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Points: 11654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 09:07
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

What non-prog (and non proto prog and prog related) pop and rock albums to you consider to be masterpieces? 

That leaves out all jazz, classical, avantgarde and basically most of my faves, but I guess I can still think of a few hundreds.... Here's a few random ones:

Selda - Selda. The queen of turkish psych 1976 (guess maybe she should be on PA).









Googoosh - Do Panjereh. No way I'm gonna link to that awful CD reissue. What's the deal with asian record companies always wanting to use updated images of the artists when they reissue classics? Don't they want to sell albums? This makes it look like all their big stars are chubby old grandmother with bad tastes in clothes. And don't get me started on the fonts and design.





Finders Keepers got a killer Googoosh comp out (they re-relased Selda as well) 



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Television - Marquee Moon and Adventure
The Go Betweens - Oceans Apart
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Mainstream
Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One and Muswell Hillbillies
Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End
Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
Cure - 17 Seconds, Pornography and Disintegration
Anima Sound System - We Strike
Ice T - Home Invasion
Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Fall - Hex Enduction Hour, the Unutterable
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
Jimmy Smith - Any Number Can Win, The Cat and Bashin' (I reckon any Jazz I like can't really be Jazz)
Kenny Burrell - Night at the Vanguard (I reckon any Jazz I like can't really be Jazz)
Magazine - Real Life
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Rolling Stones - Beggars banquet, Let it Bleed, Ya Ya's, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street
Velvet Underground - début
Lou Reed - New York
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Bassomatic - Set the Controls for the heart of the Bass
Divine Comedy - Regeneration
Patti Smith - Wave
Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
Prefab Sprout - Swoon
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West
Stan Ridgway - Mosquitoes
(the list goes on)




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Lou Reed - Berlin

This one I actually feel would fit in nicely around here. If we one day were able to include sole prog albums by artists that otherwise kept to their pop/hiphop/rock/countrywestern, then I'd definitely vote for this one! My fave from from good old Lou as well.

In that same category: Serge Gainsbourge - Histoire de Melody Nelson (The prog quotient probably came from Vannier who orchestrated the music though)
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 09:30
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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Jo Jo Gunne: Jumpin' the Gunne (1973) -- Semi-obscure spin-off of Spirit, with former Spirit frontman Jay Ferguson leading the way.  This is intelligent and highly evolved boogie rock, like an amped-up Guess Who.  Just one of those albums where every song makes me jump with glee.
I had their eponymous debut, bought on the strength of Run, Run, Run, but they kind of disapeared from the UK record stores after that. I recall on seeing it much later that "Jumpin' the Gunne" has one of the most, erm, let's say, bizarre, covers I've ever seen. Shocked
Yes it is.  Probably scared a lot of people away, thus its obscurity.
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Originally posted by dreadpirateroberts dreadpirateroberts wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Masterpiece albums that are not on PA, with a quick description of each:

Jack Bruce: Harmony Row (1971) -- 2nd solo album from the main singer/writer for Cream.  Talented on bass, guitar, piano, organ, and cello as well as vocals, Jack produces a dreamy batch of art pop melodies with ambitious, quirky arrangements.  Helped out on guitar and drums by Chris Spedding and John Marshall.  This is better than any Cream album, IMO.



Jack's here Wink

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=24804

And I agree, damn fine album, wonderful!   He's released some superb ones and this is probably his best, or at least, my favourite. (Although I swing between this and 'Songs for a Tailor' as fav)
Jack's on PA?  Well cool then.  I'll have to give that puppy five stars.
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Cradle of Filth- Dusk and Her Embrace (this album at least should probably be on the archives, but whatever I love it).
Emperor- In the Nightshade Eclipse
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Jane's Addiction- Nothing's Shocking, Ritual De Lo Habitual
Joanna Newsome- Ys
Living Colour- Stain
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Mother's Milk; Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik, By the Way
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 09:41
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I agree with a lot of those SteveCool
There are however some that I have never heard of before, which definitely are going on my list. Dean highlighted one of those, but Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Subhumans sound remarkably like something I should enjoy as well. Thanks for the info buddyThumbs Up

Uhh another one I see as a masterpiece, although it's been ages since I gave it a listen, is Type O Negative's October RustHeart
I was glad to see Steve Miller Band on your list too.  Those early SMB albums are really special -- and worlds away from the punchy radio rock he would put out in the mid 70s.

