Which of the Top 100 would YOU keep?
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Topic: Which of the Top 100 would YOU keep?
Posted By: Raff
Subject: Which of the Top 100 would YOU keep?
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 13:09
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As people seem to be having fun with all those lists, I thought I'd make one of my own. Just had a look at the albums included in the current Top 100, and thought I'd keep maybe half - probably less - of them in my own personal Top 100. Here's the ones that would survive the cull: Yes - Close to the Edge/Fragile/Relayer/The Yes Album Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick/Aqualung King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King/Red/Larks' Tongues in Aspic Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here/Animals PFM - Storia di un minuto Banco - Io sono nato libero Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Supertramp - Crime of the Century Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories Gentle Giant - Octopus Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink/If I Had to do It All Over Again... Soft Machine - Third Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Magma - MDK Gong - You! Hatfield and the North - s/t National Health - Of Queues and Cures Henry Cow - Western Culture Area - Arbeit Macht Frei There are a few that might also be included, though at the moment I am not sure about - namely Meddle, Moving Pictures, Acquiring the Taste and Birds of Fire.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 14:35
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Interesting Question, so 22, just under a quarter. Yes - CTTE Tull - TAAB Floyd - WYWH / Animals Genesis - Foxtrot KC - LTiA / Red / ITCOTCK VDGG - Pawn Hearts / Godbluff PFM - Per Un Amico Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Caravan - ITLOG&P Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Magma - MDK Hatfield & The North - s/t Tangerine Dream - Rubycon National Health - OQ&C Henry Cow - Western Culture Soft Machine - Third Klaus Schulze - Mirage Gong - You ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 17:06
| I must be a newbie. By my count, I own just 48 of the top 100. Of those there are around ten I haven’t listened to enough to be able to say whether they’re in my all-time top 100. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 17:33
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you are evil darling... you are going to make me look at that list aren't you. As if the top 20 list wasn't depressing enough haha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 18:54
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I'd likely keep most. Many on the bubble as well. Probably more I'd drop if I really thought about it. But it'd be easiest to say which ones I would certainly drop. 10. VdGG - Godbluff 28. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (I love Miles, but he has at least three others I put ahead of this) 36. VdGG - H to He, Who Am the Only ONe 37. Supertramp - Crime of the Century 42. Opeth - Still Life 49. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase 63. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet 69. Opeth - Ghost Reveries 78. Tangerine Dream - Rubycon 85. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (same comment as above) |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 20:14
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hmm.. glanced at it earlier... starting with the easy ones... albums completely out of place on that list.. any list of top or great PROG albums 17 . Moving Pictures 19. that album... 23. what the hell is that....2018? enough said.. you're f**king outta there! This ain't a pop album chart... and umm... symphonic prog is one of the most overdone.. moth eaten and cliche ridden subgenres in prog. If you aiin't modern prog.. ie metal, rio-avant, postie or even xover.. you don't belong on the list because chances are.. you are just playing the same sh*t that other played.. and so much better decades earlier.. 24. Aqualung - love it and much much better an album than TaaB and for one big reason and Ian was right about this. It ain't a f**king prog album.. doesn't belong 28 yeah... no need to revisit that one.. spent enough time yelling and screaming about that when he was added. Which I had a large hand in his addition... could go into a 2nd batch that I don't think are up to snuff quality wise. .for there are SO many that smoke many of these flavor of the month albums by popular groups but what is the point. I've been riffing in that key for years and still am playing street corners and getting freebies from chicks with mustaches and sporting eye patches. bah.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 14 2019 at 23:36
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Get rid of: Zappa , Magma , Klaus Schulze and all the jazz rock fusion stuff. Plus Script For A Jesters Tear (would make my list of worst neo prog albums) and Scenes From A Memory Part 2 (there is loads of DT I much prefer) Moving Pictures is one of my favourite albums so that stays! |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 00:19
