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Posted: August 22 2010 at 18:00

No particular order and 1 per band limit:

Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
Godbluff - Van der Graaf Generator
The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree
Into The Everflow - Psychotic Waltz
BE - Pain Of Salvation
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
In A Glass House - Gentle Giant
ItCotCK - King Crimson
Foxtrot - Genesis
Hybris - Anglagard

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Posted: August 22 2010 at 17:45

1. Foxtrot - Genesis

2. Another Green World - Brian Eno

3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

4. Stranded - Roxy Music

5. Irrlicht - Klaus Schulze

6. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

7. A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren

8. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma

9. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus

10. Close to the Edge - Yes

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Posted: August 22 2010 at 14:46

Jim Croce - You don't mess around with Jim
Procol Harum - Home
Doors - Doors
Queensrÿche - The warning
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Voivod - Nothingface
Dr.Hook - Bankrupt
Rush - Power Windows
Tommy Bolin - Teaser

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Posted: November 22 2008 at 03:15

1. SMPT:e - Transatlantic

2. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

3. Bridge Across Forever - Transatlantic

4. V - Spock's Beard

5. U.K. - U.K.

6. Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings

7. Red - King Crimson

8. Close to the Edge - Yes

9. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane

10. Foxtrot - Genesis

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Posted: November 17 2008 at 14:09

Dream Theater - Images and words

Rush - A farewell to kings

VdGG - Godbluff

VdGG - Still life

VdGG - Pawn hearts

VdGG - H to He, who am the only one

VdGG - The least we can do is wave to each other

VdGG - World record

Metallica - ...and justice for all

Tool - Lateralus

AC/DC - High voltage

and lots of others, these being the first coming from my fingers

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Posted: November 10 2008 at 13:25

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The others are:

Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Master of Reality
Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Rainbow - Rising
Deep Purple - Fireball
Led Zeppelin - I
Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs
Zappa - Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe

But that's 11... Oh well...

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Posted: November 10 2008 at 12:12

in no particular order:

!t.o.o.h.! - rad a trest
raison d'etre - in sadness, silence & solitude
townes van zandt - the late, great, townes van zandt
genesis - selling england by the pound
demilich - nespithe
magma - Wurdah Ïtah
lykathea aflame - Elvenefris
magma - attahk
judas priest - sad wings of destiny
ulver - blood inside

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Posted: November 10 2008 at 11:57

1) Rush - Moving Pictures

2) Led Zeppelin IV

3) Rush - Permanent Waves

4) Yes - Close to the Edge

5) Rush - Grace Under Pressure

6) Judas Priest - British Steel

7) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

8) Yes - Fragile

9) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

10) Metallica - Master of Puppets

Something like that anyhow, although the order is somewhat arbitrary and numerous other albums could be within the list on any given day, including many other Rush albums, Dream Theater's Images and Words, a couple of additional Yes albums, and something as crazy as Huey Lewis and the News' Sports.

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Posted: November 10 2008 at 11:37

My all time favourite album is Meddle, and given my floydian obsession, I'll list my favourite 10 non-floydian albums instead. So in no particular order:

1) Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP
2) Led Zeppelin IV
3) Close to the Edge - Yes
4) Imagine - John Lennon
5) Abbey Road - The Beatles
6) The Snow Goose - Camel
7) Caravanserai - Santana
8) The First of a Million Kisses - Fairground Attraction
9) Watermark - Enya
10) Deep Purple in Rock

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Posted: November 10 2008 at 10:48

My top 10 would go something like this (not in order):

Can: Future Days

Asia Minor: Between Flesh and Divine

King Crimson: Lark's Tongues in Aspic

Jan Dukes de Grey: Mice and Rats in the Loft

C.O.B.: Moyshee McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart

Santana: Caravanserai

Broselmaschine: Broselmaschine

Genesis: A Trick of the Tail

Synanthesia: Synathesia

Agitation Free: Malesch

Some special mention albums:

Magma: Kohntarkosz

Comus: First Utterance

Subway: Subway

Camel: Mirage

Trees: Garden of Jane Delawney

Spirogyra: St. Radigunds

VDGG: H to He, Who Am the Only One

Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Ash Ra Tempel: Ash Ra Tempel

