Best Prog Album Name
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Topic: Best Prog Album Name
Posted By: presdoug
Subject: Best Prog Album Name
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 05:25
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What's in a name? I know it is the music that counts, but tell me what you think are the coolest names given to a prog band's album, regardless if you like the music or not. My favorite is the debut Mahavishnu Orchestra album, The Inner Mounting Flame. That is such an awesome name for an album! I do admit that I really like the music, as well. Other favorite names are Terje Rypdal-What Comes After Libra-Winter Day's Nightmare Nektar-A Tab In The Ocean Colosseum-Daughter Of Time That is what comes to mind
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 05:34
I always thought "In the Court of the Crimson King" was a perfect name for a Prog_Rock album, and the title alone made me want to go out and buy the album. 
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 06:07
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 07:04
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Crime of the Century Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (from the band that had the worst album name, Romantic Warrior) Trends and Other Diseases Moroccan Roll Voyage of the Acolyte ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 08:25
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I really like a lot of DT Album names: Images and Words A Change of Seasons Falling into Infinity Train of Thought Octavarium Black Clouds and Silver Linings Systematic Chaos A Dramatic Turn of Events Distance Over Time Also in the prog metal realm: Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry Of course Pink Floyd has a couple good ones The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Dark Side of the Moon A Momentary Lapse of Reason Delicate Sound of Thunder ELP classic: Brain Salad Surgery And KC: In the Wake of Poseidon Larks Tongues in Aspic Lots of great ones from the Moodies: Days of Future Passed In Search of the Lost Chord On the Threshold of a Dream To Our Children's Children's Children A Question of Balance Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Long Distance Voyager Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte There are Many Sides to the Night Beyond the Shrouded Horizon At the Edge of Light Anekdoten: Nucleus Tiles: Presents of Mind Some good ones from Kansas: Somewhere to Elsewhere Leftoverture Wobbler: From Silence to Somewhere Transatlantic: Bridge Across Forever Kaleidoscope Riverside: Anno Domini High Definition Spiral Architect: A Sceptic's Universe Syzygy: A Glorious Disturbance James LaBrie: Impermanent Resonance
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 08:36
nope, that would be "Where Have I Known You Before?  (soundslike a disco tune)I like Caravan's If I could, Grey & Pink For Girls Cunning Stunts Blind Dog |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 08:48
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Bubblemath - Edit Peptide. It's super fun and creative just like the music on it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 08:55
I agree with all of those choices, especially The Moody Blues, who had some of the most consistently great Prog album titles of all time.
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Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 09:00
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Without thinking to hard first thing to come to mind is The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 09:07
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^ I've always liked A Saucerful of Secrets as an album title. Also Delicate Sound of Thunder, pretty cool for a live album.
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Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 09:30
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Ya A Saucerful is great too, might be that i prefer The piper better as an album. ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 09:34
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If I could do it all over again I'd do it all over you..... Brain Salad Surgery Tales from Topographic Oceans Selling England by the Pound Moving Pictures
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 10:04
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thought of some more John McLaughlin-"My Goals Beyond" Mahavishnu Orchestra-"Visions Of The Emerald Beyond" Passport-"Infinity Machine" as mentioned Pink Floyd-"The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 10:38
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Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese Primus - Pork Soda Antique Seeking Nuns - Double Egg with Chips and Beans Antique Seeking Nuns - Careful! It's Tepid Mike Keneally -- Boil That Dust Speck Little Tybee -- Humorous to Bees Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Wormed by Leonard Frank Zappa - Studio Tan Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Woman Gives Birth to Tomato! ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 11:31
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"Close to the Edge" for me! along with the artwork. "Relayer" also... "Tales from Topographic Oceans" it seems I'm into Yes names, mostly. "Red" "Lark's Tongues in Aspic", "Lizard" "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", "The Delicate Sound of Thunder", "Animals", "Ummagumma" |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 12:29
I disagree. "Romantic Warrior" sounds like something Michael Bolton would have called himself in his AOR years;complete with an album cover showing him wearing an unbuttoned white, puffy shirt and a fan blowing his hair back. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 14:21
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The title should fit the music quite well, and nothing too fancy for me. - "Christian Lucifer" by Perry Leopold - "Rock Bottom" by Robert Wyatt - "First Utterance" by Comus - "In a Silent Way" by Miles Davis - "Behold the Ultimate Despair, Fits of Maniacal Madness, the Fist of Fomenting Fury, the Vengeful Banshee, the Hysterical Nun, the Maniacal Monk, the Very Depths of Rage and Other Assorted Love Songs" by The Jenny and Billy Jones Duet (kidding) ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I observed before. It can be much like that with music for me; immersed in experiencing the moment. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 15:28
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VdGG - Hydrogen To Helium, Who Am The Only One. ------------- 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: October 11 2019 at 21:53
j-tull dot com ------------- |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 21:57
Then there's Marillion.com and Picchio dal Pozzo's Pic_nic@Valdapozzo. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I observed before. It can be much like that with music for me; immersed in experiencing the moment. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 11 2019 at 23:29
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Attahk ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 00:03
Nice! I always enjoyed the title "Remember the Future" by Nectar! Others would include: Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans Focus: Moving Waves ELP: Tarkus King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 07:29
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easy.. the quintessentials... for showing newbie in nutshell what (classic) prog is about for title TFTO... cover.. Tarkus music... ding ding.. again TFTO... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 07:30
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Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 07:35
top 5'r there in my book... Try saying that one quickly 5 times in a row ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 08:04
That's a great album  , though I am afraid most people here won't have heard it (or even OF it). Some of my personal favourites, including also some Prog-Related bands: Fire of Unknown Origin (my avatar) Tyranny and Mutation Agents of Fortune Starless and Bible Black (fits the music to a T) Machine Head (same as above) Close to the Edge (no explanation necessary) Selling England by the Pound (strangely prophetic) In the Land of Grey and Pink (great colour combination!)
