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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


certainly some "newer classics" on your list, richardh 

Yep indeed, I was trying to compile a list based on a consensus and also stuck to one album per band. Haken - The Mountain is the newest album on my list along with BBT - English Electric (One) and IQ - The Road Of Bones. These do seem to garner massive praise and although not my favourite albums by those artists I do like them a lot. We need the modern 'classics' as well the older ones otherwise prog is inevitably a dead thing.
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My first two listenings of "History & Prospects" was certainly not impossible, Nogbad. In fact, I found it as an interesting story telling, and the music was not unfamiliar with some of all my hitherto music listening. 





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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)
I'll give it a listen, as I've only tried the previous albums - now I can see so many of the same albums in our lists, and I'm fond of others in your list.

It's a difficult masterpiece, took me a decade to get it but boy now I get so much repeat delight in listening now.

I know it's something else than the other stuff.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)


I'll give it a listen, as I've only tried the previous albums - now I can see so many of the same albums in our lists, and I'm fond of others in your list.



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certainly some "newer classics" on your list, richardh 
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)

I'll give it a listen, as I've only tried the previous albums - now I can see so many of the same albums in our lists, and I'm fond of others in your list.


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King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic (14)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (52)
Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)
Roy Harper - Stormcock
VDGG - Godbluff (10)
Pink Floyd - Animals (9)
Cardiacs - Sing To God (92)
Hatfield and the North- Rotters Club (137)
Guapo - 5 Suns
Henry Cow - In Praise Of Learning
King Crimson - Red (8)
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink (41)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (3)
VDGG - Pawn Hearts (12)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (5)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (227)
Radiohead - OK Computer
National Health - Of Queues & Cures (93)
Comus - First Utterance (189)
Hawkwind - Space Ritual



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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

and limited myself to one album per band.

Inspired by this, Hiram, I changed my list to include at most two albums per band. Smile
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

For some prog classics ended in 1975, others will say '76, and then others  '77. 
I say '79.

That's why it's up to oneself to decide, so even 80's can be included. Tongue

I was also thinking about that when people have the possibility to mention their own "classics", they will enjoy it more.


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Yes - Close To The Edge (PA Rank 1)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (PA Rank 3)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (PA Rank 5)
Genesis - Foxtrot (PA Rank 7)
King Crimson - Red (PA Rank 8)
VDGG - Pawn Hearts (PA Rank 12)
Camel - The Snow Goose (PA Rank 42)
Gentle Giant - The Power and The Glory (PA Rank 44)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (PA Rank 52)
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories) (PA Rank 55)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (PA Rank 64)
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte (PA Rank 78)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (PA Rank 81)
IQ - The Road Of Bones (PA Rank 89)
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) (PA Rank 119)
Peter Gabriel - Melt (PA Rank 129)
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite (PA Rank 159)
Haken - The Mountain (PA Rank 160)
Kate Bush - The Hounds Of Love (PA Rank 190)
The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense (PA Rank 198)





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I can see here, Enigmatic, a good example of that our musical taste has a lot in common. Smile





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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

I nicked many from the first post,

happy to hear, Hiram 
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

checking some ratings on PA, some favorites of mine are not as well rated as I thought. Stern Smile

Good idea, and RYM can be very useful, as well.

I don't use RYM. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

checking some ratings on PA, some favorites of mine are not as well rated as I thought. Stern Smile

Good idea, and RYM can be very useful, as well.
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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

Gnidrolog - Lady Lake

I am really glad to see this album listed among other Prog classics. It would definitely make my Top 35.

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Camel - Mirage
Egg - The Polite Force
Emersom, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emersom, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Genesis - Foxtrot            
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House       
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
King Crimson - ITCOTKC
King Crimson - Lizard
Marsupilami - s/t
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Soft Machine - Vol. 2
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Relayer

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I nicked many from the first post, added some on personal preference and limited myself to one album per band.

Camel - The Snow Goose 
Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink 
Comus - First Utterance
Egg - Egg
ELP - Tarkus 
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound 
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage 
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Henry Cow - Legend
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood 
Khan - Space Shanty 
King Crimson - Red 
Marillion - A Script for a Jester's Tear
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 
Yes - Close to the Edge

Extra: proto/related top 5:

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Led Zeppelin - IV
Queen - A Night at the Opera
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checking some ratings on PA, some favorites of mine are not as well rated as I thought. Stern Smile
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Sorry, I maybe partly misunderstood, just put kind of own favourites stsrting with the classics but added with newer "classics" also. A nice Saturday evening task anyhow, thanks!
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1. Yes: Close to the Edge
2. Genesis: Foxtrot
3. Genesis: A trick of the tail
4. Jethro Tull: Songs from the wood
5. Marillion: Script for jester's tear
6. Marillion: Misplaced childhood
7. Marillion: Marbles
8. IQ: The seventh house
10. Pineapple Thief: Variation on a dream
11. Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
12. Citizen Cain: Somewhere but yesterday
13. Credo: Rhetoric
14. This Winter Machine: The man who never was
15. Yes: Going for the one
16. Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
17. Pineapple Thief: Your Wilderness
18. Jethro Tull: Heavy horses
19. Big big train: English electric 1
20. Vienna Circle: White clouds
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