Top 5 Prog Rock Albums
 

a webpage published their top 100 of prog rock albums, and this were their first 5

1) Close to the Edge - Yes
2) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
3) Wish you Where Here - Pink Floyd
4) Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
5) Foxtrot - Genesis

Whats your top 5?

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1. King Crimson - Discipline
2. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
3. Gong - Flying Teapot (Ha!:haha: )
4. Soft Machine - Volume Two (Ha#2! :rofl: )
5. Gentle Giant - Octopus
6. Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (sorry, couldn't resist)

...at the moment, but still discovering new bands, albums, etc.

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we've done this a lot....so instead of searching I'll post five anyway. How about a top 100?

1. Discipline - King Crimson (same as Ginjeet!)
2. As the World - Echolyn
3. Unfolded Like Staircase - Discipline
4. The Devouring - Djam Karet

and about 100 others tied for fifth. Sometime I'll list them....

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I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistent.
:thumbsup:

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Do you have the link to the list, Pelothar?

Without giving this too much thought, here's my five:

1. Pink Floyd...Wish You Were Here

2. King Crimson...Larks Tongues In Aspic

3. Yes....Close to the Edge

4. Yes...Fragile

5. Marillion...Clutching At Straws

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ugh... how many times have we done this...?

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Apparently not enough. Don't play then. :)

We do the same things at are jobs over and over.

So I guess you'll not be showering for the rest of the year? (Why shower, I did this already!)

Just jerking your chain, spaz....:haha:

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1. Larks Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson
2. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
3. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
4. Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
5. Octopus - Gentle Giant

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Not razzing on spaz but...

This kind of question is fun if you're playing, and it's good to see new people post in the forums. It's also a question that's not going to go away, as folks discover the Moon.

People who have played before can either take a jab at it again, or go and do stuff that makes them happy. Lots of choice. :yougo

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i posted this thread cause im new, and i wanted to see the tendencies of everyone who wanted to play, and the personal top 5 is something that can change in one night, so.... this is my top 5 ;)

1) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
2) Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico
3) Samla Mammas Mana - Matild
4) Genesis - Foxtrot
5) Sui Generis - Pequeñas anécdotas sobre las instituciones (not in the moon)*:sad:

* can i donate a copy??? i dont want to loose my album.. was difficult to get

well, im glad to be part of these awesome community... next time il post something more original :notsure:

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Don't worry Pelo, people are enjoying the thread. :)

As for me, I can't really give a top 5; for some odd reasons every prog album I know gets tied for 1st position when I think about it. I can't really decide.

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Pelothar, I forwarded your private message to Jim..... :)

This is a great thread, do not worry about being original, this is great!:vaxman:

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of course it's impossible to say. but i would remove some stuff and re-arrange some groups in this order :

1) Keys to ascension - Yes
2) Wish you Where Here - Pink Floyd
3) Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
4) Turbulent Zone - Versus X
5) NIL - i don't remember... or maybe La Maschera Di Cera - a great song i dont remember... or maybe so many bands with so many titles... remembered or not. Well : Aural Moon - Aural Moon.

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pelo, post away. I really enjoy seeing what people like. The only "old" thing about threads is when folks complain they are old. Welcome.

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Couldn't have said it better myself mossy.

As for my top 5. At this moment in time it is:

1) Tales from topographic oceans - Yes
2) Dark side of the moon - Pink floyd
3) Selling England by the pound - Genesis
4) Pink Moon - Nick Drake (If Leo Kottke is on the Moon then so should Nick be!)
5) Earthbound - King Crimson

Like I said Pelo, you post whatever and whenever you want. It's great to see so many new members on the Moon.

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I know it's not going away. I just wish that when new folks come to a place they'd search the boards for a while before posting. If I join a new community, I don't post something the first day. Most boards even have a sticky thread that reads something like "READ THIS FIRST" or "THESE TOPICS ALREADY HAVE FIVE THREADS."

See above.
Seriously, I'm glad you're here and look forward to getting to know you. I'm not a jerk. Really.

Sure. Here's what you can do. Rip the cd to mp3 at 192kps. Get all the tags perfect - artist, song title, album title, and year - on each track. Use IDv3 tags. Then bundle the whole thing together as one file. Then use www.yousendit.com to send the whole thing to ProgDirJim. You can PM him to get his email address. Finally, be patient. Jim's always got a TON of music to listen to. And be aware that it's not guaranteed it'll get added. Jim is the music director and owner and he decides what is or is not added.

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So arbitrary, but here we go.

1. Yes - Relayer
2. Yes - Going for the One
3. King's X - Faith Hope Love
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II

...why not?

