"must have"s
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Topic: "must have"s
Posted By: fighting sleep
Subject: "must have"s
Date Posted: November 06 2007 at 23:03
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What is one album in your collection that you would consider an album that everyone must have, without argument? |
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: November 06 2007 at 23:05
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I'm gonna go with my personal favorite, Thick as a Brick. It's essentially musical perfection, something everyone should hear at least once. It has diverse instruments, insightful lyrics, a bit of nonsense, and great talent. What more can you ask for?
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: November 07 2007 at 02:09
 ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 07 2007 at 11:07
| Yes - Fragile. |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: November 07 2007 at 20:28
| Close to the Edge. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 05:30
| Billy Cobham's Spectrum. |
Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 05:34
WORD ------------- The best you can is good enough... |
moreitsythanyou wrote:Posted By: andu
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 05:36
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From my own collection, it's Talitha Qumi - "Despre Cuvinte".
------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 06:20
| I don't think there's an album that everyone should have. But if there was, it would be David Sylvian's "Secrets of the Beehive". |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 06:38
| That would be Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, even though it's not a very good album, it's become an element that almost everyone has in their house somewhere. |
Posted By: ian picken
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 06:43
| RUSH Permanent Waves. Best album ever.. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:08
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A must have:
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:32
| Mëkanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:53
| King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:03
| Probably Wish you were here or Dark Side of the moon |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:34
| The Yes Album. Classic Prog and more accesible to a casual listener than Close to the Edge. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:40
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Genesis - Foxtrot |
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:42
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Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:50
Probably this:  because present the story of PFM and present the story of Italian Music.
But also this:  because universal.------------- 
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Posted By: Lady In Black
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 11:08
More album in my discography are must that in every discography, I think, are absolute must. Also if in PA this band with this album represent my must in my Prog discography:
 also if this album is another must in every Prog discography (and another debut album by masterpiece Heavy Metal Band!):
 Sure these two albums are both true true Prog debuts!!! ------------- It's dark... I've fear... I have strong pains... A serpent is being born... That badly I did, I? |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 11:20
Lateralus..... ------------- 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: limeyrob
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 13:21
| Difficult but 'ap'n it has to be Yessongs |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 22:55
| MDK or Pampered Menial. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 23:23
just about |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 08:29
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Shouldn't be that presumptive! Several of those listed above wouldn't get houseroom here. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 13:29
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Its s hard to chose. probably either Fragile, ITCOTCK or Wish You Were Here. . . but there are so many bands that NEED to be heard regardless of tastes. these albums arnt my favorite by any stretch but i think they are three discs that every person who calls themselves a prog-head needs to hear.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 03:34
This would be a tempting choice. Yessongs would probably get the edge for me though.
The first Woodstock album would also figure in the calculations.
It would be between those three.
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 16:25
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I'd reckon that Hackett's To Watch The Storms needs to be there. |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 17:10
| Red |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 17:56
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Ltia
MDK
Sebtp
Lateralus
Anything by Sigur ros! ------------- 
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Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 04:59
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Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
truly taking rock into a exciting textural future thats is at once fwd-looking and inclusive yet has a keen eye on the prog-Kraut innovations of the past.....way fookin essential!!!!! Almost like a perfect collapse of past present phuture!!!!
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Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 09:12
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many CDs I would consider must have CDs I agree with all the posts so far and what they say but I'll add one more that probably won't get a mention "Leftoverture" by Kansas its given me much pleasure over the years I owe it to Kansas to mention it. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 11:58
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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Gong - You
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 12:24
...how about a Rick Wakeman solo?  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 17:51
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Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part 1
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Lady In Black
Date Posted: November 12 2007 at 05:15
Another must that I've in Prog fields are:
      ------------- It's dark... I've fear... I have strong pains... A serpent is being born... That badly I did, I? |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: November 12 2007 at 12:37
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Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating by the Stars.
A truly hidden gem. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 12 2007 at 22:49
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KC- In The Court...
MO- The Inner Mounting Flame ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 13 2007 at 16:33
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Crime of the Century. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: November 13 2007 at 18:00
This.
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: November 13 2007 at 18:01
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Marillion-Clutching At Straws
------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 13 2007 at 18:29
That's still high on my albums-to-check-out-list! He also made an album called Dead Bees On A Cake. Did he name it like that because everyone was raving over the Beehive album, and he got fed up with that, does anybody know?
As for my own pick: me and my prog friends, we have a mutual friend who doesn't like prog at all. He listens to country-rock, southern rock and psychedelic bands. He did ask us to lend him out a copy of Genesis' Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. He didn't like those albums anyway, but he thought they were important in the history of prog, and at least he could see what we liked about it, which was some sort of a touching moment.
He also accidentally listened to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, and was actually surprised that he got pretty much carried away with it.
Still, I think I would choose an album which more people would like, like the archetypical sixties albums which were actually made in 1970: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel and Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. For the sake of diversity I would choose the latter.
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