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 12:11
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 12:16
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ thanks, everyone, so far, for your interesting names- interesting, Raff, that you mention Blue Oyster Cult; a band that I am just very recently getting back into after decades of not listening since the seventies-Tyranny and Mutation, yeah, right on!
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 12:58
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Gong: Rejoice! I'm Dead! The Universe also Collapses David Torn: Cloud About Mercury Tripping Over God What Means Solid, Traveller? Bob Fripp: A Blessing of Tears Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets Wrong Way Up Nerve Net Conventum: À l'affût d'un Complot Le Bureau Central des Utopies and yeah, Studio Tan baby. ------------- |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 15:42
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Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One Focus - Hamburger Concerto ------------- 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: October 12 2019 at 17:53
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Thick as a Brick. Perfectly insulting. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 13 2019 at 02:13
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer (debut) Subtext ''It's just us but we are f**king awesome so that's enough'' Works Volume One was a bit 'scary' to some when it came out. Just how many Volumes are they planning?!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 13 2019 at 02:37
Those two are brillant  And Dashiell's two albums are also excellently-named La Devanture Des Ivresses Obsolète |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 13 2019 at 05:22
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just thought of one of the best live album names, from BOC "On Your Feet, Or On Your Knees" |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 13 2019 at 07:43
"Imaginos" (1988) is my favourite Blue Oyster Cult album, partly because it includes the stand-out track, "The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria", featuring Joey Cerisano on vocals, although all of the tracks on the album are good. The album has a great opening track too, "I Am the One You Warned Me Of" |
Posted By: thief
Date Posted: October 17 2019 at 06:20
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In the Court of the Crimson King This one instantly springs to mind. Exploring any "king's court" implies being invited to know his secrets, but the "crimson" part magnifies the danger: it could be a tyrannical warlord, patron of the dark arts, some sort of demon - or maybe a deity, Zeus, Satan, who knows? For me the song order suggests that whole album is a musical journey across his inconceivable, inhumane realms, and only in the finale we're granted permission to see His deeds in a towering, intimidating castle... and it's just one take on this fabulous title. The symbolism and use of archetypes are strong in this one, that's why it's so potent imho. In the Wake of Poseidon I've got to know most of prog classics through my father back in the childhood days. He was doing his best in translating songs/album titles for myself, but this one was a fumble: he said it's like "Awaiting Poseidon", looking forward to his arrival... this one stuck in my head for years and only as a teenager I got this one correct Anyhow, it's a perfect followup title to ITCOTCK, again dealing with a royal figure/deity, also archetypal/jungian, but related to water. Very proggy.Larks' Tongues in Aspic Promising exotic delights, a feast out of this world. Close to the Edge No matter if it's the Edge of rock possibilities or worlds created in Yes music, the title works wonderfully. Tales from Topographic Oceans These oceans are the deepest in Yes catalogue and seem largely unexplored, even to this day. Trespass It's like entering the place a modern wasn't supposed to see. Nursery Cryme Selling England by the Pound Perfect titles for Genesis brand of Edwardian Rock, as well as commentary on days long gone. Really like these two. Thick as a Brick Mysterious yet funny, typical Ian Anderson creation. Minstrel in the Gallery Songs from the Wood Quite obvious in its meaning, but both albums deliver exactly what's promised. Pawn Hearts Unfortunately the "horn parts/porn hearts" story spoiled it a bit, but I always liked pondering on this one. Brain Salad Surgery Would be more fitting for a technical thrash metal band, but Moog spins & whirls will do. Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison My French knowledge is zilch, but the title makes sense once put in Google translator. Love it. Ommadawn Amarok Whatever they mean, both are extremely haunting and oldfieldesque. Five Miles Out Great interplay between the title, album cover and Mike's state of mind. Script for a Jester's Tear I have a knack for jesters, can't help it. Ze Słowem Biegnę do Ciebie (SBB) Intimate, romantic, meaningful. Vemod Swedish meaning from Wiktionary: "calm feeling that something emotionally (positively) significant is over and never will be back". Not a better word to describe Anekdoten's music at the time. |
Posted By: The Shrubbery
Date Posted: October 30 2019 at 14:06
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While the new album by the Marillion side project Edison's Children "The Disturbance Fields" is one of the coolest names for an album i've ever heard and i love the visual imagery of "Lullaby's from a Car Crash" by Bjorn Riis Nothing beats the original album title Edison's Children's "In The Last Waking Moments..." best album title ever ------------- Let's make Prog a family again. Tired of Snobbery and trolling. We all have a right to love what and who we love so lets respect and appreciate all who care about the finest music in the world... prog |