Nektar: Remember the Future

Edited by listen - November 22 2008 at 19:27

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Posted: August 24 2008 at 02:29

I can't do Top Lists for Albums, so, in no particular order:

my favorite album is 'Choirs of the Eye' (Kayo Dot)

The rest are in the order which I think of them, thus I'm likely leaving obvious entries off

-In Absentia/the Sky Moves Sideways (Porcupine Tree)
-Lateralus/Aenima (Tool)
-Nursery Cryme (Genesis)
-Tago Mago (Can)
-El Cielo (dredg)
-Bath (maudlin of the Well)
-Kid A (Radiohead)
-Sea of the Dying Dhow (*shels)
-Relationship of Command (At the Drive-In)
-The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson)
-the Hurting (Tears for Fears)
-The Eraser (Thom Yorke)
-Moonmadness (Camel)
-Skymind (Taal)
-Double Figure (Plaid)
-Source Tags and Codes/Madonna (...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead)
-Calculating Infinity (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
-Blood Inside (Ulver)
-F#A#oo (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
-Legend (Henry Cow)
-You/Radio Gnome Invisible (Gong)
-Of Natural history (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum)
-Magick (John Zorn)
-Catch 33 (Meshuggah)
-The Bees Made Honey in the Giant's Skull (Earth)
-Black Earth (Bohren & der Club of Gore)
-Du & Jag Döden/Vapen och Ammunition (Kent)
-Disco Volante (Mr. Bungle)
-The Fall of Math (65daysofstatic)
-Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine (Aksak Maboul)
-Huono Parturi (Höyry-Kone)
-Book of Horizons (Secret Chiefs 3)
-Fable OST (Russel Shaw)
-Frances the Mute (The Mars Volta)
-Kobaïa/Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh/Üdü Wüdü/1001° Centigrades (Magma)
-In the Court of the Crimson King/Larks Tongue in Aspic (King Crimson)
-Bitches Brew (Miles Davis)
-Blood in Our Wells (Drudkh)
-Dark Side of the Moon/Animals (Pink Floyd)
-Deceit (This Heat)
-Waiter You Vultures (Portugal the Man)
-Spirit of Eden (Talk Talk)
-Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue/Blue Lambency Downward (Kayo Dot)
-Tabula Rasa (Arvo Pärt)

Yes I know that's more than 10, and like I said, I probably left quite a few off...

Also, as a note: which of the albums in the topic creator's list isn't prog? At least not according to this site?

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Posted: August 23 2008 at 21:15

hm. Think there's another thread somewhere. Might be prog-specific, though.
For me:
1. Larks' Tongues In Aspic
The ultimate experience of music. Phenomenal, mind-shaking power meets a sort of lamentful feeling, always quite distant yet personal, insistent. Combining atmosphere with playing with lyrics with some crazy experimental edges that always seem purposeful.
2. H To He, Who Am The Only One
3. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
4. In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
5. Islands - King Crimson
6. Nursery Cryme - Genesis
7. Rubycon - Tangerine Dream
8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP
9. Ys - Il Balletto Di Bronzo
10. Les Porches - Maneige
11. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull (Couldn't be missed)

Caress of Steel might clock in at around 20.

Edited by TGM: Orb - August 23 2008 at 21:21

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Posted: August 23 2008 at 20:55

1. Close to the Edge - Yes (undescribable)
2. Metropolis Pt. 2 - Dream Theater (Pure. Musical. Excellence.)
3. Red - King Crimson (Kinda Heavy for KC, but I love it.)
4. Animals - Pink Floyd (MMMMmmmmm.)
5. Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin (For classic value; the most perfect zep album.)
6. Relayer - Yes (What can I say)
7. Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes (I like that it drags out)
8. Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd (So underrated)
9. Images and Words - Dream Theater (Awesome.)
10. Moving Pictures - Rush (Rush. :D)

Hmmm. Maybe I haven't thought about it enough.

