Vive La France

About 20 years ago I hit a wall in discovering new prog.  I had all the standard prog band and related solo prog artist albums and had printed out the huge "Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock" and added everything I could find in my local record stores.  Other than the Italian lyric PFM albums, I'd never tried any non-English lyric prog.  I found a great guy named Ranjit (who many PA members may remember) who only lived a few miles away and could get any prog album you could possibly want from anywhere in the world.  One day at his house, he put on Pulsar's Halloween and I was sold.  I decided to take a shot at French prog.  I started slow and bought his copy of Pulsar's Halloween as it was a French band but still had English lyrics.  I loved it, I decided there wasn't much difference between French prog with such a heavy accent that I couldn't understand the English lyrics, and French prog singing French lyrics...besides, I took a year of French in high school so thought I might be able to pick up a word here or there...so...  Next stop, Ange!  Then Atoll, Mona Lisa, Versailles, then the French instrumental bands, and of course Magma: though my high school didn't offer classes in Kobaian 

I just sorted through the 250 highest rated French prog albums in the PA database and included all those I have in my collection in order of album ratings, high to low.  I'm very curious how many other PA members are into these albums as well.

This is a multiple choice poll, so please vote for all your fave French prog albums from my list