Some Heavy Prog/Hard Rock Well Known Albums
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Topic: Some Heavy Prog/Hard Rock Well Known Albums
Posted By: Morningrise
Subject: Some Heavy Prog/Hard Rock Well Known Albums
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:21
| Pick your favourite |
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:27
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I love every album listed but i'll go with Rush for this one. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:31
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For me, there are 3 contenders for the top spot: Black Sabbath: "Sabotage" Led Zeppelin: "Led Zeppelin IV" Rainbow: "Rising" But I am undecided at the moment, although Rainbow: "Rising" will likely get my vote. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:34
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Zep IV ------------- |
Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:56
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Queen II is my all-time favorite. I can't vote for anything else. Zep, Purple & Rush are all good too.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:57
| Queen II |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 09:58
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Rush - Farewell to Kings ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 10:17
| All great albums. I really cannot choose one, since they all appeal to different moods. I'd vote for all if I could. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 10:31
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A bunch of classics in this poll. Vote goes to Rainbow's Rising, an all-around amazing record. Keyboardist Tony Carey shines on that baby! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 10:32
| The only 2 of these that I even remotely like, the Quatermass (which I'll bet few people have heard) & the Atomic Rooster, have 0 votes so far. Oh, well. I decided to give my little bit of love to Quatermass, because at least people are familiar with Atomic Rooster. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 10:48
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Sabbath ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 13:02
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A bunch of classics indeed. Hard to choose, perhaps my favs being A Farewell to Kings and Queen II, probably the most Prog of the list. As a teen I was much more into Hard Rock and Heavy and I really loved albums like Rainbow Rising, Sabotage or Machine Head, but even then when I heard A Farewell and Queen II they immediately became on a different league. Quatermass is also a great one. Voted for Rush.
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 13:05
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Recently I have written my review on Quatermass. Five Stars. I love Quatermass. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 13:28
Queen II - my 1st Queen album and the one I still consider their best (with 1 major flaw...I can't stand Funny How Love Is). Especially great is the 1991 reissue which includes "See What a Fool I've Been", the original B-side to Seven Seas of Rhye  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 13:37
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Easily Uriah Heep, my second favourite UH LP after Demons & Wizards, which contains the fantastic Easy Livin' My top 5 are: 1.UH 2.LZ 3.Queen 4.Rush 5. DP As for Sabotage, I think it is the worst and most boring Ozzy period album. Also, the only bands on here that I consider proggish are DP, UH and Rush. The others are just rock.
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 15:32
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Led Zep IV |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 16:28
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How great was music back in 1971? It's worth noting that Led Zeppelin IV and Aqualung were being recorded in the same studio at the very same time during December, 1970 through February, 1971. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 20:09
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RRRRRUUUUSSSSHHHH!!!!! ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 21:18
| There are too many here I don't know, but from the ones I do, Zep IV and Rising stand out. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 21:41
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Sab'nZep |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 21:47
Gates of Delirium ---
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 27 2019 at 23:20
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Rooster, but not a lot of love here, if honest . ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 06:23
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Some great albums in this poll. Went with Farewell To Kings. Not a single vote though for Captain Beyond? Travesty
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 06:32
Agreed but Blackmore always made sure that the Rainbow keyboard player could never outshine him. I saw Rainbow (at the Rainbow!) and Carey was mixed really low and stuck behind a pillar so you didn't really know he was there.
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verslibre wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 06:33
| Hard to choose between Led Zep, Rush, Purple and Rainbow but I went for LZ because it has When The Levee Breaks. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 07:18
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I have every one of these tough call between Zep and Rush for me went with Zeppelin ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 08:02
| I actually love all of these choices but A Farewell To Kings on another level... |
Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 09:10
That makes 2 of us. People just don't know what they're missing.
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Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 09:11
Would have been my choice if not for Quatermass.
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: January 28 2019 at 09:40
| All albums from here are legendary, i will go with Rainbow followed by Uriah Heep |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: January 29 2019 at 06:37
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Queen II. It's Queen best album they ever did. Amazing from the start to the end. Granted: there is a lot of great albums in this poll (Rush, Zepp, Deep Purple, Heep, Rainbow), but Queen II has a soft spot in my heart. White Queen, Ogre Battle, Fairy Feller's Master Stroke or The March Of The Black Queen are fantastic and remaining song are nevertheless great... I couldn't vote differently here. ------------- 
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Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: January 29 2019 at 11:37
| Rush: "A Farewell To Kings" > Led Zeppelin: "Led Zeppelin IV" > Deep Purple: "Machine Head" >Queen: "Queen II" > Uriah Heep: "Look At Yourself" |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: January 30 2019 at 15:34
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I voted for Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple is right up there as well but I want to shout out for Capt. Beyond because that first CB album is a good one. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 30 2019 at 16:29
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I voted for Death Walks Behind You. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Kempokid
Date Posted: January 30 2019 at 17:23
| Rainbow: Rising is my favourite, Dio's vocals are incredible, and Stargazer will forever be one of my favourite songs of all time. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 31 2019 at 03:01
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Good list. Hard to choose.. It's between Queen, Rush, Rainbow and Zep...  Ok, I'll go for Rush. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 31 2019 at 04:15
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Rainbow - Rising for the B-side alone... A Light in the Black is just as great as Stargazer |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: January 31 2019 at 04:17
| Including Queen is a slap in the face for them, they were very much against everything prog stood for. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 00:28
I'm sure they did not care how they are classified. Also the press of the time were not kind to them for some reason. If someone would classify Queen II as art-rock, it would not be wrong IMO. Hard rock would not be wrong either. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 03:18
I love them all, but there's one album Rising just above the rest. 
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Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 03:59
| Machine Head, with honorary mentions for Queen II and Led Zep IV |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 05:07
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Black Sabbath - Sabotage
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 08:23
| Quatermass-fantastic album, and ahead of it's time.... |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 12:56
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LZ IV closely followed by Captain Beyond, if not the other way around  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 13:07
| Captain Beyond - second vote for 'em comes from me! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 20:43
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Rush ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 21:45
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Massive Rush fan so I voted for Rainbow Rising of course . It's one of a kind in my world. I don't bother with a lot of heavy rock (even LZ) that much, but that album re-wrote the rules. Blackmore is a genius but having Tony Carey (another musical genius) with Dio, Cozy and Bain was a one off explosion of creativity. Me gushing much.
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