Name Your #1 Prog Masterpiece Album

Queen - The Prophet Song

My favorite song by my favorite band. Has al of my favorite elements of prog and other genres all moulded together into this masterpiece.

[QUOTE=Dayvenkirq] ^ Has to be an album. Are you saying that "A Night at the Opera" is your #1 prog masterwork? [/QUOTE

Ooops! That will teach me for clicking on it via the "most recent thread" without bothering to read the full title!

A Night at the Opera is fine album, but it has a few naff songs, so I think I'll be predictable and go with Thick As A Brick.

 

 

OK! Time for another update.......

 

 

 

Prog Masterpieces UPDATE AUGUST 2012!

 

Whew... as usual 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 in the usual way…

 

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 it’s 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 (16 votes!)

Close to the Edge – YES (15 votes!)

Thick as a Brick – JETHRO TULL (13 votes!)

Foxtrot – GENESIS (10 votes!)

Animals - PINK FLOYD (10 votes!)

Tales from Topographic Oceans – YES (9 votes!)

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

Relayer – YES (9 votes!)

 

6-8 VOTES - MASTERS OF PROG

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

A Passion Play – JETHRO TULL (8 votes!)

Pawn Hearts – VDGG (7 votes!)

Red – KING CRIMSON (7 votes!) 

Hemispheres – RUSH (6 votes!)

Scenes From A Memory – DREAM THEATER (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!)

Fragile – YES (4 votes!)

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

Brain Salad Surgery – ELP (4 votes!)

Images and Words – DREAM THEATER (4 votes!)

Catch Thirty Three – MESHUGGAH (3 votes!)

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

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

 KA – MAGMA GENESIS (3 votes!)

 Misplaced Childhood – MARILLION (3 votes!)

Nursery Cryme – GENESIS (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!)

MDK – MAGMA (2 votes!)

 Still Life – OPETH (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!)

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!)

Visions – HAKEN (2 votes!)

Trespass – GENESIS (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

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

Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più - LOCANDA DELLE 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

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

Palepoli – OSANNA

Apocalypse – MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA

Hamburger Concerto – FOCUS

Ceux Du Dehors – UNIVERS ZERO

Giant For A Day – GENTLE GIANT 

UK - UK 

Night – GAZPACHO

2112 - RUSH

Utopia – TODD RUNDGREN 

 

 

 

 

Now I just need to listen to some of these obscurities...  

 

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.

Brain Salad Surgery. 

Have many faves depending on my mood but certain albums I can play anytime.

^SBB are the bee's knees man

Originally posted by Guldbamsen ^SBB are the bee's knees man If you ever come across it somewhere, then I urge you to get their live album from Karlstad Sweden 1975. Quite simply their finest recording to these, and at least one more's(Mellotron Storm's), ears

I'll look around for it! Thanks! SBB deserves much more credit then they get.

Tubular Bells 

Runners up:

IN PRAISE OF LEARNING - Henry Cow
FRANCES THE MUTE - The Mars Volta
FUTURE DAYS - Can
STORMCOCK - Roy Harper
HOSIANNA MANTRA - Popol Vuh
CLOSE TO THE EDGE - Yes


Edited by ukrayf - August 31 2012 at 08:12

Highly tempted to go with Red by King Crimson.