prog album compilation: how to even this list out?

Update (05/14/2006):
Well, I ultimately decided to split up my list into two: One for 70's prog-rock and one for modern prog-rock. Here are how the final lists are shaping up:

70's prog:
(1969) king crimson - in the court of the crimson king
(1970) van der graaf generator - h to he who am the only one
(1971) caravan - in the land of grey and pink
(1972) gentle giant - octopus
(1972) yes - close to the edge
(1973) emerson lake & palmer - brain salad surgery
(1973) mahavishnu orchestra - birds of fire
(1974) camel - mirage
(1975) pink floyd - wish you were here
(1976) genesis - a trick of the tail
(1977) jethro tull - songs from the wood
(1978) jethro tull - heavy horses
(1979) pink floyd - the wall
(1981) rush - moving pictures
(1983) marillion - script for a jester's tear

Modern prog:
(1992) anglagard - hybris
(1992) dream theater - images & words
(1999) dream theater - metropolis part 2 scenes from a memory
(1999) liquid tension experiment - liquid tension experiment 2
(2001) pain of salvation - the perfect element i
(2001) tool - lateralus
(2002) pain of salvation - remedy lane
(2002) porcupine tree - in absentia
(2004) ayreon - the human equation
(2005) opeth - ghost reveries
(2005) riverside - second life syndrome

Pretty decent, or needs a lot of work?

Original Post:
(I had to change the topic from "top 5 albums" to this one since the discussion - as well as my purpose for starting the thread - just evolved into tweaking this list of albums that I've come up with. I hope that's okay, and I hope you guys would help. I think this would be a more fruitful discussion rather than simply asking what the top prog albums are. Peace! )

Anyway, I went on around the different discussions I've been following, plus some "top prog albums" lists and I took a shot at a decent album lineup to introduce myself to this genre.

Things I wanted to take into consideration regarding the album list:
*** I didn't want to saturate the compilation with albums only from one specific time period, although if you guy would see, there are quite a lot of albums from the 70s, only a few from the 80s and 90s, and it picks up a bit around 2000. But I'm thinking that's maybe acceptable since in my understanding, a lot of the great prog rock albums were released in the 70s right?
*** I also didn't want to focus on a certain sub-genre. Although I didn't want the compilation to be too varied either.

Here's the list:
(1969) king crimson - in the court of the crimson king
(1971) jethro tull - aqualung
(1971) van der graaf generator - pawn hearts
(1972) yes - close to the edge
(1973) genesis - selling england by the pound
(1973) gentle giant - in a glass house
(1975) camel - the snow goose
(1975) pink floyd - wish you were here
(1981) rush - moving pictures
(1992) anglagard - hybris
(1999) dream theater - metropolis part 2 scenes from a memory
(2001) pain of salvation - the perfect element i
(2004) ayreon - the human equation
(2005) riverside - second life syndrome

What do you guys think? Good intro to prog rock or it could use a lot more tweaking? I've noticed a lack of albums from the 80s - or is that because no prog album from the 80s really compares to prog albums from the 70s?

Taking these things into consideration, maybe you guys could suggest which albums I could take out of this list and what I could include for it TO BE AS EVEN AS POSSIBLE - both with regards to the time periods, and to the prog sub-genres involved.

Thanks a lot!

Edited by lastdodobird - May 14 2006 at 03:23