just published my review: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2239804" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2239804 ) I guess only these three (plus, maybe Animals or Wish You Were) could enter in my personal top 20. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Animals? -------------------------------------------------Four/Five stars? 5) Close to the Edge --------------------------------------Four and a half stars 6) Wish You Were Here? ---------------------------------Four/Five stars? 7) Foxtrot ---------------------------------------------------Four and a half stars 8) Larks Tongues in Aspic --------------------------------Four and a half stars 9) Godbluff --------------------------------------------------Four stars 10) Per un Amico? -----------------------------------------Four stars? 11) Dark Side of the Moon? ------------------------------Four stars? 12) Selling England By The Pound ----------------------Four stars 13) Fragile --------------------------------------------------Four stars 14) From Silence to Somewhere ------------------------Four stars 15) Relayer? ------------------------------------------------Four stars? 16) Moving Pictures? --------------------------------------Four stars? 17) Mirage? -------------------------------------------------Three/Four stars? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18) Thick As A Brick ---------------------------------------Three stars 19) Moonmadness? ---------------------------------------Three/Four stars? 20) Nursery Crime -----------------------------------------Three stars
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 20:27
| like some others have said and I agree...I am not interested and I pass, though I am a bit surprised that as many as 3 of them might actually be in my all time top 20 |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 20:36
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3 of them... yeah.. a bit surprised myself Ken. Now you got me curious. Which ones.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 23 2019 at 21:15
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I'd say Thick as a Brick (though it might not quite make it), ITCOCK and Moonmadness If they aren't top 20 they are close. The rest, hmm, maybe 1 or 2 in my top 100 - possibly Close to the Edge and SEBTP, but possibly not
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 24 2019 at 04:57
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ahh.. it was ItCotCK that I didn't know... knew you absolutely loved Moonmadness and TaaB ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 24 2019 at 07:33
| ^ yup, don't necessarily listen to it a lot these days but it still holds a lot of power. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: July 24 2019 at 08:09
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Great idea for a thread!!! This is how I hear it: 1. Fragile 2. Foxtrot 3. Close To The Edge 4. Thick As A Brick 5. Larks' Tongues In Aspic 6. Red 7. Nursery Cryme 8. Wish You Were Here 9. Per Un Amico 10. Relayer 11. From Silence To Somewhere 12. Moving Pictures 13. Animals 14. Selling England By The Pound 15. Godbluff 16. Pawn Hearts 17. Mirage 18. Moonmadness 19. In The Court Of The Crimson King 20. Dark Side Of The Moon
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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: July 24 2019 at 16:41
Happy to see Moonmadness among those :) what an album! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 24 2019 at 18:44
Weird because I could have sworn I read that either CTTE or Topographic was your favorite album of all time or even favorite Yes album. I'm pretty sure it was one of the two. I admit I would find it strange if you thought tales was your favorite yes record above fragile and CTTE although I have heard others say tales was their favorite as well.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 25 2019 at 08:11
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^ ahh.... I think you are confusing threads. This is a reordering of the sites top 20.. not a list of our own...for which many of us have very few of those albums upon.
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: September 16 2019 at 08:23
Now I can re-arrange the top 10: 1) In The Court Of... --------------------------------------Five stars 9,5/10 2) Red -------------------------------------------------------Five stars 9+/10 3) Wish You Were Here ---------------------------------Five stars 9+/10 4) Godbluff --------------------------------------------------Five stars 9/10 ------------------------------- 5) Close to the Edge --------------------------------------Four and a half stars 9-/10 6) Dark Side of the Moon ------------------------------Four and a half stars 9-/10 7) Foxtrot ---------------------------------------------------Four and a half stars 9-/10 8) Selling England By The Pound ----------------------Four stars 8,5/10 9) Animals---------------------------------------------------Four stars 8,5/10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) Thick As A Brick ---------------------------------------Three stars 8-/10 ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 16 2019 at 09:16
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When everyone's done this, you could work out the top 20 based on the those votes, and then invite people to re-arrange it. |
Posted By: Howard the Duck
Date Posted: September 16 2019 at 10:28
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1. Foxtrot 2. Fragile (preferably including America) 3. Relayer 4. Ctte 5. Selling England 6. Red 7. Lark's .. 8. Mirage 9. Per un Amico ... 10. Court ... 11. Wish you Were Here 12. Dark Side 13. Moonmadness 14. Moving Pictures ... ...... 15. Thick as a Brick ... ...... ......... 15. Animals Can't comment on the rest because I disliked Pawn Hearts after 1-2 listens, and haven't heard Godbluff, plus I don't know anything about Wobbler. Also, wanted to say I don't know how an album like Animals can be in the top 20 but no Lamb. I'd put it in the top 5 at least.
