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Posted: January 21 2006 at 12:10

Selling England by the Pound
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Wind and Wuthering
Foxtrot
A Trick of the Tail
Discipline
Acquiring the Taste
Nursery Cryme
Fragile
Relayer

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 12:39

Genesis

Foxtrot (1972)

Genesis

Nursery Cryme (1971)

Änglagård

Hybris (1992)

Yes

Close to the Edge (1972)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Trilogy (1972)

Kansas

Leftoverture (1976)

Focus

Hamburger Concerto (1974)

Rick Wakeman

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (1973)

Aphrodite's Child

666 (1970)

Renaissance

Live At Carnegie Hall (1976)

This list may change in any moment, except the first four.

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 14:43

Winter Wine wrote:

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1.Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2.Close To The Edge - Yes

3.Foxtrot - Genesis

4.Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

5.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

6.Animals - Pink Floyd

7.666 - Aphrodites Child

8.A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis

9.A Farewell To Kings - Rush

10.In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson

I don't think Rush or Tull are symphonic prog. You've listed two of their GREATEST albums but I wouldn't call either "Symphonic" prog

That surpises me to be honest.Thick As A brick is just about as symphonic as anything I've heard while Rush made four 'symphonic prog' albums with Caress Of Steel,2112,Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres.I don't except the 'prog metal' label for Rush.

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 14:48

richardh wrote:

Winter Wine wrote:

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1.Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2.Close To The Edge - Yes

3.Foxtrot - Genesis

4.Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

5.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

6.Animals - Pink Floyd

7.666 - Aphrodites Child

8.A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis

9.A Farewell To Kings - Rush

10.In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson

I don't think Rush or Tull are symphonic prog. You've listed two of their GREATEST albums but I wouldn't call either "Symphonic" prog

for what it's worth I agree.... Tull may be listed here as 'folk-prog' but I honestly see little folk in TaaB. The labels thing can be taken too far.. this is an albums list not a group list anyway. As far as Rush... I'll keep my opinions to myself but don't see any of their albums anywhere near a top 10 list of symphonic albums... with all the great albums that are out there that are CLEARLY symphonic in influence and execution.

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 14:50

richardh wrote:

Winter Wine wrote:

richardh wrote:

1.Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2.Close To The Edge - Yes

3.Foxtrot - Genesis

4.Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

5.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

6.Animals - Pink Floyd

7.666 - Aphrodites Child

8.A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis

9.A Farewell To Kings - Rush

10.In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson

I don't think Rush or Tull are symphonic prog. You've listed two of their GREATEST albums but I wouldn't call either "Symphonic" prog

I think Rush are "Art rock" on the site. Tull are too folky to be symphonic I think

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 15:28

1. Close to the Edge
2. Relayer
3. Fragile
4. The Yes Album
5. Tales from Topographic Oceans

1. Selling England by the Pound
2. Foxtrot
3. The Lamb lies down on Broadway
4. Nursery Cryme
5. Wind and Wuthering

1. In a Glass House
2. The Power and the Glory
3. Octopus
4. Free Hand
5. Three Friends

1. In the Court of the Crimson King
2. Red
3. Larks Tongue in Aspic
4. In the Wake of Poseiden
5. Islands (some might say Lizard here but it's a toss up)

1. Brain Salad Surgery
2. Trilogy
3. Tarkus
4. ELP
5. Pictures at an Exhibition

1. Pawn Hearts
2. H to He, Who am the Only One
3. The Least we caan do is Wave to Each Other
4. Godbluff
5. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome

1. Mirage
2. The Snow Goose
3. Rain Dances
4. Moonmadness
5. Camel

1. Shadowlands
2. Lex Rex
3. The Incosolable Secret
4. Chronometree
5. Perelandra

How many bands is that, seven? Picking positions is too difficult for me to attempt so I had to write them out like that, but it would probably be the first couple of albums from the first couple of bands there...

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 15:28

Genesis - Selling England
Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Camel - The Snow Goose
King Crimson - Islands
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 15:45

ChadFromCanada wrote:

Does no one like Acquiring the Taste? I like it better than Octopus, mind you I've only listened to Octopus once.

Acquiring The Taste is a fantastic album - frankly I'm surprised that there's hardly any Gentle Giant in these lists...

Mind you, if the term "Symphonic" was used correctly, there would be a lot of The Enid in there too - and probably some Barclay James Harvest...

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 16:33

Genesis- Selling England by the Pound
Genesis- Foxtrot
Yes- Close to the Edge
Gentle Giant- In a Glass House
Gentle Giant- Free Hand
Genesis- Nursery Cryme
Camel- Mirage
Transatlantic- Bridge Across Forever
Spock's Beard- V
Yes- Going for the One

If Jethro was considered symphonic, Thick as a Brick would be number 1.

BTW this list will probably change in the next few seconds.

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 17:38

Certif1ed wrote:

ChadFromCanada wrote:

Does no one like Acquiring the Taste? I like it better than Octopus, mind you I've only listened to Octopus once.

Acquiring The Taste is a fantastic album - frankly I'm surprised that there's hardly any Gentle Giant in these lists...

