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# Cover Title
Artist
Genre
Record Type, Year
Ratings
1 Hemispheres
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1978
4.40 | 2813 ratings
QWR = 4.3762
2 Moving Pictures
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1981
4.39 | 3269 ratings
QWR = 4.3685
3 A Farewell to Kings
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1977
4.34 | 2584 ratings
QWR = 4.3204
4 Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2007
4.29 | 2919 ratings
QWR = 4.2689
5 Permanent Waves
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1980
4.28 | 2392 ratings
QWR = 4.2624
6 In Absentia
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2002
4.27 | 2851 ratings
QWR = 4.2492
7 The Mountain
Haken
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
4.21 | 1356 ratings
QWR = 4.1733
8 De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2003
4.20 | 1367 ratings
QWR = 4.1636
9 Salisbury
Uriah Heep
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1971
4.19 | 941 ratings
QWR = 4.1454
10 Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
Anekdoten
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2015
4.17 | 778 ratings
QWR = 4.1203
11 Deadwing
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2005
4.13 | 2289 ratings
QWR = 4.1117
12 2112
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1976
4.12 | 2462 ratings
QWR = 4.1015
13 Look at Yourself
Uriah Heep
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1971
4.13 | 835 ratings
QWR = 4.0874
14 Visions
Haken
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2011
4.11 | 1228 ratings
QWR = 4.0743
15 It'll All Work Out In Boomland
T2
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1970
4.20 | 252 ratings
QWR = 4.0563
16 The Sky Moves Sideways
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1995
4.07 | 1559 ratings
QWR = 4.0468
17 Frances the Mute
The Mars Volta
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2005
4.08 | 1043 ratings
QWR = 4.0419
18 Demons and Wizards
Uriah Heep
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
4.07 | 923 ratings
QWR = 4.0360
19 Vemod
Anekdoten
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1993
4.09 | 516 ratings
QWR = 4.0261
20 From Within
Anekdoten
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1999
4.09 | 505 ratings
QWR = 4.0199
21 Reflections On The Future
Twenty Sixty Six And Then
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
4.28 | 130 ratings
QWR = 4.0179
22 Aquarius
Haken
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2010
4.04 | 1186 ratings
QWR = 4.0088
23 Chronicles Of The Waking Dream
Arcane
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2009
4.22 | 159 ratings
QWR = 4.0055
24 Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2000
4.02 | 1745 ratings
QWR = 4.0047
25 Sound Awake
Karnivool
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2009
4.09 | 347 ratings
QWR = 3.9967
26 Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1999
4.00 | 1553 ratings
QWR = 3.9800
27 Nucleus
Anekdoten
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1995
4.02 | 484 ratings
QWR = 3.9589
28 Duck
The Aristocrats
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2024
4.21 | 110 ratings
QWR = 3.9469
29 Signals
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1982
3.95 | 1559 ratings
QWR = 3.9367
30 Blurring the Lines ... A Democracy Manifest
Ovrfwrd
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2018
4.08 | 197 ratings
QWR = 3.9347
31 From The Purple Skies
Wicked Minds
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2004
4.23 | 91 ratings
QWR = 3.9253
32 Captain Beyond
Captain Beyond
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
4.02 | 301 ratings
QWR = 3.9248
33 Lore
Elder
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2015
4.24 | 86 ratings
QWR = 3.9206
34 Innate Passage
Elder
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2022
4.19 | 97 ratings
QWR = 3.9162
35 Clockwork Angels
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2012
3.93 | 1247 ratings
QWR = 3.9092
36 Affinity
Haken
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2016
3.94 | 713 ratings
QWR = 3.9001
37 Half Way Home
DeeExpus
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2008
4.08 | 138 ratings
QWR = 3.8959
38 A Time of Day
Anekdoten
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2007
3.95 | 460 ratings
QWR = 3.8950
39 Sound of the Apocalypse
Black Bonzo
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2007
4.03 | 174 ratings
QWR = 3.8862
40 LMR
Levin - Minnemann - Rudess
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
4.05 | 126 ratings
QWR = 3.8682
41 The Eldritch Dark
Blood Ceremony
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
4.13 | 88 ratings
QWR = 3.8652
42 Fearless
Crown Lands
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2023
4.10 | 95 ratings
QWR = 3.8617
43 Syndenes Magi
Arabs In Aspic
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2017
3.99 | 181 ratings
QWR = 3.8607
44 Symphonic Holocaust
Morte Macabre
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1998
3.99 | 170 ratings
QWR = 3.8549
45 Up the Downstair
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1993
3.87 | 1162 ratings
QWR = 3.8533
46 Amputechture
The Mars Volta
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2006
3.88 | 663 ratings
QWR = 3.8513
47 Where The Groupies Killed The Blues
Lucifer's Friend
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
4.00 | 141 ratings
QWR = 3.8494
48 Tribus
The Windmill
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2018
3.96 | 193 ratings
QWR = 3.8460
49 Signify
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1996
3.86 | 1404 ratings
QWR = 3.8444
50 Closure/Continuation
Porcupine Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2022
3.89 | 433 ratings
QWR = 3.8427
51 The Continuation
The Windmill
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