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Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 02:04
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I decided to do it a little differently, and after sketching in my list, just noted the biggest movers from the original -- Dark side of the Moon (up 11) Foxtrot (down 11) Fragile (up 10) Godbluff (up 9) |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 07:40
Good memory!!! My favorite album of all time is indeed Tales but (for some reason) isn't even in the PA Top 100. I would rank Yes albums thusly: Tales, Fragile, CTTE, Relayer, TYA, GFTO...
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Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 08:02
Not that surprising, I'd have thought. It tends to polarise people. My late best friend was a big Yes fan, and he considered it their best work. I consider myself a Yes fan, too, and I've never quite got the hang of it. The rest of your top 4 is the same as mine, though not in that order.
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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 20:43
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It’s been a while since my list so I’ll make a new updated one 1: Foxtrot (still of course #1) 2: Animals 3: Court of the Crimson asking 4:Moonmadness 5: From Silence to Somewhere 6: Close to the Edge 7: Selling England by the Pound 8: Dark Side Of The Moon 9: Mirage 10: Wish You were here 11: Relayer 12: Nursery Cryme 13: Red 14: Pawn Hearts 15: Thick as a Brick 16: Godbluff 17: Fragile 18: Per Un Amico 19: Moving Pictures 20:Larks Tongues In Aspic |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 04 2021 at 16:32
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Top 20 PA (4th October 2021): 1) Close to the Edge 2) Selling England by the Pound 3) Wish You Were Here 4) Thick as a Brick 5) In The Court of the Crimson King 6) The Dark Side of the Moon 7) Foxtrot 8) Red 9) Animals 10) Godbluff 11) Fragile 12) Pawn Hearts 13) Nursery Crime 14) Larks' Tongues in Aspic 15) Mirage 16) Per un Amico 17) Moving Pictures 18) Monnmadness 19) Relayer 20) Hemispheres --------- My Top 20 1) Pawn Hearts 10/10 ------- 2) In The Court of 9,5/10 3) Red 9,5/10 -------- 4) Wish You Were Here 9,25/10 ------- 5) Dark Side 9/10 6) Relayer 9/10 7) Godbluff 9/10 ------- 8) Foxtrot 8,75/10 9) Close to the Edge 8,75/10 10) Larks Tongues 8,75/10 ------- 11) Selling England 8,5/10 12) Per un Amico 8,5/10 13) Animals 8,5/10 14) Fragile 8,5/10 ------- 15) Moonmadness 8,25/10 16) Moving Pictures 8,25/10 -------- 17) Mirage 8/10 -------- 18) Thick As a Brick 7,75/10 19) Hemispheres 7,75/10 --------- 20) Nursery Crime 7,5/10 ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: October 04 2021 at 17:43
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1 - Foxtrot 10/10 2 - Red 10/10 3 - Pawn Hearts 10/10 4 - Selling England By A Pawn 10/10 ------------------------------------- 5 - Thick As A Brick - 9,75/10 6 - ITCCK 9,75/10 7 - Fragile 9,75/10 8 - Wish You Where Here 9,75/10 9 - Per Un Amico 9.75/10 10 - Moonmadness 9,75 /10 ------------------------------------ 11 - Godbluff 9,5 /10 12 - Larks Tongues 9,5/10 13 - Nursery Crime 9,5 /10 14 - CTTE 9,5 /10 15 - Mirage 9.5/10 ------------------------------------ 16 - Dark Side 9/10 17 - Relayer 9/10 18 Animals 9/10 ------------------------------------- 19 - Moving Pictures 8,5 /10 ------------------------------------- 20 - Hemispheres 8 /10
