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richardh 
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 Posted: March 27 2025 at 01:27 |
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Keith Emerson and related
The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack (1967) Ars Longa Vita Brevis (1968) The Nice (1969) Emerson, Lake and Palmer (1970) Tarkus (1971) Trilogy (1972) Brain Salad Surgery (1973) Works Volume One (1977) Inferno (1980) Nighthawks (1981) Yes ok I'm cheating (!) |
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Posted: March 27 2025 at 01:16 |
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Eloy
Inside (1973) Floating (1974) Power and The Passion (1975) Dawn (1976) Ocean (1977) Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (1979) Colours (1980) Planets (1981) Time To Turn (1982) The Tides Turn Forever (1994) the first 9 are an unbroken run after their 'false start' debut album of 1971 but the albums Performance and Metromania that came out in 1983 and 84 were a noticeable dip as the 80's got its AOR claws in them. By 1985 they were done but Frank Bonnerman and Klaus Peter Matziol later resurrected the band and have been releasing solid albums up to and inc Echoes From The Past (2023) and as far as I know still going.
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: March 27 2025 at 01:09 |
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richardh
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Posted: March 27 2025 at 01:04 |
I don't mind this list at all and would keep many of those albums for mine. I'm especially glad you've included 4 quite recent albums. Mine would be 7 of yours Voyage of the Acolyte (1975) Please Don't Touch! (1978) Spectral Mornings (1979) Under a Mediterranean Sky (2021) Beyond the Shrouded Horizon (2011) Surrender of Silence (2021) The Night Siren (2017) plus To Watch The Storms (2003) Sketches of Satie (with John Hackett) (2000) At The Edge Of Light (2019) |
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 23:11 |
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Yes:
1 Close To The Edge 2 The Yes Album 3 Relayer 4 Fragile 5 Going For The One 6 Tales From Topographic Oceans 7 Drama 8 Tormato 9 Keys To Ascension 10 Fly From Here Genesis: 1 Selling England By The Pound 2 Foxtrot 3 Nursery Cryme 4 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 5 Wind & Wuthering 6 Trespass 7 A Trick Of The Tail 8 Duke 9 Abacab 10 And Then There Were Three
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 21:29 |
Those woud probably be my picks for KC as well even though I really have grown to like Three of a Perfect Pair also (although it admittedly took me a really long time to like it). The ConstruKtion of Light, while not horrible, sounds like a bit of a mess to me. The Power to Believe I bought again recently but haven't listened to it yet since I rebought it. I remember liking it a lot though. For Yes I didn't include 90125 though. I like it and it's the first one I actually heard but from what I understand it wasn't initially intended to be a Yes album since that iteration of the band started out as Cinema. So with that in mind it's difficult for me to think of it as a true Yes album. ABHW has more of the Yes spirit imo but I didn't include that one either even though I'm a big fan of it. For Genesis I think we chose most of the same albums except you chose the self titled album (shapes) over and then there were three. Kind of a judgement call there imo at least to some extent. I really like Genesis but I think by that point they were mostly a pop band. I think "silver rainbow" is really cool though and very underrated and of course both parts of "home by the sea." "Mama" might be the best of the rest but there's a few other good ones too. "That's all" is one I'm kind of tired of though and obviously "illegal alien" hasn't aged well. Nothing really bad on it though.
