(C) bands and your pick for Album

Cheer-Accident - 10

CAN - 8

Cardiacs - 8

Claudia Quintet - 7

Favorite is probably Cardiacs - Sing To God - Fiery Gun Hand, I came late to Cardiacs discovering after I'd got into all the big guys in the avant genre in the 2010's, was blown away by their edgy punk prog. Fiery Gun Hand and Dirty Boy are probably their masterpieces but their albums are chocked full of classics.

Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune

Claudia Quintet - What Is The Beautiful?

The usual suspects have been mentioned, so I'll go with a lone masterpiece that I got introduced to only a year ago or so. In my opinion this is closer to contemporary music than to prog, but hell, it is in the PA database, so here it is:

Luciano Cilio - Dialoghi del presente

Clearlight

Coevality

Colorstar

Colster

Computerchemist

Cosmic Ground

And the winner is: Colorstar's self-titled album for it's blend of prog and psybient sensibilities, a cross between Shpongle and Korai Orom...

Can are in the lead here for me. I think Soon Over Babaluma is their best album but I love all their usual suspect albums and more

Then I also have all regular albums by my avatar man Holger Czukay, of course a Can member. His albums seem to be so much less known but there's lots of strong material.

I play something from Clash. This album has only three ratings and my review is the only one. Apparently this kind of epic techno prog isn't for the many, just for the few. But for sure for me!

I'm also a big Camel and Cardiacs fan and both have a strong presence in my collection.

Hey, you can be more generous than that! 

Why the s/t over SB??

I promised....so here we are!

Camel - I like the warmness Sinclair brings to an already solid Prog foundation - giving the album a stormy autumn-like feel. Moonmadness is great too, but nowadays feels too predictable and polished with little to no groove or balls.

Caravan - Very tight choice here but that album wins it for rawness, flow, and the sound of a BAND free of commercialist expectation, doing what they do best!

Cressida - With only 2 quality albums, Asylum strikes me as a matured band with great feel for melody, songwriting, and experimentation.

Catapilla - The same with the above can apply here ^^.

CB - The band with Prog as the focus, and god knows what happened afterwards!

Beefheart - Not representative....perhaps, but I digress. This album feels like a deviation into the less-claustrophobic realm of music with a sense for what the record buying public might enjoy. It's a shame he stuck to his guts and bully tactics for so long after. 

Cardiacs - Their masterpiece bar none - must be due to firsthand emotional appeal!

Carmen - Hell, they were really fixated on being the patent of that style. Gotta give it to the debut, anyway. If not for Glascock, I could care less for their existence.

Centipede - 1 album right?? Well, it's a masterpiece for what it's worth! 

Chicago - debut or 2, debut or 2 blah blah blah ). Gotta give it to CTA for the band trying to be themselves and most unique - to hell with pop sensibilities 

Cluster - someone pointed out the debut hits them right in the feels....well, 2 hits me somewhere else 

Cobham - what comes close? Crosswinds? I don't care because Spectrum has Cobham and Mastery written all over it! 

Colosseum - Valentyne defines Mark 1 band....while Wardance doesn't entirely, but shows some new trodden paths for the Mark 2 band.

Comus - I don't need to go in detail....but the debut remains the staple of that style which contains only 1 album, and that album is First Utterance!

CA - Jobson was the missing piece all along! Up to then, they sounded like a local church band being told they must play pop with 'rock' instruments. 

Can - Tago is one over bloated mess of an experiment with goodies scattered between. Ege levels itself in all dimensions the band possessed to great effect; I wish the album was a double! Monster Movie doesn't move me in the slightest, while Days and Babaluma signaled a direction that didn't last, and the band broke up for a short while 

Personally I went for Air Cut because it's their 'nicest' sounding album to my ears but also for the 17 year keyboard protégé that gives the likes of Moraz, Emerson and Wakeman a run for their money!