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Here's a random set of 10... no real order, just a selection.

Misplaced Childhood
Brave
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Pepper's Ghost
Bridge Across Forever
Close To The Edge
Wish You Were Here
Contagion
The Masquerade Overture
The Window Of Life
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1   Woodstock
2   Yessongs
3   Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
4   Saucerful of Secrets
5   Dark Side of the Moon
6  Sticky Fingers
7  Close to the Edge
8  Joshua Tree
9  Court of the Crimson King
10 Foxtrot
 
11 Selling England by the Pound
12 Trilogy
13 Pawn Hearts
14 Caravanserai (Santana)
15 Reunion concerts (Colosseum CD)
16 Pictures at an Exhibition
17 Very 'eavy Very 'umble
18 Emerson, Lake & Palmer
19 Watt (Ten Years After)
20 Disraeli Gears
 
21 Wheels of Fire (Cream)
22 Live at Leeds (Who)
23 Ummagumma
24 Argus
25 Abbey Road
26 Edgar Broughton Band
27 Grave New World (Strawbs)
28 Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other
29 Meddle
30 Who's Next
 
31 Yes Album
32 Valentyne Suite (Colosseum)
33 Space Oddity
34 Tales FromTopographic Oceans
35 Truth (Jeff Beck)
36 SF Sorrow (Pretty Things)
37 Ssssh (Ten Years After)
38 Stranded (Roxy Music)
39 Fragile (Yes)
40 Ziggy Stardust
 
41 Past, Present & Future (Al Stewart)
42 Man in the Bowler Hat (Stackridge)
43 Bringing it all Back Home (Dylan)
44 Its a Beautiful Day (self titled)
45 Curved Air 2
46 Kick out the Jams (MC5)
47 Focus 3
48 Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (Dylan)
49 Wish You Were Here
50 Pigmy (Keith Christmas)
 
 
 
 
 
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Agitation Free: Malesch
Asia Minor: Between Flesh and Divine
Brainticket: Psychonaut
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
Santana: Caravanserai
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Can: Future Days
Broselmaschine: Broselmaschine
Jan Dukes de Grey: Mice and Rats in the Loft
Spirogyra: St. Radigunds

popol vuh (hosianna mantra), synanthesia (s/t), c.o.b. (moyshee...), trees (GJD), comus (FU), nektar (RTF), king crimson (LTIA), ash ra tempel (s/t and Join Inn), ashra (NAOE, B), amon duul (Phallus Dei, Yeti), Holderlin (HT) and Dom, produced these other fabulous albums, and many of the bands listed in the top 10 have other albums that are high up on my list.


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Clap Greetings fellow proggies!  Here's my top 10 (that's if I can manage to limit it to 10!!) favourite albums (I'm also including non-prog stuff, as I also love metal):-

1. Pink Floyd 'Wish You Were Here'
2. Iron Maiden 'The Number of the Beast'
3. Pink Floyd 'The Wall'
4. Metallica 'Ride the Lightning'
5. Pink Floyd 'Animals'
6. Emerson Lake & Palmer 'Brain Salad Surgery'
7. Iron Maiden 'Powerslave'
8. Jean Michel Jarre 'Equinoxe'
9. Genesis 'Seconds Out' (ok, so it's a live album but the version of Cinema Show is to die for!)
10. IQ 'The Seventh House' (just got this for Christmas from my bro' [Roj M30] and it has blown me away!)

No doubt I'll have forgotten something and I'll kick myself later!  Meanwhile, here's a few close contenders:-

Porcupine Tree 'The Sky Moves Sideways'
The Orb 'Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld'
Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side of the Moon'
IQ 'The Wake'
The Black Dog 'Bytes' & 'Spanners'
Pantera 'Far Beyond Driven' & 'Vulgar Display of Power'
Eddie Jobson/Zinc 'The Green Album'
Rammstein 'Mutter'
Volbeat 'Rock the Rebel Metal the Devil'
New Model Army 'Thunder & Consolation'
Iron Maiden 'Killers' & 'Piece of Mind'

If/when I think of any more, I'll come back with another list.  Regards, Pogo.
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Misplaced Childhood
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Close To The Edge
Court of the Crimson King
Fear of a Blank Planet
Moving Pictures
Second Life Syndrome
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
Elegant Gypsy
Hemispheres
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Here's my most current list... Not having changed since feb.2008, it's the most stable one yet.Tongue

1. Genesis - Foxtrot
2. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
3. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
5. Burzum - Filosofem
6. Agalloch - The Mantle
7. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
8.Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
9. Sublime - Sublime
10. Rage Against The Machine - Battle Of Los Angeles


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These ten albums are absolutely essential listening for any prog fan.  No doubt everyone here has heard them all, but if you have somehow missed one, get it.
 
Yes -- Close to the Edge
Genesis -- Foxtrot
King Crimson -- In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes -- The Yes Album
King Crimson -- Red
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis -- Selling England By The Pound
Caravan -- In the Land of Grey and Pink
Marillion -- Script for a Jester's Tear
Rush -- Permanent Waves
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don't know that I should give it away but here's the top ten from the giant list I've been working on for the better part of two years now:

1. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
2. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
4. Yes - Close To The Edge
5. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7. Strawbs - Grave New World
8. Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money
9. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
10. Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
 
now, I know this looks like a lot of doubling in the top ten already but my list is hardly near completion.  It has already gone from being a top 100 list (to replace a poor one I had made on Last FM) to 250, then 500, and it looks like my list could end up something like a top 750 list if I ever actually put it out.  I think that any of my top four albums could easy stake claim to the top spot by the way so there isn't a big gap between any of those.


