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Poll Question: Which band/performer had the best "trilogy"?
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    Posted: April 19 2015 at 21:32
Here we have several well known album trilogies from various prog and prog-related folks. These are acknowledged to be trilogies in one way, shape or form, and are not simply three albums in a row from a band you happen to like (so, no, The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge are not a trilogy) You have your choice from the following 3 album sets:
 
David Bowie
Low
Heroes
The Lodger
 
Jethro Tull
Songs from the Wood
Heavy Horses
Storm Watch
 
Gong
Flying Teapot
Angel's Egg
You
 
King Crimson
Larks Tongue in Aspic
Starless and Bible Black
Red
 
Riverside
Rapid Eye Movement
Out of Myself 
Second Life Syndrome
 
Rush
Moving Pictures
Signals
Grace Under Pressure
 
Frank Zappa
Hot Rats
Waka/Jawaka
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Rush, mainly because of GUP and MP. There's one album in each trilogy that I despise: The Lodger, Storm Watch, Flying Teapot, Larks, Out Of Myself, Signals, and Hot Rats.
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Rush gets my vote
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Crimson
Gong
Zappa
Bowie
Tull
Riverside
Rush
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Vapor Trails should be included in the Rush Trilogy. Wink


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Zappa.
 
But GonG, KC, JT, and Riverside are quite strong as well.
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Tull, natch, followed by King Crimson, Rush and then Bowie.
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Rush.
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1 Camel: Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness
2 Genesis: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP
3 Mostly Autumn: Spirit of Autumn Past, The Last Bright Light, Passengers
4 Pendragon: The Window of Life, The Masquerade Overture, Not of this World
5 IQ: Ever, Subterranea, The Seventh House

All those are sequential releases which beat the absolute crap out of any on that list - except maybe Riverside.

So Riverside get my vote from the list.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

1 Camel: Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness
2 Genesis: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP
3 Mostly Autumn: Spirit of Autumn Past, The Last Bright Light, Passengers
4 Pendragon: The Window of Life, The Masquerade Overture, Not of this World
5 IQ: Ever, Subterranea, The Seventh House

All those are sequential releases which beat the absolute crap out of any on that list - except maybe Riverside.

So Riverside get my vote from the list.

The Genesis trilogy leaves all others behind. The only other sequence of 5-star albums I can think of is Anekdoten (Gravity, A Time of Day and Until All the Ghosts Are Gone). Gentle Giant comes close (In a Glass House, The Power and the Glory, Free Hand).
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Gong :). I don't consider the KC albums to be much of a trilogy.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

1 Camel: Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness
2 Genesis: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP
3 Mostly Autumn: Spirit of Autumn Past, The Last Bright Light, Passengers
4 Pendragon: The Window of Life, The Masquerade Overture, Not of this World
5 IQ: Ever, Subterranea, The Seventh House

All those are sequential releases which beat the absolute crap out of any on that list - except maybe Riverside.

So Riverside get my vote from the list.

The Genesis trilogy leaves all others behind. The only other sequence of 5-star albums I can think of is Anekdoten (Gravity, A Time of Day and Until All the Ghosts Are Gone). Gentle Giant comes close (In a Glass House, The Power and the Glory, Free Hand).

Sorry, but I think the Camel trilogy is very unlikely ever to be surpassed by anyone.
 
Those three from GG would have been no 6 on my list, actually.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

1 Camel: Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness
2 Genesis: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP
3 Mostly Autumn: Spirit of Autumn Past, The Last Bright Light, Passengers
4 Pendragon: The Window of Life, The Masquerade Overture, Not of this World
5 IQ: Ever, Subterranea, The Seventh House

All those are sequential releases which beat the absolute crap out of any on that list - except maybe Riverside.

So Riverside get my vote from the list.

The Genesis trilogy leaves all others behind. The only other sequence of 5-star albums I can think of is Anekdoten (Gravity, A Time of Day and Until All the Ghosts Are Gone). Gentle Giant comes close (In a Glass House, The Power and the Glory, Free Hand).

Sorry, but I think the Camel trilogy is very unlikely ever to be surpassed by anyone.
 
Those three from GG would have been no 6 on my list, actually.
Neither of you are very clear on the concept of this poll, are you?
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Jethro Tull, a hair over Rush.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Neither of you are very clear on the concept of this poll, are you?

Well, I have to admit I didn't read the original port properly... Embarrassed
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Zappa followed by Crimson....
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