PA’s Italian prog top20
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Topic: PA’s Italian prog top20
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Subject: PA’s Italian prog top20
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 10:10
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 11:19
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I'm not a big lover of Museo Rosenbach, but the Top Ten here is a brilliant bank of work. No other single country could boast such a talented line-up. I much prefer the original Italian versions of the early PFM albums and also rue the fact that they went so far downhill at the end of the 70's.Suonare is dreadful. |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 11:57
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Hello Andrea. Good work and a splendid source for progheads who want to discover the wonderful Italian progrock. I'm very pleased with #16, Cherry Five, what a great CD! I only miss PFM Cook/USA and Sensitiva Immagine but that is of course subjective.
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 15:20
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My TOP 20 :
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Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 15:24
Sir, I must heartily disagree!! ------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Tony R wrote:Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 15:26
A classic Italian Prog release sung in Italian.....GREAT!!! |
Posted By: anael
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:24
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i disagree with some albums... where's Franco Falsini? Alan Sorrenti's Aria? Garybaldi's Astrolabio? Circus 2000? Ultima Spiaggia? ------------- 
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 20:06
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My God, the 20 albums listed form a FANTASTIC collection - I wish I have them all! I'm a PFM fan and the 2 first Premiata's albums are in the top of my list in the same order they were released. Banco's "Darwin" and "Io Sono Nato Libero" comes after, followed by Le Orme's "Felona e Sorona" and again PFM with "L'Isola di Niente". ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: EL OSO
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 21:20
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Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 21:28
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I have all of them except "Cherry Five." I love Italian prog, probably my favorite country of origin other than England. There's some great new prog coming from Italy also. Here's a few:
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Posted By: honganji
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 22:29
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My top 20 is
Floret Silva was released in 1985 (1000 limited LP only). This has not been reissued on CD. Mauro Pelosi is a singer song writer. La Stagione Per Morire may be better known to proggers because Gianni Leone plays on it. Canzonirere Del Lazio is a jazz rock band. Lucio Battisti is probably known to proggers in this site. Anima Latina is close to Il Volo. Only Eris Pluvia's album is recorded after 1990. next 10 is 21.I Pooh/Un Po'Del Nostro Tempo Migliore 22.PFM/Live In Japan 2002 23.Franco Battiato/Pollution 24.Malleus/Paranorm. Op I 25.Quasar Lux Symphoniae/Mit 26.Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso 27.Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso/Seguendo Le Tracce 28.Alan Sorrenti/Aria 29.Quella Vecchia Locanda/Il Tempo Della Gioia 30.Area/1978
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Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 02:39
| Banco are the greatest Italian group, so they should be on top, IMO. I'm not really a fan of PFM, nor Museo's Zarathustra.Also, Le Orme's best album is Contrappunti, which is missing. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 04:26
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ANDREW's and honganji's post are brillant work.
I commend you guys for sharing your knowledge to the rest of the world. we need your input and it is vital to the history of Rock n Roll in the World. thanks, and I mean it from Dallas, Texas USA! 
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Posted By: anomalia
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 06:00
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I think we are forgetting something? What about Area? |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 06:06
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Yesterday's reaction from my was on my work ( |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 07:48
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Hello Erik, Italian prog-world is full of wonderful surprises Now I'm listening to "Io Sono Murple" (1974)...what a delicate and well structured concept album! Yesterday I've put on my car's cd player Contrappunti: "La Fabbricante d'Angeli" and "Maggio" are beautiful songs, especially for the superb poetic lyrics!! (the first is about illegal abortion...). |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 08:48
Contrappunti is absolutely brilliant 
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 09:35
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I would like to add 80 more Italian Prog albums in addition to the first lists above.
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 09:36
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Sorry....100 albums, not 80. |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 12:14
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It would be interesting if we could vote and construct a top 20 list (10 is very restricted, more than 20 is too large and out of focus) of great italian prog groups/albums, without more than a mention per group. I konw this is unfair with a lot of groups (PFM and Le Orme, for example) but this formula can help newbies and people used to the PFM-Banco-Le Orme formula to expand their knowledge. This isn't an original idea; I borrowed it from http://www.italianprog.com - www.italianprog.com (by the way, an excelent site). Before I start this list (or someone else - this is unimportant), I think you can discuss them. The second phase would be to construct a group list and put them on a poll, but we'd need more than a single poll. I think this can be an exhaustive but very constructive work to the italian prog afficionado and to the people who wish to know this wonderful vein of prog rock. |
Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 12:27
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Where did you get that list from? I want to do a similar one for Canadian prog.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/"> 
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 15:33
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Take a look at this site if you are searching for Canadian Prog bands : http://www.kinesiscd.com - www.kinesiscd.com |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 12:18
nice list Andrea, have 15 of the first 17 and they are all great
albums. Looks like I picked the right albums to start with. Only
two I don't...at the moment... Metamorfosi - Inferno and the New Trolls
Concerto Grosso album. They'll be next up on the 'hit' list.
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 12:29
Fantastic List, agree with all of them, ill just Add "Essere o non Essere?" By Il Volo and "Dedicato a Frazz" By Semiramis Ahh i love Italian Rock!!! ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 17:44
That Il Volo's second effort is great!!!
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