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Would anybody else like to tell about their great UK Prog classics?
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

23....a good number.   Wink

absolutely no problem, and an impressive list  Smile



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KC-ITCOTCK
KC-Red
Yes-Yes lp
Yes-CTTE
Genesis-Foxtrot
Genesis-SEBTP
JTull-Aqualung
JTull-SFTW
PFloyd-DSOTM
PFloyd-Meddle
ELP-st
Gentle Giant-ATT
Gentle Giant-Octopus
Caravan- Grey and Pink
Caravan-If I Could...
Camel-Moonmadness
Hatfield - Rotters Club
Hatfield-st
Khan  - Space Shanty
Egg-st
VDGG-Pawn Hearts
Renaissance-Scheherazade
National Health-Of Queues...

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I've restricted myself to albums before 1980. Also, I've grouped albums by the same artist together. Thus, the order doesn't fully match my order of preference.

01: Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
02: Van der Graaf Generator - H To He, Who Am The Only One
03: Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome
04: Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

05: Peter Hammill - pH7

06: Yes - Close To The Edge
07: Yes - Fragile

08: Bill Bruford - Bruford: One Of A Kind

09: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
10: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

11: Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time

12: Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye

13: Supertramp - Crime Of The Century

14: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

15: Genesis - Nursery Cryme
16: Genesis - Foxtrot

17: Pink Floyd - Animals
18: Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

19: The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

20: Camel - Mirage
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
I'm especially happy to see this one, Progishness, as we'll very probably only be few to list it.
I decided to omit it on the grounds that it's not in the PA top 250 although it does have a strong rating of 4.10 and probably isn't far outside. (I realise you didn't specify the rules of the thread so I made my own)

Rick's studio albums are generally under appreciated it seems 

My rule, written in the OP, is "by "great classics" I mean albums that are very high rated by really many people", and that is thought as making it possible to include RYM ratings - it's not just "PA great classics", I've had in mind. 

This rule is of course not particularly precise, and that is because I've thought, it is fine to leave good possibilities for one's own decisions concerning what to include or not. 

About "under appreciated", I'd say that it's a subjective evalution, richardh, and I think that it may be a good question to concider why Wakeman isn't higher rated than it's the case - even he was one of my teenage idols, and maybe your's as well. Smile


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:


Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)

I'm especially happy to see this one, Progishness, as we'll very probably only be few to list it.

I decided to omit it on the grounds that it's not in the PA top 250 although it does have a strong rating of 4.10 and probably isn't far outside. (I realise you didn't specify the rules of the thread so I made my own)

Rick's studio albums are generally under appreciated it seems 
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Jethro Tull- A Passion Play
King Crimson- Lizard
Yes- Close To The Edge
Curved Air Second Album
Gentle Giant- Aquiring The Taste
Jade Warrior- Kites
Genesis- Selling England By The Pound
Steve Hackett- Voyage Of The Acolyte
The Enid- In The Region Of The Summer Stars
Hawkwind- Quark, Strangeness And Charm
National Health- ( self-titled)
Camel- Moonmadness
Hatfield And The North- (self-titled)
Caravan- In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Rare Bird- As Your Mind Flies By
Roger Glover- Elements
Andrew lloyd Webber- Variations
Anthony Phillips- The Geese And The Ghost
Robert Wyatt- Rock Bottom
Renaissance- Ashes Are Burning
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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

^  I just wish he'd made more albums like that TBH, and concentrated on quality over quantity.

I agree but I'm quite fond of No Earthly Connection, as well.





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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

in 50 years only Dark Side of the Moon will probably be remembered I suspect. We are talking about prog at the end of the day 

I hardly dare to think how everything will look in 50 years, if to see it from the perspective of today. The changes will very probably be much much larger than the last 50 years, and in what direction? Smile
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^  I just wish he'd made more albums like that TBH, and concentrated on quality over quantity.
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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:


Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)

I'm especially happy to see this one, Progishness, as we'll very probably only be few to list it.
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20 British prog (& prog related) albums that I would consider to be the core of my collection:

Argent - All Together Now (1972)
Camel - The Snow Goose (1975)
Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink (1971)
Curved Air - Live (1975)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - s/t (1970)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition (1971)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme (1971)
Annie Haslam - Annie in Wonderland (1977)    
Hawkwind - Space Ritual (1973)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (1972)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1967)
The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn (1972)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)
Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
Yes - The Yes Album (1971)
Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

We need the modern 'classics' as well the older ones otherwise prog is inevitably a dead thing.

You have a good point there, richardh. On the other hand, it can be argued that status as classics has to be deserved by many years appreciation, so it has to be some old modern albums. Smile




in 50 years only Dark Side of the Moon will probably be remembered I suspect. We are talking about prog at the end of the day 
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Only one album per artist:

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Gong - You
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Pink Floyd - Meddle
King Crimson - Red
Soft Machine - Third
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Camel - Mirage
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Radiohead - Kid A
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Comus - First Utterance
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
We'll Talk About It Later - Nucleus

Trying to stick with the theme, I skipped specific albums that I might have considered for a personal top 20 by "not universally loved/or relatively obscure" bands/artists such as: Curved Air, National Health (as I would choose their debut), Henry Cow (Unrest), Spirogyra, Guapo, Egg, Family, High Tide, East of Eden, Dr. Z, Gnidrolog, ELO... I even went for Aqualung over Benefit, but I probably got some of it wrong. As Yes (Fragile) and Renaissance (Cards) are missing, they're probably at 21 and 22.
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1) Genesis— Trick of the tail
2) Genesis— Selling England By The Pound
3) YES— Fragile
4) Fields Of The Nephilim— The Nephilim
5) Marillion— Clutching At Straws
7) Pink Floyd— Wish You Were Here
8) The Alan Parsons Project— I Robot
9) The Alan Parsons Project— Tales Of Mistery & Imagination
10) King Crimson— ITCOTCK
11) Peter Gabriel— Scratch. PG 3
12) IQ— The Road of Bones
13) IQ— EVER
14) Arena— Songs From The Lions Cage
15 Arena— Pride
16) Threshold— Psychedelicattsen
17) Galahad — Empires Never Last
18) Supertramp— Crime Of The Century
19) IQ— The Seventh House
20) IQ— The Wake

These are in no order and I have to say that IQ has really won me over for being The UK’s sonic champion. Really impressive career.
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In no particular order:

  1. Close to the Edge - Yes
  2. The Yes Album - Yes
  3. Foxtrot  - Genesis
  4. The Lamb... - Genesis
  5. Trick of the Tail - Genesis
  6. Larks Togunas...  - King Crimson
  7. Red - King Crimson
  8. Scheherazade... -Renaissance
  9. Turn of the Cards - Renaissance
  10. Animals - Pink Floyd
  11. DSOTM - Pink Floyd
  12. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
  13. Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
  14. Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
  15. One of a Kind - Bill Bruford
  16. Moonmadness - Camel
  17. In a Glass House - Gentle Giant
  18. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
  19. Crime of the Century - Supertramp
  20. Misplaced Childhood  - Marillion


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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales & Bombers

This is one of the albums with some good memories from my late teenage years. Smile
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One per artists, live albums included. What a stunning collection of albums!

King Crimson - Discipline
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales & Bombers
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Genesis - Live
VDGG - Still Life
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Camel - Moonmadness
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
National Health - s/t
Radiohead - Kid A
Yes - Relayer
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
East of Eden - Mercator Projected
 
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1. U.K. - U.K.
2. Bruford - One Of A Kind
3. Allan Holdsworth - I.O.U.
4. National Health  - Of Queues and Cures
5. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
6. Gentle Giant - Free Hand
7. Khan - Space Shanty
8. Gong - You
9. Pink Floyd - Animals
10. Soft Machine  - Bundles
11  Genesis - A Trick of of the Tail
12. Frost* - Milliontown
13. Steven Wilson - The Raven...
14. Hatfield and the North - The Rotters Club
15. Yes - The Yes Album
16. King Crimson  - Red
17. Haken - Visions
18. Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
19. Radiohead - OK Computer
20. Roxy Music - Avalon


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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

We need the modern 'classics' as well the older ones otherwise prog is inevitably a dead thing.

You have a good point there, richardh. On the other hand, it can be argued that status as classics has to be deserved by many years appreciation, so it has to be some old modern albums. Smile





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