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Topic: Top three albums By... Whoever
Posted By: Argo2112
Subject: Top three albums By... Whoever
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 13:55
Tried this with songs lists and it went pretty well. Now let's do top three albums. 
Pick a band, any band & give us your top three albums . Can be your favorite band or just someone you have been listening to lately.  I'll start with Yes. 

Yes

Close to the edge
The Yes Album
Going for the One
 



Replies:
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 14:18
Bob Dylan

Highway 61 revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Love and Theft

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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 14:36
^ No "Blood on the Tracks" ? 


Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 16:02
Yes

1 Close To the Edge
2 Relayer
3 Tales From Topographic Oceans

Genesis

1 Foxtrot
2 Selling England by the Pound
3 Trick of the Tail

King Crimson

1: Court
2: Red
3: Larks

Pink Floyd

1: Animals
2: Dark Side Of The Moon
3: Wish You Were Here

Camel

1: Moonmadness
2: Mirage
3: Nod and a Wink

King Gizzard

1: Flying Microtonal Banana
2: Polygondwanaland
3: Nonagon Infinity

Kansas

1: Song for America
2: Debut (s/t)
3: leftoverture

Spock’s Beard

1: V
2: The Light
3: Brief Nocturnes


Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 16:15
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 16:30
Van der Graaf Generator

The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
Still Life
Pawn Hearts


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 16:32
David Sylvian

Brilliant Trees
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=47851" rel="nofollow - There's A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight
Secrets of the Beehive


Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 16:56
Marillion
Misplaced Childhood
Marbles
Sounds That Can't Be Made

Peter Gabriel
So
Us
IV Security


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Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 20:56
KANSAS

Leftoverture
Somewhere to Elsewhere
Point of No Return


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 20:57
YES

Close to the Edge
Related
The Yes Album


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 20:58
MOODY BLUES

Days of Future Passed
To Our Children's Children's Children
Long Distance Voyager


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:01
CAMEL

Mirage
Moonmadness
The Snow Goose


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:04
GENTLE GIANT

Three Friends
Octopus
In a Glass House


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:05
RUSH

Moving Pictures
2112
Hemispheres


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:06
PINK FLOYD

Dark Side of the Moon
Animals
Wish You Were Here


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:08
DREAM THEATER

Images and Words
Black Clouds and Silver Linings


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:09
ELP

Tarkus
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Brain Salad Surgery


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:11
GENESIS

Foxtrot
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Selling England by the Pound


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:12
FATES WARNING

Parallels
Perfect Symmetry
Disconnected


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:13
JETHRO TULL

Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Crest of a Knave


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:16
KING CRIMSON

Lizard
In the Wake of Poseidon
Larks in Tongues Aspic


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:20
STEELY DAN

Katy Lied
Countdown to Ecstasy
Aja


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:22
IRON MAIDEN

Piece of Mind
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Powerslave


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:27
RIVERSIDE

Anno Domini High Defenition
Second Life Syndrome
Rapid Eye Movement


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:30
SPOCK'S BEARD

The Light
Snow
V


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:33
ZAPPA

Hot Rats
Apostrophe
Sheik Yerbouti


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:35
MILES

In a Silent Way
Jack Johnson
Agharta


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:40
STEVE HACKETT

Voyage of the Acolyte
Spectral Mornings
Highly Strung


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 21:42
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH

Metal Fatigue
I.O.U.
The Sixteen Men of Tain


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 22:09
ELP
Brain Salad Surgery
Trilogy
Works Volume One (mainly for Keith's Piano Concerto , Pirates , most of Palmer's side and 2 of Lake's songs)

IQ
Ever
The Wake
Frequency

Genesis
Foxtrot
A Trick Of The tail
And Then There Were Three

Yes
Fragile
Close To The Edge
Drama

Rush
Moving Pictures
A Farewell To Kings
Vapor Trails


Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 22:18
Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

KANSAS

Leftoverture
Somewhere to Elsewhere
Point of No Return

interesting choice with somewhere to elsewhere, I love Icarus II, Distant Vision, Myriad and The Coming Dawn, but most the stuff inbetween falls flat for me


Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 22:18
Genesis

A Trick of the Tail
Wind and Wuthering
Selling England by the Pound


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 22:21
Kansas
Somewhere To Elsewhere
Kansas (S/t)
Song For America

( the first 2 I love but after that a good compilation album suffices for me. However Song For America is such a great epic I have to pick that album!)


Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 21 2019 at 22:25
No order for any of these:

Yes

Relayer
Close to the Edge
Fragile

Rush

A Farewell to Kings
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves

Pink Floyd

Atom Heart Mother
Wish You Were Here
The Wall





Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 02:27
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Ummagumma
Meddle

Genesis
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound
Nursery Cryme

Yes
Close to the Edge
Fragile
The Yes Album

Big Big Train
English Electric (Part One)
Grimspound
English Electric (Part Two) / Grand Tour (tie)



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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 02:59
Embryo:
Rache
Rocksession
We Keep On

Supersister:
Iskander
Pudding En Gisteren
To The Highest Bidder

Art Zoyd:
Berlin
Häxan
Génération Sans Futur

Marillion:
Fugazi
Script
Clutching

Tangerine Dream:
Ricochet
Rubycon
Atem
(Could be any number of TD albums from the 70s tbh)

Klaus Schulze:
Blackdance
X
Picture Music
(Same as TD)

Amon Düül ll:
Yeti
Wolf City
Tanz der Lemminge

Jethro Tull:
A Passion Play
Stand Up
This Was

Premiata Forneria Marconi:
L’Isola Di Niente
Storia di un Minuto
Per Un Amico

Area:
Crac!
Arbeit Macht Frei
Caution Radiation Area

Magma:
Live Hhaï
Köhntarkösz
Kobaïa

Genesis:
Lamb
Fox
Trick

Björn J:Son Lindh:
Från Storstad til Grodspad
Cous Cous
Sissel

Frank Zappa:
Hot Rats
The Grand Wazoo
One Size Fits All

Dungen:
4
Stadsvandringar
Skitt I Alt

Franco Battiato:
Pollution
Clíc
Sulle Corde di Aries


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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 05:40
Genesis:
A trick of the tail
The Lamb lies down on Broadway
Wind & Wuthering


Yes:
Close to the edge
Relayer
Drama


King Crimson:
Red
Islands
In the wake of Posseidon


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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 07:51
Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

^ No "Blood on the Tracks" ? 

Definitely not a top 3 for me, not even in the first 5. A top 10 for sure but near the bottom of my list.    

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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 07:57
Joni Mitchell

Hejira
Blue
For the Roses

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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 08:06
Yes:
1. Tales From Topographic Oceans
2. Relayer
3. Fragile

ELP:
1. Tarkus
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer
3. Works Vol. 2

Moodies:
1. On the Threshold of a Dream
2. To Our Children's Children's Children's Children's Children's etc.
3. In Search of my Lost Cord


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 09:58
Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

KANSAS

Leftoverture
Somewhere to Elsewhere
Point of No Return

interesting choice with somewhere to elsewhere, I love Icarus II, Distant Vision, Myriad and The Coming Dawn, but most the stuff inbetween falls flat for me

For some reason, just about every song on the album resonates with me.  You're the first person I've ever heard single out Myriad, which is my favorite on the album and one of my favorite Kansas songs overall.  


Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 10:02
Well, since some are going well off the Prog reservation, I'll add on nobody probably expected to see on this site:

DAN FOGELBERG
1. Netherlands
2. Captured Angel
3. Phoenix


Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 10:11
Van der Graaf Generator:
Pawn Hearts
H To He, Who Am The Only One
World Record
 
Yes:
Close To The Edge
Fragile
Relayer
 
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:
Sketches Of Brunswick East
Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana
 
 
 
 


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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.


Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 10:34
King Crimson

Larks Tongues in Aspic
Starless & Bible Black
Red

Genesis

TLLDOB
Trick of the Tail
Selling England by the Pound

Zappa
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe
One Size Fits All 



Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 10:50
Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:

Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana
 
 
 
 

Items ordered.

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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 10:53
The Flower Kings

The Sum of no Evil
Space Revolver
Unfold the Future

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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 11:16
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:

Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana
 
 
 
 

Items ordered.

You're buying these albums just because one person on here listed them? Just because he likes them doesn't mean you will.


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 11:38
^ What are you talking about? of course I will like them. I'm doing this all the time.

Ever heard about the concept of 'trust' between music lovers?

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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 11:43
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

^ What are you talking about? of course I will like them. I'm doing this all the time.

Ever heard about the concept of 'trust' between music lovers?

Not really. Lol. If you know the person's taste already I suppose that can make a big difference. Personally, I don't go by just one person's opinion but maybe that's just me. I take it into consideration but I look up reviews and ratings on here as well as rate your music and other sites(DPRP is another one). The second one listed wasn't even rated that highly on RYM(or at least there were two or three others that were rated higher). Best thing is to sample music on youtube first. These days practically everything is on youtube. 


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 12:46
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

^ What are you talking about? of course I will like them. I'm doing this all the time.

Ever heard about the concept of 'trust' between music lovers?


Not really. Lol. If you know the person's taste already I suppose that can make a big difference. Personally, I don't go by just one person's opinion but maybe that's just me. I take it into consideration but I look up reviews and ratings on here as well as rate your music and other sites(DPRP is another one). The second one listed wasn't even rated that highly on RYM(or at least there were two or three others that were rated higher). Best thing is to sample music on youtube first. These days practically everything is on youtube. 



I very rarely listen or make exhaustive online research before buying so I must be a sort of dinosaur and, honestly, i'm rarely disappointed and quite often surprised (big part of the fun) when I purchase music this way. I recently ordered three iamthemorning albums with minimal research and without hearing a single note and from what I've read I'm pretty confident I will enjoy this band. In this particular case (king gizzard) it was an easy one given the title of the thread and the fact that I already know them and really enjoyed Sketches of Brunswick East.

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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 13:19
The ratings on here can go a long way. Depending on your taste and the subgenre typically anything above a 3.40 or 3.50 is usually at least good but ultimately it's up to the listener and his or her own taste, preferences and musical values. I usually read at least some kind of review before buying whether it's on here or on the site I am buying something. For example on the Kinesis website I usually read the blurb about the cd before buying it. Usually I already know something about the band but not always. It's helpful when sellers do that. 


Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 14:28
Beatles

The White Album
Revolver
Sgt.  Pepper



Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 14:54
Van der Graaf Generator:

1) Pawn Hearts
2) Godbluff
3) Do Not Disturb (a very underrated album)

Amon Düül 2:

The top three are in my opinion clear, but not which position they have. After a long inner debate:

1) Tanz der Lemminge
2) Yeti
3) Phallus Dei

Guru Guru:

1) Känguru
2) Moshi Moshi
3) Hinten

Gong:

1) You
2) Angel's Egg
3) 2032

Magma:

1) Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
2) Zëss
3) Magma

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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.


Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 15:23
Procol Harum

Procol Harum
Shine On Brightly
Grand Hotel



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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 15:32
Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:



ELP:
1. Tarkus
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer
3. Works Vol. 2


 

certainly a bit 'left field' on that one!


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 15:39
Mike Oldfield
Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Incantations

Vangelis
China
Heaven and Hell
Voices

Tangerine Dream
Ricochet
Pergamon (live)
Purgatorio

Jean Michel Jarre
Magnetic Fields
Rendez-Vous
The China Concerts

Rick Wakeman
Six Wives Of Henry VIII
The Legend of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table
Criminal Record




Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 16:07
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Amon Düül 2:

The top three are in my opinion clear, but not which position they have. After a long inner debate:

1) Tanz der Lemminge
2) Yeti
3) Phallus Dei

 

No. 3 Wolf City!


Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 16:55
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

ELP:
1. Tarkus
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer
3. Works Vol. 2
 

certainly a bit 'left field' on that one!

Kind of a new deal for me. Works 2 just totally clicked for me; I must be nuts. 
I just dig the clamorous nuttiness, the freakout jazziness, the barroom brawls and oddball short-takes on prog rock busting out of this thing. Even the Christmas tune is cool for nostalgia purposes, hearing it back in the late 80's-early 90's all the time pumping out of the canned "Christmas classics" music-feed from the speakers of the party goods store I worked at as a young lunatic.
I find the album to be a mess, but a glorious, entertaining mess that offers more fun for me than much of their more celebrated (and rather "bloated") 'works'.


Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 17:12
Tauk
Homunculus
Collissions
Sir Nebula

Antoine Fafard
Occultus Tramitis
Sphere
ProtoMundi

The Dregs
Unsung Heroes
What If
Dregs of the Earth

Alice Cooper
Love it to Death
Killer
Billion Dollar Babies

Pain of Salvation
One Hour by the Concrete Lake
The Perfect Element
Remedy Lane

Thank you Scientist
The first three less the EP

Frost*
The first three

Lonely Robot
The only three?

National Health
The only three

Elvis Costello
This Years Model
Trust
Armed Forces

Todd Rundgren and/or Utopia
Utopia
Hermit of Mink Hollow
Nearly Human

XTC
White Music
Skylarking
Oranges & Lemons

Brand X
Unorthodox Behavior
Moroccan Roll
Masques

The Aristocrats 
The Aristocrats
Culture Clash
You Know What...?

Bill Bruford solo and Earthworks
Feels Good to Me
One of a Kind
Earthworks Underground Orchestra

Joe Jackson
Look Sharp
I'm the Man
Laughter and Lust

Chick Corea Elektric Band
Beneath the Mask
Light Years
Eye of the Beholder

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
Album of the Year
A Night in Tunsia
Free for All

Pat Metheny
Road to You
American Garage
Letter from Home

Jean-Luc Ponty
Enigmatic Ocean
Cosmic Messenger
Imaginary Voyage




Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 18:20
Univers Zero
Ceux De Dehors
Heresie
Uzed

Mike Oldfield
Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Incantations

Henry Cow
Western Culture
In Praise Of Learning
Leg End

King Crimson
Larks Tongues In Aspic
Red
In The Court Of The Crimson King

Genesis
Foxtrot
Trespass
Nursery Cryme

Radiohead
OK Computer
Kid A
In Rainbows

Cardiacs
Sing To God
A Little Man ...
On Land & In The Sea

Cheer-Accident
Fear Draws Misfortune
No Ifs Ands & Dogs
Putting Off Death

Pink Floyd
Animals
Ummagumma
Meddle

Vezhlivy Otkaz
Geese & Swans
Geranium
War Songs


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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 18:53
Brian Eno





Too tough man.

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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 19:06
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:

Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana
 
 
 
 

Items ordered.


Two great albums, you won’t regret


Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 19:09
Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Originally posted by Fischman Fischman wrote:

KANSAS

Leftoverture
Somewhere to Elsewhere
Point of No Return


interesting choice with somewhere to elsewhere, I love Icarus II, Distant Vision, Myriad and The Coming Dawn, but most the stuff inbetween falls flat for me


For some reason, just about every song on the album resonates with me.  You're the first person I've ever heard single out Myriad, which is my favorite on the album and one of my favorite Kansas songs overall.  


Yeah it is a great song. Icarus 2 is amazing, Walsh’s aged vocals really elevate the song and I love the lyrics.


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 22 2019 at 19:22
Okay...

Eno (song based)

Another Green World
Nerve Net
Another Day On Earth Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)

Eno (ambient)

Music for Airports
Thursday Afternoon Lux
The Shutov Assembly

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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 12:03
ELP

ELP 
Trilogy
BSS


Other than the title track I'm not that big into Tarkus; not that it's bad but I think the other three are over all a bit better.


Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 12:08
Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:

Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana
 
 
 
 

Items ordered.


Two great albums, you won’t regret
 
It should be noted that Polygondwanaland is a free digital download (although they did release it on CD about a year later).
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 12:17
Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:
Sketches Of Brunswick East
Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana 
 
Two other albums that I enjoy about as much as the above albums are: Gumboot Soup and Eyes Like The Sky.
 
 
 
 


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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.


Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 12:26
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

I already know them and really enjoyed Sketches of Brunswick East.
If you like Sketches of Brunswick East, then you'd probably like Gumboot Soup. I think these two albums have a similar feel and the music of either album wouldn't sound too far out-of-place on the other album.
 
 
 


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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 12:37
^ Noted, thanks.

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Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 13:58
Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon,  Wish You Were Here, Animals

Genesis
A Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering, Selling England...

King Crimson
The Court of the Crimson King, Red, Thrak

Camel
Snow Goose, Moonmadness, A Nod and a Wink

TD
Phaedra, Force Majeure, Zeit

Yes
The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge

Peter Gabriel
IV, III, Live Blood

Chicago
VII, V, II




Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 17:12
Irmin Schmidt

Axolotl Eyes
Toy Planet
Filmmusik Vol 3 & 4

Have only heard a small bit of 2018's Klavierstuecke yet, but it may end up in the top 3.


Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 17:53
Yes
The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge 

Yawn. No offense but a lot of people(even Yes fans) seem to act as though these are the only Yes albums that matter. I think part of it is because of the lineup on those albums(especially the presence of Bill Bruford). 


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 22:14
Magma

Kobaïa
1001° Centigrades
Retrospektïẁ I-II

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Posted By: Howard the Duck
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 23:00
Just wanted to say I'm stunned how many people listed both Wind and Tail in their top 3 Genesis albums. They're the most solid of the Collins albums (at least in terms of prog credentials) but to me they pale in comparison to every Gabriel album after the debut. Heck, Trespass is missing two of that line-up and is actually one of the most underrated/great albums they ever made.

Compare Squonk to the average song on Lamb - no comparison! I get that people have a soft spot for those albums, but to me not only the songwriting was starting to decline, but even Collin's playing was becoming less inventive/incisive already after his peak on Lamb, and it took a while for his singing to align well with his drumming facility (that happened by Duke I'd say, but by then the songwriting was REALLY in decline!) Not to mention the mixing of the drums starting to move towards the 80s sound, which always gives me a headache with the excessively tinny thudding toms (and it gets worse and worse on subsequent remasters).

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 23:15
Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

ELP:
1. Tarkus
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer
3. Works Vol. 2
 

certainly a bit 'left field' on that one!

Kind of a new deal for me. Works 2 just totally clicked for me; I must be nuts. 
I just dig the clamorous nuttiness, the freakout jazziness, the barroom brawls and oddball short-takes on prog rock busting out of this thing. Even the Christmas tune is cool for nostalgia purposes, hearing it back in the late 80's-early 90's all the time pumping out of the canned "Christmas classics" music-feed from the speakers of the party goods store I worked at as a young lunatic.
I find the album to be a mess, but a glorious, entertaining mess that offers more fun for me than much of their more celebrated (and rather "bloated") 'works'.
 

I think you are one of the few that actually 'get' that album. It presented a more relaxed version of ELP and was partly a reaction to the punk backlash I believe. However 'Died in the wool' fans like me tend to look down on it and I can't remember the last time I played it. There needs to be a track that I desperately want to listen to and the only thing that falls into that category is Brain Salad Surgery which I can listen to on the bonus version of the album which also has When The Apple Blossom Blooms. Also the Works Vol2 version of IBIFC is not as good as the single version imo. 


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 23:20
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Yes
The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge 

Yawn. No offense but a lot of people(even Yes fans) seem to act as though these are the only Yes albums that matter. I think part of it is because of the lineup on those albums(especially the presence of Bill Bruford). 
 

