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    Posted: April 18 2004 at 12:10

I consider that prog rock is by essence mostly instrumental, moreover many artists & bands have ever made albums without any vocals. Among them can you name your favorite? No polls here, so it can be very open... 
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Some of my fovorites:

Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior

Mahavisnhou Orchestra - The inner mounting flame

Camel - The snow goose

Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE I & II

Tomas Bodin - PinUp Guru

Frank Zappa - The grand wazoo (I don't call it vocals on No. 3 )

Mastermind - Excelsior!

Oh no, on National Health's 'Of Queues and Cures' is one vocal Track



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 I probably dont have one single favorite but two that come to mind are ----

Gryphon -- "Red Queen to Gryphon Three"

Camel -- "Snow Goose" 
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"In the Region of the Summer Stars", the Enid. Essential instrumental prog.

Six Wives (still a great album)

Phillippe, what about instrumental tunes that appear on an otherwise vocal album? That would open the field right up! e.g. "Spectral Mornings", title track, Steve Hackett, or "Beelzebub", If You Can't Stand the Heat, Bill Bruford.  
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Yeah, Six wives, Snow Goose, LTE. they all kick ass
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Soft Machine-5th

Nucleus-We'll Talk About It Later

Robert Wyatt-The End of An Ear

There are too much to list!
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Off the top of my head:

Rick Wakeman -Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure 

Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE 2 (havn't got '1')

Colosseum II - Electric Savage (excluding 'Rivers' which Gary Moore sings on)

Sergio Alvarez - Escenas de ficcion

Gerard and Ars Nova - Keyboards Triangle

Stephen Caudel - Earth In Turquoise

Camel - Gods Of Light

Vangelis - Albedo 0.39

 



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I still don't consider Mahavishnu or even really Brand X to be prog. They should be classified as Jazz fusion. That being said, usually the big difference between prog and fusion is that there is indeed no vocals or such on the fusion albums (except Visions of the Emerald beyond) and that is a highly distinguishing factor of the differences between the two. Most prog features vocals, most fusion doesn't. I could pretty much list off every Weather Report or Mahavishnu album as the best prog instrumental album. It doesn't work.

I vote for Six Wives (although, is it classical?...jk)



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I like specially Wakeman's Six Wives of Henry VIII and any Ekseption album. Gryphon's Red Queen and Camel's Snow Goose are great too! Among the less known, Yugoslavian band Tako's second album is a must. 
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I love Snow Goose from Camel.

I agree with Gaston regarding jazz-fusion, it's not really prog. Bruford's albums are Jazz-rock, not prog.

An old band I just found out about is Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. The Iridium Controversy is excellent. Instrumental prog with some jazz, world music, fusion, classical. I'm still digesting it, but it is great.

Some say it's "boring" but I really dug the Gordian Knot CD's. Touch guitar galore. If you like touch guitar, check out Trey Gunn's "Joy of Molybdenum", awesome.
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LTE's debut is amazing; it's a work of art
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among others...

 
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Sorry, the eighth is the following :
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Here's my list I'll keep it limited to 5

Vangelis- Albedo 0.39

Guru Guru- UFO

Focus- Hamburger Concerto

Peter Banks- Two Sides Of Peter Banks

Klaus Schultze- Audentity
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King Crimson " Thrakattak " Itīs not only a great album, it will clear any room from people within 30 seconds.
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Originally posted by Velvetclown Velvetclown wrote:

King Crimson " Thrakattak " Itīs not only a great album, it will clear any room from people within 30 seconds.

YES!!
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Here's my list I'll keep it limited to 5

Vangelis- Albedo 0.39

Guru Guru- UFO

Focus- Hamburger Concerto

Peter Banks- Two Sides Of Peter Banks

Klaus Schultze- Audentity

 

...I like Audentity by Schulze, but its certainly not the most incredible instrumental album he made: "Mirage", "Irrlicht" or "Cyborg" are largely better.



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Goblin's Profondo Rosso!
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Genesis- Selling England By The Pound

Peter Gabriel- Gabriel 3
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