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For the truly ambitious and unemployed Wink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 01:29
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Grape_Jam Grape_Jam wrote:

1. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Dead
 
I love the lyrics and the vocals very much, and the music isn't bad Tongue
 
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Grape_Jam Grape_Jam wrote:

The Ascension by Glenn Branca
4. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
13. Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
15. The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
 
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1 Brain Salad Surgery -ELP
2 Close To The Edge - Yes
3 Moving Pictures - Rush
4 Ever - IQ
5 A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis
6 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
7 Purgatorio - Tangerine Dream
8 666 - Aphrodites Child
9 Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
10 Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
11 Powerslave - Iron Maiden
12 Red - King Crimson
13 The Last Days Of The Century - Al Stewart
14 Royal Bed Bouncer - Kayak
15 The Attack Of The Grey Lantern - Mansun
16 Stuntman - Edgar Froese
17 Veni Vidi Vici - Par Lindh Project
18 Absolution - Muse
19 One - Neal Morse
20 Planets - Eloy
21 Heaven and Hell - Vangelis
22 Forever Changes - Love
23 Grace For Drowning - Steven Wilson
24 Trilogy - ELP
25 Frequency - IQ
26 Tangram - Tangerine Dream
27 Incantations - Mike Oldfield
28 Fragile - Yes
29 Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
30 El Greco - Vangelis
31 Remote Control - The Tubes
32 The Inconsolable Secret - Glass Hammer
33 The Wake - IQ
34 Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
35 Kid A - Radiohead
36 Merlin Bard Of The Unseen - Kayak
37 Wind and Wuthering - Genesis
38 In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
39 Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield
40 Tarkus - ELP
41 Mundus Incompertus - Par Lindh Project
42 Hybris - Anglagard
43 Seven - Magenta
44 Firebrid Suite - Tomita
45 Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream
46 Tales From The Lush Attic - IQ
47 Fugazi - Marillion
48 Mask - Vangelis
49 The Dreaming - Kate Bush
50 Emerson ,Lake and Palmer - ELP
51 The Yes Album - Yes
52 Time To Turn - Eloy
53 PG1 - Peter Gabriel
54 Animals - Pink Floyd
55 And Then There Were Three - Genesis
56 Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
57 Spiral - Vangelis
58 Gothic Impressions - Par Lindh Project
59 Amarok - Mike Oldfield
60 Permanent Waves - Rush
61 Works Volume One - ELP
62 In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
63 Albedo 0.39 - Vangelis
64 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
64 Six - Mansun
65 Oxygene - JM Jarre
66 Aqualung - Jethro Tull
67 Duke - Genesis
68 Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
69 Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush
70 Are You Sitting Comfortably? - IQ
71 Neo Gothic Progressive Toccatas - The Three Monks
72 Serum Of Life - Alkazaur
73 The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
74 China - Vangelis
75 Synapsia - Neuronium
76 Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman
77 The Last Encore - Kayak
78 Seasons End - Marillion
79 Foxtrot - Genesis
80 Signals - Rush
81 Wine Dark Sea - Stephen Caudel
82 Lex Rex - Glass Hammer
83 Songs Of Distant Earth - Mike Oldfield
84 Exit - Tangerine Dream
85 Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden
86 Aerie Faeire Nonsense - The Enid
87 The Power and The Glory - Gentle Giant
88 The Seventh House - IQ
89 Electric Savage - Coloseum II
90 Equinox - JM Jarre
91 Sky2 - Sky
92 Axe Victim - Be Bop Deluxe
93 Octopus - Gentle Giant
94 Aerial - Kate Bush
95 UK - UK
96 Weather Systems - Anathema
97 Criminal Record - Rick Wakeman
98 The Old Road - Martin Orford
99 Focus 8 - Focus
100 Refugee - Refugee
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 07:44
I have removed my original list since it was incomplete.
I have reposted a complete list elsewhere in this topic.


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Black Holes and Revalations at 34. Ballsy list.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 08:29
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

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Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
Am I right on thinking this is based on nostalgia? I think the beatles did MUCH better work. Ofcourse, that's just my poinion.
 
Anyway, EXTREMELY varried list! Hell, you're into more music than I'm into!
I do sometimes go back n forth with my favorite Beatles album.  On this particular day, it was Hard Day's Night.  On the surface, it sounds like an average pop album, but that's just because it's so immediately likeable.  But when you start to understand WHY it sounds so likeable, you really find out how insanely clever they were as songwriters.  Lennon and McCartney were throwing in chord changes and harmonies that totally go against the grain, but then they magically resolve with a flick of the wrist.  Incredible stuff.  The later stuff was more experimental as far as sound and style goes, but as far as constructing verses/choruses/bridges in exciting ways, they already had it down on Hard Day's Night.

