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Poll Question: What was the peak (or best) year for prog?
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    Posted: September 12 2024 at 12:04
I figure most (including me) will say it was in the 70s so I didn't bother with later years. If I did then I would have to have put them all out. No one later year seems to stand out though. Plus, consensus seems to be that prog's peak years were in the first half of the 70s so there you go. Wink

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1973 for me. The year of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, Renaissance' Ashes Are Burning and Genesis' Selling England by the Pound, to name just three. Smile
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1972. 
Thick as a Brick - JETHRO TULL
Close to the Edge & Roundabout (single) - YES
YS - THE BRONZE BALLET
Foxtrot - GENESIS


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For me it has to be 1972 - the year of two of the most iconic prog albums of all time - TAAB and CTTE.
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Originally posted by LaMort LaMort wrote:

1972. 
Thick as a Brick - JETHRO TULL
Close to the Edge & Roundabout (single) - YES
YS - THE BRONZE BALLET
Foxtrot - GENESIS


YS? You mean the album by Il Balletto Di Bronzo? I agree. That's a great album. 
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1973 would be a close second with the aforementioned Tubular Bells, and DSotM of course, amongst other notable prog works.
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This year as we have more prog right now than ever before.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by LaMort LaMort wrote:

1972. 
Thick as a Brick - JETHRO TULL
Close to the Edge & Roundabout (single) - YES
YS - THE BRONZE BALLET
Foxtrot - GENESIS


YS? You mean the album by Il Balletto Di Bronzo? I agree. That's a great album. 


IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO Ys reviews

Correct.  And i would love to thank MARIO BAVA for introducing me to them, in his film...Five Dolls for an August Moon.


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Originally posted by Gentle and Giant Gentle and Giant wrote:

This year as we have more prog right now than ever before.


An interesting way of looking at it... so me thinking laterally would suggest 1979 as possibly being the best year for prog because by *then we had all of the classic era prog. Others may disagree of course

*i.e. the release of 'The Wall' at the tail end of 1979
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

1973 for me. The year of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, Renaissance' Ashes Are Burning and Genesis' Selling England by the Pound, to name just three. Smile

Concur with 1973...add Brain Salad Surgery, Tales, 6 Wives, & Future Days (CAN)...
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Originally posted by Gentle and Giant Gentle and Giant wrote:

This year as we have more prog right now than ever before.

So that was you that voted "other" then? Wink
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

No one later year seems to stand out though.


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1980

Art Zoyd – Génération Sans Futur
Jeff Beck – There and Back
Blue Öyster Cult – Cultösaurus Erectus
Brand X – Do They Hurt?
Al Di Meola – Splendido Hotel
Ashra – Belle Alliance
Bruford – Gradually Going Tornado
Dixie Dregs – Dregs of the Earth
Eloy – Colours
Keith Emerson – Inferno
Gamma – Gamma 2
Gandalf – Journey to an Imaginary Land
Genesis – Duke
Goblin – Contamination
Group 87 – Group 87
Steve Hackett – Defector
Hawkwind – Levitation
Jethro Tull – A
David Earle Johnson with Jan Hammer – Hip Address
Kansas – Audio-Visions
Kenso – Kenso
Kerry Livgren – Seeds of Change
Kitaro – In Person
Irene Papas | Vangelis – Odes
Anthony Phillips – 1984
Richard Pinhas – East West
Didier Lockwood – Live in Montreux
Jean-Luc Ponty – Civilized Evil
Rush – Permanent Waves
Saga – Silent Knight
Carlos Santana – The Swing of Delight
Robert Schroeder – Floating Music
Klaus Schulze – ...Live...
Sky – Sky 2
Tangerine Dream – Tangram
Yes – Drama

*Führs & Frohling – Live 1980 (released 2001)


