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Todd Rundgren's Utopia or the Kansas debut.
Or Sola Scriptura by Neal Morse...
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I've made a list of most of the American artists with the highest rated albums in the post-1990s (on RYM + PA), 
and I think it'll be interesting to post it here:

Tool
The Mars Volta
Mastodon
Maudlin of the Well
Swans
Kayo Dot
Phideaux
Between the Buried and Me
Vektor
Transatlantic
Spock's Beard
Blood Incantation
Dream Theater
Discipline
Dredg
Neal Morse
The Deer Hunter
Birds and Buildings
Echolyn
Arch/Matheos
Thank You Scientist

It's also interesting to notice that about half of these artists are Metal.

(This list is made from


Edited by David_D - January 12 2024 at 17:43
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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lot of in my collection, known and unknown, all 'prog' sub-genera and beyond

Fireballet : Night on a bald mountain
Ad infinitum : Ad infinitum
Kansas : Song for America
Kansas : Left overture
Zappa Frank : Hot rats
Zappa Frank : Apostrophe '
Zappa Frank : Zoot Allures
Zappa Frank : Overnite Sensation
Advent : Cantus Firmus
Arabesque : Tales of power
Astra : The weirding
Avant Garden : Maelstrom
Bigelf : Hex
Boud Deun : The stolen bicycle
Cairo : Cairo
Cathedral : Stainless glass stories
Chaos code : A tapestry of afterthoughts
Cobham Billy : Stratus
Bolin Tommy : Teaser
Clarke Stanley : Same
Crucible : Tall tales
D'arcana : Premonitions
Deadwood forest : Mellodramatic
Days between stations : Same
Deluge Grander : August in Urals
Di Meola : Land of a thousand suns
Di Meola : Elegant gypsy
Discipline : Unfolded like staircase
Djam Karett : Suspension and displacement
Djam Karett : Endeavour
Dream Theater : A change of seasons

Eccentric orbit : Attack of the martians
Echolyn : Mei
Echolyn : As the world
Echolyn : Echolyn
Echolyn : Suffocating the bloom
Ethos : Ardour
Eye : Vision and ageless light
Brubeck dave : Time out
Frogg Café : Frogg Café
Glass Hammer : Chronometree
Glass Hammer : On to evermore
Gordian Knot : Emergent
Gunn Trey : Untune the sky
Hancock Herbie : Man-child
Hancock Herbie : Crossings
Jarrett Keith : Köln Concert
Mahavishnu Orchestra : Apocalypse
Mahavishnu Orchestra : Vision's of emerald beyond
RTF : Hymn of the 7th galaxy
RTF : Romantic warrior
Happy the man : Crafty hands
Happy the man : Death's crown
Iluvater : Iluvatar
Iluvatar : Children
It : Order through chaos
Izz : My river flows
Izz: Sliver of a sun
Kalaban : Resistance is useless
Kerzner Dave : New World

Mac Arthur : Mac Arthur
Madrigal : On my hands
Magus : Traveler
Maxwell's Demon : Prometheus
Metaphor : Starfooted
Ovrfwrd : Blurring the lines
Parmenter Matthew : Astray
Pavlov's dog : Pampered menial
Pentwater : Pentwater
Pye Fyte : The gathering of the Krums
Todd Rundgren : Todd
Todd Rundgren: Initiation
Todd Rundgren's Utopia : Utopia
Utopia : Ra
Santana : Borboleta

Somnanbulist : Paranormal humidor
Starcastle : Fountains of light
Syzygy : Allegory of light

And also The Doors, Dave Matthews Band, ....












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My top five

Rush - Fly By Night
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Zappa - Hot Rats
Zappa - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Across the evening sky,
all the birds are leaving,
But how can they know,
it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire,
I will still be dreaming,
I have no thought of time.
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^Rush is Canadian
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:


Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite

nice to see this album getting some love Tongue


Edited by Cristi - January 14 2024 at 11:55
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Druid : Toward the sun

Solid album, but the band is from UK. Smile
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Echolyn - Echolyn 2012
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."   -- John F. Kennedy
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There are many very good bands, this is only a top ten choosing one album per band and ordered alphabetically:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 Scenes From a Memory
Kansas - Two for the Show (live)
Mastodon - Crack the Sky
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Shadow Gallery - Room V
Spock´s Beard - V
Symphony X - V The New Mythology Suite
Tool - Lateralus

Bonus: 
Isis - Panopticon
Redemption - The Fullness of Time
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Reviewing my count, it is curious that I have 3 bands that start their names with "S" and their most important albums for me have the "V" on their cover...
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:


Druid : Toward the sun


Solid album, but the band is from UK. Smile


Mistake made on purpose. To check if you remain attentive and critical.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:


Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite


nice to see this album getting some love Tongue


To be perfectly honest it is the only DT I like.
Across the evening sky,
all the birds are leaving,
But how can they know,
it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire,
I will still be dreaming,
I have no thought of time.
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Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:


Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
nice to see this album getting some love Tongue

To be perfectly honest it is the only DT I like.

Interesting. Smile
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Here's my top 315 Smile
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I have gained a slight recent favorite of mine with John Zorn's Spinoza. Makes me interested in checking more of his works.
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