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Here are my top 25 studio albums today: 1. Marillion - Brave 2. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are 3. Echolyn - As the World 4. Genesis - Foxtrot 5. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon 6. Marillion - Marbles 7. The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel 8. Pendragon - Not of This World 9. Echolyn - Echolyn 10. Arena - The Visitor 11. The Flower Kings - Flower Power 12. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Pt. I 13. Genesis - Selling England By the Pound 14. Marbles - Afraid of Sunlight 15. Galahad - Following Ghosts 16. Arena - Contagion 17. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane 18. Kate Bush - Aerial 19. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 20. Yes - Going for the One 21. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King 22. Brian Eno - Another Green World 23. Galahad - Empires Never Last 24. Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom 25. Phideaux - Infernal
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Thanks, Drew! In your list there are some albums I've never heard. Now they are in the list of my next listenings. |
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Guess I missed this one when you started it 2 1/2 years ago, Lorenzo. But I did notice you used the word "best" in your Original Post, which, in my opinion connotes a different set of criterion than "favorite". And, since you used your own (PA-based) metric system to generate the (ever-evolving) list, I can understand how you reached your list of "best" prog (according to PA standards) studio albums of all-time. With this in mind, this is what I've come up with ... today:
1. Magma Mekanïk Destruktïw
Kommandöh 2. Yes Relayer 3. Bent Knee Shiny Eyed
Babies 4. Yes Close to the Edge 5. King Crimson In The
Court of The Crimson King 6. Pink Floyd Dark Side
of the Moon 7. Il Balletto di Bronzo Ys 8. Area Crac! 9. Flairck Gevecht met de
Engel 10. All Traps on Earth A
Drop of Light 11. Homunculus Res Limiti
all’eguaglianza della parte con il tutto 12. Eskaton 4 Visions 13. Seven Impale City of
the Sun 14. Koenji Hyakkei Angherr
Shisspa 15. Harmonium Si on avait
besoin d’une cinqième saison 16. Supertramp Crime of
The Century 17. Genesis The Lamb Lies
Down on Broadway 18. UK UK 19. PFM Per un amico 20. Nil Nil Novo Sub sole 21. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Adventures
in Utopia 22. Maudlin of The Well Part
the Second 23. Return to Forever Romantic
Warrior 24. Riverside Second Life
Syndrome 25. Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds
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Old list:- 1) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP 2) Close To The Edge - Yes 3) Red - King Crimson 4) Wish you Were Here - Pink Floyd 5) A Trick of the Tail - Genesis 6) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 7) 666 - Aphrodite's Child 8) PG1 - Peter Gabriel 9) Moving Pictures - Rush 10) Animals - Pink Floyd 11) Foxtrot - Genesis 12) The Power and The Glory - Gentle Giant 13) Ever - IQ 14) Danger Money - UK 15) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull 16) Heaven and Hell - Vangelis 17) Time To Turn - Eloy 18) Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman 19) Weather Systems - Anathema 20) The Inconsolable Secret - Glass Hammer 21) UK - UK 22) Relayer - Yes 23) Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream 24) The Wake - IQ 25) Veni Vidi Vici - Par Lindh Project that was my my list back 2 years ago . Now I would put in Far Corner - Risk , Big Big Train - Folklore and All Traps On Earth instead of the bottom 3 but would include another seventies album instead of Relayer , PFM - Per Un Amico. In fact I would bump that very high. Amended list:- 1) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP 2) Close To The Edge - Yes 3) Red - King Crimson 4) Wish you Were Here - Pink Floyd 5) A Trick of the Tail - Genesis 6) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 7) 666 - Aphrodite's Child 8) PFM - Per Un Amico 9) PG1 - Peter Gabriel 10) Moving Pictures - Rush 11) Animals - Pink Floyd 12) Foxtrot - Genesis 13) The Power and The Glory - Gentle Giant 14) Ever - IQ 15) Danger Money - UK 16) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull 17) Heaven and Hell - Vangelis 18) Time To Turn - Eloy 19) Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman 20) Weather Systems - Anathema 21) The Inconsolable Secret - Glass Hammer 22) UK - UK 23) All Traps On Earth - A Drop of Light 24) Far Corner - Risk 25) Big Big Train - Folklore Edited by richardh - October 11 2021 at 03:24 |
