Prog by Colors

This is a poll that took all afternoon to make.  If you don't vote, I'll be crushed. 

So vote, damn it. 

Anyway, here's how it works: I grouped relatively random (but mostly high rated) albums based on the dominant color of the cover artwork.  Each color group, therefore, is a mixed bag.  If you only got to enjoy the five albums listed, which would you choose?

White
Part the Second (maudlin of the Well)
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
OK Computer (Radiohead)
The Snow Goose (Camel)

Yellow
Nursery Cryme (Genesis)
We’re Only in it For the Money (Frank Zappa)
Balletto di Bronzo, Il (Ys)
Rajaz (Camel)
Three of a Perfect Pair (King Crimson)

Orange
Kansas (Kansas)
Third (The Soft Machine)
Remedy Lane (Pain of Salvation)
Amputechture (The Mars Volta)
Dawn (Eloy)

Red
Discipline (King Crimson)
Still Life (Opeth)
In Praise of Learning (Henry Cow)
Suffocating the Bloom (Echolyn)
Quella Vecchia Locanda (Il Tempo Della Gioia)

Brown
Sleeping in Traffic Part II (Beardfish)
Signify (Porcupine Tree)
Second Life Syndrome (Riverside)
Songs from the Woods (Jethro Tull)
Still Life (Van der Graaf Generator)

Green
Close to the Edge (Yes)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination- Edgar Allen Poe (The Alan Parsons Project)
If I Could Do it All Over Again, I’d Do it All Over You (Caravan)
A Tab in the Ocean (Nektar)
The Missing Piece (Gentle Giant)

Blue
Fear of a Blank Planet (Porcupine Tree)
Ocean (Eloy)
Trespass (Genesis)
Phaedra (Tangerine Dream)
Tales from Topographic Oceans (Yes)

Violet
H to He Who Am the Only One (Van der Graaf Generator)
Moving Waves (Focus)
Ziltoid the Omniscient (Devin Townsend)
Spirals in Hyperspace (Ozric Tentacles)
Magnification (Yes)

Gray
Relayer (Yes)
Permanent Waves (Rush)
Blackwater Park (Opeth)
Minstrel in the Gallery (Jethro Tull)
Chupacabras (Phideaux Xavier)

Black
Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Red (King Crimson)
Moving Pictures (Rush)
Godbluff (Van der Graf Generator)
The Hazards of Love (The Decemberists)

There's a weak spot in each group, but my vote went to yellow. I'd vote black in an instant, if only I would have heard HoL by now.

black slightly over gray?

OzzProg wrote: P.S. you should have put the "White" album in white, no? :)

I avoided using prog-related or proto-prog bands for fear that Dean would move my poll.

Ricochet wrote: There's a weak spot in each group, but my vote went to yellow. I'd vote black in an instant, if only I would have heard HoL by now.

Yes, yes you would have.

Progosopher wrote: Blue - It's the only category where I have all of the albums listed.  Beyond that, most of them I rate highly. Interesting poll!  I appreciate the effort you put into it, Epignosis.

Thanks.    I love creative polls, and I haven't made one in quite a while.

Epignosis wrote: OzzProg wrote: P.S. you should have put the "White" album in white, no? :) I avoided using prog-related or proto-prog bands for fear that Dean would move my poll.

Black is tied with White for me. Grey is the runner-up.

I need to think more about it...

How about Pink?

Hot Rats/In The Court Of The Crimson King/Per Un Amico/In The Land Of Grey And Pink/Birds Of Fire







Edited by harmonium.ro - July 01 2009 at 19:39

True, I didn't think of that.

I declare PINK to be the un-official colour of prog's greatest albums.

Other pinkies: PFM's "Stati di immaginazione", Bubu's Anabelas, "Boris" by Yezda Urfa, "Hatfied And The North", "Moving Waves" by Focus, etc.

That was tough but.... Yellow. It's the Zappa, Genesis, Crimson combination that clinched it.