Great non-prog prog albums you love?

Svein..

FSOL!!  Great choice, especially 'Lifeforms'

Rest proof Clockwork - Plaid

Music has the right to children - Boards of Canada

76:14 - Global Communication

Adventures beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb

Document - REM

Violator & Songs of Faith & devotion - Depeche Mode

The Queen is dead - The Smiths

Unforgettable fire - U2

Spooky - Lush

Heaven or Las Vegas - The Cocteau Twins

Five leaves left - Nick Drake

Ace of spades - Motorhead

Sabotage - Black Sabbath

Tin Drum - Japan

I could go on, but I'll spare you..

"Pipedream" by Alan Hull, stunning solo album by the late Lindisfarne man.

"Year of the cat" by Al Stewart, criminally underrated singer songwriter, who can at times venture into prog territory.

"Boston" by Boston. A great power rock album.

"Rainbow rising" by Rainbow. Blackmore at his best

"Fireball" by Deep Purple. probably their most complete album

""Scavenger" by The Walkabouts. Why are this band not huge? Great female vocals, and stunning guitar work. You must hear the last track, "train to mercy".

"Cosmo's factory" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. An embarrasment on riches on one album.

"Catch bull at four" by Cat Stevens. If only he could have made more like this.

"Wrecking ball" by Emmylou Harris. Her perfect voice ventures away from country to wonderful new areas.

Svein-Frode wrote: * Jeff Buckley - Grace (If you haven't heard it, you've missed the greatest voice of our generation...!)

Absolutely

Love: Forever Changes.

Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall . Several arrangements here on this 1964 recording which would and could inspire budding prog rockers - Rondo A La Turk  obviously inspired The Nice, while I personally know a number of good amateur and pro drummers who tried to keep up with Joe Morello's unusual and always deliberately varied time signatures.

Savoy Brown: Raw Sienna. To me the The British blues boom recording of the late 60's/early seventies - Chris Youlden's vocals IMHO better than any others of the period.

Most proggers are very into music in general, and since X-mas is arriving, how about recommending some extremely superb albums with "advanced/progressive/non-pop" music for anyone to have under the tree this year:

My hard earned cash would support these albums:

* FSOL (the Future Sound of London) - Dead Cities (dark, progressive, electronica)

* Keith Jarret - The Köln Concert (One man, one piano, wonderful harmonies and melodies, greatest improvisation ever recoded?)

* Bendik Hofseth - Plantes, space and .... IKEA (What happens if you mix jazz and classical into pop song structures? You'll get great intellectual lyrics, enormous diversity, though the bad english accent does annoy me to some degree.

* Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day (Pat goes fusion/prog rock with amazing result! 48 string guitars, heavy metal riffs and acoustic songs made in heaven...?)

* Jeff Buckley - Grace (If you haven't heard it, you've missed the greatest voice of our generation...!)