A New Big Prog Album Poll 2009

Expect to see some new albums on the list.

Really, only the top two have any permanence since I don't have an all time list to speak of, so many of these could (and do) swap places from day to day.  I also omitted live albums and compilations.  Here it is- I'm tired of messing with it. 

1. Tales from Topographic Oceans (Yes)
2. Somewhere to Elsewhere (Kansas)
3. Minstrel in the Gallery (Jethro Tull)
4. The Hazards of Love (The Decemberists)
5. Leftoverture (Kansas)
6. Song for America (Kansas)
7. Kansas (Kansas)
8. Close to the Edge (Yes)
9. A Passion Play (Jethro Tull)
10. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)
11. Selling England by the Pound (Genesis)
12. Cowboy Poems Free (Echolyn)
13. Scenes from a Memory: Metropolis Part II (Dream Theater)
14. Point of Know Return (Kansas)
15. Mei (Echolyn)
16. Shadowlands (Glass Hammer)
17. Deadwing (Porcupine Tree)
18. Part the Second (maudlin of the Well)
19. Masque (Kansas)
20. The Power and the Glory (Gentle Giant)
21. Hemispheres (Rush)
22. Vapor Trails (Rush)
23. Animals (Pink Floyd)
24. The Crane Wife (The Decemberists)
25. V (Spock’s Beard)
26. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater)
27. Foxtrot (Genesis)
28. Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
29. The Ladder (Yes)
30. Magnification (Yes)
31. The Snow Goose (Camel)
32. Moonmadness (Camel)
33. Three Friends (Gentle Giant)
34. IV (Led Zeppelin)
35. Always Never the Same (Kansas)
36. The End is Beautiful (Echolyn)
37. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
38. Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)
39. Tarkus (ELP)
40. Octopus (Gentle Giant)
41. Acquiring the Taste (Gentle Giant)
42. Castaways and Cutouts (The Decemberists)
43. My Favorite Headache (Geddy Lee)
44. Fear of a Blank Planet (Porcupine Tree)
45. Enchant (Juggling 9 or Dropping 10)
46. Paradox Hotel (The Flower Kings)
47. Before Became After (Proto-Kaw)
48. The Wait of Glory (Proto-Kaw)
49. The Yes Album (Yes)
50. ? (Neal Morse)
51. Frances the Mute (The Mars Volta)
52. Amputechture (The Mars Volta)
53. De-Loused in the Comatorium (The Mars Volta)
54. Octahedron (The Mars Volta)
55. Fragile (Yes)
56. A Place in the Queue (The Tangent)
57. Nursery Cryme (Genesis)
58. Drama (Yes)
59. The Light (Spock’s Beard)
60. Test for Echo (Rush)
61. Brain Salad Surgery (ELP)
62. Red (King Crimson)
63. Going for the One (Yes)
64. 5Bridges (The Thomas Tracks)
65. Octane (Spock’s Beard)
66. Counterparts (Rush)
67. Picaresque (The Decemberists)
68. In a Glass House (Gentle Giant)
69. Fish Out of Water (Chris Squire)
70. Olias of Sunhillow (Jon Anderson)
71. A Farewell to Kings (Rush)
72. Presto (Rush)
73. Monolith (Kansas)
74. Freaks of Nature (Kansas)
75. Permanent Waves (Rush)
76. Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading (The Dear Hunter)
77. Tardigarde (Simon Says)
78. The Bedlam in Goliath (The Mars Volta)
79. The Final Cut (Pink Floyd)
80. Voyage of the Acolyte (Steve Hackett)
81. Sola Scriptura (Neal Morse)
82. The Sum of No Evil (The Flower Kings)
83. Adam & Eve (The Flower Kings)
84. Chupacabras (Phideaux)
85. Spectral Mornings (Steve Hackett)
86. H to He Who Am the Only One (Van der Graaf Generator)
87. Wind and Wuthering (Genesis)
88. Godbluff (Van der Graaf Generator)
89. Trespass (Genesis)
90. Suffocating the Bloom (Echolyn)
91. The Kindness of Strangers (Spock’s Beard)
92. Free Hand (Gentle Giant)
93. The Great Unknown (Conspiracy)
94. Mirage (Camel)
95. Talk (Yes)
96. Time and a Word (Yes)
97. IQ (Seventh House)
98. Crack the Skye (Mastodon)
99. Glossolalia (Steve Walsh)
100. The Power to Believe (King Crimson)

So here is my list, I'm affraid a lot of great albums are missing though ...

