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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2015 at 08:25
LOL

yeah man.. fanboys.. gotta love them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2015 at 08:33
For me it's #10 Godbluff; I may have been exposed to it at some point, but I just don't remember.

Purchasing Pawn Hearts decades ago is my only concerted dalliance with VDGG, and I have never felt an inclination to explore their catalog further. VDGG is apparently an acquired taste I've never been able to acquire.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2015 at 11:14
Not sure why non-English albums would be excluded anymore than instrumental albums would be excluded.

For me, Hormonium, never heard anything by them. 

I have listened to Anglagard-Hybris all the way through once but can't find it at a decent price so I don't recall any but the first song.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 05:21
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

34. Opeth - Still Life on both counts.

That would work for me as well :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 06:55
Again with that c*** about non-English-language albums being ignored... I wonder how many people will tune in to the RPI show tonight just to debunk this old, tired stereotype. Thankfully, in real life I know a lot of English-speaking prog fans who absolutely love music from non-English-speaking countries (including KobaiaWink).

As to the original question, these are the albums in PA's Top 100 that are completely unknown to me:

S. Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
Hiromi - Time Control
Death - Symbolic
Gorguts - Obscura

Those I have heard only partially are many more, and include both Pain of Salvation's albums, the Hammill album, Zappa's One Size Fits All and The Grand Wazoo, and Harmonium's long-titled one. On the other hand, I have heard (and in most cases own) 85 out of 100 albums in that list. Therefore, I believe my "prog card" is safe for now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 08:13
Never heard anything from: Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (# 36)
Not heard in its entirety (I think): Magma - MDK (# 50)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 08:35
#28 Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is my highest rated album on both accounts. It is followed by #47 Miles Davis' In a Silent Way, same criteria. So I guess my prog credentials are good. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 08:58
Albums from the PA top100 I haven't listened to:

#28 Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue (does anybody really consider it "prog rock"??)
#32 Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
#34 Opeth - Still Life
#47 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (see #28)
#48 IQ - The Road of Bones
#62 Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
#71 Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
#80 Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
#82 Pain of Salvation -The Perfect Element Pt.1
#100 Obscura - Gorguts

There are some albums which I have listened to partially, or am not really sure I have listened to them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 09:03
Originally posted by Kotro Kotro wrote:

#28 Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is my highest rated album on both accounts. It is followed by #47 Miles Davis' In a Silent Way, same criteria. So I guess my prog credentials are good. Wink
Originally posted by Skalla-Grim Skalla-Grim wrote:

Albums from the PA top100 I haven't listened to:

#28 Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue (does anybody really consider it "prog rock"??)
#47 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (see #28)


Kind Of Blue is certainly not considered a prog album by anyone as far as I know. Whereas In A Silent Way is a great Fusion album and is probably considered a landmark album by most people who include Fusion on Prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 13:25
Pawn Hearts
Shake & bake.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 13:40
Silent Corner... (Peter Hammill)
is it worth checking out? does it sound like classic VDGG?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 13:50
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:


Silent Corner... (Peter Hammill)
is it worth checking out? does it sound like classic VDGG?


That and In Camera are probably the albums of his that come closest to classic Van Damme.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 14:00
It currently comes in at position no. 18 on the PA Top 100 : Anglagard's Hybris. Never heard of 'em. Any good (please don't say they're as good as Steven Wilson, everybody's hero at the moment)?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 14:22
Well if you can dig your Crimson with a big slab of Scandinavian melancholy then you're going to enjoy Hybris. Sounds nothing like Steve Wilson.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 16:00
Originally posted by gr8dane gr8dane wrote:

Pawn Hearts


count yourself lucky man...Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 17:42
Time Control
Symbolic
Obscura

I do have the first one but haven't got to it yet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 18:04
^ Best jazz piano you will ever hear.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 18:41
Peter Hammill:  Silent Corner, Empty Stage for me as well.

Really want to hear it though: I've got two of his other albums, including In Camera, which is supurb!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2015 at 20:14
Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

Originally posted by TheLionOfPrague TheLionOfPrague wrote:

Hand Cannot Erase-Steven Wilson
Rock Bottom-Robert Wyatt
Zarathustra-Museo Rosenbach
Time Control-Hiromi Uehara
Space Shanty-Khan
Part the Second-Maudlin of the Well
Uzed-Univers Zero
Anabelas-Bubu
Symbolic-Death
Memento Z Banalnym Tryptykiem-SBB
Choirs of the Eye-Kayo Dot

Those are the ones I haven't listened to, most of those ranked between 90-100.
Cannot recommend these highly enough. Absolutely outstanding.

Will check them out Thumbs Up

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

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What!?!?!?!?LOLEmbarrassed So let me get this straight you're from Argentina and you have yet to hear the finest prog album your country ever produced? Oh boy - let me tell you, you're in for a real treat when you finally dip your toes in Bubu's AnabelasThumbs Up Hell it is possibly one of the finest prog albums out there full stop.

Will check it out. I did listen to a lot of local prog despite none of it being among my favorite bands, but for some reason never heard that one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2015 at 07:45
Pawn Hearts by VDGG surely.

Edited by fudgenuts64 - November 30 2015 at 07:45
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