50 BEST PROG EVER

before I leave, thought I would throw in a list of the
best progressive CDs I have ever heard. To whom it
may concern and may you all figure out what prog
is?

concept(only works as a whole)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
ELO - Eldorado

suites(20 minute songs)
Michael Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Yes - Relayer
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Tangerine Dream - Force Majuere
                                    - Cyclone

canadian
Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue

american
Herbie Hancock - Headhunter
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Kansas - Leftoverture
Utopia - RA

brazil
Airto Moreira - The Other Side of This

england
Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
                      - Wish You Were Here
                      - Animals
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Yes - 90125
Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Peter Gabriel - 3
Art of Noise - Daft

holland
Focus -3

france
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Clearlight - Visions
Jean-Luc Ponty - Very Best of

sweden
Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings

germany
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea
Edgar Froese - Stuntman
Johannes Schmoelling - Wuivend Reit
Steve Jolliffe - Zanzi
Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Eno/Moebius/ Roedelius/Plank - Begegnungen
                                                              - Begegnungen 2
Micheal Rother - Best of
Ashra - the Sunrain Years
Michael Hoenig - Departures from a Northern
Wasteland
Synergy - Audion
Holger Czukay - On the Way to the Peak of Normal
Peter Seiler - best of

austria
Gandalf - Magic Theatre

italy
Il Volo - Essere, o non essere

greece
Vangelis - best of (early)

progressive folk
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Horslips - Book of Invasions

+6 for you latter day saints
southern
Dixie Dregs - Freefall
acid funk
Axiom Funk - Funkcronomicon
goth
Depeche Mode - Violater
industrial
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
surf
Mermen - Amazing California Health and Happiness
Roadshow
new age
Michael Shrieve - The Big Picture

some of these may fall into other categories in your
minds, but remember I'm an OLD GUY, and when I
here certain music I categorize it as evolutionary in
my mind to the progressive thread. Heck all the best
music in rock in roll is progressive, from blues to folk
to jazz to hard rock.

ps/ sorry to all you KC, Rush and GG fans!

pss/ althought 21st Century Schitzoid Man is
probably the best progressive rock song ever!

before we get started
the Wall is to gloomy and bitter for the list, if I could
only pick out one CD of the best songs, to VDGG
Clearlight Symphony not a good as Visions
Thick As a Brick to many ups and downs
love Italian musicians, hate the italian lyrics
Close to the Edge, lyrics?
Wizard, A True Star to many sniplets
wish I could put Hocus Pocus on Focus 3
Lenny White - Venusian Summer, you got close
Can - Tago Mago, Neu - 75, Holger and Michael did
better alone
Bo Hansson, its all about the atmosphere
Selling England dont quite get me to do a Foxtrot
wish The Who - Quadrophenia was progressive
enough

love Italian musicians, hate the italian lyrics

cant take the italian lyrics and the english versions
are no better - got any suggestions
tried
Osanna - Palepoli
PFM - Photos of Ghosts, The World became the
World
Banco - Banco
New Trolls - Concerto Grosso
Acqua Fragile
and others

where OK in parts, didnt want to hear again in parts

never heard
PFM - Chocolate Kings
        - Jetlag
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
Balleto en Bronzo - Ys
in english versions, but have heard all the classic
italian stuff in italian versions, many times just cant
swallow the vocals, musically I love it, thats why I
have settled on Il volo because the vocals dont
distract me
Got any specific suggestions I am game




Edited by DallasBryan

Roller's instrumental. Il Fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark has some vocals on it. Nonhosonno (2001) is instrumental and kicks ass. Goblin (one of my alltime fave bands) has a lot of soundtracks; I have nearly all of them.

Il Baricentro's two albums are instrumental. I have the first one by Etna; ditto.

Jet Lag is a new band, with a great CD called Delusione Ottica.

Nuova Era's Il Passo Del Soldato I can't say enough good things about, as a lover of keyboards-oriented prog. If you can't dig on the Italian vocals, I don't what to tell you. That's a hurdle you yourself will have to negotiate.

Spectrum by Billy Cobham kicks some ass!

Edited by Joren

other italian instrumentals or english versions I have
tried:
Banco - Garofano Rosso
               - Di Terra
Maxophone - same
RDM - Contaminazione
Uno - same

its not just a italian thing, its french, spanish,
portuguese, japanese, etc
tried
Ange - Par Les Fils de Mandarin
Atoll - L.Ma.........
Carmen - Fandangos in Space
Los Canarios - Ciclos
etc.
not top 50 maybe top 100,
even the German stuff, although I found Kraan able
to overcome the barrier on Let it Out!

show me the light!!!

Edited by DallasBryan

tried it
Il Fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark, OK falls in
with Maxophone and Garofano Rosso, short with
some sweet spots.
as for straight jazz fusion ie, Goblin - Roller is a little
to straight on and doesnt offered enough distorted
vision for me and I would lump it in with the above
mentioned.

LIKE THE TOPIC THOUGH, as this is what I have
been looking to discuss.
Got any Scandinavian, Eastern Euro, Mid East,
Indian, Japanese, South American treasures out
there?

drop Forge, glad to see some intelligent lifeforms on
this planet

Edited by DallasBryan

DEC. 1 is losers day, bags packed

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see ya.....there coming