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It might be easier for me to name my favourite albums in each individual genre of music because I have SO MANY favourites to choose from. Smile
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Adrian Belew's band? Excellent LP.
 
I agree. When I rate my top 25 albums of all time, this always gets a place. A perfect album for me. Upbeat superbly crafted songs, stellar vocals (both Rob and Adrian) their harmonies kick ass, incredible musicianship, and the recording sounds killer.
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National Health - Of Queues and Cures
The Bears debut album

Of course these are subject to change.

Adrian Belew's band? Excellent LP.
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Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:

This has surely been done before, the only question is, how many times?

What’s your #1 favorite prog album of all time? Not the best, necessarily. And what’s your favorite non-prog album?


How could someone have a favourite Prog album that they considered not as good as what they thought was the best Prog album? Are there objective aesthetic criteria of which we lesser mortals are unaware?Wink

Favourite Prog album of all time: Brain Salad Surgery by ELP
Favourite non-Prog album of all time: Swoon by Prefab Sprout
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Still Life - Opeth

It was so hard choosing between still life, wish you were here, close to the edge, and foxtrot
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^ I guess your avatar should’ve given that away!
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Prog: Yes - Close to the Edge
Non-Prog: Slowdive- Souvlaki (At the moment)
CttE may be ranked #1 on this site, but I wonder how many of us consider it the best prog album. I know I did for 20 years; now it’s a close #2 to Relayer.

I have been listening to prog for shorter than 20 years and Close to the Edge has emerged as the clear favorite out of all of the prog I have listened to. Relayer wouldn't even make my top 10, but it's still a really great album.
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Prog: Yes - Close to the Edge
Non-Prog: Slowdive- Souvlaki (At the moment)
CttE may be ranked #1 on this site, but I wonder how many of us consider it the best prog album. I know I did for 20 years; now it’s a close #2 to Relayer.
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Prog: Yes - Close to the Edge
Non-Prog: Slowdive- Souvlaki (At the moment)
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Prog: Wish you were Here.
Non Prog: Wish you were Here.

Does that make sense?

OK, really, I wouldn't really know which is my non-prog fav album, I only know that my very favourite album is Wish you were Here. Perhaps if I had to go with a non prog album, I could think of something like "Mother Earth" by Within Temptations or "Secret of the Runes" by Therion.


Within Temptation.... nice!


I still have got to get their latest... however, for me they never got near Mother Earth again... that one's something special, then they got gradually poppier, until they hardly were even metal on their previous album. Still, they always come out with some high quality material, whichever stile they choose to play. I guess that's what happens when they take their time between each release.

I thing they have a few post Mother Earth that are quite good.  However, I definitely found the most recent release to be a major disappointment.  Totally without inspiration.  
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Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:



What’s your #1 favorite prog album of all time? Not the best, necessarily. And what’s your favorite non-prog album?
 
Am I allowed to choose a compilation album as my favourite prog album of all time?
 
If so, I'd choose the 2-CD "Echoes" compilation by Pink Floyd.
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Exivious - s/t

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries

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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by Machinemessiah Machinemessiah wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


Favourite non-prog album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Nice choice! it's an all too well rounded album imo.. love Irons' stark drumming with Flea's bass!
 
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Although I don't have many non-prog (excluding prog-related, etc) albums to choose from, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" is an album that I like a lot (I think of it as a masterpiece).
 
What is your favourite track? There are four tracks in particular that are rather special to me:
 
Breaking the Girl
Suck My Kiss
Under the Bridge
Sir Psycho Sexy
 
Of these, my favourite is a choice between "Breaking the Girl" and "Sir Psycho Sexy".
 
 
 
I also believe it's a masterpiece. 

This, along with 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn', was one of the last CDs I bought years ago (sort of completing the ones I've always loved but for some reason never owned).

A few years ago I took it to an old friends' reunion to the Lake where we used to spend our summers in the 90's (then and there, 'Suck my kiss' sounded every night at the local Disco). Evil Smile I put it on an old radio outdoors somewhere at the middle of our little barbecue at night Beer and it went inflamed! LOL it sounded all way through between drinks. Unforgettable memories with this one.


Well you know.. favorites keep changing, 'Suck my kiss' of course was one at one point. As was 'I could have lied'.


Now I'd say:

The Power of Equality            (always a fave)
The Righteous & the Wicked
Blood Sugar Sex Magik           (love the drums)
Apache Rose Peacock
Sir Psycho Sexy






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Fish Out Of Water is a supremely underrated album even among prog fans. Sick choice.
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 'Astral Weeks' is one of my favourite albums. Is it non-prog?

It's hard for me to think of it as not experimental, but I daresay it's not prog-rock.

 
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Prog: Yes Close to The Edge
Non-Prog: Cky Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Prog: Wish you were Here.
Non Prog: Wish you were Here.

Does that make sense?

OK, really, I wouldn't really know which is my non-prog fav album, I only know that my very favourite album is Wish you were Here. Perhaps if I had to go with a non prog album, I could think of something like "Mother Earth" by Within Temptations or "Secret of the Runes" by Therion.


Within Temptation.... nice!


I still have got to get their latest... however, for me they never got near Mother Earth again... that one's something special, then they got gradually poppier, until they hardly were even metal on their previous album. Still, they always come out with some high quality material, whichever stile they choose to play. I guess that's what happens when they take their time between each release.
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Prog: Rush~Hemispheres
Non-prog: Earth, Wind & Fire~All n' All
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Prog: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 

Proto-Prog/Prog-Releated: STEREOLAB's Dots and Loops

Non-Prog: either GIL SCOTT-HERON's Pieces of a Man or JONI MITCHELL's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Although I've already named my favourite non-prog album I would also like to mention Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill . Superb rock album , everything came together perfect on that one. So that would be my choice for best 'non prog rock' album!
Hey, that's neat, Richard! She is from Ottawa, and I have never met her, but have met friends of hers. Jagged Little Pill sure took the world by storm when it came out.
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