Whats Your Unconventional Favorite Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

TheLionOfPrague wrote:

Seventh Sojourn is my favorite Moody Blues album, even above Days of Future Passed and To Our Children's Children's Children.

Nothin' wrong with that. Beautiful album, nicely balanced and with some very special songs.

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

^ I love Islands! Its an unusual favorite KC album of mine, but it is also among my favorite albums ever.

Fischman wrote:

Having little in the way of expectations at that point, I found Fly From Here to be a very pleasant surprise and an album I really enjoy under any circumstance.

After that, I was excited to anticipate the release of Heaven & Earth. However, that one left me completely flat. I can't really articulate why because the two albums, at least on the surface, really seem quite similar. But for some reason, one reaches me an the other doesn't.

Interestingly, I had the exact same experience with Asia in the same time frame. I absolutely love XXX, and actually think it is far and away their best album. But then I have about zero interest in Gravitas; it does nothing for me.

Fly From Here is actually quite a tightly produced album , good original material and well realised. I feel very ambivalent about it though and generally can't excited. Heaven and Earth is a bit 'wet' perhaps and was trying harder to recall 'classic Yes'. Of course that's totally impossible but it does have a wee bit more of that feeling about so I'm more prepared to give it a chance I guess. I also like Jon Davison because of his excellent work with Glass Hammer.

I gave a good review to XXX and still think its decent. Of the Asia comeback albums though Phoenix is still my favourite.

Steve Howe Asia albums:

1. Asia

2. Phoenix

3. XXX

4. Alpha

5. Omega

IMO

Edited by richardh - June 25 2019 at 00:05

I enjoy both Fly From Here and Heaven and Earth, but I have to be in the right mood

patrickq wrote:

Yes, Fly From Here. Not at the level of Close to the Edge, Relayer, or Yessongs, but in the same league as Fragile, Drama, and The Yes Album. I assume this view is unconventional...

Yes, that's unconventional

I've always enjoyed Fly From Here. It's a good solid album with some memorable songs. They've recorded weaker albums IMO. That said, it would probably be just outside my top 5 Yes albums.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

Foxprog wrote:

King Crimson - Island, classical album disliked by any. Melancholic theme with breathtaking compositions is utterly beautiful.

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, not a single bad song on it in my opinion. + the live perfomance of Alan's psychedelic breafast is crazy (eating cereals and cooking steaks).

Genesis - We can't dance, yup I also like the pop era a bit.

Kingston Wall - III, many people think that this is the worst album from them. I strongly disagee, The Real Thing is as epic as neo-prog can get.

VDGG - The Aerosol Grey Machine - Into a game!

Mike Oldfield - Incantations - BIG album with four pieces. Love every single minute of it.

Not familiar with Kingston Wall, but yeah agree with what you say about the others. Just to personally throw in some others:

Renaissance - Song For All Seasons

Marillion - This Strange Engine

Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Yes - Magnification

Steve Hackett - To Watch the Storms

10cc - Deceptive Bends

Camel - Breathless

Jaketejas wrote:

I couldn't get into Little Foxes. At that time they'd moved to OK and things just fell apart. Before they were in Illinois and Gary Mann had access to an amazing studio, and everyone seemed to be firing on all cylinders. It is a shame because for the 2 albums I mentioned, they were doing some cutting edge work. I like some Rez, some not so much. Colours is my fave, with Autograph, Colours, and the incredibly raw and catchy American Dream.

Yeah, Barnabas had technically called it a day. Little Foxes was their "contractual obligation" album. The money was already there, but they had to furnish a record before they could vamoose. It's different, but they certainly weren't coasting. "Destroy After Use" is one of their best songs, IMO.

For REZ, I love Mommy Don't Love Daddy Anymore and DMZ. I'm now delving into their later albums, and there's lots to love.

Cranking "Breathless Wonderment"...Brian makes those guys in Judas Priest sound like hacks! LOL

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I have noticed some albums that others have listed that I also consider my favorites including Yes "Drama" and I also love "The Ladder". Another unconventional album I love is Rush "Caress of Steel".

One I played yesterday that not many have heard of, and they are not progressive, but I still find that it is a favorite is Glassmoon's "Sympathetic Vibrations". I also love Steve Miller Band's really early albums (before "Fly Like an Eagle") like "Children of the Future", "Sailor" and "Number 5". These are not progressive but they are definitely unconventional.

Jaketejas wrote:

Brian Belew was an amazing guitarist. Good gravy, and that was a long time ago around the time of early Van Halen.

Yeah, their run was from '80 to '87, concluding with Little Foxes. That album's killer, too. More synth. It's different from the previous albums. Barnabas was anything BUT cookie cutter, and that's why they couldn't get any traction in the scene like, say, Petra.

REZ Band has some phenomenal albums, too. I'm a sucker for a great female vocalist.

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