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Posted: June 30 2007 at 02:54 |
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Seeing that suggested album list in that book on RPI I have gave me an idea.
What 25 albums best show the range.... and quality of the Italian prog.
I'll kick it off... only one album per group. No order, other than the 'big 5' get top billing hahhah.
1. PFM - Per Un Amico
2. Banco - Io sono nato libero
3. Le Orme - Uomo di Pezza
4. Osanna - Palepoli
5. Area - Crac
6. Balleto di Bronzo - Ys
7. Museo Rosenbach - Zarathrustra
8. Locanda Delle Fate - Forse le lucciole non si amano pił
9. I Gigante - Terra in bocca
10. Delirium - Dolce acqua
11. Jumbo - Vieato ai minori di anni 18?
12. Franco Battiato - Clic
13. Jacula - In cauda semper stat venenum
14. Formula 3 - Sognando e risognando
15. Gobin - Roller
16. St. Just - s/t
17. The Trip - Atlantide
18. Il Volo - Essere o non essere?
19. Garybaldi- Nuda
20. Metamorfosi - Inferno
21. Raccomandata con ricevuta di ritorno - Per....un mondo di cristallo
22. Quella Vecchia Locanda - s/t
23. De De Lind - Io non so da dove vengo
24. New Trolls - Concerto Grosso n.1
25. Pholas Dactylus - Concerto delle menti
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 06:04 |
Well it looks like I have to get 23 more albums...I have Ys and Per Un Amico. Why isn't Biglietto Per L'Inferno on the list? 
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 06:07 |
 progismylife wrote:
Well it looks like I have to get 23 more albums...I have Ys and Per Un Amico.
Why isn't Biglietto Per L'Inferno on the list?
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sh*t... the beauty of RPI Ben, no matter how big the list... you are always leaving off classics hahhaha wait till my partners in crime post theirs... and see the variety.  I might expand mine to 30... since I posted it... I've thought of more of them hahhaha
Edited by micky - June 30 2007 at 06:08
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 06:13 |
Well if you expand yours to 30 then I'll have to safe up even more money so I can get the essential albums....right now I have about 2 pounds
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 06:21 |
Well, I could''t make a list of 25, simply because I don't know 25 separate Italian prog bands. Try later to make a list. Why isn't Semiramis on your list, you don't like it?
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 06:25 |
progismylife wrote:
Well if you expand yours to 30 then I'll have to safe up even more money so I can get the essential albums....right now I have about 2 pounds
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ahhahahha... isn't that the truth. I build my expansive collection in my youth based on two creative premises... 1) I didn't bother with girlfriends.... the biggest drain on your finances you will ever know. I didn't get my drivers license till I was in college so I didn't even have to worry about that. So everything I made went went straight to Waxie Maxie's. 2) Creative financial management.... for example when my parents when to Europe for 6 weeks when I was in H.S. they left me $500 emergency money. So like any teenager.... I made the food that mom left in the house last for 6 weeks... and went on one HELL of a shopping spree hahhahhaa. In the 80's that could go a long way
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 06:26 |
glass house wrote:
Well, I could''t make a list of 25, simply because I don't know 25 separate Italian prog bands. Try later to make a list. Why isn't Semiramis on your list, you don't like it?
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I LOVE that album... and thinking about it for the expanded ...remastered version hahahha.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 07:08 |
OK, here's a fan, let's check that 25 Italian progrock bands list,
in no particurarly order:
1. PFM - Cook
2. Banco - Banco
3. Le Orme - Felona E Sorona
4. Cherry Five - Same
5. Semiramis - Dedicato Al Frazz
6. Balleto di Bronzo - Ys
7. Museo Rosenbach - Zarathrustra
8. Locanda Delle Fate - Forse le lucciole non si amano pił
9. I Giganti - Terra in bocca
10. Delirium - Dolce acqua
11. Jumbo - Vieato ai minori di anni 18?
12. Corte Dei Miracoli - Same
13. Jacula - In cauda semper stat venenum
14. Formula 3 - Sognando e risognando
15. Gli Alluminogeni - Scolopendra
16. Panna Freda - Uno
17. The Trip - Atlantide
18. Il Volo - Essere o non essere?
19. Alphataurus - Same
20. Metamorfosi - Inferno
21. Raccomandata con ricevuta di ritorno - Per....un mondo di cristallo
22. Quella Vecchia Locanda - s/t
23. I Dik Dik - Suite Per Una Donna ..
24. New Trolls - Concerto Grosso n.1
25. E A Poe - Generazione
I am looking forward to other Italian proghead lists 
Edited by erik neuteboom - June 30 2007 at 10:12
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 07:13 |
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good list Erik... thanks for chiming in. I was hoping you would.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 09:03 |
25? 25... 25 
These are my selection from all period.
1.Area / 1978
2.Arti + Mestieri / Giro Di Valzer Per Domani
3.Il Balletto Di Bronzo / Ys
4.Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso / Darwin!
5.Franco Battiato / Pollution
6.Lucio Battisti / Anima Latina
7.Mauro Pelosi / Almercato Degli Uomini Piccoli
8.Canzoniere Del Lazio / Miradas
9.Celeste / Celeste
10.Saint Just / La Casa Del Lago
11.Deus Ex Machina / Cinque
12.Eris Pluvia / Rings Of Earthly Light
13.Formula 3 / Sognando E Risognando
14.Mauro Pagani / Mauro Pagani
15.I Pooh / Un Po'Del Nostro Tempo Migliore
16.Sangiuliano / Take Off
17.Jacula / Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus
18.Latte E Miele / Passio Secundum Mattheum
19.PFM / Photos Of Ghosts
20.Pierrot Lunaire / Gudrun
21.New Trolls / UT
22.Il Volo / Essere O Non Essere ?