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20 years ago I would have probably kept most of them. But things change and even the bands that I like on the list aren't represented by my favorite albums. For instance, MDK, while a good album, is not a top 100 to me while other Magma albums are. The other problem is that live albums are not included on the PA list. Several live albums are in my top 100, including the only representative from Yes, Yessongs at number 2. I actually have 71 of them in my collection. 2. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound 8. King Crimson - Red 24. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin 25. PFM - Storia de Minuto 27. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Sono Nato Libero 33. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 37. Supertramp - Crime of the Century 39. Pink Floyd - Meddle 44. FZ - One Size fits all 46. GG - The Power and the Glory 68. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior 76. ELP - ST 82. Steve Hackett- Voyage of the Acolyte 87. Le Orme - Felona e Serona ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 11:29
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All early work (that appear on the list) by: Pink Floyd, Rush, King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, EL&P, Jethro Tull and Marillion (count: 25), plus: 15. Per un Amico 16. Mirage 25. Storia di un Minuto 30. In a Glass House 33. Birds of Fire 34. The Grand Wazoo 43. Scheherazade and other Stories 44. One Size Fits All 46. The Power and the Glory 47. Octopus 54. In the Land of Gray and Pink 66. The Inner Mounting Flame 68. Romantic Warrior 77. You 93. L'Isola di Niente 97. Third Out mainly for space reasons: Banco (for whatever reasons, I'm still a bit conservative on RPI.. mostly PFM and Maxophone for me.. but sure I'll give it a try... I like ...Di terra though, and Le Orme's Uomo di Pezza), Magma (I like some things very much.. but whole albums still couldn't say…), VdGG (I've never could get into… still trying), GG's free hand & acquiring the taste, Zappa's Hot rats (overrated imo). Would keep roughly 40% of PA's top 100.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 11:36
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Well..I own 77 of the top 100......so I guess I would keep all of those....the other 23 are up for grabs. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 13:01
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Albums I’d Definitely Keep from PA's Top 100 in my own Top 100: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Magma - MDK Yes - Relayer Yes - Fragile Yes - Close to the Edge King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King King Crimson - Red Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd - Animals PFM - Storia di un minuto Area - Arbeit Macht Frei Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d’une cinquičme saison ELP - ELP Gentle Giant - Free Hand Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light Riverside - Second Life Syndrome Magma - K.A. Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Supertramp - Crime of the Century Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories Gentle Giant - Octopus Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Genesis - Foxtrot Tool - Lateralus Albums I’d Probably/Try to Keep (but might not make the cut): Soft Machine - Third Hatfield and the North - s/t National Health - Of Queues and Cures Henry Cow - Western Culture Banco - Io sono nato libero Yes - The Yes Album PFM - L’isola di Niente Focus - Hamburger Concerto Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire Camel - Moonmadness Genesis - Nursery Cryme Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere Albums from the next 100s that I think belong in the Top 100: Il Baletto di Bronzo - Ys Area - Crac! King Crimson - Discipline Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost Khan - Space Shanty Santana - Caravanserai Nucleus - We’ll Talk About It Later The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium Hiromi’s Sonicbloom - Time Control Eskaton - 4 Visions The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed Sylvan - Posthumous Silence Egg - The Polite Force Univers Zero - Univers Zero (aka 1313) Sigur Rós - Ágćtus Byrjun Renaissance - Novella UK - UK Lenny White - Venusian Summer Shakti - Natural Elements Caravan - For Girls Who Plump in the Night Maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map Spirogyra - St. Radigunds SBB - Pamiec Solaris - Marsibéli Krónikák Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye Thinking Plague - In Extremis Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift Arti e Mestieri - Tilt - Immagini per un orecchio Klaus Schulze - X ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 15 2019 at 15:41
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Definitely top 100 (7) Red Animals Pawn Hearts Ommadawn Still Life Rock Bottom Rubycon Possibly top 100 (15) Close to the Edge Selling England by the Pound Thick as a Brick Dark Side of the Moon Mirage Moonmadness Relayer Aqualung Hot Rats The Grand Wazoo Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh In Absentia Bitches Brew Anabelas Of Queues and Cures Very good though probably not quite top 100 (13) In the Court of the Crimson King Foxtrot Lark's Tongues Nursery Crime Darwin! The Snow Goose Crime of the Century Meddle Scheherazade and other Stories ELP Arbeit Macht Frei Elegant Gypsy Third
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