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oh, havent spent the time to update or correct, but the
crowd seems a bit more adept!

(1969)
The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

(1970)
Annexus Quam - Osmose
Jerry Garcia - debut

(1971)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung

(1972)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Kingdom Come - Journey
Bo Hansson - The Lord Of The Rings
Focus - Focus III

(1973)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Frank Zappa - Over-nite Sensation
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Samla Mammas Manna - Matlid

(1974)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Yes - Relayer
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

(1975)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Lard Free - I'm Around About Midnight
Eroc - same
Canarios - Ciclos
Il Volo - Essere o Non Essere?

(1976)
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Horslips - The Book Of Invasions
Samla Mammas Manna - Snorungarnas Symfoni
Ragnarok - Ragnarök
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène
Heldon - Agneta Nilsson
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Ashra - New Age of Earth
Schicke, Fuhrs and Frohling - Symphonic Pictures
Picchio Dal Pozzo - Picchio Dal Pozzo
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39
Kansas - Leftoverture

(1977)
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Lard Free -Spirale Malax
Atila - Reviure
Kraan - Wiederhören
Utopia - Ra
The Dixie Dregs - Free Fall

(1978)
Clearlight - Visions
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
Michael Hoenig - Departure from the Northern
Wasteland
Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique
Tangerine Dream - Cyclone
Ashra - Blackouts

(1979)
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Edgar Froese - Stuntman


The Evolution of Progressive Rock, from its
psychedelic roots through the british explosion to the
german synthesist and the rare progression through
the 90s. progressive psychedelia to AOR to fusion to
electronic to world music, and finally its DEATH!

styles as they converge and relate
s = Psychedelic/Symphonic Progressive
f = Progressive Rock Fusion
k = Kosmiche/Space


1969
the scene finally hits a mature stride in England with
melodic psychedelic, progressive fusion and space
experimental while Zappa takes a fusion approach.

s    The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
(1969)
f/s King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson KIng
(1969)
k    Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1969)
f    Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)

ELP starts the keyboard driven sound, Soft Machine
tries psychedelic fusion and Vangelis composes the
first rock opera.

s    Emerson, Lake & Palmer - same (1970)
s/k Aphrodite's Child - 666 (1970)
f    Soft Machine - Third (1970)

the english blues/folk scene cranks out some
winners, focus tries the wordless instrumental, can
peaks the early experimental kraut scene and
Mahavishnu seeks a world fusion approach.

s    Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)
s    Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971)
s    Audience - House on the Hill (1971)
s/f Caravan - In the Land of Pink and Grey (1971)
s    Focus - Moving Waves (1971)
k/f Can - Tago Mago (1971)
f    Mahavishnu Orchestra - the Inner Mounting Flame
(1971)

England kicks out prog folk concept classic, space
classic, Sweden creates the first cosmic classic
along with German's, Italian scene peaks with
symphonic classics.

s    Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (1972)
k/s Kingdom Come - Journey (1972)
s    Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)
k    Bo Hansson - The Lord Of The Rings (1972)
k    Algarnas Tradgard - Framtiden ar ett svavande
skepp, forankrat i forntiden
s    Focus - Focus III (1972)
k    DOM - Edge of Time (1972)
k    Guru Guru - Kanguru (1972)
s    Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico (1972)
s    Balletto Di Bronzo - Ys (1972)
s    Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin! (1972)
s    Santana - Caravanserai (1972)

4 masterpieces from England, and the American
fusion scene gets progressive

k    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
s/k Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
(1973)
s    Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)
s    Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)
s/f Gentle Giant - Octopus (1973)
f    King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
f    Henry Cow - Leg End (1973)
s    Clearlight - Symphony (1973)
k    Walter Wegmuller - Tarot (1973)
s    Semiramis - Delicato a Frazz (1973)
s    Frank Zappa - Over-nite Sensations (1973)
f/k Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (1973)
f    Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)
f    Weather Report - Sweetnighter (1973)

the English scene peaks, the germans lay down
landmarks and the Americans show up

s    Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
(1974)
s/k Yes - Relayer (1974)
s    Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (1974)
s    Strawbs - Hero and Heroine (1974)
s    Supertramp - Crime of the Century (1974)
f/s Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
f    Gong - You (1974)
s/f Wigwam - Being (1974)
f/s Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet
(1974)
s    Ange - Au-Dela du Delire (1974)
k    Cluster - Zuckerzeit (1974)
k    Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass (1974)
k/f Dzyan - Electric Silence (1974)
k    Sensation's Fix - Portable Madness (1974)
f    Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (1974)
k/s Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia (1974)

the English scene is fading fast, the French peak for
two years begins.

