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Posted: April 10 2011 at 01:39

Your top ten is barely prog, therefore I smell a troll.

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Posted: April 10 2011 at 01:35

Seems like a bit of inverted snobbery at work here; so not very hopeful about what I will find on your list; but will check it out and report back.

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Posted: April 10 2011 at 01:34

dfle3 wrote:

I've only recently been exploring Prog rock...it had been my impression that what I considered to be The Dead Zone in music - from about a year or so before The Beatles broke up to the rise of groups like ABBA - coincided with the Prog moment in music. So, basically 'forced' myself to check out prog acts. Generally found it easy listening without having true classics as such...King Crimson's "The court of the Crimson King" title track being an exception.

Your list is interesting. It's rather like you took a shotgun and aimed at a barn door, but you ended up killing a cow in the neighbor's pasture. That you considered the time period between The Beatles and ABBA (ABBA?) to be a musical "Dead Zone", and that you had to literally force yourself to listen to prog acts makes me wonder why you bothered at all, particularly considering that 9 of the top 10 albums on your list were never really considered progressive, or whatever hybrid categorization you were going for.

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Posted: April 10 2011 at 01:00

I've only recently been exploring Prog rock...it had been my impression that what I considered to be The Dead Zone in music - from about a year or so before The Beatles broke up to the rise of groups like ABBA - coincided with the Prog moment in music. So, basically 'forced' myself to check out prog acts. Generally found it easy listening without having true classics as such...King Crimson's "The court of the Crimson King" title track being an exception.

Anyway I've been compiling a list of the prog albums that I've heard and rating them. Curious as to what you make of my tastes, if you identify yourself as a 'real' Prog fan. Here's my list:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/dfle3/progressive_art_experimental_rock_albums_rated___

I did have that the impression that many of my selections might not be considered 'real' prog albums...but browsing a thread here I see that I may not be so 'out there' as I thought I was being...what, with the Black Sabbath albums...and you guys are counting Metallica too? I was just thinking of having "...and justice for all" in my list, but you guys seem to go further.

Anyway, appreciate any thoughts you have on my list...hopefully the link works!

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