1.- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

2.- In the Wake of Poseidon - King Crimson

3.- Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

4.- Close to the Edge - Yes

5.- The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

6.- Attahk - Magma

7.- Zarathustra - Museo Rosenbach

8.- Darwin! - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

9.- Hybris - Anglagard

10.-Animals - Pink Floyd

11.-Per un Amico - Premiata Forneria Marconi

12.-1001 Degrees Centigrade - Magma

13.-In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

14.-Lizard - King Crimson

15.-Selling England by the Pound - Genesis

16.-K.A. - Magma

17.-Palepoli - Osanna

18.-Contaminazione - Il Rovescio della Medaglia

19.-L'Uovo di Colombo - L'Uovo di Colombo

20.-Io Sono Nato Libero - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso

21.-Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator

22.-Foxtrot - Genesis

23.-Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma

24.-Still Life - Van Der Graaf Generator

25.-Principe di un Giorno - Celeste

26.-A Farewell to Kings - Rush

27.-In a Glass House - Gentle Giant

28.-Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra

29.-You - Gong

30.-Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

31.-Eros - Dun

32.-Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo

33.-Retropolis - The Flower Kings

34.-Symphonie Pour le Jour Où Brûleront Les Cités - Art Zoyd

35.-Songs from the Wood - Jethro Tull

36.-Måltid - Samla Mammas Manna

37.-Nostimon Hemar - La Tulipe Noir

38.-Four Levels Of Existence

39.-Tarkus - Emerson Lake and Palmer

40.-La Bibbia - Il Rovescio della Medaglia

41.-Boris - Yezda Urfa

42.-If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan
 
43.-Banco - Banco

44.-666 (The Apocalypse of John.) - Aphrodite's Child

45.-Forse le Lucciole non si Amano Più - Locanda delle Fate

46.-Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison - Harmonium

47.-Il Tempo Della Gioia - Quella Vecchia Locanda

48.-Par Les Fils de Mandrin - Ange

49.-A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis

50.-Carol Of Harvest - Carol Of Harvest

51.-Flower Power - The Flower Kings

52.-Octavarium - Dream Theater

53.-Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa

54.-Meddle - Pink Floyd

55.-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

56.-Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

57.-Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta

58.-The Grand Wazoo - Frank Zappa

59.-Heresie - Univers Zero

60.-Watershed - Opeth

61.-Revolver - The Beatles

62.-Rubycon - Tangerine Dream

63.-Lateralus - Tool

64.-First Utterance - Comus

65.-Hamburger Concerto - Focus

66.-Biglietto Per L'Inferno - Biglietto Per L'Inferno

67.-Uomo Di Pezza - Le Orme

68.-Marbles - Marillion

69.-Signify - Porcupine Tree

70.-Another Green World - Brian Eno

71.-Phaedra - Tangerine Dream

72.-Friendship - Ashra

73.-El Patio - Triana

74.-Mei - Echolyn

75.-In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

76.-The Civil Surface - Egg

77.-Polution - Franco Battiato

78.-Enigmatic Ocean - Jean-Luc Ponty

79.-Concerto Delle Menti - Pholas Dactylus

80.-Neu! - Neu!

81.-Halloween - Pulsar

82.-Rainbow Theatre - Fantasy Of Horses

83.-Sleeping In Traffic Part II - Beardfish

84.-Number Seven - Phideaux

85.-Part the Second - Maudlin of the Well

86.-Akritas - Akritas

87.-Flor De Loto - Madre Tierra

88.-Hatfield And The North - S/T

89.-Two Rainbows Daily - Hugh Hopper

90.-Adonis - Anyone's Daughter

91.-Bells, Boots and Shambles - Spirogyra

92.-Ommadawn- Mike Oldifeld

93.-Ciclos - Canarios

94.-Paix - Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes

95.-On Land And In The Sea - Cardiacs

96.-Concerto Grosso 1 - New Trolls

97.-21 Canapes - Akineton Retard

98.-Pure - Pendragon

99.-Frequency - IQ

100.-Yeti - Amon Duul


Edited by inrainbows - August 21 2009 at 14:51

moreitsythanyou wrote: What's the editing policy? There's one album I really need to get up there.

Just threw this together so it's pretty haphazard, but it'll do. We're still allowed proto and related, right?


100. The Residents - God in Three Persons
99. Metallica - Master of Puppets
98. Isis - Wavering Radiant
97. Art Bears - The World as it is Today
96. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
95. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
94. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
93. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
92. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
91. Miles Davis - Round About Midnight

90. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
89. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
88. Faust - So Far
87. Henry Cow - Leg End
86. Boredoms - Super Roots 7
85. The Who - Who's Next
84. Tortoise - TNT
83. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
82. Otomo Yoshihide - Out to Lunch
81. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

80. Magma - K.A.
79. Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
78. This Heat - This Heat
77. Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
76. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
75. Area - Arbeit Macht Frei
74. Can - Monster Movie
73. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
72. Henry Cow - Western Culture
71. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

70. Pink Floyd - Meddle
69. Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa
68. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
67. Genesis - Foxtrot
66. John Zorn - The Circle Maker
65. Miles Davis - Nefertiti
64. Amon Duul II - Yeti
63. Koenjihyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji
62. Boredoms - Super Ae
61. Agalloch - The Mantle