k/s Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
k/s Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975)
s    Gary Wright - the Dream Weaver (1975)
s    Camel - Music inspired by the Snowgoose
(1975)
f    Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (1975)
f/k Lard Free - I'm Around About Midnight (1975)
k/f Heldon - Allez Teia (1975)
f/s Zao - Shekina (1975)
s    Canarios - Ciclos (1975)
k    Neu! - 5 (1975)
f/s Il Volo - Essere o Non Essere? (1975)
s    Journey - same (1975)

Silence records in Sweden releases a few classics
and the Germans go full blown!

s    Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (1976)
s    Horslips - The Book Of Invasions - A Celtic
Symphony (1976)
f/s Samla Mammas Manna - Snorungarnas Symfoni
(1976)
f    Ragnarok - same (1976)
f/k Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus
(1976)
k    Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène (1976)
k    Klaus Schulze - Moondawn (1976)
k    Ashra - New Age of Earth (1976)
k/f Schicke, Fuhrs and Frohling - Symphonic
Pictures (1976)
k/f Picchio Dal Pozzo - Picchio Dal Pozzo (1976)
k/s Vangelis - Albedo 0.39 (1976)
s    Kansas - Leftoverture (1976)

last breath for England as Spanish scene throws us
a classic.

s/k Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
s    The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (1977)
f    Brand X - Moroccan Roll (1977)
k    Lard Free - III (1977)
k    Atila - Reviure (1977)
f    Iceberg - Sentiments (1977)
k    Neuronium - 2C361 (1977)
k/s Kraan - Wiederhören (1977)
k    Klaus Schulze - Body Love vol. 2 (1977)
s    Locanda Delle Fate - Forse le Lucciole non si
Amano piu (1977)
s/k Utopia - Ra (1977)
f/s Dixie Dregs - Free Fall (1977)
s    Maneige - Ni Vent...Ni Vouvelle (1977)
s    Rush - A Farewell to Kings (1977)

Continental Europe continues to produced cosmic
classics.

k/f Clearlight - Visions (1978)
k    Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe (1978)
k    Michael Hoenig - Departure from the Northern
Wasteland (1978)
k    Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique (1978)
s/k Luciano Basso - Voci (1978)

Now the Germans last hooray!

s    Mezquita - Recuerdos De Mi Tierra (1979)
k    Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (1979)
k    Edgar Froese - Stuntman (1979)


    Peter Gabriel - 3 (1980)

    Dun - Eros (1981)
    Holger Czukay - On the Way to the Peak of Normal
(1981)
    Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Wenn Der Sudwind
Weht (1981)
    Material - Memory Serves (1981)

    Yes - 90125 (1983)
    Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (1983) 
    Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea (1983)
    Bernard Xolotl - Last Wave (1983)
    Gandalf - Magic Theater (1983)
    Bacamarte - Depois do fim (1983)

    Art of Noise - Whose Afraid of the....(1984)
    Synergy - Audion(1984)

    Klaus Schonning - Locrain Arabesque (1985)
 
    Johannes Schmoelling - Wuivend riet (1986)

    Airto Moreira - The Other Side of This (1988)

    Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (1989)

    Michael Shrieve - The Big Picture (1989)

    Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)

    Peter Seiler - Open Borders (1991)

    Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue (1992)

    Phish - Rift (1993)

    Ronnie Montrose - Music From Here (1994)

    Steve Jolliffe - Zanzi (1996)

    Bozzio Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
(1997)

Grovjobb - Vatternas fest(1999)

    Mermen - Amazing California Health and
Happiness Roadshow (2000)



save your money, and go for the gusto

Edited by DallasBryan

A nice way to arrange your records! I tried to think how the freejazz influences (Ornette Coleman) would move through my psych/prog albums... Zappa and King Crimson were part of the line.