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    Posted: January 01 2017 at 08:26
Mine doesn't care for names and stuff but she sings along to Genesis, Yes and more recently to Moon Safari and Big Big Train whenever I put them on the stereo or in the car - it could be a lot worse, don't you think ? LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2017 at 08:06
My wife (30 years of married ) like some moments of prog as for instance : YES - "Wonderous Stories", "The Remenbering", "Leaves of Green". King Crimson " I Talk to the  Wind ", EL&P "...Still... You Turn Me On " , "Jerusalem", "Ces't la Vie" , Genesis "Ripples" etc...But she is not a  fan . 
 
Some of my classics: 
 
YES- The Yes Album., Fragile, Close to the edge, Tales, Relayer, Going for the One ( not in order) 
 
GENESIS - Foxtrot , Nursery Crime , Seling England... 
 
EL & P - Tarkus, TrIlogy, Brain Sallas 
 
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the taste, Three Friends, In A Glass House, Freehand , Missing Piece 
 
Camel- Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness, Nude 
 
Jethro Tull- Stand Up , Bennefit, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick. Songs from the wood 
 
Rush- 2112, A Farewell to kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures 
 
Birthcontrol- Backdoor Possibilities  
 
Led Zeppelin - II , III , IV, Presence
Anyone's Daughter - Adonis, In Blau 
 
Eloy - Ocean, Colours, Silent Cries... 
 
PFM - Storia di un minuto, The world became the world 
 
Greenslade- Same, Spyglass Guest, Besides the Manners are Extra 
 
Le Orme - Collage, Contrapunto  
  
King Crimson- In a Court... , Lark ..., Starless 
 
Pink Floyd- Meddle, Wish you are Here, Dark Side 
 
Etho's- Open Up 
 
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior, Hynm of Seventh Galaxy  
  
Strawbs - Grave new world, Bursting at seams, 
  
  
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2016 at 10:11
Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

My wife doesn't really care to know the names of artists/tracks...


Admittedly, neither do I. At least when it comes to track names. Artists are still important to know. Most new albums are "....the 3rd track on [band/album name] is amazing!"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2016 at 19:43
Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

You have a wife who likes Prog?  Amazing, she belongs at the top of your Wall of Fame!!  LOL
 
My wife doesn't really care to know the names of artists/tracks but she likes Yes, Genesis, Steely Dan etc. She prefers that to heavy metal which is too noisy for her liking.
 
@ thread: My wall of fame album is Red.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2016 at 15:36
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Somehow I missed this thread, which is a pity, because it's really a great idea. For those who have joined the site in recent times, I'm Micky's wife, and the author of the Ut Gret review posted on the previous page. You can find it (and many others) by clicking on the first link in my signature (that's my sadly neglected personal blog) - lots of interesting stuff for you to explore.

Anyway, besides the wonderful Ut Gret album, there are others that belong to our personal Wall of Fame - that is, albums we both love, and in some cases have a sentimental connection with. These are a few, just off the top of my head:

PFM - Storia di un minuto
Delirium - Dolce acqua
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blue Oyster Cult - most of their albums, especially the first three
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Kate Bush - Lionheart/Aerial

Some modern stuff:
Miriodor - Avanti!
Gösta Berlings Saga - Glue Works
Knifeworld - Bottled Out of Eden
North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon



hah... your tastes are only rivaled by your beauty.. and patience LOL

I'd put Hazards of Love in there as well... as much for the album as that wonderful concert that was an experience....as quasi spiritual in nature as you can get without smoking a lot of sh*t and popping a bunch of pills. I've seen a lot of great shows... very few even approach that one. I think even you were crying at the end as a pure function of emotional release as I was.   Brilliant, heart warming, and majestic.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2016 at 17:10
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Here are some of mine. Music that fascinated me when I was a little kid listening to all that strange music my brother, who is ten years older than I am and whom I idolized as a kid, listened to with his friends. It fascinated me immensely.

