RECORD CATALOGUE:

1. Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky
2. Anderson, Jon – Song of Seven
3. Asia – Asia
4. Auger, Brian – Closer to it!
5. Auger, Brian – Live Oblivion, Vol. II
6. Average White Band – Cut the Cake
7. Ayers, Roy – You Might Be Surprised
8. Beck, Jeff – Blow by Blow
9. Beck, Jeff – With The Jan Hammer Group
10. Benson, George – Breezin’
11. Benson, George – Give Me the Night
12. Bromberg, David – David Bromberg
13. Chicago – Chicago
14. Chicago – Chicago Transit Authority
15. Clarke, Stanley – Stanley Clarke
16. Clarke, Stanley – School Days
17. Clarke, Stanley and George Duke – The Clarke/Duke Project
18. Cobham, Billy – Crosswinds
19. Corea, Chick – Return to Forever
20. Corea, Chick – The Mad Hatter
21. Deodato – Prelude
22. Coryell, Larry – Spaces
23. DiMeola, Al – Elegant Gypsy
24. DiMeola, Al – Casino
25. Doobie Brothers, The – Takin’ It to the Streets
26. Duke, George – Reach For It
27. Earth, Wind, and Fire – Raise
28. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
29. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Trilogy
30. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
31. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
32. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Works Volume I
33. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
34. Frampton, Peter – Frampton Comes Alive!
35. Franks, Michael – Passionfruit
36. Gaye, Marvin – I Want You
37. Genesis – Trespass
38. Genesis – Nursery Cryme
39. Genesis – Foxtrot
40. Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
41. Genesis – Trick of the Tail
42. Genesis – Wind and Wuthering
43. Genesis – Abacab
44. Genesis – Genesis
45. Gershwin, George – An American in Paris
46. Hackett, Steve – Spectral Mornings
47. Hancock, Herbie – Man-Child
48. Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced?
49. Jamal, Ahmed – At The Pershing
50. Kenton, Stan – Adventures in Jazz
51. Led Zeppelin – IV
52. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
53. Jethro Tull – A Passion Play
54. Jethro Tull – War Child
55. Jones, Quincy – The Dude
56. Journey – Infinity
57. Kansas – Leftoverture
58. King Crimson – Discipline
59. Mahavishnu Orchestra, The – Inner Mounting Flame
60. Mangione, Chuck – Children of Sanchez
61. Mangione, Chuck – Feels So Good
62. Metheny, Pat – Bright Size Life
63. Metheny, Pat – American Garage
64. Metheny, Pat and Lyle Mays – As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
65. Mann, Herbie – Push Push
66. Mann, Herbie – Reggae
67. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
68. Moody Blues, The – In Search of the Lost Chord
69. Moody Blues, The – Long Distance Voyager
70. Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells
71. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
72. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
73. Pink Floyd – Animals
74. Ponty, Jean-Luc – Imaginary Voyage
75. Ponty, Jean-Luc – Enigmatic Ocean
76. Renaissance – Azure D’Or
77. Return To Forever – Where Have I Known You Before
78. Return To Forever – Romantic Warrior
79. Rundgren, Todd – Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
80. Rundgren, Todd – Something/Anything
81. Rundgren, Todd – Back to the Bars
82. Rush – 2112
83. Rush – A Farewell to Kings
84. Rush – Hemispheres
85. Rush – Permanent Waves
86. Rush – Moving Pictures
87. Rush – Signals
88. Rush – Grace Under Pressure
89. Rush – Hold Your Fire
90. Rush – Feedback
91. Sade – Promise
92. Santana – Abraxas
93. Santana – Moonflower
94. Spyro Gyra – Morning Dance
95. Squire, Chris – Fish out of Water
96. Steely Dan – Aja
97. Supertramp – Famous Last Words…
98. Supertramp – Brother Where You Bound
99. Tangerine Dream – Encore

(100+)

0. Tangerine Dream – Tangram
1. Tangerine Dream – Exit
2. Triumph – Allied Forces
3. Vitous, Miroslav – First Meeting
4. Washington Jr., Grover – Winelight
5. Watrous, Bill – Manhattan Wildlife Refuge
6. Weather Report – Weather Report
7. Weather Report – Sweetnighter
8. Weather Report – Black Market
9. Weather Report – Heavy Weather
10. Weather Report – Procession
11. Weather Report – Sportin’ Life
12. White, Lenny – Big City
13. Winston, George – Winter Into Spring
14. Winston, George – December
15. Yes – The Yes Album
16. Yes – Fragile
17. Yes – Close to the Edge
18. Yes – Yessongs
19. Yes – Tales from Topographic Oceans
20. Yes – Going for the One
21. Yes – Tormato
22. Yes – 90125
23. Yes – Leave It
    

it's not bad obviously, you have a whole bunch of great stuff!

but because the albums i like most are missing (early camel stuff, u only have one king crimson album? , godspeed you! black emperor, caravan, soft machine (you don't seem to be that much into canterbury, do you?)) I'll only give it "average". But it's prog-fan average! way better than "normal" people's collections! Please don't misunderstand that!

