A favoured album from each PA category

Crossover Prog: Pattern Seeking Animals - Pattern Seeking Animals

^ & ^^ thanks Alan and Steve.   In both of your lists, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is a long-time favourite, and from Steve's list I love Miles Davis' In a Silent Way. That's the album that got me into Miles Davis. And I have liked Argus from Alan's list a lot.

For most of these categories I could easily make many lists, but with Neo-Prog, Progressive Metal and Tech/Extreme Prog Metal my choices become more limited. That said, I do know and like multiple albums in every category at PA and plan to make at least one more. Really interesting to see people's choices from the categories they use as well as being interested in what categories they exclude.

- Canterbury Scene: Zopp- "Dominion" 
- Crossover Prog: Caligonaut- "Magnified As Giants"
- Eclectic Prog: King Crimson- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
- Experimental/Post Metal: Unexpect- "In A Flesh Aquarium" 
- Heavy Prog: Haken- "Fauna"
- Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: André Fertier's Clivage - Mixtus Orbis

Edited by omphaloskepsis - December 16 2024 at 16:58

- Canterbury Scene: Hatfield & The North - Rotters Club (1971)
- Crossover Prog: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (1975)
- Eclectic Prog: King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic (1973)
- Experimental/Post Metal: Ex-Eye - Ex-Eye (2017)
- Heavy Prog: Atomic Rooster - Death Walked Behind You (1970)
- Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: Third Ear Band - Alchemy (1969)
- Jazz Rock/Fusion: Herbie Hancock - Crossings (1972)
- Krautrock: CAN - Tago Mago (1971)
- Neo-Prog: Asturias - Fractals (2011)
- Post-Rock/Math Rock: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
- Prog Folk: Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971)
- Progressive Electronic: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
- Progressive Metal: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (2009)
- Psychedelic/Space Rock: Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
- RIO/Avant-Prog: Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors (1981)
- Rock Progressivo Italiano: Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico (1972)
- Symphonic Prog: Yes - Close To The Edge (1972)
- Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: Behold ... The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove (2020)
- Zeuhl: Eskaton - 4 Visions (1980)
- Various Genres/Artists: Recommended Records Sampler (1982)
- Prog Related: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
- Proto-Prog: Deep Purple - Made In Japan (1972)

jezuz, Duster in Neo???? wtf had happened to PA

Thanks, Pedro. I imagine that I'll come up with a few more lists of personal favourites from the PA categories, and hopefully some more members will too. Definitely I'm not going for what I think is most significant or suitable to the category it's in; just hoping we can share those album that are meaningful to us across the PA categories where we have albums we like.

- Caravan, Soft Machine and Hatfield and the North are three of the most quintessential Canterbury Scene bands to me. Caravan is particularly popular and it was the first Canterbury Scene band I discovered as a child with In the Land of Grey and Pink.

- I have grown to like the post-Pawn Hearts albums much more, but it is The Least We Can DO..., H to He..., and Pawn hearts that have meant the most to me. And a "Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" is the bee's knees (or would be if it was "A Plague of Beehouse Keepers" or just bees).

- Love ADII's "Dance of the Lemmings" too, although I turn to Yeti more. Could have happily gone with either of those. Love lots of Krautrock.

- I really like The Incredible String Band. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is a personal favourite from ISB. I did a track poll some time back and chose "A Very Cellular Song" from it.

- Solar Music is very nice, but that Message album (included in Psychedelic/Space Rock) is very special to me. Grobschnitt is actually included in Symphonic Prog at PA and I am choosing personal favourites, and asking others to do so, based on what's in the categories at PA whether best suited to that category or not.

- Magma's first is an utterly remarkable double-album debut to me. I would call MDK the most quintessential album of Zeuhl. I prefer versions of MDK live to the studio album, and went with studio albums for all of my choices. At one time MDK was my favourite, but the debut is the studio album I would wish to keep if I could only keep one Magma. I adore it, and despite liking Magma throughout its career, they never bettered it for me.

Prog-jester wrote: jezuz, Duster in Neo???? wtf had happened to PA

Well, at least it does have Neo-Psych and Neo-Space Rock qualities. Seems a pretty slack addition for the slacker rock of Duster. ;)

Edited by Logan - December 16 2024 at 21:33

I started, but found it too difficult:)

Iantumaros wrote: It is rather an insurmountable challenge for me to select but a singular album from the realms of Canterbury Scene, Symphonic Prog, Eclectic Prog, Jazz-Rock/Fusion, RIO/Avant-Prog, or Progressive Electronic.

Of course people should do what they are comfortable with here. :) Just some ideas for this discussion forum.

I don;t want to take away from other people's wonderful lists, I know these aren't that easy to put together (well, not without practice ;)) and the effort is hugely appreciated, but here's another of mine:


Canterbury Scene: Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (1976)
Crossover Prog: Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2015)
Eclectic Prog: King Crimson - Lizard (1970)
Experimental/Post Metal: Uboa - The Sky May Be (2018)
Heavy Prog: Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (1970) (was mentioned already in this topic, but had planned for this next)
Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: Satwa - Satwa (1973)
Jazz Rock/Fusion: Dedalus - Dedalus (1973)
Krautrock: Faust - So Far (1972)      
Neo-Prog: unsure
Post-Rock/Math Rock: Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission (2000)
Prog Folk: Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer (recorded 1973, released 1999)
Progressive Electronic: Igor Wakhévitch - Hathor (1973)
Progressive Metal: unsure
Psychedelic/Space Rock: Far East Family Band - Parallel World (1976)
RIO/Avant-Prog: Universe Zero - Heresis (1979)
Rock Progressivo Italiano: Osanna - Palepoli (1973)
Symphonic Prog: Ange - Au-delà du délire (1974)
Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: unsure
Zeuhl: Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I (1994)
Various Artists: unsure
Prog Related: William Sheller - Lux Aeterna (1972)
Proto-Prog: Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)

I might try to combine all our lists into one, or just the first list by each as I have multiple. It takes effort to make these and I do worry when I make topics that people's efforts will not be noticed or recognised (and I don't always respond, mostly because I find social interactions a little uncomfortable often). At least re-posting them might give some more visibility.