25 More Acts With Albums in PA's Top 250 Chart
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Printed Date: April 04 2025 at 02:29
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Topic: 25 More Acts With Albums in PA's Top 250 Chart
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 25 More Acts With Albums in PA's Top 250 Chart
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 12:19
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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: https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=12&ssubgenres=37&ssubgenres=38&ssubgenres=3&ssubgenres=42&ssubgenres=44&ssubgenres=41&ssubgenres=35&ssubgenres=30&ssubgenres=17&ssubgenres=18&ssubgenres=32&ssubgenres=6&ssubgenres=33&ssubgenres=19&ssubgenres=15&ssubgenres=36&ssubgenres=28&ssubgenres=4&ssubgenres=43&ssubgenres=29&ssubgenres=11&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=1&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=1&smaxresults=250&x=62&y=13#list" rel="nofollow - 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) ----------------------------------------------- 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. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 13:01
| ^ Totally agree with you on Third. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 13:29
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Ayreon - The Human Equation Eloy - Ocean The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
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Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 13:29
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Part The Second by MOTW is one of my top 10 all time spins. Also love MGP's World of Genius Hans and both those Discipline albums in the poll. ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 14:31
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Birds and Buildings, Solaris, Discipline, Eloy, and Ayreon. I hope to record a soundtrack for armpits that smell like magic markers. ------------- ---------- 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: Lewian
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 16:04
| This collection is a bit weaker for me than many other I've seen. Eros is my favourite here. Other voteworthy albums include Timewind, Maltid, Third, Ocean. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 16:40
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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 ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 19:19
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Mr. Gabriel The Moodys Eloy Transatlantic ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: April 01 2025 at 22:40
| 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. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 01:59
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Ayreon!😎 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 02:51
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So, I've gone for: Eloy (obviously!) Moodies... what a splendid album that still is! Transatlantic... my fave of theirs Klaus Schulze Soft Machine... not a huge fan, but this is the one I like the best? 20 years ago, I'd have gone for Lateralus, but these days not so much. ------------- 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: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 03:19
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This time there's five clear standouts for me: Soft Machine - Third Klaus Schulze: Mirage (he would have gotten my vote with only Timewind as well) Arti E Mestieri - Tilt (Immagini per un orecchio) Dun - Eros Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans -there's so many wonderful songs on Days of Future Passed, but I don't think the "light classical music" interludes has aged well. So I struggle a little with it as a full album listen. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 03:39
| Tool, Eloy, Birds and Buildings,PG and TMV |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 05:21
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I vote for the following six (in the order of appearance in the list): Discipline: Unfolded Like Staircase (142) Phideaux: Snowtorch (151) Eloy - Ocean (152) Dun - Eros (155) Peter Gabriel - 3 [Melt] (162) Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second (164) ------------- 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: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 11:00
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Eloy - Ocean The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed Peter Gabriel - Melt Soft Machine - Third Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
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Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 12:54
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Los Jaivas Moving Gelatine Plates Osanna Eloy
Phideaux Discipline
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 21:27
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phideaux (his two best IMO, though Chupacabras is my fave piece by them) Eloy - not my fave but still great Moodys - ditto Los Jaivas Maneige
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 02 2025 at 21:45
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Discipline-To Shatter All Accord Soft Machine-Third Arti E Mestieri-Tilt Osanna-Palepoli Dun-Eros ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 03 2025 at 00:29
I feel about the same: both Part the Second and Unfolded Like Staircase are top 10 for me. Hard to vote with MotW, Discipline and Klaus Schulze as plausible candidate. I give the edge to MotW today. ------------- 
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Disconnect wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 03 2025 at 06:34
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Samla Dun Sloche Soft Machine Moving Gelatine Plates ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 03 2025 at 09:10
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Lot of good stuff. My vote goes to Ayreon. The Human Equation is still my favorite from Arjen's huge discography. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |