15 of your fave albums included in PA from the 90s
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Topic: 15 of your fave albums included in PA from the 90s
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 15 of your fave albums included in PA from the 90s
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 09:10
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As a sort of complementary list-making exercise to David's http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=129019&PID=6009081#6009081" rel="nofollow - 15 of your fave non-Prog albums from the 90's? , this is "15 of your fave albums included in PA from the 90s". So for this list, whether you think it Prog or not is not as important as whether or not it has been added to ProgArchives as a listed artist in any of the categories. Here is my list, which only has one album per act and are all studio albums. Art Zoyd - Häxan Björk - Homogenic Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun Cardiacs - Sing to God Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ Höyry-kone - Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family Radiohead - OK Computer Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die U Totem - U Totem Wyatt, Robert - Shleep Additionally, I would appreciate it very much if one track is listed that comes from one of your album choices. Ideally a youtube embed or link to another site where the music can be streamed will be provided so that others may more easily check out the track you chose. I might do a poll on those later. If someone else has already posted your particular favourite track, then you might wish to post another (while perhaps mentioning that the aforementioned track would have been your choice). I will go with Swans' "Helpless Child" as my track choice from the albums on my list. EDIT: As David pointed out his ten Prog albums poll, and this comes a little close, will continue and emphasise more with the fave tracks of faves albums in PA idea as an additional thing so the topic is not the same and cover both. If embedding, not too many please. So to add to Swans' "Helpless Child". Art Zoyd - "Épreuves d'acier" Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a film) Björk's "Jóga", Cardiacs' "Dirty boy" (sure to get mentions I would hope), Current 93's "Riverdeadbank" are some other faves. If I do make a poll out of this, maybe I will do it as two song mentions per person per poll option. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:12
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" http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=128554" rel="nofollow - 10 of your fave Prog Rock albums from the 90's? " and my list  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:14
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Well, this topic is rather too close then to that as set up for my liking. Instead I will modify to put more emphasis on mentioning the tracks. It will also include mentioning albums still, and cover that different "tracks" ground which your topic did not. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:32
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Favorite tracks from my favorite 90's 'prog' albums. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:44
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Thanks for this Greg, I have thoroughly enjoyed giving this one some thought. So, here's my 15 selections; One album per band, in no particular order: IQ: Ever Arena: The Visitor Pendragon: The Masquerade Overture Pallas: Beat The Drum Janison Edge: The Services Of Mary Goode Marillion: Brave Rush: Counterparts Spock's: The Kindness Of Strangers Yes: Talk Alan Parsons: Try Anything Once Dream Theater: Images & Words Therion: Theli Fates: A Pleasant Shade Of Gray Jadis: Across The Water Clepsydra: Fears ---------- And here are a further 15 honourable mentions: Enchant: Break Cairo: Conflict & Dreams Mostly Autumn: The Spirit Of Autumn Past Threshold: Clone A.C.T: Today's Report Iluvatar: Children Grey Lady Down: Forces Tiles: Presents Of Mind Eloy: The Tides Return Forever Explorer's Club: Age Of Impact Primitive Instinct: Floating Tangibility Queensryche: Promised Land Rocket Scientists: Oblivion Days Vauxdvihl: To Dimension Logic Arcturus: La Masquerade Infernale
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:48
all these are great, great list!
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Jared wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:57
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Thanks Jared for the albums list. And thanks Ian for the track choices -- from both of those albums I would have wanted to highlight tracks and in both cases my choice would have been different. I would have gone with "Dirty Boy" and "Exit Music..." from Sing to God and OK Computer. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 11:09
Thanks my friend... a few of the others are rather tasty, too!!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 11:14
No, thank you. I had a look at my 'elementary, off the cuff' entries from the previous list which David has provided the link for, when I had just come back to PA, but your post has given me more chance to think about some more of the great Neo, Heavy & Symph albums I have enjoyed from that decade in the past; a few of them I will have to reacquaint myself with... there's too much great music and simply not enough listening time!