It's not really a nostalgia thing either, since Hard Day's Night wasn't one of the albums I grew up with at a young age, though I was familiar with a few of the songs.  It's really the later stuff (Sgt Pepper and after) that I was familiar with at a very young age.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 09:21
Ok let's try it! 

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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I do sometimes go back n forth with my favorite Beatles album.  On this particular day, it was Hard Day's Night.  On the surface, it sounds like an average pop album, but that's just because it's so immediately likeable.  But when you start to understand WHY it sounds so likeable, you really find out how insanely clever they were as songwriters.  Lennon and McCartney were throwing in chord changes and harmonies that totally go against the grain, but then they magically resolve with a flick of the wrist.  Incredible stuff.  The later stuff was more experimental as far as sound and style goes, but as far as constructing verses/choruses/bridges in exciting ways, they already had it down on Hard Day's Night.

It's not really a nostalgia thing either, since Hard Day's Night wasn't one of the albums I grew up with at a young age, though I was familiar with a few of the songs.  It's really the later stuff (Sgt Pepper and after) that I was familiar with at a very young age.
 
I agree with you, it was certainly an improvement on their first two albums in terms of quality. The opening of A Hard Day's Night tells everything, the music is filled with a kind of energy that hadn't been there before (contrary to popular opinion, I think Please Please Me is not energetic or fun, not enough to be much good at least, except for Twist and Shout, and even there it's mostly the vocals that are brilliant, and about the only enjoyable song on With The Beatles is It Won't Be Long).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 09:35
Did one these for another site not long ago so I'll post it here too. By year. Not even going to try order it. Missed stuff but couldn't be bothered trying to fix it. Tried to limit it to 2 albums per artist.

 

60’s

1. Eric Dolphy – At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 (1961)

2. Mal Waldron – The Quest (1961)

3. Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1961)

4. Oliver Nelson – Blues and the abstract truth (1961)

5. Hank Mobley – No Room For Squares (1963)

6. Grachan Moncur III – Evolution (1964)

7. France Gall – Baby Pop (1966)

8. Patty Waters – Sings (1966)

9. Sun Ra – Other Planes of There (1966) (interchangeable with other 60’s output)

10. Isaac Haynes – Hot Buttered Soul (1969)

 

 

70’s

11. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970)

12. Philip Cohran – The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute in Music) (1970)

13. Marion Brown – Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)

14. Nara Leão - Dez Anos Depois (1971)

15. Magma – 1001 degrees Centigrade (1971)

16. Can – Tago Mago (1971)

17. Hamza El Din - Escalay (The Water Wheel) (1971)

18. Faust – So Far (1972)

19. Tangerine Dream – Zeit (1972)

20. Caetano Veloso – Transa (1972)

21. Noah Howard – The Black Ark (1973)

22. Willie Colón – Lo Mato (1973)

23. Harmonia – Musik Von (1974)

24. Sand – Golem (1974)

25. Keith Hudson – Pick a Dub (1974)

26. Masahiko Togashi – Rings (1975)

27. Parliament - Mothership Connection (1975)

28. 高柳昌行 - Axis Another Revolable Thing vol. 1 (1975)

29. Jean-Claude Éloy - Gaku-no-Michi (1978)

30. Günter Schickert– Überfällig (1979)

31. Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing (1979)

32. Univers Zero – Heresie (1979)

 

80’s

33. Young Mable Giants – Colossal Youth (1980)

34. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms (1980)

35. Lemon Kittens - We Buy A Hammer For Daddy (1980)

36. Associates – Fourth Drawer Down (1981)

37. VA - Afro-Arabian Crossroad: Music of the Tihama on the Red Sea, North Yemen (1983)

38. Swans – Filth (1983)

39. Cocteau Twins – Treasure (1984)

40. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime (1984)

41. Hellebore – Il y a Des Jours (1985)

42. Moniek Darge – Sounds of Sacred Places (1987)         

43. Bathory – Blood Fire Death (1988)

44. Ono Gakaku Kai – Gagaku (1988)

45. Jungle Brothers – Done by the Forces of Nature (1989)

 

90’s

46. Dimi Mint Abba & Khalifa Ould Eide – Moorish Music From Mauritania (1990)

47. Master’s Hammer – Ritual (1991)

48. Luigi Nono – A Pierre; Quando stanno morendo; Post-Prae-Ludium No.1 (1991)

49. Main Source – Breaking Atoms (1991)

50. Boredoms – Pop Tatari (1992)

51. Dog Faced Hermans – Hum of life (1993)

52. 不失者 - Hisou (Pathétique) (1994)

