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Posted: October 07 2021 at 03:39

Boojieboy wrote:

I'm not sure I understand this post, but will aim to list my favorite albums by favorite bands, and prog essentials:

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Ian Gillan Band - Scarabus

Fireballet - Night on Bald Mountain

PFM - Chocolate Kings

Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three

Genesis - Selling England By the Pound

Esta - Caribbean Crossroads

Yes - Close to the Edge

Dixie Dregs - What If

Family - Songs From a Doll's House

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time

Marillion - Clutching at Straws

Audience - Audience

Uriah Heep - Salisbury

Curved Air - Second Album

Earth & Fire - Song of the Marching Children

Renaissance - Novella

Strawbs - Hero and Heroine

Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children

Procol Harum - Grand Hotel

Steve Hacket - Voyage of the Acolyte

Camel - Mirage

Air - Moon Safari

Fred Frith - Cheap at Half the Price

Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy

Roxy Music - Country Life

Phil Manzanera - Firebird V11

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn

Roland Bocquet - Paradia

Francois Breant - Sons Optique

Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet

The Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat

Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day

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Posted: October 10 2021 at 08:42

New ranking:

Rating 10/10

1) The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator

1) From H to He Who Am The Only One - Van Der Graaf Generator

1) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator

4) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt

Rating 9,75/10

5) Arbeit Macht Frei - Area

Rating 9,5/10

6) The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage - Peter Hammill

7) In The Court Of... - King Crimson

8) Starsailor - Tim Buckley

9) Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories

10) Red - King Crimson

11) Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night - Peter Hammill

12) Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk

13) In Praise of Learning - Henry Cow

Rating 9,25/10

14) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

15) Music In A Doll's House - Family

16) Lorca - Tim Buckley

17) Roxy Music - Roxy Music

18) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

19) Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd

20) Third Ear Band - Third Ear Band

21) Darwin - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

22) Storia di un Minuto - PFM

23) Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant

24) First Utterance - Comus

25) Stormy Six - Macchina Maccheronica

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Posted: October 11 2021 at 03:23

Old list:-

1) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2) Close To The Edge - Yes

3) Red - King Crimson

4) Wish you Were Here - Pink Floyd

5) A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

6) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator

7) 666 - Aphrodite's Child

8) PG1 - Peter Gabriel

9) Moving Pictures - Rush

10) Animals - Pink Floyd

11) Foxtrot - Genesis

12) The Power and The Glory - Gentle Giant

13) Ever - IQ

14) Danger Money - UK

15) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

16) Heaven and Hell - Vangelis

17) Time To Turn - Eloy

18) Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman

19) Weather Systems - Anathema

20) The Inconsolable Secret - Glass Hammer

21) UK - UK

22) Relayer - Yes

23) Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream

24) The Wake - IQ

25) Veni Vidi Vici - Par Lindh Project

that was my my list back 2 years ago . Now I would put in Far Corner - Risk , Big Big Train - Folklore and All Traps On Earth instead of the bottom 3 but would include another seventies album instead of Relayer , PFM - Per Un Amico. In fact I would bump that very high.

Amended list:-

1) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2) Close To The Edge - Yes

3) Red - King Crimson

4) Wish you Were Here - Pink Floyd

5) A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

6) Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator

7) 666 - Aphrodite's Child

8) PFM - Per Un Amico

9) PG1 - Peter Gabriel

10) Moving Pictures - Rush

11) Animals - Pink Floyd

12) Foxtrot - Genesis

13) The Power and The Glory - Gentle Giant

14) Ever - IQ

15) Danger Money - UK

16) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

17) Heaven and Hell - Vangelis

18) Time To Turn - Eloy

19) Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman

20) Weather Systems - Anathema

21) The Inconsolable Secret - Glass Hammer

22) UK - UK

23) All Traps On Earth - A Drop of Light

24) Far Corner - Risk

25) Big Big Train - Folklore

Edited by richardh - October 11 2021 at 03:24

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Posted: October 11 2021 at 07:39

Guess I missed this one when you started it 2 1/2 years ago, Lorenzo. But I did notice you used the word "best" in your Original Post, which, in my opinion connotes a different set of criterion than "favorite". And, since you used your own (PA-based) metric system to generate the (ever-evolving) list, I can understand how you reached your list of "best" prog (according to PA standards) studio albums of all-time. With this in mind, this is what I've come up with ... today:

1. Magma Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh

2. Yes Relayer

3. Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies

4. Yes Close to the Edge

5. King Crimson In The Court of The Crimson King

6. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

7. Il Balletto di Bronzo Ys

8. Area Crac!

9. Flairck Gevecht met de Engel

10. All Traps on Earth A Drop of Light

11. Homunculus Res Limiti all’eguaglianza della parte con il tutto

12. Eskaton 4 Visions

13. Seven Impale City of the Sun

14. Koenji Hyakkei Angherr Shisspa

15. Harmonium Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison

16. Supertramp Crime of The Century

17. Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

18. UK UK

19. PFM Per un amico

20. Nil Nil Novo Sub sole

21. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Adventures in Utopia

22. Maudlin of The Well Part the Second

23. Return to Forever Romantic Warrior

24. Riverside Second Life Syndrome

25. Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire

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Posted: October 12 2021 at 11:23

BrufordFreak wrote:

Guess I missed this one when you started it 2 1/2 years ago, Lorenzo. But I did notice you used the word "best" in your Original Post, which, in my opinion connotes a different set of criterion than "favorite". And, since you used your own (PA-based) metric system to generate the (ever-evolving) list, I can understand how you reached your list of "best" prog (according to PA standards) studio albums of all-time. With this in mind, this is what I've come up with ... today:

1. Magma Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh

2. Yes Relayer

3. Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies

4. Yes Close to the Edge

5. King Crimson In The Court of The Crimson King

6. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

7. Il Balletto di Bronzo Ys

8. Area Crac!

9. Flairck Gevecht met de Engel

10. All Traps on Earth A Drop of Light

11. Homunculus Res Limiti all’eguaglianza della parte con il tutto

12. Eskaton 4 Visions

13. Seven Impale City of the Sun

14. Koenji Hyakkei Angherr Shisspa

15. Harmonium Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison

16. Supertramp Crime of The Century

17. Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

18. UK UK

19. PFM Per un amico

20. Nil Nil Novo Sub sole

21. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Adventures in Utopia

22. Maudlin of The Well Part the Second

23. Return to Forever Romantic Warrior

24. Riverside Second Life Syndrome

25. Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire

Thanks, Drew!

In your list there are some albums I've never heard.

Now they are in the list of my next listenings.

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