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Top 10 Symphonic Prog Albums |
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Psychedelic Paul 
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I already added the points from your previous vote at the same time as not counting your vote for King Crimson.
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Posted: August 12 2020 at 13:41 |
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I've somehow managed to miss this thread before, but my belated selections are: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Refugee - Refugee Hamburger Concerto - Focus Bedside Manners are Extra - Greenslade Relayer - Yes Six Wives of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Leftoverture - Kansas Fish out of Water - Chris Squire 666 - Aphrodite's Child |
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"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: August 12 2020 at 14:10 |
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^ That's okay. I don't think you were here on the forums at the time when I originally posted this thread at the end of February.
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Posted: August 12 2020 at 17:56 |
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Interesting looking back at this. No need to change the votes, but this is what my list would look like five months later: 1. Close to the Edge by Yes 2: Selling England By the Pound by Genesis 3: A Drop of Light by All Traps On Earth 4: Moonmadness by Camel 5: Leftoverture by Kansas 6: In the Region of Summer Stars (1984) by The Enid 7: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler 8: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by ELP 9: To Shatter All Accord by Discipline 10: The Flower King by Roine Stolt If I had my way about genre classifications, though, I'd have to knock Roine Stolt off the bottom (sorry Roine, nothing personal) and put Big Big Train's English Electric: Full Power up at third.
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richardh
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Posted: August 12 2020 at 23:40 |
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A Drop of Light and English Electric are both very special to me. One is 'Symphonic' and one is not (imo)
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 00:31 |
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1. Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
2. Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans 3. Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells 4. Rick Wakeman: Six Wives of Henry VIII 5. Spock's Beard: V 6. Harmonium: Si On Avait Besoin D`Une 7. Renaissance: Ashes Are Burning 8. The Flower Kings: Stardust We Are 9. Camel: Mirage 10. ELP: Triology
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Cactus Choir
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 02:08 |
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I've only recently become active on here after a long hiatus. It's probably your enjoyable and ingeniously recycled polls that get me most engaged so thanks for that!
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FatherChristmas
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 03:57 |
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Can you have albums drawn in second place? (Or any place, for that matter?)
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 04:37 |
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Yes, it often happens that two albums tie for the same place in a poll, just like in my recent Genesis albums poll for instance, where Foxtrot & Selling England by the Pound were briefly tied for first place.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 04:41 |
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Thanks. I also have a Top 10 Crossover Prog and a Top 10 Prog-Folk albums poll lurking around in the ProgArchives forums somewhere. I had to go back to Page 6 to find this Symphonic Prog poll again.
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Ok, then. 1. Duke (does it count as symphonic, though, or just weird prog/pop/jazz/weirdness??) 2. Selling England and Foxtrot 3. CTTE 4. Tarkus 5. Fragile Sorry, not going beyond that! It's too hard!!
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^ By the way, I mentioned in the introduction to this Top 10 poll that you can only choose one album by each artist for your Top 10.
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Not sure I really understand what Crossover Prog is
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Just click on "Crossover Prog" on the main page and then you'll see a list of the Top 100 albums in that particular genre.
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Edit: 1. Duke 2. CTTE 3. Tarkus Sorry about that. I've just noticed I've only included albums by the three probably most successful symphonic bands, so I've managed to extricate a few more albums (by lesser known bands) that are better than the usual lot: 4. Mirage (Camel, though still quite well known) 5. Snow (Spock's Beard) 6. Garden Shed (England, discovered them courtesy of Psychedelic Paul )Hm... no, that's it. |
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Top 10 update after six more rounds of voting:- 1. YES - Close to the Edge (256 points) 2. GENESIS - Foxtrot (120 points) 3. GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (110 points) 4. GENESIS - Selling England by the Pound (90 points) 5. YES - Tales from Topographic Oceans (82 points) 6. CAMEL - Moonmadness (80 points) 7. EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (75 points) 8. HARMONIUM - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison (72 points) 9. KANSAS - Leftoverture (71 points) 10. WOBBLER - From Silence to Somewhere (62 points) 11. FOCUS - Hamburger Concerto (54 points) 12. YES - Relayer (49 points) 13. CHRIS SQUIRE - Fish Out of Water (47 points) 13. ANGLAGARD - Hybris (47 points) 15. RICK WAKEMAN - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (46 points) 15. SPOCK'S BEARD - V (46 points) 17. DISCIPLINE - Unfolded Like Staircase (43 points) 18. GLASS HAMMER - The Inconsolable Secret (42 points) 19. NEAL MORSE - Sola Scripture (41 points) 20. CAMEL - The Snow Goose (40 points) 20. YES - Fragile (40 points) 20. GENESIS - Trespass (40 points) 23. REFUGEE - Refugee (38 points) 24. EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - Tarkus (35 points) 24. CAMEL - Mirage (35 points) 26. CRESSIDA - Cressida (32 points) 27. SOLARIS - Marsbeli Kronikak (30 points) 27. GENESIS - Duke (30 points) 27. SPOCK'S BEARD - Snow (30 points) 27. ECHOLYN - The End is Beautiful (30 points) 27. FANTASY - Paint a Picture (30 points) 27. GENESIS - Wind & Wuthering (30 points) 27. NEAL MORSE - Similitude of a Dream (30 points) 27. TRANSATLANTIC - Bridge Across Forever (30 points) 35. ALL TRAPS ON EARTH - A Drop of Light (29 points) There are three new entries in the Top 10 after that latest long update:- Wobbler, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. It gave me a headache sorting out the many entries for the latest Top 10 update, so I'm going to lie down in a darkened room for awhile now. Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 14 2020 at 01:33 |
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 20:43 |
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There's some great bands missing out from the list above due to it only being 10. I could easily have gone Focus, Refugee, Transatlantic, Echolyn and Kansas if I could have named more bands.
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Posted: August 13 2020 at 23:56 |
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Harmonium was recently changed to Prog Folk by the way.
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You're right; A Drop of Light has a lot of Zeuhl influence on it
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