Artists on PA that you love, with no 4* ratings

I was surprised about Jaga Jazzist, but dog-gonnit, they ain't got one! Most of their albums are at least a 4 for me.

Glass Hammer with a 23 studio album run spanning over 30 years are totally 'unbeatable' in this regards. I stand up for their cause and on a good day with a following wind would put them in my top ten bands of all time. Currently listening to Arise (3.78).

Skallagrim; Into The Breach (3.99) is their current highest rated album. PAH!

richardh wrote: Glass Hammer with a 23 studio album run spanning over 30 years are totally 'unbeatable' in this regards.

Well I guess you overlooked my post. Todd Rundgren - 28 albums over 52 years.

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - June 19 2025 at 08:43

Alquin. Mountain Queen is top 10 for me and Best Kept Secret is obviously underrated.

Edited by someone_else - Yesterday at 04:17

^WHICH IS A CRIME. THOSE ARE INCREDIBLE ALBUMS.

I'm not surprised with any of the bands mentionned so far... and IMHO deservedly so. Either those artistes mentionned are prog-related or second knives, and I haven't found scandalous they didn't score an album above 4

I was first puzzled at Grobschnitt's presence in a list on page 1, but realized that Solar Music LIVE (not studio) , though I love that debut album as a 5

Saperlipopette! wrote: Sean Trane wrote: I'm not surprised with any of the bands mentionned so far... and IMHO deservedly so. Either those artistes mentionned are prog-related or second knives, and I haven't found scandalous they didn't score an album above 4 But that's not what's being asked. It's: Artists on PA that you love, with no 4* ratings. I'm not surprised Kraftwerk or Tortoise (etc...) hasn't got any four star rated albums here at PA, but I love both and rate quite a few of their albums a four - or more.

Well I read the OP as a bit of a rant and some answers have promised to skew the rating averages - probably by overrating the albums.

IMHO (again), the forum is way tooo focused on ratings and top lists.


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Edited by Sean Trane - 15 hours 36 minutes ago at 03:59

Hi,

The one band that I think deserves to be here, is an oddball one .. The Edgar Broughton Band.

Not totally progressive, but quite different, and a band that has had a lot of attention in the area of politics, however, they also had quite an interesting side of spirituality.

Not sure that even Edgar would care to think of his band as progressive" but at least one album (OORA) is quite experimental, and really special of an album, in that there is very little in it that is "conventional" or fits a design of some kind. That alone, makes it progressive, lest we think that three things are required to call it "progressive".

It is a tough listen, because at the start, it was a very busy band on various demonstrations and parties, with the early attention on war ... with "Out Demons Out" which is fairly well known and they have several versions of this from the regular song to the 20+ minutes of it in concert.

The one thing that is not found here, is the "pretentiousness" of it being something or other. And on that alone, it is worth some attention. At least, you know the anger is real, and not fake and forgotten the next day. But I'm guessing that most folks would not give this band a 2 rating because it does not bother with ideas about music. Its lyrics are much more important several times, and this might turn off some progressive folks, as you won't find crap stories here.

The band was related/friends to The Pink Fairies and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come.

I think I could make a bigger list than this, but time only permits a short search. All of these have at least one album in their discography worthy of four or more stars:

Art Bears
Emmanuel Booz
Cheeto's Magazine
Deadly Orgone Radiation
Deadwood Forest
Devil Doll
Druid
Electric Light Orchestra
ExCubus
Glass Hammer
Greenslade
Happy Family
High Wheel
Little Atlas
Magellan
Morse Code
Novalis
Paatos
Matthew Parmenter
Rainbow Theatre
Red Sand
Ring Van Möbius
Runaway Totem
Sc'ööf
Scherzoo
Sebastian Hardie
Triumvirat
The Underground Railroad
Valinor's Tree
Versus X
White Willow
Willowglass
Richard Wright
Yang
Zombi

Edited by progaardvark - 6 hours 3 minutes ago at 13:32

Todd, to be sure. Grobschnitt, Triumvirat, and Paatos certainly have a right to a four star or two (rockpommel, dimple, timeloss, respectively), not to mention Jaga Jazzist and Art Bears.