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zravkapt

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Posted: December 09 2016 at 21:29

Professor Dildo & The Sandstorm Of Truth

Headless Herman's Hairy Hornets

Cats & Rats & Bats & Hats

The Geometry Of Geography

Wet Fire

Frogs

The Day The Sun Danced Backwards

Kind Of Blue

Magma America Great Make Again

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 09:08

Thanks for the opinion for sure, but the author of that list probably has little knowledge of the whole gamut of the genre. It is simply impossible to pick 8 best. There are things that are just impossible.

How can one miss Cressida's Asylum, Spring's first album, Still Life's eponymous masterpiece, Atlantis Philharmonic, Beggar's Opera?

I would rather talk about 150 Progressive Rock Recordings I Should Listen To Before I Die. No less.

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 09:38

Boo on In the Court of the Crimson King.

Not that I dislike that album, and I'm a huge Crimson fan, but in my opinion every other Crimson album is better.

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 10:45

1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Under Wraps
3. Thing-Fish
4. The Final Cut
5. Open Your Eyes
6. Holidays in Eden
7. Calling All Stations
8. In the Hot Seat

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 11:05

1. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

2. Rush - Caress of Steel

3. Eloy - Floating

4. Rush - A Farewell to Kings

5. Gentle Giant - Free Hand

7. Rush - Permanent Waves

8. Eloy - Inside

It may switch around sometimes, but if we're not counting progressive and extreme metal, and just progressive rock, this is mainly what gets in my top 8.

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 11:46

Barbu wrote:

1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Under Wraps
3. Thing-Fish
4. The Final Cut
5. Open Your Eyes
6. Holidays in Eden
7. Calling All Stations
8. In the Hot Seat

I'm guessing that either you don't like Trout Mask Replica very much or you have even more unique taste than I do.

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 11:54

Terrapin Station wrote:

Barbu wrote:

1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Under Wraps
3. Thing-Fish
4. The Final Cut
5. Open Your Eyes
6. Holidays in Eden
7. Calling All Stations
8. In the Hot Seat

I'm guessing that either you don't like Trout Mask Replica very much or you have even more unique taste than I do.

Just another silly post but I do like Trout, very entertaining and quite hilarious.

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 11:58

I actually love Thing-Fish, The Final Cut, and Open Your Eyes. I almost love Under Wraps. And Calling All Stations and In the Hot Seat I like even though I don't love them. But none of them would be in a top 8 for me. Trout Mask Replica wouldn't be a top 8 for me, either. I love that one, too, although it would probably only be about halfway down a ranked list of Captain Beefheart albums for me.

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 12:00

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Posted: January 06 2017 at 21:07

Again... it's 8 OF the best not the best 8. Prog fans behaving like normal run of the mill people. Tut.

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Posted: January 07 2017 at 08:50

My favorites...Most of my choices depend on which day in my life it is...

Dark Side of the Moon

The Yes Album

Aqualung

Prawn Hearts

Nursery Crime

Lizard

Tango Mango

The Grand Wazoo

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Posted: January 07 2017 at 09:19

A bit crazy to do such lists because art cannot be ranked, but for fun

Genesis: The Lamb

Pink Floyd: The Wall

VDGG: Still Life

Camel: Mirage

Ange: Au delà du délire

Le Orme: Felona e Sorona (Italian version)

Twelfth Night: Fact and Fiction

Steve Hackett: Spectral Mornings

A lot of other albums are just as good as these, and it's all older stuff because music leaves a deeper impression when you are a teenager or a young adult, which was my case when I first listen to these records. I started listening to prog in 1978, so at the beginning of the end of the first wave and through the horrendous eighties.

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Posted: January 17 2017 at 23:13

Pawn Hearts

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Foxtrot

The Silent Corner and the Empty Page

Close to the Edge

Selling England by the Pound

Permanent Waves

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Alternates:

Nursery Cryme/Duke

The Least We Can Do/H to He Who am the Only One/Godbluff/Still Life

Moving Pictures/2112/Hemispheres/Signals/Grace Under Pressure

Tales From Topographic Oceans

Edited by SamMac - January 17 2017 at 23:45

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Posted: January 17 2017 at 23:25

Woah, this is harder than I thought it'd be, I'll be bach

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Posted: January 18 2017 at 01:06

8 of the best?

But....

Torman Maxt only has 4 albums.

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Posted: January 18 2017 at 02:17

o.k., so here is my list:

1) Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Isher
2) Mother Gong - Fairy Tales
3) Nik Turner - Xitintoday
4) Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
5) Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
6) Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
7) Magma - Mekanik Destruktriw Kommandöh
8) Gong - You

and here the 8 best live albums:

1) Van der Graaf Generator - Vital
2) Magma - Live (1975)
3) Hawkwind - Space Ritual
4) Guru Guru - Live (1978)
5) Colosseum - Live
6) Kraan - Live
7) Frumpy - Live
8) Traffic - On the Road

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Posted: January 18 2017 at 09:52

BaldJean wrote:

o.k., so here is my list:

1) Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Isher
2) Mother Gong - Fairy Tales
3) Nik Turner - Xitintoday
4) Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
5) Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
6) Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
7) Magma - Mekanik Destruktriw Kommandöh
8) Gong - You

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BaldJean wrote:

and here the 8 best live albums:

1) Van der Graaf Generator - Vital
2) Magma - Live (1975)
3) Hawkwind - Space Ritual
4) Guru Guru - Live (1978)
5) Colosseum - Live
6) Kraan - Live
7) Frumpy - Live
8) Traffic - On the Road

I'm one of the weird guys who likes Live Chronicles!

And that Colosseum is fantastic!

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Posted: January 18 2017 at 11:53

Woon Deadn wrote:

...

How can one miss Cressida's Asylum, Spring's first album, Still Life's eponymous masterpiece, Atlantis Philharmonic, Beggar's Opera?

...

I also love all those old proto prog and early things ....thanks for mentioning Atlantis Philharmonic....wasn't aware of them.

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Posted: January 19 2017 at 04:05

Ok, I'll attempt it, at one album an artist:

Voivod - Dimension Hatross

Henry Cow - Western Culture

Gong - You

The Doors - The Doors

Zappa - Uncle Meat

John Zorn - Astronome or Naked City - Radio

Beefheart - Trout mask replica

Meshuggah - Catch 33

Devin Townsend - ZTO

Ben Levin - Freak Machine

The Residents - Not Available

Thinking Plague - In This Life

Dream Theater - Awake (the only album of theirs I really love)

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

Yes - Close to the edge

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

Iron Curtain - A new model of the universe

Paladin - Charge!

The Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer

Magma -Üdü Ẁüdü

Ruins - Tzomborgha

Maja Osojnik - Let Them Grow

This Heat - This Heat

Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry

Tool - Aenima

Death - Human

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History

Spocks Beard - The Light

Iron Maiden - 7th son of a 7th son (if it counts)

Then lots and lots more Cool

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Posted: January 19 2017 at 04:37

To me, this is the absolute TOP 5...just add three more albums and you're done.

A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson

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