Group with the most "Essential" albums on the site

Depends how you define "essential". Why are the first four ELP albums "essential"?

SuperMetro wrote: They just look like staples of progressive rock. Also, the tracks on them are really good. Its too bad this group is dismissed as pretentious.

The only essential items are food, shelter and water. Haven't we had this ELP discussion recently? If you like them, great, if not, life goes on.

It's the old chestnut of albums by the essential "Big Six" of Prog-Rock. Namely....

Since our opinions are quite influenced by our personal taste, “Essential” is quite subjective, and it will depend on how many people want to label an album in that category. 

Simple case of algorithms: 5 star ratings = "Essential" on the site database. It's nothing to do with ones subjective view, which can't be captured as 'data'

Grumpyprogfan wrote: SuperMetro wrote: They just look like staples of progressive rock. Also, the tracks on them are really good. Its too bad this group is dismissed as pretentious.  The only essential items are food, shelter and water. Haven't we had this ELP discussion recently? If you like them, great, if not, life goes on.

Thanks Maslow.

richardh wrote: Top 25 albums with a rating of 4.5 or better: 1. Yes - Close To The Edge 2. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound 3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 4. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 5. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King 6. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of The Moon 7. Genesis - Foxtrot 8. King Crimson - Red 9. Pink Floyd - Animals 10. Art Zoyd - Haxan 11.The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense 12. Clannad - Dulaman 13. Eddie Henderson - Realization 14. Oingo Boingo - Good For Your Soul 15. Gunesh Ensemble - Looking At The Earth 16. Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer 17. Ground Zero - Plays Standards 18. Guillamne Perret & The Electric Epic - S/t 19. Sculptured - Embodiment 20. Patrick Broguiere - Mont Saint-Michel 21. Dark - Tamna Voda 22. Zwoyld - 200 000 23. Tadeusz Wozniak - s/t 24. Myster Mobius - s/t 25. Drago Minarec - Rodjenje

Psychedelic Paul wrote: It's the old chestnut of albums by the essential "Big Six" of Prog-Rock. Namely.... ELP Genesis Jethro Tull King Crimson Pink Floyd Yes And these are my own personal choices for the second tier "Big Six" of classic prog... Barclay James Harvest Camel Caravan The Moody Blues Procol Harum Renaissance

^ An English language site is very obviously going to be heavily biased towards English/American bands and artists. There is nothing sad about it. You can big up your 'I'm a man of the world' thing all you like but most of us can only cope with a limited number of bands. That's just reality , its not a crime at all. I suppose also scientifically speaking we are 'taught' to recognise certain things from a very young age when our minds are very pliable and its stays with us like it or not. Your ridiculous sneering and condescending attitude is way too much at times. Just back down and stop being such a prat. Please..pretty please?

moshkito wrote: chopper wrote: richardh wrote: Top 25 albums with a rating of 4.5 or better: 1. Yes - Close To The Edge 2. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound 3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here ... Blimey, once we get outside the top 10, I've not heard of most of them. Hi, That's the problem with the majority of "progressive" music listeners ... they are voting for a "favorite" and do not have a reasonable idea of how good others are. To me, the greatest sadness of all is that the first list, pretty much ignores anyone from around the world ... well, I got news for you, world music from India, China, Africa and many other places are thousands of years old and do things that our commercial minds can't even conceive ... which suggests that this is not about music at all! Just a record company smiling and clapping ... they will still milk money out of the dead dogs, to make sure no one else gets a nickel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!