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 11:24
Dirty Boy & Dog Like Sparky were in the running on STG, Exit, Paranoid & Airbag were on OKC ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 11:46
Making lists, revisiting lists, and re-working, re-thinking and delving deeper into lists can help me to appreciate music all the more. I was pleased to see that you also posted your honourable mentions. My 15 above came from a list of about 25 which I rather painfully whittled down. I commonly make my lists from scratch even if I have made similar ones before, which is inefficient, but my interests shift over time and of course I discover new-to-me things. I do these mostly based on memory, I double-check often, and quite often look up charts for the familiar. For this I had quite a few albums in a longer list of which I used to be a fan, but in returning to them for consideration here, quite a few that I had not heard in 15 or so years lost their appeal. My tastes have become rather more conventional and conservative over time, even if my tastes would still be seen as eccentric by many. I do like how thinking about making lists often gets me to return to and re-evaluate music. Sometimes this leads to a much deeper appreciation and sometimes the appreciation seems to have mostly vanished.
I don't think one could really go wrong with any of those. :) ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 12:05
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 14:05
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Echolyn - Suffocating The Bloom Pat Metheny Group - The Road to You Mike Keneally - Sluggo! Dream Theater - Images and Words Chick Corea Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask Allan Holdsworth - Hard Hat Area King's X - Dogman Radiohead - OK Computer French TV - The Violence of Amateurs Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase Marco Minnemann - The Green Mindbomb Phil Miller In Cahoots - Live Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise Bill Bruford Earthworks - A Part, And Yet Apart |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 16:01
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Some epic early post rock: .O.rang (Album Herd of Instinct) Tarentel (album From Bone To Satellite) One of my favourite five songs of all time: And here some pre post metal from Kong (album Phlegm) ...and what Holger was up to at the time: (Whenever I revisit this album I am mesmerised by what an absolutely mind-boggling monster of an album that is! He isn't my avatar guy for nothing.) |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 22:41
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Maybe I'll try and come up with a list later, but here's two huge favourites of mine. Absoluuttinen Nollapiste - Suvannossa ylpeä ilme I-V from their album Suljettu (1999): CMX - Pilvien kuningas from their album Aura (1994): |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: May 25 2022 at 17:00
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With some minor alterations and the addition of David Bowie (whom I'd previously left out for merely being prog-related) I'm gonna re-post the list I made for David_D 1. Mats/Morgan Band - The Music Or The Money... 2. Mr. Bungle - California 3. David Bowie - Earthling 4. Tipographica - God Says I Can't Dance 5. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy 6. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland 7. Cardiacs - Sing To God 8. Tim Hodgkinson - Each In Our Own Thoughts 9. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile 10. Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III 11. Música D' Repuesto - aV abuC 12. French TV - The Violence Of Amateurs 13. Motor Totemist Guild - City Of Mirrors 14. Harpy - Speech On The Radio 15. Thinking Plague - In Extremis Having to nominate two songs out of these, I would choose https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/daisy-2" rel="nofollow - Mats/Morgan's "Daisy" (Bandcamp only, no studio version on YouTube) and Tipographica's "Forest Tipographical II" Other choices would be Cardiacs's "Dirty Boy", Ozric Tentacles's "Eternal Wheel", Squarepusher's "Coopers World" and Mr. Bungle's "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" (and also David Bowie's "Dead Man Walking" but that one's really stretching it for a prog poll
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 26 2022 at 01:58
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You know, I completely overlooked: The Gathering: Mandylion & Nighttime Birds Two very important early, alt/post/experimental statement pieces which I'm mentioning on their own as I don't believe anyone else has picked them up either...