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DisgruntledPorcupine Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 16 2010 Location: Thunder Bay CAN Status: Offline Points: 4395	Posted: August 22 2010 at 18:00
	No particular order and 1 per band limit: Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater Godbluff - Van der Graaf Generator The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree Into The Everflow - Psychotic Waltz BE - Pain Of Salvation Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd In A Glass House - Gentle Giant ItCotCK - King Crimson Foxtrot - Genesis Hybris - Anglagard

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	1. Foxtrot - Genesis 2. Another Green World - Brian Eno 3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 4. Stranded - Roxy Music 5. Irrlicht - Klaus Schulze 6. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane 7. A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren 8. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma 9. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus 10. Close to the Edge - Yes
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	Jim Croce - You don't mess around with Jim Procol Harum - Home Doors - Doors Queensrÿche - The warning Iron Maiden - The number of the beast Black Sabbath - Paranoid Voivod - Nothingface Dr.Hook - Bankrupt Rush - Power Windows Tommy Bolin - Teaser

Rune2000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 23 2004 Location: STHLM, Sweden Status: Offline Points: 1833	Posted: August 22 2010 at 08:42
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King Crimson776 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 12 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2779	Posted: November 22 2008 at 03:15
	1. SMPT:e - Transatlantic 2. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 3. Bridge Across Forever - Transatlantic 4. V - Spock's Beard 5. U.K. - U.K. 6. Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings 7. Red - King Crimson 8. Close to the Edge - Yes 9. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane 10. Foxtrot - Genesis

easytargets Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 12 2008 Location: Cantabria Status: Offline Points: 843	Posted: November 17 2008 at 14:09
	Dream Theater - Images and words Rush - A farewell to kings VdGG - Godbluff VdGG - Still life VdGG - Pawn hearts VdGG - H to He, who am the only one VdGG - The least we can do is wave to each other VdGG - World record Metallica - ...and justice for all Tool - Lateralus AC/DC - High voltage and lots of others, these being the first coming from my fingers
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Abstrakt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 18 2005 Location: Soundgarden Status: Offline Points: 18292	Posted: November 10 2008 at 13:25
	1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath The others are: Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Master of Reality Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Rainbow - Rising Deep Purple - Fireball Led Zeppelin - I Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs Zappa - Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe But that's 11... Oh well...

moe_blunts Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 18 2008 Location: Austin, TX Status: Offline Points: 617	Posted: November 10 2008 at 12:12
	in no particular order: !t.o.o.h.! - rad a trest raison d'etre - in sadness, silence & solitude townes van zandt - the late, great, townes van zandt genesis - selling england by the pound demilich - nespithe magma - Wurdah Ïtah lykathea aflame - Elvenefris magma - attahk judas priest - sad wings of destiny ulver - blood inside


rushfan4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Online Points: 66748	Posted: November 10 2008 at 11:57
	1) Rush - Moving Pictures 2) Led Zeppelin IV 3) Rush - Permanent Waves 4) Yes - Close to the Edge 5) Rush - Grace Under Pressure 6) Judas Priest - British Steel 7) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 8) Yes - Fragile 9) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery 10) Metallica - Master of Puppets Something like that anyhow, although the order is somewhat arbitrary and numerous other albums could be within the list on any given day, including many other Rush albums, Dream Theater's Images and Words, a couple of additional Yes albums, and something as crazy as Huey Lewis and the News' Sports.


Floydoid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 02 2007 Location: Planet Prog Status: Offline Points: 2132	Posted: November 10 2008 at 11:37
	My all time favourite album is Meddle, and given my floydian obsession, I'll list my favourite 10 non-floydian albums instead. So in no particular order: 1) Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP 2) Led Zeppelin IV 3) Close to the Edge - Yes 4) Imagine - John Lennon 5) Abbey Road - The Beatles 6) The Snow Goose - Camel 7) Caravanserai - Santana 8) The First of a Million Kisses - Fairground Attraction 9) Watermark - Enya 10) Deep Purple in Rock
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listen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Portland OR Status: Offline Points: 352	Posted: November 10 2008 at 10:48
	My top 10 would go something like this (not in order): Can: Future Days Asia Minor: Between Flesh and Divine King Crimson: Lark's Tongues in Aspic Jan Dukes de Grey: Mice and Rats in the Loft C.O.B.: Moyshee McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart Santana: Caravanserai Broselmaschine: Broselmaschine Genesis: A Trick of the Tail Synanthesia: Synathesia Agitation Free: Malesch Some special mention albums: Magma: Kohntarkosz Comus: First Utterance Subway: Subway Camel: Mirage Trees: Garden of Jane Delawney Spirogyra: St. Radigunds VDGG: H to He, Who Am the Only One Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You Ash Ra Tempel: Ash Ra Tempel Nektar: Remember the Future Edited by listen - November 22 2008 at 19:27

