Rolling Stone's"Best Prog-Rock Albums of All Time"

Other than that, I have no problems with the list. Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd all deserve to be there.

I would rather that Rolling Stone did what they did to Dream Theater, and limit it to one album per band.

Originally posted by darkshade I see no one has noticed the problem that the main article before the list brings up. RS said that if they made this list based on all the votes, there would have been 5 Dream Theater albums in the list, so they combined them all into one, and picked Scenes because it had the most votes. Yet, there's only 6 bands on this whole list; 3 Rush, 2 KC, 2 Genesis.

fair point

While I love 2112, number 2 is ridiculous. The fact that Dream Theater is there at all invalidates the list in my opinion.

^ Well, what else did you expect? A whole list of DT albums? And even if DT had more than one album, then that would push "Moving Pictures" and "Red" out. Then people would be bi$%hing about "Red": "Hey, where the f$%k is 'Red'? Why does this list have only one Crims album?" Stuff like that.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 04 2012 at 02:58

^ The list wasn't made to be representative. It was made to emphasize what the readers think are the top 10 best prog albums. Quintessential albums are a different business. Best ... quintessential ... see the difference?

Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 28 2012 at 02:52

Who is this D Theatre band?

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Originally posted by rogerthat Originally posted by Dayvenkirq ^ The list wasn't made to be representative. It was made to emphasize what the readers think are the top 10 best prog albums. Quintessential albums are a different business. Best ... quintessential ... see the difference? Now, if we take into account all the things that have been discussed in the previous posts, then I suppose we could conclude it wouldn't hurt for RS to also make a list of top 10 most quintessential prog albums ... although, I must say that in cases such as this one number 10 is too small ... perchance. In that case, either all DT albums that got voted to the top 10 should have been included or none, to disqualify DT for encouraging their fans through their facebook page.   But you can't apply different rules to different bands.  If there were supposedly too many DT albums in the list, why do we need three Rush albums in the top 10 anyway?   I guess what you are trying to say is that you can't rank great works (because they are so different), did I get it right? 'Cause that's all I can make out of your reply thus far.

Nope.  I am not sure from your responses whether you read what Rolling Stone said in the beginning of the list.  They said DT encouraged their fans to vote on this poll through their facebook page which, RS claim, skewed the results of the poll.  Apparently to remedy this, RS included one DT album in the list instead of all that had been voted into the top 10.   And yet, there are multiple albums of a few bands in the list, Rush, Genesis and KC, which is strange and contradictory.  Who's to say there wasn't too much fanboy voting in those cases too that skewed the results?  If RS included only one DT album to counter skewing, they should have had only album each of Rush, Genesis and KC too in the top 10.

Originally posted by rogerthat Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Originally posted by rogerthat Originally posted by Dayvenkirq ^ The list wasn't made to be representative. It was made to emphasize what the readers think are the top 10 best prog albums. Quintessential albums are a different business. Best ... quintessential ... see the difference? Now, if we take into account all the things that have been discussed in the previous posts, then I suppose we could conclude it wouldn't hurt for RS to also make a list of top 10 most quintessential prog albums ... although, I must say that in cases such as this one number 10 is too small ... perchance. In that case, either all DT albums that got voted to the top 10 should have been included or none, to disqualify DT for encouraging their fans through their facebook page.   But you can't apply different rules to different bands.  If there were supposedly too many DT albums in the list, why do we need three Rush albums in the top 10 anyway?   I guess what you are trying to say is that you can't rank great works (because they are so different), did I get it right? 'Cause that's all I can make out of your reply thus far. Nope.  I am not sure from your responses whether you read what Rolling Stone said in the beginning of the list.  They said DT encouraged their fans to vote on this poll through their facebook page which, RS claim, skewed the results of the poll.  Apparently to remedy this, RS included one DT album in the list instead of all that had been voted into the top 10.   And yet, there are multiple albums of a few bands in the list, Rush, Genesis and KC, which is strange and contradictory.  Who's to say there wasn't too much fanboy voting in those cases too that skewed the results?  If RS included only one DT album to counter skewing, they should have had only album each of Rush, Genesis and KC too in the top 10.

Originally posted by Horizons f**k yes no TAAB