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Grumpyprogfan 
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 Topic: Top 12 American Prog AlbumsPosted: November 12 2021 at 11:43 |
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We have had several top European prog polls. Let's celebrate those across the pond this time. What are your top 12 American prog albums?
In no order. 1. Bubblemath - Edit Peptide 2. Dream Theater - Images and Words 3. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior 4. Kansas - Leftoverture 5. Dixie Dregs - Unsung Heroes 6. Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All 7. Izz - Don't Panic 8. Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human 9. Mike Keneally - Sluggo! 10. Steely Dan - Aja 11. French TV - The Violence of Amateurs 12. Pat Metheny Group - The Road to You Edited by Grumpyprogfan - November 13 2021 at 07:48 |
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suitkees
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 11:49 |
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With "American", you mean USA or North and South America?
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:18 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:18 |
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^ It's good to see this long-awaited poll and I'm pretty sure Grumpy means bands from his native USA and not the whole of North & South America.
  1976: ALBATROSS - Albatross (Symphonic Prog • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaBZNBUOPdk 1980: ALSHIA - Alshia (Progressive Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrioMKTbdng 1980: ANOTHER WORLD PRODUCTION - The End of the Age (Progressive Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cctfgc3VJE 1976: FRENCH LICK - Glider (Progressive Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTp9TOOxUlY 1973: FROGGIE BEAVER - From the Pond (Progressive Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgc5h2XAGA 1978: HAPPY THE MAN - Crafty Hands (Eclectic Prog • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRera802pUU 1975: KANSAS - Song for America - (Symphonic Prog • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mv5TwSEUFcCEzc4A5b8yoR5Iw7-g7kMCQ 1977: QUILL - Sursum Corda (Symphonic Prog • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w_yX72fUok 1981: REAL EYES - Real Eyes (Progressive Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_M4U69-HIs&t=2090s 1977: SANTANA - Moonflower (Jazz Rock/Fusion • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVc03JLfC3VDtNDwR-PvnzaEc50jFkSGQ 1977: SURPRISE - Assault on Merryland (Symphonic Prog • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qzNyRVPxDA 1982: TRANCE FORM - Stranger in the Same Land (Progressive Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuVoKWv9wY 1977: UNIVERSE - Universe (Space Rock • United States) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VtxzyHTZYM&t=1s |
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Logan
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:22 |
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Some US albums:
Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising* Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax Laurie Anderson - Big Science Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air David Axelrod - Song of Innocence The Residents - Duck Stab / Buster & Glen Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tim Buckley - Starsailor U Totem - U Totem Bonus: These Trails - These Trails (from Hawaii so not in North America but American in a sense) Thinking Plague - In This Life Doctor Nerve - Ereia (with The Sirius String Quartet) The Muffins - Manna/Mirage Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies Pavlov's Dog - Pampered Menial Far Corner - Endangered Adding this JR/F list separately (alphabetical by artist). Miles Davis - Get Up With It Herbie Hancock - Crossings Eddie Henderson - Realisation Benny Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus Julian Priester - Love, Love Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric Lenny White - Venusian Summer Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Non-Prog (but related to me) bonus : The Velvet Underground and Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks * I know someone might object to having a convicted murderer in my list, but I really like the album and did before I knew his story with the Manson family. Edited by Logan - November 12 2021 at 12:46 |
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:46 |
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:57 |
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Hi,
Djam Karet Dream Theater Return to Forever Frank Zappa Happy The Man Laurie Anderson Kansas Spirit It's a Beautiful Day The Doors Herd of Instinct Jefferson Airplane ... 50/50 since some stuff we go ... what? Todd Rundgren ... 50/50 since half his stuff is pop crack! Santana ... another 50/50 I consider Chicago, progressive, specially in the first 6 or 7 albums with the long cuts and very nice material, despite the hit songs. (I'm missing a couple and have to look at my collection first!)
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Progmind
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 14:07 |
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Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Love - forever Changes Touch - Touch Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced The Doors - The Doors Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Mahavishu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame The Left Banke - Too Queenrysche - Operation Livecrime Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry Tool - Aenima Tortoise - TNT Edited by Progmind - November 12 2021 at 14:09 |
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 14:37 |
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Very good idea, Grumpy.
Here are my favourites, in chronological order: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969) Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972) Santana - Caravanserai (1972) or - Abraxas (1970) , if considered as Prog Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (1973) Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before (1974) Weather Report - Black Market (1976) Fates Warning - The Spectre Within (1985) Djam Karet - Reflections From The Firepool (1989) Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow (1992) Tool - Undertow (1993) The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium (2003) A couple additional: Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot (1998) OSI - Office Of Strategic Influence (2003) Isis - In The Absence Of Truth (2006) Edited by David_D - November 30 2021 at 13:59 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 14:43 |
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very good with your naming of "sub-genres", Paul
and I guess, well prepared Edited by David_D - November 12 2021 at 14:45 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 15:00 |
That might easy be the broadest Prog definition, I've ever seen, Progmind. Edit: - That is with all respect to Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Love. - While Beach Boys are just not mine cup of tea, whatsoever.
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 15:03 |
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My favourite album from America is "Eskimo" by The Residents.
