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ProgBob 
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 16:16 |
 SonicDeath10 wrote:
What about late 70's bands like Blondie or the Clash or even the Ramones or the Cars?
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I started getting into music around 1979/1980 but found stuff like Mike Oldfield, Genesis, Pink Floyd and to some extent the heavy metal that was popular at the time more appealing than the then current new wave stuff. I've ended up hearing quite a bit subsequently but I still have a bit of an odd relationship with it. My preference is for the US bands like Television and Talking Heads (probably should have had '77, Fear of Music and Remain in Light on my list). Blondie come from a similar scene I guess and I enjoy hearing Parallel Lines when someone puts it on but it's not something I would reach for myself. Based on the esteem in which they are held, I feel like I ought to give the Clash more of a chance, but they have never really clicked with me. I'm afraid I have trouble distinguishing between one Ramones song and another. The Cars I know hardly anything about but am happy to listen to recommendations.
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I guess I started buying their albums towards the end of their career and liked the more melodic material. I have Zen Arcade on vinyl, which I ought to spin some time. It's a long time since I heard it. One track I do like which I *think* is fairly early (about time of Zen Arcade?) is their cover of "8 Miles High" which I think is awesome!
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 13:18 |
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I guess I'm arguably the biggest Clash fan on PA 
I remember buying Give 'Em Enough Rope (not their best IMO) and a Camel album on the same day way back when  |
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted: October 20 2009 at 01:19 |
ProgBob wrote:
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home/ Highway 61/ Blonde on Blonde
CSN - 1st
70s
Television - Marquee Moon / Adventure (yes I rate Adventure!)
80's
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey/ Warehouse Songs and Stories
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Like how you couldn't pick in the Bob albums. They're all pretty good aren't they? I'm also a big fan of CSN's first album. Way better than Deja Vu.
What about late 70's bands like Blondie or the Clash or even the Ramones or the Cars? I love Television and Adventure is a good album.
No love for early husker du?
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"Good evening hippies." Bobby Boy
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ProgBob
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Posted: October 19 2009 at 16:31 |
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Just happened across this thread and there are some good suggestions. I find it interesting that some of my own favourite albums have cropped up a few times. Maybe even though they aren't prog as such maybe there are proggish elements in some of them that people with our tastes tend to latch onto?
Anyway, I'll try to do my own list. Unfortunately I can't get it down to 10. I started off with a list of my favourites from each decade from the 60s on and whittled it down to *absolute* favourites. Given that I am not restricting myself too much it is quite short really. This is because I am being careful not to include stuff from proto-prog and prog-related (otherwise there would be lots of Doors, Airplane, Radiohead, Steely Dan, Pentangle, Fairport Convention and others).
60s
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Maiden Of the Cancer Moon (80's semi
boot issue of San Jose concert [I think], available in other releases
over the years. Much better than Happy Trails IMO).
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Love - Forever Changes
Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday / Notorious Byrd Brothers
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home/ Highway 61/ Blonde on Blonde
Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun (not sure if this is allowed - if this isn't proto-prog I don't know what is, but it's not on this site)
CSN - 1st
70s
Neil Young - Decade (best compilation ever)/On the Beach/Rust Never Sleeps
Television - Marquee Moon / Adventure (yes I rate Adventure!)
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Hmm I have loads of favourite albums from the 70s but they are mainly prog!
80s
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Ocean Rain (kind
of surprised not to see EATB given some other suggestions)
The Smiths - Hatfull of Hollow / Queen Is Dead
REM - Murmur / Reckoning/ Fables.../Lifes RIch Pageant
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey/ Warehouse Songs and Stories
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures / Closer
90s
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Pearl Jam - 10
REM - Automatic../ New Adventures in HiFi
Ron Sexsmith - 1st
Screaming Trees - Dust
Jeff Buckley - Grace
(I nearly said Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs but I was surprised to find that on this site)
00s
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Kate Bush - Aerial
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Posted: October 18 2009 at 05:31 |
KISS - Dynasty Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny KISS - Destroyer Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal Hammerfall - Legacy Of Kings Hammerfall - Renegade Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory Hammerfall - Threshold Sabaton - The Art Of War
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Posted: October 17 2009 at 20:12 |
IMO this thread should not have been moved from the Prog Top 10s.
The question "what are your favourite non-prog albums" is an intersting quesiton but it is meaningless when removed from the Prog context.
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Posted: October 17 2009 at 20:00 |
defining prog strictly according to the list on prog archives:
Sticky Fingers -Rolling Stones
Joshua Tree - U2
Disraeil Gears - Cream
self titled - Edgar Broughton Band
Watt - Ten Years After
Past, Present & Future - Al Stewart
SF Sorow - Pretty Things
SSSSH - Ten Years After
Kick Out the Jams - MC5
DeJa Vu - Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Personally, I count the Edgar Broughton, Al Stewart and Pretty Things albums as progressive rock.
