Top 50 prog albums?
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Topic: Top 50 prog albums?
Posted By: JLocke
Subject: Top 50 prog albums?
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 15:21
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Tool - La te ra lus
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
Yes - Relayer
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Tool - Aenima
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yes - Fragile
Ozric Tentacles - Jurrassic shift
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Tool - 10,000 Days
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Revolver
Dream Theater - Octavarium
That's all I can come with
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 16:08
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We have an enormous thread on this somewhere, I think. Otherwise, The Wall should not even be *near* a top 50. I do not think much of Relayer, when compared to other Yes albums, especially Close To The Edge. Things I'd consider highly: Larks' Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson ELP - ELP Close To The Edge - Yes Look At Yourself - Uriah Heep Mirage - Camel Selling England By The Pound - Genesis Nursery Cryme - Genesis To Watch The Storms - Steve Hackett Caress of Steel - Rush 2112 - Rush Love Over Gold - Dire Straits Birds Of Fire - The Mahavishnu Orchestra Per Un Amico - PFM Godbluff - VDGG Aqualung - Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 16:17
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posted mine in a similar thread.. like just the other day... oh wait.. that was songs... all these polls begin to look the same after awhile hahahha. I work one up I guess. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 11:01
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Uh, hard. But fun: Probably forgot some essential ones (to me) 1 Magma: St (Kobaïa) 2 Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom 3 Comus: First Utterance 4 Van Der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts 5 Can: Ege Bamyasi 6 Igor Wakhewitch: Dr. Faust 7 Soft Machine: Third 8 Non-Credo: Happy Wretched Family 9 Area: Caution Radiation Area 10 Gong: You 11 Peter Hammill: Silent Corner and the Empty Stage 12 Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste 13 Art Zoyd: Generations Sans Futur 14 Magma: Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandöh 15 Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso: Darwin! 16 Van Der Graaf Generator: H to He Who am the Only One 17 Cos: Postaolean Train Robbery 18 King Crimson: Red 19 Gentle Giant: Three Friends 20 Genesis: Nursery Cryme 21 Kultivator: Barndomens Stigar 22 Art Bears: The World as it is Today 23 KHA YM: 10 "GMT 24 Dün: Eros 25 Eskaton: 4 Visions 26 Van Der Graaf Generator: Godbluff 27 Tangerine Dream: Alpha Centauri 28 Flamen Dialis: Symptome Dei 29 Guapo: Five Suns 30 Picchio Dal Pozzo: St 31 Balletto Di Bronzo: YZ 32 Amon Düül II: Yeti 33 Can: Tago Mago 34 Premiata Forneria Marconi: Storia Un Minuto 35 Dedalus: Dedalus 36 Cos: Viva Bomba 37 Museo Rosenbach: Zarathustra 38 King Crimson: In The Court of the Crimson King 39 Secret Chiefs 3: Book of Horizons 40 Vortex. Les Cycles de Thanatos 41 Igor Wakhewitch: Hathor 42 Archaïa: Archaia 43 Gnidrolog: In Spite of Harry's Toe Nail 44 Van Der Graaf Generator: The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome 45 Curved Air: Second Album 46 Supersister: Present for Nancy 47 Le Orme: Felona E Sorona 48 Klaus Schulze: X 49 Jethro Tull: Thick As a Brick 50 Spirogyra: St. Radigunds Fefteen more: 51 Pierrot Lunaire: Gudrun 52 Peter Hammill: In Camera 53 The Residents: Mark of the Mole 54 Lacrymosa: Joy of the Wrecked Ship 55 Hatfield and the North: The Rotter's Club 57 National Health: National Health 58 Franco Battiato: Sulle Corde di Aries 59 Metamorfosi: Inferno 60 Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso: Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso 61 Algarnas Tradgard. Delayed 62 Radiohead Amnesiac 63 Frank Zappa:We're In lt in it For the Money 64 Dionne/Bregent: Deux 65 Akasha: Akasha ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 11:16
^ wow... great list 
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 14:57
CttE is amazingly overrated, my friend . . .
 Look, this is all opinions here, so don't say mine isn't correct and yours is . . . it's an OPINION. And in my OPINION, The Wall is the best thing Pink Floyd ever did, and Relayer and Fragile are both ten times better than CttE.
