Top 5 Prog Rock Albums

[Thor]

TOP 5/ Original Old Style Prog:
1. YES- Close to the Edge remaster ed.
[actually a tie with their Tales From Topographic Oceans remaster ed.]
2. Genesis- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
3. King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King
4. Nektar- Remember the Future
5. Caravan- In the Land of Grey and Pink

and if I fall through a door into an alternate universe
somewhere these may be the top 5...
6. ELP- Tarkus
7. Renaissance - Ashes are Burning
8. Hawkwind- Hall of the Mountain Grill
9. Camel- Moonmadness
10. Mahavishnu Orchestra- The Inner Mounting Flame

TOP 5/ New Prog Revival:
1. Marillion- Script for a Jester's Tear [tied with Fugazi] remaster eds.
2. Ozric Tentacles- Strangitude
3. IQ- Dark Matter
4. Aryeon- Electric Castle
5. Colin Masson- Isle of Eight

[Rick and Roll]

lamour......I like your choices

Thor that's 15! You cheat!

Anyway, lol, Grey and Pink is a true classic. A great choice.

And you will hear the "Electric Castle" in its entirety this week on my show!

Beo, I'm not a die hard Floyd fan, Maybe that's why I like "Animals" the best. It gets into it and never lets up. "Wish You Were Here" is a perfectly constructed record. Maybe "Dark Side" is just overexposed - it was for me.

I never thought of the Lamb as their best work. I, for one, am ecstatic that I differ from what is critically acclaimed. That being said, Lamia, Cage, Scree, Anyway, 32 Doors - all five some of their best songs. But I like Nursery Cryme and Trespass a bit better than the Lamb as a whole. Some of the songs like Lifeless Packaging and Back in NYC really annoy me.

"Selling England" to me is their masterwork.

[Hawksun]

Originally Posted by Beowulfs_Kin

What I found interesting is that the most critically acclaimed albums by Genesis and Pink Floyd are apparently not the favorites of Moon listeners. After all, Dark Side of the Moon is considered the best Pink Floyd album by most critics I've seen, but Moon listeners who picked a Floyd album overwhelmingly favored Wish You Were Here.

With Genesis, Lamb Lies Down has always been considered their best album (critically speaking) but most of the Moon listeners identified Selling England by the Pound as their favorite Genesis album (it's mine, too).

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on why there's such a difference?

I see DSOTM as PF's gateway album, a great introduction to their music, but a bit thin on content.(It's still a great album, of course). My favorite Floyd is a three way first place tie between Animals/Atom Heart Mother/Meddle.

I personnally do not like LLDOB, and prefer much more Nursery/Selling. The lamb is too unfocused and tries to push too much song ideas on too much albums (all my opinion again).

As for why people do not prefer these critics' favorite, it's probably a subject of great debate. I don't like The lamb because of reasons stated above and then some more. However, I also have a pathological repulsion against enormous mainstream success, and I can't explain why. This is probably why I don't think of Dark Side as the definitive Pink Floyd album. And, yes, I know it's dumb. I don't think we could get a homogenous answer from the community as to why these get pushed down the top 5.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

And you will hear the "Electric Castle" in its entirety this week on my show!

Rick, you rock.