Figglesnout Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1455	Posted: August 24 2008 at 02:29
	I can't do Top Lists for Albums, so, in no particular order: my favorite album is 'Choirs of the Eye' (Kayo Dot) The rest are in the order which I think of them, thus I'm likely leaving obvious entries off -In Absentia/the Sky Moves Sideways (Porcupine Tree) -Lateralus/Aenima (Tool) -Nursery Cryme (Genesis) -Tago Mago (Can) -El Cielo (dredg) -Bath (maudlin of the Well) -Kid A (Radiohead) -Sea of the Dying Dhow (*shels) -Relationship of Command (At the Drive-In) -The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson) -the Hurting (Tears for Fears) -The Eraser (Thom Yorke) -Moonmadness (Camel) -Skymind (Taal) -Double Figure (Plaid) -Source Tags and Codes/Madonna (...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead) -Calculating Infinity (The Dillinger Escape Plan) -Blood Inside (Ulver) -F#A#oo (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) -Legend (Henry Cow) -You/Radio Gnome Invisible (Gong) -Of Natural history (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) -Magick (John Zorn) -Catch 33 (Meshuggah) -The Bees Made Honey in the Giant's Skull (Earth) -Black Earth (Bohren & der Club of Gore) -Du & Jag Döden/Vapen och Ammunition (Kent) -Disco Volante (Mr. Bungle) -The Fall of Math (65daysofstatic) -Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine (Aksak Maboul) -Huono Parturi (Höyry-Kone) -Book of Horizons (Secret Chiefs 3) -Fable OST (Russel Shaw) -Frances the Mute (The Mars Volta) -Kobaïa/Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh/Üdü Wüdü/1001° Centigrades (Magma) -In the Court of the Crimson King/Larks Tongue in Aspic (King Crimson) -Bitches Brew (Miles Davis) -Blood in Our Wells (Drudkh) -Dark Side of the Moon/Animals (Pink Floyd) -Deceit (This Heat) -Waiter You Vultures (Portugal the Man) -Spirit of Eden (Talk Talk) -Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue/Blue Lambency Downward (Kayo Dot) -Tabula Rasa (Arvo Pärt) Yes I know that's more than 10, and like I said, I probably left quite a few off... Also, as a note: which of the albums in the topic creator's list isn't prog? At least not according to this site?
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TGM: Orb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 21 2007 Location: n/a Status: Offline Points: 8052	Posted: August 23 2008 at 21:15
	hm. Think there's another thread somewhere. Might be prog-specific, though. For me: 1. Larks' Tongues In Aspic The ultimate experience of music. Phenomenal, mind-shaking power meets a sort of lamentful feeling, always quite distant yet personal, insistent. Combining atmosphere with playing with lyrics with some crazy experimental edges that always seem purposeful. 2. H To He, Who Am The Only One 3. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 4. In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson 5. Islands - King Crimson 6. Nursery Cryme - Genesis 7. Rubycon - Tangerine Dream 8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP 9. Ys - Il Balletto Di Bronzo 10. Les Porches - Maneige 11. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull (Couldn't be missed) Caress of Steel might clock in at around 20. Edited by TGM: Orb - August 23 2008 at 21:21

ArcAxis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: August 23 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2	Posted: August 23 2008 at 20:55
	1. Close to the Edge - Yes (undescribable) 2. Metropolis Pt. 2 - Dream Theater (Pure. Musical. Excellence.) 3. Red - King Crimson (Kinda Heavy for KC, but I love it.) 4. Animals - Pink Floyd (MMMMmmmmm.) 5. Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin (For classic value; the most perfect zep album.) 6. Relayer - Yes (What can I say) 7. Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes (I like that it drags out) 8. Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd (So underrated) 9. Images and Words - Dream Theater (Awesome.) 10. Moving Pictures - Rush (Rush. :D) Hmmm. Maybe I haven't thought about it enough.