Beautiful prog albums
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Topic: Beautiful prog albums
Posted By: AlexUC
Subject: Beautiful prog albums
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 22:44
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While listening this gorgeous album: ../album.asp?id=13442"> 
 4.28 | 69 ratings ../album.asp?id=13442 - Stati Di Immaginazione 2006 The only thought that comes to my mind is "OMG, this must be some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard in my life". I know this isn't exactly the most challenging album you can find, or the most complex or any other cold adjective, but one thing is clear for me: this album is beautiful. And that cover... Please, mention those prog albums that mean something similar to you  Who said Harmonium? Some more PFM maybe? Discuss... ------------- This is not my beautiful house... |
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 22:55
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yes it has happened to me several times, when i listen to an album and i say it is just beautiful music...
The Snow Goose is an example that pd like to mention, when i listen to it that feeling of beautiful music comes to me immediately.
other example, LocandaDelle Fate or Isildurs Bane ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 23:01
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My fave is Hero and Heroine by the Strawbs, beautiful cover, gorgeous music, splendid mellotron, colossal themes, emotional voice, surreal clean production (for the times) . Willowglass' Book of Hours is not far behind with For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music in the tail end. ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 23:03
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Weather Report - Weather Report (1971)
Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric (1972)
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 23:03
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I've got on Uomo di Pezza right now, just picked it up and I'd say it's very pretty..In the Land of Grey and Pink also comes to mind, and Al DiMeola's World Sinfonia albums |
Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 23:29
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The Art of Navigating by the Stars by Sieges Even is one such album for me. Just Beautiful Prog metal. Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden is another.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 00:14
| oh and anything by U.S. chamber group Rachel's |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 00:39
| The three Renaissance albums from Ashes to Scheherazade, Bacamarte's Depois Do Fim, PFM's Per Un Amico, Le Orme's Uommo Di Pezza, that Harmonium album (though honestly I don't personally dig these last three much!), Steve Hillage's Fish Rising, Pink Floyd's Meddle (though Seamus disrupts the beauty with a loud bark!) and many more. |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 01:59
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( ) by Sigur Ros All of there albums actually... feels like gliding above the clouds. It's magical. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 02:46
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Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Strawbs - From The Witchwood
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Landberk - Indian Summer
Camel - Moonmadness
Caravan - Blind Dogs at St Dunstans
to name but a few.... ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 02:56
seconded. actually anything by sigur ros works. also,  and  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Jake Kobrin wrote:Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 04:01
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MIKE OLDFIELD Ommadawn HARMONIUM Si On Avait Besoin d'une Cinquième Saison CAMEL Harbour Of Tears ... ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: Octavian
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 04:30
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Per un Amico - PFM Storia di un Minuto - PFM Close to the Edge - Yes In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson Red - King Crimson |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 14:26
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Devin Townsend - Terria, Ocean Machine
Peter Gabriel - Passion ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 15:08
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Posted By: AlexUC
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 15:27
  4.81 | 3 ratings ../album.asp?id=18184 - Fools Paradise 1975 One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. ------------- This is not my beautiful house... |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 16:44
| Moody Blues- Seventh Sojourn. It sounds like the music of the heavens..........if I believed in such a thing. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 16:54
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 16:57
| 2008's "Saena" from SAENA is sheer beauty to me, a refurbished type of symphonic prog that feels very creative, intense, emotional... and beautiful, indeed. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:05
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Fellow prog fans tend to disagree, but Genesis' From Genesis To Revelation strikes me as a beautiful album. It's not aggressive or complex at all, but it's all just calm, nice music. I personally don't think it's better than others, but it is certainly more beautiful. ------------- 
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:12
David Sancious - "Forest of Feelings"
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:28
Both are fantastic and undoubtly my two WR favorites. But especially the latter is pretty chaotic and out there at times. For sheer beauty I think Return To Forever's debut and Light as a Feather would work better. Maybe In a Silent Way and Get Up With it, both by Miles Davis too. Sticking to prog that's easy on the ears: Tonton Macoute's only, Skin Alley's first, both by Cressida and the swedish ../album.asp?id=5602 - Ragnarök 's folky debut are stunning (so is Continuum). Celeste's (Principe di Giorno), Roberto Zappa (Celestion) and Le Orme's (Collage) debuts and the one off by Campo di Marte and Luciano Basso are more italian, not to complex beauties for topicstarter. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:40
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Genesis' Trespass, with the exception of The Knife... Yes' Disc 1 of Tales, for me is beautiful The already mentioned Camel albums too... Tull's Thick as a Brick part 1 is pretty much beautiful too... Supertramp's Even in the quitest Moments... Though, honestly, I can find more songs, rather than entire albums, being beautiful... |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:44
I think the middle section is (kind of) beautiful... -------------
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 17:47
| ^lemme think..... hmm, yeah, maybe... |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 18:17
Ammerland
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Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 11:02
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Right at the moment: Pulsar( French) The Strands Of The Future
paatos:( Sweden)
Silence Of Another Kind
2 wonderful albums of these 2 very underrated bands.
