Metal Edge's "Top 25 Prog Albums"
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Topic: Metal Edge's "Top 25 Prog Albums"
Posted By: Josh_M
Subject: Metal Edge's "Top 25 Prog Albums"
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 21:58
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25: Marillion - Misplaced Childhood 24: Shadow Gallery - Tyranny 23: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing 22: The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet 21: Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy 20: Queensryche - Rage for Order 19: Watchtower - Control and Resistance 18: Atheist - Unquestionable Presence 17: Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients 16: Cynic - Focus 15: Death - Symbolic 14: Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force 13: Crimson Glory - Transcendence 12: Tiamat - Wildhoney 11: Rush - 2112 10: Tool - Aenima 09: King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska 08: Opeth - Blackwater Park 07: Voivod - Nothingface 06: Meshuggah - DEI 05: Atheist - Piece of Time 04: Dream Theater - Images and Words 03: Fates Warning - No Exit 02: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 01: Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime ------------- Always the summers are slipping away. |
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 22:03
 A very interesting list considering the source. It's nice to see Rush on there, but it's very interesting to see Queensryche in the top spot. Maybe prog metal albums? But I wouldn't call Marillion a metal band.How did Malmsteen get on there!?  |
Posted By: Josh_M
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 22:07
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There are a lot of odd choices on there.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 22:07
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lol
ITT not the 1970's ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 22:14
understatement  |
Josh_M wrote:Posted By: KeleCableII
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 22:49
| No Pain of Salvation on a best prog metal list? Shame. :/ |
Posted By: Endless Wire
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 22:55
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You'd think at least King Crimson would qualify as prog metal... ------------- . |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 23:10
Well it's mopre than obvious that in place called METAL Edge the list of prog albums would be mostly prog-METAL albums...
What's a surprise are some of these choices...
Most albums are OK, great or excellent, but the order is complete chaos...
One day we have to come with the top-25 (at least) prog-METAL albums of all time... ------------- 
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 23:39
Well, it's obvious ... Not even one staff member at metal edge magazine has spent any time here whatsoever
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: June 08 2008 at 23:55
| Surprising to see Symbolic on there. That's usually the Death album that is least liked of their prog-metal era. I mean I think its a great album, but thats just weird. |
Posted By: Josh_M
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 00:04
lol ------------- Always the summers are slipping away. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 00:40
I think it's an excellent list. For me this is about spreading the prog message to people who may not know anything about it. Porcupine Tree,The Gathering and Marillion may be bands that a lot of metal-heads know nothing about. Maybe it's because a top 50 list is what got me into prog in the first place that i feel this way. Anyway it's hard to take lists like this too serious, it's fun to read and talk about though. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 00:46
In all fairness, Malmsteen's music has actually been pretty influential on metal, more so than some people believe and he has obviously been a huge inspiration to lots of virtuoso guitarists, in the metal genre and outside as well obviously. ------------- 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 00:49
Read the thread on Prog Metal pioneers first. Pretty much everyone with a lot of metal knowledge on here concluded KC is definitely not metal, let alone prog metal. -------------
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Posted By: WinterLight
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 03:17
All indisputable facts, of course. Moreover, there is some merit to the argument that Malmsteen is progressive: using a baroque approach that could shame even the finest of prog bands, he is one of the vanguards of neoclassicism in modern metal |
Posted By: Demonoid
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 05:41
My thoughts  The orders are screwed up a bit, and number one is definitely TPE1 or Images & words.(I'd go with the former) Remedy Lane and Scenes from a memory can also be added to the list. I really like the inclusion of watchtower, Atheist, Cynic, Death and King's X. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 06:39
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not a bad list. actually.... think Symphony X's album should have been much higher..