53. Morton Feldman – For Bunita Marcus (Hildegard Kleeb) (1994)

54. DJ Screw – Hard Times (1994)

55. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994)

56. Harvey Milk - my love is higher than your assessment of what my love could be (1994)

57. Kokane – Funk upon a time (1994)

58. Goodie Mob – Soul Food (1995)

59. Burzum – Filosofem (1996)

60. U.G.K. – Ridin’ Dirty (1996)

61. Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (1996)

62. AMM – Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee With Rick and Jennifer Reed (1997)

63. Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (The California EAR Unit) (1997)

64. This Heat - Made Available: John Peel Sessions (1977) (1997)

65. Kevin Drumm – Guitar (1997)

66. Ground Zero – Consume Red (1997)

67. Herbie Nichols – The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1997)

68. Pan Sonic – Kulma (1997)

69. Swans – Swans Are Dead (1998)

70. Outkast – Aquemini (1998)

71. The Coup – Steal This Album (1998)

72. Lull – Moments (1998)

73. Gas – Königsforst (1999)

74. Haunted House – Up in Flames (1999)

 

 

00’s

74. Broadcast – The Noise Made by People (2000)

75. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven (2000)

76. Greg Kelley – Trumpet (2000)

77. Angels of Light – How I Loved You (2001)

78. Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann & Sachiko M – In Case of Fire Take the Stairs (2001)

79. Paysage D’Hiver – Winterkaelte (2001)

80. Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma (2002)

81. Eliane Radigue – Adnos I-III (2002)

82. Sackiho M & Sean Meehan – Untitled (2002)

83. Taku Sugimoto, Masafumi Ezaki & Taku Unami  - Trio at Offsite (2002)

84. Ellen Allien – Berlinette (2003)

85. Cerberus Shoal – Claiming the Knoblessone (2003)

86. Jerome Noetinger & Erikm – What A Wonderful World (2003)

87. Radu Malfatti/Taku Sugimoto (Raku Sugifatti)-Futatsu (2003)

88. Toshiya Tsunoda - Scenery of Decalcomania (2004)

89. Corrupted – El Mundo Frio (2005)

90. Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinosh*ta & Taku Unami – Quartet (2005)

91. Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide – Erstlive 5 (2005)

92. Birchville Cat Motel – Chi Vampires (2006)

93. Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet – Love Me Two Times (2006)

94. The Knife – Silent Shout (2006)

95. Luigi Nono – Prometeo, Tragedia dell'ascolto (2007)

96. Masahiko Okura, Taku Sugimoto & Taku Unami - Chamber Music Concerts vol.1 (2008)

97. Michael Pisaro – Metal Hearing I (2009)

98. Hello (Takahiro Kawaguschi / Shinjiro Yamaguchi) – Hello (2009)

99. Work/Death - Tender Comrades (2010)

100. Michael Pisaro – Fields Have Ears (6) (2012)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 11:40
Yes I am unemployed for a day at least (Sick) so this took my mind of it! 
 
Not in any order
 
AND no repeat artists (God that made it difficult)
 

Kevin Ayers: Joy of a Toy

Amon Duul II : Phallus Dei

Aphrodites Child : 666

B52s

Bauhaus: In the Flat Field

Basement Jaxx : Rooty

The Beatles: White Album

Be Bop Deluxe: Drastic Plastic

David Bowie: Scary Monsters

The Box: Great Moments in Big Slam

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Kate Bush: Aerial

Cabaret Voltaire: Red Mecca

Can : Ege Bamyasi

Caravan : In the Land of Grey and Pink

Johnny Cash : At Folsom Prison

Cheap Trick : at Budokan

The Clash : London Calling

Cluster : Zuckerzeit

Elvis Costello : My Aim is True

John Cooper Clarke : Ou est la Maison de Fromage?

Manu Chau: Proxima Estacion Esperanza

The Cocteau Twins: Garlands

Crass : Christ the Album

The Damned: Damned Damned Damned

Devo: Q: A:

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

The Duckworth Lewis Method

Ian Dury and the Blockheads : New Boots and Panties

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

Brian Eno : Here Come the Warm Jets

Funkadelic : Cosmic Slop

Peter Gabriel: Melt

Genesis: The Lamb

Gong : Live Etc

(Pierre Moerlin’s) Gong: Espresso II

Guru Guru : Kanguru

The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour

Faust :IV

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

Hawklords: 25 Years On

Hawkwind: Space Ritual

High Tide : Sea Shanties

Steve Hillage: Green

The Jam : All Mod Cons

Japan : Tin Drum

Joan as Police Woman : To Survive

King Crimson : Red

Kraftwerk: Computer World

Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti

Madness: One Step Beyond

Magazine : Real Life

Marillion: Script

Massive Attack : Mezzanine

Motorhead : What’s Wordsworth?

