Albums You Own In The Top 100
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Topic: Albums You Own In The Top 100
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: Albums You Own In The Top 100
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 15:46
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Hi, just wondering to see how big everyone else's prog collection is and if this website really influences their buying of prog albums. Also, just out of interest, I wanted to see how many albums you own in the current top 100 rated albums. I personally own 30 out of the 100 and this website has definitely had some level of influence on my prog album choices. Before I knew about this website I probably owned about half of that  Looking forward to seeing how many you own!
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 15:54
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I own all the Top 20 have 70 of the top 100, my main gaps are in Prog Metal & Neo. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 16:03
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I have the top 12, and a total of 50 of the current top 100. -------------  
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 16:14
| I have 43 as of now. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 16:43
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Fun question! I have 57 total. I did get 19 of the top 20 (curse you Banco  ) and have every Symphonic Prog and Psych/Spacerock album! My downfall genres are Progressive Metal where I go 0/6 (sorry Nick), Crossover Prog where I go 1/5 and Jazz Rock/Fusion where I go 2/7 with a couple Mahavishnu albums and 0 Miles Davis/Al DiMeola.------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 18:50
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I got 54 of the top 100 and the top 11. No italian prog or canterbury ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/thamazingbender" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 20:27
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I have 82. (No Rush, no Opeth, no Dream Theater, no Pain of Salvation, no Lizard, only two Zappas) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 20:37
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Apparently I have 64. The top 100 has changed a fair amount since I last looked at it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 20:57
We must have very similar albums as I'm also missing Rush, Opeth, DT, POS & some Zappa. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 21:16
| Just over half, I have 51 |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 21:45
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73 of 100. 28 of the top 30, including the top 22. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 22:21
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8 of the top 10 11 of the top 20 23 of the top 50 24 of the top 100 Wow, I only own 1 of the 51-100 group (ELP's debut). It seems to me that I own many of the 'prog essentials' and from there it's just personal preference, or random albums. If I buy an album from a band I've never heard before and generally like it, I tend to purchase the rest of their discography before I pursue other new bands. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 15 2013 at 22:48
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73 out of 100.....all of the first 22.
I'm missing a lot of prog metal and some of the newer bands. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 07:32
| 41. I'm so lame. The only ones I've gotten within the last 20 years are by Big Big Train, Porcupine Tree and Mars Volta. Most I got over 30 years ago. I guess I'm slowing down a little. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 08:35
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At least 70-80, 50 of them before I even discovered PA.
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Posted By: schizoidman
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 09:51
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I have 34 of the Top 100. Don't enjoy Krautrock, Progressive Metal, RIO/Avant-Prog, Tech/Extreme Prog Metal, Zeuhl and Canterbury Scene all that much, so, that's where the gaps are. ------------- Making the useless useful 24/7. |
Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 10:04
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23 just counting my cd collection. Closer to 30 if I count my LP's that have been stashed away for the last 20 years or so.
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 11:34
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Thick as a Brick Dark Side of the Moon Fragile Crime of the Century Lateralus Definitely need more. I'd probably start with Opeth and Edge of Sanity. Then King Crimson, more Tull, Gentle Giant, Townsend, Focus, Rush, Floyd, Genesis... in addition to the dozens of other non top-100s I want. All I can say is I hope I get some iTunes cards or music store giftcards for my birthday or christmas. Or I might actually have to spend my own money.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 12:46
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I have 77 of the top 100. As for how much this website has influenced my buying, I have getting on for 1000 albums now and most of them would have been discovered through PA.
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 17:40
Don't forget about Van der Graaf Generator |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 19:19
Wiser council I have rarely seen  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 20:45
Why thank you sir So Hemispheres, not sure how you feel about peer pressure, but..... well, you can trust the two of us. We'd never steer you wrong But in all seriousness, don't pass up that group. Everyone is divided on them, but there's something significantly respectable about music that so pointedly forces you to take a side. |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: October 16 2013 at 20:46
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14. ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 11:00
Okay, okay--I'll check them out a bit more. I was shifting from classic prog to tech metal when I first tried them out so I wasn't paying that much attention at the time.
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 13:24
Hey Hemispheres, if you find yourself in a classic prog mood, go after Pawn Hearts first. It's in my top 3 all time prog albums and I believe it's VDGG's finest work. "The Least We Can Do" and "H to He" are also great albums when you're in a classic prog frame of mind. If you're looking for a harsher sound, go after "Godbluff", "Still Life", and "World Record"... Have fun  "Maelstrom of my memory is a vampire and it feeds on me, now staggering madly over the brink I fall" - Peter Hammill ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 13:40
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I have 75 of the top 100. Just filled out 5 of them last week with an Italian prog purchase. Ordered 3 from PFM and 2 from Banco. Received them a couple of days ago, but haven't listened to them yet. Prior to that I finally got Godbluff a couple of months ago. It was pretty good. I've not really been able to get into VDGG. I don't care for the cat strangling saxophone from H to He and Pawn Hearts. Their first two albums were pretty good though. I've not heard Still Life yet.
