14: Albums from the RYM chart that are also in PA

The selections is collected from the Rate Your Music all-genres/all-time music chart, and I have included ones that are in Prog Archives Prog categories. The numbers beside the albums show the chart position at RYM. Please vote for a favourite and mention that and any others that you find particularly notable in a post. Thanks.

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House (1433)
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere... (1567)
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un amico (1602)
Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (1626)
Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood (1639)
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards (1716)
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun (1744)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (1750)
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I (1755)
Jeff Wayne - The War of the Worlds (1759)
Eddie Henderson - Realization (1771)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1774)
Khan - Space Shanty (1781)
Tortoise - TNT (1790)
Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1791)
Opeth - Morningrise (1792)
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4 (1797)
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory (1803)
Santana - Lotus (1806)
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone (1812)
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (1813)
Queensrÿche - Operation:LIVEcrime (1816)
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1821)
Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything? (1844)
Rush - Rush in Rio (1833)

I find it interesting that most of my favourites in the list are clumped together by ranking: The Eddie Henderson, Tangerine Dream, Khan and Tortoise. My other favourite is the BdSM. And below that is the Gentle Giant (which I still like very much). With PFM, I do prefer the past poll's selection considerably.

While I am sure that all of my mentions above (including Per un Amico) have got my vote in other polls over the years, it came down to Eddie Henderson's Realization (which I wrote a five star review for) and Tangerine Dream's Phaedra. I was quite confident that I was going to vote for Realisation when I cam to it in the chart, but then three below I saw Phaedra and Realised that my confidence was presumptuous. I called Pheadra the dreaded Phaedra when I first heard it many years ago, and had preferred every TD album that came before it, but then I returned to it one day and LOVED it. It also is presented as an option in Black Mirror's interactive Bandersnatch Netflix presentation -- something I love. Should you pick Tangerine Dream's Phaedra and Isao Tomita's The Bermuda Triangle? (from Bandersnatch).

So it's the once dreaded Phaedra for me.

Many strong albums here. I love Franco Battiato and the album in the poll is a New Wave Synth Pop album. This is his first, and quite possibly last, appearance in this series. I would have expected the earlier works to rank more highly. I consider Sulle corde di Aries to be a masterpiece, but it ranks at 3624 on the RYM chart.

1. Khan

Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I

The Tulls, followed by Mr. Gabriel, Renaissance, and Khaaaaaaaaan.

Some heavy hitters in this one. Phaedra, Lotus, Rush in Rio...

3 Renaissance - Turn of the Cards

Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Peter Gabriel, PFM.

Jethro Tull, without a doubt. Other good ones include those by Santana, Gentle Gian, Renaissance, and Khan. There are more, but these are at the top of my list here.

PFM