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 04 2021 at 18:47
------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: October 04 2021 at 23:40
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Let's give it a shot 1. Foxtrot 2. Moving Pictures 3. Close To The Edge 4. Hemispheres 5. Red 6. Animals 7. Dark Side Of The Moon 8. Per Un Amico 9. Thick As A Brick 10. Nursery Cryme 11. Selling England By The Pound 12. Larks' Tongues In Aspic 13. Fragile 14. Godbluff 15. In The Court Of The Crimson King 16. Wish You Were Here 17. Pawn Hearts 18. Relayer 19. Moonmadness I haven't heard Mirage. Thick As A Brick and above are all perfect, yet somehow get progressively more and more perfect as you go up. Very tough decisions in there that mostly came down to memories attached to certain albums over others. Nursery Cryme is dangerously close to perfect as well, but the production is a bit hazy. After that we get less than perfect records. Selling England is flawed in some songwriting choices, though the performances and sequencing are brilliant, as is the production. Larks' Tongues is right on par with it, not quite matching SEBTP highs but having greater consistency (even if most live versions of its songs are superior, looking at you Easy Money). Fragile is the greatest EP ever made along with some nifty solo tracks that, while enjoyable, do make the album feel lightweight to me. Godbluff I only got recently and it's totally awesome, but I'm keeping it low until I'm better acquainted with it. ITCOTCK doesn't really go far enough for me, settling on atmosphere over ideas quite often, and of course there's the last 10 minutes of Moonchild that I don't love. Still, some absolute career highs happen to be on this LP. 21CSM and ITTTW being my two favorites. Wish You Were Here I view similarly to ITCOTCK, focusing more on atmosphere than musical content in many places. With an opener as epic and meticulously crafted as SOYCD, I just expect more from the three tracks in the middle. It's why I like Animals better. Pawn Hearts has stretches that are difficult to get through, but is frequently breathtaking and always exciting. I do think zaniness to that extent is more effective in juxtaposition with less outlandish sections, but then that's all relative. I vastly prefer VDGG to Magma! Relayer is great but feels light and airy to me in a way that an album with Chris Squire on it probably shouldn't feel. I prefer Chris' solo album from the same era, featuring Moraz on organ! And lastly Moonmadness... I would call it Moodmadness. Very much mood music for me. I do like it, and in fact I find less "wrong" with it than some albums I've placed higher... but I tend to zone out while it's on to such a degree I don't recall what song is on. Plus Aristillus doesn't make a good opener to my ears.
