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Yes - Close To The Edge (PA Rank 1)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (PA Rank 3)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (PA Rank 5)
Genesis - Foxtrot (PA Rank 7)
King Crimson - Red (PA Rank 8)
VDGG - Pawn Hearts (PA Rank 12)
Camel - The Snow Goose (PA Rank 42)
Gentle Giant - The Power and The Glory (PA Rank 44)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (PA Rank 52)
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories) (PA Rank 55)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (PA Rank 64)
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte (PA Rank 78)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (PA Rank 81)
IQ - The Road Of Bones (PA Rank 89)
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) (PA Rank 119)
Peter Gabriel - Melt (PA Rank 129)
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite (PA Rank 159)
Haken - The Mountain (PA Rank 160)
Kate Bush - The Hounds Of Love (PA Rank 190)
The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense (PA Rank 198)





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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

For some prog classics ended in 1975, others will say '76, and then others  '77. 
I say '79.

That's why it's up to oneself to decide, so even 80's can be included. Tongue

I was also thinking about that when people have the possibility to mention their own "classics", they will enjoy it more.


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Originally posted by Hiram Hiram wrote:

and limited myself to one album per band.

Inspired by this, Hiram, I changed my list to include at most two albums per band. Smile
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King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic (14)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (52)
Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)
Roy Harper - Stormcock
VDGG - Godbluff (10)
Pink Floyd - Animals (9)
Cardiacs - Sing To God (92)
Hatfield and the North- Rotters Club (137)
Guapo - 5 Suns
Henry Cow - In Praise Of Learning
King Crimson - Red (8)
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink (41)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (3)
VDGG - Pawn Hearts (12)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (5)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (227)
Radiohead - OK Computer
National Health - Of Queues & Cures (93)
Comus - First Utterance (189)
Hawkwind - Space Ritual



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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)

I'll give it a listen, as I've only tried the previous albums - now I can see so many of the same albums in our lists, and I'm fond of others in your list.


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certainly some "newer classics" on your list, richardh 
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)


I'll give it a listen, as I've only tried the previous albums - now I can see so many of the same albums in our lists, and I'm fond of others in your list.



It's a difficult masterpiece, took me a decade to get it but boy now I get so much repeat delight in listening now.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Henry Cow - Western Culture (128)
I'll give it a listen, as I've only tried the previous albums - now I can see so many of the same albums in our lists, and I'm fond of others in your list.

It's a difficult masterpiece, took me a decade to get it but boy now I get so much repeat delight in listening now.

I know it's something else than the other stuff.
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My first two listenings of "History & Prospects" was certainly not impossible, Nogbad. In fact, I found it as an interesting story telling, and the music was not unfamiliar with some of all my hitherto music listening. 





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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


certainly some "newer classics" on your list, richardh 

Yep indeed, I was trying to compile a list based on a consensus and also stuck to one album per band. Haken - The Mountain is the newest album on my list along with BBT - English Electric (One) and IQ - The Road Of Bones. These do seem to garner massive praise and although not my favourite albums by those artists I do like them a lot. We need the modern 'classics' as well the older ones otherwise prog is inevitably a dead thing.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

We need the modern 'classics' as well the older ones otherwise prog is inevitably a dead thing.

You have a good point there, richardh. On the other hand, it can be argued that status as classics has to be deserved by many years appreciation, so it has to be some old modern albums. Smile





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1. U.K. - U.K.
2. Bruford - One Of A Kind
3. Allan Holdsworth - I.O.U.
4. National Health  - Of Queues and Cures
5. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
6. Gentle Giant - Free Hand
7. Khan - Space Shanty
8. Gong - You
9. Pink Floyd - Animals
10. Soft Machine  - Bundles
11  Genesis - A Trick of of the Tail
12. Frost* - Milliontown
13. Steven Wilson - The Raven...
14. Hatfield and the North - The Rotters Club
15. Yes - The Yes Album
16. King Crimson  - Red
17. Haken - Visions
18. Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
19. Radiohead - OK Computer
20. Roxy Music - Avalon


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One per artists, live albums included. What a stunning collection of albums!

King Crimson - Discipline
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales & Bombers
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Genesis - Live
VDGG - Still Life
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Camel - Moonmadness
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
National Health - s/t
Radiohead - Kid A
Yes - Relayer
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
East of Eden - Mercator Projected
 
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales & Bombers

This is one of the albums with some good memories from my late teenage years. Smile
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In no particular order:

  1. Close to the Edge - Yes
  2. The Yes Album - Yes
  3. Foxtrot  - Genesis
  4. The Lamb... - Genesis
  5. Trick of the Tail - Genesis
  6. Larks Togunas...  - King Crimson
  7. Red - King Crimson
  8. Scheherazade... -Renaissance
  9. Turn of the Cards - Renaissance
  10. Animals - Pink Floyd
  11. DSOTM - Pink Floyd
  12. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
  13. Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
  14. Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
  15. One of a Kind - Bill Bruford
  16. Moonmadness - Camel
  17. In a Glass House - Gentle Giant
  18. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
  19. Crime of the Century - Supertramp
  20. Misplaced Childhood  - Marillion


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1) Genesis— Trick of the tail
2) Genesis— Selling England By The Pound
3) YES— Fragile
4) Fields Of The Nephilim— The Nephilim
5) Marillion— Clutching At Straws
7) Pink Floyd— Wish You Were Here
8) The Alan Parsons Project— I Robot
9) The Alan Parsons Project— Tales Of Mistery & Imagination
10) King Crimson— ITCOTCK
11) Peter Gabriel— Scratch. PG 3
12) IQ— The Road of Bones
13) IQ— EVER
14) Arena— Songs From The Lions Cage
15 Arena— Pride
16) Threshold— Psychedelicattsen
17) Galahad — Empires Never Last
18) Supertramp— Crime Of The Century
19) IQ— The Seventh House
20) IQ— The Wake

These are in no order and I have to say that IQ has really won me over for being The UK’s sonic champion. Really impressive career.
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Only one album per artist:

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Gong - You
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Pink Floyd - Meddle
King Crimson - Red
Soft Machine - Third
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Camel - Mirage
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Radiohead - Kid A
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Comus - First Utterance
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
We'll Talk About It Later - Nucleus

Trying to stick with the theme, I skipped specific albums that I might have considered for a personal top 20 by "not universally loved/or relatively obscure" bands/artists such as: Curved Air, National Health (as I would choose their debut), Henry Cow (Unrest), Spirogyra, Guapo, Egg, Family, High Tide, East of Eden, Dr. Z, Gnidrolog, ELO... I even went for Aqualung over Benefit, but I probably got some of it wrong. As Yes (Fragile) and Renaissance (Cards) are missing, they're probably at 21 and 22.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

We need the modern 'classics' as well the older ones otherwise prog is inevitably a dead thing.

You have a good point there, richardh. On the other hand, it can be argued that status as classics has to be deserved by many years appreciation, so it has to be some old modern albums. Smile




in 50 years only Dark Side of the Moon will probably be remembered I suspect. We are talking about prog at the end of the day 
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20 British prog (& prog related) albums that I would consider to be the core of my collection:

Argent - All Together Now (1972)
Camel - The Snow Goose (1975)
Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink (1971)
Curved Air - Live (1975)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - s/t (1970)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition (1971)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme (1971)
Annie Haslam - Annie in Wonderland (1977)    
Hawkwind - Space Ritual (1973)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (1972)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1967)
The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn (1972)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)
Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
Yes - The Yes Album (1971)
Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)
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Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)

I'm especially happy to see this one, Progishness, as we'll very probably only be few to list it.
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