 one super old
and a brand-new one.
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Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 21:06
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Paatos is absolutely fantastic. The vocalist is one of my favorite female prog singers.
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Posted By: spacerocker
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 23:25
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i just downloaded this album http://cdbaby.com/cd/aeolianrace - http://cdbaby.com/cd/aeolianrace the other day. best stuff i've heard in a while!! very early floydish with real cool spacey stuff going on.
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Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 23:54
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I just listened to "666" by Aphrodite's Child and that was a gorgeous album. The Greek instrumentation was a nice touch as well. Some other lovely sounding prog albums in my opinion... Yes- "Magnification" Fruupp- "Seven Secrets" Caravan- "Waterloo Lily" Pink Floyd- "Meddle" Premiata Forneria Marconi- "Per Un Amico" ------------- 
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Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 01:18
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curently i am hooked on dawn-loneliness..it is a fantastic album.!!!
pity the band is underrated and got average reviews because of their comparison to camel..and i think comparisons are not a very good thing in music because it puts certain expectations on the listener..the best thing is to listen to any prog album without any preconceptions or expectations and let the music speak for itself..regardless of any similarities or influences,
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Posted By: pianoman
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 05:56
| @keiser wilhelm, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, is one of the most beautuful albums of all time. But I think that Agaetus Byrjun by Sigur Ros is the most beautiful album. Even more than ( ). |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 06:58
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in prog I get this feeling from the acoustic albums of Steve Hackett mostly, but it could be argued they are not prog at all
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 07:12
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Pain of Salvation- 12:5 Marillion- Afraid of Sunlight White Willow- Ignis Fatuus, Ex Tenebris and Sacrament (theres three especially) PFM- Per Un Amico Harmonium- Si on Avait... The Gathering- Sleepy Buildings Thieves Kitchen- The Water Road This is some of the most beautiful music ever made. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 09:54
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I'd like to mention Moon Safari's Blomljud.
A stand-out star amongst a lot of other beautiful albums.
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 02:43
yeah, Kind of know what you mean, it is a beautiful album.
Another one I forgot is that swede maestro Bo Hansson - Attic Thoughts ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: March 02 2009 at 03:39
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Hard to look past Peter Gabriel's "So" and "Up"... ------------- 
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 02 2009 at 03:54
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Genesis - Trick of the tail
Renaissance - Sherezade and other story
Steve Hackett - Spectral mornings
and many more...................
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: March 02 2009 at 04:14
Id tend to agree. Its hard to pick a favorite Sigur Ros cd but if i had to itd be almost too close to call between Agaetus Byrjun and Takk, though i think id take the former. also, i cant believe i forgot, this is one of te most acheingly beautiful discs i own.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 16:10
| Ones that come to mind are: Ain Soph's - Hat and Field RTF's Light as a feather , also Getz/Gilberto |
Posted By: 30761760
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 15:05
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I'd have to go for strawbs 'Brave new world' or genisis 'Trespass' including the knife or KC 'In the court of the crimson king'. ------------- When music becomes a commodity, music dies. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 15:13
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Celeste- Principe , Il Volo's debut are both sumptuous! please add the Dave Bainbridge ( ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 15:29
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun, Genesis' Trespass, Gabriel's Up
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Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 15:31
Trespass is a beautifull album,indeed.People don't seem to aprecciate this very much,but it is..... |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 16:15
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I have just listened to Anthony Phillip's Geese and the Ghost, and damn, how beautiful it is!!! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: March 20 2009 at 00:21
| With the responses all over the prog spectrum, it seems that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." For me, Camel, Moonmadness, is a beautiful album - even the artwork on the cover. Another is Yes, Relayer - the whole album has beautiful music and, again, the artwork (Roger Dean's) is impeccable... |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: March 20 2009 at 03:14
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Posted By: cronholm
Date Posted: April 01 2009 at 15:58
| I agree with Camels´ Moon Madness, ditto Renaissance and Peter Gabriels Passion, Bo Hansson is a great suggestion as well, perhaps Ur Trollkarlens hatt (The Magicians hat) in particular. What else? Let's see ... Nope, guess the important ones have already been mentioned. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: April 01 2009 at 16:22
Those two right there. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: April 02 2009 at 03:53
I third this notion. ------------- 
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 02 2009 at 04:28
Mmmmm... Though question... Just some of my fav BEAUTIFUL prog albums
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 02 2009 at 11:51
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Hi,
Gosh ... beautiful ...