The three that would replace them are:
Satanic Majesty - Rolling Stones
Bringing it all Back Home - Dylan
Best Years of our Lives - Cockney Rebel
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Posted: October 16 2009 at 10:25 |
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my favourites are
1. Avalon by Roxy Music probably the album with best atmosphere ever produced
2. Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs with 19 years old David Paich and Jeff Porcaro as session musicians
3. Superunknown & Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden are equal
4. Welcome to sky wally by Kyuss epic stoner metal and verry groovy
5. Isolation and Kingdome of Desire - Toto
6. Night Time - Killing Joke
7. Tea for the Tillerman - cat stevans
8. Music for the Jilted Generation - Prodegy
9. Pet Sounds - Beach boys
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 19:25 |
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The Stranger- Billy Joel
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 Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 19:07 |
Right now, something like this, in no particular order (excluding artist listed on this site): Bohren & der Club of Gore - Dolores The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair XTC - Skylarking Cocteau Twins - Treasure Bat For Lashes - Two Suns Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark 16 Horsepower - Sacklcoth 'n' Ashes Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Cafe Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 15:30 |
The T wrote:
My list would have to be divided between classical music and rock albums, like
A. Bruckner - 7th Symphony - Berliner Philarmoniker - Von Karajan
G.F. Haendel - Messiah - Chicago Symphony O. - Solti
L.v Beethoven - 9th Symphony - Concertgebouw Amsterdam - Jochum
J.S. Bach - Mass in B Minor - Berliner Philarmoniker - Von karajan
W.A Mozart - Requiem Kv 626 - Staatskapelle Dresden - Schreier
G. Mahler - 6th Symphony - Chicago Symphony O - Abbado
M. P. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - National Symphony O - Rostropovich
A. Dvorak - Cello Concerto - Noras - Finnish radio Symphony O. - Oramo
D. Shostakovich - 5th Symphony - New York P. O. - Bernstein
J. Sibelius - 2th Symphony - Berliner Philarmoniker - Levine
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Great list here. I particularly like the 5th Symphony by Shostakovich. The Bernstein version is great but for me the version by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn (1978) is even greater.
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 13:08 |
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The Doors - L.A.Woman (probably my all time favorite)
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Soundgarden - BADMOTORFINGER
Deep purple - In Rock
Led Zeppelin - Physicall Graffiti
Cat Stevens - Tea For tillerman
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
Heroes Del Silencio - El Espiritu del Vino
José Mario Branco - Ser Solidário
Sergio Godinho - Panu cru
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 17:56 |
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My list would have to be divided between classical music and rock albums, like
A. Bruckner - 7th Symphony - Berliner Philarmoniker - Von Karajan
G.F. Haendel - Messiah - Chicago Symphony O. - Solti
L.v Beethoven - 9th Symphony - Concertgebouw Amsterdam - Jochum
J.S. Bach - Mass in B Minor - Berliner Philarmoniker - Von karajan
W.A Mozart - Requiem Kv 626 - Staatskapelle Dresden - Schreier
G. Mahler - 6th Symphony - Chicago Symphony O - Abbado
M. P. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - National Symphony O - Rostropovich
A. Dvorak - Cello Concerto - Noras - Finnish radio Symphony O. - Oramo
D. Shostakovich - 5th Symphony - New York P. O. - Bernstein
J. Sibelius - 2th Symphony - Berliner Philarmoniker - Levine
In the rock/metal world (impossible to narrow it to 10):
Amorphis - Tuonela
Amorphis - Elegy
Metallica - And Justice For All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The Doors - Strange Days
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone temple Pilots - Purple
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Sepultura - Chaos AD
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 17:41 |
CPicard wrote:
03. Sepultura - Chaos A.D. (1993)
08. Carcass - Heartwork (1993)
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Amazing albums! Some of the best in extreme metal 
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 17:40 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
Henry Plainview wrote:
Equality, WHY IS KATY PERRY IN YOUR LAST.FM? |
Because One of the Boys is a great pop album, and Ur So Gay is a song The Beatles wish they had written. |
This totally deserves some respect...
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 16:10 |
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I'm a fan of folk rock, so:
Skyclad - No Daylights nor Heeltaps
Cruachan - Folk - Lore
Ovidiu Lipan Tandarica & Stelu Enache & Gheorghe Zamfir - Iskender
Cruachan - The Middle Kingdom
Skyclad - Oui Avant-Garde A Chance
Loreena McKennitt - The Mask And The Mirror
Al Steward - The Year Of The Cat
Fiddler's Green - Black Sheep
Chris De Burgh - Crusader
Lindesfarne - Nicely Out Of Tune
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http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive+Folk
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 15:59 |
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
Bravejester wrote:
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell ( the first one is the best and I stopped buying afer the second .. )
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Oh definitely. This one totally slipped my mind.
I love big spectacle and showmanship, and it just doesn't get much "bigger" than Meat Loaf.  |
Almost left this one out of my list which is in no order and includes only one album per artist. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell 1 Billy Joel - The Stranger Elton John - Caribou Simon And Garfunkel - Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme Bruce Springsteen & The E. Street Band - The Rising U2 - The Joshua Tree The Police - Synchronicity
Yo Yo Ma - Songs Of Joy And Peace Gustav Holst - The Planets Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite I like very little of my music collection that isn't prog. I tried to stay out of anything classical but I had to in order to fill 10 spots. My non-prog music collection became stagnant 5 years ago when I discovered prog and most of that is pretty embarassing.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 11:20 |
Angra - Hollyland (don't know if it's prog???)
Jars of Clay- Frail
Bon Jovi - One wild night live
Alux Nahual -Se Cantan Retratos
Van Halen -Greatest hits
Van Halen -5150
Pearl Jam - Vs
Heroes del Silencio -Avalancha
Sixpence non the richer - SNTR
Creed -Greatest hits
Elvis Presley -Number 1's
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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Posted: October 12 2009 at 03:20 |
Abstrakt wrote:
Just to name a few:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Black Sabbath - Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
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Ah, the (loud) voice of sanity 
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Posted: October 05 2009 at 11:14 |
In no order...
Violator - Depeche Mode
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Lifeforms - FSOL
Orbital II - Orbital
Adventures beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Document - REM
Whats going on? - Marvin Gaye
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Heaven or Las Vegas - The Cocteau Twins
Runners up... 
Spooky - Lush
Elysium - Fields of the Nephilim
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
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