1981

Blue Öyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin
Fabio Frizzi – The Beyond
King Crimson – Discipline
Di Meola / McLaughlin / De Lucia – Friday Night in San Francisco
Dregs – Unsung Heroes
Eloy – Planets
Gandalf – Visions
Hawkwind – Sonic Attack
Michael Hedges – Breakfast in the Field
However – Sudden Dusk
Jean-Michel Jarre – Magnetic Fields
Yoshiaki Masuo with Jan Hammer – Finger Dancing
Vangelis – Chariots of Fire
Rush – Moving Pictures
Saga – Worlds Apart
Robert Schroeder – Mosaique
Synergy – Audion
Tangerine Dream – Exit
Tangerine Dream – Thief
Twelfth Night – Live at the Target
Richard Wahnfried – Tonwelle
Rick Wakeman – The Burning
Rick Wakeman – 1984
Frank Zappa – Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
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Tough...I'll have to go with Foxtrot, Close to the Edge, Octopus & Darwin [=D>]
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I'm going to go with 1974. Having said that, some of the more recent years (from 2018 onward) I feel rival the early 1970s. I just can't decide which one is best. My stomach came with an optional concrete infrastructure research database which I have yet to use.
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1959, of course! That's the year ofMiles Davis’ Kind of Blue, the album that gave birth to modal jazz; the complexity and melodic genius of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps; Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, which did away with conventional harmony and form altogether; Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, which pushed the boundaries of meter and rhythm in jazz, and the energized and politically charged compositions of Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um, Art Blakey's Moanin', as well as Abbey Lincoln's Abby Lincoln Is Blue, Bill Evans' Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Art Blakey Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Sonny Rollins' Newk's Time and more.

Oh, wait! Am I on the wrong site? 

No, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue:  #26 on ProgArchives' list of 100 Top Prog Albums of All-Time! Need I say more?
 
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1971 is the single greatest year for rock music, prog or otherwise. Studio releases, Prog/Prog adjacent in order of release:

Chicago - Chicago III
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Yes - The Yes Album
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Soft Machine - Fourth
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
The Groundhogs - Split
Amon Düül II - Tanz der Lemminge
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades
The Nice - Elegy
Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man
Weather Report - S/T Debut
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Deep Purple - Fireball
Strawbs - From the Witchwood
The Who - Who's Next
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Can - Tago Mago
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Santana - Santana III
Frank Zappa - 200 Motels
Jeff Beck - Rough and Ready
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Focus - II (Moving Waves)
Gary Wright - Footprint
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest and Other Stories
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Yes - Fragile
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
John Martyn - Bless the Weather
Alice Cooper - Killer (also Love It to Death released earlier)
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
King Crimson - Islands
Electric Light Orchestra - S/T Debut
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

No Release Date: 
John Fahey - America
Edgar Winter - Edgar Winter's White Trash
Faust - S/T Debut
Eloy - S/T Debut
Comus - First Utterance
Jade Warrior - S/T Debut
Leo Kottke - Mudlark
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Jade Warrior - Released
Spirogyra - St. Radigunds




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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

1959, of course! That's the year ofMiles Davis’ Kind of Blue, the album that gave birth to modal jazz; the complexity and melodic genius of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps; Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, which did away with conventional harmony and form altogether; Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, which pushed the boundaries of meter and rhythm in jazz, and the energized and politically charged compositions of Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um, Art Blakey's Moanin', as well as Abbey Lincoln's Abby Lincoln Is Blue, Bill Evans' Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Art Blakey Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Sonny Rollins' Newk's Time and more.

Oh, wait! Am I on the wrong site?

No, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue: #26 on ProgArchives' list of 100 Top Prog Albums of All-Time! Need I say more?
1959 is also generally considered the best year for Gibson Les Paul. ;P
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Dark Elf, you left off ELP's Tarkus. Was that intentional? I see Nursery Cryme by Genesis is absent also. 

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Dark Elf, you left off ELP's Tarkus. Was that intentional? I see Nursery Cryme by Genesis is absent also. 

Nursery Cryme is there. I'll edit in the Tarkus omission.
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^Oh ok. Not sure how I missed Nursery Cryme then. I know a lot of people don't like the "thin" production on it but I've never really noticed that much (same with Going for the One which people complain about). 
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