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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:12
David Sancious - "Forest of Feelings"
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:28
Originally posted by Captain Capricorn Captain Capricorn wrote:

Weather Report - Weather Report (1971)
Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric (1972)
 


Both are fantastic and undoubtly my two WR favorites. But especially the latter is pretty chaotic and out there at times. For sheer beauty I think Return To Forever's debut and Light as a Feather would work better. Maybe In a Silent Way and Get Up With it, both by Miles Davis too.

Sticking to prog that's easy on the ears: Tonton Macoute's only, Skin Alley's first, both by Cressida and the swedish Ragnarök's folky debut are stunning (so is Continuum).

Celeste's (Principe di Giorno), Roberto Zappa (Celestion) and Le Orme's (Collage) debuts and the one off by Campo di Marte and Luciano Basso are more italian, not to complex beauties for topicstarter.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:40
Genesis' Trespass, with the exception of The Knife...
Yes' Disc 1 of Tales, for me is beautiful
The already mentioned Camel albums too...
Tull's Thick as a Brick part 1 is pretty much beautiful too...
Supertramp's Even in the quitest Moments...

Though, honestly, I can find more songs, rather than entire albums, being beautiful...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:44
Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Genesis' Trespass, with the exception of The Knife...


I think the middle section is (kind of) beautiful...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:47
^lemme think..... hmm, yeah, maybe...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 18:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2009 at 11:02

Right at the moment:

Pulsar( French)

The Strands Of The Future
 
paatos:( Sweden)
Silence Of Another Kind
 
2 wonderful albums of these 2 very underrated bands.Geek
one super old
and a brand-new one.
Chech them out. I highly recomend their albums.Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2009 at 21:06
Paatos is absolutely fantastic. The vocalist is one of my favorite female prog singers.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2009 at 23:25

i just downloaded this album http://cdbaby.com/cd/aeolianrace the other day. best stuff i've heard in a while!!

 
very early floydish with real cool spacey stuff going on.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2009 at 23:54
I just listened to "666" by Aphrodite's Child and that was a gorgeous album. The Greek instrumentation was a nice touch as well.

Some other lovely sounding prog albums in my opinion...

Yes- "Magnification"
Fruupp- "Seven Secrets"
Caravan- "Waterloo Lily"
Pink Floyd- "Meddle"
Premiata Forneria Marconi- "Per Un Amico"




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 01:18
curently i am hooked on dawn-loneliness..it is a fantastic album.!!!
pity the band is underrated and got average reviews because of their comparison to camel..and i think comparisons are not a very good thing in music because it puts certain expectations on the listener..the best thing is to listen to any prog album without any preconceptions or expectations and let the music speak for itself..regardless of any  similarities or influences,
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 05:56
@keiser wilhelm, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, is one of the most beautuful albums of all time. But I think that Agaetus Byrjun by Sigur Ros is the most beautiful album. Even more than ( ).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 06:58
in prog I get this feeling from the acoustic albums of Steve Hackett mostly, but it could be argued they are not prog at all


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 07:12
Pain of Salvation- 12:5
Marillion- Afraid of Sunlight
White Willow- Ignis Fatuus, Ex Tenebris and Sacrament (theres three especially)
PFM- Per Un Amico
Harmonium- Si on Avait...
The Gathering- Sleepy Buildings
Thieves Kitchen- The Water Road

This is some of the most beautiful music ever made.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 09:54
I'd like to mention Moon Safari's Blomljud.
 
A stand-out star amongst a lot of other beautiful albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2009 at 02:43
Originally posted by progrocker2244 progrocker2244 wrote:

Fellow prog fans tend to disagree, but Genesis' From Genesis To Revelation strikes me as a beautiful album. It's not aggressive or complex at all, but it's all just calm, nice music.

I personally don't think it's better than others, but it is certainly more beautiful.
 
yeah, Kind of know what you mean, it is a beautiful album.
 
Another one I forgot is that swede maestro Bo Hansson - Attic Thoughts
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2009 at 03:39
Hard to look past Peter Gabriel's "So" and "Up"...Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2009 at 03:54
Genesis - Trick of the tail
Renaissance - Sherezade and other story
Steve Hackett - Spectral mornings
 
and many more...................
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2009 at 04:14
Originally posted by pianoman pianoman wrote:

@keiser wilhelm, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, is one of the most beautuful albums of all time. But I think that Agaetus Byrjun by Sigur Ros is the most beautiful album. Even more than ( ).


Id tend to agree. Its hard to pick a favorite Sigur Ros cd but if i had to itd be almost too close to call between Agaetus Byrjun and Takk, though i think id take the former.

also, i cant believe i forgot, this is one of te most acheingly beautiful discs i own.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 16:10
Ones that come to mind are: Ain Soph's - Hat and Field RTF's Light as a feather , also Getz/Gilberto
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