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Posted: May 14 2016 at 13:15

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Posted: May 14 2016 at 14:39

I wouldn't remove any album although the algorhythm or tagging or something may need a adjustment. Kind Of Blue is totally fine. It's totally progressive for iazz. After that I'd kick out Rush heheheheh.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: May 14 2016 at 14:52

Yeah it'd be cool to switch some of those Rush albums for...lemme see...erm Tago Mago for once. Yeti also springs to mind - just like In den Gärten Pharaos, Melos, Nya Ljudbolaget, Traumspiel, Stand By, Mixtus Orbis, Hallucination Engine, L'Apprendista, Perdition City and so forth

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Posted: May 14 2016 at 16:07

Manuel wrote:

Most of the prog metal stuff, it seems to me it does not really match up with the older, classic albums in prog history.

Yeah toss Miles and all the metal stuff while you at it.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 12:01

twosteves wrote:

I love this site but the fact that prog masterpiece Tales from Topographic Oceans isn't on there and so many other second rate albums are ---seems ridiculous.

My thoughts exactly.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 12:02

I love metal but metal is not Prog.

I love Miles Davis but jazz is not Prog.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 12:16

Probably all the pure jazz stuff. Great music, but certainly not progressive rock. I also have no idea how a Kayo Dot record made it onto the top 100. I've seen them a couple times and personally find them to be marginally better than hot garbage.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 13:10

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 13:13

Guldbamsen wrote:

Yeah it'd be cool to switch some of those Rush albums for...lemme see...erm Tago Mago for once. Yeti also springs to mind - just like In den Gärten Pharaos, Melos, Nya Ljudbolaget, Traumspiel, Stand By, Mixtus Orbis, Hallucination Engine, L'Apprendista, Perdition City and so forth

Tago Mago needs to be there for sure. Rush...not so much

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 13:39

Guldbamsen wrote:

Alright then I'll play Evil Smile

These are the ones I could happily live without in the top 100:

Änglagård - Hybris

Camel - Moodmadness

Dream Theater - Metropolis

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

Rush - Moving Pictures

Opeth - Still Life

Renaissance - Scheherazade and other Stories

IQ - The Road of Bones

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Änglagård - Viljans Öga

Opeth - Pale Communion

Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element pt 1

Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

Moonmadness, Second life Syndrome and The Road of Bones would be in the top 5 for me.

I'd get rid of In the Court of the Crimson King because it has aged appallingly.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 13:50

I would get rid of SEBTP, CTTE & TAAB and replace them with these masterpieces...

Charcoal Sunshine - Epileptic Migranes Of The Horizontal Vortex

Emperor Refridgerator - Succubus Domination

Botox, Viagra & OxyContin - You Are Not My Friend, But Rather My Sister's Enemies' Pet Poodle

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 14:21

You mean Dick Viagra ?

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 14:47

Lateralus. I haven't actually heard it, but if it's anything like AEnima it's basically just a bunch of dudes jerking off into a microphone for an hour with a few good riffs thrown in.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 15:44

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Lateralus. I haven't actually heard it, but if it's anything like AEnima it's basically just a bunch of dudes jerking off into a microphone for an hour with a few good riffs thrown in.

So what's there not to like? Confused

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 16:05

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So what's there not to like? Confused

I was thinking the same thing.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 16:32

Lateralus is more proggy and one of the best prog metal albums.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 16:50

Still can't imagine it's all that great based off the Tool I know.

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So what's there not to like? Confused

touche!

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 16:54

miamiscot wrote:

twosteves wrote:

I love this site but the fact that prog masterpiece Tales from Topographic Oceans isn't on there and so many other second rate albums are ---seems ridiculous.

My thoughts exactly.

f**king A.. let's call it what it is... the list is sh*t after you get past #1... LOL

We should make our own list. The top 100 great albums... not popular albums. Thus getting rid of the 2nd rate crap that keeps truly great albums off of it. hah..

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 18:55

micky wrote:

miamiscot wrote:

twosteves wrote:

I love this site but the fact that prog masterpiece Tales from Topographic Oceans isn't on there and so many other second rate albums are ---seems ridiculous.]

My thoughts exactly.

f**king A.. let's call it what it is... the list is sh*t after you get past #1... LOL

We should make our own list. The top 100 great albums... not popular albums. Thus getting rid of the 2nd rate crap that keeps truly great albums off of it. hah..

To be fair, though, not to lose objectivity, keep the albums that are popular with you off the list. Could call it "One hundred great albums that we hate".;) And I do remember the Dream Theater you rated highly despite hating it.

Anyway, if the divisive TfTO deserves a place, though I wouldn't expect it on a list that is merely an aggregate of popularity, then perhaps Tago Mago, First Utterance and Zeit does too. Perhaps a truly great work of art is quite commonly one that divides opinion strongly. With some it may produce nausea, disgust (or extreme boredom and twiddling of thumbs ;)), whereas in others it may be seen as sublime, virile, and cause much tapping of toes. Or at least, and this is true of TfTO, the best tend not to play it safe.

I nether hate nor love TfTO, by the way, not that my tastes would matter much to anyone but me.

Edited by Logan - May 15 2016 at 19:00

Just a fanboy passin' through.

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Posted: May 15 2016 at 19:03

damn right.. I did rate it high.. 5 stars at first.. you do remember how the fur flew when I posted that.

I hated it.. but objectivity is a rare quantity. Only a few have truly have it I suppose. It was a great album.. I just thought it was dogsh*t in the terms of what I like.

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