60. Yes - Fragile
59. Cardiacs - Sing to God
58. Manuel Gottschint - E2-E4
57. Faust - Faust
56. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
55. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
54. Can - Soon Over Babaluma
53. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
52. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
51. Brian Eno - Before and After Science

50. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
49. Radiohead - Amnesiac
48. Magma - Live
47. Battles - Mirrored
46. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
45. Opeth - Blackwater Park
44. Faust - Faust IV
43. Mastodon - Leviathan
42. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
41. Slint - Spiderland

40. King Crimson - Red
39. Masada - Live in Sevilla
38. Yes - Close to the Edge
37. This Heat - Deceit
36. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
35. Neu! - Neu!
34. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
33. Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
32. Isis - Oceanic
31. John Zorn - Naked City

30. The Soft Machine - Third
29. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
28. John Zorn - Spillane
27. David Bowie - Low
26. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
25. King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black
24. Brian Eno - Another Green World
23. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
22. The Beatles - Revolver
21. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

20. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
19. Can - The Peel Sessions
18. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
17. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
16. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Miles Davis - On the Corner
14. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
13. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
12. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
11. Ground Zero - Consume Red

10. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
9. Can - Future Days
8. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
7. Radiohead - The Bends
6. Can - Ege Bamyasi
5. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
1. Can - Tago Mago

Edited by The Antique - August 19 2009 at 21:13

Thanks.

Egads, my taste is pretty square!!!  Very narrow margin here...  I'm going to have to broaden my horizons, although when I was a kid and absorbing every canterbury/oddball thing I could find I guess it didn't stick very well... 

Please forgive me...  (and forgive me for NOT having SEBTP and Free Hand on my list...)




1.    Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
2.    Yes - Fragile
3.    Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
4.    Van der graaf Generator - Godbluff
5.    Genesis - Trespass
6.    Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
7.    Peter Gabriel - Wet Car
8.    Un Biglietto Per L'Inferno - s/t
9.    Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
10.  Genesis - Nursery Cryme
11.  Yes - Relayer
12.  Banco - Darwin
13.  Locanda delle fate - Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più
14.  Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
15.  Strawbs - Hero And Heroine
16.  Jethro Tull - Benefit
17.  Yes - Drama
18.  Le Orme - Felona E Sorona
19.  Van der graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
20.  Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
21.  Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
22.  The Beatles - Abbey Road
23.  Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
24.  Genesis - Foxtrot
25.  Gentle Giant - Three Friends
26.  Yes - Close To The Edge
27.  Jethro Tull - Aqualung
28.  King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
29.  Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
30.  Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
31.  Renaissance - Novella
32.  King Crimson - Red
33.  Jethro Tull - Broadsword And Beast
34.  Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
35.  Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
36.  Genesis - Wind And Wuthering
37.  Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star
38.  Gong - Shamal
39.  King Crimson - Lizard
40.  Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
41.  Gentle Giant - Civilian
42.  PFM - Photos Of Ghosts
43.  Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
44.  Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
45.  Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
46.  Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
47.  Pink Floyd - Animals
48.  Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
49.  King Crimson - The Wake Of Poseidon
50.  Genesis - Genesis


51.  Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection
52.  Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
53.  Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
54.  Fireballet - Night On Bald Mountain
55.  Rick Wakeman - Six Wives Of Henry VIII
56.  Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
57.  PFM - Chocolate Kings
58.  Camel - Mirage
59.  Marillion - Fugazi
60.  Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
61.  The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
62.  Camel - The Snow Goose
63.  Van der graaf Generator - H to He Who Am The Only One
64.  Peter Hammill - A Black Box
65.  Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama
66.  IQ - Subterranea
67.  Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
68.  Kate Bush - Lionheart
69.  Rick Wakeman - King Arthur
70.  Buffalo Springfield - Again
71.  Genesis - Duke
72.  Van der graaf Generator - The Least We Could Do Is Wave To Each Other
73.  The Who - Tommy
74.  Kate Bush - Never For Ever
75.  Cocteau Twins - Treasure
76.  UK - Danger Money
77.  Arena - The Visitor
78.  King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair
79.  Iluvatar - A Story Two Days Wide
80.  Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
81.  Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow
82.  Mike Oldfield - Incantations
83.  Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets
84.  Strawbs - From The Witchwood
85.  Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
86.  Hudson Ford - When Worlds Collide
87.  Jethro Tull - Chateau D'Isaster Tapes
88.  Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
89.  Rush - Rush
90.  Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
91.  Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
92.  Yes - The Yes Album
93.  Rush - Grace Under Pressure
94.  Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
95.  Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
96.  David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
97.  Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
98.  Mike Oldfield - Discovery
99.  David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
100. Refugee- Refugee

SaltyJon wrote: Whoa, someone else with Tago Mago in the #1 spot...it just might make the overall top 100 now

I sure hope so. Amazing album.

inrainbows wrote: 2.- In the Wake of Poseidon - King Crimson

Stupid Word-formatting-linking-stuff...

LinusW wrote: Stupid Word-formatting-linking-stuff...

looks like you have have swapping spit with Ivan...