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Topic: If you could remove any album from the 100 list...
Posted: May 12 2016 at 21:04

...which would it be.

For me...

IQ - Road of Bones

Which album do you think is undeserved of it's acclaim and/or just don't get..?

as usual, sorry if this topic exists, the search function on this site gives me a headache

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Posted: May 12 2016 at 21:37

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

It's a wonderful album but it a rather obvious nonsense in a prog top 100

Otherwise any Opeth or Dream Theater

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 02:56

Is it bad for me to say that this kind of question makes me feel like a kid in a candy shop? Embarrassed

Most obvious removal; Miles Davis cause while he was an incredibly important artist he is far too much pure Jazz and too little rock to be allowed in PA.

What do I want removed; hmm choices...Tool...Misplaced Childhood for constantly reminding me of Invisible Touch LOL

. I might as well go for the most shocking and scandalous answer which is... Wish You Were Here. I rated that album and then reviewed it so it would not appear on the front page of PA and I get hate mail lol. But yeah while DSOTM and Animals are masterpieces WYWH is one of the most uninspired, unfocused and disjointed albums in the top 100 (gave it 2 stars). I await the firing squad Dead

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 03:11

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

It's a wonderful album but it a rather obvious nonsense in a prog top 100

Pretty much sums it up for me.

The rest I don't mind at all. People rate their favourites and most of the time these favourites will be household names/classics with a particular 'sound' to them. Nothing wrong with that, although it does make for a rather predictable list.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 03:11

Bucklebutt wrote:

...which would it be.

For me...

IQ - Road of Bones

Same for me, with Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 03:23

I don't know. There are a few candidates. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Hand.Cannot.Erase or Ommadawn, I think, since I did not find King Crimson's Discipline in the list.

Not that these albums are too bad, but LTiA and Ommadawn don't stand tall above their contemporaries (Ommadawn part one is a masterpiece, but part 2 is crap) and Hand.Cannot.Erase will, as I expect, not withstand the tooth of time.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 06:40

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

It's a wonderful album but it a rather obvious nonsense in a prog top 100

This.

Edited by chopper - May 13 2016 at 06:41

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 09:21

Most of the prog metal stuff, it seems to me it does not really match up with the older, classic albums in prog history.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 10:17

I suppose the two obvious ones are the Miles Davis albums ...already pointed out.

I don't think Elegant Gypsy by Dimeola deserves to be on the top 100 nor Queensryche Mindcrime.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 10:18

Anything by Miles Davis, Al Di Meola should be removed since there is a Jazz Archives, Al Di Meola really??...all the Beatles should be removed, sorry was just told they are not on the list.

Carry on......

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 10:47

My two cents:
Not to be provocative or stir things up, but I would change the list's criteria and separate current/modern prog from the 70s era. As a younger listener, I just don't relate to the pioneer stuff like I do artists such as Steven Wilson, Haken, Rush, etc.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 10:47

All the progmetal and neoprog

And Kind of Blue, while it is a fav of mine, doesn't make sense

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 11:56

Timdano wrote:

My two cents:
Not to be provocative or stir things up, but I would change the list's criteria and separate current/modern prog from the 70s era. As a younger listener, I just don't relate to the pioneer stuff like I do artists such as Steven Wilson, Haken, Rush, etc.

Rush released their first LP in 1974.

In any event, there's no need to change the main list. If you want to see a list of top rated albums from a more limited period this is easily achieved using the filter options on the Top 100 page, so that you could see e.g. the top rated albums released from 2000 to 2016 only.

Edited by Mascodagama - May 13 2016 at 11:59

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 12:40

All stuff by Miles Davis great but in the wrong list.

I can't see what Opeth, Dream Theater and pain of Salvation are doing here.

Everything by Steven Wilson solo or not.

That IQ Album, it is not even IQs best...

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 12:45

bloodnarfer wrote:

All the progmetal and neoprog

And Kind of Blue, while it is a fav of mine, doesn't make sense

I like the way you think Clap

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 12:58

Oh no, all the floodgate of intolerance seem to have been opened Confused

... There are a lot of albums I don't particularly care for in the top 100, but if other people like them, why should they be removed? Kind of Blue (a masterpiece) is a different case, because it belongs to a different genre. It's like having Beethoven's symphonies or some opera in the Top 100 prog albums - no reflection on quality whatsoever.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 13:06

O/T but I was surprised (and pleased) to see Kayo Dot in the top 100 (Choirs)!

Admittedly, in at #100.

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 13:14

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

bloodnarfer wrote:

All the progmetal and neoprog

And Kind of Blue, while it is a fav of mine, doesn't make sense

I like the way you think Clap

pfff...

I LOVE the way he thinks... Thumbs Up

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 14:23

Whatever I think shouldn't be there is all a matter of personal tastes. Obviously the vox populi believes that these albums are deserving of acclaim, and if they are albums I dislike then I'm perfectly fine being in a minority. I leave my reviews to explain what I have problems with, not blanket statements on genres or specific albums.

Just my opinion.

Edited by aglasshouse - May 13 2016 at 14:25

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Posted: May 13 2016 at 14:23

For me, all neo-prog albums shouldn't be there, not because i don't like newer prog albums(exists some newer albums that are much better than those high in the list on the genre that they are in), but IQ, Marillion and other's neo-prog bands don't have the Progression that it's in the name of the style, the majority of the albums sound the same, the style is poor(in the sense that there's nothing good differentiating it from the other styles, the only thing that i can think is that neo-prog is more simple and 'mechanical'), so yeah, i'm MY opinion these albums in neo-prog category shouldn't be in 100's list.