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I reccomend King Crimson especially. Start off with red and in the court of the crimson king, and go off from there.

Birds of fire, of course.

Magma-live, for some strange fusion.

John Zorn-naked city, just for fun, it is a modern "classic", you might say.

Metal-wise, I'd say check out opeth-orchid. Later opeth, you either love or hate, but orchid is pretty well recieved. Try Tool-lateralus for some great "different" prog metal. What I reccomend the most for metal is to get into real metal, because metal is a really competitive genre and some of the best stuff ever isn't prog.

Franklinstower3 wrote: Heres My Prog Collection ELP: Brain Salad Surgery TRILOGY AND TARKUS! Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Fragile NEED CLOSE TO THE EDGE Genesis: Selling England By The Pound FOXTROT, NURSERY CRYME, THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY Jehtro Tull:J-Tull Dot Com, Crest Of A Knave Camel: Moonmadness Eloy: Dawn Pink Floyd: The Wall Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame, Lost Trident Sessions, Visions Of The Emerald Beyond Weather Report: 8:30, Black Market Dream Theatre: Images and Words, 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance, Live at Budokan, Falling Into Infinity, Change of Seasons, Metropolis 2 Nightwish: Oceanborn Queensryche: Mindcrime Yngwie Malmsteen( I consider him prog though i suppose he really is not) Trilogy, Rising Force, G3 Orphaned Land: Mabool Alright bascially i discovered prog in July a few of these i had before than but most i have bought since than. My main interest is Prog-Metal but i want to get a good Overview of the "classics" so keeping in mind i plan to buy dsotm and wish you were here by pink floyd soon, what other prog "classics" do i need to add to my collection, also what prog-metal should i check out thanks for any hlp

You need MANY MANY more

you gotta get:

.the snow goose, mirage, camel, a live record of Camel
.atom heart mother, the dark side of the moon, ummagumma, meddle, wish you were here, pulse of Pink Floyd
.close to the edge, the yes album, yessongs of Yes
.tarkus, pictures at an exhibition of ELP
.thick as a brick, aqualung, a passion play, living in the past of Jethro Tull
.birds of fire of Mahavishnu Orchestra
.inside of Eloy

      ...and a long, long list

Few more suggestions for you to spend your hard earned on - if you're into the Mahavishnu Orchestra, you really must get Birds of Fire - same personnel as Inner Mounting Flame and Lost Trident Sessions. I think most people that know the band consider either "Birds" or ""Inner Mounting Flame" is their best work. I'm a big fan as you may have guessed!

You have two good Weather Report albums - you also might want to try "Heavy Weather" which includes "Birdland", maybe their best known track. It was Jaco Pastorius first full album with them (he joined half-way through Black Market I think).

You might like Frank Zappa's Hot Rats.

I'm not big into prog-metal but I would make two suggestions...Tool's "Lateralus" (which if you read reviews you will see divides opinion but is certainly worth checking out); and King Crimson's "Red" (OK the latter isn't really prog metal but I recommend it as your introduction to them).

And for Yes, you should add Close to the Edge sometime.


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You need some better Floyd- and throw in some RUSH! otherwise- great start to a prog collection!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Sorry ... I hadn't noticed that you don't have Dream Theater - Awake ... my favorite DT album. ESSENTIAL!

I'll second that Mike.

ELP: Brain Salad Surgery 5/5

Buy suggestion: self-titled album, Trilogy, Pictures At An Exhibition, Works vol.1, Welcome Back....

Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans 5/5

Relayer 3,5/5

Fragile 4,5/5

Buy suggestion: The Yes album, Close To The Edge, Going For The One

Pink Floyd: The Wall 5/5

Buy suggestion: Atom Heart Mother, Relics, Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Final Cut

Dream Theatre:

Images and Words 3,5/5

6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance 4/5

Falling Into Infinity 3,5/5

Change of Seasons 5/5

Metropolis 2 5/5

Buy suggestion: Awake, Octavarium

Nightwish: Oceanborn 4/5

Queensryche: Mindcrime 5/5

Buy suggestion: Warning, Empire

Other buy suggestions:

King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King, In The Wake Of Poseidon, Starless & Bible Black, Red, Discipline, Beat, Thrak, The Power To Believe

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra, Stratosfear, Force Majeure

Opeth: Ghost Reveries

Ayreon: Into The Electric Castle, The Universal Migrator Pt.1

Mr.Bungle: Mr.Bungle

Supersister: Present From Nancy, To The Highest Bidder, Pudding & Gisteren, Superstarshine

U.K.: Danger Money

ELP: Brain Salad Surgery   *****

Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans   *****, Relayer  *****, Fragile   *****

Genesis: Selling England By The Pound   *****

Camel: Moonmadness    *****

Pink Floyd: The Wall    *****

Dream Theatre: Images and Words  *****, 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance  *****,  Falling Into Infinity  *****, Change of Seasons   *****, Metropolis 2   *****

Queensryche: Mindcrime    *****

Yngwie Malmsteen  Trilogy  *****, Rising Force  *****, G3  *****

 

 

• ELP: Brain Salad Surgery (4.5/5) Get Tarkus, Trilogy and their debut
• Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans (4/5), Relayer (4/5), Fragile (4/5) Get The YES Album, Close To The Edge and Yessongs
• Genesis: Selling England By The Pound (5/5) Get Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Genesis Live, A Trick of The Tail
• Pink Floyd: The Wall (4/5) Get Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals
• Dream Theater: Images and Words (5/5), 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence (4.5/5), Live at Budokan (4/5), Falling Into Infinity (4/5), Change of Seasons (3/5), Metropolis 2 (4.5/5) Get Awake, Train Of Thought, Live At The Marquee

Heres My Prog Collection

ELP: Brain Salad Surgery

Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Fragile

Genesis: Selling England By The Pound

Jehtro Tull:J-Tull Dot Com, Crest Of A Knave

Camel: Moonmadness

Eloy: Dawn

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame, Lost Trident Sessions, Visions Of The Emerald Beyond

Weather Report: 8:30, Black Market

Dream Theatre: Images and Words, 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance, Live at Budokan, Falling Into Infinity, Change of Seasons, Metropolis 2

Nightwish: Oceanborn

Queensryche: Mindcrime

Yngwie Malmsteen( I consider him prog though i suppose he really is not) Trilogy, Rising Force, G3

Orphaned Land: Mabool

Alright bascially i discovered prog in July a few of these i had before than but most i have bought since than. My main interest is Prog-Metal but i want to get a good Overview of the "classics"

so keeping in mind i plan to buy dsotm and wish you were here by pink floyd soon, what other prog "classics" do i need to add to my collection, also what prog-metal should i check out

thanks for any hlp

Edited by Franklinstower3