Progressive Rock Album List-1974
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Topic: Progressive Rock Album List-1974
Posted By: presdoug
Subject: Progressive Rock Album List-1974
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 06:25
| Following my recent Progressive Rock 1975 Poll, here is a list of my favorites from 1974. Pick a favorite! My choice is, again, Triumvirat, with "Illusions On A Double Dimple". There are a little less to choose from here compared with the 1975 list, as a fair number of groups I like did not release anything in '74..... |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 06:28
| Refugee |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 06:34
Triumvirat out of these. 
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 06:42
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Tangerine Dream-Phaedra
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 06:46
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Phaedra > Aqua > Dimple > Nektar ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 08:34
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PFM - The World Became The World ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 10:58
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I share a number of entries in common with you, Doug. I have a really strong for my tastes top 50 or so at Awesome Prog (great year) and with so many albums I love (and more not listed there) the numbering is rather meaningless on the whole. I could shuffle at will. Tangerine Dream's Phaedra is the standout for me, although I like Dzyan's and Froese's very much too as well as others like Galactic Explorers and Terje Rypdal, and I like the Triumvirat. Not keen on that PFM; love PFM's original early Italian albums. My top 20 at AP: https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1974/users/Logan" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1974/users/Logan If you get the chance, love to see more lists by people there through the years. I'm working on the early 60s now. 1. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5370#tag=%20%7bap:17982%7d" rel="nofollow - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 2. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2274#tag=%20%7bap:20889%7d" rel="nofollow - Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage 3. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6346#tag=%20%7bap:7023%7d" rel="nofollow - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 4. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4631#tag=%20%7bap:16396%7d" rel="nofollow - Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You 5. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=104#tag=%20%7bap:4351%7d" rel="nofollow - Area - Caution Radiation Area 6. https://awesomeprog.com/releases/77977#tag=%20%7bap:77977%7d" rel="nofollow - Janko Nilovic - Rythmes contemporains [AP Prog] 7. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6423#tag=%20%7bap:7404%7d" rel="nofollow - Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery 8. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5075#tag=%20%7bap:20092%7d" rel="nofollow - Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass 9. https://awesomeprog.com/releases/18430#tag=%20%7bap:18430%7d" rel="nofollow - Faust - Faust IV [AP Prog] 10. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=558#tag=%20%7bap:38%7d" rel="nofollow - Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North 11. https://awesomeprog.com/releases/77967#tag=%20%7bap:77967%7d" rel="nofollow - Bobby Hutcherson - Cirrus [AP Prog-Adj] 12. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1911#tag=%20%7bap:14321%7d" rel="nofollow - King Crimson - Red 13. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2278#tag=%20%7bap:18999%7d" rel="nofollow - Peter Hammill - In Camera 14. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8119#tag=%20%7bap:7556%7d" rel="nofollow - Cluster - Zuckerzeit 15. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3059#tag=%20%7bap:10492%7d" rel="nofollow - Henry Cow - Unrest 16. https://awesomeprog.com/releases/77996#tag=%20%7bap:77996%7d" rel="nofollow - Ennio Morricone - Il sorriso del grande tentatore [AP Prog-Adj] 17. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8886#tag=%20%7bap:9746%7d" rel="nofollow - Harmonia - Musik Von 18. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25589#tag=%20%7bap:27625%7d" rel="nofollow - Julian Priester - Love, Love 19. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3307#tag=%20%7bap:2530%7d" rel="nofollow - Magma - Köhntarkösz 20. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5651#tag=%20%7bap:11195%7d" rel="nofollow - Zao - Osiris |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 11:21
hey, Greg, that is neat; Phaedra is my favorite album by Tangerine Dream...what a great record....and glad you like the others you mentioned, and thanks for the link to Awesome Prog.....
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Logan wrote:Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 11:29
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 12:07
| Dzyan-Electric Silence |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 12:37
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Given your tastes, I wonder whether you liked any of these TEN 1974 albums?: ELO: Eldorado Eloy: Floating Focus: Hamburger Concerto Greenslade: Spyglass Guest Grobschnitt: Ballermann Gryphon: Red Queen Hawkwind: Hall Mountain Grill MMEB: The Good Earth Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge Renaissance: Turn Of The Cards Incidentally, one of my favourite albums from this year was BJH: Everyone Is Everybody Else.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 12:51
Thanks for your input; some of those on your list I know by name, only; of the ones I have heard, I do like the Hawkwind album, somewhat; Floating by Eloy did not jive with me; the Greenslade album I have heard a bit and like it. Like the Greenslade album, I have heard Focus -Hamburger Concerto a little, and like it, though I am more familiar with their previous albums Moving Waves and Focus 3 (both of which I dig) The Barclay James Harvest album is something I will check out.....
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 12:56
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I love these four. Voted for Phaedra but I might have gone for Rypdal... Tangerine Dream-Phaedra Terje Rypdal-What Comes After Dzyan-Electric Silence Edgar Froese-Aqua Man, what an amazing year for music of all kinds. I love every album Logan posted, and this dozen too: Terje Rypdal - Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away Camel - Mirage Arti & Mestieri - Tilt (Immagini per un orecchio) The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket Can - Soon Over Babaluma King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black Klaus Schulze - Blackdance Egg - The Civil Surface Residents - Meet the Residents Sensations' Fix - Portable Madness The Cosmic Jokers - The Cosmic Jokers Renaissance - Turn of the Cards of fifteen really... but these are perhaps less Prog relevant, but they are on PA: Miles Davis - Big Fun Miles Davis - Get Up With It Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 12:58
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^^ the BJH isn't really prog, I have just always loved it... I would have thought Ballermann would have been of interest to you? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 13:53
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 13:55
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PFM from your list. My list would see choices that are generally more well known such as Yes's Relayer, Power and the Glory by Gentle Giant, Red and Starless and Bible Black by KC, Camel's Mirage, Crime of the Century by Supertramp, Genesis's Lamb, Kansas's debut, Chicago VII, Return to Forevers's Where Have I Known You Before and Weather Reports's Mysterious Traveler. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 14:01
Hamburger Concerto is really good. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 14:04
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Tangerine Dream > Dzyan ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 14:24
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Hmmm...1974? I would prefer: Queen - Queen II Frank Zappa - Apostrophe King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black King Crimson - Red Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory ELO - Eldorado Jethro Tull - War Child Supertramp - Crime of the Century Yes - Relayer Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Jade Warrior - Floating World ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 14:49
Thanks, to you, Greg, and to all others who mention different preferences, as well as what i have listed in these polls of mine.....
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 23 2025 at 15:13
| ^ I appreciate the opportunity and latitude to mention others (some people don't like mentions of any others) while also mentioning the ones in your list that I love. I do try to vote for ones in the list if I know and like at least one and otherwise I might state that I can't vote for any with a reason and make my own list. In this case there were several that I could have very happily voted for. From Greg's (The Dark Elf's list) I would vote for Red over Gryphon, from Jared's mentions, I think Focus over Gryphon and Hawkwind, and from Saperlipopette!'s others, I think Can over the Cosmic Jokers. There certainly is no shortage of great music. 1974 is an amazing year! And it a really nice time in that most of us (at least who like classic years) probably have many loved albums liked by most others here. Tastes overlap a lot more in the late 60 and 70s, after that it becomes more divisive. I mean it still be divisive, but easier to find music likes in common than later. |