Rank the Focus albums - Progressive Rock Music Forum

No definitive ranking from me, although Focus 3, Focus II and Hamburger Concerto would top my list. I also really like the debut as well as the commonly lower rated Ship of Memories and the often low-rated Mother Focus (Bennie Helder!)

Hamburger Concerto is the most important to me, a meaty masterpiece, and I guess Focus 3 would be second with the second third and the first fourth.... In my collection I only have the albums up to 9.

Focus and Gryphon may have been my first Prog loves.

Despite placing the most personal significance on Hamburger Concerto, I do miss the drumming of Pierre van der Linden on it and for that reason have sometimes ranked it lower than earlier ones (Focus 3 as well as II).

Edited by Logan - December 27 2021 at 20:21

Hamburger Concerto

Focus 3

Moving Waves

Rainbow (live)

Ship of Memories

In & Out Of (FPF)

Con Proby

Mother

The rest

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Edited by Sean Trane - December 28 2021 at 07:14

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Hamburger Concerto is the most important to me, a meaty masterpiece....

I see what you did there! Wink

Ship of Memories

III

Mother Focus

II

Hamburger Concerto

Con Proby

In and Out of Focus

New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385

If the recent Completely Focussed album will be released separately (it was only part of the Focus 50 set), I would rate it with five stars - it is fantastic! Highly recommended!

Will return will a full ranking later.

I'm surprised noboby so far has included the more recent Focus albums: 8, 9, 10, & 11. These are all good albums if you ask me, and I would rank them higher than some of the 70's albums.

The gossip is going around that Focus 12 will come out this year!