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    Posted: September 27 2007 at 12:53

Modern Drummer lists the following albums as important all time prog classics in the October special issue on prog rock. In the article in question, they're lated chronologically and categorized in terms of subgenres, but they're not ranked in terms of importance or goodness or whatever:

Proto prog:
"Freak Out!" - The Mothers of Invention
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" - The Beatles
"Are you Experienced" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
 
Classic Prog:
"The Soft Machine" - The Soft Machine
"In the Court of the Crimson King" - King Crimson
"Those who are about to Die Salute you" - Colosseum
"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
"Tago Mago" - Can
"Fragile" - Yes
"Live: In concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra" - Procol Harum
"Thick as a Brick" - Jethro Tull
"The Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
"Brain Salad Surgery" - Emerson Lake & Palmer
"Faust IV" - Faust
"Angel's Egg" - Gong
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - Genesis
"Free Hand" - Gentle Giant
"Live" - 801
"2112" - Rush
"Leftoverture" - Kansas
"Danger Money" - U.K.
"Joe's Garage" - Frank Zappa
"Security" - Peter Gabriel
"Discipline" - King Crimson
"90125" - Yes
 
Neo Prog:
"Misplaced Childhood" - Marillion
"Operation Mindcrime" - Queensr˙che
"Perfect Symmetry" - Fates Warning
"The Light" - Spock's Beard
"Scenes from a Memory" - Dream Theater
"Retropolis" - The Flower Kings
"Deadwing" - Porcupine Tree
"Pole" - Tuner
 
Progressive Metal:
"...And Justice for All" - Metallica
"Focus" - Cynic
"Destroy Erase Improve" - Meshuggah
"The Divine Wings of Tragedy" - Symphony X
"Sounds of Perseverance" - Death
"Calculating Infinity" - The Dillinger Escape Plan
 
Progressive Alternative:
"Sailing the Seas of Cheese" - Primus
"Badmotorfinger" - Soundgarden
"Aenima" - Tool
"OK Computer" - Radiohead
"What Burns Never Returns" - Don Caballero
"Standards" - Tortoise
"In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth" - Coheed and Cambria
"Hold your horse Is" - Hella
"De-Loused in the Comatorium" - The Mars Volta
"Friend Opportunity" - Deerhoof
 
In addition, they've listed 50 more on their webpage right here: http://www.moderndrummer.com/updatefull/200001610


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They seem to have their categories confused in certain areas. 90125 is classic prog? Queensryche is neo prog?!
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I like their prog-metal choices (minus Metallica), but it's awesome that they didn't really go with obvious things.
 
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

I like their prog-metal choices (minus Metallica), but it's awesome that they didn't really go with obvious things.
 
Well, I applaud their inclusion of "...And Justice for All" as well.
 
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Hmm, they seem to be more conservative about what constitutes prog-metal than we are here - prog, more metal, less rock, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I would haver swapped SymphX for PoS, but meh, it's only a list. (I assume someone's counted that there are 50 ... you know what drummers are like for counting anything over 4...)
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As always this lists are quite bad, I mean 90210 and no Close to the edge???Confused
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Not a bad list, but Soundgarden prog?
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Points: 4373 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:18
I think we can safely discard the fellas in the last subsection of the list.
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Points: 10094 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:20
Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

I think we can safely discard the fellas in the last subsection of the list.


what are you talking about? Other than Soundgarden all of those seem legit to me

and lol@ the second list for the Mudvayne


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Seems more like grunge and emo with an extra FX pedal or two.
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Points: 10094 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:23
Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Seems more like grunge and emo with an extra FX pedal or two.


well, if you check on PA at least 3/4 of those bands are on here


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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

As always this lists are quite bad, I mean 90210 and no Close to the edge???Confused
 
It's a drummers perspective I would say.
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Points: 4079 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:46
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Not a bad list, but Soundgarden prog?
 
Superunknown has some great odd time sigs. Maybe this pushed into their interpretation of Prog.
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I can't agree with many of their choices but they could have done much, much worse and made complete and utter fools of themselves.
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Points: 10672 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 13:53
Hendrix! See I told you so. It was also nice to see Faust on there too.
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Points: 362 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 14:10
Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

As always this lists are quite bad, I mean 90210 and no Close to the edge???Confused
 
It's a drummers perspective I would say.
 
Yeah, we'd better keep that in mind.
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oh my God, I can't believe they didn't list things exactly like they are on this website.
 
This is a huge deal to me and I'm super pissed!
 
get over it, it's a magazine.
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I don't like our top 50 either.
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Originally posted by Time Signature Time Signature wrote:

 
Progressive Alternative:
"Badmotorfinger" - Soundgarden

 


Haha, wtf? Good album, but Prog? LOL

Otherwise a pretty good list, in my opinion.
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Points: 1751 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2007 at 16:38
doesn't matter what categorys or non prog bands, we all have different opinions of what is and isn't prog, I think its quite a reasonable and representative list, a lot better than some of the crud I've read in so called 'music magazines'
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