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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Missed this thread somehow...
 
You already voted back on March 4th on Page 3 of this thread. Wink
You are correct and I messed up then  including IQ and KC...this then is my corrected vote.

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I already added the points from your previous vote at the same time as not counting your vote for King Crimson. Smile
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I've somehow managed to miss this thread before, but my belated selections are:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Refugee - Refugee
Hamburger Concerto - Focus
Bedside Manners are Extra - Greenslade
Relayer - Yes
Six Wives of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Leftoverture - Kansas
Fish out of Water - Chris Squire
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^ That's okay. I don't think you were here on the forums at the time when I originally posted this thread at the end of February. Smile
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Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

1: Close to the Edge by Yes

2: Foxtrot by Genesis

3: Leftoverture by Kansas

4: Moonmadness by Camel

5: In the Region of the Summer Stars (1984) by Enid

6: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

7: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

8: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler

9: Scheherazade and Other Stories by Renaissance

10: ? [Aka: Question Mark] by Neal Morse


Interesting looking back at this. No need to change the votes, but this is what my list would look like five months later:

1. Close to the Edge by Yes
2: Selling England By the Pound by Genesis
3: A Drop of Light by All Traps On Earth
4: Moonmadness by Camel
5: Leftoverture by Kansas
6: In the Region of Summer Stars (1984) by The Enid
7: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler
8: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by ELP
9: To Shatter All Accord by Discipline
10: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

If I had my way about genre classifications, though, I'd have to knock Roine Stolt off the bottom (sorry Roine, nothing personal) and put Big Big Train's English Electric: Full Power up at third.
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Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

1: Close to the Edge by Yes

2: Foxtrot by Genesis

3: Leftoverture by Kansas

4: Moonmadness by Camel

5: In the Region of the Summer Stars (1984) by Enid

6: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

7: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

8: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler

9: Scheherazade and Other Stories by Renaissance

10: ? [Aka: Question Mark] by Neal Morse


Interesting looking back at this. No need to change the votes, but this is what my list would look like five months later:

1. Close to the Edge by Yes
2: Selling England By the Pound by Genesis
3: A Drop of Light by All Traps On Earth
4: Moonmadness by Camel
5: Leftoverture by Kansas
6: In the Region of Summer Stars (1984) by The Enid
7: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler
8: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by ELP
9: To Shatter All Accord by Discipline
10: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

If I had my way about genre classifications, though, I'd have to knock Roine Stolt off the bottom (sorry Roine, nothing personal) and put Big Big Train's English Electric: Full Power up at third.

A Drop of Light and English Electric are both very special to me. One is 'Symphonic' and one is not (imo) Smile
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1. Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
2. Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
3. Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells
4. Rick Wakeman: Six Wives of Henry VIII
5. Spock's Beard: V
6. Harmonium: Si On Avait Besoin D`Une
7. Renaissance: Ashes Are Burning
8. The Flower Kings: Stardust We Are
9. Camel: Mirage
10. ELP: Triology


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ That's okay. I don't think you were here on the forums at the time when I originally posted this thread at the end of February. Smile


I've only recently become active on here after a long hiatus. It's probably your enjoyable and ingeniously recycled polls that get me most engaged so thanks for that! Thumbs Up


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Can you have albums drawn in second place? (Or any place, for that matter?)
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Can you have albums drawn in second place? (Or any place, for that matter?)
Yes, it often happens that two albums tie for the same place in a poll, just like in my recent Genesis albums poll for instance, where Foxtrot & Selling England by the Pound were briefly tied for first place. Smile
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Originally posted by Cactus Choir Cactus Choir wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ That's okay. I don't think you were here on the forums at the time when I originally posted this thread at the end of February. Smile


I've only recently become active on here after a long hiatus. It's probably your enjoyable and ingeniously recycled polls that get me most engaged so thanks for that! Thumbs Up
Thanks. I also have a Top 10 Crossover Prog and a Top 10 Prog-Folk albums poll lurking around in the ProgArchives forums somewhere. I had to go back to Page 6 to find this Symphonic Prog poll again. Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Can you have albums drawn in second place? (Or any place, for that matter?)
Yes, it often happens that two albums tie for the same place in a poll, just like in my recent Genesis albums poll for instance, where Foxtrot & Selling England by the Pound were briefly tied for first place. Smile
Ok, then. 
1. Duke (does it count as symphonic, though, or just weird prog/pop/jazz/weirdness??)
2. Selling England and Foxtrot
3. CTTE
4. Tarkus
5. Fragile
Sorry, not going beyond that! It's too hard!! LOL
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^ By the way, I mentioned in the introduction to this Top 10 poll that you can only choose one album by each artist for your Top 10. Wink
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I also have a Top 10 Crossover Prog and a Top 10 Prog-Folk albums poll lurking around in the ProgArchives forums somewhere. I had to go back to Page 6 to find this Symphonic Prog poll again. Smile

Not sure I really understand what Crossover Prog is Embarrassed, but I'll find the Prog Folk one and vote in that.
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Originally posted by Cactus Choir Cactus Choir wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I also have a Top 10 Crossover Prog and a Top 10 Prog-Folk albums poll lurking around in the ProgArchives forums somewhere. I had to go back to Page 6 to find this Symphonic Prog poll again. Smile

