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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Nice thread. 

From Crimson, Red is still regularly played. From other classic era, Genesis Nursery Cryme, Yes The Yes Album and 90125 which I think is fantastic. There are many others, but I have just woken up with a wee hangover Dead

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Probably Lamb, Dark Side, Ege Bamyasi and Tubular Bells, but I am not sure.
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Meddle, In Search of the Lost Chord, ELP (self titled debut), Hergest Ridge, Relayer...

...ah the golden age. I try to leave it behind but it keeps pulling me back.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Nice thread. 

From Crimson, Red is still regularly played. From other classic era, Genesis Nursery Cryme, Yes The Yes Album and 90125 which I think is fantastic. There are many others, but I have just woken up with a wee hangover Dead

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Yep. It was a balmy 20 degrees in the village yesterday, and I had a choice between gardening, or popping up to The Mansel to have a few beers whilst sitting outside talking a load of cobblers with the regulars. No choice, really! Having said that, the gardening is today’s job (on a coffee break now).

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Here's several.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
Allan Holdswoth - I.O.U., Road Games, and Metal Fatigue
Rush - Moving Pictures, 2112, and A Farewell to Kings
Gentle Giant - Free Hand and Three Friends
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places
Spock's Beard - V
Pat Metheny Group - The Road to You and Imaginary Day
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Steely Dan - Aja and The Royal Scam
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Bruford - One of a Kind
U.K. - U.K.
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick and Minstrel in the Gallery
Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters Club
The Dregs - Unsung Heroes
Mike Keneally - Sluggo! and Dancing
Kansas - Leftoverture and Point of Know Return
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Frost* - Milliontown
Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
Freak Kitchen - Cooking with Pagans
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The Yes Album
Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here
Mirage
Several of Neal Morse's particularly Sola Scripture, ? and Jesus Christ The Exorcist
Transatlantic - SMPTe and The Whirlwind
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ what is <span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">COTC?</span>


In The Court Of The Crimson King?



Yeah, that’s what I read it as. That would be one of my most returned to prog albums - particularly from the classic era.

That and LTIA are easily my most returned to Krimson albums.



Supertramp - Crime Of The Century

Played it to death through my teens and 20's
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Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Be-Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish, Modern Music
Ambrosia - s/t
Genesis - Selling England(Nursery Cryme & Foxtrot have been at the top of my list for so long, I forget how amazing this is)
Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key of Life
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Peter Gabriel - III(I don't know how to stop, I don't know how to stop)

There may be a couple more, my collection is vast.  Some have been at the top in the past, and may be again.  Always willing to give under-sung albums in a treasured artist's catalog a few extra listens.
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Originally posted by TerLJack TerLJack wrote:

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
    Bellybutton is killer also.

Have you heard The Lickerish Quartet? Three ex- Jellyfish members in the band. Music is similar to Jellyfish.

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Hi,

None really.

Just about anything I have is special in some way and I always love looking back at it, and do so on many occasions ... get up walk by to go to the kitchen ... look right ... ohh, let's take a look at such and such today ... and it is always a treat regardless of choice.

Again, I don't have stuff in my collection for the idea of collecting it. I have it because I love its music and it is a special part of my inspiration day in and day out. There are no favorites ... just great music! But now that you mention it, I think that today will be Anthony Phillips day for the heck of it! 

Tomorrow? Never knows .... !!!
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There are many, but RED!
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Surely :
- Mike Oldfield : Ommadawn
- Pink Floyd : Atom heart mother