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 02:13
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1. Selling England By The Pound 2. Foxtrot 3. Red 4. Nursery Cryme 5. Relayer 6. Close To The Edge8. In The Court Of The Crimson King 9. Thick As A Brick 10. Fragile 11. Pawn Hearts 12. Per Un Amico 13. Moonmadness 14. Wish You Were Here 15. Mirage 16. Animals 17. Hemispheres 18. Moving Pictures 19. The Dark Side Of The Moon 20. Godbluff ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 02:24
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1. Dark Side of the Moon 2. Moonmadness 3 In the Court of the Crimson King 4. Selling England by the Pound 5. Mirage 6. Close to the Edge 7. Foxtrot 8. Nursery Cryme 9. Fragile 10. Wish You Were Here 11. Animals 12. Relayer 13. Thick as a Brick Red (not in my Top 100) Godbluff (not in my Top 100) Pawn Hearts (not even in my Top 1000) Larks' Tongues in Aspic (not even in my Top 1000) Moving Pictures (a known unknown) Hemispheres (a known unknown) Per un Amico (an unknown unknown)
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 02:58
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I never actually made such a list but I still know that the bottom four aren't anywhere near my top 1000... or 2000. I pretty much like-or love the rest of the albums (I've fallen a little out of love with Relayer in the last couple of years): Red - King Crimson Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf GeneratorIn the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson Nursery Cryme - Genesis Mirage - Camel Godbluff - Van Der Graaf GeneratorSelling England by the Pound - Genesis Per Un Amico - Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull Close to the Edge -Yes Fragile - Yes Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson Foxtrot - Genesis The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Moonmadness - Camel Relayer - Yes Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Animals - Pink Floyd Moving Pictures - Rush Hemispheres - Rush |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 03:01
it's fine as it is 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 04:27
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^^^ yeah, who cares really!?! done in three minutes without much thinking: 1: Thick as a Brick 2: Court of the Crimson King 3: Dark Side of the Moon 4: Godbluff 5: SEBTP 6: Animals 7: Wish You Were Here 8: Foxtrot 9: Red 10: Larks Tongues in Aspic 11: Close to the Edge 12: Nursery Cryme 13: Pawn Hearts 14: Relayer 15: Fragile 16: Moonmadness 17: Mirage 18: Per Un Amico 19: Moving Pictures 20: From Silence to Somewhere ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 07:40
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1. CTTE 2. TAAB 3. Foxtrot 4. Fragile 5. Nursery Cryme 6. Relayer 7. SEBTP 8. Larks' Tongues 9. Red 10. WYWH 11. From Silence To Somewhere 12. ITCOTCK 13. Animals 14. TDSOTM 15. Per Un Amico 16. Moving Pictures 17. Godbluff 18. Mirage 19. Pawn Hearts 20. Moonmadness ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 10:12
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I did this when it came out but my list has changed a little since then. 01: Close to the Edge 02: Moving Pictures 03: Animals 04: Foxtrot 05: Larks' Tongues in Aspic 06: Selling England by the Pound 07: Fragile 08: Dark Side of the Moon 09. Hemispheres 10: Wish You Were Here 11. Red 12: Moonmadness 13. Thick As a Brick 14: Mirage 15. Nursery Cryme 16: In the Court of the Crimson King 17: Relayer --Per un amico ( Haven't heard all of this one) -- Godbluff (sorry, not a big VDGG fan. ) -- Pawn Hearts (see above) |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 12:01
Is this a new Genesis/VdGG mash up? ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 12:06
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I pretty much like most of the tracks on the PA top 20 albums, but evaluating each of the albums as a whole, I come up with: 1. Relayer 2. Hemispheres 3. Close To the Edge 4. Red 5. Per Un Amico 6. Mirage 7. Selling England... 8. Wish You Were Here 9. In The Court ... 10. Dark Side of the Moon 11. Moving Pictures 12. Fragile 13. Godbluff 14. Thick as a Brick 15. Nursery Cryme 16. Foxtrot 17. Animals 18. Moonmadness 19. Larks Tongues in Aspic 20.Pawn Hearts ------------- Z |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 13:05
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Topic: Rearrange PA top 20 to your personal tastesPosted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 14:03
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Reduced to 19, because I have no idea about From Silence to Somewhere or even who that's by Selling England By the Pound Mirage Moonmadness Close to the Edge
Foxtrot Per Un Amico Godbluff In the Court of the Crimson King Thick as a Brick Red Moving Pictures Relayer Fragile Animals Larks Tongues in Aspic Pawn Hearts Wish You Were Here Dark Side of the Moon |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 05 2021 at 14:10
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: October 06 2021 at 00:22