Not sure I really understand what Crossover Prog is Embarrassed, but I'll find the Prog Folk one and vote in that.
Just click on "Crossover Prog" on the main page and then you'll see a list of the Top 100 albums in that particular genre. Smile
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Edit:
1. Duke
2. CTTE
3. Tarkus
Sorry about that.
I've just noticed I've only included albums by the three probably most successful symphonic bands, so I've managed to extricate a few more albums (by lesser known bands) that are better than the usual lot:
4. Mirage (Camel, though still quite well known)
5. Snow (Spock's Beard)
6. Garden Shed (England, discovered them courtesy of Psychedelic Paul Smile)
Hm... no, that's it.
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Top 10 update after six more rounds of voting:-
 
1. YES - Close to the Edge (256 points)
2. GENESIS - Foxtrot (120 points)
3. GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (110 points)
4. GENESIS - Selling England by the Pound (90 points)
5. YES - Tales from Topographic Oceans (82 points)
6. CAMEL - Moonmadness (80 points)
7. EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (75 points)
8. HARMONIUM - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison (72 points)
9. KANSAS - Leftoverture (71 points)
10. WOBBLER - From Silence to Somewhere (62 points)
 
 
11. FOCUS - Hamburger Concerto (54 points)
12. YES - Relayer (49 points)
13. CHRIS SQUIRE - Fish Out of Water (47 points)
13. ANGLAGARD - Hybris (47 points)
15. RICK WAKEMAN - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (46 points)
15. SPOCK'S BEARD - V (46 points)
17. DISCIPLINE - Unfolded Like Staircase (43 points)
18. GLASS HAMMER - The Inconsolable Secret (42 points)
19. NEAL MORSE - Sola Scripture (41 points)
20. CAMEL - The Snow Goose (40 points)
20. YES - Fragile (40 points)
20. GENESIS - Trespass (40 points)
 
 
23. REFUGEE - Refugee (38 points)
24. EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - Tarkus (35 points)
24. CAMEL - Mirage (35 points)
26. CRESSIDA - Cressida (32 points)
27. SOLARIS - Marsbeli Kronikak (30 points)
27. GENESIS - Duke (30 points)
27. SPOCK'S BEARD - Snow (30 points)
27. ECHOLYN - The End is Beautiful (30 points)
27. FANTASY - Paint a Picture (30 points)
27. GENESIS - Wind & Wuthering (30 points)
27. NEAL MORSE - Similitude of a Dream (30 points)
27. TRANSATLANTIC - Bridge Across Forever (30 points)
 
 
35. ALL TRAPS ON EARTH - A Drop of Light (29 points) 
 
There are three new entries in the Top 10 after that latest long update:- Wobbler, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. It gave me a headache sorting out the many entries for the latest Top 10 update, so I'm going to lie down in a darkened room for awhile now. Smile
 


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There's some great bands missing out from the list above due to it only being 10. I could easily have gone Focus, Refugee, Transatlantic, Echolyn and Kansas if I could have named more bands.
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Harmonium was recently changed to Prog Folk by the way.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

1: Close to the Edge by Yes

2: Foxtrot by Genesis

3: Leftoverture by Kansas

4: Moonmadness by Camel

5: In the Region of the Summer Stars (1984) by Enid

6: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

7: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

8: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler

9: Scheherazade and Other Stories by Renaissance

10: ? [Aka: Question Mark] by Neal Morse


Interesting looking back at this. No need to change the votes, but this is what my list would look like five months later:

1. Close to the Edge by Yes
2: Selling England By the Pound by Genesis
3: A Drop of Light by All Traps On Earth
4: Moonmadness by Camel
5: Leftoverture by Kansas
6: In the Region of Summer Stars (1984) by The Enid
7: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler
8: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by ELP
9: To Shatter All Accord by Discipline
10: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

If I had my way about genre classifications, though, I'd have to knock Roine Stolt off the bottom (sorry Roine, nothing personal) and put Big Big Train's English Electric: Full Power up at third.

A Drop of Light and English Electric are both very special to me. One is 'Symphonic' and one is not (imo) Smile

You're right; A Drop of Light has a lot of Zeuhl influence on it Wink.
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Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

Originally posted by tempest_77 tempest_77 wrote:

1: Close to the Edge by Yes

2: Foxtrot by Genesis

3: Leftoverture by Kansas

4: Moonmadness by Camel

5: In the Region of the Summer Stars (1984) by Enid

6: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

7: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

8: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler

9: Scheherazade and Other Stories by Renaissance

10: ? [Aka: Question Mark] by Neal Morse


Interesting looking back at this. No need to change the votes, but this is what my list would look like five months later:

1. Close to the Edge by Yes
2: Selling England By the Pound by Genesis
3: A Drop of Light by All Traps On Earth
4: Moonmadness by Camel
5: Leftoverture by Kansas
6: In the Region of Summer Stars (1984) by The Enid
7: From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler
8: Emerson, Lake & Palmer by ELP
9: To Shatter All Accord by Discipline
10: The Flower King by Roine Stolt

If I had my way about genre classifications, though, I'd have to knock Roine Stolt off the bottom (sorry Roine, nothing personal) and put Big Big Train's English Electric: Full Power up at third.

A Drop of Light and English Electric are both very special to me. One is 'Symphonic' and one is not (imo) Smile

You're right; A Drop of Light has a lot of Zeuhl influence on it Wink.
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