What are your top 10 progressive rock albums?
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Topic: What are your top 10 progressive rock albums?
Posted By: GoliathTMV
Subject: What are your top 10 progressive rock albums?
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 12:30
Just curious what your top 10 albums of all time are! In no particular order, here are my top 10:
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 12:50
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 14:24
so the bottom 2 drop out if you are including 3 Pink Floyd albums? Pretty good list. The Wall was a massively important album for me growing up but not so much now. I hate the production but there are many great songs to be fair. Lamb mostly kicks serious ass but maybe just a tad long Frances The Mute is a great album and a very bold choice. Scares the f**k out of me for all sorts of reasons! Numbers 4 and 5 - modern classics for sure although I don't listen to them much if I'm honest The classic PF Trilogy , can't go wrong! Don't really like the Jeff Wayne album , some good songs but too stagey for my taste ITCOKC - well duh (although I prefer Red) Absolutely no idea what those last two are - would you like to comment? |
GoliathTMV wrote:Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 14:32
| Last two are by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I've heard the latter, and I enjoyed it. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 15:38
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Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic Pink Floyd - Animals Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi-Lebedi Henry Cow - Western Culture Hatfield & The North - Rotters Club Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History Comus - First Utterance ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 23:31
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Top ten of all time...well some choices can change weekly, but for now.. 1 - A Trick of the Tail - Genesis 2 - Hemispheres - Rush 3 - Foxtrot - Genesis 4 - Animals - Pink Floyd 5 - Islands - King Crimson 6 - Relayer - Yes 7 - To our childrens childrens children - Moody Blues 8 - Quark Strangeness & Charm - Hawkwind 9 - Still Life - VDGG 10 - Rubycon - Tangerine Dream ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: May 12 2020 at 23:51
Those last two are by King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard ------------- 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: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 04:21
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01. Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts 02. Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am The Only One 03. Split Enz - Mental Notes 04. Yes - Close To The Edge 05. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Tarkus 06. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery 07. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity 08. Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye 09. Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time 10. Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind ------------- 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: May 13 2020 at 04:26
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Holger Czukay - Movies King Crimson - Discipline Kate Bush - The Dreaming Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade .O.Rang - Herd of Instinct Talk Talk - Laughing Stock David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Can - Soon over Babaluma Manfred Mann"s Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Decades: Three from 70s Five from 80s Two from 90s => 80s were the best prog decade ever. |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 04:53
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1. Wigwam: Fairyport 2. Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother 3. King Crimson: Court 4. Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick 5. Family: Music In a Doll´s House 6. Traffic: Mr. Fantasy 7. Magma: s/t 8. Faust: Faust IV 9. Yes: Fragile 10. Genesis: the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 05:18
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1. Yes - Close to the Edge 2. Genesis - Foxtrot 3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 4. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound 5. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase 6. Magma - Köhntarkösz 7. UK - Danger Money 8. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second 9. Alquin - The Mountain Queen X. Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) Needless to say, such a list is rather prone to fluctuations. ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 05:47
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without ranking, and with the caveat that this may change daily: Mother Gong - Fairy Tales (this one will always be on the list. one of the greatest albums EVER) Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts Magma - MKD Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Gong - You Klaus Schulze - Mirage Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 05:50
just progressive rock? no progressive metal? 
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 06:37
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I decided to use "progressive rock" in a relatively large sense. One album per band/artist. The Beatles: Abbey Road (my favourite is Revolver, but I don't regard it as a prog album) David Bowie: Low Can: Ege Bamyasi Brian Eno and David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon Queen: A Night at the Opera Radiohead: OK Computer Talking Heads: Fear of Music Just missing out: The Mothers of Invention: We're Only in It for the Money Faust: IV Brian Eno: Another Green World Kraftwerk: The Man Machine Mew: No More Stories
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 07:19
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Hi, Sadly my list would include 1500 LP's and 3000 CD's ... sorry! Impossible for me to choose! ------------- 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: A Bard
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 08:15
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1. The Lamb 2. Selling England by the pound 3. IYCOTCK 4. Animals 5. Brain salad surgery 6. In the land of Grey and Pink 7. Over-Nite Sensation 8. Larks tongues in aspic 9. 2112 10. Who dunnit In no patricidal order, And yes I chose the most basic of pick their possibly can be. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 09:56
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Staying with the One album per artist rule: This is today's list , tomorrow's may be different.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 14:33
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Chronologically 1. Yes - Close To The Edge 2. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery 3. King Crimson - Red 4. Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail 5. Rush - Moving Pictures 6. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love 7. IQ - Ever 8. Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret 9. Anathema - Weather Systems 10.Big Big Train -Folklore
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: May 13 2020 at 14:55
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1. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans 2. Genesis - Foxtrot 3. King Crimson - Red 4. Jethro Tull - Benefit 5. ELP - Tarkus 6. Mostly Autumn - Last Bright Light 7. Glass Hammer - the Inconsolable Secret 8. IQ - Subterranea 9. Gadalf`s Fist - The Clockwork Fable 10. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 07:13
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Nursery crimes Close to the edge Selling England Crime of the century Wish you were here Emerson lake and palmer A farewell to kings The lamb Moving pictures Animals |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 08:09
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Brain Salad Surgery - ELP Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson Refugee - Refugee No Earthly Connection - Rick Wakeman III - Barbaro the Gourishankar - 2nd Hands Larks Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson UK - UK Maxophone - Maxophone the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - the Crazy World of Arthur Brown By the time you have read this, I will have changed my mind again at least twice...  ------------- 
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 09:24
You must really like 'The lamb'  ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 10:00
nice Hawkwind quote you have ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 10:24
| I do. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 10:45
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I feel like these rank/list posts are getting super stale. Don't we have anything more interesting than "Top 10 albums," "Favorite album from each decade," "Top 5 Rush Songs" or "Top 5 Pink Floyd Songs." It's like recycling the same topics about the same 5-6 bands over and over again. ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: GoliathTMV
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 10:55
....This is the Top 10s and Lists board.