True but when you have a thread that is picking 3 albums then what can you do? I predictably picked 2 of them (Fragile and CTTE) because of the writing and in my opinion this was the best 5 piece line-up ever in progressive rock. I did, however, go for Drama as my 'wildcard' just for a bit of variety! 


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 23:23
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Van der Graaf Generator:

1) Pawn Hearts
2) Godbluff
3) Do Not Disturb (a very underrated album)

 
 

yep missed this the first time but totally agree about DND


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 23:23
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Van der Graaf Generator:

1) Pawn Hearts
2) Godbluff
3) Do Not Disturb (a very underrated album)

 
 

yep missed this the first time but totally agree about DND
 

and that is also my VDGG selection!


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 24 2019 at 04:50
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Van der Graaf Generator:

1) Pawn Hearts
2) Godbluff
3) Do Not Disturb (a very underrated album)

 
 

yep missed this the first time but totally agree about DND

I like it a lot... trouble is, they have three even better ones...


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 24 2019 at 13:37
MY VdGG trio is quite mundane, one might say (in order of my usual preference):

The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
Pawn Hearts
H to He Who Am the Only One

I wanted to try Art Zoyd, but that is really tough as I love so many Art Zoyd albums, but I'll go with:

Génération sans futur
Les espaces inquiets
Häxan

Tangerine Dream:

Electronic Meditation
Alpha Centauri
Atem

(Zeit i just don't always have the patience for)

Igor Wakhévitch:

Docteur Faust
Logos
Hathor

Robert Wyatt:

Rock Bottom
The End of an Ear
Shleep

Area:

Caution Radiation Area
Crac !
Arbeit macht frei

Popol Vuh:

In den Gärten Pharaos
Hosianna Mantra
Music From the Film "Aguirre"

Miles Davis:

Big Fun
Get Up With It
In a Silent Way

Herbie Hancock:

Crossings
Sextant
Mwandishi

Cos:

Viva Boma
Postaeolian Train Robbery
Babel

I'll stop there.

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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 24 2019 at 15:17
Tangerine Dream

Rubycon
Zeit
Tangram


Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 25 2019 at 08:27
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard:
Sketches Of Brunswick East
Polygondwanaland
Flying Microtonal Banana 
Gumboot Soup
Eyes Like The Sky.
 Going to check all these out, band I've need to explore properly for a long time.



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Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/


Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 25 2019 at 10:23
Steve Hackett

Spectral Mornings
To Watch the Storms
Momentum

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A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now)


Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 25 2019 at 10:34
Henry Kaiser

Lemon Fish Tweezer
Celestial Squid (with Ray Russel)
Skip to the Solo (with Alan Licht)





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A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now)


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 26 2019 at 12:48
Eloy
Colours
Planets
Time To Turn



Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: August 26 2019 at 14:20
YES
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Fragile
Close To The Edge

GENESIS
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Foxtrot
A Trick Of The Tail

KING CRIMSON
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Red
In The Court Of The Crimson King

EMERSON. LAKE & PALMER
Brain Salad Surgery
Trilogy
Tarkus

GENTLE GIANT
Free Hand
Octopus
The Power & The Glory

KANSAS
Kansas
Leftoverture
Song For America

THE FLOWER KINGS
Space Revolver
The Sum Of No Evil
Stardust We Are

SPOCK'S BEARD
The Kindness Of Strangers
V
Beware Of Darkness

NEAL MORSE
Question Mark
Sola Scriptura
The Similitude Of A Dream

RUSH
A Farewell To Kings
Hemispheres
2112

XTC
Drums & Wires
Black Sea
English Settlement

PINK FLOYD
Wish You Were Here
Animals
Dark Side Of The Moon

JETHRO TULL
Thick As A Brick
A Passion Play
Aqualung

THE TANGENT
The Music That died Alone
A Place In The Queue
Proxy

BIG BIG TRAIN
Folklore
English Electric Part One
Grand Tour

IQ
Road Of Bones
Dark Matter
Frequency

MARILLION
Marbles
Brave
F.E.A.R.







Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 27 2019 at 11:30
Porcupine Tree
 
In Abstenia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet

Rush
Moving Pictures
Power Windows
Permanent Waves

 



Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 27 2019 at 11:38
TRIUMVIRAT

Illusions On A Double Dimple
Spartacus
Mediterranean Tales

PASSPORT

Looking Thru
Doldinger
Cross Collateral

COLOSSEUM

Colosseum Live
Daughter Of Time
Valentyne Suite




Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 08:21
MARTIN BARRE BAND

A Trick of Memory
Back to Steel
Road Less Traveled


Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 09:27
RUSH

2112
A Farewell To Kings
Fly By Night

WISHBONE ASH

Argus
New England
Wishbone Ash

ATOMIC ROOSTER

Death Walks Behind You
Atomic Rooster
In Hearing Of

IF

If
If 3
If 2

SOFT MACHINE

Seven
Bundles
Six




Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 11:18
GENTLE GIANT

Freehand
The Missing Piece
Interview

HAWKWIND

Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
In Search Of Space
Doremi Fasol Latido

WALLENSTEIN

No More Love
Blitzkrieg
Cosmic Century

LE ORME

Felona e Sorona
L'Uomo di Pezza
Collage

PFM

Photos Of Ghosts
Chocolate Kings
The World Became The World

GENESIS

Trespass
And Then There Were Three
Wind and Wuthering

ELP

Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Tarkus
Trilogy



Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 21:12
Beatles
========
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
Abbey Road

(2 and 3 are very close)


Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 21:14
 Klaus Schulze
========
X
Picture Music
Mirage


Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 21:15
 Rush
========
Moving Pictures
Presto
Grace Under Pressure


Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 21:17
 Daryl Hall & John Oates
========
Voices
Private Eyes
H2O

(1 and 2 are very close)


Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 21:19
 Yes
========
Relayer
Close to the Edge
Fragile

(choosing a #3 was tricky...)


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 01:48
Colosseum II

Strange New Flesh (3.61)
Electric Savage (3.63)
War Dance (3.67)

Yes I realise that they only have 3 albums but I like them all! I put the average PA rating in brackets as it always amuses me that they are so close.



Posted By: freed
Date Posted: October 13 2019 at 06:52
Renaissance
Scheherazade, Prologue, Renaissance (first, 1969)

Curved Air
Phantasmagoria, Air Cut, Second Album

Man
Back Into the Future, Do You Like it Her Now, Rhinos Winos and Lunatics

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall

Genesis
Selling England by the Pound, A Trick of the Tail, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Emerson Lake & Palmer
Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Welcome Back My Friends

Yes
YesSongs (triple LP with spectacular Roger Dean artwork!), Tales From Topographic Oceans (double LP idem), The Yes Album

The Beatles
Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Revolver

Magma
Magma Live (Köhntark), Köhntarkösz, Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh 


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Posted By: Ozric_Gnome
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 06:32
Opeth - 
1. Still Life
2. Blackwater Park
3. Damnation

Spock's Beard - 
1. The Light
2. V
3. Day for Night

Leprous -
1. Bilateral
2. Coal
3. The Congregation

Yes - 
1. Close to the Edge
2. Tales from Topographic Oceans
3. Fragile

Genesis -
1. Foxtrot
2. Nursery Cryme
3. Selling England by the Pound

Porcupine Tree -
1. Fear of a Blank Planet
2. In Absentia
3. Deadwing

Cynic -
1. Focus
2. Kindly Bent to Free Us
3. The Portal Tapes


Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 10:20
WISHBONE ASH

Argus
No Smoke Without Fire
There's The Rub

NEAL MORSE

?
Jesus Christ The Exorcist
Sola Scriptura

PINK FLOYD

Wish You Were Here
Dark Side Of The Moon
The Wall

YES

The Yes Album
Going For The One
Close To The Edge

CAMEL

Moonmadness
The Snow Goose
Rain Dances



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