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Whichalbums of the sixties should be inthe Top100?
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Poll Question: Chose one, two or three answer
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    Posted: January 09 2020 at 19:59
At the moment, in the Top 100 there are just three albums published in the Sixities (1969):

- King Crimson: In the Court Of...

- Frank Zappa: Hot Rats

- Miles Davis: In A Silent Way

(Miles Davis is in the ranking even with Kind Of Blue, released in 1959, and I dont agree with this fact: prog rock was not yet born in 1959)

In my opinion, they are too few.

Which album of the sixties, in your opinion, should be present in the Top 100?

You can choose:

- None (if you think no album of the sixties should be added to the ranking)

- One album

- Two Albums

-Three Albums

- Other or others albums: please, write their titles.


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I have no doubts:

1) Music From a Doll's House - Family: MASTERPIECE

2) Soft Machine: II

3) Pink Floyd: Ummagumma

I am sorry for:

4) Colosseum, Valentyne's Suite

5) Chicago
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Amon Düül 2 - Phallus Dei. and no, it is not Amon Dull 2
High Tide - Sea Shanties (why did you put album name first for this choice?)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma


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Soft Machine - Volume 1

also, The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed. An absolute masterpiece of an album.
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I chose all, except New Trolls, High Tide & Le Orme, that I haven´t heard (going to listen), also not chose first Soft Machine, because the second is so much greater. Like to add these:
Wigwam: Hard n Horny
Tasavallan Presidentti: Tasavallan Presidentti
Beefheart: Safe as Milk
Beefheart: Strictly Personal
Kaleidoscope: Tangerine Dream
Kaleidoscope: Faintly Blowing
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy
Traffic: Traffic
Traffic: Last Exit
Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
H.P. Lovecraft: First & second
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxters
Jefferson Airplane: a Crown Of Creation
the Nice: Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack

And of course:
the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced
the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love
the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland
the Who: the Who Sell Out
the Who: Tommy
the Beatles: Revolver
the Beatles: Sgt
the Beatles: Abbey Road
All the Doors sixties albums

Oh, how many great albums coming from those years...there will be so much more, but they´re not in PA.


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Of course Floyd´s first too.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Amon Düül 2 - Phallus Dei. and no, it is not Amon Dull 2
High Tide - Sea Shanties (why did you put album name first for this choice?)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma




Because I have written this post at 3 am and I wasnt completely awake!
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Few more:
Can: Monster Movie
Gong: Magick Brother
Kevin Ayers: Joy Of a Toy
Roy Harper: Sophisticated Beggar
Roy Harper: Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
Roy Harper: Folkjokeopus
Tim Buckley: Goodbye & Hello
Tim Buckley: Happy Sad
Tim Buckley: Blue Afternoon

Maybe these all that I have mentioned wouldn´t have been my own top100 from progarchives list, but anyway I really would be glad If I saw any of these there!
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The problem with this is of course that it's easy to say XXX should be in without saying who should be out. Apart from having any number of albums in mind that are neither on your list nor in the top 100 but I'd like to see there. Does "adding six albums to the top 100" mean that it's then top 106? Are we meant to assume our personal top 100 as a reference (in which case none of these would make it, but also only about 5 that are currently in the top 100) or some weird compromise between personal taste and "generally appreciated albums" meant to represent prog? The thing is that for all its weaknesses the current top 100 at least has a properly defined formal basis, like it or not. If we're voting on changing it, the basis has to be different and it's not clear what it should be then.

About the music: Ummagumma and Soft Machine II out of these come closest in my opinion; Ummagumma could well be in it if I'd have to compile a personal/general lame compromise prog top 100, maybe even SMII, but I'm not sure. Am tempted to vote "none" just because I find that the current system makes more sense than decision by poll voting...   

PS: Have voted for Ummagumma, SMII and None. Tongue
PPS: From the 60s Monster Movie is about at the level of Ummagumma and SMII. Revolver is actually better but probably wouldn't qualify.
PPPS: I may sound very critical but actually I like polls that make me reflect on such things, so don't take it as all negative.



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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Amon Düül 2 - Phallus Dei. and no, it is not Amon Dull 2
High Tide - Sea Shanties (why did you put album name first for this choice?)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma




Because I have written this post at 3 am and I wasnt completely awake!

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When thinking just for "what proglistener should have listened from the sixties" my choises will be:
the Beatles: Sgt
Mothers Of Invention: We´re Only In It
King Crimson: Court
Caravan: s/t
Soft Machine: II
Family: Music In a Doll´s House
Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly
the Moody Blues: Days Of Future Passed
the Nice: Ars Longa
Pink Floyd: Piper
Colosseum: Valentyne Suite
the Who: Tommy
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy
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Ummagumma is my favorite of this list. I don't know if it's worthy of the top 100, but it certainly wouldn't bother me if it had made it.
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Used to listen to that Chicago album everyday in middle school. Really great music, seen them live probably 7-8 times.
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None of them.
I like the Procol Harum, Family and Colosseum albums, but none of them would make it into my top 100. Nor would any of the three that are already in the top 100.
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Definitely Sgt Pepper, and maybe even Abbey Road.
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Forget about the top 100, Uncle Meat belongs in my personal top 10. We're Only In It For The Money as well as the Pink Floyd and Soft Machine albums you listed are worthy contenders as well.
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Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road
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I just watched that top100 list. There are albums that don´t surprise me at all, but what really is surprising is that there is no Kraut album, not a single album even from Can! So is it so today´s proglisteners don´t know Kraut at all? Anyway there are 2 Magma albums. Also, I haven´t ever even heard about Wobbler: From Silence To Somewhere or Änglagård: Hybris, that are quite high on the list. Are those albums something, I really should listen?
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Originally posted by TerLJack TerLJack wrote:

Definitely Sgt Pepper, and maybe even Abbey Road.

We can not choose albums of proto-progressive.
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