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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:00
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^ I am aware, these questions have all been asked and answered to death. ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:17
Ta. I love the track and the album.  ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 11:48
Somehow it seems still enough fun for enough people. Nobody needs to read it, nobody needs to reply. Why complaining? If you want different ones, do your own.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 14 2020 at 13:52
and of course that photo is Robert Calvert ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 20 2020 at 22:29
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Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: May 21 2020 at 14:08
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Let me step inside the magic circle. Gentle Giant. GGDA, TF, Os, TPATG. Genesis. Ts, Ft, SEBTP. KC. Lizard. JT. Minstrel In The Gallery. Cressida. Asylum. ------------- Favourite Band: Gentle Giant Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: June 05 2020 at 10:42
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1. Yes: 90125 2. Saga: Worlds Apart 3. Genesis: Abacab 4. Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day 5. Anthony Phillips: Wise after the Event 6. Yes: Going for the One 7. Genesis: Selling England by the Pound 8. U.K.: U.K. 9. Rush: Signals 10. Asia: Asia
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: June 05 2020 at 17:25
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Today's list: 1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 2. Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh 3. Homunculus Res - Limiti all'eguaglianza della parte con il tutto 4. Stereolab - Dots and Loops 5. Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies 6. Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 7. Jan Akkerman - Jan Akkerman 8. Unaka Prong - Salinity Now! 9. The Amazing - Gentle Stream 10. Renaissance - Novella ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 14:35
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Close To The Edge - Yes Larks Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra Nursery Cryme - Genesis The Yes Album - Yes Benefit - Jethro Tull True Stories - David Sancious & Tone Hot Rats - Frank Zappa Focus 3 - Focus
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 15:42
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In no particular order (because they are all great in their own way): Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Yes - The Yes Album Genesis - Trick of the Tail Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys The Moody Blues - Days of Future Past King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Throw in these, depending on the day: Yes - Close to the Edge King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic Gentle Giant - In a Glass House Queen - Queen II Frank Zappa - Hot Rats ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 16:00
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top 10 huh.. 1. Osanna - Palepoli 2. Balletto di Bronzo - Ys 3. Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde di Aries 4. Yes - TFTO 5. Can - Soon Over Babaluma 6. ADII - Yeti 7. Magma - Kobaia 8. Area - Caution Radiation Area 9. ELO - ELO II 10. Dungen - Tio Bitar ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: June 30 2020 at 07:47
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1. Duke - Genesis 2. Love over Gold - Dire Straits (this album is actually prog) 3. SEBTP - Genesis 4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 5. Moving Pictures - Rush 6. Lark's Tongues In Aspic - KC 7. Trick of the Tail - Genesis 8. Foxtrot - Genesis 9. Hemispheres - Rush 10. Abacab - Genesis
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: June 30 2020 at 09:43
| Thank you for your mention of Dire Straits's Love Over Gold (1982). I've always loved the Wakeman-esque keyboard contribution of Alan Clark on this album. It is by far their magnum opus, and as you mentioned, their "proggiest" performances. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: June 30 2020 at 14:37
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In no particular order: 1. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso 2. Gentle Giant – In a glass house 3. Invisible – Durazno sangrando 4. King
Crimson – Larks tongues in aspic 5. Los
Jaivas – Alturas de Machu Picchu 6. Genesis – Nursery cryme 7. Pink Floyd – Live in Pompeii 8. Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet 9. Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff 10. Yes – Tales from topographic oceans ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 00:25
are you Tony Banks? and no it isn't
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 01:10
Nah, Tony Banks would be arguing for a bunch of classical stuff and his favorite Genesis record would be Wind And Wuthering, definitely above SEBTP where Gabriel spat his loads of gibberish words all over Tony's nice and clean epic instrumental...or at least that's how he would put it, lol.