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 14:16
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The sax tone on Still Life is slightly less obtrusive than the others. It's all-around a much more mature release. You might like it. It's the definitive "grower" album. |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 14:32
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Any recommendations from the 51-100 range? I've heard of many of the bands in that range, such as Gentle Giant, Hatfield, Discipline, Pain of Salvation, and Mars Volte, among others. However ELP is the only album I have from there, and Camel is the only other one I've listened to. Suggestions? PA top 100 can't be too wrong (accept possibly recent albums). Everyone has a say here. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 17:23
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^You can't go wrong with these 4 for starters. Hatfield and the North- s/t Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element Discipline- To Shatter All Accord maudlin of the Well- Part the Second ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 17:43
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My top recommendations from the 2nd 50 are:- Zappa - Grand Wazoo Caravan - Land Of Grey & Pink Magma - KA Gong - You Hatfield - s/t Gentle Giant - Octopus Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Tool - Laterus Porcupine Tree - In Absentia ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 18:09
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Just curious......is there anyone on the board who has all 100....? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 18:18
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Hey Metalmarsh89, here's my must-have list from 51+ Still Life - VDGG Power and the Glory - Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste - Gentle Giant Voyage of the Acolyte - Hackett ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 18:50
I'm also going to throw my 2 cents in here and emphatically suggest Opeth's Ghost Reveries. It's in my top 5 and is a true desert island album for me. I can't brag on it enough! Blackwater Park is good too. And so is The Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra. Second Life Syndrome by Riverside is one that seems to fluctuate between the upper and lower 50 quite often, so I don't know if you'd be including that or not, but if so, I highly recommend that one too. The others I'd recommend have already been suggested by others who beat me to the punch |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 19:17
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I would add these 3 from the later half of the list
ELP-same
Renaissance-Scheherazade
Khan-same ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 19:19
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In the Land of Grey and Pink and Mekanik Destrukiw Kommandoh are probably the two must not miss albums in the second 50. -------------
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 19:22
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: October 18 2013 at 21:16
^Really, dude...
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: October 19 2013 at 00:11
I'll join in too. Take notice of the albums that keep reappearing in different people's lists. Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo Magma - K.A. Gong - You Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory Hatfield & The North -s/t Le Orme - Felona e Sonora Tangerine Dream - Rubycon The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium Tool - Lateralus Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again..... Soft Machine - Third Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Cthulhu42
Date Posted: October 19 2013 at 20:25
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31here. And like Metalmarsh, they're almost all in the first half of the list; the only ones I have from 60 and below are the two PT albums and the Tool one. |
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: October 19 2013 at 23:23
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[QUOTE=Metalmarsh89] Any recommendations from the 51-100 range? I've heard of many of the bands in that range, such as Gentle Giant, Hatfield, Discipline, Pain of Salvation, and Mars Volte, among others. However ELP is the only album I have from there, and Camel is the only other one I've listened to. Suggestions? PA top 100 can't be too wrong (accept possibly recent albums). Everyone has a say here. [/QUOTE] I could recommend a lot of them.
Deloused for starters. It's probably the best and most unique prog metal album out there. Then Riverside and Pain of Salvation, as they are also really great prog metal bands with great albums, although Riverside tends to drift more Floydian and Pain of Salvation goes towards stuff like Fates Warning and such. Both albums are definite must haves though. If you're into more traditional metal or just a fan of concept albums, Operation: Mindcrime is a must have. It's up there with The Wall if you ask me. Misplaced Childhood is definitely the best neo-prog album and neoprog tends to be kind of divisive in the community so if you're into that kind of thing you should go for it, and if you've never heard any well this is probably the album to start. That or Clutching at Straws which somehow didn't make the cut. Also Scheherazade is an amazing album, at least listen to the ending song on it because it's simply a beautiful piece of honest symphonic prog. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/thamazingbender" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: October 19 2013 at 23:40
I do, but that's because I don't really care about physical copies and tend to just use iTunes or burn my uncle's copies (he has most of them as well). I haven't listened to all of them.
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: October 20 2013 at 16:16
| Lots of suggestions. Thanks PA. I hope I'm not the only one it helps. |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: October 20 2013 at 16:17
Thanks... Troll |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: October 21 2013 at 13:33
| 56 if I counted correctly. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: October 21 2013 at 15:20
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1, 3, 5, 14, 15, 21, 25, 28, 32, 40, 48, 50, 54, 61, 90, 97, 98. Several others are on my wishlist
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Posted By: Codera the Great
Date Posted: October 21 2013 at 16:25
| I currently have 26 albums from the Top 100. |
Posted By: honganji
Date Posted: October 22 2013 at 23:46
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I own 84 except these albums.
