My Top 100 Obscure British Prog Albums

Byzantium - Maybe not "progressive" but super nice albums.

Neutrons - Off shoot from Man/Help Yourself. Two outstanding albums.

Unicorn, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver were a part of the smaller bands that Dave Gilmour had fun with.

String Driven Thing (Graham Smith was with them for some albums)

Lindisfarne

Trapeze

Capability Brown is a part of the Harvest collection most of them with Hipgnosis covers. "VOICE" is an outstanding album.

Ramases is a part of the 10CC story, and its members were a part of it.

Second Hand is the previous "version" of Seventh Wave.

Maybe one day I'll finally get around to putting together and listening to an entire A-Z list of obscure Danish favourites too. 

 

Thanks Ken. That sounds like a tasty Welsh rarebit for me to sample, and although I'd vaguely heard of Pererin, I had no idea they were Welsh until now.

Remembering now better, I'm in fact most satisfied and got it on CD by the very purpose, as I find this album at its very best when playing the tracks in another order than the original - which I can do very well on my CD-player, as it's programmable. 

I'm green-eyed with envy for anyone who owns that outstanding album.

The thing is, even a name like King Crimson is obscure outside prog circles (in comparison to Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Genesis, etc.), so the idea of obscurity needs to be in relation to the average PA member, I would have thought. In that case, there’s probably half a dozen names or so in there that aren’t particularly obscure. So much so, in fact, I wondered if you were using them as clickbait, just so you could get a response of  “that’s not obscure, Paul!”. This does often appear to be your MO, as so many of your posts seemed geared to get a reaction. I wouldn’t go as far as some, and call it trolling, but you do like fishing for reactions.

So, you’d not need to have gone so far as increasing to a list of 110, so much as removing some of the less obscure (if not well known) names, and replacing them with some more obscure gems.

Then again, there will of course be people out there who have not heard of the bands/albums I don’t consider to be obscure, which is why I’ve not named them. Because anyone who finds them for the first time from your list, is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. In that respect, every single one of these bands is obscure to someone. But then, so is King Crimson the first time someone hears of and listens to them….