This is hard ... but beautiful for me, in music, is really relative ... for example, I have hear 4 different versions of Turandot, and none of them are any better than Renata Tebaldi with Herbert von Karajan at the helm ... and it not only has to do with the music itself, but obviously with the singer and her ability to flow with the music as well ... some feel it and some don't.
That said, for me, it's about ... living and dieing ... when listening to something ... you close your eyes and you are off to some really far off and far out lands and visions somewhere else ... so with that in mind here is my "trip'iest" of all ... and it has absolutely nothing to do with musical style ... has to do with the tripping content in them.
These are not in order, btw ...
Jan Garbarek - Eventyr (get ready for Soria Maria)
Egeberto Gismonti - No Caipira (get ready for the best mix of classical and modern you have ever heard)
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concerts (Side 2)
Amon Duul 2 - Yeti (the long improvisation)
Ash Ra Tempel - New Age of Earth - the first and still best new age album ever
Klaus Schulze - Audentity (Sebastien en traum)
Terje Rypdal - Eos (with David Darling) (skip the first cut please)
Ange - Au Dela Du Delire
Vangelis - El Greco
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Sadistic Mika Band - Hot Menu
Riuychi Sakamoto - Beauty
Carmen - Fandangos in Space
Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Anthony Phillips - Slow Waves Soft Stars .. and later Slow Dance
Soundtrack related
Blade Runner with Vangelis
Chariots of Fire with Vangelis (well deserved Oscar!)
The Last Buddha - Riuychi Sakamoto
and there are more ... I just can not list them all and would have to go through the collection right now to see what I missed.
All in all, these had music that was a lot more ... a heck of a lot more ... inspirational to me and then some.
There are a lot of other artists that I have a lot of respect for, even if they are not my favorites, and folks like Frank Zappa deserve some credit as a great composer ... unffortunately, even this board is too tied up with music that is more "popular" and we already know how Frank was not into that ...
It's about the music ... and please ... listen to some more stuff ... some of these things listed above are way beyond the determination of what kind of music it is ... it defies description ... I mean ... for me Yeti (the improvisation) is about aliens landing and spreading around .... not about a jam by some rock band.
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: April 02 2009 at 12:20
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In this moment my type of Beautiful Prog albums are:
- Artension: 'Machine'
- Atomic Rooster: 'Rarities' and 'Devil's Answer'
- Santana: 'Abraxas' and also 'Ultimate Santana' that is a hot album)
- Mahavishnu Orchestra: 'Birds Of Fire'
- Asia: Then & Now'
- Deep Purple: 'Burn', 'In Rock' and 'Made In Japan'
- Rainbow: all released with Dio and Powell
-Wishbone Ash: 'Argus'
- Ibis: 'Sun Supreme'
- Il Rovescio Della medaglia: 'La Bibbia'
- Balletto Di Bronzo: 'Ys' ------------- 
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Posted By: Razorback
Date Posted: April 02 2009 at 14:02
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Surely it' sgot to be 'At the Sound Of The Bell' by Pavlov's Dog.Mr Surkamp sure has a distinctive voice. If you're sticking with PFM how about 'The World Became The World'
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Posted By: AlexUC
Date Posted: April 02 2009 at 14:46
And of course... ------------- This is not my beautiful house... |