Progressive Rock Album List-1974

'Phaedra' from this list

Triumvirat.

^ I appreciate the opportunity and latitude to mention others (some people don't like mentions of any others) while also mentioning the ones in your list that I love. I do try to vote for ones in the list if I know and like at least one and otherwise I might state that I can't vote for any with a reason and make my own list. In this case there were several that I could have very happily voted for. From Greg's (The Dark Elf's list) I would vote for Red over Gryphon, from Jared's mentions, I think Focus over Gryphon and Hawkwind, and from Saperlipopette!'s others, I think Can over the Cosmic Jokers. There certainly is no shortage of great music. 1974 is an amazing year! And it a really nice time in that most of us (at least who like classic years) probably have many loved albums liked by most others here. Tastes overlap a lot more in the late 60 and 70s, after that it becomes more divisive. I mean it still be divisive, but easier to find music likes in common than later.

Edited by Logan - 15 hours 11 minutes ago at 15:15

Hmmm...1974? I would prefer:

Jared wrote: Given your tastes, I wonder whether you liked any of these TEN 1974 albums?: ELO: Eldorado Eloy: Floating Focus: Hamburger Concerto Greenslade: Spyglass Guest Grobschnitt: Ballermann Gryphon: Red Queen Hawkwind: Hall Mountain Grill MMEB: The Good Earth Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge Renaissance: Turn Of The Cards Incidentally, one of my favourite albums from this year was BJH: Everyone Is Everybody Else..

Hamburger Concerto is really good.

Jared wrote: ^^ the BJH isn't really prog, I have just always loved it... I would have thought Ballermann would have been of interest to you?

Ballermann....I have heard of that record, but have not actually heard it, yet....I don't know much about Grobschnitt, either, really....

I love these four. Voted for Phaedra but I might have gone for Rypdal...

Tangerine Dream-Phaedra
Terje Rypdal-What Comes After
Dzyan-Electric Silence
Edgar Froese-Aqua

Man, what an amazing year for music of all kinds. I love every album Logan posted, and this dozen too:

Terje Rypdal - Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away
Camel - Mirage
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt (Immagini per un orecchio)
The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Klaus Schulze - Blackdance
Egg - The Civil Surface
Residents - Meet the Residents
Sensations' Fix - Portable Madness
The Cosmic Jokers - The Cosmic Jokers
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards

of fifteen really... but these are perhaps less Prog relevant, but they are on PA:

Miles Davis - Big Fun
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë

     

Given your tastes, I wonder whether you liked any of these TEN 1974 albums?:

Edited by Jared - 17 hours 48 minutes ago at 12:38

I share a number of entries in common with you, Doug. I have a really strong for my tastes top 50 or so at Awesome Prog (great year) and with so many albums I love (and more not listed there) the numbering is rather meaningless on the whole. I could shuffle at will.

Tangerine Dream's Phaedra is the standout for me, although I like Dzyan's and Froese's very much too as well as others like Galactic Explorers and Terje Rypdal, and I like the Triumvirat. Not keen on that PFM; love PFM's original early Italian albums.

My top 20 at AP: https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1974/users/Logan If you get the chance, love to see more lists by people there through the years. I'm working on the early 60s now.

1. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
2. Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
3. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
4. Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You
5. Area - Caution Radiation Area
6. Janko Nilovic - Rythmes contemporains [AP Prog]
7. Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery
8. Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass
9. Faust - Faust IV [AP Prog]
10. Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North
11. Bobby Hutcherson - Cirrus [AP Prog-Adj]
12. King Crimson - Red
13. Peter Hammill - In Camera
14. Cluster - Zuckerzeit
15. Henry Cow - Unrest
16. Ennio Morricone - Il sorriso del grande tentatore [AP Prog-Adj]
17. Harmonia - Musik Von
18. Julian Priester - Love, Love
19. Magma - Köhntarkösz
20. Zao - Osiris