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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I just don't have one, I'm afraid.

The one which over the years has probably been most important to me would be SEBtP which I think is practically flawless, but it doesn't get played as much today as it did say 35 years ago?


I don't have one either.
I don't listen to SEbtP much today either, but I did overplay it. Still one of my favorite albums.


All the Genesis, Yes & Rush albums in particular long ago reached saturation point for me, to the point where I wonder whether there really is any need to listen to them again?


I can't say I reached saturation with these three bands. But i did play a lot some of their albums.
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Not an easy question.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I just don't have one, I'm afraid.

The one which over the years has probably been most important to me would be SEBtP which I think is practically flawless, but it doesn't get played as much today as it did say 35 years ago?


I don't have one either.
I don't listen to SEbtP much today either, but I did overplay it. Still one of my favorite albums.


All the Genesis, Yes & Rush albums in particular long ago reached saturation point for me, to the point where I wonder whether there really is any need to listen to them again?
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I just don't have one, I'm afraid.

The one which over the years has probably been most important to me would be SEBtP which I think is practically flawless, but it doesn't get played as much today as it did say 35 years ago?


I don't have one either.
I don't listen to SEbtP much today either, but I did overplay it. Still one of my favorite albums.
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I just don't have one, I'm afraid.

The one which over the years has probably been most important to me would be SEBtP which I think is practically flawless, but it doesn't get played as much today as it did say 35 years ago?
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Albums I've at some point thought of - or felt was my number one prog / PA-relevant album:

Genesis - Nyrsery Cryme
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
VdGG - Pawn Hearts
Magma - St (aka Kobaļa)
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Comus - First Utterance
Art Zoyd - Generations Sans Futur
Univers Zero - St (aka 1313)
Soft Machine - Third
Gong - You
Herbie Hancock - Crossings

... I guess at some point after that (a coulpe of decades ago), I stopped believing I was the kind of person to have a number one all time favorite. But who knows, maybe I simply haven't heard my favorite (prog)album yet.

(also Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac, Residents - Duck Stab/Buster and Glen, Swans - Children of God, Kate Bush - The Dreaming... but I did not relate any of them with anything prog at the time of thinking that way)
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Counting live: King Crimson - Live in Chicago
Not counting live: DSOTM
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Probably King Crimson's Lizard
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Well, anoyone who says it's either this or that, don't really have a number one prog album. Just like me. I've often felt like "this is my favorite album", but for me it will always change.
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Today, my choice.

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YES - 90125
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What is your NUMBER 1# progressive rock album? For me it is either Selling England by the Pound - Genesis, or, The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
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