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verslibre
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Your top three: Cyclone, Tyger and Madcap's Flaming Duty. I love the first two. The third, not so much.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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A few of mine (including some already mentioned) :
Camel - The Snow Goose Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift Banco - Di Terra Anglagard - all three Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Mahavishnu Orchestra - First two (IMF & BoF) Also, someone mentioned Sky. I only have the second one which is very good. Also Bulbs-On is very good too. Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - February 01 2023 at 13:45 |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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I think that's the one I have by them. Not sure. If it is I listened to it once and was a tad underwhelmed but can always listen again.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Nope. The one I have by them is called the Remedy of Abstraction. I had sins of our saviors (now oop) a long time ago and remember liking it (not a masterpiece but still good).
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mellotronwave
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Will someone nominate Lou Reed's Metal Music Machine or Neil Young's Weld ?
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Psychedelic Paul
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Yes, those three and the Dante's Inferno trilogy too. 1978: Cyclone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQKJL9K1MLY 1986: Legend (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jvSHmXsuA 1988: Shy People (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_SsZg0Z8k 2002: Inferno (Live) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCKncy0CZ1Y 2004: Purgatorio - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvFOTOUy3zGezj9JoBnRF9cxPqkUhSkr1 2006: Paradiso 2006: Dante's Inferno (DVD/Video: recorded in 2002) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrVSQpwkytY 2007: Madcap's Flaming Duty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARrzcnvG5I |
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Lewian
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I had a look at my old Top 250 albums of all time list done some years ago for PA. I'm generally very keen on instrumental music. To my surprise, in the high ranks the vast majority of instrumental albums is not on PA. The best listed here seem to be Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite Association PC - Erna Morena Tangerine Dream - Rubycon The first two of these are little known, I think. I also have listed Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts which has a lot of voices but little or no singing, like a few others (the best Art Zoyd have a bit of singing/voicing even though that what they don't do very often). This is from a list that is a few years old; my number one album of 2021 is also instrumental: Battlestations - Splinters Vol. I Tremor
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David_D
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The '70s, part 2: Mahavishnu Orchestra (USA) - Birds of Fire (1973) MIA (ARG) - Cornonstipicum (1978) Return to Forever (USA) - Where Have I Known You Before (1974) Secret Oyster (DK) - Sea Sun (1974) Tangerine Dream (D) - Stratosfear (1976) Rick Wakeman (UK) - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973) Weather Report (USA) - Black Market (1976) |
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Awesoreno
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Recently checked out Arch Echo's self-titled debut, and it's AWESOME. They're opening for Haken when I see them in Los Angeles.
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Big Sky
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First two Mahavisnu Orchestra albums, Snow Goose, Six Wives of Henry the 8th, right off top of my head. How about the Aristocrats? Fusion with some prog. I have enjoyed everything Guthrie, Bryan and Marco have done together. Throw in Handmade Cities and Impulse Voices from Plini too.
Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. Wore that album out. The cover art alone requires Oxygene to be labeled Prog. Edited by Big Sky - February 02 2023 at 00:01 |
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I should have added Gryphon and Schicke, Fürhs & Fröhling.
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agreed those are excellent and they were never as good after Francis Monkman left.
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richardh
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I would chuck in Far Corner album Risk from a few years ago , an absolute gem. Its a keyboard lead album but has a lot of Rio influences. Its got some great hooks and personally I never get bored listening to it.
A band that seems sadly overlooked is Isobar. They've just released their 3rd and its as good as the first 2. Please check them out. After that Elephant 9 and Krokofant are a couple of great jazz fusion acts from Norway that are well worth giving a try.
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Post-'70s: Solaris (HUN) - Marsbeli Kronikak (1984) Shora (CH) - Malval (2005) Univers Zero (B) - Clivages (2010) Vespero (RUS) - By the Waters of Tomorrow (2010) Edited by David_D - February 04 2023 at 05:04 |
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Surprised not to see any Mike Oldfield albums mentioned, Exposed is a great double live album.
Also the Dixie Dregs, What If being perhaps my favourite. |
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Awesoreno
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Saw The Aristocrats live last year. Awesome show! Though I did get my catalytic converter stolen from my car...
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Big Sky
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Sucks about the car. Yeah, the Aristocrats are great. Guthrie Govan is one of my favorite guitarists. Hope to see Plini in Charlotte this May. Depends on how well my son's college baseball team is doing. They may still be playing and well, that would take precedent. |
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Oh dear where to begin. Including jazz rock fusion there's hundreds if not thousands of albums to choose from. But if I exclude "fusion" altogether and focus on the more archetypal type of Progressive Rock, the task becomes a little less overwhelming. Here's a few: The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Guapo - Five Suns Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust Popol Vuh - Nosferatu Klaus Schulze - Mirage Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Univers Zéro - Univers Zéro Vangelis - The Dragon Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth Dün - Eros Embryo - Steig Aus Goblin - Profondo Rosso Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Secret Chiefs 3) Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène Kollektiv - SWF-Sessions Volume 5 Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati Ragnarök - Ragnarök Rahmann - Rahmann Sensations' Fix - Portable Madness Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Zanov - Green Ray |
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octopus-4
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My fav TD album is Zeit. If it wasn't for Jon Anderson, Vangelis' Heaven and Hell would have been my choice
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