------------- 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: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 01:14
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I absolutely cannot do a top ten prog albums, lol. I can barely organize my top ten Genesis albums. I will say though, if Queen's A Night At The Opera is prog enough for inclusion, that's my number one seeing as it's already my number one out of any genre. ------------- 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: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:04
| richardh - even if LOG isn't prog, it's still one of my favourite album. Everything else I like is Genesis or Rush or Pink Floyd or KC |
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:07
| And I forgot Night at the Opera, I like that too. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 03:19
------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 11:48
| Who are Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band!? |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 14:32
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I will try to pick other albums than Jean's, but one has to be on my list too, and that's "Fairy Tales" by Mother Gong. This album is so very special to us because it directly connects to our kids. The other nine, in no specific order: Amon Düül II - Yeti Klaus Schulze - Picture Music The Residents - Eskimo Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher (1999 version) Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale Can - Tago Mago Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn Khan - Space Shanty Peter Baumann - Romance '76 Like Jean listed with the caveat that this list will be totally different on a different day, with the exception of the Mother Gong album that I cannot praise highly enough. Just for comparison Jean's list: Mother Gong - Fairy Tales (this one will always be on the list. one of the greatest albums EVER) Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts Magma - MKD Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Gong - You Klaus Schulze - Mirage Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 04:58
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One album per band rule. I'll go with chronological order, some comments; a bit boring list I know. KING CRIMSON. Lizard Maybe the furthest detour to weird lands in their history. Brilliant and picturesque. JETHRO TULL. Thick as a Brick They have a few more masterpieces and perhaps the biggest "Very Good!" collection in prog. Hard to choose one so let's take the safest route. Everyone knows it by heart, but if not, LISTEN AGAIN. FRANK ZAPPA. Waka/Jawaka Unless we're talking live material (i.e. Roxy), this has been my favorite FZ album for the last couple of years. Entire 1972-75 run was mindboggling. GENESIS. Foxtrot Now I'm not hip anymore because Foxtrot edges out Selling England more often these days. FOCUS. Hamburger Concerto How good is it? Well, to steal a spot from Pink Floyd you must be dang good! VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR. Godbluff Scorched Earth or Arrow intensity are almost impossible to match. On par with Pawn Hearts and that means a lot. MIKE OLDFIELD. Ommadawn Again a safe pick, there are days I'm more fascinated with Amarok, Incantations, or even Five Miles Out era. But Ommadawn is always there at the top for me, love the atmosphere, would like to live there. YES. Going for the One Awaken is usually my go-to Yes song, but all compositions here impress me to this day. If not for male buttocks, it'd have 4.30+ rating! ANEKDOTEN. Vemod For some it's just a bunch of KC fanboys, for me it's the definitive balls-out mellotron-storm take-no-prisoners summon-ghosts autumnal extravaganza. Well, in prog. ÄNGLAGÅRD. Hybris Incredible band in its most potent incarnation. If success depended on talent and merit, they would fill the Cowboys Stadium three nights in a row. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: July 05 2020 at 23:53
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1) Dark Side of the Moon 2) Selling England by the Pound 3) Tales from Topographic Oceans 4) Larks Tongue's in Aspic 5) Thick as a Brick 6) Marbles 7) V (Spock's Beard) 8) English Electric Part one 9) Triliogy 10) Stardust We Are |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 02:42
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Going by one album per band, 1. National Health - National Health 2. The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat 3. Soft Machine - Third 4. Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior 5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery 6. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound 7. Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory 8. Henry Cow - Legend 9. Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte 10. King Crimson - Red
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Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 07:37
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In no real order: Trick of the Tail - Genesis Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead Free hand - Gentle Giant Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull Death walks behind you - Atomic Rooster Six Wives - Rick Wakeman To Watch the Storms - Steve Hackett Going for the One - Yes Sing to God - Cardiacs ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 08:51
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No order..... In The Court of the Crimson King- KC Red- KC Close To The Edge- Yes Hatfield and the North- Rotters Club Caravan- In The Land of Grey and Pink ELP-ELP Selling England- Genesis Aqualung- Tull Acquiring the taste- Gentle Giant Rites At Dawn- Wobbler as always lists are subject to change.. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 08:54
Really?
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: July 08 2020 at 21:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU
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Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 06:35
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1. Marillion - Brave 2. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are 3. Echolyn - As the World 4. Pendragon - Not of This World 5. Genesis - Foxtrot 6. Galahad - Following Ghosts 7. Arena - The Visitor 8. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon 9. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Pt. I 10. Kate Bush - Aerial
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