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Sacro_Porgo
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Here's one I found very interesting. Dream Theatre don't pass! Out of their 14 (soon to be 15) studio albums there's not a single streak of 5 that stays above the 3.50 mark on PA. The closest we get it from Scenes From A Memory through Octavarium, but that streak is mercilessly cast aside by Falling Into Infinity on one end and Systematic Chaos on the other.
Falling Into Infinity ~ 3.33 Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory ~ 4.30 Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence ~ 4.14 Train Of Thought ~ 3.60 Octavarium ~3.67 Systematic Chaos ~ 3.31 Failling Into Infinity also cuts off the double whammy of Images And Words and Awake from continuing. A Dramatic Turn Of Events is a dramatic turn of score, hitting 3.84, but the self titled and The Astonishing ruin any chance this has at starting a new streak with Distance Over Time.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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projeKct
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Interesting thread. Here are my personal picks (even though these are not my personal ratings) except the obvious ones like Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, etc.
And you can see my 5-stars album in blue. Big Big Train 4.17 - The Underfall Yard - 2009 4.20 - English Electric (Part One) - 2012 4.11 - English Electric (Part Two) - 2013 4.02 - Folklore - 2016 3.99 - Grimspound - 2017 Dixie Dregs 3.64 - The Great Spectacular - 1975 3.78 - Free Fall - 1977 4.18 - What If - 1978 3.77 - Night Of The Living Dregs - 1979 3.81 - Dregs Of The Earth - 1980 The Flower Kings 4.03 - Back In The World Of Adventures - 1995 3.76 - Retropolis - 1996 3.93 - Stardust We Are - 1997 3.96 - Flower Power - 1999 3.85 - Space Revolver - 2000 Major Parkinson 3.71 - Major Parkinson - 2008 4.05 - Songs from a Solitary Home - 2010 3.99 - Twilight Cinema - 2014 3.95 - Blackbox - 2017 ?.?? - [TBA] - 2021 * yes, I'm cheating, but I'm sure it will be great! Motorpsycho 3.82 - Heavy Metal Fruit - 2010 4.17 - Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken: The Death Defying Unicorn - 2012 3.92 - Still Life With Eggplant - 2013 3.99 - Behind The Sun - 2014 3.86 - Here Be Monsters - 2016 Pain Of Salvation 4.11 - Entropia - 1997 3.91 - One Hour By The Concrete Lake - 1998 4.23 - The Perfect Element - Part 1 - 2000 4.23 - Remedy Lane - 2002 4.09 - Be - 2004 Anthony Phillips 4.06 - The Geese And The Ghost - 1977 3.80 - Wise After The Event - 1978 3.32 - Private Parts & Pieces - 1978 3.04 - Sides - 1979 3.79 - Private Parts & Pieces II - Back To The Pavillion - 1980 P.F.M. 4.34 - Storia Di Un Minuto - 1972 4.40 - Per Un Amico - 1972 4.02 - Photos Of Ghosts - 1973 4.22 - L'Isola Di Niente - 1974 4.02 - The World Became the World - 1974 Steely Dan 3.57 - Can't Buy a Thrill - 1972 4.02 - Countdown to Ecstasy - 1973 3.71 - Pretzel Logic - 1974 3.72 - Katy Lied - 1975 3.75 - The Royal Scam - 1976 4.15 - Aja - 1977 3.69 - Gaucho - 1980 The Tangent 3.99 - The Music That Died Alone - 2003 3.75 - The World That We Drive Through - 2004 3.84 - A Place In The Queue - 2006 3.87 - Not as Good as the Book - 2008 3.74 - Down And Out In Paris And London - 2009 * not sure about this one Transatlantic 4.07 - SMPT:e - 2000 4.17 - Bridge Across Forever - 2001 4.04 - The Whirlwind - 2009 3.82 - Kaleidoscope - 2014 3.97 - The Absolute Universe - 2021 * any version! Steven Wilson 4.19 - Grace For Drowning - 2011 4.28 - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) - 2013 4.29 - Hand. Cannot. Erase. - 2015 3.51 - 4 ½ - 2016 3.57 - To the Bone - 2017 Have a nice day!
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Argo2112
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I didn't see anyone mention Renaissance.
Not sure what the PA ratings are on all of these but five pretty solid albums.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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That BBT & PFM are very strong.