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New ranking: Rating 10/10 1) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator 1) From H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator 1) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 4) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt Rating 9,75/10 5) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area Rating 9,5/10 6) The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill 7) In The Court Of... - King Crimson 8) Starsailor - Tim Buckley 9) Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories 10) Red - King Crimson 11) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill 12) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk 13) In Praise of Learning - Henry Cow Rating 9,25/10 14) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 15) Music In A Doll's House - Family 16) Lorca - Tim Buckley 17) Roxy Music - Roxy Music 18) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 19) Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd 20) Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band 21) Darwin - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 22) Storia di un Minuto - PFM 23) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant 24) First Utterance - Comus 25) Stormy Six - Macchina Maccheronica |
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Here's my list favorite albums by favorite bands, and prog essentials (definitely not in order). Even decades in, there's so much out there to explore:
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House / Three Friends Steve Hacket - Voyage of the Acolyte Ian Gillan Band - Scarabus Fireballet - Night on Bald Mountain PFM - Chocolate Kings Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Genesis - Selling England By the Pound Esta - Mediterranean Crossroads Yes - Close to the Edge Dixie Dregs - What If Family - Songs From a Doll's House Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Marillion - Clutching at Straws Audience - Audience Uriah Heep - Salisbury Curved Air - Second Album Earth & Fire - Song of the Marching Children Renaissance - Novella Strawbs - Hero and Heroine Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children Procol Harum - Grand Hotel Camel - Mirage Air - Moon Safari Robert Fripp - Exposure Toyah - Ophelia's Dream Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy Phil Manzanera - Firebird V11 Bo Hansson - Magician's Hat Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Roland Bocquet - Paradia Francois Breant - Sons Optique Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day
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New ranking: Rating 10/10 1) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator 1) From H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator 1) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 4) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt Rating 9,75/10 5) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area Rating 9,5/10 6) The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill 7) In The Court Of... - King Crimson 8) Starsailor - Tim Buckley 9) Red - King Crimson 10) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill 11) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk 12) In Praise of Learning - Henry Cow Rating 9,25/10 13) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 14) Music In A Doll's House - Family 15) Lorca - Tim Buckley 16) Roxy Music - Roxy Music 17) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 18) Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd 19) Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band 20) Darwin - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 21) Storia di un Minuto - PFM 22) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant 23) First Utterance - Comus 24) Stormy Six - Macchina Maccheronica 25) Maledetti - Area Edited by jamesbaldwin - October 04 2021 at 17:28 |
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Maybe I'm too generous with 5 star ratings because I could easily name 25 five star rating albums. I think I could also go up to 100 5 star rating albums. What I can't really do is name my top 25 favourite albums because depending on the day or week the order would change and some albums would move into my top 25 and some albums would move out of my top 25. Certain albums however will never move out of my top 25. They include:
Yes: TFTO, Close To The Edge Pink Floyd: DSOTM, WYWH, PATGOD Genesis: SEBTP, Foxtrot, TOTT, Duke King Crimson: LTIA, Red Jethro Tull: APP The Doors: Strange Days Split Enz: Mental Notes Marillion: SFAJT, Marbles, This Strange Engine The Flower Kings: Stardust We Are Edited by iluvmarillion - December 30 2020 at 23:33 |
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My faves change a lot, especially being on this site and reading everyone's fantastic song/album lists all the time. As of 31st December 2020, it would have to be: Cardiacs - Sing to God Cardiacs - Heaven born and ever bright Genesis - Trick of the tail Ekseption - Trinity VDGG - Pawn Hearts Gentle Giant - Free Hand Gentle Giant - The power and the glory Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother National Health - Of Queues and Cures Renaissance - Ashes are Burning Atomic Rooster - Death Walks behind you Grateful Dead - American Beauty Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses |
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I think I'm on my way into this genre as we speak!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Which Zeuhl albums do you love?