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Close to The Edge x 20 ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: bender99
Date Posted: October 06 2021 at 00:34
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1 Close to the Edge 2 Selling England By the Pound 3 Wish You Were Here 4 Animals 5 Relayer 6 Foxtrot 7 Moonmadness 8 Red 9 Thick as a Brick 10 Fragile 11 Nursery Cryme 12 Dark Side of the Moon 13 Hemispheres (as it's in the top 20 now) 14 Mirage 15 In the Court of the Crimson King16 Moving Pictures 17 Larks Tongues in Aspic 18 Godbluff 19 Pawn Hearts 20 Per Un Amico |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: October 07 2021 at 12:15
From Silence to Somewhere (by Wobbler) was not in the top 20 when you posted your list, but it was when the original thread was created in 2019. With your list of 19, I think what you ended up leaving out was Hemispheres by Rush (currently in the PA #20 spot).  ------------- Z |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 15:15
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SEBTP is possibly, no probably, the only album from this list which would be in my top 20. 1 SEBTP 2 Foxtrot 3 DSOTM 4 TAAB 5 WYWH I really don't know after that..... |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 17:15
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1- Dark Side of the Moon 2- Close to the Edge 3- Thick as a Brick 4- Selling England by the Pound 5- In the Court of the Crimson King 6- Wish You Were Here 7- Foxtrot 8- Animals 9- Relayer 10- Pawn Hearts 11- Fragile 12- Red 13- Moonmadness 14- Nursery Cryme 15- Moving Pictures 16- Mirage 17- Godbluff Gap 18- Per Un Amico 19- Larks' Tounges in Aspic 20- From Silence to Somewhere ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: TheEliteExtremophile
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 21:10
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1: Dark Side of the Moon 2: Thick as a Brick 3: Close to the Edge 4: Per Un Amico 5: Pawn Hearts 6: Mirage 7: Animals 8: Larks Tongues in Aspic 9: Moonmadness 10: Foxtrot 11: Red 12: Godbluff 13: Relayer 14: Selling England 15: Moving Pictures 16: Nursery Cryme 17: Wish You Were Here 18: Fragile 19: Court of the Crimson King 20: From Silence to Somewhere This was surprisingly easy. I've got some general thoughts on certain albums in the PA Top 20, though: Broadly speaking, it's clearly biased toward the 1970s (17 of 20 albums) with no metal, krautrock, or zeuhl representation. I get that that's just the slant of this site's usrbase, but it's unrepresentative of the richness of the broader progosphere. If I were making my own personal Top 20 with no limitations, no more than 5 of these would make that list. There are just a lot of albums here that I feel are pretty damn solid but are not masterpieces. That includes Moonmadness, Nursery Cryme (and honestly really most of Genesis's output), Godbluff, Wish You Were Here, and Relayer. Fragile is a spotty as hell record that doesn't deserve the worshipful reception it gets. Yes, it has "Roundabout", "The Fish", "South Side of the Sky", and "Heart of the Sunrise". But those little interstitial cuts do nothing but suck the momentum out of the record. In the Court of the Crimson King is a massively influential album, and I'd love to place it higher, but the last 9+ minutes of "Moonchild" are absolutely unlistenable. It's clear that Robert Fripp looooves jazzy improvisation. The issue is that he's simply not very good at doing it in an engaging manner. That extended instrumental spell is such a blight on the record that I have to put it this far down the list. And finally, From Silence to Somewhere (and Wobbler more generally) are way overpraised. I enjoy them, but I do not get this rapturous love they seem to get. FStS is, again, a solid record. It made it into my personal Top 10 the year it was released. But there are so, so many better albums out there.
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 21:56
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Not that it probably changes much for the people who haven't noticed this, but From Silence To Somewhere is no longer in the PA top 20. It's been replaced by Rush's Hemispheres. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: TheEliteExtremophile
Date Posted: October 11 2021 at 23:13
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With that in mind, I'd put Hemispheres after Pawn Hearts on my list. ------------- https://theeliteextremophile.com" rel="nofollow - Check my reviews of recent prog releases! |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: October 12 2021 at 06:43
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Selling England Relayer Dark Side of the Moon Thick as a Brick Close to the Edge Per Un Amico Pawn Hearts Mirage Animals Larks Tongues in Aspic Moonmadness Foxtrot Red Godbluff Nursery Cryme Wish You Were Here Fragile Court of the Crimson King From Silence to Somewhere Moving Pictures I find it astonishing not one ELP album is there but Rush are!
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