However, I do have to say that you have obviousely been a listener of prog longer than I, so many of the albums you listed I have not yet heard, so this list of mine will undoubtedly change quite a bit in the coming years as I broaden my collection of prog music. I applaude you for varied list, very impressive
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TGM: Orb wrote:Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 15:02
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Wait until I finish posting the ultimate albums list. Then you shall see the true top 50. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 07:03
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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:15
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comus - first utterance bacamarte - depois do fim le orme - felona e sorona ozric tentacles - erpland mr. bungle - disco volante smala mammas pappas - maltid anglagard - hybris genesis - selling england by the pound dun - eros captain beefheart - trout mask replica subject to change, but those are my top 10.
damn, that is impressive. i gotta check out some of those. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/moe_blunts/?chartstyle=minimalDarkRecent"> 
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 15:05
Anything I say in this place is, naturally, my opinion. I acknowledge that I'm not always right and it isn't a case of one album fits all, however, adding imo to every sentence I write seems needless to me unless we're not on a topic where every view is personal and subjective (eg. fastest guitarist or longest song etc). I guess you've confused my list with Rocktopus's, but, if not, thanks for the applause. TBH, I haven't heard any of the prog metal albums you've listed and I tend to go for classic rather than modern prog. I think Close To The Edge is very highly rated because it's very good, some people disagree there. Personally, I enjoy that album as a whole for the lyrics and the combination of more layered sound with more usual solos. I don't like Relayer that much because of The Gates of Delirium, which seems very self-indulgent and somewhat childish to me (the obvious 'battle' between the keyboards and drums fails to impress me, and Anderson's vocals occasionally fail to get me). The music does not at all evoke the concept for me, and the lyrics seem very weak and too prominent to ignore. I know that it's very widely liked, but I only really enjoy the Soon section of that song. Fragile has two problems for me: one is We Have Heaven and its reprise on the end of Heart Of The Sunrise (I really dislike this song, not entirely sure why), and there's too much material that I don't think reaches particularly high levels. I've never understood the widespread love of The Wall, and I generally think it's not reviewed/rated harshly enough and with enough nitpicking compared to other, much stronger (imo ;) ) albums. I have to admit that there are some *amazing* moments on it, but overall I think a masterpiece should be a flawless conceptual and musical work, and if it's got at least two songs (Vera and Bring The Boys Back Home) which are almost universally considered weak and have (as far as I can tell) no need to be there or any real advancement of the concept. I don't particularly like the concept, and I think that the lyrics aren't up to scratch with Waters' other material, but I'm in a serious minority here. /semi-rant. I actually have compulsions to attack Relayer and The Wall whenever I see them, or at least justify why I dislike them. I can't really do that without a review, though. Sorry for sidetracking the thread. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 18:38
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1Yes - Fragile
2Yes - The Yes Album 3Yes - CTTE 4Yes - TFTO 4Yes - Relayer 5Pink Floyd - Animals 6Pink Floyd - WYWH 7Pink Floyd - DSOTM 8Pink Floyd - Meddle 9ELP - ELP 10ELP - Tarkus 11ELP - Trilogy 12King Crimson - ITCOTCK 13King Crimson - Lizard 14King Crimson - Red 15King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic 16Genesis - Foxtrot 17Genesis - SEBTP 18Genesis - LLDOB 19Genesis - Trick of the Tail 20Jethro Tull - TAAB 21Jethro Tull - APP 22Gentle Giant - Octopus 23Gentle Giant - Free Hand 24Gentle Giant - Three Friends 25Uriah Heep - Salisbury 26Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards 27Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday 28Camel - Mirage 29Dire Straits - Love Over Gold 30Jean Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean 31Billy Cobham - Spectrum 32Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mountain Flame 33Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 34Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior 35Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters 36Flower Kings - Sum of no Evil 37The Beatles - Revolver 38The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers 39The Beatles - Abbey Road 40The Beatles - White Album 41Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures 42Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation 43Frank Zappa - Freak Out 44Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage 45The Who - Quadrophenia 46The Who - Tommy 47Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth 48Jon Lord - Windows 49Weather Report - Heavy Weather 50Santana - Abraxas - Santana - Love Devotion |