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 06:56
| I just wonder in which way Misplaced Childhood is a prog-metal album... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 08:54
| I would ask the same thing for Deadwing. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 09:41
^ it says "Top 25 Prog Albums" ... not "Prog Metal". My guess is that the list is compiled from the favorite prog albums of the editors of the magazine ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 10:54
You'r a Symphony X fan!  Thats a bigger shock than finding out you like Opeth and Mastodon.Wrong Gathering album in that list IMO, they should have gone with Mandylion ir If_Then_Else, the title track on How to Measure a Planet is about twice as long as it should have been. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 13:44
| Almost invalid list even if it was supposed to limit on prog metal. It features some albums that I really like, though. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 16:20
I guess I am a man of many surprises ... I've mentioned it a few times around the forum... I was exposed to them and DT about the same time.. and there was no comparison. Enjoyed the hell out of Symphony X and DT.. well.... I didn't take to them at all. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: June 09 2008 at 21:46
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Well I'm assuming it's a 25 best prog metal albums considering the magazine is "Metal Edge". I don't agree with it that much though. Images & Words should've been 2 or 3 and Deadwing should've been MUCH higher ranked. ------------- 
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Posted By: decypher
Date Posted: June 10 2008 at 20:37
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nice list, definitely from someone who was more in the 80's prog metal. great to see Crimson Glory, they are so underrated. Yngwie's debut actually was really good with some nice almost prog metallish stuff like "now your ships are burned" - far ahead of anything that followed. Some slight changes: Perfect Symmetry instead of No Exit and WatchTower on 1. Dream Theaters WDADU instead of Images and Words and ditch Symphony X for Mercyful Fate or King Diamond, and because it's really getting 80's I think Sieges Even's Steps would be better there instead of Tool. |
Posted By: GentleGiantLover
Date Posted: June 12 2008 at 22:41
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Posted By: preqT0THEseq7
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 14:46
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Images and Words shouldn't be on the list. Scenes From a Memory of 6 Degrees if any Dream Theater Album. Between the Buried and Me - Colors should be top 10. Deadwing should be top 5. ------------- Idk, My BFF Steve. http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: preqT0THEseq7
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 14:47
They picked it because it is the best...IMO Besides Damnation ------------- Idk, My BFF Steve. http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 21:23
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Oh, my god, we're not going to allow them to have their own opinions on OUR music, now, eh !!! It is surprising, given that they list it as Prog and not prog metal. Nice to see King's X there, though. As for King Crimson, today's metal scene has left them behind, except for some Tool fans. Too bad, cause their last few albums are quite metallish in the guitar sound. ------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 22:05
No worries Debrew, I'm not a huge tool fan by any means, yet I still listen to KC on a daily basis -------------
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Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 22:06
Colors is still to new.
Also, Images & Words was the beautiful start of a new prog metal many people think..including myself. -------------
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Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 22:07
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I'm just getting into DT via Images & Words and Scenes from a Memory. I was going to start up a thread asking what upset people here at PA about PA, but then I didn't want to restart what I read were very , ahem, "heated" debates. Bad enough we still have some that want to fire up the anti-Phil Collins machine.
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 11:04
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If i wanted to know what prog was and i saw that list,i would never want to investigate further. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 12:47
Yes, except let odd = stupid. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: 7540113804746400000
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 10:43
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most of the bands on the list seem right, just the placement and albums chosen to represent them were a little off ------------- I'm enormously powerful and handsome |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 21:57
What no Jethro Tull ? (what about the Grammy!)  ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 22:24
Oh no... they're only metal whem compared to Metallica.... -------------
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 22:29
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That has to be one of the dumbest gags in the history of TV music award shows. Poor Ian had to constantly remind live audiences that their ears were about to explode "with this next little tune". Tull should have received a Grammy for best humour during a concert but the judges (sic) would have probably anointed Lars "the dour Dane" Ulrich with the trophy (So that he can stick it up his conga ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: July 13 2008 at 00:03
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Why there are so few prog albums on that list? |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: July 13 2008 at 19:07
I think PA has gotten that same comment on various top 100 lists, including to top 100 of all. One variation is "real prog" ------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: July 13 2008 at 19:37
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It it just me or does the singer in Symphony X sound like Tommy Shaw at times ?
------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 14:12
| I think the magazine is wrong when it says "prog albums" those are prog metal albums, they should have used this label no matter if they are a metal magazine in order to avoid confusion.In my country there is also this misunderstanding , when you say progessive rock they name : "Oh yes DT Pos Opeth".I mean thats progressive metal , no classic prog. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: July 21 2008 at 12:02
| Should this not have been "Top 24 Prog Metal Albums...., oh, plus Misplaced Childhood"? |