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Guys, you can take your time, and the further down your list you get, the less the ordering matters (because they contribute less points), so you can be increasingly general if you like.

And remember from the OP:

- If you find making these kind of lists hard because your list would change daily, or because 50 is too many, here's an idea: make an off-the-cuff list of any length once a week or day or whatever, post it here each time, and at the end I'll compile each of your lists to give you your personal top albums list for the two months, which I can then enter into the main thing.


Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Do we have to put them all in numerical order?
Afraid so, else it doesn't work.

Originally posted by addictedtoprog addictedtoprog wrote:

i wud b tempted to change orders every single time i login to the forums..which might continue till the very end
Feel free, see above.

Originally posted by RoeDent RoeDent wrote:

There's no way I could say "this is my number 1 album in the entire history of forever". I could probably narrow it down a bit, but even then it's a struggle. So I'd have no clue about how to ranks nos. 2-50+. I've been through phases where one band/artist dominates my music-buying, usually for 2-3 years or so, and these tend to blend into each other. For example, I currently love Steven Wilson's music as much as I loved Dream Theater's music about 4-5 years ago, and as much as I loved Pink Floyd's music 8-9 years ago, but I'm not going to discount the earlier phases just like that.
You could just list your favourites as you see them now, or you could find a compromise between that and your previous phases. My current list is kind of a compromise- for example I don't listen to the classic prog standards all that much any more (VdGG aside), but I still think they're fantastic albums, and so they're still scattered through my list fairly high up.
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The top 5 is easy as well as the bottom 5.....the other 90 rankings I have no clue how to do that.
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There's no way I could say "this is my number 1 album in the entire history of forever". I could probably narrow it down a bit, but even then it's a struggle. So I'd have no clue about how to ranks nos. 2-50+. I've been through phases where one band/artist dominates my music-buying, usually for 2-3 years or so, and these tend to blend into each other. For example, I currently love Steven Wilson's music as much as I loved Dream Theater's music about 4-5 years ago, and as much as I loved Pink Floyd's music 8-9 years ago, but I'm not going to discount the earlier phases just like that.
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Points: 1422 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2015 at 09:21
Listing top..,say 100 in numerical order wud be very difficult in the first place...and even if i do..i wud b tempted to change orders every single time i login to the forums..which might continue till the very end (Whatever is the final date to submit and edit entries)..and i might still think..well...

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Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2015 at 06:38
Do we have to put them all in numerical order? That's gonna drive me nuts, even more so considering non-prog stuff is included. I'll come up with 200 later on but I really don't want to figure out which I like more than others.
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To start us off, here's my top 100 for now, which I might change later on have changed. I'm not including classical, because I usually find it impossible to compare to popular music.


