1000 Prog Albums Over 46 Years: 1966-2011

Parallax Sounds wrote: yeah if you not got Causa Sui in the list, then you not done your prog rock music research work properly and i agree with sleeper about the live albums..

akamaisondufromage wrote: sleeper wrote: Parallax Sounds wrote: If you miss Causa Sui then this 1001 list would really be missing something essential. They been around since 2005 and done about 10 releases. Having listened to their song on myspace and a few others I've come across I've found out why they're not already in the archives and wont be in this list, they're not prog but a 60's style blues rock/jam band. Good at what they do (particularly the guitarist, who seems quite talented) but completely devoid of anything that would class them as prog in anyway.   http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4666   This must be the other Causa Sui then

As usual, my powers of observation fail me completely.

Saperlipopette! wrote: AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: irrelevant wrote: 1981 better have Deceit.  Oops missed that - not enough interest here unfortunately to get on the list that is already jammed up. What? But you got place for every Peter Gabriel pop album, Camel live from 1993 Marbles live, Operation Livecrime + tons of other live albums either by bands way past their period as relevant, or released 30 years after it was recorded.  Fun for diehard fans but completely inessential.

I find the 80s lists that I've perused (haven't looked beyond that yet) partricularly unsatisfying from a personal standpoint.  It is an amazingly fertlile time for RIO/Avant category kinds of music.  I think the whole exercise quite futile, though, since there is such variety in PA, and so many different tastes, that even trying to come up with such a list where every one of us should hear all of them is misguided (I know that the title references popularly used titles eleswhere).  The best one can do is to try to keep it as well balanced as possible in terms of variety of styles -- a diverse list that focuses on the well-known and obscure and tries to represent as many styles of music under the Prog umbrellas as possible.  That said, I'm not a fan of Prog per se.  I do like a lot of music included in PA's Prog umbrella, and a lot that is not yet, but would be considerable, but I'm more of a progressive music fan and fan of music that relates to music in various categories here.

If I were to try to do such a list, I would only include ones that I know and like, and not research to see what is popular, but then I wouldn't attempt such an exercise.  Not really sure that I'd consider this a blog either, unless you are sharing your thoughts and experiences with all of the albums, or emphasising your opinion on topics relating to that.  I think of this as more of a Top Tens and Lists type of topic.

PS. No Wakhevitch in the list, and only one Art Zoyd album that I saw, for shame. ;)

Parallax Sounds wrote: If you miss Causa Sui then this 1001 list would really be missing something essential. They been around since 2005 and done about 10 releases.

Having listened to their song on myspace and a few others I've come across I've found out why they're not already in the archives and wont be in this list, they're not prog but a 60's style blues rock/jam band. Good at what they do (particularly the guitarist, who seems quite talented) but completely devoid of anything that would class them as prog in anyway.

This effort is certainly laudable. I haven't listened to likely over 900 of those!! I have work to do...

no i disagree Sleeper, they had lots of press in Classic Rock Prog, Record Collector, Q mag and more, but it's not about how big and small bands are, it's about the quality of music and i'm telling you that Causa Sui is oozing with prog quality! One of Causa Sui albums on vinyl went for something like $6000 on ebay a few months back.

I love that you made this list, and I think you did a great job. I can agree with others who say most of the live albums can be omitted, and maybe add a couple that you missed (mostly in the late 90s/2000s).

Maybe have 1-2 live albums for each decade. Or maybe have the 1001 albums list, then a separate list with 101 live albums. Yes, a hundred and one.

yeah if you not got Causa Sui in the list, then you not done your prog rock music research work properly and i agree with sleeper about the live albums..

I notice you not got "Causa Sui". Essential!!!!!

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Kate Bush:  Aerial   What? I love that album - which year was it? Dang I will fix that - oopsy

 

Edited by akamaisondufromage - January 02 2012 at 09:20