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    Posted: August 23 2008 at 20:55
1. Close to the Edge - Yes (undescribable)
2. Metropolis Pt. 2 - Dream Theater (Pure. Musical. Excellence.)
3. Red - King Crimson (Kinda Heavy for KC, but I love it.)
4. Animals - Pink Floyd (MMMMmmmmm.)
5. Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin (For classic value; the most perfect zep album.)
6. Relayer - Yes (What can I say)
7. Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes (I like that it drags out)
8. Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd (So underrated)
9. Images and Words - Dream Theater (Awesome.)
10. Moving Pictures - Rush (Rush. :D)

Hmmm. Maybe I haven't thought about it enough.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2008 at 21:15
hm. Think there's another thread somewhere. Might be prog-specific, though.
For me:
1. Larks' Tongues In Aspic
The ultimate experience of music. Phenomenal, mind-shaking power meets a sort of lamentful feeling, always quite distant yet personal, insistent. Combining atmosphere with playing with lyrics with some crazy experimental edges that always seem purposeful.
2. H To He, Who Am The Only One
3. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
4. In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
5. Islands - King Crimson
6. Nursery Cryme - Genesis
7. Rubycon - Tangerine Dream
8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP
9. Ys - Il Balletto Di Bronzo
10. Les Porches - Maneige
11. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull (Couldn't be missed)

Caress of Steel might clock in at around 20.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2008 at 02:29
I can't do Top Lists for Albums, so, in no particular order:

my favorite album is 'Choirs of the Eye' (Kayo Dot)

The rest are in the order which I think of them, thus I'm likely leaving obvious entries off

-In Absentia/the Sky Moves Sideways (Porcupine Tree)
-Lateralus/Aenima (Tool)
-Nursery Cryme (Genesis)
-Tago Mago (Can)
-El Cielo (dredg)
-Bath (maudlin of the Well)
-Kid A (Radiohead)
-Sea of the Dying Dhow (*shels)
-Relationship of Command (At the Drive-In)
-The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson)
-the Hurting (Tears for Fears)
-The Eraser (Thom Yorke)
-Moonmadness (Camel)
-Skymind (Taal)
-Double Figure (Plaid)
-Source Tags and Codes/Madonna (...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead)
-Calculating Infinity (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
-Blood Inside (Ulver)
-F#A#oo (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
-Legend (Henry Cow)
-You/Radio Gnome Invisible (Gong)
-Of Natural history (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum)
-Magick (John Zorn)
-Catch 33 (Meshuggah)
-The Bees Made Honey in the Giant's Skull (Earth)
-Black Earth (Bohren & der Club of Gore)
-Du & Jag Döden/Vapen och Ammunition (Kent)
-Disco Volante (Mr. Bungle)
-The Fall of Math (65daysofstatic)
-Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine (Aksak Maboul)
-Huono Parturi (Höyry-Kone)
-Book of Horizons (Secret Chiefs 3)
-Fable OST (Russel Shaw)
-Frances the Mute (The Mars Volta)
-Kobaīa/Mekanīk Destruktīw Kommandöh/Üdü Wüdü/1001° Centigrades (Magma)
-In the Court of the Crimson King/Larks Tongue in Aspic (King Crimson)
-Bitches Brew (Miles Davis)
-Blood in Our Wells (Drudkh)
-Dark Side of the Moon/Animals (Pink Floyd)
-Deceit (This Heat)
-Waiter You Vultures (Portugal the Man)
-Spirit of Eden (Talk Talk)
-Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue/Blue Lambency Downward (Kayo Dot)
-Tabula Rasa (Arvo Pärt)

Yes I know that's more than 10, and like I said, I probably left quite a few off...


Also, as a note: which of the albums in the topic creator's list isn't prog? At least not according to this site?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2008 at 10:48
My top 10 would go something like this (not in order):

Can: Future Days
Asia Minor: Between Flesh and Divine
King Crimson: Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Jan Dukes de Grey:  Mice and Rats in the Loft
C.O.B.: Moyshee McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart
Santana: Caravanserai
Broselmaschine: Broselmaschine
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
Synanthesia: Synathesia
Agitation Free: Malesch

Some special mention albums:
Magma: Kohntarkosz
Comus: First Utterance
Subway: Subway
Camel: Mirage
Trees: Garden of Jane Delawney
Spirogyra: St. Radigunds
VDGG: H to He, Who Am the Only One
Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Ash Ra Tempel: Ash Ra Tempel
Nektar: Remember the Future


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2008 at 11:37
My all time favourite album is Meddle, and given my floydian obsession, I'll list my favourite 10 non-floydian albums instead.  So in no particular order:

1) Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP
2) Led Zeppelin IV
3) Close to the Edge - Yes
4) Imagine - John Lennon
5) Abbey Road - The Beatles
6) The Snow Goose - Camel
7) Caravanserai - Santana
8) The First of a Million Kisses - Fairground Attraction
9) Watermark - Enya
10) Deep Purple in Rock
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2008 at 11:57
1) Rush - Moving Pictures
2) Led Zeppelin IV
3) Rush - Permanent Waves
4) Yes - Close to the Edge
5) Rush - Grace Under Pressure
6) Judas Priest - British Steel
7) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8) Yes - Fragile
9) ELP -  Brain Salad Surgery
10) Metallica - Master of Puppets
 