23.Opus Avantra / Introspezione
24.Le Orme / Felone E Sorona
25.Osanna / Palepoli
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 11:43 |
honganji wrote:
25? 25... 25
These are my selection from all period.
1.Area / 1978
2.Arti + Mestieri / Giro Di Valzer Per Domani
3.Il Balletto Di Bronzo / Ys
4.Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso / Darwin!
5.Franco Battiato / Pollution
6.Lucio Battisti / Anima Latina
7.Mauro Pelosi / Almercato Degli Uomini Piccoli
8.Canzoniere Del Lazio / Miradas
9.Celeste / Celeste
10.Saint Just / La Casa Del Lago
11.Deus Ex Machina / Cinque
12.Eris Pluvia / Rings Of Earthly Light
13.Formula 3 / Sognando E Risognando
14.Mauro Pagani / Mauro Pagani
15.I Pooh / Un Po'Del Nostro Tempo Migliore
16.Sangiuliano / Take Off
17.Jacula / Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus
18.Latte E Miele / Passio Secundum Mattheum
19.PFM / Photos Of Ghosts
20.Pierrot Lunaire / Gudrun
21.New Trolls / UT
22.Il Volo / Essere O Non Essere ?
23.Opus Avantra / Introspezione
24.Le Orme / Felone E Sorona
25.Osanna / Palepoli
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 good ones... including a few I don't have  I need to remedy that.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 11:51 |
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Ah, Italian Progressive Rock! I wish I could get my hands on some of those albums. It's the lack of the material here in my place I'm afraid. Not a big fan of online stores.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 11:57 |
Majestic_Mayhem wrote:
Ah, Italian Progressive Rock! I wish I could get my hands on some of those albums. It's the lack of the material here in my place I'm afraid. Not a big fan of online stores. |
I know..... even here in Italy you have to hunt for them. I've cleaned Rome of the good stuff it seems
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:02 |
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:05 |
if you are not going to go the online route probably not... .have you tried ordering through music stores? We had a thread a couple of days ago that mentioned that. That is how I got some of mine. Even though they aren't on the shelves.... many music stores can special order directly from distributors for you
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:13 |
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Uhm, well, I have friend who owns a small record store. He's also having trouble finding those gems, I don't know. The poor guy gave up on me I suppose. hehe.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:17 |
Majestic_Mayhem wrote:
Uhm, well, I have friend who owns a small record store. He's also having trouble finding those gems, I don't know. The poor guy gave up on me I suppose. hehe. |
the key is to find a store that uses Japanese distributors.... the Japanese seem to love RPI and for many years they were the ones who kept those albums in print before the Italians got their act together and started reissuing them.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:19 |
My List is here:
1) New Trolls: "Concerto Grosso, The Seven Seasons"
2) New Trolls: "Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls"
3) Campo Di Marte: "Campo Di Marte"
4) E. A. Poe: "Generazioni (Storia Di Sempre)"
5) Le Orme: "Collage"
6) Donella Del Monaco & Paolo Troncon; OpusAvantra Ensemble: "Venetia Et Anima"
7) Il Castello Di Atlante: "Sono io Il Signore Delle Terre A Nord"
8) Festa Mobile: "Diario Di Viaggio Della Festa Mobile"
9) Gianni D'Errico: "Antico Teatro Da Camera"
10) Toto Torquati: "Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino"
11) Dalton: "Riflessioni: Idea D'Infinito"
12) Dalton Argitari"
13) Ibis: "Sun Supreme"
14) Locanda Delle Fate: "Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Pił"
15) Rustichelli & Bordini: "Opera Prima"ł
16) Museo Rosenbach: "Zahrathustra"
17) Rocky's Filj: "Storie Di Uomini E Non"
18) PFM: "Storia Di Un Minuto"
19) PFM: "L'Isola Di Niente"
20) Nuova Era: "Il Passo Del Soldato"
21) Alan Sorrenti: "Aria"
22) Triade: "1998- La Storia Di Sabazio"
23) VV.AA.: "I Grandi Successi Del Rock Progressivo Italiano"
24) Riccardo Zappa: "Celestion"
25) Ivano Fossati: "Le Pił Belle Canzoni Di Ivano Fossati (1971/1975)"
Excuse me because I chose more album for individual bands or album of contemporary bands (or produced today), obscure bands/ artists and Ivano Fossati. Nevertheless these they are the 25 "Top RPI albums" that I have in head to today.
P.s.: special mention to:
Faveravola: "La Contea Dei cento Castagni"
Andrea Parodi e Al Di Meola: "Midsummer Night In Sardinia- Armentos"
Mario Fasciano & Rick Wakeman: "Black Knights At The Court Of Ferdinand IV"
That for varied reasons they cannot enter in the list.
Edited by Mandrakeroot - June 30 2007 at 12:23
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:19 |
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Ah I see. Thanks for the tip man.
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 14:41 |
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good list Mandy... Aria and Celeston go in my expanded 30.
I must be one of the few that thinks Generazioni is a nice....but average album. Both you and Erik had it on your lists.
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