Whats Your Unconventional Favorite Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

From Pink Floyd one of my favourites (though not my very favourite) is The Division Bell. From Gentle Giant, my two favourites are the debut and Acquiring the Taste, from Rick Wakeman my very favourite is the Arthur one (not sure how unconventional it is supposed to be, it should be considered among his best, I guess, but many people seem to dismiss it, or even frown upon it), also, among my favourites from him is Out There. From Steven Wilson / Porcupine Tree my favourites are Coma Divine and The Raven that refused to sing (yeah, I know, both of them are rather loved, but I don't think many rate them over the more conventional Porcupine Tree studio albums). And from Nightwish my very favourite is Imaginaerum.

That's a really good question, because it depends on the concept most people have of a certain band - which is not always easy to tell.

I might start with Pink Floyd's The Wall. The main reason: it is more of a Roger Waters than a Pink Floyd project, and as such it doesn't really fit into the "classic" conception of Pink Floyd based on more collective and proggy albums like Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here (on the other hand there is also the early pychedelic stuff which is a different story). Nevertheless I think The Wall is a really good album with some of their best songs (f.e. "Comfortably Numb"). From the point of view of more traditional rock music the music is probably more conventional that their previous work, whereas from a Pink Floyd point of view it is unconventional.

I would however not regard it as one of their best albums overall. Despite some of the great songs, not all tracks are equally strong ("The Show Must Go On" is a mediocre filler for instance), and it is clearly not one of their most cohesive works.

Edited by The Anders - June 18 2019 at 08:08

Genesis - and then there were three

ELP-first album

Porcupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun (most say either Deadwing or In Absentia)

Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother

The Moody Blues- long distance voyager(not sure it's my very favorite but I like it better than EGBDF and SS)

King Crimson - Thrak Unliked by many, but it's one of my favorites from them.

10cc - 10cc

The Residents - Coochie Brake

A Perfect Circle - emotive

Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III

Art Zoyd - Nosferatu

Ambrosia - Ambrosia

Asia - Alpha

ELP - both Works volumes

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Edited by TCat - June 18 2019 at 12:08

ELO - Time.

Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell

Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are

Asia - Asia

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

my favorite Eloy albums by far are "Inside" and "Floating"

A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta

Van Der Graaf Generator - H to the He

Dream Theater - Awake

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Harmonium - L-Heptade

Klaus Schulze - X

Brian Eno - Before and After Science

East of Eden - Mercator Projected

tempest_77 wrote:

ELP - Either their first album or Trilogy. Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery just don't do it for me.

Pink Floyd - Not my favorite, but I think The Final Cut is a fabulous album.

Spock's Beard - X

I think X Is a fantastic album, especially love from the darkness

Hawkwind – their mid-'80s albums Chronicle of the Black Sword and The Xenon Codex. For most, it seems, they're not "essential" Hawkwind. For me, they most definitely ARE.

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There are number of albums that others have mentioned that are my favourite or amongst my very favourite albums by the artist/ band.

One that hasn't been mentioned is Caution Radiation Area by Area. At ProgArchives and rateyourmusic it has the lowest average rating of the first four Area albums. Arbeit macht frei is the most popular Area album at both sites (I think that's an excellent album, but CRA remains my favourite).

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