Our top ten studio albums from favourite acts

Marco Minnemann

My Sister
Their Colors Fade
Broken Orange
The Green Mindbomb
EEPS
Schattenspiel
Comfortably Homeless
Celebration
Symbolic Fox
Catspoon

David Bowie

1 Low (1977)
2 Blackstar (2016)
3 Lodger (1979)
4 Hunky Dory (1971)
5 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (1972)
6 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
7 Aladdin Sane (1973)
8 The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
9 Station to Station (1976)
10 Heroes (1977)

Rush

2112
Moving Pictures
Hemispheres
A Farewell to Kings
Permanent Waves
Caress of Steel
Signals
Fly By Night
Clockwork Angels
Grace Under Pressure


Edited by Grumpyprogfan - April 22 2025 at 15:15

Magma
1 Wurdah Itah
2 Kohntarkosz
3 K.A.
4 Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
5 Emmehntet-re
6 Udu Wudu
7 Attahk
8 1001 Centigrade
9 Magma
10 Sl*g Tanz

Wurdah Itah aside, I think that the live versions of Magma's key 1970s pieces are better than the studio versions.

Robert Wyatt
1 Rock Bottom
2 Shleep
3 Ruth is Stranger than Richard
4 Cuckooland
5 Comicopera
6 Nothing Can Stop Us
7 Dondestan
8 Old Rottenhat
9 End of an Ear
10 For the Ghosts Within

Captain Beefheart

1 Lick My Decals Off Baby
2 Trout Mask Replica
3 Shiny Beast
4 Doc at the Radar Station
5 Clear Spot
6 Strictly Personal
7 Ice Cream for Crow
8 Safe as Milk
9 Mirror Man
10 The Spotlight Kid

Pink Floyd - my personal top 10 favourites

1) Meddle
2) Wish You Were Here
3) Dark Side of the Moon
4) A Saucerful of Secrets
5) Animals
6) Obscured by Clouds
7) The Wall
8) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
9) The Division Bell
10) The Final Cut

Well, I've never been a fan of that album, except for Secret Messsages, Four Little Diamonds and R&R Is King. I guess I have to listen to it again.

Going back to the question itself; I don't find much similarity between Discovery and Secret Messages. It does sound a bit more like Time, though.

King Crimson
Red (10)
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (10)
In the Court of the Crimson King (10)
Starless and Bible Black (10)
Three of a Perfect Pair (9)
Lizard (8,5)
Islands (8)
In the Wake of Poseidon (8)
The ConstruKction of Light (8)
Discipline (8)

Magma
Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (10)
Üdü Wüdü (10)
Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (10)
Félicité Thösz (10)
Köhntarkösz (9)
Magma (9)
Attahk (8)
Köhntarkösz Anteria (8)
Zëss (8)
1001° Centigrades (7)

Electric Light Orchestra
II (10)
Time (9)
Discovery (9)
On the Third Day (8,5)
Eldorado (8)
A New World Record (8)
From Out of Nowhere (8)
Face the Music (8)
Zoom (8)
The Electric Light Orchestra (7,5)

Yes - 1. CTTE 2. Fragile 3. Relayer 4. Tales 5. The Yes Album 6. Going for the One 7. Drama 8. 90125 9. Yes 10. Time and a Word

VDGG - 1. Pawn Hearts 2. H to He 3. The Least we can do 4. Godbluff 5. World Record 6. Still Life 7. Do Not Disturb 8. A Grounding in Numbers 9. Quiet Zone 10. Present

Gentle Giant - 1. TPaTG 2. Free Hand 3. Octopus 4. In a Glass House 5. AtT 6. Three Friends 7. s/t 8. Interview 9. The Missing Piece 10. Giant for a Day

Genesis 1. The Lamb 2. Selling England 3. Foxtrot 4. Nursery Cryme 5. ATotT 6. Trespass 7. W&W 8. Duke 9. s/t 10. We Can't Dance/Abacab

Not/Less Prog (list, not ranking):

Tom Waits Rain Dogs, The Heart of Saturday Night, Mule Variations, Real Gone, Swordfishtrombones, Bad as Me, Bone Machine, Frank's Wild Years, Blue Valentine, Small Change. (this one is probably the hardest).


Frank Zappa (studio only to make it somewhat possible): One Size Fits All, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe, Hot Rats, You are What you is, Joe's Garage, Sheikh Yerbouti, Freak Out, The Grand Wazoo

Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate, Death of a Ladies' Man, I'm Your Man, New Skin for Old Ceremony, You Want it Darker, Recent Songs, The Future, Thanks for the Dance, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room

Ok I'll stop here for now because I can go on and on.

^Yep, amazing band. I guess Rush would take it quite easily, but maybe I'm wrong (and it doesn't really matter:). I'll see if G_d's Pee holds up over time. Right now it's my favorite "comeback album" of theirs.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Polygondwanaland (2017)
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (2023)
Nonagon Infinity (2016)
Infest the Rats' Nest (2019)
Changes (2022)
Sketches of Brunswick East (2017)
L.W. (2021)
K.G. (2020)
I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)
Omnium Gatherum (2022)