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I am currently in a Zeuhl phase, so I rank Zeuhl albums very high
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New ranking: Rating 10 1) From H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator 2) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 3) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt 4) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator Rating 9,75/10 5) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area 6) Silent Corner and The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill 7) In The Court Of... - King Crimson Rating 9,5/10 8) Starsailor - Tim Buckley 9) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk 10) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 11) Red - King Crimson 12) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill Rating 9,25/10 13) Music In A Doll's House - Family 14) Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd 15) Roxy Music - Roxy Music 16) First Utterance - Comus 17) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant 18) Lorca - Tim Buckley 19) PFM - Storia di Un Minuto 20) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 21) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin 22) Maledetti - Area 23) Tori Amos - Under The Pink Rating 9/10 24) Islands - King Crimson 25) Fearless - Family |
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New ranking: Rating 10 1) From H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator 2) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 3) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt 4) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator Rating 9,75/10 5) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area 6) Silent Corner and The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill 7) In The Court Of... - King Crimson Rating 9,5/10 8) Starsailor - Tim Buckley 9) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk 10) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 11) Red - King Crimson 12) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill Rating 9,25/10 13) Music In A Doll's House - Family 14) Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd 15) Roxy Music - Roxy Music 16) First Utterance - Comus 17) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant 18) Lorca - Tim Buckley 19) Maledetti - Area 20) Tori Amos - Under The Pink Rating 9/10 21) Islands - King Crimson 22) Fearless - Family 23) Aqualung - Jetho Tull 24) Trespass - Genesis 25) Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band |
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New ranking: Rating 10 1) From H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator 2) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator 3) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt 4) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator Rating 9,75/10 5) Silent Corner and The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill 6) In The Court Of... - King Crimson Rating 9,5/10 7) Arbeit Mach Frei - Area 8) Starsailor - Tim Buckley 9) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk 10) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 11) Red - King Crimson 12) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill Rating 9,25/10 13) Music In A Doll's House - Family 14) Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd 15) Roxy Music - Roxy Music 16) First Utterance - Comus 17) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant 18) Lorca - Tim Buckley 19) Tori Amos - Under The Pink Rating 9/10 20) Islands - King Crimson 21) Fearless - Family 22) Aqualung - Jetho Tull 23) Trespass - Genesis 24) Faust - Faust 25) Quatermass - Quatermass |
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Well, that's probably another case of how incapable ratings and rankings are to capture the essence of art and music. At the end of the day there are a number of albums that are so special and important to me in their own ways that in fact no album should be ranked above them, but there are more than ten of these. That said, all Can albums except maybe Future Days (which is their most consistent, but as a whole doesn't grab me as much as their best stuff does) have their highs and relative lows that don't draw me in that much. So if I rank albums, these appear not quite at the top, but this doesn't take away from the fact that they're the number one band for me, which is not governed that much by individual albums but rather by their overall approach, range, and influence, including the later solo work not only by Czukay. Just to illustrate, Unlimited Edition has lots of stuff that I don't love that much individually, but at the same time it is such a feast of experimentation, playfulness and surprises that it contributes big time to my overall appreciation of the band, despite the fact that as an album to listen to from beginning to end no way I'd rate this 5 stars.
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I've seen your chart, and in fact Laughing Stock is in your main Top 10. Then, you have written various Top 10, with O' Rang, Mark Hollis and even The Colour of Spring, you like Talk Talk very much, more than me... but I can understand your feeling, because we are talking about a great artist (Hollis) and his voice is full of emotions, so you can feel it hot. I prefer Spirit of Eden but I can understand who prefers Laughing Stock or Mark Hollis' solo album. But I dont see Can in your rankings.
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Interesting, this is obviously a well thought through review that you wrote after many mindful listenings. Still to me Laughing Stock feels closer and warmer (you call it cold) than Spirit of Eden. Runeii is so comforting and peaceful. And After The Flood has always featured among my ten best songs of all time, just because besides all the experimental and unusual sounds that even this song has, it is a rock of reliability in these otherwise unpredictable waters. As a Can fan I surely can appreciate a steady hypnotic rhythm. But of course we know that music appreciation is subjective... In a way it illustrates how giving numerical marks cannot do the art justice. I couldn't argue any other marking, but to me this album is beyond marking... but of course I'm not criticising you, I play that game myself...
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Here my review http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2307858
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