Mind you, if the term "Symphonic" was used correctly, there would be a lot of The Enid in there too - and probably some Barclay James Harvest...

Chad... don't take the absence of it (like from my list) as not liking it. I think it is a great album... they all are for that matter, I just think Octopus is the Gentle Giant album that could/should be in a top 10 of symphonic prog albums.

Certif1ed - will check up on THE ENID, can't say I've heard them before.

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 19:26

Winter Wine wrote:

richardh wrote:

Winter Wine wrote:

richardh wrote:

1.Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2.Close To The Edge - Yes

3.Foxtrot - Genesis

4.Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

5.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

6.Animals - Pink Floyd

7.666 - Aphrodites Child

8.A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis

9.A Farewell To Kings - Rush

10.In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson

I don't think Rush or Tull are symphonic prog. You've listed two of their GREATEST albums but I wouldn't call either "Symphonic" prog

I think Rush are "Art rock" on the site. Tull are too folky to be symphonic I think

Permanent Waves/Moving Pictures etc is 'art rock'.Rush have gone through several phases.Hard Rock,Symhonic Rock,Art Rock and back to hard rock again recently.

Thick As A Brick doesn't sound 'folky' to me at all.

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 19:35

richardh wrote:

Winter Wine wrote:

richardh wrote:

Winter Wine wrote:

richardh wrote:

1.Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

2.Close To The Edge - Yes

3.Foxtrot - Genesis

4.Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

5.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

6.Animals - Pink Floyd

7.666 - Aphrodites Child

8.A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis

9.A Farewell To Kings - Rush

10.In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson

I don't think Rush or Tull are symphonic prog. You've listed two of their GREATEST albums but I wouldn't call either "Symphonic" prog

I think Rush are "Art rock" on the site. Tull are too folky to be symphonic I think

Permanent Waves/Moving Pictures etc is 'art rock'.Rush have gone through several phases.Hard Rock,Symhonic Rock,Art Rock and back to hard rock again recently.

Thick As A Brick doesn't sound 'folky' to me at all.

Really? I dunno, does to me, and I listen to a lot of folk. Maybe it's "Symphonic Folk"

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Posted: January 21 2006 at 21:09

EXCELLENT!!!!
Yes: Close To The Edge
Genesis: Selleing England By The Pound
Moody Blues: Days Of Future Past
King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso: Darwin
Le Orme: Felona E Serona
Camel: Moonmadness
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother
Van Der Graaf Genertator: H To He Who Am The Only One
Emerson Lake And Palmer: Trilogy

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 01:04

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Live At Carnegie Hall (1976)

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 07:54

micky wrote:

Certif1ed wrote:

ChadFromCanada wrote:

Does no one like Acquiring the Taste? I like it better than Octopus, mind you I've only listened to Octopus once.

Acquiring The Taste is a fantastic album - frankly I'm surprised that there's hardly any Gentle Giant in these lists...

Mind you, if the term "Symphonic" was used correctly, there would be a lot of The Enid in there too - and probably some Barclay James Harvest...

Get "In The Region of the Summer Stars". It's the perfect blend of "Classical" and Rock - and I guarantee that it will knock the stars and stripes off your socks...

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 12:14

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Get "In The Region of the Summer Stars". It's the perfect blend of "Classical" and Rock - and I guarantee that it will knock the stars and stripes off your socks...

thanks for the recommend, I will definitely put that at the top of my must check out list.

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 12:49

In no order:

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

A Concerto for Group and Orchestra - Deep Purple

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

Six Wives of Henry the VIII - Rick Wakeman

Live at Carnegie Hall - Renaissance

Night on Bald Mountain - Fireballet

Close to the Edge - Yes

Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

Axis: Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix (I know, I know....)

Live at the Fillmore East - The Mothers of Invention

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 14:40

Focus - Hamburger Concerto
King Crimson - In The Court...
Genesis - Foxtrot
Yes - CTTE
Genesis - SEBTP
GG - In A Glass House
KC - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Camel - Mirage
GG - Octopus
Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Something like that, I oughta expand my prog collection with some VDGG.

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 17:27

Max. of two albums per band:

1. King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King

2. Van Der Graaf Generator- Pawn Hearts

3. Gentle Giant- In a Glass House

4. Jethro Tull- A Passion Play (Not listed as symphonic, I know, but it certainly is symphonic)

5. Van Der Graaf Generator- Godbluff

6. King Crimson- Starless and Bible Black (Even though it's not really symphonic at all, but it's listed as it, so whatever...)

6. Gentle Giant- Three Friends

7. Yes- Relayer

9. Genesis- Foxtrot

10. Camel- The Snow Goose

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Posted: January 29 2006 at 19:19

1. Yes- Close to the Edge

2. Yes- Relayer

3. Genesis- Trespass

4. Van der Graaf Generator- Pawn Hearts

5. Genesis- Foxtrot

6. King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King

7. ELP- Pictures at an Exhibition

8. Van der Graaf Generator- H to He, Who am the Only One

9. ELP- Brain Salad Surgery

10. Yes- Going for the One.

As far as I'm concerned, Yes are the kings of symphonic prog, with Genesis and Vandy trailing shortly behind.