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Poll Question: What is the best run of 7 consecutive albums?
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    Posted: August 21 2018 at 11:02
Yes, I know this is arbitrary so if you want to vote for a band but think the run should start with a later or earlier album you can still vote for it but please specify in comments where it would start and end. Also, I didn't include live albums. I think all these bands are among the most important in prog which is why I chose them. I'm sorry if I left out your favorite(favorites). 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - August 21 2018 at 11:03
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I went with Yes but  Genesis, Rush & Floyd all had great runs as well.  
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Art Zoyd:  Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités through Nosferatu.
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1. Genesis  2. Eloy  3. Porcupine Tree  4. Jethro Tull  5. Moody Blues
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Genesis...Tull...Moody Blues...Gentle Giant.....Yes.....etc
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On the list, I suppose Van der Graaf Generator and Pink Floyd, or edit (since I missed it, Gentle Giant).

Not on the list:

- Art Zoyd (really the first eight). Going with Musique Pour L'Odyssée through Berlin (love the debut, but since we have a reworked version I started with the second album) .

- Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation to Stratosfear

- Magma: Kobaia to Attahk

- Heldon: Électronique Guérilla to Stand By

- Robert Wyatt (really the first eight), but I'll go with The End Of An Ear to Cuckooland, though I could go with Rock Bottom to Comicopera.

- Miles Davis: Filles De Kilimanjaro to Get Up With It

- Popol Vuh: (first eight really), but I'll go with Affenstunde to Aguirre rather than the better rated In Den Gärten Pharaos to Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (either works).

- Univers Zero: 1313 to Rhythmix (Rythmix not as strong imo) and really it's more of a ten album run.

- Present: Triskaïdékaphobie to Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)

I am tempted to vote other, but I might give a vote to the VdGG run.

With Pink Floyd it's more of an eleven album run for me (I even like More a lot), but I think I would go with The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to Obscured by Clouds rather than from Atom Heart Mother (I'd have to have Ummagumma and I like earlier Floyd a lot). I do love The Wall, though, so....

EDIT: I will go other for my Art Zoyd choices.

Edited by Logan - August 21 2018 at 11:56
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^ I did list Gentle Giant though(right after Genesis).
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Thanks, my eyes are quite blurry. I can't really complain now when people miss choices in some of my mega option polls.

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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

On the list, I suppose Van der Graaf Generator and Pink Floyd.

Not on the list:

- Art Zoyd (really the first eight). Going with Musique Pour L'Odyssée through Berlin (love the debut, but since we have a reworked version I started with the second album) .

- Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation to Stratosfear

- Magma: Kobaia to Attahk

- Heldon: Électronique Guérilla to Stand By

- Robert Wyatt (really the first eight), but I'll go with The End Of An Ear to Cuckooland, though I could go with Rock Bottom to Comicopera.

- Miles Davis: Filles De Kilimanjaro to Get Up With It

- Popol Vuh: (first eight really), but I'll go with Affenstunde to Aguirre rather than the better rated In Den Gärten Pharaos to Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (either works).

- Univers Zero: 1313 to Rhythmix (Rythmix not as strong imo) and really it's more of a ten album run.

- Present: Triskaïdékaphobie to Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)

- Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant to Free Hand (another where I would call for an eight album run, really).

I am tempted to vote other, but I might give a vote to the VdGG run.

With Pink Floyd it's more of an eleven album run for me (I even like More a lot), but I think I would go with The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to Obscured by Clouds rather than from Atom Heart Mother (I'd have to have Ummagumma and I like earlier Floyd a lot). I do love The Wall, though, so....

EDIT: I will go other for my Art Zoyd choices.

Picked out most of the ones I'd have mentioned, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd & Magma are really no brainers. 

Especially for Hercules. No mention of King Crimson?
ITCOTCK, ITWOP, Lizard, Islands, LTIA, S&BB, Red

Black Sabbath? s/t, Paranoid, MOR, Vol4, SBS, Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy.
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this is a really tough one.  I'm not sure I am totally happy with any 7 album run, but Eloy, Moodys and Camel all did a great job.  Going with Camel because none of the albums in their run is what I would call weak.  I wasn't big on Eloy's Floating and Power and the Passion or Moodys On the Threshold of a Dream.  If Eloy's sequence started with Power and Passion and ended with Time to Turn, it might have gotten my vote, but maybe not
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

On the list, I suppose Van der Graaf Generator and Pink Floyd.

Not on the list:

- Art Zoyd (really the first eight). Going with Musique Pour L'Odyssée through Berlin (love the debut, but since we have a reworked version I started with the second album) .

- Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation to Stratosfear

- Magma: Kobaia to Attahk

- Heldon: Électronique Guérilla to Stand By

- Robert Wyatt (really the first eight), but I'll go with The End Of An Ear to Cuckooland, though I could go with Rock Bottom to Comicopera.

- Miles Davis: Filles De Kilimanjaro to Get Up With It

- Popol Vuh: (first eight really), but I'll go with Affenstunde to Aguirre rather than the better rated In Den Gärten Pharaos to Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (either works).