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dont worry Yesspaz, i know you didn`t mean what it sounded like, cause you a as a long time member probably understand better than me that we are all together in for the music :)

P.S.: Thanks for the instructions, that was exactly what i needed! :haha:

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I agree this kind of question is not very usefull :boxing: , are the others so?:rofl:

Just for the record and according to my instant inspiration and feeling

Golden age

1. Selling England by the £ By Genesis
2. Pawn Hearts by VDGG
3. Red by King Crimson
4. Isola di niente by PFM
5. Close to the edge by Yes

Today's prog ( so they say , the adjective progressive applied to rock did not exist during the Golden age , some papers named it ' Head rock' in western Europe ( minus UK:rofl: )


1. Il trono dei recordi eponym
2. Brave by Marillion
3. Ever by Iq
4. Flower Power By TFK
5. Il grande labyrintho LA maschera di cera

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some thoughts:

Pelo, I didn't think of adding the music that way, good idea Spaz. But Jim has your email to me also.

Spaz, I don't access Progressive Ears because of the sheer voluminosity (fake word, Webster is choking on a adjective there) of the posts. I don't think new members need to search the boards. This forum isn't the easiest to find stuff. I can't even find my old shows if I didn't have them written down. Got a Kx record in there :)

What I would like to see is some basic info on the new members. Pelo has some background but a lot of new members just out their name in.

And mail you cheated and did a top 10:haha: I have to do a top 100 thread...

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1. Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water
2. King Crimson - Red
3. VDGG - Still Life
4. Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
5. Fantomas - Suspended in Animation (check these guys out... they are TWISTED!.... they should be on the MOON!)

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I concur!

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Gentle Giant - In A Glass House.
U.K. - U.K.
Fire Merchants - Landlords Of Atlantis.
Transatlantic - SMPTe
Yes - Relayer

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Glass House and Octopus (picked by a lot of you) I'm always torn between. They're both in my top 10.

Fire merchants....sounds like a bunch of a holes to me:rofl: :haha:

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Gentle giant's Octopus would probably be my nº 6

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1. Genesis - Selling England by The Pound
2. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
3. Kayak - Last Encore
3. Esperanto - Dance Macabre
5. Focus - Hamburger Concerto

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nice ! Somoene who knows and likes "Danse Macabre"

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Such a sticky thread, an FAQ, mentioned by Spaz would probably be a good idea. It could also contain general pointers to some of the most interesting and valuable threads on these forums.


-Methem

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Sorry meth, spaz, I don't agree. this is a forum, full of free flowing thoughts, not a ranking, etc. Stickys should be used to keep important announcements at the top, not to rank threads.

Sometimes a thread seems worthwhile and no one hits it. Other times it's goofy and everyone does.

Seems to me people like it. Who cares that it gets recycled every so often?

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I like threads that reappear...it is like revisiting the past... as with this thread... who knows.. 2 years from now my top 5 list might change and it will be fun seeing where my head was at this point in time!

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HERE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nick deserves to be on the moon!!!!

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somebody said that this thread, good point...sometimes they change every day!

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maybe the disgruntled should start a top 5 WORST prog album list thread if this bores them!

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Not the best, but what I have listened more than three times a day.

Rush - a Farewell to Kings
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Camel - Snow Goose
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2

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For what it's worth:

1) Close To The Edge - Yes
2) Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
3) Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
4) Foxtrot - Genesis
5) Tarkus - ELP

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1 - Seconds Out - Genesis
2 - Close to the Edge - Yes
3 - Trick of the Tail - Genesis
4 - Wish You Were Here - Pink F.
5 - Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes

FAQ, free-flowing thoughts
 

To R'n'R and artboy:

I've got no particular problem with this thread or these polls in general. It is just that with over 2500 threads and close to 20000 posts, it might be beneficial to offer a little guidance, other than just the keyword-based search mechanism, for those who're trying to find something specific from the archives.

Not that this is awfully important to me. Whatever eventually keeps the Moon best on its orbit... that's the way to go, I suppose.


-Methem

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Here's a suggestion...eliminate "Rick" from the search, and you'll be down to 17,000 posts:rofl:

Don't worry, in the coming months my posting should decrease (promises promises)...

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Ok, will consider that... ;)

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... seems like a good time for my first post...

1. Selling England by the Pound - Genesis,
2. Silent cries and mighty echoes - Eloy,
3. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd,
4. Lark's Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson,
5. Time is the key - Gong (Pierre Moerlen's Gong),

My choices are somewhat seasonal. Although the previous list represents my gold standards, I am at times (particularly during Fall) very partial to Wind & Wuthering, by Genesis, to One Size Fits All by Zappa, and to Tales from the Lush Attic, by IQ.