Seven tracks from seven albums released in 1979

I'm happy enough when someone mentions something else that they think I or another might like based on any of the music in the poll, but I also make them because I want to discuss and see people's thoughts on the music that I come up with (a bit selfish, I guess).  "Best" discussions are better had in other people's topics.  

Sometimes when people just mention others, it feels like those people aren't interested in even considering what the OP is interested in, so it can seem invalidating and a bit arrogant at times.  Like "screw your selection, this is the best".  I don't do or try to do bests.  It's so subjective.

 This is one of the very best albums of all time and in my personal top three. Vocalist Gilli Smyth, she of the space whisper from Gong, tells three fairy tales, and the band supplies the necessary moods to these tales with their music. Everything about it is just right - the way Gilly Smyth tells the tales, the way the band follows every twist of the tales and makes the images appear before your eyes, and above all an almost supernatural Didier Malherbe on flutes and saxes. Whether he illustrates the tunes the Pied Piper plays on his flute (you would have followed him too!), imitates the sounds of rats, lets a frog croak, dogs bark, or sends Wassilissa flying over a landscape - he is always perfect. Not that the rest of the band are slouches, but Didier Malherbe just outshines them all. Oh, and this album is also the very best if you want to get your little kids interested in prog. It is the favorite album of our kids Dorothy and Alice (both age 5). Don't hesitate, buy it now!