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores - Sister Death Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Far Corner - Risk 5UUs - Hungers Teeth Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect Herbie Hancock - Crossing Mr Bungle - California Jack O The Clock - All My Friends Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Dan Weiss - Starebaby |
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a quick dozen 14 Coltrane, John A Love Supreme USA 1964 14 Santana Caravanserai USA 1972 14 Spirit The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus USA 1970 13 Buckley, Tim Starsailor USA 1970 13 Coltrane, Alice Ptah, the El Daoud USA 1970 13 Davis, Miles Bitches Brew USA 1970 13 Espers Espers USA 2003 13 Hendrix, Jimi Electric Ladyland USA 1968 13 Jefferson Airplane Crown of Creation USA 1968 13 Mingus, Charles Black Saint & The Sinner Lady USA 1963 13 Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy USA 1973 13 Riley, Terry A Rainbow in Curved Air USA 1969 13 Tyner, McCoy Sahara USA 1972 13 Washington, Kamasi The Epic USA 2015 13 Zappa, Frank / The Mothers of Invention The Grand Wazoo USA 1972 12 Allman Brothers Band, The At Fillmore East USA 1971 12 Baku Llama Eris USA 2007 12 Buckley, Tim Lorca USA 1969 12 Byrd, Donald Ethiopian Knights USA 1971 12 Chango Chango USA 1975 12 Chicago Transit Authority Chicago Transit Authority USA 1969 12 Coryell, Larry Barefoot Boy USA 1971 12 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country USA 1969 12 Doors, The L.A.Woman USA 1971 12 Evans, Gil The Individualism of Gil Evans USA 1964 12 Gale, Eddie Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music USA 1968 12 H.P. Lovecraft Live May 11, 1968 USA 1968 12 Hancock, Herbie Crossings USA 1972 12 Hancock, Herbie Sextant USA 1973 12 Journey Journey USA 1975 12 Kravitz, Lenny Let Love Rule USA 1990 12 Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd USA 1973 12 Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell USA 1977 12 Moondog A New Sound of an Old Instrument USA 1979 12 Muffins, The Manna / Mirage USA 1978 Avant 12 P.G. Six The Well of Memory USA 2004 12 Pearls Before Swine The Use of Ashes USA 1970 12 Phish Slip, Stitch, and Pass USA 1997 12 Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service USA 1968 12 Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik USA 1991 12 Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute USA 1995 12 Rudolph, Adam / Moving Pictures Glare of the Tiger USA 2017 12 Smith, Lonnie Liston / Cosmic Echoes Astral Travelling USA 1973 12 Van Halen Van Halen USA 1978 12 Vanilla Fudge Renaissance USA 1968 12 Violent Femmes Violent Femmes USA 1983 |
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Chances are I left out the odd band because I haven't put them into the American box in my mind. Anyway, here we go. Still a big country and enough to feel the pain to leave out Secret Chiefs 3, Don Caballero, Echolyn, Tim Buckley, Primus, Tool, Mars Volta, Kansas' live album, Hendrix, Zorn,... One per band once more. Edit: I've got to add some albums I forgot about... unfortunately this means that Grumpy's favourites Bubblemath are kicked out of the list, but such is life. Swans - The Seer Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite Slint - Spiderland Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Mr. Bungle - s/t Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense From Monument to Masses - On Little Known Frequencies Tortoise - Standards Adrian Belew - Side Three Thinking Plague - In This Life Challenge League: Tim Buckley - Happy Sad Al Di Meola - Elegant GypsyBubblemath - Edit Peptide Salaryman - Karoshi Kansas - Two for the Show Don Caballero - American Don Secret Chiefs 3 - Perichoresis Echolyn - As the World Primus - Antipop Tool - Fear Inoculum Mars Volta - Frances the Mute Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 15:54 |
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Santana I
Miles Davis "Big Fun" Miles Davis "Agharta" Miles Davis "Get Up With It" Herbie Hancock "Crossings" Herbie Hancock "Sextant" Herbie Hancock "Thrust" Velvet Underground "White Light White Heat" Chick Corea "Return to Forever" Sun Ra "Atlantis" Sun Ra "Angels and Demons at Play" Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland" Edited by Easy Money - November 12 2021 at 15:56 |
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1. Yezda Urfa - Boris 2. Thinking Plague - In Extremis 3. Birds and Buildings - Bantam to Behemoth 4. Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers 5. Far Corner - Risk 6. Quill - Sursum Corda 7. The Red Masque - Fossil Eyes 8. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior 9. Discipline - To Shatter All Accord 10. Bubblemath - Edit Peptide 11. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 12. The Underground Railroad - The Origin of Consciousness Honorable mentions: Astra - The Black Chord Deluge Grander - August in the Urals Babylon - Babylon Echolyn - As the World Glass Hammer - Shadowlands Horse Lords - The Common Task Izz - Everlasting Instant The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute Little Atlas - Surface Serene Pentwater - Out of the Abyss Primus - Pork Soda Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope Spock's Beard - V Phideaux - Snowtorch The Mercury Tree - Spidermilk Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories Dan Weiss - Natural Selection Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum
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Posted: November 12 2021 at 16:15 |
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I can tell you this:
If we consider prog the music by Tim Buckley, possibly Starsailor, Lorca (and Happy Sad) would enter my Top 10 (Starsailor maybe on the top of the ranking).
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What, no Starcastle???
BLASPHEMY!! I know, many/most of you on PA trash Starcastle as a "Yes clone," but they were much more than that. Also, where's The Dixie Dregs? And, I'm curious why Mahavishnu Orchestra is considered a US band?
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Starcastle and Dixie dregs never click on me. Mahavishu Orchestra are from Queens, NYC
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