Top 50 prog albums

Rocktopus wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Rocktopus wrote: ^I don't know why you think you know what I know, but you don't. I'm not surprised a Classic Rock-guy from UK (I gather?) like yourself is pleased with it. Looks like you practically made the list yourself. I don't know why you think you know better than me, because you don't. Am I a Classic Rock guy, what does that even mean? And if I had made the list, it wou;ld be different. So you don't know me at all either! Your turn.... I just looked at your Progfreak playlist, and most bands in CR's top 50 are among your most played (or the Prog or Rock that Classic Rock Magazine generally writes about). So I would think this magazine must be just perfect for you. Thats what it meant. I know the Progscenes in Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan, Scandinavia etc.. just as well as the British scene. The makers of this list most certainly don't. That's why I claim to know "better" (not than you, but the the makers of the list). If they do know all this prog from other places in the world, and still believe that four Marillion-albums are better than everything from Germany, they're wrong.

Edited by Snow Dog - June 22 2009 at 06:52

Snow Dog wrote: No-one made the list. They were votes by British people ina British Magazine. So what do you expect? If the

I know. You asked me if I thought I knew better than these british magazine readers. I explained why I think I do. I said I think this list is crap (actually the worst I've seen yet) I have no high expectations for readers lists like these, but I'm sure a german one wouldn't be filled with just German, or germanspeaking albums.

I've bought that magazine a couple of times myself, and by looking at your playlist its perfectly natural to think it would suit you well. It wasn't meant as an insult or anything, just an observation.

this isn't a very solid list at all

I think we're overlooking the obvious:

Pawn Hearts came in at #15! I NEVER thought I would see that in ANY magazine poll! I agree that there are some baffling choices (Systematic Chaos, Snakes and Arrows are way off, but they're probably only on there because they're the bands' most recent albums, making them stand out more in peoples' minds, Duke also probably shouldn't be there but it's at #48, I can live with that), and it is woefully anglo-centric, but neither of those comments is saying anything that someone else hasn't said already, and I think overall it's a pretty good list. I'm just glad to see VDGG getting some love


EDIT: Okay, I just noticed that Duke is actually at #43, putting it ahead of Nursery Cryme. That's not nearly as acceptable


Edited by KingCrimson250 - June 23 2009 at 13:02

For me,about half the list works,the other half definitely doesn't. These "polls" and "lists" used to really annoy the crap out of me but I've grown to just laugh them off and  ignore them. There's nothing definitive about things like this anyway. Just think about how many albums or bands are missing from this list. Also,

Marillion gets 4 of the 50 best albums?  And Script isn't even one of them?  Something is seriously wrong here.

St.Cleve Chronicle wrote: WHERE IS GENTLE GIANT?! That said, I think Duke deserves it's place in the list as a brilliant combination of prog and pop.

Yes thank you for defending Duke. I find it a very underrated album.

This is my review of it...
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=221345