You're definitely missing the early Camel, Marillion, Floyd and Gong albums - and you NEED ITCOTCK.

Pretty good, otherwise

P.S. No Hawkwind?

great collection, You have of most great bands some albums, but not their best. There's room to expand. (get a bigger house)

BTW do you like every album you have?

Good collection!

Good to see so many Rush, Genesis & Yes albums. It looks a bit like my collection in that respect.

I've no George Benson, but a fair amount of Madonna and Jacko records..

Richard's right.. no record collection is complete without ITCOTCK.

Also I'd get ELP-Tarkus, ELP - Pictures, and Yes-Relayer, as well as Pink Floyd - Meddle... all pretty easy to still get on vinyl thru ebay....

My record collection;

Westlife - Best of Westlife

Robert Fripp - Sings 20 Westlife Greats.

Did I miss anything? 

Very traditional collection - lots of prog classics.  You'd probably enjoy the Italian scene I would wager, so check out PFM, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Picchio Dal Pozzo.

PFM and Banco have done English versions of some albums if you cant bare the thought of Italian, but I would try to stick to the originals.

Storia Di Un Minuto (no translation); Per Un Amico (English version: 'Photos Of Ghosts' with extra instrumental track Old Rain); L'Isola De Niente (English version: 'The World Became The World), and Chocolate Kings (already in English) are all exceptional.  Beware the English lyrics though - predominantly written by Pete Sinfield, who decided that rather than translate Pagani's original poetry, he'd make something else up - and, as you can imagine, its mostly nonsense about windmills, fairies, and pixie treehouses (a minor exaggeration there...).  They got rid of him for CHocolate Kings and got an Italian poetess to help contribute to what are some really poignant and prophetic lyrics.

Banco's 1st album (of the same name), Darwin, and Io Sono Nato Libero are widely regarded as their most innovative and enjoyable works.  I think Nato Libero was re-recorded in English, but cant remember now.

Both bands drew heavily on English influences, but added a much more classical atmosphere to their music, with a tendency towards the gentle and ambient, rather than the bombastic and flamboyant, as bands like ELP, VDGG etc. had a propensity to become at times.

Also, if you like Tangerine Dream, try Neu!, Can, and possibly even Art Zoyd. Either of the Amon Duul's may hold interest for you too.  I suppose the message is, if you're looking for something new, try Italy and Germany...

Its good but not my tastes

Not enough Kraut/Space/Psych rock

oh, i didn't notice that it's only records..... then it's a great collection, of course, since i don't have any vinyls ....(my father has tons though)

But I'm still missing Canterbury, Krautrock, post-rock

How come you don't have more King Crimson or Camel stuff? Did you hear it at a friend's house and didn't like it? Or haven't you even tried it yet?

Also i think that our tastes differ quite a lot. Genesis, Yes, Rush and ELP aren't even in my top 5 bands

Good records! (I'm unclear, do you mean Vinyls/CD's/tapes/whatever or just vinyls).  You NEED to expand on your Marillion, KC,  FRANK ZAPPA!!??,  Alan Parsons, Rush (get all of them), and maybe a few more.  You have the LEAST essential Jimi Hendrix.  Get "Band Of Gypsys" and "Electric Lady Land", you will enjoy those!!  If you like Steely Dan's "Aja" get "Pretzel Logic", "Gaucho" and "Countdown to Ecstacy"  Weird you have no "The Mothers/Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa" albums!?  Get "Burnt Weeny Sandwhich", "Hot Rats", and "We're only in it for the mone".  Wheres your Peter Gabriel!!!! Get "III", "VI"," plays live" and "UP^^^^"  NIce to see you have some TODD.  But I don't see "A Wizard/ ATRue Star", "Todd", "Inintiation", or "Healing"  They are the definitive Todd records. At least you have "Back to the bars"(my dad was at the cleveland show")  Anyways I may be wrong 'cuz you might just be talking about vinyls, I dunno?