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Ian
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verslibre
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I see no problem with this streak. Spirit and Freaks are fine Kansas records! In the Spirit of Things Freaks of Nature Somewhere to Elsewhere The Prelude Implicit The Absence of Presence
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Shadowyzard
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Voyager:
Univers (2007) - 3.87 I Am The Revolution (2009) - 4.16 The Meaning of I (2011) - 3.96 V (2014) - 3.92 Ghost Mile (2017) - 3.84 Symphony X: The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997) - 4.13 Twilight in Olympus (1998) - 3.75 V: The New Mythology Suite (2000) - 4.14 The Odyssey (2002) - 3.96 Paradise Lost (2007) - 3.80 Vanden Plas: The God Thing (1997) - 3.88 Far Off Grace (1999) - 3.84 Beyond Daylight (2002) - 4.01 Christ 0 (2006) - 3.93 The Seraphic Clockwork (2010) - 3.80 Edited by Shadowyzard - August 18 2021 at 10:22 |
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Thank you for supporting independently produced music
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Sacro_Porgo
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I checked on them last night without posting about it, and I believe the scores show that streak passes. It may add Prologue onto the front end as well.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Sacro_Porgo
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Sacro_Porgo
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For some of those mentioning PFM. Why do you think both Photos Of Ghosts and Per Un Amico should be counted, even though they're mostly the same album with different lyrics? Same question for The World Became The World and L'Isola Di Niente?
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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JD
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I don't think I saw The Moody Blues listed yet. This passes Sacro_Porgo's 3.50 ratings test as well. Days of Future Passed 4.19 In Search of the Lost Cord 3.85 On The Threshold of a Dream 3.77 To Our Children's Children's Children 4.09 A Question Of Balance 3.53
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Cristi
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I agree
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JD
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Oh, and BTW, I think ELP's Works Vol 1 is under rated here. it deserves a 3.50 or better rating. There is a ton of good material on that album.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Works for me! I gave ELP's best album the full five-star treatment. |
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I've thought of another one that hasn't been mentioned yet, and PA appears to mostly disagree since neither "Product" nor "Do They Hurt?" crosses the 3.50 threshold, but I think all of Brand X's first five albums are masterpieces (and honestly, even "Is There Anything About?" in my opinion deserves much better than the 2.83 that this site's merciless userbase awarded it...)
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Ian
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Going by PA ratings and 3.50 threshold, Zappa has a string of 13 from Waka/Jawaka through Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.
Eloy has a string of 9 from Inside to Time to Turn. Banco almost made it, but Garofano Rosso is rated 3.49 It's too bad we can't do some sort of SQL query on the database to find all such strings, not that I would remember how to do it since I haven't worked with SQL queries since the 1990s.
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projeKct
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I guess you're right, we shouldn't count them as different albums, but they are so good... Anyway, I just did a comparison between those PFM albums, and here is what I found: Photos of Ghosts is like Per un amico with English lyrics (except for Il banchetto) + a new recording of E festa from their first album. But there are several notable differences. 1. River of Life has an outro, while Appena un po' has an intro 2. Celebration feels like a radio edit of E festa, but is a new recording 3. Photos of Ghosts and Per un amico are identical, except for the new lyrics 4. Old Rain is a new instrumental piece, only available on this album 5. Il banchetto is of course identical on both albums 6. Mr. 9 'till 5 and Generale! are identical, with added lyrics 7. Promenade the Puzzle and Geranio are identical, except for the new lyrics and the ending The World Became the World is like L'isola di niente with English lyrics + a new recording of Impressioni di settembre from their first album. 1. The Mountain and L'isola di niente are identical, except for the new lyrics 2. Just Look Away and Dolcissima Maria are identical, except for the new lyrics 3. The World Became the World and Impressioni di settembre are very different, not even in the same key! and the ending... 4. Four Holes in the Ground and La luna nuova are identical, except for the new lyrics 5. Is My Face on Straight? is of course identical on both albums 6. Have Your Cake and Beat It and Via Lumière are identical And the running order for both albums are different. You may already know all of that, but it was fun to do these comparisons.
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Lewian
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Godspeed You Black Emperor have seven albums, the lowest is rated 3.70.
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Sacro_Porgo
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I've never actually listened to the english versions, so that was interesting to read. It appears they're a little bit more different than I thought. How good is Old Rain? I'd never looked closely enough to realize there's a brand new piece on Photos Of Ghosts, and that plus the other couple differences you mentioned makes me wonder if maybe I should pick it up. I've run across it probably half a dozen times in record stores but put it down because I wanted to hold out for Per Un Amico, hard as that is to find.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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