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Emerson,Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Yes - Close To The Edge
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
King Crimson - Red
Pink Floyd - Animals
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
PFM - Per Un Amico
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Eloy - Eloy Live
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimple
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Camel - The Snow Goose



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote presdoug Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2024 at 23:19
Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

David, can I have some clarification here? Is this my top 15 albums IN the 70's, ie a list of 70's albums that had been formed in my mind by 1979.... or a list of 15 fave albums FROM the 70's which I have now formulated in 2024?

It's the list of those 15 albums, one was most fond of in the '70s. I hoped that was clear by my thread title and OP, but very good to ask when not sure - thanks. Smile

Oops! I should have read things more clearly...my list posted is of prog that was from the 70s that are my current favourites, and ones that I did not know in the 70s, as I did not discover prog until 1985...sorry about that...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2024 at 23:25
^ Oh I didn't really get that either. In that case it would be most of ELP's albums and a bit of Yes and Genesis. It wasn't until the 80's that I explored a lot more. Also I was still at school and relied on Xmas and Birthday's for a few albums here and there. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Jared Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2024 at 00:39
I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog!

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In alphabetical order:
Alquin - The Mountain Queen
Camel - The Snow Goose
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Focus - Focus II (later known as Moving Waves)
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
Yes - Close to the Edge

Others worth mentioning:
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Anthony Phillips - Wise after the Event

Reference date mid-1979 (6 or 7 years to discover prog and just before I dropped out of my teens). I had not discovered Magma, Rush, King Crimson or Van der Graaf Generator back in the day and UK's Danger Money just falls out
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2024 at 04:00
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog!

LOL

I find it quite suprising too and now thought, it was better to edit my OP:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Edit: As not everybody has understood properly my thread title ("IN") and OP ("this thread is for the old boys and girls....my top 15....was"), I better to point that I'm asking for a list of those albums, one was most fond of in the '70s.
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The only album I definitely listened to in the 70s, and regard as prog, is War Of The Worlds!😎

Unless Nightflight To Venus by Boney M counts. Or Suberwombling by The Wombles?…..
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

 Or Suberwombling by The Wombles?…..

don't knock the Wombles mate... they were sheer class!

far superior to the Smurfs!  Big smile
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Seeing as it's one per artist, these are the prog albums that most influenced me in the 70's and would shape my future musical tastes (including one or two crossover or prog-related)...

Argent - All Together Now
Camel - The Snow Goose
Caravan - In the Land of the Grey and Pink
Curved Air - Live
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
ELP - Emerson Lake & Palmer
ELO - Electric Light Orchestra
Focus - Moving Waves (aka Focus II)
The Nice - Five Bridges
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII
Santana - Caravanserai
Yes - Close to the Edge

So hard to nail it down to only 15 seeing as it's the golden era of prog for us baby boomers.

Honourable mentions for 'Deep Purple in Rock' and 'Led Zeppelin IV', whilst neither album is bona fide prog, they both had a massive influence on my musical listening tastes and appreciation in my teenage years (and later!).


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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog!

LOL

I guess, it's still not getting much better. Confused

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Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

So hard to nail it down to only 15 seeing as it's the golden era of prog for us baby boomers.

I could impossibly make my present top 15 of progressive music, that should at least be top 100.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hrychu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2024 at 06:34
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog!

LOL
I agree. The good news is that 99% of the PA userbase are boomers or gen. Jones-er's. B)
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog!

LOL
I agree. The good news is that 99% of the PA userbase are boomers or gen. Jones-er's. B)

Another thoughtless and insensitive post of your UnhappyDisapproveOuch

Since "boomers" is generally used as an insultNuke by youngers generations (which we shall call Censored doomers Pig)

I don't consider myself as a "boomer", because I was born around the very end of that repopulation phase. 
But I identify easily with the generation before mine (I'd love to have been 14 in 67, rather than 77), especially in terms of music (but not necessarily so in terms of other arts like literature, plastic arts, movies, etc...). 


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If someone is insensitive here, it is you, Sean. Yes you. Just, chill out and re-read my messages. I didn't criticize those generations in my post!

Read it carefully, without your default negative prejudice.

I used those terms in a stirctly descriptive manner. I mean, IMHO the generation gaps aren't even as drastics as people lead themselves to believe. I know a lot of boomers (born 1946-1964) and Jonesers (~1958-1963 more/less) who are friendly and easy going people. The constant culture wars really shape cross-generational relations in a negative way. It's a bit of a bummer.
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Well, I was born in the 70s and am Gen X. I do remember hearing The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot near the tail end of the 70s as my brother had bought the record and that was one of his that I liked. And I am confident that I had heard Camel's The Snow Goose by then and Caravan's the Land of Grey and Pink. Oh, and I had heard ELP's Trilogy I think by then, but that could just be an acid flashback. In my day we started young, okay, maybe not quite that young. Kids, just say no to drugs (unless prescribed, possibly).

Edited by Logan - September 06 2024 at 09:58
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Gee Whizz.... this Gen-X personage should never have mentioned the expression 'Boomer', eh?

It just struck me that if David wanted members to list albums they listened to IN the 70's, it realistically could only be a thread applicable to Boomers, right?

Unless of course you're like Greg who had grown his first beard by the age of 3?  Party
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Hi everyone, here goes my top 15- one album per band:

Gentle Giant- The power and the glory
Genesis- Selling England
Yes- Close to the edge
ELP- Tarkus
Camel- The snow goose
King Crimson- Larks' tongues
Gryphon- Red queen
BMS- Darwin
PFM- Per un amico
Le Orme- Felona e Sorona
Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra
Secret Oyster- Sea son
Frank Zappa- Joe's garage
Rush- A farewell to kings
Invisible- El jardin de los presentes
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Originally posted by poseído del alba poseído del alba wrote:

Hi everyone, here goes my top 15- one album per band:

Gentle Giant- The power and the glory
Genesis- Selling England
Yes- Close to the edge
ELP- Tarkus
Camel- The snow goose
King Crimson- Larks' tongues
Gryphon- Red queen
BMS- Darwin
PFM- Per un amico
Le Orme- Felona e Sorona
Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra
Secret Oyster- Sea son
Frank Zappa- Joe's garage
Rush- A farewell to kings
Invisible- El jardin de los presentes
It kind of blows my mind that you had access to all these international releases back in the 70's. Was there some cool radio station in Argentina at the time that would play this stuff?
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by poseído del alba poseído del alba wrote:

Hi everyone, here goes my top 15- one album per band:

Gentle Giant- The power and the glory
Genesis- Selling England
Yes- Close to the edge
ELP- Tarkus
Camel- The snow goose
King Crimson- Larks' tongues
Gryphon- Red queen
BMS- Darwin
PFM- Per un amico
Le Orme- Felona e Sorona
Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra
Secret Oyster- Sea son
Frank Zappa- Joe's garage
Rush- A farewell to kings
Invisible- El jardin de los presentes
It kind of blows my mind that you had access to all these international releases back in the 70's. Was there some cool radio station in Argentina at the time that would play this stuff?

Might be that the newbie did not understand the thread is for the "old boys" that lived through the years of classic prog. Let's not be harsh... 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hrychu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2024 at 12:45
I'm genuinely curious. Here in Poland, back in the 70's you could hear some real deep cuts from outside of the iron curtain on the radio.
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