You got me thinking about my collection,  I was half temted to post it

My collection is too embarrassingly small to post.

P.S.......Journey..Infinity?!?...and you had the guts to admit to owning that one....eh?

BebieM wrote: Also i think that our tastes differ quite a lot. Genesis, Yes, Rush and ELP aren't even in my top 5 bands

Then you should be ashamed of yourself !!!

sigod wrote: My record collection; Westlife - Best of Westlife Robert Fripp - Sings 20 Westlife Greats.   Did I miss anything?

No you got it all covered there, mate!

Similar to my collection actually:

'Lemmy sings Celine Dion'

'Rod, Jane & Freddy sing the hits of Rennaisance (on Methadone)'

What else can a true progger ask for?

threefates wrote: Then you should be ashamed of yourself !!!

I am!    Maybe I exaggerated a bit, I love all these bands (and Genesis probably is one of my top5 bands), but others are even better

Congratulations!  Although you list a lot of bands that I don't like (I learned to hate Chicago in high school, and I will continue to do so 'til the day I die), and you're missing a ton of bands that I do like, I voted "good" for the simple reason that you HAVE a record collection.  I've got nothing against CDs (I might have more than 500) but there is something inherently wonderful about vinyl.  And I'm not just talking about sound quality.

How long have you been working on your collection?  I bought my first vinyl album in 1979, Steve Martin's Wild And Crazy Guy.  I still have it.  My first music album was Styx's Pieces Of Eight.  They are still a guilty pleasure for me.  Styx led to ELO led to Supertramp led to Kansas etc. etc. until now I'm into Faust, Frank Zappa, Soft Machine...  (and that's just some of the proggie stuff).

I've been very surprised lately to see some of the eBay prices for records that I bought new in the '80s.  And I've picked up a few used records at library fund-raising sales (and such) for $1 that sell for around $60 or more.

I've bought most of mine new, and I run on $15 a week, so I can get one a week. I'm asking for like 20 for X-mas, though, and I already have most essential prog stuff (In the Court of the CK evades me still! --but it's at the top of my X-mas list). Even though I've been collecting for only a half-year, I still have quite a bit (about 30-35, maybe 40) of CDs. No LPs. No cassettes. They don't count, because there's no way I could listen to them but from the living room, and my parents usually don't wanna hear it.

I ought to take up eBay.

Sweetnighter wrote: I should also mention how much I love finding records. I love the hunt as much as I love the game, really. Someday I'll be in an old record store, searching through a box of records that they recently got in, and in a sea of the typical barbara streissand, neil diamond, rod stewart... suddenly that one album that I've been searching for for so long will appear, and what a rush! Its great, and its really addictive.

That's happened to me a few times.  Doesn't happen often but I don't have as much time or money to devote to my hobby as I'd like.  My most memorable find was probably at a charity record sale in Buffalo, NY.  Their local NPR station used to have a yearly sale called Vinyl Madness.  Records were $1 each.  I found Brian Eno's no wave compilation No New York in mint- condition.  I also found an original copy of Zappa's Uncle Meat there one year, with the book.

From time to time I actually dream about record hunting.  It's never a good dream, though.  I'm usually desparately searching through loads of crap and coming up with nothing.

Sweetnighter wrote: Oh yeah, for anybody here who might know, where can you get new vinyl online?

You could try

http://www.midightrecords.com - www.midightrecords.com

http://www.subterranean.org - www.subterranean.org

http://www.lpnow.com - www.lpnow.com

If you live near Pittsburgh, PA you should go to Jerry's Records ( http://www.jerrysrecords.com - www.jerrysrecords.com ).  They have a TON of the more common used records at reasonable prices.  They have rarer stuff too, but it's really a good place to sample some old records that you might not have heard.

I'd also suggest, if you want to get serious about record collecting, subscribing to Goldmine and/or Discoveries magazines (not sure the latter is still around, though).

WELL FOR A START PRETTY SMALL IF THATS IT BUT YOU GOTTA START SOMEWHERE YOUR COLLECTION IS 50/50 SOME GREAT SUFF AND SOME REAL CLUNKERS

WELL I GUESS YOU WANTED AN HONEST OPINION....DINT YOU? 

I'm not going to repeat what others said. Errm, let me add that you need some more Canterbury / fusion. Well, BebieM already said somethig about it. You need some Hatfield and The North, National Health, Bruford...