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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

What's in a name? I know it is the music that counts, but tell me what you think are the coolest names given to a prog band's album, regardless if you like the music or not.

My favorite is the debut Mahavishnu Orchestra album, The Inner Mounting Flame. That is such an awesome name for an album! I do admit that I really like the music, as well.

Other favorite names are Terje Rypdal-What Comes After
                                     Libra-Winter Day's Nightmare
                                     Nektar-A Tab In The Ocean
                                     Colosseum-Daughter Of Time
                                     

That is what comes to mind

Nice!  I always enjoyed the title "Remember the Future" by Nectar! 

Others would include:

Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans 
Focus: Moving Waves
ELP: Tarkus 
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2019 at 07:29
easy.. the quintessentials... for showing newbie in nutshell what (classic) prog is about

for title
TFTO...  

cover..

Tarkus

music...

ding ding..

again TFTO...
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

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top 5'r there in my book... Thumbs Up Try saying that one quickly 5 times in a row LOL
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Bubblemath - Edit Peptide. It's super fun and creative just like the music on it.


That's a great albumClap, though I am afraid most people here won't have heard it (or even OF it).

Some of my personal favourites, including also some Prog-Related bands:

Fire of Unknown Origin (my avatar)
Tyranny and Mutation
Agents of Fortune
Starless and Bible Black (fits the music to a T)
Machine Head (same as above)
Close to the Edge (no explanation necessary)
Selling England by the Pound (strangely prophetic)
In the Land of Grey and Pink (great colour combination!)
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

What's in a name? I know it is the music that counts, but tell me what you think are the coolest names given to a prog band's album, regardless if you like the music or not.

My favorite is the debut Mahavishnu Orchestra album, The Inner Mounting Flame. That is such an awesome name for an album! I do admit that I really like the music, as well.

Other favorite names are Terje Rypdal-What Comes After
                                     Libra-Winter Day's Nightmare
                                     Nektar-A Tab In The Ocean
                                     Colosseum-Daughter Of Time
                                     

That is what comes to mind

Nice!  I always enjoyed the title "Remember the Future" by Nectar! 

Others would include:

Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans 
Focus: Moving Waves
ELP: Tarkus 
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon 
Thanks, Chuck-those are some other good ones you've mentioned
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

thanks, everyone, so far, for your interesting names-

interesting, Raff, that you mention Blue Oyster Cult; a band that I am just very recently getting back into after decades of not listening since the seventies-Tyranny and Mutation, yeah, right on!


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Gong:
Rejoice! I'm Dead!
The Universe also Collapses

David Torn:
Cloud About Mercury
Tripping Over God
What Means Solid, Traveller?

Bob Fripp: A Blessing of Tears

Brian Eno:
Here Come the Warm Jets
Wrong Way Up
Nerve Net

Conventum:
À l'affût d'un Complot
Le Bureau Central des Utopies

and yeah, Studio Tan baby.

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Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Focus - Hamburger Concerto




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Thick as a Brick. Perfectly insulting.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer (debut)

Subtext ''It's just us but we are f**king awesome so that's enough''

Works Volume One was a bit 'scary' to some when it came out. Just how many Volumes are they planning?!
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Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:


Conventum:
À l'affût d'un Complot
Le Bureau Central des Utopies
 


Those two are brillantStar

And Dashiell's two albums are also excellently-named

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just thought of one of the best live album names, from BOC "On Your Feet, Or On Your Knees"
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

thanks, everyone, so far, for your interesting names-

interesting, Raff, that you mention Blue Oyster Cult; a band that I am just very recently getting back into after decades of not listening since the seventies-Tyranny and Mutation, yeah, right on!
 
"Imaginos" (1988) is my favourite Blue Oyster Cult album, partly because it includes the stand-out track, "The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria", featuring Joey Cerisano on vocals, although all of the tracks on the album are good. The album has a great opening track too, "I Am the One You Warned Me Of"
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote thief Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2019 at 06:20
In the Court of the Crimson King
This one instantly springs to mind. Exploring any "king's court" implies being invited to know his secrets, but the "crimson" part magnifies the danger: it could be a tyrannical warlord, patron of the dark arts, some sort of demon - or maybe a deity, Zeus, Satan, who knows? For me the song order suggests that whole album is a musical journey across his inconceivable, inhumane realms, and only in the finale we're granted permission to see His deeds in a towering, intimidating castle... and it's just one take on this fabulous title. The symbolism and use of archetypes are strong in this one, that's why it's so potent imho.

In the Wake of Poseidon
I've got to know most of prog classics through my father back in the childhood days. He was doing his best in translating songs/album titles for myself, but this one was a fumble: he said it's like "Awaiting Poseidon", looking forward to his arrival... this one stuck in my head for years and only as a teenager I got this one correct LOL Anyhow, it's a perfect followup title to ITCOTCK, again dealing with a royal figure/deity, also archetypal/jungian, but related to water. Very proggy.

Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Promising exotic delights, a feast out of this world.

Close to the Edge
No matter if it's the Edge of rock possibilities or worlds created in Yes music, the title works wonderfully.

Tales from Topographic Oceans
These oceans are the deepest in Yes catalogue and seem largely unexplored, even to this day.

Trespass
It's like entering the place a modern wasn't supposed to see.

Nursery Cryme
Selling England by the Pound
Perfect titles for Genesis brand of Edwardian Rock, as well as commentary on days long gone. Really like these two.

Thick as a Brick
Mysterious yet funny, typical Ian Anderson creation.

Minstrel in the Gallery
Songs from the Wood
Quite obvious in its meaning, but both albums deliver exactly what's promised.

Pawn Hearts
Unfortunately the "horn parts/porn hearts" story spoiled it a bit, but I always liked pondering on this one.

Brain Salad Surgery
Would be more fitting for a technical thrash metal band, but Moog spins & whirls will do.

Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison
My French knowledge is zilch, but the title makes sense once put in Google translator. Love it.

Ommadawn
Amarok
Whatever they mean, both are extremely haunting and oldfieldesque.

Five Miles Out
Great interplay between the title, album cover and Mike's state of mind.

Script for a Jester's Tear
I have a knack for jesters, can't help it.

Ze Słowem Biegnę do Ciebie (SBB)
Intimate, romantic, meaningful.

Vemod
Swedish meaning from Wiktionary: "calm feeling that something emotionally (positively) significant is over and never will be back". Not a better word to describe Anekdoten's music at the time.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Shrubbery Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2019 at 14:06
While the new album by the Marillion side project Edison's Children "The Disturbance Fields" is one of the coolest names for an album i've ever heard and i love the visual imagery of "Lullaby's from a Car Crash" by Bjorn Riis

Nothing beats the original album title

Edison's Children's "In The Last Waking Moments..." 

best album title ever 


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