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richardh 
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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) Edited by richardh - January 30 2022 at 03:41 |
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David_D
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 06:58 |
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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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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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David_D
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 11:05 |
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Inspired by this, Hiram, I changed my list to include at most two albums per band.
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 11:34 |
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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 Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - January 30 2022 at 11:43 |
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David_D
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 15:21 |
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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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David_D
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 16:15 |
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certainly some "newer classics" on your list, richardh
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 16:54 |
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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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David_D
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Posted: January 30 2022 at 17:03 |
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I know it's something else than the other stuff. |
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Posted: January 31 2022 at 03:13 |
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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. Edited by David_D - January 31 2022 at 03:16 |
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richardh
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Posted: January 31 2022 at 03:40 |
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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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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. Edited by David_D - January 31 2022 at 15:41 |
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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 Edited by Grumpyprogfan - February 01 2022 at 02:38 |
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Posted: January 31 2022 at 18:21 |
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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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Posted: February 01 2022 at 13:28 |
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This is one of the albums with some good memories from my late teenage years.
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In no particular order:
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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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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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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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richardh
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Posted: February 02 2022 at 00:37 |
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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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David_D
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Posted: February 02 2022 at 06:38 |
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I'm especially happy to see this one, Progishness, as we'll very probably only be few to list it.
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