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ELP
Brain Salad Surgery
Emerson , Lake, and Palmer
Trilogy
Tarkus
Pictures At An Exhibition
Works Vol 1
Works Vol 2
Black Moon
Love Beach
In The Hot Seat

Hawkwind
Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Doremi Fasol Latido
In Search Of Space
Quark, Strangeness And Charm
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
25 Years On (Hawklords)
PXR5
Levitation
Electric Teepee 
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Dream Theater

When Dream And Day Unite
Images And Words
Awake
A Change Of Seasons
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Octavarium
Black Clouds And Silver Linings
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Dream Theater
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Marillion

Script For A Jester’s Tear (1983)
Fugazi (1984)
Misplaced Childhood (1985)
Clutching At Straws (1987)
Seasons’ End (1989)
Brave (1994)
Afraid Of Sunlight (1995)
This Strange Engine (1997)
Marbles (2004)
Sounds That Can’t Be Made (2012)
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Tales From The Lush Attic (1983)
The Wake (1985)
Nomzamo (1987)
Are You Sitting Comfortably? (1989)
Ever (1993)
Subterranea (2997)
The Seventh House (2000)
Dark Matter (2004)
Frequency (2009)
The Road Of Bones (2014)

Very much hoping that their new one, which apparently is winging it’s way to me right now, will be as good as these 20 fabulous albums, and better than Resistance…..
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Wishbone Ash

Argus
No Smoke Without Fire
There's The Rub
Here To Hear
New England
Just Testing
Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Four
Front Page News
Pilgrimage

Neal Morse

Question Mark
Sola Scriptura
Jesus Christ The Exorcist
Similitude Of A Dream
No Hill For A Climber
The Grand Experiment
Innocence and Danger
The Great Adventure
Testimony 2
One
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Just for comparison, here's my can of Can albums:

Soon Over Babaluma
Tago Mago
Monster Movie
Ege Bamyasi
Saw Delight
Future Days
Unlimited Edition
Delay 1968
Soundtracks
Landed

...and the Tangerine Dream of my dreams (not including live albums, which makes it somewhat easier):

Rubycon
Zeit
Atem
Tangram
Cyclone
Phaedra
Exit
Electronic Meditation
Alpha Centauri
Stratosfear


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 4 stars 1969: Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ls8TsNNijJYxxnS-Kp5ts8t
 5 stars 1973: Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ls8c3SxGZW2wPNWTifikotc
 4 stars 1974: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvZRqTE0R8CKQn3uj02Eete
 4 stars 1978: Genesis - And Then There Were Three - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu_v2KJ4Drut19mv5NA5Vbb
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Can (Love them all immensely though)

Ege Bamyası (1972)
Future Days (1973)
Soundtracks (1973)
Tago Mago (1971)
Soon Over Babaluma (1974)
Monster Movie (1970)
Landed (1975)
Saw Delight (1977)
Flow Motion (1976)
Out of Reach (1978)

Magma

Magma [Kobaïa] (1970)
1001° centigrades (1971)
Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh (1973)
Üdü Ẁüdü (1976)
Köhntarkösz (1974)
Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009)
Attahk (1978)
Šlaǧ Tanƶ (2015)
K.A (2004)

Tangerine Dream (allowed for two live records and an archival release containing all original material):

Phaedra (1974)
Rubycon (1975)
Alpha Centauri (1971)
Stratosfear (1976)
Oedipus Tyrannus (2019, recorded in 1974)
Zeit (1972)
Ricochet (1975)
Green Desert (1986, supposedly recorded 1973/1974 I think)
Poland: The Warsaw Concert (1984)
Sorcerer (1977)

The Residents

Duck Stab / Buster & Glen (1978)
Mark of the Mole (1981)
Meet the Residents (1974)
Commercial Album (1980)
Intermission (1982) [EP]
Eskimo (1979)
The Tunes of Two Cities (1982)
Fingerprince (1977)
Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984)
The Residents - Not Available (1978)

Klaus Schulze

Mirage (1977)
Moondawn (1976)
Timewind (1975)
Blackdance (1974)
"X" (1978)
Dig It (1980)
Body Love (1977)
Cyborg (1973)
Irrlicht (1972)
Picture Music (1975)

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^ & ^^ Thanks to you both. Originally I was thinking about making this eight albums. If that were the case, then Gentle Giant for its first eight would be one of my favourites. I especially like the early albums.

A fave of mine is Art Zoyd:

Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (1976 version)
Musique pour l'Odyssée (1979)
Génération sans futur (1980)
Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (1981 version)
Phase IV (1982)
Les espaces inquiets (1983)
Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer (1985)
Berlin (1987)
Faust (1996)
Haxan (1997)

Magma (with Magma I would love to do lives, but keeping with the program and even then 10 is too limiting):

Magma [Kobaïa] (1970)
1001° centigrades (1971)
Magma (reissued as Kobaïa)
Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh (1973)
Ẁurdah Ïtah (1974, originally Tristan & Iseult by Christian Vander)
Köhntarkösz (1974)
Üdü Ẁüdü (1976)
Attahk (1978)
Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009)
Félicité Thösz (2012)

Still love KA, Rïah Sahïltaahk, Sl*g Tanz and others. Magma iss de hundin.

Edited by Logan - March 25 2025 at 08:25
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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Gentle Giant
Octopus
Three Friends
Freehand
The Power And The Glory
In A Glass House
Acquiring The Taste
Gentle Giant
The Missing Piece
Civilian
Giant For A Day

Jethro Tull
Thick As A Brick
Songs From The Wood
A Passion Play
Aqualung
Heavy Horses
Minstrel In The Gallery
Warchild
Stormwatch
Benefit
Stand Up
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5 stars 1971: Yes - The Yes Album - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nY-QvLEUh8bovdW1btwUXJHE8I_W5bIbA
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I wanted to focus on some acts with longer discographies and thought I'd ask what are you top ten studio albums (LPs and EPs) for some of your favourite bands or artists?

I'll start with one in PA and one not in PA which had my first and second place albums for 2023, and where both acts have been very significant to me over recent years.

In PA, Swans:

Children of God (1987)
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (1991)
The Great Annihilator (1995)
Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (2010)
The Seer (2012)
To Be Kind (2014)
The Glowing Man (2016)
leaving meaning. (2019)
The Beggar (2023)

Not in PA, Sufjan Stevens:

A Sun Came (2000)
Enjoy Your Rabbit (2001)
Michigan (2003)
Seven Swans (2004)
Illinois (2005)
The BQE (2009)
All Delighted People EP (2010, and an hour long)
The Age of Adz (2010)
Carrie & Lowell (2015)
Javelin (2023)
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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