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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2006 at 19:17

Originally posted by Moatilliatta Moatilliatta wrote:

I have too many to list. I actually listed some, but my post didn't go through, and I don't feel like re-typing it.
  My list is too big to think of only ten as well. Normally I'd at least TRY to llist Some, but its one of those days.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2006 at 06:15

Sabotage - Black Sabbath
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Ju Ju - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Tin Drum - Japan
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Ten - Pearl Jam
Lifeforms - Future Sound of London

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Debut - Bjork
Document - REM
The Queen is Dead - The Sniths
Kiss Kiss me Kiss me - The Cure
Reading writing & Arithmatic - The Sundays
Songs of Faith & Devotion - Depeche Mode
There's a riot goin' on - Sly & the Family Stone
Leftism - Leftfield

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2006 at 07:08

The Stranglers-The Raven

The Stray Cats-Back To The Alley

Rory Gallagher-The BBC Sessions

Ten Years After-Recorded Live

David Bowie-Live Santa Monica 1972

The Doors  - In Concert

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust

Paco De Lucia - Antologia

Santana-Live At The Filmore '68

Led Zeppelin  - Remasters

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2006 at 09:56

Don't know if they're my top ten definitively, but they are surely not PROG!

Good old boys - Randy Newman

End of the innocence - Don Henley

Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John

Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty

Aja - Steely Dan

Greatest Hits - Cheap Trick

Hysteria - Def Leppard

Highway 61 revisited - Bob Dylan

Soul Cages - Sting

On Every Street - Dire Straits

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2006 at 10:39
In no particular order:

  • Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

  • Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding

  • The Clash - Sandinista!

  • Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die

  • Faith No More - The Real Thing

  • Flogging Molly - Within A Mile Of Home

  • Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum

  • Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

  • My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

  • The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and The Lash


I know, I know, I've got a weird taste in music, but what the heck!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2006 at 12:02
Originally posted by retuow retuow wrote:

I know, I know, I've got a weird taste in music, but what the heck!

Don't we all?
My music!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 13:16
Top non-prog albums:
Abbey Road-Beatles
Led Zeppelin I-Led Zeppelin
Bayou Country-CCR
Hard Days' Night-Beatles
Best of the Atlanta Rhythm Section-ARS
Boston I-Boston
Aja-Steely Dan
Just One Night-Eric Clapton
Machine Head-Deep Purple
Bridge of Sighs-Robin Trower
Magical Mystery Tour-Beatles


Dreams. Gabor Szabo (1968)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 14:16

In no particular order:

The Who - Quadrophenia

The Who - Who Are You

Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner

Judas Priest - Stained Glass

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Beatles - For Sale

Beatles - Hard Day's Night

The Kinks - Something Else

Rainbow -Rising

The Band - Northern Lights, Southern Cross

 

 

 

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 16:02

The Nova Local - Nova 1

Iron Butterfly - In-A- Gadda-Da-Vida

Mountain -Flowers of Evil

The Brainbox - To You

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

TYA - Ssssh

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

Alice Cooper - Killer

Motor City 5 - Back in the USA

Who - Tommy 

and many,many more!!!!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2006 at 21:51

the arcade fire - funeral

and you will know us by the trail of dead - source tags and codes

and you will know us... - worlds apart

and you will know us... - self-titled

led zeppelin - houses of the holy

ben folds five - whatever and ever amen

ben folds fuve - self-titled

the strokes - is this it? TIES with first impressions of earth

guster - guster on ice: live in portland maine

zeppelin - physical graffiti

the offspring - conspiracy of one

millencolin - pennybridge pioneers

velvet underground - high fidelity soundtrack

...that's probably more than 10 but oh well...and that was off of the top of my head...i listen to a lot of indie and other stuff that would probably make it's way up here too---guess what? there are tons of good bands around that aren't prog and that aren't classics! check 'em out.

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2006 at 22:46

I could probably list a hundred, but here's some that have held up over time:

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood (1983)
Chicago II (1970)
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
Ramatam (1972)
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (1982)
Crosby, Stills and Nash (1969)
R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)
Rod Stewart - A Night on the Town (1976)
Joe Jackson - Big World (1986)
Lone Justice (1985)
Violent Femmes (1981)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2006 at 08:59

Hmm....

Today's choice in no particular order:

Led Zeppellin - Physical Graffitti

John McLaughlin - Time Remembered

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (IMHO has had more influence on progressive music than many of the albums listed here...)

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Keith Jarrett - My Song

Keith Jarrett - Survivors Suite

Martin Taylor & Steve Howe - Guitar Masterpeices

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:51

My top 10 non-prog as of 4/7/06 (in no particular order) -

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Sabotage - Black Sabbath

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

Sgt Pepper - the Beatles

Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden

Sin After Sin - Judas Priest

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top

Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath

Rainbow - Rising

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2006 at 11:38
1. Queen --- Innuendo (I'm leaving off their first 5 releases because I consider them to be prog)
2. Led Zeppelin --- IV
3. Black Sabbath --- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Queen --- Made In Heaven
5. Asia --- Asia
6. Queen --- The Works
7. Aerosmith --- Toys in the Attic
8. Queen --- News of the World
9. Led Zeppelin --- Physical Graffiti
10. Van Halen --- Van Halen
11. Boston --- Boston
12. Bad Company --- Bad Company
13. Bad Company --- Straight Shooter
14. Queen --- A Kind of Magic

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2006 at 13:24

1- Cradle of Filth- Nymphetamine (I consider them to be prog but.....)

2- Led Zeppelin- IV

3- Deep Purple- Machine Head

4- Black Sabbath- Paranoid

5- Jimi Hendrix- The best of Jimi Hendrix Experience

6- Queen- Live at Wembley (I consider A night at the opera to be prog)

7- Cradle of Filth- Midian

8- Ramones- Anthology

9- Black Sabbath- Past Lives

10- Cradle of Filth- Dusk.......and her Embrace

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 09:18

My favourite non-prog album top 10 (in no particular order)

Guns N' Roses - Appetite Fore Destruction

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Golden Earring - The Naked Three

Journey - Escape

Whitesnake - Live In The Still Of The Night

Anouk - Together Alone

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

The Eagles - Hotel California

Toto - Past To Present

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 14:57
This is a tough one, but I will give it a try. Here are my top ten none progressive albums in none practiciular order:

Tori Amos- Under The Pink

Nick Cave- Murder Ballads

Tom Waits- Rain Dogs

Suzanne Vega- Suzanne Vega

Emperor- Anthems To The Welkins At Dusk

Windir- Likferd

Fiona Apple- Extrodinary Machine

Elvira Nikolaisen- Quiet Exit

Midnight Choir- Amsterdam Stranded

Gary Moore- Wild Frontier


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