Miles Davis / Kind Of Blue Peter Hammill / The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage Rush / A Farewell To Kings Opeth / Still Life Haken / The Mountain Van Der Graaf Generator / H To He, Who Am The Only One Opeth / Blackwater Park Pain Of Salvation / The Perfect Element Part I Tool / Lateralus Porcupine Tree / In Absentia Pain Of Salvation / Remedy Lane Gentle Giant / Acquiring The Taste Edge Of Sanity / Crimson Caravan / If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You Nucleus / We'll Talk About It Later Maudin Of The Well / Part The Second |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 07:37
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39 out 100. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 08:46
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Hi,
I'm a geek.
56 out of that list. But I don't need to buy Rush or Kansas to inflate my collection, though. ------------- 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: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 11:40
Hmmm...only 56.....from your comments about prog and your posts I assumed you would have more than that.
Just curious....what don't you like about Rush and Kansas?
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 15:21
Since you already have Pawn Hearts/Godbluff/Still Life you just have to get your hands on these two  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 15:34
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I own most of them, although I'm missing a few metal and neo ones. Gotta stress this though: the real fun starts when one goes exploring beyond the confines of it. I myself have an affinity for Krautrock, RPI, RIO and electronic - yet there is almost nothing of those varieties featured on the top 100 (No Tago Mago or Yeti?!?!?!). I know why - people like to stick with what they know - and what others know, and I don't have any problems with being part of a minority that likes to listen to strange/weird/obtrusive music. My point remains that people should sample stuff outside of the top. I have at least 200 albums that I personally think could make a brilliant top list - and none of them are included in the current ------------- “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: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 18:45
Same here. I've got most of the top 20, being that they're essentially must-own albums, but after that, it's mainly personal preference. I'm also somewhat of a completionist, so I'll buy all of one band's albums before I check out a new band sometimes.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 22:50
btw..I pulled out Tago Mago and Monster Movie the other day to revisit them.....and Yeti is my favorite Amon Duul 2.
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: October 23 2013 at 22:58
As per norm, Our favorite Dane is dead on correct! I also have little interest in metal (no Opeth except for damnation, no DT at all). I prefer electronic, space, RPI, neo, symphonic. I could also put together a top 200 without the 'usual suspects'. This IS a popularity contest !
I have 63  ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 06:54
Yeah, while I have 73 of the top 100 my personal top 100 is a very different list. Only 25 of my top 100 is on the site top 100. My top 20 only has 5 of the site top 100 in it. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 07:02
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Good one, I discovered I need to buy more classics I have only 18! But then, if you go to Symphonic, one of my favorites, I have another different 18 albums ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com 
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Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 09:55
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Just 9. The highest-ranked album I have is Wish You Were Here, at No. 4. Also (going slightly off-topic) very pleasantly surprised to see SW's Raven ranked so highly on the all-time list (No. 27).
Come to think of it, where are Brain Salad Surgery and Tarkus, two albums which I thought were among the most highly regarded in prog? 4, 7, 9, 27, 39, 43, 45, 80 & 87.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 11:10
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Cool to see so many who feel the same way about this. There's so much incredible music to be found outside of the top lists - one just have to look for it and at times take a chance with something unfamiliar. Roedent: ELP has always been a rather polarising act on here. If you go to the page of Brain Salad Surgery and take a look at the reviews, you'll see a lot of 5 and 1 stars. Just like Amon Düül ll or CAN come to think of it. These acts seem to sport equal measures of fans and folks who are repulsed by them - go figure. Anyway, that's why an act like ELP, who by many are seen as one of the pivotal names of the initial prog wave, isn't included on the top 100. Anyway, who cares? Music is not sports. ------------- “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: zravkapt
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 12:13
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As long as Kind Of Blue is anywhere in the Top 100 list I can't take it seriously. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: May 11 2014 at 16:30
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Bump - up to 44 now!
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Posted By: LittleMilton
Date Posted: May 12 2014 at 09:56
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36
mostly the classic rock albums
with Discipline and Kid A
thrown in for good measure
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Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: May 12 2014 at 10:31
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In the Top 100, I own 67.
------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: May 12 2014 at 10:58
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I have 39 of 100 ------------- https://blankspacerecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Blank Space Records |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: May 15 2014 at 16:16
| 33 of 100 |
Posted By: CharlesPL
Date Posted: May 16 2014 at 23:39
| 69/100 |
Posted By: The Jester
Date Posted: May 19 2014 at 03:11
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From the first 20 I have 19. (I don't own only this: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=170" rel="nofollow - Io Sono Nato Libero http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=36" rel="nofollow - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso) From the rest I own 44. So total: 63... ------------- If anybody wants please visit: http://www.gfreedomathina.blogspot.com/ This is my Blog mostly about Rock music, but also a few other things as well. You are most welcome! Thank you. :) |