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    Posted: May 06 2017 at 23:21
Someone started a thread like this in one of the other forums in which I post. It doesn't have to be all prog though mine basically works out to be all prog bands...almost.

1. Dream Theater
2. Pink Floyd
3. Rush
4. Marillion
5. Anathema
6. Steven Wilson projects
7. Neal Morse projects
8. Yes
9. The Flower Kings
10. Epica

I guess it's all prog. Epica's latest album has prog metal written all over it.
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without rankings:

Amon Düül 2
Can
Embryo
Gong
Guru Guru
Hawkwind
Magma
Popol Vuh
Residents, The
Van der Graaf Generator



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Without ranking..

Genesis
Rush
King Crimson
VDGG
Hawkwind
The Cocteau Twins
Supertramp
Manic Street Preachers
The Orb
Siouxsie and the banshees

Some are lifetime faves, some are current faves
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at first thought (judging by the %-age of albums I love) and no particular order

Jefferson Airplane
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Out Of Focus
Soft Machine
Pink Floyd
Crimson
Maneige
Ten Years After
Nucleus
Traffic

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

at first thought (judging by the %-age of albums I love) and no particular order
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Nucleus
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Nucleus ?

I have to agree with that !!! Thumbs Up
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oh definitely in some sort of order Beer

ABB
JA
BOC
ELO
The Who

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Judas Priest
DP
ELP
Fleetwood Mac (all 3 phases equally)


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Mahvishnu Orchestra
Joe Walsh
King Crimson
Yes
Weather Report
The Elventh House
The Rippingtons
David Sancious
Public Enemy
Mountain
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

oh definitely in some sort of order Beer

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The Who
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The Who ?

I have to agree with that !!!! Thumbs Up
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Right this minute?
Alright here are ten:

Tangerine Dream
Area
The Taj Mahal Travellers
Pharoah Sanders
Franco Battiato
Amon Düül ll
The Future Sound Of London
Pink Floyd
Funkadelic
Dungen
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Upbeat Tango Monday Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2017 at 07:48
There are some bands I love that released just a bunch of records (like National Health and Hatfield and the North) so I can't put them in my list because of that.
In no particular order:

YES
Genesis
Angra
Megadeth
Dream Theater
Morbid Angel
ELP
Jethro Tull
The Ramones (...and I hate punk!)
L'arc en Ciel

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Caravan, VDGG, Iron Maiden, Camel, Rush, Hikaru Utada, Sex Machineguns, The Beatles, KC...
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Hard to pick just ten. It changes constantly. The first four are rather stable, though. Here they are as for today:

Egg
Henry Cow
Soft Machine
Magma
Sun Ra
Faust
Sun Araw
Zacht Automaat
This Heat
Lard Free
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No particular order

Univers Zero
Henry Cow
Pink Floyd
King Crimson
Knifeworld
Thinking Plague
Nik Bartsch Ronin
Cardiacs
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Hatfield & The North

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Yup...should've listed Faust as well....and Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze, Magma, Caravan, COS, Crimson and the list goes on and on.
Maybe these threads aren't for me either because I change my mind all the time or perhaps because I keep searching for new stuff? Nahh no rhyme or reason methinks.
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Artist lists never seem to be properly representative of my actual listening tastes. So many of my favorite albums are by groups I otherwise have little interest in. There aren't many acts from whom I've heard a multitude of albums, much less good albums. Even most of these are here primarily for 2 or 3 noteworthy albums.

1. Van Der Graaf Generator
2. Don Cherry
3. Earth
4. Tangerine Dream
5. Einsturzende Neubauten
6. Sun Ra
7. King Crimson
8. Gentle Giant
9. Nurse With Wound
10. The Pop Group

If I could count Talk Talk and .O.rang as one group, that'd make the list. 

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All their albums are recorded live and totally free-form. The purple one from August 74 (if memory serves me right?) as well as the one from 72 (which I reviewed or at least tried to review) are both stellar, but to be honest with you, I don't think you can wrong in their discography. That also means that it's a hard nut to crack if you don't 'get' or indeed dig the first album you try out; chances are you'll feel the same about the rest of their output.
Though after having seen your posts on here methinks you'll find lots to love in their output.
Pick anyone of their albums you can find and expect the universe to zoom into your brain like an inside-out black hole.
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Where did your post go?
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1. King Crimson
2. Henry Cow
3. Soft Machine
4. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
5. John Coltrane
6. John Zorn (incl. Naked City)
7. Pink Floyd
8. Caravan
9. Camel
10. Hatfield and the North
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It would look something like that (only the first two are fixed):


King Crimson
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
SBB
Popol Vuh
Frank Zappa (including the Mothers)

Neu! (including Harmonia and La Dusseldorf)
Samla Mammas Manna
PFM
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mike Oldfield

Revised:
1. King Crimson
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. Tortoise
4. Can
5. Penguin Cafe Orchestra
6. Frank Zappa (incl. the Mothers)
7. Neu! (incl. Harmonia, La Dusseldorf and Rother solo; cheating i know)
8. Popol Vuh
9. Franco Battiato
10. SBB


Edited by Larkstongue41 - November 15 2017 at 17:53
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Something like this (today, anyway):

Yes
Marshall Tucker Band
Bubu
Lynyrd Skynyrd
King Crimson
Allman Brothers Band
Harmonium 
Outlaws
Arco Iris
PFM

I'm never too satisfied with any of the lists I make in these top artists threads since the majority of my favourite music comes from artists who only put out one or two albums.
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Triumvirat
Passport
Dzyan
Giger Lenz Marron
Libra 
Colosseum
Wallenstein
Wishbone Ash
Quatermass
Budgie
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