Something like that anyhow, although the order is somewhat arbitrary and numerous other albums could be within the list on any given day, including many other Rush albums, Dream Theater's Images and Words, a couple of additional Yes albums, and something as crazy as Huey Lewis and the News' Sports.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2008 at 12:12
in no particular order:

!t.o.o.h.! - rad a trest
raison d'etre - in sadness, silence & solitude
townes van zandt - the late, great, townes van zandt
genesis - selling england by the pound
demilich - nespithe
magma - Wurdah Ītah
lykathea aflame - Elvenefris
magma - attahk
judas priest - sad wings of destiny
ulver - blood inside
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2008 at 13:25
1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The others are:
  • Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Master of Reality
  • Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
  • King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
  • Rainbow - Rising
  • Deep Purple - Fireball
  • Led Zeppelin - I
  • Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs
  • Zappa - Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe
But that's 11... Oh well...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 17 2008 at 14:09
Dream Theater - Images and words
Rush - A farewell to kings
VdGG - Godbluff
VdGG - Still life
VdGG - Pawn hearts
VdGG - H to He, who am the only one
VdGG - The least we can do is wave to each other
VdGG - World record
Metallica - ...and justice for all
Tool - Lateralus
AC/DC - High voltage
 
and lots of others, these being the first coming from my fingers
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2008 at 03:15
1. SMPT:e - Transatlantic
2. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
3. Bridge Across Forever - Transatlantic
4. V - Spock's Beard
5. U.K. - U.K.
6. Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings
7. Red - King Crimson
8. Close to the Edge - Yes
9. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
10. Foxtrot - Genesis
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 14:46
Jim Croce - You don't mess around with Jim
Procol Harum - Home
Doors - Doors
Queensr˙che - The warning
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Voivod - Nothingface
Dr.Hook - Bankrupt
Rush - Power Windows
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 17:45
1. Foxtrot - Genesis
2. Another Green World - Brian Eno
3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4. Stranded - Roxy Music
5. Irrlicht - Klaus Schulze
6. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
7. A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren
8. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma
9. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
10. Close to the Edge - Yes
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 18:00
No particular order and 1 per band limit:

Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
Godbluff - Van der Graaf Generator
The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree
Into The Everflow - Psychotic Waltz
BE - Pain Of Salvation
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
In A Glass House - Gentle Giant
ItCotCK - King Crimson
Foxtrot - Genesis
Hybris - Anglagard
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 18:01
Originally posted by easytargets easytargets wrote:

Dream Theater - Images and words
Rush - A farewell to kings
VdGG - Godbluff
VdGG - Still life
VdGG - Pawn hearts
VdGG - H to He, who am the only one
VdGG - The least we can do is wave to each other
VdGG - World record
Metallica - ...and justice for all
Tool - Lateralus
AC/DC - High voltage
 
and lots of others, these being the first coming from my fingers

Yo dawg we heard you like VdGG.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 18:03
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 18:15
Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Originally posted by easytargets easytargets wrote:

Dream Theater - Images and words
Rush - A farewell to kings
VdGG - Godbluff
VdGG - Still life
VdGG - Pawn hearts
VdGG - H to He, who am the only one
VdGG - The least we can do is wave to each other
VdGG - World record
Metallica - ...and justice for all
Tool - Lateralus
AC/DC - High voltage
 
and lots of others, these being the first coming from my fingers

Yo dawg we heard you like VdGG.
I'd probably have at least four VDGG albums in my top ten as well.Embarrassed
 
As for today (no repeating artists):
1. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
2. Comus - First Utterance
3. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
4. Univers Zero - Univers Zero (1313)
5. Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
6. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
7. Kayo Dot - Coyote
8. Can - Tago Mago
9. Genesis - Foxtrot
10. The Residents - Not Available
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 19:36

What I now consider my all-time fave albums, only one album per artist:

1. Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd
2. Islands - King Crimson
3. Come Taste the Band - Deep Purple
4. Zappa in New York - Frank Zappa
5. Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
6. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull (only because Part 1 is surely one of my all-time fave songs, but as an entire album I prefer APP)
7. Spectrum - Billy Cobham
8. Bajo Belgrano - Spinetta Jade
9. Who Are You - The Who
10. Crime of the Century - Supertramp
 
For me, all-time fave stands for an album that I can still listen after various months (I really can't speak of years at my age) and still get the same or even a better thrill from it. All-time fave albums are those that you know every single part of it and the whole experience generally brings fonds memories of a certain time, or places you in a unique mood.
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2010 at 21:41
1. Yes Fragile
2.King Crimson Red
3. Porcupine Tree In Absintia 
4.ElP Brain Salad Surgery
5.The Betlels  Abby Road
6.Mastodon Blood Mountain
7.Baroness Blue record
8.Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon
9.Porcupine Tree deadwing
Porcupine Tree fear of a blank planet
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2012 at 07:23
1. Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
2. Genesis - Lamb lies down on broadway
3. Yes - Keys to Ascension 2 (live)
4. An evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess (live)
5. Pär Lindh & Björn Johansson - Dreamsongs from middle earth
6. Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory
7. Metallica - S&M Album (live)
8. Marillion - Fugazi
9. Sieges Even - The art of navigating by the stars
10. Moonbootica - Listen
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