- Univers Zero: 1313 to Rhythmix (Rythmix not as strong imo) and really it's more of a ten album run.

- Present: Triskaïdékaphobie to Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)

- Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant to Free Hand (another where I would call for an eight album run, really).

I am tempted to vote other, but I might give a vote to the VdGG run.

With Pink Floyd it's more of an eleven album run for me (I even like More a lot), but I think I would go with The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to Obscured by Clouds rather than from Atom Heart Mother (I'd have to have Ummagumma and I like earlier Floyd a lot). I do love The Wall, though, so....

EDIT: I will go other for my Art Zoyd choices.


Picked out most of the ones I'd have mentioned, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd & Magma are really no brainers. 

Especially for Hercules. No mention of King Crimson?
ITCOTCK, ITWOP, Lizard, Islands, LTIA, S&BB, Red

Black Sabbath? s/t, Paranoid, MOR, Vol4, SBS, Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy.




Aside from missing Gentle Giant in the original list, how could I forget to mention King Crimson in my own? In The Court of the Crimson King to Red is an awesome run.
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^ Well it often was a judgement call on where to start a "run" for these albums. With Camel I thought about starting with the first(same with Yes and VDGG) and also with "inside" for Eloy. I didn't add Caravan because some of the later albums aren't regarded as highly. Same thing with Renaissance, Focus, PFM and Nektar.

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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

On the list, I suppose Van der Graaf Generator and Pink Floyd.

Not on the list:

- Art Zoyd (really the first eight). Going with Musique Pour L'Odyssée through Berlin (love the debut, but since we have a reworked version I started with the second album) .

- Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation to Stratosfear

- Magma: Kobaia to Attahk

- Heldon: Électronique Guérilla to Stand By

- Robert Wyatt (really the first eight), but I'll go with The End Of An Ear to Cuckooland, though I could go with Rock Bottom to Comicopera.

- Miles Davis: Filles De Kilimanjaro to Get Up With It

- Popol Vuh: (first eight really), but I'll go with Affenstunde to Aguirre rather than the better rated In Den Gärten Pharaos to Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (either works).

- Univers Zero: 1313 to Rhythmix (Rythmix not as strong imo) and really it's more of a ten album run.

- Present: Triskaïdékaphobie to Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)

- Gentle Giant: Gentle Giant to Free Hand (another where I would call for an eight album run, really).

I am tempted to vote other, but I might give a vote to the VdGG run.

With Pink Floyd it's more of an eleven album run for me (I even like More a lot), but I think I would go with The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to Obscured by Clouds rather than from Atom Heart Mother (I'd have to have Ummagumma and I like earlier Floyd a lot). I do love The Wall, though, so....

EDIT: I will go other for my Art Zoyd choices.


Picked out most of the ones I'd have mentioned, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd & Magma are really no brainers. 

Especially for Hercules. No mention of King Crimson?
ITCOTCK, ITWOP, Lizard, Islands, LTIA, S&BB, Red

Black Sabbath? s/t, Paranoid, MOR, Vol4, SBS, Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy.




Aside from missing Gentle Giant in the original list, how could I forget to mention King Crimson in my own? In The Court of the Crimson King to Red is an awesome run.

You know, I deliberately left off ELP but I admit King Crimson is a definite oversight. I could have done ITCOTCK to Red. Shame on me. Wow. Oh well. Maybe I'll do a part two and add them on that poll. As for Sabbath I don't really consider them full on prog but I could put them on the next one(if I do another)anyway. They certainly have some proggy material and imo are very under rated as an influence of prog metal(something they don't seem to get much credit for).


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I was thinking with your avatar, choosing that seven album run by King Crimson might have proved difficult.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

They are in your name AND your avatar!

I know. It's crazy. LOL
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I was thinking with your avatar, choosing that seven album run by King Crimson might have proved difficult.

So obvious I missed it I guess. 
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Voted for VdGG ahead of GG.
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

- Art Zoyd (really the first eight). Going with Musique Pour L'Odyssée through Berlin (love the debut, but since we have a reworked version I started with the second album) .

- Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation to Stratosfear

- Magma: Kobaia to Attahk

- Miles Davis: Filles De Kilimanjaro to Get Up With It

- Popol Vuh: (first eight really), but I'll go with Affenstunde to Aguirre rather than the better rated In Den Gärten Pharaos to Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (either works).
Sorry just stole those from your post that are the essentials for me + the later discussed KC of course. Also Klaus Schulze - Cyborg to Mirage (skipped Irrlicht only so that I could include the latter album) and very few have discovered just how excellent each Rabih Abou-Khalil-album from Between Dusk and Dawn to Tarab really is.

Then there's the progrelated Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day to Time & Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill to Gaucho 

+ I would have started with Camel's debut and stopped with I Can See Your House from Here 

I love all ten first albums by The Residents and don't know where I would start or end:

Meet The Residents
The Third Reich 'n Roll
Fingerprince
Not Available
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Eskimo
The Commercial Album
Mark of the Mole
The Tunes of Two Cities 
Intermission




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