The Ultimate PA Album List - Results!!!

iluvmarillion wrote: MattGuitat wrote: I'm surprised SEBTP won. I think its a great album (4 stars), but not a masterpiece. I would have preferred Foxtrot or The Lamb at the top, at least when it comes to Genesis. Close to the Edge should have come in AT LEAST top 3, and Relayer is definitely top 10. All subjective opinion and in the eyes of the beholder. SEBTP is a flawless masterpiece in my opinion. Lamb is overwritten with some really obscure lyrics. Tony Banks is in top form but can anyone tell me where is Steve Hackett apart from one song on the first side? I can only conclude that Hackett lost interest in the concept of the album and stopped contributing at some point.

Which one SEBTP or TLLDOB? Personally, I think Steve is more present on Selling England. You have dancing and ofcourse firth of fifth. On lamb he's heard on "counting out time" and elsewhere too but that one stands out. Steve's presence is felt more on the first two post Gabriel albums.

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: I came back to the thread and was amazed at how many of these users are gone sadly... not posting anymore at least. Yes, the list still looks great! Perhaps needs updating though now with the excellent albums of 2011

I do have enough time on my hands this summer. It's not beyond the realm of possibility (given demand)

Wow people are still commenting on it. Thanks for the support all. If I had as little of a life as I did back then I'd keep it up with more lists.

moreitsythanyou wrote: So hopefully you are well aware that since December, members of the forum have been making lists of their favorite albums, ranging from 48 to 250 albums. And I went through each list and gave out the points (250 for #1, 249 for #2...) and now I have compiled what you all have voted to be the Top 300 albums of all time. Here is a sneak preview, the albums that came in from 301-400: 301 Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night Peter Hammill 302 Six Wives of Henry XVIII Rick Wakeman 303 Skymind Taal 304 Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog 305 Blackfield 2 Blackfield 306 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan 307 Omnio In the Woods… 308 Afraid of Sunlight Marillion 309 A Fine Day to Exit Anathema 310 Moonbabies Planet X 311 Crossings Herbie Hancock 312 In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Coheed and Cambria 313 Spirit of Eden Talk Talk 314 The Queen is Dead The Smiths 315 Dark Matter IQ 316 Retrospectiw Magma 317 Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan 318 Bursting Out Jethro Tull 319 Music For Nurses Oceansize 320 The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage Peter Hammill 321 Scheherazade and Other Stories Renaissance 322 Black Sabbath Black Sabbath 323 Concerts Henry Cow 324 Palepoli Osanna 325 Suffocating the Bloom Echolyn 326 Kind of Blue Miles Davis 327 Visual Audio Sensory Theater VAST 328 Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones 329 Ahvak Ahvak 330 Don Caballero 2 Don Caballero 331 Present Van Der Graaf Generator 332 Fire of Unknown Origin Blue Oyster Cult 333 Secret Story Pat Metheny Group 334 Snow Spock's Beard 335 In Search of the Lost Chord The Moody Blues 336 A Place in the Queue The Tangent 337 Sacred Baboon Yezda Urfa 338 Reign In Blood Slayer 339 Pictures at an Exhibition Emerson Lake and Palmer 340 In Search of Space Hawkwind 341 Moroccan Roll Brand X 342 Perdition City Ulver 343 Symphonie Pour Le Jour Où Brûleront Les Cités Art Zoyd 344 The Number of the Beast Iron Maiden 345 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy 346 Songs for the Deaf Queens of the Stone Age 347 Yes Yes 348 Crac! Area 349 Welcome Back My Friends Emerson Lake and Palmer 350 Five Suns Guapo 351 Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin 352 Le Poison Qui Rend Le Fou Present 353 The Black Halo Kamelot 354 Minstrel in the Gallery Jethro Tull 355 Passion Peter Gabriel 356 Wheels of Fire Cream 357 From the Lion's Mouth The Sound 358 In Spite of Henry's Toenail Gnidrolog 359 Les Morts Vont Vite Shub-Niggurath 360 At The Fillmore East Allman Brothers 361 Double Nickles on the Dime Minutemen 362 Frizzle Fry Primus 363 Ocean Eloy 364 Hold Your Horse Is Hella 365 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division 366 The Mollusk Ween 367 Real Time Van Der Graaf Generator 368 Book of Horizons Secret Chiefs 3 369 A Pleasant Shade of Gray Fates Warning 370 Heatwave Univers Zero 371 Leviathan Mastodon 372 From Mars to Sirius Gojira 373 Wurdah Itah Magma 374 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young 375 Where Have I Known You Before Return to Forever 376 Camere Zimmer Rooms Picchio Dal Pozzo 377 Cultosaurus Erectus Blue Oyster Cult 378 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie 379 Neon Bible The Arcade Fire 380 Lady Lake Gnidrolog 381 Remember the Future Nektar 382 The Warning Queensryche 383 Comicopera Robert Wyatt 384 The Velvet Underground and Nico The Velvet Underground 385 A Natural Disaster Anathema 386 The Sound of Perserverence Death 387 Alphataurus Alphataurus 388 Piece of Mind Iron Maiden 389 Mr. Beast Mogwai 390 Jar of Flies Alice in Chains 391 Tenacious D Tenacious D 392 Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Ulver 393 Going For The One Yes 394 Boston Boston 395 Night Gazpacho 396 Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors Fish 397 Wild Orchids Steve Hackett 398 The Flower King Roine Stolt 399 Crashing Icons Absolute Zero 400 Delirium Cordia Fantomas The rest of the results will come out gradually in a more formated and informative fashion.

Wow! do you work!? hats off to you

Fyrus wrote: Nice to see Temple of the Dog on there.

Fyrus wrote: YES TEMPLE OF THE DOG I applaud your excellent taste sir.

Selling England by the Pound has more high points than any other Genesis album and it used to be my favorite but I think A trick of the tail is their most solid album over all now. There is nothing weak on there where as SEBTP has some fluff like more fool me. 

YES TEMPLE OF THE DOG

I have just recently reviewed Trespass. It IS a 5 star album. please read my review.  I am in complete agreement with you on LAMB. I listened to it back to back for first time and only cared for cuckoo cacoon, carpet crawl and title track. My favorites now are "The Lamia"  and "In the Rapids" flying keys by Banks. Love it dearly. Steve. SEBTP? Well, it deserves every bit of praise. The Battle of Epping Forest is well it is yeah, you all know what I mean. and Harold Demure who's still not quite sure, fires acorns from out of his sling! Come together.

Damn, I would've loved to participate in this. My brothers and I are compiling a list of top 100 albums and top 1,000 songs.

Stonebolt wrote: This is a good list that will definatley help me hear more good prog. The one thing I don't get is why Lark's Tounges in Aspic is on there. I haven't listened to the whole album, but I have listened to all four parts of the song, which I had to force myself to do. To me, it sounded like an unsuccessful experiment, one that didn't really go anywhere. But perhaps the other tracks on the album are better.

There is a lot more to LTIA than just the title 2 tracks (only parts 1 & 2 are on the album, latter parts are on other albums). It is a fabulous album, disturbing, dark, moody but a work of genius!