Forum Home Forum Home > Other music related lounges > General Music Discussions
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Your Top 10 Non-Prog Albums
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedYour Top 10 Non-Prog Albums
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 456
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34055 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2009 at 10:25
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
Back to Top
ten years after View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: September 07 2007
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 1008 		Direct Link To This Post 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
 
 
 
Back to Top
ten years after View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: September 07 2007
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 1008 		Direct Link To This Post 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.
Back to Top
TheCrimsonIdol View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: October 08 2009
Location: Bracknell
Status: Offline
Points: 33 		Direct Link To This Post 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
Back to Top
ProgBob View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2006
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2009 at 16:31
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!)
...
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
Bob
Back to Top
SonicDeath10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 06 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 282 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2009 at 01:19
Originally posted by ProgBob 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


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?
"Good evening hippies." Bobby Boy
Back to Top
el dingo View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 08 2008
Location: Norwich UK
Status: Offline
Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2009 at 13:18
^
 
I guess I'm arguably the biggest Clash fan on PABig smile
 
I remember buying Give 'Em Enough Rope (not their best IMO) and a Camel album on the same day way back whenConfused 
It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
Back to Top
ProgBob View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2006
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2009 at 16:16
Originally posted by SonicDeath10 SonicDeath10 wrote:

What about late 70's bands like Blondie or the Clash or even the Ramones or the Cars?

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.

Originally posted by SonicDeath10 SonicDeath10 wrote:


No love for early husker du?

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!
Bob
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 456

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.293 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.