Your Top 10 Complete Prog Discographies
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Topic: Your Top 10 Complete Prog Discographies
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Your Top 10 Complete Prog Discographies
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 05:29
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In other words, which are the top ten prog discographies you'd most like to own in full? Here's my wish list:- Camel & Peter Bardens solo - worth checking out.  The Moody Blues & all of their solo albums too, including Patrick Moraz.  Mostly Autumn - all 25 five-star albums, mostly  Mike Oldfield - halfway there already. Renaissance, Illusion & Annie Haslam - I might as well have my cake and eat it too.  Santana & Carlos Santana - 31 albums currently owned, so almost there. Tangerine Dream - too many albums to count.  Vangelis - I'll probably give Beaubourg away to a charity shop though. Rick Wakeman - obviously, apart from the Norman Wisdom album. Yes - including Open Your Eyes. Yes, really!  Okay, so I've greedily chosen some of the longest prog discographies for my wish list. |
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 05:48
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Between LP's CD's and digital files, I already have complete discographies of my favourite Prog bands. This also includes tons of bootleg concert recordings as well. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 07:02
| None. There is not any discography by any band, I'm aware of, that has put out seven or more albums that are all worth owning. I don't want to own a stinker release just to be a completist. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 07:25
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Not a completist. Any band that's around too long wears out their welcome. So I have all the original studio albums of the Beatles, Hendrix, the Doors, Zeppelin and Nick Drake, but every band that's been around a significant time (decades), like Yes, Genesis, Tull, Floyd, Sabbath, The Who, The Stones, Moody Blues, etc. have albums that suck. I won't buy albums that suck just to complete a discography. ------------- ...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: chopper
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 07:45
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I'm not really a completionist, my favourite prog bands have all produced stuff that I really don't want to own. Having said that, I do have every official release from Lifesigns and I Am The Manic Whale but neither of them have released that many albums yet.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 08:32
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It looks like this thread is going to fizzle out like a damp squib.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 08:48
| If I was going to be a completist it would probably be on Pendragon now. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 09:10
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I’dl like to own everything by Can, Magma, and the Soft Machine. I think I’m pretty close already with all three. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 09:15
Rick Wakeman would be my number one choice for owning a complete discography. I currently only have his first five albums in a CD box set (not counting Piano Vibrations), but I'd like to own all but one of his 107 albums.
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chopper wrote:Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 09:24
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To be brutally honest...nothing. Even my favorite groups have a stinker or two that I would never play and I am not a completist who has to have every thing by all the bands I like. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 11:07
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I can't actually think of any other than King Crimson, mostly because I never got around to replacing the vinyl copies I sold back in the 1990s. I already have some groups complete (as in just their studio albums), but as others have said, the longer a group exists the more likely there will be an album that just doesn't seem like the effort is worth it to acquire it just to complete things. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 11:34
For me it depends on the band. For my absolute favorites I am more or less a completionist. For most other bands just their best albums. For example I like Santana, Chicago and ELO but I do not want to own everything they did. For Rush, Yes and Genesis I do.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 11:51
"all but one" wouldn't be complete then. I think you should go for the complete Phrozenlight collection myself.
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 11:54
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^And don't leave us hangin' here man !!! WHICH ONE ?? I mean...you'd buy 106 of them but just not one? That makes no sense whatsoever.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 12:01
Rick Wakeman's collaboration with Norman Wisdom - I mentioned it at the top of the thread. I'd be straight down to the charity shop with that dreadful album.
