Top 50 prog albums

^Its better for people who thinks everything good is made in UK or Northamerica, but not for people who knows better.

fuxi wrote: A fun list, but unforgivably anglocentric. These chaps seem to have no idea that much of the best prog comes from non English speaking countries.

Except that my comment would have been far more insulting, this sums up the essence of what I was going to write.

Crap list. Classic Rock readers shouldn't be allowed to have a say a about genres they have no knowledge about. Newbies might believe this list is the "truth". Even PA's list is better than this.

The T wrote: 25. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory . . 20. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

akamaisondufromage wrote: All rock is pretty well biased towards the English speaking bands, not just Prog so its not a surprise.    I do find the lack of Script an odd one with the no of Marillion in the list.  And as a lot have said 'Duke' ? Its possibly due to the average age of the voters?    I do love 'Going for the One' though so that pleased me.  My favourite Yes album - Is that wrong?

The vast majority of purchasers/readership is in the UK, so it's hardly surprising that there is an English bias. It's a shame, but not surprising.

GFTO is a mighty LP, and I'm overjoyed at its inclusion. I will also defend Duke to the hilt. The perfect fusion between prog and pop of all time and the album that introduced a whole new generation to prog rock - it was so popular, that many went out and brought earlier albums by the band.

All rock is pretty well biased towards the English speaking bands, not just Prog so its not a surprise. 

I think their list is a lot closer than ours to what I think.

There are some very odd choices (Systematic Chaos, Duke should never be in the list in a million years) and a few I would disagree with (Ever, Dark Matter and The Seventh House are IMO much better than The Wake) but they have done a pretty fair job.

My God, they say Systematic Chaos (#20?!) is better than Scenes From A Memory, don't they? I'm sure the people from CR haven't the faintest idea of what Dream Theater are...
Though, I've been purchasing CR magazine since it was issued for the first time in Russia - April 2001 (if I'm not mistaken).

I am led to wonder why they put back lots of Porcupine Tree stuff - their albums gained rather low score in this list. It seems that PT is the one Prog band CR knows of and writes about monthly (according to the latest issues PT deserved lots of praise by CR staff).

P.S. Thanks God, no Zep here. Suppose it's the first CR Top-50 where there are no Zep albums presented as absolute winners.

Not a bad list, although I'm scratching my head as to why "Duke" is on there.

I agree with the above poster though, Gentle Giant would have been a good addition. Also, rather than adding several albums by an artist, I think one or two per artist would have been better and could have allowed the addition of some other artists.

Well, I think it's a terrific list.

I couldn't really read the blurb about Snakes and Arrows, and was also surprised to see it there.  It's a solid Rush album, better most of the stuff they released in the past 20 years, but doesn't belong on the list.