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    Posted: January 29 2022 at 09:52

This thread is mainly aimed at collectors, and by "great classics" I mean albums 

that are very high rated by really many people. 

How old they must be, it's up to oneself to decide.

Mine are:

           Camel   -  The Snow Goose  (1975)

            Caravan   -  In The Land of Grey and Pink  (1971)

            Emersom, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer  (1970)

            Emersom, Lake & Palmer  -  Tarkus  (1971)

            Genesis  -  Nursery Cryme  (1971)

           Genesis  -  Selling England by the Pound  (1973)               

            Gentle Giant  -  Acquiring the Taste  (1971)             

            Jethro Tull  -  Aqualung  (1971)

            Khan  -  Space Shanty  (1972)

            King Crimson  -  Larks’ Tongues in Aspic  (1973)

            King Crimson  -  Red  (1974)   

           Mike Oldfield  -  Ommadawn   (1975)

            Pink Floyd  -  The Dark Side of the Moon  (1973)

            Pink Floyd  -  Wish You Were Here  (1975)

           Renaissance  -  Renaissance  (1969)

           Van der Graaf Generator  - H to He Who Am the Only One (1970)

            Van der Graaf Generator  -  Godbluff   (1975)

            Rick Wakeman  -  The Six Wives of Henry VIII   (1973)

            Yes   -  The Yes Album  (1971)

            Yes  -  Close to the Edge  (1972)


Some additional:

           Emersom, Lake & Palmer  -  Trilogy  (1972)

          Genesis  -  Foxtrot  (1972)

           Marillion  -  Script For A Jester’s Tear  (1983)

          Strawbs  -  Grave New World  (1972)


And I hope, you'll enjoy it! Smile


For anyone who's not familiar with it, I can certainly recommend the book Rocking the Classics. 

English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture . Oxford University Press 1997 by Edward Macan, 

which is generally considered to be the very best book written about Progressive Rock so far.



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I don't understand what I'm supposed to do here. Confused
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I don't understand what I'm supposed to do here. Confused

Put a list of 20 of your great UK Prog classics, Cristi. Tongue


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I don't understand what I'm supposed to do here. Confused

Put a list of 20 of your great UK Prog classics, Cristi. Tongue

so by prog classics you mean album from 1967 to 1979? 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

so by prog classics you mean album from 1967 to 1979? 

I write in the OP: "How old they must be, it's up to oneself to decide."
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

so by prog classics you mean album from 1967 to 1979? 

I write in the OP: "How old they must be, it's up to oneself to decide."

it will confuse people. For some prog classics ended in 1975, others will say '76, and then others  '77. 
I say '79. So there you go. LOL
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

For some prog classics ended in 1975, others will say '76, and then others  '77. 
I say '79.

That's why it's up to oneself to decide, so even 80's can be included. Tongue
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

For some prog classics ended in 1975, others will say '76, and then others  '77. 
I say '79.

That's why it's up to oneself to decide, so even 80's can be included. Tongue

ok
I'll list my 10 favorite Marillion albums. LOL
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

ok
I'll list my 10 favorite Marillion albums. LOL

Your choice, but the OP says: "by "great classics" I mean albums that are very high rated by really many people".


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

For some prog classics ended in 1975, others will say '76, and then others  '77. 
I say '79.

That's why it's up to oneself to decide, so even 80's can be included. Tongue

ok
I'll list my 10 favorite Marillion albums. LOL

Your choice, but the OP says: "by "great classics" I mean albums that are very high rated by really many people".

you are the OP. LOL
Just kidding, I will make my list soon. 
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1. Yes: Close to the Edge
2. Genesis: Foxtrot
3. Genesis: A trick of the tail
4. Jethro Tull: Songs from the wood
5. Marillion: Script for jester's tear
6. Marillion: Misplaced childhood
7. Marillion: Marbles
8. IQ: The seventh house
10. Pineapple Thief: Variation on a dream
11. Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
12. Citizen Cain: Somewhere but yesterday
13. Credo: Rhetoric
14. This Winter Machine: The man who never was
15. Yes: Going for the one
16. Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
17. Pineapple Thief: Your Wilderness
18. Jethro Tull: Heavy horses
19. Big big train: English electric 1
20. Vienna Circle: White clouds
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Sorry, I maybe partly misunderstood, just put kind of own favourites stsrting with the classics but added with newer "classics" also. A nice Saturday evening task anyhow, thanks!
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checking some ratings on PA, some favorites of mine are not as well rated as I thought. Stern Smile
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I nicked many from the first post, added some on personal preference and limited myself to one album per band.

Camel - The Snow Goose 
Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink 
Comus - First Utterance
Egg - Egg
ELP - Tarkus 
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound 
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage 
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Henry Cow - Legend
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood 
Khan - Space Shanty 
King Crimson - Red 
Marillion - A Script for a Jester's Tear
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 
Yes - Close to the Edge

Extra: proto/related top 5:

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Led Zeppelin - IV
Queen - A Night at the Opera
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Camel - Mirage
Egg - The Polite Force
Emersom, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emersom, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Genesis - Foxtrot            
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House       
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
King Crimson - ITCOTKC
King Crimson - Lizard
Marsupilami - s/t
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Soft Machine - Vol. 2
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Relayer

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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

Gnidrolog - Lady Lake

I am really glad to see this album listed among other Prog classics. It would definitely make my Top 35.

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

checking some ratings on PA, some favorites of mine are not as well rated as I thought. Stern Smile

Good idea, and RYM can be very useful, as well.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

checking some ratings on PA, some favorites of mine are not as well rated as I thought. Stern Smile

Good idea, and RYM can be very useful, as well.

I don't use RYM. 
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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

I nicked many from the first post,

happy to hear, Hiram 
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I can see here, Enigmatic, a good example of that our musical taste has a lot in common. Smile





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