Name Your #1 Prog Masterpiece Album

At this stage.

Prog Masterpieces UPDATE MAY 2012!

 

Whew... this took some time to collate so if I made any errors such as posting the wrong band name  feel free to let me know

 

but this is the latest list to this point.

if you have already chosen do not post a new choice.

 

Keep the list growing if you have not chosen yet... Make sure its an album too not just one song... if ppl posted one song I posted album it was from - if more than one vote this is noted too.  

 

These choices are amazing!

 

If more than 1 choice I had to record the first choice only, sorry.

So far we have:

 

MULTIPLE CHOICES… 9 OR MORE VOTES -  THE QUINTESSENTIAL LEGENDS OF PROG

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – GENESIS (14 votes!)

Close to the Edge – YES (13 votes!)

Thick as a Brick – JETHRO TULL (10 votes!)

Dark Side of the Moon – PINK FLOYD (9 votes!)

Relayer – YES (9 votes!)

6-8 VOTES - MASTERS OF PROG

Foxtrot – GENESIS (8 votes!)

In the Court of the Crimson King – KING CRIMSON (8 votes!)

Animals - PINK FLOYD (8 votes!)

Tales from Topographic Oceans – YES (8 votes!)

A Passion Play – JETHRO TULL (7 votes!)

Pawn Hearts – VDGG (6 votes!)

Red – KING CRIMSON (6 votes!) 

Hemispheres – RUSH (6 votes!)

 

MORE THAN 2… LESS THAN 6 - WE ARE NOT WORTHY!

Selling England by the Pound – GENESIS (5 votes!)

The Perfect Element PT 1 – PAIN OF SALVATION (5 votes!)

Scenes From A Memory – DREAM THEATER (4 votes!) 

Fragile – YES (4 votes!)

Lark’s Tongues In Aspic – KING CRIMSON (4 votes!)

Brain Salad Surgery – ELP (4 votes!)

Catch Thirty Three – MESHUGGAH (3 votes!)

Frances the Mute – THE MARS VOLTA (3 votes!)

Wish You Were Here - PINK FLOYD (3 votes!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AT LEAST 2 VOTES… DEFINITELY WORTH A LISTEN BEFORE YOU DIE

 Ommadawn – MIKE OLDFIELD (2 votes!)

Deloused in the Comatorium – THE MARS VOLTA (2 votes!)

Olias of Sunhillow - JON ANDERSON (2 votes!)

KA – MAGMA GENESIS (3 votes!)

Nursery Cryme – GENESIS (2 votes!)

MDK – MAGMA (2 votes!)

 Still Life – OPETH (2 votes!)

 Misplaced Childhood – MARILLION (2 votes!)

  A Farewell To Kings – RUSH (2 votes!)

Wish You Were Here - PINK FLOYD (2 votes!)

Still Life – VDGG (2 votes!)

Odyssey, The Greatest Tale – VARIOUS ARTISTS (2 votes!)

Generation Sans Futur – ART ZOYD (2 votes!)

Second Life Syndrome – RIVERSIDE (2 votes!)

Godbluff – VDGG (2 votes!)

Terria - DEVIN TOWNSEND (2 votes!)

THRAK – KING CRIMSON (2 votes!)

Going For The One – YES (2 votes!)

Part the Second – MAUDLIN OF THE WELL (2 votes!)

Images and Words – DREAM THEATER (2 votes!)

Tago Mago – CAN (2 votes!)

Meddle – PINK FLOYD (2 votes!)

Fairy Tales – MOTHER GONG (2 votes!)

Remedy Lane – PAIN OF SALVATION (2 votes!)

Illusions on a Double Dimple – TRIUMVIRAT (2 votes!)

Tubular Bells – MIKE OLDFIELD (2 votes!)

Mirage – CAMEL (2 votes!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ONE OFFS… AT LEAST SOMEBODY LOVES THESE.... FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS HERE THEY ARE FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE

The Human Equation - AYREON

Uomo Di Pezza - LE ORME

Magma - MAGMA

Permanent Waves – RUSH

L'enfant assassin des mouches-  JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER

Tarkus – ELP

Early Recordings From Kansas 1971-1973 – PROTO-KAW

Roxy & Elsewhere – ZAPPA/ MOTHERS

Solar Music Live – GROBSCHNITT

Snow – SPOCK’S BEARD

Meet the Residents – THE RESIDENTS

Il Balletto di Bronzo's – YS

Udu Wudu – MAGMA

Legend – HENRY COW

Marbles – MARILLION

Blackwater Park – OPETH

Trespass – GENESIS

Power and the Glory – GENTLE GIANT

Not as Good as the Book – THE TANGENT

The Yes Album – YES

The Polite Force - EGG

A Time Before This – JULIAN’S TREATMENT

An Invitation to Rachel’s Birthday – RACHEL’S BIRTHDAY

Igor Wakhevitch – DOCTEUR FAUST

Space Shanty – KHAN

Awake – DREAM THEATER

? – NEAL MORSE

Happy Accident - EXIT MIND  BOMB

Moving Pictures – RUSH

Yr – STEVE TIBBETS

Argus – WISHBONE ASH

Unfolded Like Staircase – DISCPLINE

The Difference Machine – BIG BIG TRAIN

Eros – DUN

The Whirlwind – TRANSATLANTIC

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven – GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR

Journey To the Cenre of the Eye - NEKTAR

Lateralus – TOOL

A Saucerful Of Secrets – PINK FLOYD

? - LOCUNDA DEL FATE

A Sense of Change – SIEGES EVEN

Angherr Shisspa – KOENJIHYAKKEI

Oh By The Way – PINK FLOYD (though this is cheating having all 14 albums here!)

Studio Zund - MAGMA (another cheat! LOL)

Amarok – MIKE OLDFIELD

Aqualung – JETHRO TULL

Doomsday Afternoon – PHIDEAUX

Script of a Jester’s Tear - MARILLION

COMUS

Epilog – ANGLAGARD

Atom Heart Mother – PINK FLOYD

The Flower King – ROINE STOLT

Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes – ELOY

Choirs of the Eye – KAYO DOT

Fear of a Blank Planet – PORCUPINE TREE

Deadwing – PORCUPINE TREE

Coyote – KAYO DOT

Io Sono Nato Libero – BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO

Third – SOFT MACHINE

Islands – KING CRIMSON

Aenima – TOOL

A Meditation Mass – YATHA SIDHRA

Free Hand – GENTLE GIANT

Emerson Lake & Palmer – ELP

Window of life – PENDRAGON

Mei – ECHOLYN

In Praise of Learning – HENRY COW

The Odyssey – SYMPHONY X

Future Days – CAN

Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie – MAGMA

Sing to God – The Cardiacs

Benefit – JETHRO TULL

Visions – HAKEN

Scheherezade and other stories – RENAISSANCE

Yezda Urfa – YEZDA URFA

Bedlam In Goliath – MARS VOLTA

Musique Pour L'Odyssée – ART ZOYD

Rock Bottom – Robert Wyatt

Goodbye to the Age of Steam – Big Big Train

Brave – MARILLION

Apostrophe – FRANK ZAPPA

Queen II – QUEEN

The Great Misdirect - BETWEEN THE BURIED AND THE DEAD

Yessongs – YES

Bridge across Forever – TRANSATLANTIC

Octopus – GENTLE GIANT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I just need to get hold of all those...  

 

That took an effort………. Can you PLEASE politely let me know if I made an error or if I missed any out that were seriously voted for. Thanks and KEEP VOTING IF YOU HAVE NOT CHOSEN PLEASE.

Ah that one! Okay Got it