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time, Space Ritual
Edgar Froese - Aqua, Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn, Starring Rosi
Genesis - Nursery Cryme, Live
Christian Boulé - Photo Musik
Magma - Üdü Wüdü
Gong - Angel's Egg, Live etc.
Mother Gong - Fairy Tales
Nik Turner - Xitintoday
Gentle Giant - s/t, Octopus, In a Glass House
Atlantis - Live at Fabrik (not in the archives)
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri, Atem, Phaedra, Rubycon
Klaus Schulze - Picture Music, Mirage, Moondawn
Uriah Heep - Salisbury, The Magician's Birthday
Deep Purple - In Rock, Live in Japan, Stormbringer
Wishbone Ash - New England, There's the Rub, Live Dates
Popol Vuh - Affenstunde, Einsjäger und Siebenjäger, Hosianna Mantra

These are some (but by no means all) of the albums that impressed the little girl named Friederike deeply.


Hello Ladies /Baldfriede, it's a joy to find you still on here I have been away for so long and only came back to look for the 3 Fates after Greg Lakes sad death .I enjoyed our mutual admiration for Peter Hamill's magnificent voice.Hope you are both well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2016 at 17:02

Hello Ladies, It's been such a long time away it is almost with joy to find you still on here.I enjoyed
our love/appreciation discussions on the merits of Mr Peter Hammill's magnificent voice. Hope you are both well

John.

I followed this up with a susequent post as the first wasn't adressed to you.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2016 at 15:35
Somehow I missed this thread, which is a pity, because it's really a great idea. For those who have joined the site in recent times, I'm Micky's wife, and the author of the Ut Gret review posted on the previous page. You can find it (and many others) by clicking on the first link in my signature (that's my sadly neglected personal blog) - lots of interesting stuff for you to explore.

Anyway, besides the wonderful Ut Gret album, there are others that belong to our personal Wall of Fame - that is, albums we both love, and in some cases have a sentimental connection with. These are a few, just off the top of my head:

PFM - Storia di un minuto
Delirium - Dolce acqua
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blue Oyster Cult - most of their albums, especially the first three
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Kate Bush - Lionheart/Aerial

Some modern stuff:
Miriodor - Avanti!
Gösta Berlings Saga - Glue Works
Knifeworld - Bottled Out of Eden
North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2016 at 14:12
I just went through my collection and the list below (in purely alphabetical order) would go up on my wall.
Clearly, this list is not prog-centric, but even so, it's a fun thread.
These are the albums I consider to be virtually flawless. They have in common that once I've started listening to any one of them, I just have to hear it right through to the end. There is not a single track on any of these that I don't enjoy.

Tori Amos - A Piano
Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Deep Purple - Purpendicular
Deodato - Prelude
District 97 - Trouble with Machines
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Everon - North
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Gentle Giant - Aquiring the Taste
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Grobschnitt - Jumbo
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Hexenhaus - Dejavoodoo
IQ - The Road of Bones
Ron Jarzombek - Speaking Of Theoretcial Confinement
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Karnataka - The Delicate Flame Of Desire
King Crimson - Lizard
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 2
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Lucifers Friend - Banquet
Magenta - Home (2CD Edition)
Maragold - Maragold
Pavlov's Dog - At the Sound of the Bell
PFM - Storia di un Minuto
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat
Titanic - Titanic (not the soundtrack but the Norwegian band)
Transister - Zig Zag
Triumvirat - Spartacus
Van der Graaf Generator - Least we can Do ....
XTC - Nonsuch
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2016 at 11:49
Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

You have a wife who likes Prog?  Amazing, she belongs at the top of your Wall of Fame!!  LOL
My wife hates prog. Damn!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2016 at 16:59
Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

My wife also dislikes most of the music I listen to (Zappa particularly), except she likes the Moody Blues - I must have done something really bad in a past life............

My wall of fame would be

MOI- Freak Out
Zappa- Lumpy Gravy
MOI - Uncle Meat
King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - Lizard
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes- YesSongs
Weather Report - Black Market
Ayers Rock - Beyond
Ariel -  A Strange Fantastic Dream   

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2016 at 13:54
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Originally posted by Watchmaker Watchmaker wrote:

I have talked about it before, but here it is again. Departure Songs by We Lost the Sea. Read my review if you want, but it's an experience after all, so no words can do it justice.

Your review really piqued my curiosity, and having just listened to the album for the first time, I'd say that it sums up this piece of art wonderfully. I'm not one to appreciate a lot of post-rock, but the aesthetic works so well on this album, given the subject matter. A really touching experience all around. 


Thank you! I don't like post-rock all that much, too. I feel like every song sounds just the same. But this one is different. When musicians put love, devotion and emotion into what they do, you can really tell.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2016 at 12:27
Originally posted by Watchmaker Watchmaker wrote:

I have talked about it before, but here it is again. Departure Songs by We Lost the Sea. Read my review if you want, but it's an experience after all, so no words can do it justice.

Your review really piqued my curiosity, and having just listened to the album for the first time, I'd say that it sums up this piece of art wonderfully. I'm not one to appreciate a lot of post-rock, but the aesthetic works so well on this album, given the subject matter. A really touching experience all around. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 18:19
I need to give Weather Report a chance. I'm into classic jazz and tend to be a creature of habit. Of course, plenty of Miles, Coltrane, Mingus and Monk. Love early Hancock, Getz and Dolphy's Out To Lunch. Time to broaden my horizons.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 18:07
My wife also dislikes most of the music I listen to (Zappa particularly), except she likes the Moody Blues - I must have done something really bad in a past life............

My wall of fame would be

MOI- Freak Out
Zappa- Lumpy Gravy
MOI - Uncle Meat
King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - Lizard
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes- YesSongs
Weather Report - Black Market
Ayers Rock - Beyond
Ariel -  A Strange Fantastic Dream   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 17:39
My wife likes most of the music I listen to, but she goes more for the melodic than instrumental jams.  She dislikes King Crimson and Magma, though, and will not allow me to play the Residents while she is in the house.
 
As to a wall of fame, one album immediately comes to mind with no direct connection to the missus: Last Autumn's Dream by Jade Warrior.  It had long been a favorite of mine when I brought a copy over to a buddy's house.  I think it was a cassette I made of my vinyl album.  We sat in his living room for the entire duration, uninterrupted, and said nothing the whole time.  Just listening.  It created a whole new designation of music for him, and this is a guy who used to live for music as both a performer, arranger, and listener.
 
There are few in recent years that I would put into a wall of fame category, but there are several from many years ago that I still enjoy as much as I did when they were new:
 
Spectral Mornings by Steve Hackett
Relayer by Yes
Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson (which I am listening to right now for the first time in years)
Heavy Horses and Songs From the Wood by Jethro Tull
Below the Salt and Parcel of Rogues by Steeleye Span
The Book of Invasions by Horslips
Live at Carnegie Hall by Renaissance
Wind and Wuthering by Genesis
Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson
Heaven and Hell by Vangelis
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 10:45
Some albums that helped me along my prog journey:

Rush-2112
King Crimson-In the Court...
Jethro Tull-Thick as...
Beardfish-Sleeping in... ...Pt. 2
Gojira-From Mars...
Gorguts-Obscura
Devin Townsend-Addicted
The Mars Volta-Deloused...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 10:20
There are a number of albums that excited me big time from the very first moment up to the present day in a way that I'd wonder all the time how such music, such an inner experience is possible, in a very personal way.
The first ones I thought of when reading the thread were Heard of Instinct by .O.Rang and, related, the last three (yes, three) albums by Talk Talk. Not sure whether any other band could place so many in what I could call my "Wall of Fame".

There are some (on this site) well known favourites such as Discipline or Kate Bush's The Dreaming and somewhat less well known things like Holger Czukay's Movies. An apparently quite obscure one is the magnificent "The Ghost Trade" by Charles Hayward's Camberwell Now. I absolutely treasure the moment when I first listened to Kong's Phlegm; a quite recent one that was brought to me by progarchives (recommendation somewhere by Nogbad the Bad) was Sonar; not yet sure how my appreciation for this will grow over time but I already more and more realise that this is really MY kind of stuff.

(...and more... particularly I left out all the non-prog stuff...)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 05:54
Besides the obvious classics, like Thick as a Brick, Close to the Edge, etc, I really love PFM's "Per Un Amico", Gentle Giant's "Three Friends", Nektar's "Recicled", The Moody Blues' "A Question of Balance", George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", The Flower King's "Paradox Hotel", Chic Corea's "Trio Live", among many others.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2016 at 05:13
Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

You have a wife who likes Prog?  Amazing, she belongs at the top of your Wall of Fame!!  LOL


I'll second that!!!
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