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Your top 15 progressive music albums IN the '70s? |
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Logan 
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^ I would not have responded had David not responded to it (with the laughing emoticon). That seems like rubbing salt on a potential wound. I don't think it helps with the air of making this feel like a welcoming and accepting forum.
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Being born in the mid 50's I am probably from the start of the second wave of baby boomers... The boomer generation as I understand it were born between the end of WWII and the mid 60's... or 1946-65 if you like. The first phase of boomers were the Woodstock / hippy / psychedelic 60's generation, the second phase of boomers included us 70's proggers. Edited by Floydoid - September 06 2024 at 13:51 |
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Logan
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 13:31 |
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 New blood is needed, and not for sacrificial purposes. Totally agree. Even oldbies familiar with this funny forums ways make mistakes. Apparent ridicule is going to be very off-putting. I think most of us would like this to seem like a welcoming place. |
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 13:23 |
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Yes, and even whole albums. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 12:45 |
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I'm genuinely curious. Here in Poland, back in the 70's you could hear some real deep cuts from outside of the iron curtain on the radio.
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 12:43 |
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Might be that the newbie did not understand the thread is for the "old boys" that lived through the years of classic prog. Let's not be harsh...
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Hi everyone, here goes my top 15- one album per band:
Gentle Giant- The power and the glory Genesis- Selling England Yes- Close to the edge ELP- Tarkus Camel- The snow goose King Crimson- Larks' tongues Gryphon- Red queen BMS- Darwin PFM- Per un amico Le Orme- Felona e Sorona Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra Secret Oyster- Sea son Frank Zappa- Joe's garage Rush- A farewell to kings Invisible- El jardin de los presentes |
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 10:11 |
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Gee Whizz.... this Gen-X personage should never have mentioned the expression 'Boomer', eh?
It just struck me that if David wanted members to list albums they listened to IN the 70's, it realistically could only be a thread applicable to Boomers, right? Unless of course you're like Greg who had grown his first beard by the age of 3?
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Well, I was born in the 70s and am Gen X. I do remember hearing The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot near the tail end of the 70s as my brother had bought the record and that was one of his that I liked. And I am confident that I had heard Camel's The Snow Goose by then and Caravan's the Land of Grey and Pink. Oh, and I had heard ELP's Trilogy I think by then, but that could just be an acid flashback.
 In my day we started young, okay, maybe not quite that young. Kids, just say no to drugs (unless prescribed, possibly). Edited by Logan - September 06 2024 at 09:58 |
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If someone is insensitive here, it is you, Sean. Yes you. Just, chill out and re-read my messages. I didn't criticize those generations in my post!
Read it carefully, without your default negative prejudice. I used those terms in a stirctly descriptive manner. I mean, IMHO the generation gaps aren't even as drastics as people lead themselves to believe. I know a lot of boomers (born 1946-1964) and Jonesers (~1958-1963 more/less) who are friendly and easy going people. The constant culture wars really shape cross-generational relations in a negative way. It's a bit of a bummer. |
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Another thoughtless and insensitive post of your    Since "boomers" is generally used as an insult  by youngers generations (which we shall call  doomers  )I don't consider myself as a "boomer", because I was born around the very end of that repopulation phase. But I identify easily with the generation before mine (I'd love to have been 14 in 67, rather than 77), especially in terms of music (but not necessarily so in terms of other arts like literature, plastic arts, movies, etc...). .
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 06:13 |
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I could impossibly make my present top 15 of progressive music, that should at least be top 100. |
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Seeing as it's one per artist, these are the prog albums that most influenced me in the 70's and would shape my future musical tastes (including one or two crossover or prog-related)...
Argent - All Together Now Camel - The Snow Goose Caravan - In the Land of the Grey and Pink Curved Air - Live Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick ELP - Emerson Lake & Palmer ELO - Electric Light Orchestra Focus - Moving Waves (aka Focus II) The Nice - Five Bridges Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn Pink Floyd - Meddle Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII Santana - Caravanserai Yes - Close to the Edge So hard to nail it down to only 15 seeing as it's the golden era of prog for us baby boomers. Honourable mentions for 'Deep Purple in Rock' and 'Led Zeppelin IV', whilst neither album is bona fide prog, they both had a massive influence on my musical listening tastes and appreciation in my teenage years (and later!). Edited by Floydoid - September 07 2024 at 08:05 |
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don't knock the Wombles mate... they were sheer class! far superior to the Smurfs!
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Posted: September 06 2024 at 04:53 |
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The only album I definitely listened to in the 70s, and regard as prog, is War Of The Worlds!😎
Unless Nightflight To Venus by Boney M counts. Or Suberwombling by The Wombles?….. |
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