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 20:26 |
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Since I've heard all the big four studio catalogues front to back like I'm sure most of this community has, I guess it's appropriate to list the studio albums of the big 4 bands I haven't listen yet. King Crimson 1. Red 2. Islands 3. Discipline 4. Court 5. Starless and Bible Black 6. Lizard 7. Larks' Tongues in Aspic 8. The Power to Belive 9. In the Wake of Poseidon 10. Thrak Yes 1. Close to the Edge 2. Fragile 3. Relayer 4. The Yes Album 5. Going for the One 6. Drama 7. Time and a Word 8. Yes 9. 90125 10. Tales from Topographic Oceans Genesis 1. Selling England 2. The Lamb Lies Down 3. A Trick of the Tail 4. Invisible Touch 5. Nursery Cryme 6. Foxtrot 7. Trespass 8. Genesis 9. Duke 10. Wind and Wuthering
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 18:45 |
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For Yes no order:
Tormato Time and a Word Tales from Topographic Oceans Drama Big Generator The Yes Album Relayer Fragile Close To The Edge Going For The One Just missing the boat: Talk Genesis Invisible Touch Duke And Then There Were Three Trespass Wind & Wuthering A Trick of the Tail The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Selling England by the Pound Nursery Cryme Foxtrot |
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Logan
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 18:17 |
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Popol Vuh
Hosianna Mantra (1972) In den Gärten Pharaos (1971) Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (1976) Nosferatu: Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts (1978) Aguirre (1976) Einsjäger & Siebenjäger (1974) Herz aus Glas (1977) Das Hohelied Salomos (1976) Seligpreisung (1973) Affenstunde (1971) |
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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.
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Logan
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 17:58 |
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^ Excellent listings.
I just have the usual suspects, the studio albums with LegEnd, Unrest, Desperate Straights, In Praise of Learning and Western Culture, as well as the live Concerts. All are great. Edited by Logan - March 26 2025 at 18:02 |
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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.
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 17:46 |
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Magma
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 17:42 |
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I have 16 Henry Cow but only 5 are studio a albums.
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 16:02 |
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Stereolab
Dots and Loops (1997) Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) Fluorescences (1996, EP) Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (1999) Sound-Dust (2001) Mars Audiac Quintet (1994) Margerine Eclipse (2004) Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993) Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center (1995) Peng! (1992) |
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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.
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Logan
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 15:37 |
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^ I had to stream an EP for Radiohead to get up to ten. Magma I have lots by, including lives, and very happily I was given one live CD by a member of this forum as well as many others recently. I had heard the album, one of its best lives for me, but did not own it. Not expected by that person, but I want to send something back in return, just not sure what yet. As for The Necks, I would have a few more to go. Hanging Gardens is one of the biggest music highlights I have been exposed to in the past decade. Such a great album, imo.
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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.
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 15:28 |
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I need to buy one more album to be able to do The Necks, Radiohead and Magma
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I was thinking about doing Siouxsie and The Banshees yesterday.
Juju (1981) Tinderbox (1986) Peepshow (1988) Kaleidoscope (1980) Hyæna (1984) Peepshow (1988) The Thorn EP (1984) A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982) The Scream (1978) Through the Looking Glass (1987) |
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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.
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 15:24 |
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The Necks
Hanging Gardens (1999) Aquatic (1994) Travel (2023) Chemist (2006) Unfold (2017) Three (2020) Piano Bass Drums (1998)* Bleed (2024) Open (2013) Townsville (2007)* *live albums with unique material |
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Siouxsie and The Banshees
Tinderbox (1986) Peepshow (1988) The Thorn EP (1984) Juju (1981) Kaleidoscope (1980) Through the Looking Glass (1987) Hyæna (1984) A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982) The Rapture (1995) The Scream (1978) |
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Logan
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Posted: March 26 2025 at 15:06 |
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Lots of cool-to-me lists.
I had originally started making this topic as eight albums per act, but then thought that it was not limiting enough, and this might present a more interesting challenge. To do Radiohead, I had to not only listen to an EP I did now know, but also appreciate it. Gentle Giant is one of my favourites for its first eight albums and my favourite Gentle Giant albums are Three Friends and Acquiring the Taste (those are awesome albums). And while I allow both albums categorised as LPs and EPs, not allowing live albums can make it harder. With Gentle Giant, I do know and like both the live Playing the Fool, but also the archival live release King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Gentle Giant, which would bring me to ten by Gentle Giant. |
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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.
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Herbie Hancock
Crossings (1972) Empyrean Isles (1964) Inventions & Dimensions (1964) Mwandishi (1971) Speak Like a Child (1968) Maiden Voyage (1966) Sextant (1973) Sunlight (1978) Blow-Up (1967) Takin' Off (1962) |
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