Best Year For Prog Rock (70s)
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Topic: Best Year For Prog Rock (70s)
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: Best Year For Prog Rock (70s)
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 11:49
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Hey, just wondering what everyone's favourite year for prog rock is, just the 70s in this case. I know it will be difficult poll so I've posted the top 10 albums of each year as rated on PA below... 1970: H To He, Who Am The Only One; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; If I Could Do It All Over Again...; Trespass; Third; Bitches Brew; Abraxas; Lizard; We'll Talk About It Later; The Least We Can Do Is Wave At Each Other. 1971: Fragile; Nursery Cryme; Pawn Hearts; Aqualung; Meddle; The Yes Album; In The Land Of Grey And Pink; The Inner Mounting Flame; Acquiring The Taste; Salisbury. 1972: Close To The Edge; Thick As A Brick; Foxtrot; Per Un Amico; Storia Di Un Minuto; Darwin!; Octopus; The Grand Wazoo; Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso; Space Shanty. 1973: Selling England By The Pound; Dark Side Of The Moon; Larks' Tongues In Aspic; Io Sono Nato Libero; Birds Of Fire; In A Glass House; Zarathustra; Hatfield And The North; Felona E Sorona; Spectrum. 1974: Red; Mirage (Camel); Relayer; Crime Of The Century; The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage; The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway; Rock Bottom; The Power And The Glory; You; Hamburger Concerto. 1975: Wish You Were Here; Godbluff; Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquieme Saison; Ommadawn; The Snow Goose; Scheherazade And Other Stories; One Size Fits All; Free Hand; Rubycon; Voyage Of The Acolyte. 1976: Moonmadness; A Trick Of The Tail; Still Life (VDGG); Leftoverture, Romantic Warrior; Wind & Wuthering; 2112; In The Region Of The Summer Stars; Dawn; Viva Boma. 1977: Animals; A Farewell To Kings; Elegant Gypsy; Ocean; Songs From The Wood; Enigmatic Ocean; Mirage (Klaus Schulze); Point Of Know Return; Univers Zero 1313; Going For The One 1978: Hemispheres; Anabelas; SBB; Of Queues And Cures; 10,000 Anos Depois Entre Venus E Marte; U.K; X; Weidorje; What If; Heavy Horses. 1979: Spectral Mornings; Visitations; Joe's Garage, Act 1; Bla Vadrag; The Wall; Western Culture; Heresie; Mixtus Orbis; Svet Hledacu; One Of A Kind. I'd probably go for 1974 myself, having "Pampered Menial" and "SABB" in addition to those listed (plus some live albums), but very much looking forward to what you guys put!
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 11:56
| I'm in agreement about 1974 totally! |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 12:08
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Wasn't there just like a dozen of these threads within the last couple of months? ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 12:14
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1975 Triumvirat-Spartacus Strange Days-9 Parts To The Wind Nektar-Recycled Passport-Cross Collateral PFM-Chocolate Kings Kayak-Royal Bed Bouncer Steve Hackett-Voyage Of The Acolyte Banco-Banco '75 Libra-Libra Budgie-Bandolier |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 12:22
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I could really vote for anything from 1970 to 1975. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 12:22
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1975, but all the years from 1970 to 1977 have seen excellent prog. Only 1979 was poor. ------------- 
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 13:46
| Close between the years '70 through '73. Voted '71, though you haven't listed 1/10 the best albums of the year. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 14:03
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72 for me CTTE & TAAB ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 14:05
Make that about 10 years.
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Horizons wrote:Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 14:10
| 1972 |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 15:32
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1972. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 16:00
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1976 ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 16:24
| I do think Tales should be mentioned in 73---you can't get more prog than that--and it may be flawed masterpiece--but so are a lot of those on the list. |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 16:27
| 71 followed by 70 |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 16:38
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1973 is my favourite year but 1972 sure brought a lot of great RPI titles to the world. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: April 07 2014 at 19:43
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I'll vote for 1972, but all years have good albums.
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 02:57
| 1977 has always been my favourite year for prog. Take my favourite albums by Floyd, Yes and Genesis for starters. Add to that classics by Klaus Schulze, Eloy, J-M Jarre and TD (Encore) plus another all-time top 10 album of mine in Black Noise by FM plus many others I've not mentioned and there you have it. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 03:15
^ Genesis did not release an album in 77 OK 76- Wind & Wuthering75 for me Wish You Were Here Ommadawn Rubycon-------------and Ricochet Scheherazade Snow Goose Nightingales & Bombers Cunning Stunts
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 03:16
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'72 might have more great albums, but I've always thought of '73 as the peak of rock music. The great albums from that year take things out of the stratosphere. '74 refines things even further in some ways though. '72: Foxtrot - Genesis Octopus - Gentle Giant Per Un Amico - Premiata Forneria Marconi Three Friends - Gentle Giant Light As a Feather - Return to Forever Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Grave New World - Strawbs '73: Selling England by the Pound - Genesis Larks Tongues’ in Aspic - King Crimson Ashes are Burning - Renaissance Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Io Sono Nato Libero - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield In a Glass House - Gentle Giant '74: Red - King Crimson The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis Mirage - Camel Phaedra - Tangerine Dream Red Queen to Gryphon Three - Gryphon Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 08:06
Ever heard of Seconds Out? |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 08:45
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72, and it always wins this poll.
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 09:26
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:| ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 09:30
| 1973 was my first real year of being totally lost in prog. It was also the year of Hawkwind's Space ritual tour which I was lucky to catch in Glasgow. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 10:00
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Hi,
If I have to make a choice and vote, I'm gonna regret it in contortions and thinking ... how can I forget this or that!
It's terrible!
You're forcing me to split my mind and appreciation, specially when there are bands that had great work in more than one year. How can we say that 72 was better than 74 or 69 for Peter Hammill and his band? See?????
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Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 16:19
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tough choice... I'm kind of leaning toward '71 and '72 Voted '71 had a lot of awesomeness going for it, too many to mention ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 16:41
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I'll go with 73 ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 08 2014 at 19:46
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Went with '76, but that could change tomorrow or any other day. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Darious
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:20
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1972: Close To The Edge, Foxtrot, Per Un Amico & fabulous Storia Di Un Minuto, Darwin! by Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso.. No brainer to me - 1972. ------------- Writing about truth is a little bit like getting your dick out in public and hoping no one laughs (Steve Hogarth) |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:51
Mamamia. Hard to choose between 72 and 73. 
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:56
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If KC released a decent album in 1970, that would probably get my vote. Since they didn't, I'll have to think about this a little bit. ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:56
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72 ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 17:43
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its so hard to choose that i can't vote here, but i do know the best period is '71-'75 for sure.
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Posted By: melotron98
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:15
| Probably 75, because of WYWH, Ommadawn, Rubycon, Ricochet (best TD live), Voyage of the Acolyte... but it is a tough poll, too tough for me, I think. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:17
Was there Prog after 1972? I haven't noticed as I'm still playing the albums from '72. 
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:22
| 70 |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:49
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I don't have a favourite. When you've stretched out beyond the top 100 lists and ventured out among the non English speaking world and all of it's different scenes from just as many different countries, it quite quickly becomes clear how bonkers a poll like this really is............well at least for me that is. I love too many different styles of music to be able to pick between years. Symph and psych were great in the start of the 70s while RIO and avant really packed a punch toward the end of that decade. Depending on my mood I could vote for any year really. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |