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fudgenuts64 
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 16:53 |
Both great years for prog music, it's quite difficult to pick which is better. I was originally planning on doing 1976 and 1977, but I felt overall 1975 put up a fairer fight. Here's some highlights
1975 http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=1975&scountries=&sminratings=0&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=100&x=78&y=15#list 1976 http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=1976&scountries=&sminratings=0&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=100&x=30&y=9#list
Gonna go with 1976 I think. I love the two Genesis albums in addition to Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear, Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene and The Enid's In The Region of The Summer Stars quite a lot plus more. With that said, 1975 has so many good records too. Klaus Schulze's Timewind, Jethro Tull's Minstrel In The Gallery, Camel's The Snow Goose, Steve Hackett's Voyage of the Acolyte, and Pavlov's Dog Pampered Menial and Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories re some of my favorite records of all time.
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 16:57 |
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Jethro Tull's Minstrel In The Gallery, Camel's The Snow Goose and Area's Crac!!!! Comemorate the portuguese, vietnamese and greek revolutions just happens once (Gioia e Rivoluzione, y'all!).
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GKR
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 16:58 |
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Oh, Yezda Urfa' Boris, nice to see up in the list. #16, not bad.
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 17:08 |
I fondly recall that 1975 was a great year for rock music all the way around: Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Floyd's Wish You Were Here, Roxy Music's Siren, Queen's A Night at the Opera, Beck's Blow by Blow, Neil Young's Tonight's the Night, Zappa's One Size Fits All, Sabbath's Sabotage and Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 20:26 |
This is tough. I want to vote for '76 because it has Stratosfear, Roller, Strange New Flesh, Unorthodox Behaviour, 2112, Leftoverture, the self-titled Alas and two of my favorite Genesis albums. '75 doesn't outdo '76 in sheer quality, it simply has more killer albums that were released that year. I'll have to think about this.
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 21:49 |
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1975 has Harmonium's Five Seasons album, Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn, Pink Floyd's Wish you were Here, Rick Wakeman's King Arthur album, Reniassance's "Scheherazade" album, and Hackett's Voyage of the Acolyte. So it's easy 75 for me.
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 21:58 |
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Oh easy for me. 76 only had Rush, The Residents, Steely Dan and Birth Control for me. 75 has Floyd, VdGG, Harmonium, GG, Zappa, Quiet Sun, Hatfield, Yezda, Squire, Cow, Birth Control, Steely Dan, Rush, Pavlov's Dog... I can go on and on.
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Posted: September 24 2015 at 22:10 |
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75 for Pink Floyd, Rush, Gentle Giant, Eloy, and Hawkwind.
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 02:25 |
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1975 has the two great French Canadian albums, Les Porches and Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquieme Saison. I could almost go for it just based on those. I think 76 has the better VDGG album but that's about it. And Stratosfear might be my favourite Tangerine Dream.
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 03:16 |
Though 1976 was a good year, this is a no-brainer: 1975 is the best prog year ever in my book. If I limit my view to the albums which I would give a 5-star rating, there are nine in '75 against three in '76 in these lists. And if I look further on the list, the situation will not be different.
Edit: Ricochet is a live album which belongs also to the 1975 vintage and does not have any tracks appearing on any studio album. Another one to take into account.
Edited by someone_else - September 25 2015 at 03:19
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 04:18 |
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Some other reasons not listed yet why I feel 1975 is greater-Triumvirat-Spartacus. Strange Days-Nine Parts To The Wind, Nektar-Recycled, Soft Machine-Bundles, Passport-Cross-Collateral, Libra-Libra
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 04:25 |
 GKR wrote:
Comemorate the portuguese, vietnamese and greek revolutions just happens once (Gioia e Rivoluzione, y'all!). |
The Portuguese revolution was in 74 but the Spanish was in 75.
Voted for 1975, Quarteto 1111's last album was also released that year 
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 06:42 |
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'75 does it for me!
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 06:54 |
Meltdowner wrote:
GKR wrote:
Comemorate the portuguese, vietnamese and greek revolutions just happens once (Gioia e Rivoluzione, y'all!). |
The Portuguese revolution was in 74 but the Spanish was in 75.
Voted for 1975, Quarteto 1111's last album was also released that year |
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 09:44 |
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Definitely '75
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 10:02 |
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1975 for me.
Album released that year:
Pink Floyd - WYWH
King Crimson - USA
Maneige - Les Porches
Patti Smith - Horses
Santana - Lotus
Area - Crac
Hatfield and The North - The Rotters' Club
Maxophone - S/T
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
and Bob Dylan, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Hawkwind, Quiet Sun, Frank Zappa, Steve Hillage, Led Zeppelin,
Bob Marley, Neil Young, Kansas, Steve Hackett...
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 14:32 |
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No contest. Tull, Harmonium, Camel, Renaissance, Steve Hackett, Gentle Giant, ELP and many more released their best material in '75.
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 15:35 |
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1976 only had about 5 great albums for me, but '75 has dozens.
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 16:36 |
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75 for me.
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Posted: September 25 2015 at 16:42 |
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'75. After that, it was all downhill.
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