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Posted: February 13 2012 at 12:54

1) Kayo Dot - Coyote
2) Steve Reich - Octet / Music for Large Ensemble / Violin Phase
3) Naked City - Naked City
4) Charles Ives - String Quartets (Blair String Quartet)
5) Joanna Newsom - YS
6) Circle Takes the Square - As Roots Undo
7) The Dear Hunter - Act III
8) Protest the Hero - Kezia
9) Comus - First Utterance
10) Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff

Something like that right now I think.

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Posted: February 13 2012 at 13:28

In no particular order:

- Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye

- Gazpacho - Tick Tock

- The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

- Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

- Rush - Different Stages (Live)

- Pendragon - Not Of This World

- Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

- Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

- Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory

- Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 08:17

Only ten!?! :)

Anyway ...

Rush - Hemispheres

Rush - Moving Pictures

Pink Floyd - TDSODM

Radiohead - Ok Computer

Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element pt.1

King Crimson - Red

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Sigur Ros - Takk

The Who - Who's Next

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 08:31

All Mod Cons The Jam
Secondhand Daylight Magazine
London Calling The Clash
The Raven The Stranglers
V2 The Vibrators
Chairs Missing Wire
The Feeding of the 5000 Crass
Another Music in a Different Kitchen Buzzcocks
Pyromania Def leppard
20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 08:37

^Ian, you have ~~astonished flabbergasted~~ surprised (and delighted) me

1 - Brain Salad Surgery (ELP)
2 - Début (Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
3 - Adventure (Television)
4 - We Strike (Anima Sound System)
5 - III (Barbaro)
6 - Muswell Hillbillies (Kinks)
7 - Beggars Banquet (Stones)
8 - Pornography (Cure)
9 - Strange Boutique (Monochrome Set)
10 - Framed (SAHB)

Edited by ExittheLemming - February 14 2012 at 08:43

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 09:03

ExittheLemming wrote:

^Ian, you have ~~astonished flabbergasted~~ surprised (and delighted) me

1 - Brain Salad Surgery (ELP)
2 - Début (Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
3 - Adventure (Television)
4 - We Strike (Anima Sound System)
5 - III (Barbaro)
6 - Muswell Hillbillies (Kinks)
7 - Beggars Banquet (Stones)
8 - Pornography (Cure)
9 - Strange Boutique (Monochrome Set)
10 - Framed (SAHB)

Thought is was time to ring out the changes. A true top 10 would have some prog too. But I've been doing those lists for seven years.

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 09:38

1. King Crimson - Red
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
3. Beatles - Abbey Road
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Jeff Buckley - Grace
6. Gentle Giant - Octopus
7. Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
8. Steely Dan - Aja
9. Shakti - Natural Elements
10. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 10:49

Snow Dog wrote:

Thought is was time to ring out the changes. A true top 10 would have some prog too. But I've been doing those lists for seven years.

Let me try this. In no particular order:

Lift to Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroad
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Mouse on the Keys - Sezession
The Hair and Skin Trading Company - Over Valencie
Blackfield - Blackfield
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Cure - Disintegration
Slint - Spiderland
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi

Edited by kole - February 14 2012 at 10:49

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 16:52

Avoiding my prog stuff if I can ......mmmm?

The Throwing Muses The Real Ramona

Madness One Step Beyond

Ultravox! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Elvis Costello My Aim is True

The Cocteau Twins: Garlands

Siouxsie and the Banshees : The Scream

Portishead: Dummy

Stiff Little Fingers: Inflamable Material

The Box: Great Moments in Big Slam

Siouxsie and the Banshees : Juju (So good I named them twice)

All must have stuff in my opinion

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 16:53

<<<<Oh yeah number 11 the one in the picture <<<<

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 16:54

I must get some Bauhuas.....and Violent femmes

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 16:59

Violent Femmes nearly made my top 11.

Get the first one ST and then Hallowed Ground if you like the first

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 17:01

OK. Cheers!

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 17:03

akamaisondufromage wrote:

The Throwing Muses The Real Ramona

Cool!

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 17:06

Snow Dog wrote:

I must get some Bauhuas.....and Violent femmes

You know you were telling someone off for spelling Gigging wrong. Well......

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 17:07

wilmon91 wrote:

akamaisondufromage wrote:

The Throwing Muses The Real Ramona

Cool!

The Real Ramona is an absolute gem.

Very Cool indeed

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Posted: February 14 2012 at 18:12

akamaisondufromage wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

I must get some Bauhuas.....and Violent femmes

You know you were telling someone off for spelling Gigging wrong. Well......

I knew it was wrong, That is the difference. It is not a thread title. That is the difference. I don't give a sh*t. That is the difference.

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Posted: February 15 2012 at 01:40

My album collection isn't big enough to exclude prog albums in a top 10. At least, not yet.

Anyway, in no particular order:

Robert Miles - 23 AM

Pink Floyd - Animals

Dream Theater - Awake

Fates Warning - Disconnected

Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow

Tool - Lateralus

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Opeth - Still Life

Depeche Mode - Violator

VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater

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Posted: February 23 2012 at 12:15

Not necessarily Prog?

OK, my top ten of all time would probably be:

1. Tom Waits - Raindogs

2. Van Morrison - Enlightenment

3. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

4. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood and Chocolate

5.Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

6. King Crimson - Thrak

7. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

8. Branford Marsalis - Eternal

9. Gabriel Yared - The English Patient OST

10. Led Zeppelin - III

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Posted: March 03 2012 at 05:04

1.) Abbey Road / The Beatles
2.) 90125 / Yes
3.) Images And Words / Dream Theater
4.) A Hard Days Night / The Beatles
5.) Emerson, Lake & Palmer / ELP
6.) Tubular Bells / Mike Oldfield
7.) Crime Of The Century / Supertramp
8.) Let it Be / The Beatles
9.) Aqualung / Jethro Tull
10.) Watch / Manfred Mann's Earth Band

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