My Top 25 Albums (According to LastFM)
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Topic: My Top 25 Albums (According to LastFM)
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Subject: My Top 25 Albums (According to LastFM)
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 13:43
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Just for fun - pick the album from this list you enjoy the most. This isn't generated in any smart way, it's just LastFM scrobble tracking, so albums with more tracks tend to have an easier time rising through the list. However, this is after scrobbling for almost 20 years, so the albums that have made this list are albums that are really the 'cream of the crop' to have maintained their position, to my listening experience. It's not all prog obviously. Vote for whatever you enjoy most.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 14:06
| Haven't heard most of these, and the Lamb ain't for me, but Doomsday Afternoon is really good. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 14:34
Moon Safari - Blomijud is blooming good. 
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 15:24
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Genesis' The Lamb. Stuck in another dining area filled with feet and socks giving monologues about trainspotting. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 16:08
I vote for the wonderful Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me as one might anticipate. And the title track is sublime. Love it.  While it's not one I have listened to much in many years, I am still sweet on Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. . Often told this story, but hearing Genesis' The Lamb.. playing at the closing party of a play led to a search for music that led to me scouring the internet for music (specifically searching for "Hairless Heart") that one might blame for me eventually washing up on the shores of Prog Archives. I actually found it by going through many amazon samples of music as I recall. I also have liked Major Parkinson's self-titled and Midnight Oil's 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 very much. And while I did not vote for it, I have and adore the CD boxset of the von Karajan Beethoven Symphonies and that has had the most play of any of these, especially for the 9th and the 7th Symphonies. I was raised on classical music with my parents, we commonly would have classical music playing in the house, including members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra who were friends with my parents playing at parties (my parents, unlike me, were big entertainers). My dad disapproved of rock music and pop commonly. My eldest brother rebelled by playing things like AC/DC very loud and placing hashpipes around the property like an Easter egg hunt for my dad to search, locate and destroy. Such a naughty boy, I was the obedient and boring kid in the family. LOL. I had a good dad, but very old-school, had been an officer and strict. I love soundtracks and I will say that it was because of films that the 9th and 7th became such favourites. I'm talking Clockwork Orange and ZardoZ. EDIT: Shared this track various times, but I want to again... I love it so very much. The whole album is wonderful; makes my heart sing. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 21:25
| I went with Genesis. Almost voted for Beethoven Symphonies played by the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Herbert Von Karajan. If it was desert island probably would go with Beethoven as there is far more music to listen to. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 28 2025 at 21:32
Karajan is quite the box set. I typically go with the 9th and 3rd "Eroica" Symphonies when asked what are my favorites from Beethoven. |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 01 2025 at 00:28
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Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 01 2025 at 01:13
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I'm giving a vote to Karajan's Beethoven, but hopefully it's his set from the early 60's when he was in his prime? ------------- 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: March 01 2025 at 02:08
| Don't know much on that list tbh. I'm a prog fan first and foremost and although there are those non prog albums I rate very highly they are only a tiny fraction of my listening. So I voted for Genesis 3rd best album (in my estimation). |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 01 2025 at 06:47
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I really like Beethoven (but my go-to recordings would be Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Joanna and Genesis. Love a lot of Vivaldi too. Mozart and Haydn are obviously brilliant composers as well (but I'm more into Beethoven+Vivaldi). But I might not have heard and the recordings you've included in the poll. I'm usually not the biggest fan of historical recordings. I also like some Mew and Tears For Fears. I can't say that I know any of the remaining albums. |