Your top 15 progressive music albums IN the '70s? |
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richardh
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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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^ 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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Jared
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I think this thread should be re-titled Baby-Boomer Prog!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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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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David_D
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I find it quite suprising too and now thought, it was better to edit my OP:
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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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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don't knock the Wombles mate... they were sheer class! far superior to the Smurfs!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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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!). Edited by Floydoid - September 07 2024 at 08:05 |
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I guess, it's still not getting much better. |
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I could impossibly make my present top 15 of progressive music, that should at least be top 100. |
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Another thoughtless and insensitive post of your Since "boomers" is generally used as an insult by youngers generations (which we shall call doomers ) 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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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Hrychu
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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).
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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?
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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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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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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Hrychu
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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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“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
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