Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Prog Albums

This might already have been posted, but I didn't see when or where.  I copy-pasted this from a YesFans.com discussion, but these are apparently Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Albums that Built Prog Rock.  Thought it could generate some discussion.  Personally, I like the list, for the most part.  The handful of contemporary releases included at the end are a little ridiculous to me.  I hardly think Mastodon is "building" anything, they're just using many of the right tools (and leaving out many more).  But in all I think it's fair and representative.  Some might mourn the exclusion of some Italian prog, but they did have the decency to include Magma.  I'd have put Thick as a Brick on there, absolutely, and they act like King Crimson did one big whopper at the beginning and then sank into obscurity which obviously isn't the case, but it's hardly the worst list I've ever seen a commercial music magazine publish.

Oh, and I love that Tarkus is on it.  That album is, to me at least, ELP's least-pretentious and therefore probably best album.  Anyways, the list:


Freak Out - Frank Zappa
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Procol Harum - S/T
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
The Nice - The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Soft Machine - Volume Two
Curved Air - Air Conditioning
Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
Magma - S/T
Barclay James Harvest - Once Again
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
E.L.P. - Tarkus
Focus - Moving Waves
Yes - Fragile
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
E.L.P. - Brain Salad Surgery
Gong - Angel's Egg
Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
E.L.O. - Eldorado
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Renaissance - Scheherazade
Camel - Moonmadness
Alan Parsons - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
Kansas - Leftoverture
Peter Gabriel - First
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Asia - S/T
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Yes - 90125
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
Radiohead - OK Computer
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Mastodon - Crack The Skye

I like that Magma is on there

I don't like that Asia and 90125 and OK Computer and Deloused in the Comatorium and Deadwing and Black Holes and Revalations are

Know what, Walter is basically right in this situation

Yet another list fail. :/


Edited by Evolutionary Sleeper - August 23 2010 at 11:06

No Close To The Edge, replaced by 90125... OK... The man who created this list was a  ! 

Worst choices on list are: