Q Magazine’s Prog Poll

Snow Dog wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Snow Dog wrote: If you're saying that Tubular Bells doesn't belong in the Top 40 or any top list, then I  think you have never been so wrong, and you've been wrong lots! This coming from the man who has ELP's Love Bitch in his signature!!!!!!! Not that TB is bad , just terribly over-rated and not Oldfield's best even by a mile. Try Herdgest Rige or Ommadawn. And They don't belong on the top prog 200. However they do top the Top 50 of over-rated albums!!!! Well, what I have in my sig is irrelevant, I'm not saying Love Bitch is a great album. I have all the ELP albums in my sig! It may not be his best, but it was his first and is  a kind of timeless classic and easily belongs in the top 40!

If you want the best album by Oldfield , try Sallyangie : Children Of The Sun. He was 16 and with his sister Sally.

Edited by Sean Trane

Sean Trane wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Snow Dog wrote: If you're saying that Tubular Bells doesn't belong in the Top 40 or any top list, then I  think you have never been so wrong, and you've been wrong lots! This coming from the man who has ELP's Love Bitch in his signature!!!!!!! Not that TB is bad , just terribly over-rated and not Oldfield's best even by a mile. Try Herdgest Rige or Ommadawn. And They don't belong on the top prog 200. However they do top the Top 50 of over-rated albums!!!! Well, what I have in my sig is irrelevant, I'm not saying Love Bitch is a great album. I have all the ELP albums in my sig! It may not be his best, but it was his first and is  a kind of timeless classic and easily belongs in the top 40! If you want the best album by Oldfield , Try Sallyangie : Children Of The Sun. He was 16 and with his sister Sally.

Don't want too!....pllllllrrrrfffffthhhhrrrrrllllllfffffsss

Dick Heath wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Raw Sienna a 2* album?!?! No wonder I refer to them as Classy Crock! Best Savoy Brown album and four times better than Foghat will ever do! To compare Raw Sienna to Foghat is mindless and obviously means you are deaf! Even if 3/4 of Foghat played in Savoy Brown! Raw Sienna has grown to be my favourite blue eyed British blues album in 30 odd years - Chris Youlden's vocals can't be beaten (and personally I feel SB without Youlden, are lacking  a big chunk of what the band's about), and Mike Vernon's brass arrangements make Raw Sienna a class album e.g. the tight sub 3 minutes of Needle and Spoon, a superior anti-heroin tune too (cf. NY's Needle, IMHO).

Most of Savoy Brown's early albums are excellent:

Foghat period:

Getting to The Point is a 3*
A Step Further would get another star if it was not live on side 2 : 3 *
Blue Matter: 4*
Raw Sienna: 4,5 *
Looking In : 4*

Chicken Shack era: For those not aware most of the members will leave to form Foghat after Lookin' In leaving Kim Simmonds as the only remaining original member (he was by the second album already) and most of Chicken Shack will leave Stan Webb alone and join Savoy Brown.

Street Corner Talking : 4*
Hellbound Train: 3,5*
Lion's Share : 4*
Jack The Toad : 3*

From that point out , Savoy loses it but still has moments: Wire and Fire , Skin'n Bone and Kings Of Boogie (with stan The Man Webb) are at most 2,5 *.

The only "Q" I credit is Star Trek's one!

Apart from that...
I own the following albums:

Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Foxtrot by Genesis
Close To The Edge by Yes
In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson
Brain Salad Surgery by ELP
A Farewell To Kings by Rush
Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
Ok Computer by Radiohead
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
The Yes Album by Yes
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
Misplaced Childhood by Marillion
Larks’ Tongues In Aspic by King Crimson
A night At The Opera by Queen
Five Bridges by The Nice

Only 16...does it mean I'm not prog?
I don't think so!

 

 

1. Foxtrot by Genesis
2. Close To The Edge by Yes
3. In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson
4. Brain Salad Surgery by ELP
5. A Farewell To Kings by Rush
6. Aqualung by Jethro Tull
7. Space Ritual by Hawkwind
8. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
9. Ok Computer by Radiohead
10. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
11. The Yes Album by Yes
12. Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
13. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
14. The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other by VdGG
15. Octupus by Gentle Giant
16. Misplaced Childhood by Marillion
17. Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta
18. In The Land of Grey And Pink by Caravan
19. Third by Soft Machine
20. Lateralus by Tool
21. Larks’ Tongues In Aspic by King Crimson
22. Moonmadness by Camel
23. Moving Waves by Focus
24. A night At The Opera by Queen
25. Pampered Menial by Pavlov’s Dog
26. Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros
27. L by Steve Hillage
28. Five Bridges by The Nice
29. Music In A Dolls House by Family
30. Roxy Music by Roxy Music
31. Moontan by Golden Earring
32. All Together Now by Argent
33. Hatfield And The North by Hatfield And The North
34. Flying Teapot by Gong
35. Dance of The Lemmings by Amon Duul II
36. In Search Of The Lost Chord by The Moody Blues
37. Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
38. Once Again by Barclay James Harvest
39. 666 by Aphrodite’s Child
40. dark side of the moon by Pink Floyd

I don't own the red ones, I am in a relationship, I have a beard, I have friends, I like Beer and Pizza, I don't read 'Q' magazine... and I am leaving right now to see the new Tim Burton film...

 

23/40

22/40

At least Progarchives gets a mention in the credits.....

^Jealous?

The red albums still missing in my collection. None of my friends/girlfriends/relatives has a beard. Me neither. I like pizza. With lots of cheese.