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25 Classic Italian "Prog" Albums

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Topic: 25 Classic Italian "Prog" Albums
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 25 Classic Italian "Prog" Albums
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:00
I've been doing bit of an around the world tour of some of my favourite albums and regions for music, and here are 25 classics from Italy. While I would have loved to include favourites of mine like Ennio Morricone and Egisto Macchi, I decided to stick with that is included in PA for the list.

I know that some of my albums choices would not particular popular, but these are meaningful to me.

Please vote for up to five albums in the poll, or more if you really want to, and I encourage people to mention any of their favourite Italian albums. Of course there many other great acts and albums that I could have listed and also like. With so much great music, my particular tastes, and as much as I know or what I know, what may be an obvious omission to you may not be to me.

Alusa Fallax - Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione (1974)
Area - Caution Radiation Area (1974)
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt (1972)
Automat - Automat (1978)
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (1972)
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries (1973)
Dedalus - Dedalus (1973)
Elektriktus - Electronic Mind Waves (1976)
Fabio Frizzi L'aldilà / aka The Beyond (1981)
Goblin - Profondo Rosso (1977)
Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati (1977)
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (1973)
Opus Avantra & Donella Del Monaco - Opus Avntra (1974)
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona (1973)
Orchestra Njervudarov - Con le orecchie di Eros (1979)
Osanna - Palepoli (1972)
Perigeo - Genealogia (1974)
Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun (1976)
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (1976)
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) - Storia di un minuto (1972)
Reale Accademia di Musica - Reale Accademia di Musica (1972)
Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (1973)
Sensations' Fix - Portable Madness (1974)
Stormy Six - L'Apprendista (1977)
Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo (1972)


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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:04
Arti & Mestieri 
Osanna
Semiramis


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:08
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:


Arti & Mestieri
Osanna
Semiramis


Fantastic choices, of course.

By the way, I prefer choosing trios as well and changed it from up to three albums to up to five just before I posted. There's something cool about trinities, holy or otherwise.

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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:11
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Arti & Mestieri
Osanna
Semiramis

Fantastic choices, of course.

By the way, I prefer choosing trios as well and changed it from up to three albums to up to five just before I posted. There's something cool about trinities, holy or otherwise.

I was thinking to create a poll with Italian prog. I just need a bit of time. EmbarrassedSmile


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:16
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Arti & Mestieri
Osanna
Semiramis

Fantastic choices, of course.

By the way, I prefer choosing trios as well and changed it from up to three albums to up to five just before I posted. There's something cool about trinities, holy or otherwise.
I was thinking to create a poll with Italian prog. I just need a bit of time. EmbarrassedSmile


Awesome, I'd love to see it whenever it goes up. Hoping we might get some metal, I have an itch for it right now, but whatever you want, of course.

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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:19
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Arti & Mestieri
Osanna
Semiramis

Fantastic choices, of course.

By the way, I prefer choosing trios as well and changed it from up to three albums to up to five just before I posted. There's something cool about trinities, holy or otherwise.
I was thinking to create a poll with Italian prog. I just need a bit of time. EmbarrassedSmile


Awesome, I'd love to see it whenever it goes up. Hoping we might get some metal, I have an itch for it right now, but whatever you want, of course.

classic first than possibly metal (the metal listeners on PA have become rather scarce though). Smile


Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:22
My five favourite Italian albums are all by the same band. Smile

5 stars 1970: The Trip - The Trip -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mF9Pjx_mnQcTqrd0mqdXHBUKCea5zMIB4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mF9Pjx_mnQcTqrd0mqdXHBUKCea5zMIB4
5 stars 1971: The Trip - Caronte -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9an7QWwrizQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9an7QWwrizQ
5 stars 1972: The Trip - Atlantide -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUFXsR0RVb7_X5ojPj-HsPsO8tSkrSo04" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUFXsR0RVb7_X5ojPj-HsPsO8tSkrSo04
5 stars 1973: The Trip - Time of Change -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lfg4AN0JxV_W-xYD0KR17VtmaznS7FQl4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lfg4AN0JxV_W-xYD0KR17VtmaznS7FQl4
5 stars 2023: The Trip - Now the Time Has Come -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVHcnWtWNA-WxyMZ7UTj0cNwD8edH9Jhw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVHcnWtWNA-WxyMZ7UTj0cNwD8edH9Jhw



Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 13:56
Battiato
Le Orme
Osanna


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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 14:03
Banco, Museo Rosenbach, Le Orme, Osanna, and Ys. I was interrupted by an hour of photosynthesis.

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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 14:14
Per Un Amico is imo the greatest Italian prog album of all time followed by Di Terra by Banco. Neither is on the list so I'll have to think about it. Maybe the first Banco or the first PFM. So many great ones! Le Orme are good too but I don't think they hold up as well as Banco and PFM. 


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 14:35
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Per Un Amico is imo the greatest Italian prog album of all time followed by Di Terra by Banco. Neither is on the list so I'll have to think about it. Maybe the first Banco or the first PFM. So many great ones! Le Orme are good too but I don't think they hold up as well as Banco and PFM. 


I know that for many people Per un amico is their favourite PFM. It was my first PFM and I was blown away by it. It is a fantastic album, but I, not that unusually, prefer Storia di un minuto to it, as well as, more unusually, L'isola di niente (I have really loved "Via Lumiere" of L'isola). Anyway, all three of those PFM albums are excellent. For one who is particulalry into Symphonic Prog I would expect Per un amico to be the favourite. I like the folky-ness of the debut and the jazzy-ness of L'isola...

As for BdMS, I love the first three albums: the self-titled, Darwin! and Io sono nato libero. I thought about going with Darwin!. I actually don't have the Banco ...di terra album.

Le Orme was the first Italian band I got into.   Collage, Uomo di pezza, Felona e Sorona and Contrappunti is, I think, a terrific run of albums.

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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 15:26

From the list:

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (1973)
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona (1973)
Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (1973)
Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo (1972)

Otherwise:   https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127750" rel="nofollow - Your favourite 12 Italian Prog albums?  



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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 15:33
Not that it really feels right in a list of personal favourites where I would happily vote for all of them, but for five I will choose:

Alusa Fallax - Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo

Oh wait, that's six, I forgot to count the fingers on my right hand instead of the fingers on my left hand. ;)

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

My five favourite Italian albums are all by the same band.... [The Trip]. 


Good thing I didn't try counting the toes on my feet, then I might have really Tripped up. I enjoy The Trip as well, by the way.

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 15:35
Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

From the list:

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (1973)
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona (1973)
Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (1973)
Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo (1972)

Otherwise:

https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127750" rel="nofollow - Your favourite 12 Italian Prog albums?  



Ah yes, I remember that topic. There I went with:

Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Dedalus - Dedalus
Fabio Frizzi - L'aldila
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
Goblin - Profondo rosso
Sensation's Fix - Portable Madness
Perigeo - Genealogia
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Osanna - Palepoli

All still represented in this poll.

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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 15:54
From the list:

Goblin – Profondo Rosso*
Fabio Frizzi – L'Aldilà
Il Balletto di Bronzo – Ys
PFM – Storia di un Minuto
Arti E Mestieri – Tilt


From Goblin, I enjoy Roller, Il Fantastico Viaggio and Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) more. But I love nearly everything by Goblin, so...

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 07 2024 at 15:59
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

From the list:

Goblin – Profondo Rosso*
Fabio Frizzi – L'Aldilà
Il Balletto di Bronzo – Ys
PFM – Storia di un Minuto
Arti E Mestieri – Tilt


From Goblin, I enjoy Roller, Il Fantastico Viaggio and Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) more. But I love nearly everything by Goblin, so...


While I had expected votes for Frizzi and Goblin from you, I had thought that you might also go with Automat. :)

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