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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2019 at 00:46
I can't do "best", but these are all five star out of five albums in my books. I would rather not rank them, but some of my favourites include (in no particular order -- I'm used to doing artist first):

Magma - Kobaia
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
Zanov - Green Ray
Igor Wakhevitch - Docteur Faust
Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Comus - First Utterance
Cos - Viva Boma
Soft Machine - Third
Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assasin des Mouches
Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer
Dom - Edge of Time
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Eddie Henderson - Realisation
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising
Hellebore - Il y a des Jours
Anna Sjalv - Tredje - Tussilago Fanfara
Dun - Eros
Area - Caution Radiation Area
CLivage - Mixtus Orbis
Eskaton - 4 Visions
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage
Rahmann - Rahmann
Vortex - Les Cycles de Thanatos
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Picchio dal Pozzo - self-titled
Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde di Aries
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
Lard Free - Unnamed
Can - Soundtracks
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You
Embryo - Embryo's Rache

I'll stop there.
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^ Do not pay attention mate...the closer the weekend, the sillier most of my posts become.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2019 at 14:56
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Sorry but I'm way too lazy for this kind of stuff nowadays.

In fact, there's only two things in life that really interest me:

1. Titties
2. and Beer.

Yes, I understand, I like titties, beer and... prog! Smile

I realize I expressed myself badly in English, and then I corrected the presentation message, which could be interpreted as a way to involve everyone in this thread. Now I wrote that I invite those interested, not all, to write his ranking - and, if you prefer, even less than 25 titles.


Edited by jamesbaldwin - March 21 2019 at 16:32
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My personal ranking, 03/21/2019, Spring Is Here!

Rating 9,75/10
1) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
2) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
3) The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill

Rating 9,5/10
4) Starsailor - Tim Buckley
5) In The Court Of... - King Crimson
6) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill
7) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator

Rating 9,25/10
8) Red - King Crimson
9) Music In A Doll's House - Family
10) Animals - Pink Floyd
11) Roxy Music - Roxy Music
12) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
13) Lorca - Tim Buckley
14) H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator
15) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area 
16) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk
17) Aqualung - Jethro Tull
18) Tori Amos - Under The Pink

Rating 9/10
19) Islands - King Crimson
20) Fearless - Family
21) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
22) For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
23) Quatermass - Quatermass
24) Collage - Le Orme
25) Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis. 


Edited by jamesbaldwin - March 21 2019 at 14:57
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Barbu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2019 at 14:18
Sorry but I'm way too lazy for this kind of stuff nowadays.

In fact, there's only two things in life that really interest me:

1. Titties
2. and Beer.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2019 at 13:54
In this thread, which I hope lasts very long, I invite who is interested to write his ranking of the 25 best studio albums of all time. 

1) Live albums or compilations or proto-prog or prog-related albums are not allowed. 
We stick to the rules of the Top Studios Of All-Time of Progarchives. 

2) I Invite who is interested to meditate on their ranking, and to write the first 25 titles, according to our tastes, that change day after day, listening after listening. 
If it's possible, I invite you to write the first 25 albums, but, if you prefer, even less or more. [editing]

3) This ranking is intended to compare the rankings of each of us and see how they change with time, since in the future perhaps some absolute masterpiece of the progressive rock will arrive (we hope!) and impose itsef in the top 25 of our ranking. Moreover, by expanding our listenings, we can add masterpieces from the past that we don't know at present or have not yet listened well. 
In fact, it's clear that everyone of us at the present have not yet listened well to some masterpiece, which could, with the time, enter the Top 25 in place of another. For example, I have not yet listened in a "scientific" way much of the Canterbury Scene (Soft Machine, Gong), of Pink Floyd, of Frank Zappa, of Henry Cow, of Rush, of Art Zoyd etc. I know most of the albums of these artists, and many others, but I have not yet evaluete them. I write reviews also in order to get to a "scientific" ranking. It could also happen that some of the first titles that we now put in our first ranking, over time, we like less, and leave the ranking in a month, or a year. Anything can happen, although, I believe, each of us will have some absolute certainties on various albums or artists. 

4) Finally, I invite who wants to join this thread to discuss his choices, his changes in the rankings, and make observations about the choices of others. Let's make sure this thread is not just a list, but a stimulus to confrontation. 

Good Top 25!


Edited by jamesbaldwin - March 22 2019 at 16:29
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