Hope you like Ariel Pink.  I think you and I are similar in some ways, so it just might hit you like a train the way it did me. It really felt like he was channeling my subconscious.  Yeah I know, I'm weird. Cool
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Lou Reed - Berlin

This one I actually feel would fit in nicely around here. If we one day were able to include sole prog albums by artists that otherwise kept to their pop/hiphop/rock/countrywestern, then I'd definitely vote for this one! My fave from from good old Lou as well.

In that same category: Serge Gainsbourge - Histoire de Melody Nelson (The prog quotient probably came from Vannier who orchestrated the music though)
I've seen you posting Gainsbourge lately, and have been meaning to ask about him.  I'll check it out.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 09:44
Has anyone mentioned Faith No More yet?
 
If not...
File:Faith no more angel dust.jpg
 
 
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I agree with a lot of those SteveCool
There are however some that I have never heard of before, which definitely are going on my list. Dean highlighted one of those, but Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Subhumans sound remarkably like something I should enjoy as well. Thanks for the info buddyThumbs Up

Uhh another one I see as a masterpiece, although it's been ages since I gave it a listen, is Type O Negative's October RustHeart
I was glad to see Steve Miller Band on your list too.  Those early SMB albums are really special -- and worlds away from the punchy radio rock he would put out in the mid 70s.

Hope you like Ariel Pink.  I think you and I are similar in some ways, so it just might hit you like a train the way it did me. It really felt like he was channeling my subconscious.  Yeah I know, I'm weird. Cool


Hey you haven't let me down yet big boy! Loving those Harvey Milk releases - and that is actually quite an accomplishment, seeing as I have been away from metal for so long. Man it's been a while... 
Love those early Steve Miller Band albums - up until Your Saving Grace - after that he became somewhat lethargic and too rounded off around the edges for my liking.

Gonna give Ariel Pink a shotBig smile
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Has anyone mentioned Faith No More yet?
 
If not...
File:Faith no more angel dust.jpg
 
 


Excellent choice. Easily trumps Fool for a Day (among others in their discog but Fool for a Day is close for me)
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Lou Reed - Berlin

This one I actually feel would fit in nicely around here. If we one day were able to include sole prog albums by artists that otherwise kept to their pop/hiphop/rock/countrywestern, then I'd definitely vote for this one! My fave from from good old Lou as well.

In that same category: Serge Gainsbourge - Histoire de Melody Nelson (The prog quotient probably came from Vannier who orchestrated the music though)
I've seen you posting Gainsbourge lately, and have been meaning to ask about him.  I'll check it out.


It's got that inexplicable early 70s charm teamed up with some orchestral shadings. The feel however stays very intimate, and if you're not afraid of foreign lingos, then Serge's voice is pretty damn beautiful. Vannier, who is the magic wizard behind the music, is actually listed here on PA. I have a couple of his releases, and I should think that his eclectic behaviour would suit your tastes well.
Especially this one I'd strongly recommend you take a closer look at:
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^^ Thanks, will check it out!!
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Fully prepared as I am for howls of derisive laughter, I actually think this is one of the best albums released in the 1980s & in my opinion, there's not a dud track on it:



OK...

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^ I've read that it's got something to do with erotica. What's so progressive about it?
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^ very good singles band. Does it have Sex Dwarf on it?

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 11:17
Not progressive at all & not erotic either actually

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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 11:29
I'll have to check out that Soft Cell album.  My wife might have it, actually.
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 11:34
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Not progressive at all & not erotic either actually

Sorry, I wrote in the wrong thread.


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Points: 6632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2012 at 11:49
Some of you guys mentioned them but here goes..

Faith No More - The Real Thing

Big Sugar - Hemi Visions

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Rage Against The Machine - Debut

Type O Negative - October Rust

Bob Dylan - Desire
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