But also :
- Tangerine Dream : Cyclone
- Genesis : Nursery Crime
- Renaissance : Turn of the cards
- ...
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Genesis up to Duke---Selling England -Lamb --Trick and W&W---- mucho
assortment of classic Yes up to Going for One
assortment of Hackett
Bruford
Gabriels --Car & Scratcht
Focus- Hamburger C
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The Yes Album
Close to the Edge
The Big Generator 
IQ- Road of Bones
Dark Side of the Moon
ABW&H
Miles Davis- Big Fun
Genesis- Nursery Crime
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Listening to them comes and goes in waves... but most of the albums of my personal "Big Six" come by regularly: Yes, KC, ELP (up till Works I), Pink Floyd, Ange (up till Guet-apens, later work a bit less), Frank Zappa.
But they alternate with many others (in chaotic order...):
- Focus: II, 3 and Hamburger Concerto
- Alquin: Marks, Mountain Queen
- Kayak: Merlin
- Eloy: Colours, Planets, Time to Turn (and the earlier ones, but a bit less often)
- Grobschnitt: Solar Music Live, Rockpommel's Land
- Saga: first five albums, plus Generation 13
- Kansas: Song for America, Point of Know Return
- Styx: Pieces of Eight, The Grand Illusion
- Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal, Within the Realm..., The Serpent's Egg
- Santana: Caravanserai, Moonflower
- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: Io sono nato libero
- Kevin Ayers: esp. from The Joy of a Toy up till The Confessions of Dr. Dream...
- Soft Machine: I, II, III, IV, V
- Gong: esp. the Radio Gnome Trilogy
- Lazuli: most of them
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band: from Solar Fire up to Chance, plus Mann Alive
- Marillion: Fish era, plus Afraid of Sunlight, Marillion.com
- Pallas: The Sentinel, The Wedge
- Twelfth Night: everything
- IQ: Tales from the Lush Attic, Forever Live; The Wake and Subterranea to a lesser extent
- UK: UK
- Dream Theater: Awake, Metropolis II
- Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill

...and then some albums regularly mentioned on these pages, but not necessarily prog, by Supertramp (Even in the Quietest Moments, COTC), Dire Straits (Love over Gold, Making Movies), Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die anarchistische Abendunterhaltung...
...and more recent work by Sonar, Logos, Anna von Hauswolff...
...and then some that I forgot...
...and then some more...
...and then a lot of non prog...
...and then...

So, which one is lacking?



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Some that I can put together right now:
Holger Czukay - Movies
Can - Tago Mago through to Soon Over Babaluma
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock, Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden a bit less
Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
King Crimson - Discipline Trilogy
Art Zoyd - Berlin & Haxan
Cardiacs - Live and All That Glitters Is A Mare's Nest
Van der Graaf - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome 
Camel - Moonmadness
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma, Dark Side & Animals, and absolutely Echoes, the track.
Amon Duul II - Live in London
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Camel - Moonmadness
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses

Two favorites of mine I often get back to. 
Also VDGG's H to He...
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

There are no favorites ... just great music! But now that you mention it, I think that today will be Anthony Phillips day for the heck of it!

LOL
You're reneging on your religion! Wink
But I agree with you: there's not one, or five, or 20 favorites... there are 100s.
I continue updating my list, but at the same time that undermines the original question: which ones do you return to most? And then, I'm actually happy to have a wide and eclectic music collection that gives me a great diversity. So, I can return to many different things when I want to, and "returning regularly" might mean getting back to it every 3, 6, 12 months... Everything's relative... Stern Smile

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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

There are no favorites ... just great music! But now that you mention it, I think that today will be Anthony Phillips day for the heck of it!

LOL
You're reneging on your religion! Wink
But I agree with you: there's not one, or five, or 20 favorites... there are 100s.
I continue updating my list, but at the same time that undermines the original question: which ones do you return to most? And then, I'm actually happy to have a wide and eclectic music collection that gives me a great diversity. So, I can return to many different things when I want to, and "returning regularly" might mean getting back to it every 3, 6, 12 months... Everything's relative... Stern Smile


That's fair enough, and as is stipulated in the OP everyone is entitled to frame the whole thing howsoever they choose.

For me it's about the albums that haven't outstayed their welcome, the works that have withstood the slings and arrows of outrageuos fortune and have held their place in our hearts (and minds) despite the deluge of material released since first entering the conciousness and then the collection.

It involves something approaching nostalgia.


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