25 More Acts With Albums in PA's Top 250 Chart

This is the fourth poll of a series where I went through the all-time top albums in PA charts while including Proto Prog and Prog Related. Here is the chart for reference: CLICK HERE

In the first poll I covered the first 25 acts, ordering it by top-ranked albums with at least three albums in the top 250 chart. For the second poll, again listing in the order that the first album came up in the chart, I covered the first 25 which have two albums in the top 250. For the third poll I covered the 25 top-ranked acts with one album in the top 250. For this I have done the next 25 acts with albums listed in the top 250. I have included the ranking in the charts by the album.

Some of my favourites just missed out in other topics, Maneige's Les Porches at 127 for the one album in the top 250 list and Klaus Schulze's superb Mirage at 137 coupled with Timewind at 185 for the album duos list, and SBB missed out for the trio of albums in the top 250 list. I missed out by two on a favourite of mine not yet covered in this poll: Supersister's To the Highest Bidder (1979). The next one for this poll would have been Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (177) (I do plan to do one more of these anon).

Keeping in the spirit of past topics while also being able to cover more albums in this poll, I have included multiple albums by an artist in one poll option. Please try to vote for and mention one of those options from an act in a post instead of voting multiple times for an option. But mention as many as you like, of course.

This is multiple choice: Please try to vote for AND list in a post five entries in the poll, but if that proves too hard, feel free to vote for more (and less is fine too).

Here are the acts with multiple albums (please try to choose one of those per act):

Klaus Schulze: Mirage (137) / Timewind (185)
Discipline: Unfolded Like Staircase (142) / To Shatter All Accord (162)
Phideaux: Doomsday Afternoon (145) / Snowtorch (151)
Sloche - Stadaconé (158) / J'un oeil (1991)
SBB: Memento Z Banalnym Tryptykiem (172) / SBB [Aka: Wołanie O Brzęk Szkła and Slovenian Girls] (198) / Pamięć (228)

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As for my choices: I really like both Schulze albums, but I adore Mirage.

My five choices (one album per act):

- Soft Machine - Third (I do strongly feel that this masterpiece "should" rank higher at PA)
- Klaus Schulze - Mirage (a lovely wintry album)
- Dün - Eros (one of the first Avant-prog/ Zeuhl albums I fell for and has been desert island album, which is apt in way since Dune (Arrakis) is one big desert)
- Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans (A very playful Canterbury Sound meets avant prog album)
- Samla Mammas Manna - Maltid (one of RIO's more/most accessible and fun albums)

Shouts out to Tilt, Osanna, Peter Gabriel (Melt is terrific) Sloche, Maneige, Birds and Buildings, love Timewind by Schulze, Los Jaivas and three SBB albums, maudlin of the well although I prefer Bath and Leaving Your Body Map and I am much more into Toby Driver's Kayo Dot, and Solaris. I also have enjoyed Discipline. Transatlantic was one purchase in about 2003 or 2004 that did not work out for me.

Edited by Logan - Yesterday at 12:21

Ayreon - The Human Equation 

Birds and Buildings, Solaris, Discipline, Eloy, and Ayreon. I hope to record a soundtrack for armpits that smell like magic markers.

Klaus Schulze – Mirage
The Mars Volta – De-loused in the Comatorium
SBB – Memento Z Banalnym Tryptykiem
Eloy – Ocean
Tool – Lateralus
SBB – Pamięć
Solaris – Marsbeli Krónikak
Hiromi's Sonicbloom – Time Control
Klaus Schulze – Timewind
Arti E Mestieri – Tilt

I want to take this opportunity to point out that Hiromi is one of, if not the best, pianist out there right now. Her and Tigran Hamasyan. I saw the latter recently, who killed it (somehow able to sing his spiritual-like melodies over the incredibly complicated parts he's written, not to mention the bonkers-level hand independence you have to have to play them alone). I will be going to a Hiromi concert at the end of the month (April), and I'm so excited! Her improvisational skills are reverent of the various and varied styles that influence her (stride, ragtime, funk, bebop, post-bop, rock, modernist, impressionist, prog, traditional Japanese, etc.), yet she often creates something unique with them. And with such joy! I hope to be half as talented a pianist/composer as these cats someday.

So, I've gone for:

Tool, Eloy, Birds and Buildings,PG and TMV

Eloy - Ocean