Great Prog albums that weren't released on CD

Mascodagama wrote: Plat du Jour, s/t Michel Madore, Le Komuso à cordes

Beyond The Planets, well it did have a CD release but its very difficult to find. When one occasionally shows up on ebay it goes for silly money.

Beltane Fire's album A Different Breed

And I would like to see the original LPs of hitch Hiker's Guide to the galaxy get CD releases, The ones that were rerecorded for commercial release, not the broadcast version

Rune2000 wrote: I recently got into vinyl and immediately wanted to get some recommendations for great albums that were released on vinyl but never on CD or are difficult to find on CD. I tried searching on the forum but didn't manage to find any similar topics (most probably because I'm terrible at forum searching). Some examples that I can think of are: 1. Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection 2. Barclay James Harvest - Live (1974) 3. Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live Feel free to add other suggestions!

"Solar Music Live" was released on CD.

Robert Fripp / The League Of Gentlemen  - The League Of Gentlemen

tamijo wrote: Robert Fripp / The League Of Gentlemen  - The League Of Gentlemen

that reminds me that the vinyl and CD versions of Robert Fripp's first solo album are different. "Disengage", for example, is both times sung by Peter Hammill, but on the vinyl version his singing is much more aggressive (though it definitely is aggressive on the CD version as well), which is why I like the vinyl better

zravkapt wrote: Mascodagama wrote: Plat du Jour, s/t Michel Madore, Le Komuso à cordes   Those are two good examples. Both great and I'm almost certain neither has ever seen a proper CD release.

Intruder wrote: The League of Gentleman, For Those About to Die and Solar were all released on CD.....don't know if they became available in the US, but I have each of the these albums on CD on European (Dutch) record labels.    Starsailor was released on CD and a second issue was planned but scraped at the last moment due to the heir's refusal to allow it.  I guess they're planning a super re-released full of bonus stuff for a big ticket price (at least I hope so - not the exorbitant price tag but the availability).

VOICES  - story of the rings

Edited by bbaabs - February 11 2016 at 08:41

This is only (vaguely) prog-related but is the obvious one; Neil Young's 'Time Fades away' which he resolutely refused to release on cd (or re-release at all) due to his long-standing dissatisfaction with the recordings.. I think it was re-issued recently either on vinyl or cd or both.. I think in the last 5-10 years just about everything, however obscure, has been issued/ re-issued on cd and perhaps only someone as 'strong-minded/ single minded'/ financially positioned as Neil Young could actually put their foot down and say 'no- its not what I want'.

I'm not sure if it's this way on the CD release, but the download version of Jethro Tull's "Living in the Past" is substantially different from the original vinyl. Some of the singles from other albums are missing, like Teacher and Hymn 43.