Your Symphonic Prog Collection - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Aren't Genesis Proto-Neo?

not needed now

Edited by David_D - February 25 2022 at 14:05

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Pretty sure it's over 100. LOL

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Ange - 3
Atoll - 1
Beggars Opera - 2
Camel - 6
Earth and Fire - 3
ELP - 6
Focus - 4
Genesis - 7
Kansas - 2
Novalis - 2
Refugee - 1
Renaissance - 2
The Nice - 3
Yes - 10

I counted 52 albums, but probably half of Italian prog-rock albums that I own can be considered symphonic-prog. They are in separate category here on PA.

Edited by enigmatic - February 24 2022 at 14:46

Catcher10 wrote:

It depends when "Symphonic Prog" was first used, we need to establish that first!! LOL

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

David_D wrote:

Catcher10 wrote:

It depends when "Symphonic Prog" was first used, we need to establish that first!! LOL

Only three in physical form. And that is Refugee by Refugee (including the live bonus discs), and TAU by Transatlantic in both versions (abridged and extended).

Edited by Hrychu - February 24 2022 at 15:29

202 albums, according to my collection tracking spreadsheet. But, some of those are not full albums (sample tracks) and some that are technically in the category are not truly "Symphonic",(such as 80's era Yes, etc.), so I think its around the 150-160 range.

Edited by zwordser - February 24 2022 at 15:39

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easily over 100 for me. Never actually bothered to sort my collection by style though. Just alphabetically.

progaardvark wrote:

RYM says I own 354. I'm still not done cataloging, so it could be more.

Geek alert!

I had some down time and played around with this a little more. RYM only categorizes symphonic prog at the album level and one would think that would give a more accurate reading, but there are some things to consider. A lot of the more obscure albums only have a few votes for genre and the vast majority of those are erroneously just given the the broader "progressive rock" genre instead of symphonic prog. RYM also doesn't use RPI and a good number of them are symphonic prog on that site. Furthermore, various artist albums are also a wide variety of genres, include symphonic prog, whereas none are under a genre here.

Here, an entire discography of a group is one genre, so you have stuff like 1980s Genesis and Yes under symphonic prog.

So, my RYM numbers are 354. On Prog Archives that number is 466. I don't think either of these are accurate numbers. But genres are such a subjective thing, so obviously these things will never be perfect.

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Poll Question: How many Symphonic Prog albums do you own?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
1-20	5	[8.20%]
21-40	2	[3.28%]
41-60	8	[13.11%]
61-80	3	[4.92%]
81-100	3	[4.92%]
100+	40	[65.57%]
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