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^ of course you could use my website to keep track of those ratings ... or rateyourmusic.com.Smile
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Originally posted by Staker Staker wrote:

Here's a random set of 10... no real order, just a selection.

Misplaced Childhood
Brave
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Pepper's Ghost
Bridge Across Forever
Close To The Edge
Wish You Were Here
Contagion
The Masquerade Overture
The Window Of Life


I like this guy already! Embarrassed

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This is including non-prog
  1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
  2. Rush - Hemispheres
  3. Kamelot - Karma
  4. Def Leppard - High'n'Dry
  5. Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
  6. Boston - Boston
  7. Ayreon - Flight Of The Migrator
  8. Queensr˙che - Operation: Mindcrime
  9. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
  10. Kamelot - The Black Halo


Edited by POSW - January 17 2009 at 16:53
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Originally posted by Mr ProgFreak Mr ProgFreak wrote:

^ of course you could use my website to keep track of those ratings ... or rateyourmusic.com.Smile
 
maybe, my methods are very unscientific though


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I'm going to only do one album per artist just so it's not just  the VdGG and Mars Volta's respected discographies.
 
1. Van der Graaf Generator-Pawn Hearts
2. The Mars Volta-Frances the Mute
 
after these two the order starts becoming unclear, so the last eight aren't really in order
3. Frank Zappa-hard to choose from his discography, but I'll go with Absolutely Free right now
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- F # A # Infinity
5. Giant Squid-Metridium Field
6. Mastodon-Leviathan
7. Alice in Chains-Dirt
8. Yann Tiersen- C'etait Ici
9. The Cure-Disintegration
10. King Crimson-again hard to choose, but for now I'll go with Larks' Tongues in Aspic
 
some others that could be on at any time
Pain Killer-Execution Ground
Rush-once again a tough choice but my overall favourite is probably Hemispheres, though lately i've been digging Vapor Trails, which I find quite underrated
Mr. Bungle-s/t
Faith No More-The Real Thing
AFI-Black Sails in the Sunset (probably no fans of that here)
Opeth-Morningrise
Iron Maiden-Brave New World
Naked City-s/t
Coheed and Cambria-In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Explosions in the Sky-All of a Sudden I miss Everyone
Tool-Aenima
Yes-Relayer
ELP-Tarkus
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Peter Hammill-In Camera
Clutch-Robot Hive/Exodus
Ayreon-The Human Equation
Wolves in the Throne Room-Two Hunters
Unexpect-In a Flesh Aquarium
Beastie Boys-Liscened to ill
Deep Purple-Made in Japan
Bad Religion-Generator
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Chicago-Chicago Transit Authority
Miles Davis-Bitches Brew
John Zorn-Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
 
 
 
I'll stop there because I'm way beyond a top ten. Again, nothing's really definite beyond the first two al bums on the list. It's not even close to all being prog, but hey, good non prog music is existant and in abundance (just don't tell some people)
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Finch - Glory of the Inner Force
Dun - Eros
Pfm - Chocolate Kings
Los Canarios - Ciclos
Samla Mammas Manna - Maltid
Steve Morse Band - High Tension Wires
Area - Crac!
Santana - Caravanserai
Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom
Scott Henderson - Tore Down House
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Originally posted by Mr ProgFreak Mr ProgFreak wrote:

^ of course you could use my website to keep track of those ratings ... or rateyourmusic.com.Smile
 
maybe, my methods are very unscientific though


lol ... I'm honoured. Still, there's not all that much science to assigning ratings ... Wink


Edited by Mr ProgFreak - January 18 2009 at 08:36
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  1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
  3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Then, in no order:
  • Black Sabbath - Vol 4
  • Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
  • Rainbow - Rising
  • Camel - Mirage
  • King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
  • Yes - Close to The Edge
  • Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
  • Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
  • Uriah Heep - Magicians Birthday
  • Led Zeppelin - I
  • Led Zeppelin - II
  • Led Zeppelin - III
  • Led Zeppelin - IV
  • Deep Purple - Fireball
  • Deep Purple - Machine Head
  • Deep Purple - Made in Japan
  • Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
  • Rush - Caress of Steel
  • Jethro Tull - Stand Up
  • Pink Floyd - Meddle
  • Eloy - Inside
  • Eloy - Dawn
  • Gong - You
  • Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP
  • Alice Cooper - Killer
  • Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen
  • Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
  • Zappa - Uncle Meat
  • Zappa - Hot Rats
  • Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He, who am the only one
  • Soft Machine - Third
  • Caravan - If i could do it all over again, i'd do it all over you
And alot more...


Edited by Abstrakt - January 18 2009 at 08:39
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OPeth -Blackwater Park
Opeth- Watershed
Pink Floyd-Echoes The Best Of Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden-Killers
Metallica -Kill em all

here are five :P
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Dude ... a "best of" album? That's lame, especially on a prog website.LOL

Edited by Mr ProgFreak - January 19 2009 at 13:20
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  1. Still Life - Opeth
  2. Pawn Hearts - VDGG
  3. Symbolic - Death
  4. Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness - Green Carnation
  5. My Arms, Your Hearse - Opeth
  6. Chaosphere - Meshuggah
  7. Colors - Between The Buried And Me
  8. Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta
  9. Blackwater Park - Opeth
  10. Lateralus - Tool

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