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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

I can also add:
 
Rush - Test For Echo
Black Sabbath - Born Again (as long as it is the remastered version)

I like Test for Echo as well.
as for Born Again, it's my least favorite BS album, I rarely listen to it. 
I enjoy the Iommi & Hughes collaboration on Seventh Star as well as their later albums. 
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Camel "Harbour of Tears"
Gentle Giant "Three Friends"
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Originally posted by King Manuel King Manuel wrote:

Dream Theaterīs "When Dream and Day Unite", is not only my favourite DT album, but one of my overall favourite prog albums

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I love 80s Rush, especially Signals and Power Windows. Big smile
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Dream Theaterīs "When Dream and Day Unite", is not only my favourite DT album, but one of my overall favourite prog albums
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I love 90125
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

What I mean by this is, whats your unconventional favorite album from a given artist that generally may not be regarded to as their best or maybe low-mid tier. For example you may say Drama is your favorite yes album.

So ill start, I know its one of their highest rated, but people rarely say its their favorite from the band:

Rajaz by Camel
Rajaz is the only Camel album that can be compared to the first four. By coincidence I've listened to it this morning. 
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I can also add:
 
Rush - Test For Echo
Black Sabbath - Born Again (as long as it is the remastered version)
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Well with ELP you can't pick any of their first six albums as 'unconventional' favourite choices I believe. However Works is another story so TCat is on the money with those. Even many ELP fans didn't like those albums and it was a major reason for the band going downhill in popularity so quickly (that and the massively expensive orchestral tour plus punk was a perfect storm)

For me probably Kansas - Somewhere To Elsewhere is the obvious one.

King Crimson is an 'almost' as Power To Believe is my second favourite but its still a long way behind the mighty Red.

Genesis have made so many great albums but a lot of people write them off after Wind and Wuthering. However And Then There Were Three is one of my favourites by them although it still only gets 3rd spot after Trick and Foxtrot.

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons . I love the title track (my favourite prog metal track) and the tribute medley stuff hits the spot nicely! According to this site though it was 'fan club/promo' release which surprises me. Can I count it??!
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There are number of albums that others have mentioned that are my favourite or amongst my very favourite albums by the artist/ band.

One that hasn't been mentioned is Caution Radiation Area by Area. At ProgArchives and rateyourmusic it has the lowest average rating of the first four Area albums. Arbeit macht frei is the most popular Area album at both sites (I think that's an excellent album, but CRA remains my favourite).
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ so Dream Theater's Awake has become the uncool album to listen to?! It's always been my favorite from them. 

Haha well when you put it that way it sounds dumb. Again, it's just which is the absolute favorite, whereas the majority of people would pick Metropolis Pt 2 or Images and Words (love those too). My tastes are usually much more predictable, like my favorite Yes album is CTTE and favorite Rush is Moving Pictures etc.
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Hawkwind – their mid-'80s albums Chronicle of the Black Sword and The Xenon Codex. For most, it seems, they're not "essential" Hawkwind. For me, they most definitely ARE.
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X is considered to be one of their best post Neal albums actually.
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Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

ELP - Either their first album or Trilogy. Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery just don't do it for me.
Pink Floyd - Not my favorite, but I think The Final Cut is a fabulous album.
Spock's Beard - X



I think X Is a fantastic album, especially love from the darkness
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^ so Dream Theater's Awake has become the uncool album to listen to?! It's always been my favorite from them. 
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Van Der Graaf Generator - H to the He
Dream Theater - Awake
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Harmonium - L-Heptade
Klaus Schulze - X
Brian Eno - Before and After Science 
East of Eden - Mercator Projected
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Golden Earring -Moontan. 5 song Euro version.
Perfect,though it is considered their best.


Edited by gr8dane - June 18 2019 at 15:49
Shake & bake.
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my favorite Eloy albums by far are "Inside" and "Floating"


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Asia - XXX (by a long shot... superb album with nary a single weak cut.  The pinnacle of what they did)
Al DiMeola - Splendido Hotel


Outside prog/artists generally discussed on this site:
Blackfoot - Flyin' High
Flotsam and Jetsam - Cuatro
Dan Fogelberg - Nether Lands
The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin - III
Steve Morse - High Tension Wires
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
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ELO - Time.
Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are
Asia - Asia
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ELP - Either their first album or Trilogy. Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery just don't do it for me.
Pink Floyd - Not my favorite, but I think The Final Cut is a fabulous album.
Spock's Beard - X


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