Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Prog Albums
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Topic: Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Prog Albums
Posted By: KyleSchmidlin
Subject: Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Prog Albums
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 21:37
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This might already have been posted, but I didn't see when or where. I copy-pasted this from a YesFans.com discussion, but these are apparently Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Albums that Built Prog Rock. Thought it could generate some discussion. Personally, I like the list, for the most part. The handful of contemporary releases included at the end are a little ridiculous to me. I hardly think Mastodon is "building" anything, they're just using many of the right tools (and leaving out many more). But in all I think it's fair and representative. Some might mourn the exclusion of some Italian prog, but they did have the decency to include Magma. I'd have put Thick as a Brick on there, absolutely, and they act like King Crimson did one big whopper at the beginning and then sank into obscurity which obviously isn't the case, but it's hardly the worst list I've ever seen a commercial music magazine publish. Oh, and I love that Tarkus is on it. That album is, to me at least, ELP's least-pretentious and therefore probably best album. Anyways, the list: Freak Out - Frank Zappa The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Procol Harum - S/T Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed The Nice - The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief Soft Machine - Volume Two Curved Air - Air Conditioning Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other Magma - S/T Barclay James Harvest - Once Again Jethro Tull - Aqualung Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink E.L.P. - Tarkus Focus - Moving Waves Yes - Fragile Genesis - Foxtrot Gentle Giant - Octopus Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire Genesis - Selling England By The Pound E.L.P. - Brain Salad Surgery Gong - Angel's Egg Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Supertramp - Crime Of The Century E.L.O. - Eldorado Kraftwerk - Autobahn Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time Renaissance - Scheherazade Camel - Moonmadness Alan Parsons - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Kansas - Leftoverture Peter Gabriel - First Rush - A Farewell To Kings Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Asia - S/T Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Yes - 90125 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite Radiohead - OK Computer Opeth - Blackwater Park The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Muse - Black Holes And Revelations Mastodon - Crack The Skye |
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 21:39
| Completely loses credibly at the end. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 22:04
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I like that Magma is on there I don't like that Asia and 90125 and OK Computer and Deloused in the Comatorium and Deadwing and Black Holes and Revalations are Know what, Walter is basically right in this situation |
Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 01:10
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Not another list of the "top prog albums of all time"... as if we need more of these.
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Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 11:05
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Yet another list fail. :/ ------------- 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 11:12
For me its the reverse. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Triceratopsoil wrote:Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 04:06
No Close To The Edge, replaced by 90125... OK... The man who created this list was a  ! -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 05:14
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Top twenty most offensive choices out of Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Albums that Built Prog Rock: 1 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing 2 Muse - Black Holes And Revelations 3 Asia - S/T 4 Yes - 90125 5 Mastodon - Crack The Skye 6 Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 7 Opeth - Blackwater Park 8 Barclay James Harvest - Once Again 9 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 10 Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite 11 The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium 12 Marillion - Misplaced Childhood 13 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 14 Kansas - Leftoverture 15 Two E.L.P albums And the rest isn't all that impressive either. They could easily found more relevant albums than Moonmadness, Angel's Egg, Scheherazade, Aqualung, The Kick Inside mm... No Kraut, R.I.O or italians. Not even Yeti, Phaedra or Tago Mago, which even Uncut/Q managed to include in their list. Who are the "experts" that created this american/anglophilic sh*tlist? (btw, I don't necessarily hate all these albums) ------------- 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: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 05:28
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Worst choices on list are:
Gentle Giant - Octopus (all their other 70s album buried this release esp Three Friends and Free Hand)
Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (just a mess - :( ) E.L.O. - Eldorado (Why????) Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (good but not as great as others esp Aerial or Hounds of Love) Asia - S/T (NO WAY? Not even Prog!) Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite (AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGH! why not Octavarium or latest release or Scenes from a Memory????) apart from that not too bad - i have seen worse! ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 07:40
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From that CR list, only the following would probably gain a spot in my top 100.
Procol Harum - S/T
The Nice - The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Soft Machine - Volume Two Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other Magma - S/T Jethro Tull - Aqualung Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink Yes - Fragile Genesis - Foxtrot Gentle Giant - Octopus Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire Genesis - Selling England By The Pound Gong - Angel's Egg Supertramp - Crime Of The Century Rush - A Farewell To Kings But from that same list, some of these choices would not find a spot in my top 700, while some more wouldn't find a place in my top 2000 (this doesn't mean I dislike them, though)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed Barclay James Harvest - Once Again E.L.P. - Brain Salad Surgery Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth E.L.O. - Eldorado Kraftwerk - Autobahn Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time Renaissance - Scheherazade Camel - Moonmadness Asia - S/T Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Yes - 90125 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite Opeth - Blackwater Park The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Muse - Black Holes And Revelations Mastodon - Crack The Skye ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 07:50
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