1 The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
2 Yes Close to the Edge
3 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
4 Sigur Rós ( )
5 The Mars Volta Amputechture
6 Van der Graaf Generator Still Life
7 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
8 The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
9 Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans
10 Karnivool Sound Awake
11 Pink Floyd Animals
12 Genesis Selling England by the Pound
13 Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff
14 Miles Davis Nefertiti
15 Tangerine Dream Rubycon
16 Kayo Dot Coyote
17 Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire
18 Yes Relayer
19 Radiohead OK Computer
20 Pink Floyd The Wall
21 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz To Come
22 King Crimson Red
23 The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
24 Yes Fragile
25 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
26 Everything Everything Man Alive
27 Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra
28 Genesis Wind & Wuthering
29 Cardiacs Sing to God
30 Miles Davis Bitches Brew
31 King Crimson Discipline
32 Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
33 Gentle Giant In A Glass House
34 Peter Hammill The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
35 Miles Davis Kind of Blue
36 Radiohead In Rainbows
37 The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
38 Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
39 Yes The Yes Album
40 Sigur Rós Agaetis Byrjun
41 Björk Homogenic
42 King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic
43 Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours
44 Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
45 Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom
46 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History
47 At The Drive-In Relationship of Command
48 Herbie Hancock Head Hunters
49 St. Vincent Strange Mercy
50 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
51 Can Future Days
52 Kate Bush Hounds of Love
53 Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine
54 Ambrose Akinmusire The Imagined Saviour Is Far Easier To Paint
55 Genesis Foxtrot
56 The Beatles Abbey Road
57 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
58 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
59 King Crimson In The Court of the Crimson King
60 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
61 John Coltrane Giant Steps
62 Norah Jones Come Away With Me
63 Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
64 Jethro Tull Aqualung
65 Pink Floyd Meddle
66 Peter Gabriel So
67 Everything Everything Get to Heaven
68 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Io Sono Nato Libero
69 Karnivool Asymmetry
70 Swans To Be Kind
71 Univers Zero Uzed
72 Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel III
73 David Bowie Low
74 Miles Davis In A Silent Way
75 Poil Brossaklitt
76 Beardfish Sleeping in Traffic II
77 Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am The Only One
78 Magma Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
79 Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit
80 Beardfish Destined Solitaire
81 Ella Fitzgerald Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
82 Battles Mirrored
83 Muse Origin of Symmetry
84 Cardiacs A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
85 The Cat Empire The Cat Empire
86 Genesis Nursery Cryme
87 Special Providence Soul Alert
88 Amon Tobin Foley Room
89 IQ Frequency
90 Maudlin of the Well Part the Second
91 Can Ege Bamyasi
92 King Crimson Starless and Bible Black
93 King Crimson The Power to Believe
94 Radiohead Kid A
95 The Mars Volta Octahedron
96 Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A#∞
97 Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust
98 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
99 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Un Escorpion Perfumado
100 Muse Showbiz
101 Genesis Trespass
102 Talking Heads Remain in Light
103 Yes Going for the One
104 Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame
105 Yes Yes
106 Moulettes Constellations
107 IQ The Road of Bones
108 Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
109 The Beatles Rubber Soul
110 Sigur Rós Valtari
111 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes
112 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
113 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Cizana de los Amores
114 Pat Metheny The Way Up
115 Nas Illmatic
116 Tangerine Dream Phaedra
117 Horace Silver Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
118 Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
119 Beardfish Mammoth
120 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
121 Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory
122 Genesis A Trick of the Tail
123 Asturias Bird Eyes View
124 Peter Hammill In Camera
125 Gentle Giant Octopus
126 King Crimson Beat
127 Kayo Dot Coffins on Io
128 Genesis Duke
129 Sigur Rós Takk…
130 Univers Zero Heresie
131 Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica
132 Ske 1000 Autunni
133 Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
134 Tim Buckley Lorca
135 Art Zoyd Symphonie pour le jour ou brűleront les cités
136 Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts
137 King Crimson Islands
138 Muse Absolution
139 Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies
140 iamthemorning ~
141 Beardfish Sleeping in Traffic I
142 Gentle Giant Free Hand
143 Nina Simone Little Girl Blue
144 Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds
145 Franco Battiato Sulle corde di Aries
146 David Bowie "Heroes"
147 Miles Davis Milestones
148 Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic
149 Focus Hamburger Concerto
150 Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories
151 Radiohead The Bends
152 St. Vincent Actor
153 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
154 Duke Ellington Far East Suite
155 Return to Forever Romantic Warrior
156 Big Big Train English Electric I
157 Premiata Forneria Marconi Per Un Amico
158 Aphrodite's Child 666
159 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
160 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo


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In 2007 and 2008, moreitsythanyou created and ran a fun exercise of sorts called the Ultimate PA Album List, as seen pinned to the top of this subforum, where users posted lists of their favourite albums of all time and he compiled them into an overall list, representing the forum's favourite albums- like an alternative to the sometimes criticised main PA list, but one that represents the current tastes of the forum, and is open to all genres. Seeing as it's been seven years since the last one, and we've seen lots of new albums, new members (myself included), and changing tastes, I'd like to bring it back this year!


So, have a bit of fun and try to make a ranked list of your favourite albums, with these few guidelines:

- Minimum 50 albums (but please list more!!), maximum 200
- Only studio LPs (no live albums, EPs or compilations)
- Can be in any genre (including non-prog!)
- Include all albums, not one album per band

And post it here. The final deadline is before January 25 2016, and I'll compile the lists and post the resulting best-of list within a week or so of that, with a countdown and all that jazz.




- If you find making these kind of lists hard because your list would change daily, or because 50 is too many, here's an idea: make an off-the-cuff list of any length once a week or day or whatever, post it here each time, and at the end I'll compile each of your lists to give you your personal top albums list for the two months, which I can then enter into the main thing. (If you're doing this, say so in your posts.)

- While the minimum is 50 albums, please list as many as you can, because the longer and more diverse the lists the more interesting the end result will be. 

- Feel free to edit your lists after the fact; I won't do anything with them until near the end date.

- On classical music. This is about favourite albums, not favourite music- however I wouldn't list classical album releases, seeing as they're usually effectively compilations of different works and different composers that don't necessarily have any place being together. Instead, to get something closer to the non-classical entries of LP length, I'd suggest only listing individual works of 30+ mins, and not specifying the conductor and performing artist (else the other people who pick the same work are likely to choose a different recording, and none of them will get anywhere). Maybe just base your ranking on your favourite interpretation of the work. 


Edited by Kazza3 - January 23 2016 at 20:27
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