Top three albums By... Whoever - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster

I prophesy disaster wrote:

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:

Polygondwanaland

Flying Microtonal Banana

Items ordered.

Two great albums, you won’t regret

Okay...

Eno (song based)

Another Green World
Nerve Net
~~Another Day On Earth~~ Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)

Eno (ambient)

Music for Airports
~~Thursday Afternoon~~ Lux
The Shutov Assembly

dougmcauliffe wrote:

Barbu wrote:

I prophesy disaster wrote:

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:

Polygondwanaland

Flying Microtonal Banana

Items ordered.

Two great albums, you won’t regret

It should be noted that Polygondwanaland is a free digital download (although they did release it on CD about a year later).

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Barbu wrote:

I already know them and really enjoyed Sketches of Brunswick East.

If you like Sketches of Brunswick East, then you'd probably like Gumboot Soup. I think these two albums have a similar feel and the music of either album wouldn't sound too far out-of-place on the other album.

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals

Genesis

A Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering, Selling England...

King Crimson

The Court of the Crimson King, Red, Thrak

Camel

Snow Goose, Moonmadness, A Nod and a Wink

TD

Phaedra, Force Majeure, Zeit

Yes

The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge

Peter Gabriel

IV, III, Live Blood

Chicago

VII, V, II

Edited by tdfloyd - August 23 2019 at 14:01

Yes

The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge

Yawn. No offense but a lot of people(even Yes fans) seem to act as though these are the only Yes albums that matter. I think part of it is because of the lineup on those albums(especially the presence of Bill Bruford).

Just wanted to say I'm stunned how many people listed both Wind and Tail in their top 3 Genesis albums. They're the most solid of the Collins albums (at least in terms of prog credentials) but to me they pale in comparison to every Gabriel album after the debut. Heck, Trespass is missing two of that line-up and is actually one of the most underrated/great albums they ever made.

Compare Squonk to the average song on Lamb - no comparison! I get that people have a soft spot for those albums, but to me not only the songwriting was starting to decline, but even Collin's playing was becoming less inventive/incisive already after his peak on Lamb, and it took a while for his singing to align well with his drumming facility (that happened by Duke I'd say, but by then the songwriting was REALLY in decline!) Not to mention the mixing of the drums starting to move towards the 80s sound, which always gives me a headache with the excessively tinny thudding toms (and it gets worse and worse on subsequent remasters).

MacGyver can do a super guitar solo with a broom and an elastic band. Can you do better?

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Yes

The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge

Yawn. No offense but a lot of people(even Yes fans) seem to act as though these are the only Yes albums that matter. I think part of it is because of the lineup on those albums(especially the presence of Bill Bruford).

True but when you have a thread that is picking 3 albums then what can you do? I predictably picked 2 of them (Fragile and CTTE) because of the writing and in my opinion this was the best 5 piece line-up ever in progressive rock. I did, however, go for Drama as my 'wildcard' just for a bit of variety!

Edited by richardh - August 23 2019 at 23:20

richardh wrote:

BaldFriede wrote:

Van der Graaf Generator:

1) Pawn Hearts

2) Godbluff

3) Do Not Disturb (a very underrated album)

yep missed this the first time but totally agree about DND

and that is also my VDGG selection!

MY VdGG trio is quite mundane, one might say (in order of my usual preference):

The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
Pawn Hearts
H to He Who Am the Only One

I wanted to try Art Zoyd, but that is really tough as I love so many Art Zoyd albums, but I'll go with:

Génération sans futur
Les espaces inquiets
Häxan

Tangerine Dream:

Electronic Meditation
Alpha Centauri
Atem

(Zeit i just don't always have the patience for)

Igor Wakhévitch:

Docteur Faust
Logos
Hathor

Robert Wyatt:

Rock Bottom
The End of an Ear
Shleep

Area:

Caution Radiation Area
Crac !
Arbeit macht frei

Popol Vuh:

In den Gärten Pharaos
Hosianna Mantra
Music From the Film "Aguirre"

Miles Davis:

Big Fun
Get Up With It
In a Silent Way

Herbie Hancock:

Crossings
Sextant
Mwandishi

Cos:

Viva Boma
Postaeolian Train Robbery
Babel

I'll stop there.