Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Your 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1974
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Your 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1974

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12
Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
Mirakaze View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Eclectic, JRF/Canterbury, Avant/Zeuhl

Joined: December 17 2019
Location: (redacted)
Status: Offline
Points: 4253
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Mirakaze Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 15:11
1. King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
2. Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
3. King Crimson - Red
4. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
5. Yes - Relayer
6. Area - Caution Radiation Area
7. Hatfield And The North - Hatfield And The North
8. Egg - The Civil Surface
9. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Roxy & Elsewhere
10. Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before?

Honourable mentions (I'm going to start being generous with this section cause I feel bad leaving albums out every time):
- Camel - Mirage
- Gong - You
- Henry Cow - Unrest
- Kansas - Kansas
- Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
- Miles Davis - Get Up With It
- Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
- Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet
- Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
- White Noise - White Noise 2: Concerto For Synthesizer


Edited by Mirakaze - June 23 2021 at 00:43
Back to Top
progaardvark View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams

Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Sea of Peas
Status: Offline
Points: 52988
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote progaardvark Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 12:51
1. Yes - Relayer
2. Camel - Mirage
3. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
4. Gong - You
5. King Crimson - Red
6. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
7. Focus - Hamburger Concerto 
8. Duncan Mackay - Chimera
9. Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo Della Gioia
10. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple

Honorable mentions:
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards
PFM - L'Isola Di Niente
Peter Hammill - In Camera
Eloy - Floating
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Ange - Au-delà du délire
----------
i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag
that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
nothing beats a good video about fractions
Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Prog Folk

Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20457
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 11:06

14           Supertramp       Crime of the Century                      
13           Collier Music, Graham  Darius  
13           Focus    Hamburger Concerto    

13           Gong     You  
13           Harmonium       Harmonium  

13           King Crimson    Red        

13           Ptarmigan (aka Nordstrom / Dias)          Ptarmigan
13           Santana               Borboletta  
13           Santana, Carlos / Coltrane, Alice             Illuminations
13           Wyatt, Robert   Rock Bottom

Bubbling under...

12           Contraction       La Bourse Ou La Vie 
12           Cos        Postaeolian Train Robbery 

12           Garrick, Michael              Troppo 
12           Haikara - Geafar  

12           Missus Beastly - Missus Beastly

12           Quella Vecchia Locanda              Il Tempo della Gioia
12           Secret Oyster    Sea Son    
12           Sweet Smoke   Live  

12           Tangerine Dream            Phaedra      

12           Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing    

12           Trower, Robin  Bridge of Sighs                    

12           Yatha Sidhra      Meditation Mass    
12           Yes         Relayer

11           Argent  Encore - Live in Concert  

11           Arti + Mestieri  Tilt    
11           Atoll      Musiciens-Magiciens 

11           Ayers, Kevin      Confessions of Dr. Dream

11           Booz, Emmanuel             Le Jour Ou Les Vaches
11           Caravan               And The New Symphonia                      

11           Chicago               Chicago VII   
11           Clearlight           Clearlight Symphony    Fra         1974    

11           Cobham, Billy   Crosswinds
11           Coryell & The Eleventh House, Larry     Introducing   
 
11           Cosmic Jokers   Cosmic Jokers     

11           Deep Purple      Burn   

11           Dzyan   Electric Silence

11           Gallagher, Rory                Irish Tour 1974
11           Gryphon              Red Queen to Gryphon Three    

11           Hammill  The Silent Corner & The Empty Stage
11           Hancock, Herbie      Thrust  

11           Hatfield and The North                Hatfield and The North                  

11           Isotope                Illusion
11           Kandahar            Long Live The Sliced Ham
11           Kansas  Kansas

11           Magma Kohntarkosz    

11           Maupin, Bennie              The Jewel in the Lotus  
11           Nucleus               Under the Sun
11           Ougenweide     All die Weil ich Mag         

11           Perigeo        Genealogia 
11           Pohjola, Pekka - Harakka Bialoipokku (B The Magpie)  
11           Queen  II
11           Schulze, Klaus  - Blackdance  

11           Wigwam             Being    

11           Young, Neil        On The Beach

11           Aerosmith          Get Your Wings
    



Italics - not on PA

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
Back to Top
Nogbad_The_Bad View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team

Joined: March 16 2007
Location: Boston
Status: Online
Points: 21364
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Nogbad_The_Bad Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 10:06
Hatfield and the North - s/t
King Crimson - Red
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Henry Cow - Unrest
Gong - You
Pekka Pohjola - Harakka Bialoipokku
Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/
Back to Top
Argo2112 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 20 2017
Location: New Jersey
Status: Offline
Points: 4462
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Argo2112 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 09:32

  • The Lamb... - Genesis
  • Turn of the Cards  - Renaissance
  • Apostrophe' - Zappa
  • Red - King Crimson
  • SABB - King Crimson
  • Crime of the Century - Supertramp
  • Mirage - Camel
  • Eldorado - ELO
  • The Power & The Glory - Gentle Giant
  • Relayer - Yes
Back to Top
The Dark Elf View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: February 01 2011
Location: Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 13238
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote The Dark Elf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 09:04
Queen - Queen II
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends....
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
King Crimson - Red
Jethro Tull - War Child
Yes - Relayer
Genesis - TLLDOB

Progressive Blues Bonus...
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
Back to Top
Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 16 2019
Location: Nottingham, U.K
Status: Online
Points: 43979
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2021 at 08:37
Another great year for prog with many of the old favourites clear and present in my Top 10, including a fair sprinkling of live albums and venturing Beyond the Beyond into the realms of Fantasy. Smile

Barclay James Harvest - Live
Camel - Mirage
Caravan - Caravan & the New Symphonia
Fantasy - Beyond the Beyond
Fruupp - The Prince of Heaven's Eyes
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Nektar - Live at London Roundhouse
Refugee - Refugee
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards
Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.195 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.