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 12:45
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Ahhh, so you did...missed it, sorry. Well, just got back from the WeTubie site and I gotta say...even Emerson never jump the shark like this one. Wakey must have lost a bet with the drunken lout at the end of the bar in his local pub. Truly cringeworthy, even his new age and christian music pale in comparison. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 18:39
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Very few bands have discographies with no weak albums, from my personal perspective I'll go with Univers Zero King Crimson Samla Mammas Manna Henry Cow Present Thinking Plague If I'm looking from pure size of catalog Art Zoyd Tangerine Dream Klaus Schulze Radio Massacre International Mikes Davis ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Artik
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 19:42
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King Crimson, Magma, Univers Zero, Other I don't consider prog, but are on PA: Swans, Dead Can Dance not on PA Cocteau Twins, Wolfgang Press
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 21:20
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I kinda agree with what someone else said. I'm a studio album completist when it comes to bands I really love, though I'll admit some choice albums aren't really on my wishlist (like, say, Calling All Stations and Van Halen III). However with bands I enjoy but aren't huge favorites of mine, or with artists who really trail off significantly in quality at some point in their careers even if I really love them otherwise, I'm not likely to whip out much more than a buck for an album I don't really need in my collection. ------------- 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: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 05 2021 at 22:16
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TBH Miles Davis. That's it. Everything else is full of "It's all good except track(s)...". Miles' career is one long record broken up by days happening to get in between them. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: thief
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 01:41
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I don't own many physical copies, and even my digital "collection" of mp3s / ripped albums is gathering dust. Streaming is just too convenient when I work, run errands, commute etc. Another factor: I have an apartment so I don't want to bury it under CDs, especially of subpar / drink coaster quality; collecting is not my thing really. But for the sake of the thread I'll make a "wish list", taking into account average quality and granting bonus points to compact discographies that fit nicely on a shelf. 09. Atheist 08. Death Short but very exciting discographies. Definitely fit my criteria. 07. Jethro Tull "Songs from the Wood" remaster with bonus tracks, live DVD and 96 page booklet blew my mind in 2017. Now if I had it all, extended "War Child", "Stormwatch", "Minstrel", "Horses"... Their 1968-1979 run is just stunning and could easily steal #1 spot, but I deduct points for "Catfish Rising", "Under Wraps" and some other forgettable affairs. Just too much space. 06. King Crimson My default pick for "favorite" prog band, if there is any. I don't need all KCCC or ProjeKcts released (God forbid), but would take studio albums and standout live material ("The Great Deceiver", "Absent Lovers" etc.). 05. Van Der Graaf Generator Post-Present albums - no thanks, but up to that point they had a stellar run. 04. Wobbler 03. Opeth 02. Anekdoten Scandinavian trio of extremely consistent bands that usually come with fantastic artwork. In this particular list "brevity" beats the Old Prog Gods, so there's that. 01. Änglagård The best pound-for-pound discography as far as I'm concerned. Even if All Traps on Earth are excluded. 00. Type O Negative (honorable mention) Not prog at all but just wanted to give them shout out again. ------------- TOP20 Songs https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=124211" rel="nofollow - Genesis https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=125999" rel="nofollow - Rush |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 03:06
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^Interesting list! Death is a top 5 band for me and I wouldn't consider their discography flawless, despite liking every single record lol. Symbolic is praised for accessibility IMHO; it's Chuck's least progressive work, it's just that people that don't like his typical stuff can actually follow along, and thus it's popular. ITP and TSoP are LIGHTYEARS ahead of any material on Symbolic IMHO; the failure there is every song is essentially the same structure, so it feels too paint-by-numbers to me relative to the other albums. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 03:43
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I'd probably avoid getting any complete discography that I (more or less) don't already have, at least if it's big enough. Of course there's the odd band that has four albums and I only have two that I like and never came around buying the other two, wouldn't complain getting them as a present, but if I had for example Tangerine Dream or King Crimson complete, including live releases and whatever, it would mess up my "random songs" listening big time and somehow "skew" my collection. Sure I appreciate the theoretical chance to test listen to every album somebody has put out, but these days there are enough possibilities to do that on my computer without owning that stuff. Realistically, there is far too much good music out there for me to ever listen to even 5% of it, and the best and most interesting album of a really cool artist I don't know yet will always trump an album ranked 15 among those of somebody I love already.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 04:02
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I can think of three artists in my collection: Semiramis, Cervello and Plat du Jour ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 07:59
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I am a completist so I love this thread. The correct answer is Frank Zappa. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 15:17
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^I could see Zappa...my friend Bill has all the Beefheart stuff.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 06 2021 at 16:38
Beatles....... -------------   
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: July 08 2021 at 00:34
Thanks for that post. I'm usually going back and forth between Leprosy and Individual Thought Patterns for my favorite album. ITP could've used better production, but what we've got is still the most exciting brew of that "jazzy" qualities (can't call it jazz with a straight face), tight riffs, quite complex structures and just ton of hooks. Trapped in a Corner is, basically, one big hook top to bottom. So is Mentally Blind or the title song. I don't want to bash Symbolic but I'd argue it's less adventurous than ITP. We share that opinion I think. Also, most of the riffage is easier to follow, but in return it's more memorable to casual listeners (Crystal Mountain and Zero Tolerance are the best examples). Still a great album. The Sound of Perseverance has Flesh and the Power It Holds, that's one f**king bulldozer on steroids. Love it! ------------- TOP20 Songs https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=124211" rel="nofollow - Genesis https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=125999" rel="nofollow - Rush |