3.92 | 242 ratings
QWR = 3.8322
52 A Billion Years of Solitude
Sky Architect
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
3.93 | 195 ratings
QWR = 3.8305
53 The Magician's Birthday
Uriah Heep
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
3.86 | 708 ratings
QWR = 3.8301
54 Excavations of the Mind
Sky Architect
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2010
3.89 | 307 ratings
QWR = 3.8289
55 The King of Number 33
DeeExpus
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2011
3.90 | 283 ratings
QWR = 3.8275
56 Banquet
Lucifer's Friend
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1974
3.93 | 190 ratings
QWR = 3.8251
57 The Girl Who Was ... Death
Devil Doll
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1989
3.95 | 154 ratings
QWR = 3.8242
58 Death Walks Behind You
Atomic Rooster
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1970
3.86 | 381 ratings
QWR = 3.8141
59 Fauna
Haken
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2023
3.89 | 230 ratings
QWR = 3.8097
60 Friendship
Junipher Greene
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1971
4.02 | 85 ratings
QWR = 3.8047
61 Psychosolstice
Pinkroom
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2009
3.99 | 100 ratings
QWR = 3.8030
62 Sea Shanties
High Tide
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1969
3.87 | 254 ratings
QWR = 3.7997
63 Reflections of a Floating World
Elder
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2017
3.98 | 99 ratings
QWR = 3.7975
64 I Am Anonymous
Headspace
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2012
3.86 | 268 ratings
QWR = 3.7954
65 Three Seats Behind A Triangle
Osada Vida
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2006
4.00 | 86 ratings
QWR = 3.7947
66 Green Eyed God
Steel Mill
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
3.96 | 108 ratings
QWR = 3.7935
67 Mournin'
Night Sun
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
3.98 | 91 ratings
QWR = 3.7917
68 Gravity
Anekdoten
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2003
3.83 | 398 ratings
QWR = 3.7911
69 Uninvited Dreams
Osada Vida
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2009
4.00 | 78 ratings
QWR = 3.7839
70 Zea Mice
Mother Turtle
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2018
3.91 | 126 ratings
QWR = 3.7821
71 Victim Of Your Father's Agony
Arabs In Aspic
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2015
3.92 | 124 ratings
QWR = 3.7816
72 New Born Day
Ruphus
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1973
3.94 | 103 ratings
QWR = 3.7789
73 Lucifer's Friend
Lucifer's Friend
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1970
3.86 | 189 ratings
QWR = 3.7779
74 Carpe Nota
Carpe Nota
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2012
3.99 | 78 ratings
QWR = 3.7773
75 Pictures In A Dream
Arabs In Aspic
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
3.88 | 158 ratings
QWR = 3.7772
76 Permutations
The Mercury Tree
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2016
3.92 | 116 ratings
QWR = 3.7760
77 Cargo
Cargo
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
3.92 | 110 ratings
QWR = 3.7747
78 Lady of the Light
Black Bonzo
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2004
3.90 | 120 ratings
QWR = 3.7687
79 Known/Learned
Arcane
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2015
3.83 | 274 ratings
QWR = 3.7686
80 Culture Clash
The Aristocrats
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2013
3.88 | 134 ratings
QWR = 3.7659
81 Far Out in Aradabia
Arabs In Aspic
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2004
3.96 | 77 ratings
QWR = 3.7628
82 Nomad
Sky Architect
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2017
3.90 | 110 ratings
QWR = 3.7608
83 Madness and Magic
Arabs In Aspic
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2020
3.87 | 137 ratings
QWR = 3.7593
84 In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Atomic Rooster
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1971
3.81 | 265 ratings
QWR = 3.7576
85 II
Mother Turtle
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2016
3.94 | 79 ratings
QWR = 3.7552
86 Kettlespider
Kettlespider
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2017
3.91 | 94 ratings
QWR = 3.7533
87 A Blueprint of the World
Enchant
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1993
3.82 | 198 ratings
QWR = 3.7485
88 One Man Tell's Another
Landberk
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1994
3.86 | 121 ratings
QWR = 3.7480
89 Counterparts
Rush
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1993
3.76 | 1068 ratings
QWR = 3.7450
90 Pan - An Urban Pastoral
Persephone's Dream
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2010
3.89 | 98 ratings
QWR = 3.7447
91 Presents of Mind
Tiles
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1999
3.85 | 123 ratings
QWR = 3.7422
92 Avadante
Kettlespider
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2012
3.88 | 96 ratings
QWR = 3.7421
93 Crack the Sky
Crack The Sky
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1975
3.88 | 98 ratings
QWR = 3.7402
94 Together
Jane
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
3.82 | 176 ratings
QWR = 3.7396
95 Three Parts To My Soul
Dr. Z
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1971
3.90 | 79 ratings
QWR = 3.7340
96 Hoodoo Man
Birth Control
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1972
3.79 | 200 ratings
QWR = 3.7305
97 Eliogabalus
Devil Doll
Heavy Prog
Studio, 1990
3.84 | 111 ratings
QWR = 3.7289
98 Ursus
Albatros
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2011
3.86 | 96 ratings
QWR = 3.7270
99 Fantasma
Everon
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2000
3.85 | 92 ratings
QWR = 3.7221
100 Pretending 2 Run
Tiles
Heavy Prog
Studio, 2016
3.85 | 83 ratings
QWR = 3.7134

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