Joanna Newsome: Ys

Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark

Pink Floyd : The Wall

Portishead : Dummy

The Pogues : Rum Sodomy and the Lash

Procol Harum: Grand Hotel

Public Image Ltd : Second Edition

Kid A : Radiohead

The Ramones: S/T

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry : Talk About the Weather

Red Noise : Sound on Sound

Roxy Music: S/T

Rush: Farewell to Kings

Klaus Schulze : X

The Sex Pistols : Never Mind the Bollocks

Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream

Sisters of Mercy: Some Girls Wander by Mistake

Slapp Happy : Casablanca Moon

Sparks : Kimono in my House

Patti Smith: Horses

Soft Machine: Third

The Specials : More Specials

Sufjan Stevens: Come on Feel Illinoise

The Stranglers : Black and White

Swell Maps: A trip to Marineville

David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees

Talking Heads: Fear of Music

Talk Talk : Spirit of Eden

Tangerine Dream : Ricochet

Tubeway Army: Replica

Jethro Tull: Bursting Out!

Television : Marquee Moon

Throbbing Gristle : 20 Jazz Funk Greats

The Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona

T Rex: Electric Warrior

Ultravox! : Ha! Ha! Ha!

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset : The Bairns

Tom Waits: Blood Money

Wall of Voodoo: Call of the West

Amy Winehouse : Back to Black

Robert Wyatt: Shleep

X Mal Deutschland : Fetisch

XTC Drums and Wires

X Ray Spex: Germ Free Adolesence

Yes : Close to the Edge

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 12:52
^That is a fantastic list.We have really similar taste. It's cool to see all the New Wave you have on there. But Some Girls Wander By Mistake is a compilation and I said no compilations! Tongue
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

^That is a fantastic list.We have really similar taste. It's cool to see all the New Wave you have on there. But Some Girls Wander By Mistake is a compilation and I said no compilations! Tongue
 
Yes I noticed quite a few on your list among my favourites.  I know far too much 'new wave' in my list I will get barred at this rate. 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 13:18
Originally posted by Grape_Jam Grape_Jam wrote:

Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Grape_Jam Grape_Jam wrote:

1. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
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I love the lyrics and the vocals very much, and the music isn't bad Tongue
 
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Grape_Jam Grape_Jam wrote:

The Ascension by Glenn Branca
4. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
13. Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
15. The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
 
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The Ascension would be, I think, in the 40s. By the way, do you like John Coltrane's Ascension? I like it much better than A Love Supreme which is his most popular album.
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Haven't heard any Coultrane, but I've heard a ton of great things about him, so I'll check him out. And, yeah, love MMM, one of the best noise albums ever. If you haven't already, check out Merzbow, his best album, IMO, is Merzbuddha, although, you may want to start out with Merzbeat.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

 
Nice. Very prog heavy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 13:33
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
Am I right on thinking this is based on nostalgia? I think the beatles did MUCH better work. Ofcourse, that's just my poinion.
 
Anyway, EXTREMELY varried list! Hell, you're into more music than I'm into!
I do sometimes go back n forth with my favorite Beatles album.  On this particular day, it was Hard Day's Night.  On the surface, it sounds like an average pop album, but that's just because it's so immediately likeable.  But when you start to understand WHY it sounds so likeable, you really find out how insanely clever they were as songwriters.  Lennon and McCartney were throwing in chord changes and harmonies that totally go against the grain, but then they magically resolve with a flick of the wrist.  Incredible stuff.  The later stuff was more experimental as far as sound and style goes, but as far as constructing verses/choruses/bridges in exciting ways, they already had it down on Hard Day's Night.

It's not really a nostalgia thing either, since Hard Day's Night wasn't one of the albums I grew up with at a young age, though I was familiar with a few of the songs.  It's really the later stuff (Sgt Pepper and after) that I was familiar with at a very young age.
 
Hmm. I guess I'll have to listen to that one again.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 13:59
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Yes I am unemployed for a day at least (Sick) so this took my mind of it! 
 
Not in any order
 
AND no repeat artists (God that made it difficult)

The Fall, Crass and Bauhaus = YAY!

And most of the rest of the list too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:11
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

 
Nice. Very prog heavy.
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Black Holes and Revalations at 34. Ballsy list.
 
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I was thinking a useful top 100 for the truly ambitious should be a listing of lesser known and/or obscure prog albums.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:42
I made a top 100 list about 9 months ago. I would need to update it before posting it.
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If you want really ambitious try the top 500 songs list. Wink
 
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