A favoured album from each PA category

1) Canterbury: R. Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Canterbury: Gong - You
Crossover: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Eclectic: Alquin - The Mountain Queen
Experimental / Post Metal: Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
Heavy: Anekdoten - Until all the Ghosts are Gone
Indo / Raga: N/A
JR/F: Dean Watson - Track of Days
Kraut: N/A
Neo: Nine Stones Close - Leaves
Post/Math: Swans - The Beggar
Prog Folk: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Progressive Electronic: Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Progressive Metal: Dream Theater - Metropolis part II - Scenes from a Memory
Psych / Space: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
RIO / Avant: Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
RPI: Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde di Aries
Symphonic: Yes - Close to the Edge
Tech / Extreme: Openth - Pale Communion
Zeuhl: Magma - Köhntarkösz
Prog Related: John Cale - Music for a New Society
Proto: The Who - Who's Next

^ I know. I taught English in Japan and met my wife there. Anyway, maybe that's part of why "Kokoro" captured my heart. I left a big piece of my heart in Japan, some in Belgium too.

Edited by Logan - 17 hours 3 minutes ago at 10:13

^ Just to note that I'm just choosing these based on what category they are in and not judging whether I think they fit the category well, and asking the same of others in their lists of favourites. That above is my fifth list in this topic, while avoiding repeating acts in my lists. Anyone can make as many lists as they like. Bondage Fruit is more Zeuhl flavoured I would say, and how much depends on the track and album. Some of it is very Zeuhl to my ear. I'm happy with it in Zeuhl and there are those Zeuhlish rhythms. It's actually a pretty eclectic band with jazz, folk and world music, avant prog, from gentle to not.... Can be beautiful. I do suggest listening to their debut. I find it to be a wonderful album. They released an album this year, by the way.



I would place that album in Zeuhl, by the way.

With Far East Family Band, I agree it's more on the Space Rock side of the Psych & Space category at PA than Psych. I find real beauty in the album. I just adore this, for instance:



What has been said of my tastes commonly is that I often gravitate towards atmospheric music. I also often do like groove...

Edited by Logan - 17 hours 43 minutes ago at 09:33

Of course people should do what they are comfortable with here. :) Just some ideas for this discussion forum.

I don;t want to take away from other people's wonderful lists, I know these aren't that easy to put together (well, not without practice ;)) and the effort is hugely appreciated, but here's another of mine:


Canterbury Scene: Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (1976)
Crossover Prog: Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2015)
Eclectic Prog: King Crimson - Lizard (1970)
Experimental/Post Metal: Uboa - The Sky May Be (2018)
Heavy Prog: Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (1970) (was mentioned already in this topic, but had planned for this next)
Indo-Prog/Raga Rock: Satwa - Satwa (1973)
Jazz Rock/Fusion: Dedalus - Dedalus (1973)
Krautrock: Faust - So Far (1972)      
Neo-Prog: unsure
Post-Rock/Math Rock: Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission (2000)
Prog Folk: Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer (recorded 1973, released 1999)
Progressive Electronic: Igor Wakhévitch - Hathor (1973)
Progressive Metal: unsure
Psychedelic/Space Rock: Far East Family Band - Parallel World (1976)
RIO/Avant-Prog: Universe Zero - Heresis (1979)
Rock Progressivo Italiano: Osanna - Palepoli (1973)
Symphonic Prog: Ange - Au-delà du délire (1974)
Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: unsure
Zeuhl: Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I (1994)
Various Artists: unsure
Prog Related: William Sheller - Lux Aeterna (1972)
Proto-Prog: Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)

I might try to combine all our lists into one, or just the first list by each as I have multiple. It takes effort to make these and I do worry when I make topics that people's efforts will not be noticed or recognised (and I don't always respond, mostly because I find social interactions a little uncomfortable often). At least re-posting them might give some more visibility.

Iantumaros wrote: It is rather an insurmountable challenge for me to select but a singular album from the realms of Canterbury Scene, Symphonic Prog, Eclectic Prog, Jazz-Rock/Fusion, RIO/Avant-Prog, or Progressive Electronic.

I started, but found it too difficult:)

It is rather an insurmountable challenge for me to select but a singular album from the realms of Canterbury Scene, Symphonic Prog, Eclectic Prog, Jazz-Rock/Fusion, RIO/Avant-Prog, or Progressive Electronic.

Thanks, Pedro. I imagine that I'll come up with a few more lists of personal favourites from the PA categories, and hopefully some more members will too. Definitely I'm not going for what I think is most significant or suitable to the category it's in; just hoping we can share those album that are meaningful to us across the PA categories where we have albums we like.

- Caravan, Soft Machine and Hatfield and the North are three of the most quintessential Canterbury Scene bands to me. Caravan is particularly popular and it was the first Canterbury Scene band I discovered as a child with In the Land of Grey and Pink.

- I have grown to like the post-Pawn Hearts albums much more, but it is The Least We Can DO..., H to He..., and Pawn hearts that have meant the most to me. And a "Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" is the bee's knees (or would be if it was "A Plague of Beehouse Keepers" or just bees).

- Love ADII's "Dance of the Lemmings" too, although I turn to Yeti more. Could have happily gone with either of those. Love lots of Krautrock.

- I really like The Incredible String Band. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is a personal favourite from ISB. I did a track poll some time back and chose "A Very Cellular Song" from it.

- Solar Music is very nice, but that Message album (included in Psychedelic/Space Rock) is very special to me. Grobschnitt is actually included in Symphonic Prog at PA and I am choosing personal favourites, and asking others to do so, based on what's in the categories at PA whether best suited to that category or not.

- Magma's first is an utterly remarkable double-album debut to me. I would call MDK the most quintessential album of Zeuhl. I prefer versions of MDK live to the studio album, and went with studio albums for all of my choices. At one time MDK was my favourite, but the debut is the studio album I would wish to keep if I could only keep one Magma. I adore it, and despite liking Magma throughout its career, they never bettered it for me.

Prog-jester wrote: jezuz, Duster in Neo???? wtf had happened to PA

Well, at least it does have Neo-Psych and Neo-Space Rock qualities. Seems a pretty slack addition for the slacker rock of Duster. ;)

Edited by Logan - December 16 2024 at 21:33