Your top 15 progressive music albums IN the '70s?

While we're a bit off-topic, you're surely not the only one of younger generation who can connect with older generations on basis of progressive music. Here's a Swedish modern band clearly much influenced by the Hippie movement:

                              

Hi,

I can easily get this one from the SPR lists ... however, deciding which is tops is for the goons, not me! And this list is probably only half of what it should be, and that's the reason why lists are hard for me ... can never complete them!!!!!!

Amon Duul 2 - Wolf City

Can - Ege Bamyasi

Guru Guru - Kan Guru

Klaus Schulze - Mirage

Neu - First

Agitation Free - Malesch

AshRa Tempel - New Age of Earth

Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill

Cluster - II

The Cosmic Jokers - The Cosmic Jokers

Deuter - Aum

Eberhard Schoener - Trance-Formation

Eloy - Inside

I can also tell that it's a good question how familiar I was with the term "progressive" in the '70s, even I think that I heard it at least, as one of my class mates was very much into Genesis and VdGG, and if I remember well, King Crimson, and he payed much attention to different cultural trends. 

I had a period when I was almost only into instrumental music, so that was definitely my most important way to distinguish between different kinds of music (if disregarding distancing myself much from the much Pop-influenced, not least The Beatles), so albums like The Birds of Fire, Where Have I Known You Before, Sea Sun, Ommadawn, The Snow Goose, Clearlight Symphony, Stratosfear and Oxygene were to me almost the same kind of music. "Almost" because I also thought of the latter three ones as electronic music.

  1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAR8hb_3eiT9intke4mlRxu

  1969: Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNuUilJm-b2csXdNoaBVzfCvJFuEhYIfo

  1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5f

  1970: Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJ5GqrKTN-Elb_BhgPje8Seu8Xr0n4T3w

  1970: Yes - Time and a Word - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kxZ_UfjS0e2GOzJV3BRZ0kONloNagZHtk

  1971: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuUWORoWOvppVVUM3zMjsQT

  1971: Jethro Tull - Aqualung - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpItMlS-ZZBS0WAL9Xos7Vem

  1971: Yes - Fragile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mr3aLJuPJvJve1bSwRl-8W4iN8uhGOr80

  1972: Genesis - Foxtrot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LutOVRL4O2LYbAaPtNQjtzt

  1972: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLnq9Zmxj9RfFTgCzX4wCxv

  1973: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0hQMgNN7BQdyXhurRMojLEASGtZlbdGo

  1973: Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ls8c3SxGZW2wPNWTifikotc

  1973: King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCSsnNBychNS2L6JKELTkdk

  1974: Camel - Mirage - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lHtNmsDBobuKIi4FIfCxCqro3PPqjE2rc

  1974: King Crimson - Red - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCHuIroJHWGkdEjzDnrLwyy

  1974: Yes - Relayer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mB2Z4c14a1jFhhTFB2IlKyhfpizRSXkKI

  1975: Camel - The Snow Goose - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-E4oCUFb3iPPuQZ3IAh_9LpBh76MJYQU

  1975: Kansas - Song for America - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mv5TwSEUFcCEzc4A5b8yoR5Iw7-g7kMCQ

  1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mzowhqljIOba8BVGEmVkeaWeL2S_bO4bw

  1976: Camel - Moonmadness - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nyGHrNV07De1VA_TDOmy8b8V9hdj8yxS8

  1976: Kansas - Leftoverture - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lAIRwW0WbNbWb_-vNWeUH_D9lKJP1406I

  1976: Rush - 2112 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHTo__bpnlYV5utsdx6jyan4QBPFkkgEV

 

  1977: Eloy - Ocean - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI8b6GQ5C80

  1978: Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mywtcPVl2KjHY_xCnAxxRtXLfwPBoP4ng

  1978: Rush - Hemispheres - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMoHes_BChQ

  1978: U.K. - U.K. - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpDuVnWVnjuylNW0f3K7CnGIZDxQZfLQi

  1979: Camel - I Can See Your House from Here - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkB9JatFye-f8fQTum0AOV5riGgJXwa5A

  1979: Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_knE44wjnT35Bgz6weZ-PK_Nr6Z8K6UmNw

  1979: Supertramp - Breakfast in America - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFqw6BaKB9yHlmVTR5RjXxEM8fcuK5oqj

How many of these 33 classic prog albums do YOU own?

That's still four more albums than I own in the list. 

all but Zappa although I do have some of his later albums. I mostly agree with the list but the inclusion of Time and a Word (I would put in Caravan's release for that year instead as per PA) and lack of Gentle Giant would get a few hot under the collar. I would also put in Pawn Hearts instead of Tarkus for 1971. No recognition of the RPI scene either but PFM best albums came out in 1972 and that is a tough year to crack.

Again and again, PLEASE, respect the OP.