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Ruby900

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Posted: August 09 2017 at 15:04

Space Shanty - Khan

If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan

Apocalypse - Mahavishnu Orchestra

CTTE - Yes

DSOTM - Pink Floyd

Larks tongues in aspic - King Crimson

The rotters club - Hatfield and the north

Trespass - Genesis

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Posted: August 09 2017 at 18:20

Ruby900 wrote:

Space Shanty - Khan

If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan

Apocalypse - Mahavishnu Orchestra

CTTE - Yes

DSOTM - Pink Floyd

Larks tongues in aspic - King Crimson

The rotters club - Hatfield and the north

Trespass - Genesis

Great picks! I might put For Girls Who Grow... instead of If I Could Do It... as far as Caravan albums go, though.

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Posted: August 09 2017 at 18:32

Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Ruby900 wrote:

Space Shanty - Khan

If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan

Apocalypse - Mahavishnu Orchestra

CTTE - Yes

DSOTM - Pink Floyd

Larks tongues in aspic - King Crimson

The rotters club - Hatfield and the north

Trespass - Genesis

Great picks! I might put For Girls Who Grow... instead of If I Could Do It... as far as Caravan albums go, though.

I agree. That album is like scary good..

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Posted: August 09 2017 at 23:15

It would make more sense for CTTE to be on there than Fragile since the consensus usually seems to have that that as the best Yes album and one of the best prog albums in general. In fact these days it's often mentioned in the same breath as Dark Side of the Moon(at least among those who know it).

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Posted: August 10 2017 at 15:17

Completely disagree with Wish You Were Here. I lived through the 70s when all this was happening so from that perspective :

1. Close To The Edge -Yes

2. Red - King Crimson

3 Mirage - Camel

4. Octopus - Gentle Giant

5. Focus III - Focus

6. Demons & Wizards - Uriah Heep

7. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

8. Warrior On The Edge Of Time - Hawkwind

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Posted: August 11 2017 at 02:39

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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

Albums in bold =

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!

I'm the other weird guy who likes Live Chronicles

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Posted: August 11 2017 at 02:42

My eight today....

The Lamb lies down on Broadway - Genesis
LTIA - King Crimson
Animals - Pink Floyd
Permenant Waves - Rush
To our childrens childrens children - The Moody Blues
Warrior on the edge of time - Hawkwind
Godbluff - VDGG
Crime of the Century - Supertramp

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Posted: August 11 2017 at 04:24

Pawn Hearts - Van Der
Fingerprince - Residents
On Land And In The Sea - Cardiacs
Beyond Expression - Finch
Hatfield And The North debut
Felona E Sorona - Le Orme
Per Un Amico - PFM
Blå Vardag - Atlas

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 16:17

The BEST???

In no particular order:

Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh - from another planet!

Yes - Fragile - such a fresh concept

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - seamless perfection over four sides

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - production, production, production

RTF - Romantic Warrior - four of the greatest prog musicians EVER collaborating at the top of their games

Bent Knee - Shiny-Eyed Babies - the most stunning display of creativity and force from a whole new generation of prog-influenced artists

Homunculus Res - Limiti all'eguaglianza della parte con il tutto - fun, fun, fun in the best Canterbury spirit!

Various Artists - Odyssey: The Greatest Tale - the greatest musical rendering of known literary source material

Honorable mention:

King Crimson - Discipline - from this planet, just not sure where…

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 16:55

Off the top of my head right now:

Close to the Edge - Yes
Foxtrot - Genesis
V - Spock's Beard
One Hour by a Concrete Lake - Pain of Salvation
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Rapid Eye Movement - Riverside
Brave - Marillion
Animals - Pink Floyd

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Posted: September 05 2017 at 17:20

^ yay, finally Marillion gets some appreciation Tongue

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Posted: September 06 2017 at 08:24

it was time anyway:)

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Posted: March 07 2018 at 04:22

My list:

1. Wigwam: Fairyport

2. King Crimson: Red

3. Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother

4. Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

5. Can: Tago-Mago

6. Magma: s/t

7. Caravan: In the Land Of Grey and Pink

8. Yes: Fragile

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Posted: March 07 2018 at 04:50

My personal list:

Close to The Edge - Yes
In a Glass House - Gentle Giant
Foxtrot - Genesis
Relayer - Yes
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa
Gorguts - Obscura
Death - Individual Thought Patterns

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Posted: March 07 2018 at 20:08

8 seems like a weird number why not ten?
Anyway lists and lists they can change all the time but right now
Romantic Warrior Return To Forever
Elegant Gypsy Al Dimeola
Close To The Edge Yes
Brain Salad Surgery ELP
Thick as A Brick Jethro Tull
Dark Side of Da moon PF
Cross Collatral Passport
Imaginary Voyage Jean Luc Ponty

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Posted: March 07 2018 at 21:20

Mortte wrote:

My list:

1. Wigwam: Fairyport

Nice to see Wigwam in there!

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Posted: March 07 2018 at 22:31

^Wigwam has really long been one of my favourite bands! Started to listen it quite soon I started to listen prog, it came right after Floyd, Rush, Jethro & Yes to me!

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Posted: March 08 2018 at 01:39

I must have bought 'Nuclear Nightclub' not long after it came out - but their pre-Virgin albums were hard to come by in the UK (plus Virgin refused to release 'Dark Album'). Excellent band!

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Posted: March 08 2018 at 03:15

Terrapin Station wrote:

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.

Just so lucky that it was the first

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Posted: March 08 2018 at 06:04

Flight123 wrote:

I must have bought 'Nuclear Nightclub' not long after it came out - but their pre-Virgin albums were hard to come by in the UK (plus Virgin refused to release 'Dark Album'). Excellent band!

All of their albums have released in cd:s, also UK esoteric records have released almost all of them in cd:s. Finnish Svart records have released also vinyl pressings from all the pre-virgin albums, there are coming vinyl version also from Dark Album (that´s the only one only Finnish cd re-release). But of course if you search original vinyls I believe they´re hard to find from UK (and very expensive).