RESULTS!! - Ultimate PA Album List 2016

So we are left with: 

^already said it. Between Wish and Larks

addictedtoprog wrote: Im a big fan of Mr. Conor Fynes. Hands down my favourite reviewer on P.A. Wud hav been gr8 to see his top 200 list. Lots of metal i bet.

It would have been great to see Conor get himself involved, at the very least I know I wouldn't have been the only one voting for Fen then.

As for the top spot, I could see Animals taking it, I remember seeing it appear high up on a lot of lists.

Can someone please tell me what the other album is? I can't figure it out.

Woah. That's a shocker tbh.

sleeper wrote: addictedtoprog wrote: Im a big fan of Mr. Conor Fynes. Hands down my favourite reviewer on P.A. Wud hav been gr8 to see his top 200 list. Lots of metal i bet. It would have been great to see Conor get himself involved, at the very least I know I wouldn't have been the only one voting for Fen then. As for the top spot, I could see Animals taking it, I remember seeing it appear high up on a lot of lists.

sleeper wrote: As for the top spot, I could see Animals taking it, I remember seeing it appear high up on a lot of lists.

I'd love this. Usually, when Pink Floyd albums are ranked, I see Animals trailing behind DSOM and WYWH but from the first days of my prog interest and knowing these three, without a shadow of a doubt Animals was best for me by some distance. I know I'm not alone with this so I hope it will shine this time, for once.

9. Yes - Fragile

            1882 pts            15 votes                                                ▼ 1

                                    (#5 justin4950834-2, #6 emigre80)

“It's difficult to explain what makes "Fragile" so effective; suffice to say that where "The Yes Album" told tales of faraway places, "Fragile" takes you there. It is an oddly effective balancing act between powerful epics and solo showcases… the pummelling introduction to "Heart of the Sunrise", walks between the sublime and the scalding in ways that make "Perpetual Change" look clumsy by comparison… "Fragile" conjures sonic maelstroms, employs artfully conceived arrangements that defy deconstruction, rests on the aeries of Olympus, and plants the flag of progressive rock at its highest point to date.” - daveconn

“I devised an analogy that compares the first 3 classic Yes albums to the movie Rocky; "Fragile" is the intermediary training montage... "Mood For A Day" is Steve Howe sparring with the flank of beef, "The Fish" is Chris Squire's one-armed push-ups in the gym, "We Have Heaven" is Jon Anderson jogging through the industrial yards. And of course, "Roundabout" and "Heart of The Sunrise" are the triumphant scene where Rick Wakeman runs up the steps with the sun rising over Philadelphia and the city's streets following after him; cathartic, spiritual and iconic works of prog… the pieces were falling in place for the glory of “Close to the Edge” to materialise” – Magnum Vaeltaja  (#23)

7. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King

            2096 pts            17 votes                                                ▼ 2

                                    (#1 Magnum Vaeltaja, #3 justin4950834-2, #8 infernalfrog, #9 ten years after)

“God listened "In the Court of the Crimson King" and saw that it was good. God divided Progressive Rock from the rest of the music… The great achievement of KING CRIMSON is that in their debut release they managed to create an album that has 5 absolutely different songs that show 5 different aspects of prog rock: aggression, calm, darkness, fusion and the closer that blends all this aspects and more in an 9:22 minutes track.” – Ivan Melgar M

“A masterpiece of every sense of the term. Innovative, iconic, emotive, virtuosic, memorable, there isn't much that King Crimson's debut can't lay claim to. Side one of the album is the emotional side, featuring three songs that each distinctly correspond to emotions, each different yet unified under the underlying theme of desperation… Side two is the more intellectual side of the album, more cryptic lyrically and leaving more to the listener's interpretation to get their meaning across… Five stars for five stunning opuses that all contribute their own unique tones and mood while still weaving together a unified tapestry of music that never tires after all these years” – Magnum Vaeltaja (#1)

Keep 'em coming. I'm ready to vomit all over those wretched Pink Floyd albums