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Posted: August 29 2009 at 14:35

In no particular order

U2 - The Joshua Tree
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
The Police - Synchronicity
The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
Simple Minds - Good News From The Next World
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming
Pearl Jam - Ten
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Eagles - Hotel California
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs

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Posted: August 29 2009 at 14:29

moreitsythanyou wrote:

But.... We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes is their best album by far and wide, followed by The Photo Album. Geek

I just put this on for the first time in at least a year (I haven't been listening to much Death Cab lately). I forgot how good this one was, actually.

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Posted: August 29 2009 at 14:08

Windhawk wrote:

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestra version)
ZZ Top: Rio Grande Mud
Ministry: Psalm 69

Psalm 69 is pretty great but I prefer Land of Rape and Honey. Love that mix of samples: they were such good producers.

The piano version is my preferred version but I can see the orchestral version being preferred as well. Quite easily.

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Posted: August 29 2009 at 14:04

This is easy. No order.

Television-Marquee Moon

The Beatles-White Album

Beach Boys-Pet Sounds

Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation

James Brown-Star Time

Ministry-Land of Rape and Honey

Paul and Linda McCartney- Ram

Pixies-Doolittle

My Bloody Valentine-Loveless

Flaming Lips-Transmissions from the Satelite Heart

I'd put Kate Bush's The Dreaming but I have a sneaky suspicion that's considered prog.

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 16:56

Oooooohhhh, Bel Canto! It must be a couple of years since the last time I heard my Bel Canto cassettes.

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 16:36

I'm unable to pick a top 10, but ten of many should be doable.

Celtic Frost: Monotheist
Bel Canto: Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Steppenwolf: 16 Greatest Hits
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestra version)
ZZ Top: Rio Grande Mud
Gary Numan: The Pleasure Principle
Nazareth: No Mean City
Ministry: Psalm 69
Aldo Nova: Aldo Nova
Ozzy Osbourne: Bark at the Moon

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 16:35

Magazine: Correct Use of Soap

Devo: Q:Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

The Cramps: Off The Bone

XTC : Drums and Wires

Elvis Costello: My Aim is True

Tubeway Army: Replicas

The Throwing Muses: Real Ramona

Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream

Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (QQuel Suprise)

The Specials: More Specials

At the moment and without a great deal of thought!

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 16:14

Cabaret Voltaire - Microphonies!!! I just LOVE the song Blue Heat. What a great track!

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 16:02

01. Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo (1978)
02. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruits for Rotten Vegetables (1980)
03. Sepultura - Chaos A.D. (1993)
04. Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies (1984)
05. Front 242 - Official Version (1987)
06. L7 - Hungry For Stink (1994)
07. Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption (1990)
08. Carcass - Heartwork (1993)
09. The Breeders - Last Splash (1993)
10. Wall Of Voodoo - Call Of The West (1982).

Funny: to find older records in my collection, you'd have to check the progressive music and jazz/free-jazz.

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 12:16

Fleetwood Mac-English Rose
Humble Pie-Rockin' The Fillmore
The Hollies-Distant Light

The Kinks-Arthur or the Decline and Fall Of the British Empire
The Beatles-Beatles For Sale
Joni Mitchell-Clouds
Jimi Hendrix-Hendrix In The West

The Lovin' Spoonful-Everything Playing
Aretha Franklin-Sings the Blues
Canned Heat-Future Blues

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 11:48

Rome - Masse Mensch Material
Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll
Coil - The Ape of Naples
John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Devourment - Butcher the Weak
Demilich - Nespithe
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer?

or something like that

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 11:23

Ahhh, Grace Slick - Dreams is a GREAT and very proggy album...
Also forgot about Be Bop!

Right now I'm in a serious Siouxsie And the Banshees kick!

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 03:47

OK, here's mine (not exactly 10 but what the hey):

Anything and everything by Tori Amos except 'Strange Little Girls'
Be Bop Deluxe - 'Modern Music'
Grand Funk Railroad - 'Phoenix'

The Housemartins - 'Now that's what I call quite Good'
The Knack - 'Serious Fun'
Lacuna Coil - All albums and all future albums
Linda Perry - 'After Hours' and 'In Flight'
The Rainmakers - 'The Rainmakers'
Grace Slick - 'Dreams'
Spliff - '85555'
Cat Stevens - 'Teaser and the Firecat' and 'Tea for the Tillerman'
T'Pau - 'Red'
XTC - 'Nonsuch'. Ah crap, just make that all XTC albums.

Edited by npjnpj - August 28 2009 at 03:48

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Posted: August 28 2009 at 00:21

I know that some of these can be argued to be 'prog', but I don't see any of them as primarily prog albums/bands.

Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

Station to Station - David Bowie

Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

Quadrophenia - The Who

Naveed - Our Lady Peace

Lincoln - They Might Be Giants

Picaresque - The Decemberists

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Elephant - The White Stripes

Queen II - Queen

Edited by The Coastliner - August 28 2009 at 11:18

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Posted: August 27 2009 at 14:34

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
The Beatles - The White Album
The Beautiful South - eponymous first album
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Carly Simon - Greatest Hits Live
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Judie Tzuke - Secret Agent
Levellers - anything, so I'll go for Best Of!!
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Tansads - Flock

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Posted: August 27 2009 at 14:04

If it's NON PROG this doesn't belong in the Progressive Music Lounge.This whole section is for discussions about bands that are only in the archives.

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Posted: August 27 2009 at 11:43

Nice thread:

1. Blood and Chocolate by Elvis Costello and the Attractions

2. La Scala by Keith Jarrett

3. Red Headed Stranger by Willy Nelson

4. Alice by Tom Waits

5. Enlightenment by Van Morrison

6. The Queen is Dead by The Smiths

7. Eternal by The Branford Marsalis Quartet

8. Nixon by Lambchop

9. Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder

10. Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim by Frank Sinatra.....

Haiku

Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....

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Posted: August 27 2009 at 09:47

moreitsythanyou wrote:

But.... We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes is their best album by far and wide, followed by The Photo Album. Geek

Eh, they're all about equal to me (the four mentioned).

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Posted: August 27 2009 at 09:21

The Velvet Underground-s/t
The Cure-Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Gun Club-Fire of Love
Television-Marquee Moon
Sparks-Kimono My House
The Kinks-Something Else By the Kinks
Skip James-Today
Bob Dylan-Bringing it All Back Home
Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Marty Robbins-Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

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