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 26 2022 at 02:05
I've enjoyed them since the 90s, the first album I've heard from them was their death-doom debut, it was unique when it came out, but that line up was short lived. I don't see them as alternative, but some sort of progressive gothic doom the first two albums with Anneke. Quite original. Great band! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 26 2022 at 02:48
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I always follow muy own one album only per artist/band-rule, but those two Tortoise-albums may be my two most listened to 1990's albums included in PA: Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise - Tortoise Rabih Abou-Khalil - Al-Jadida Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (perhaps one of the least progressive of theirs, but it's been a favorite since my late teens) Talk Talk - Laughing StockUakti - Mapa Radiohead - OK Computer Dead Can Dance - Aion Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ Radiohead - OK Computer Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun Mr. Bungle - California Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws: Hurqalya (great one, but they got even better at this)
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 26 2022 at 03:02
I understood thet you wanted to focus a little more on selected tracks,
so I'll add a couple more. I should use every chance I get posting the 1990's prog epic anyway: This whole album feels like you're a part of a circus side show... something like that. Or if Kate Bush anno 1982 starred in Carnivale (the series). In the tradition of Art Bears and Slapp Happy, but while my ears do grow tired of Dagmar Krause voice, Kira Vollmann is a vocal virtuoso and a true artist that I could listen to all day long. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 27 2022 at 02:28
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Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions IQ - Ever Marillion - Holidays In Eden Anglagard - Hybris ELP - Black Moon Yes - Talk Keith Emerson Band - Changing States Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE Spocks Beard - The Kindness Of Strangers Mansun - Six Mansun - Attack of The Grey Lantern Radiohead - OK Computer Echolyn - Suffocating The Bloom Dream Theater - Awake Rush - Counterparts
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 27 2022 at 05:54
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Not sure I can get it down to 15. 2. PAT METHENY Secret Story 3. BONDAGE FRUIT II 4. SIGUR RÓS Ágætus Byrjun 5. PÄR LINDH PROJECT Mundus Incompertus 6. OZRIC TENTACLES Jurassic Shift 7. COLLAGE Moonshine 8. AFTER CRYING Megalázottak é Megszomorítottak 9. THINKING PLAGUE In Extremis 10. PORCUPINE TREE Sky Moves Sideways 11. STANLEY CLARKE, AL DI MEOLA, & JEAN-LUC PONTY Rites of Strings 12. PAT METHENY Imaginary Day 13. HÖYRY-KONE Huono Parturi 14. BARK PSYCHOSIS Hex 15. LANDBERK One Man Tells Another Honorable Mentions: BONDAGE FRUIT I AFTER CRYING Overground Music DEAD CAN DANCE Aion BRUFORD LEVIN UPPER EXTREMITIES Bruford Levin Upper ExtremitiesQUIDAM Quidam ANGRA Holy Land DEAD CAN DANCE Spiritchaser ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 27 2022 at 14:43
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Thanks to all for your contributions. Its been enjoyable looking through them, comparing lists, and listening to music. Not including the honorable mentions, I included the 15 (or 14 in one case) lists that were posted in this topic and compiled them. I really like the tracks posted too, and that in itself would be deserving of a proper response. A number of these acts and albums were on my longer list that I pared down for my 15: Abou-Khalil (I was going to go with Blue Camel), Dead Can Dance (Aion), Tipographica, Bondage Fruit (with II), Motor Totemist Guild, Sigur Rós, French TV. Thought about adding that Thinking Plague, wanted to add that Tortoise by opted to go with only Millions, and I would have liked to mention three Swans: Soundtracks For the Blind (which I went with) as well as The Great Annihilator and White Light... Love Swans (feel like playing To Be Kind again now, which grew and grew on me). I would also have liked to mention a second by Art Zoyd with Faust. Lots I know and like in the list. Lewian mentioned a track by 'O'rang, and I really like the album Herd of Instinct. I have mentioned the number of times albums have been mentioned (again, excluding the honorary mentions). Not surprisingly to me from this quite small sample size, Radiohead's OK Computer made the most lists (5x). Rush and Yes are coming up the rear of Radiohead with their Counterparts and Talk (3x each). Abou-Khalil, Rabih - Al-Jadida After Crying - Megalázottak é Megszomorítottak Änglagård - Hybris (x2) Arena - The Visitor Art Zoyd - Häxan Bark Psychosis - Hex Bill Bruford Earthworks - A Part, and Yet Apart Björk - Homogenic Bondage Fruit - II Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (x2) Bowie, David - Black Tie White Noise Bowie, David - Earthling Bozzio , Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - s/t Cardiacs - Sing to God (x2) Chick Corea Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask Chroma Key - Dead Air for Radios Clarke, Stanley, Al di Meola & Jean-Luc Ponty - Rites of Strings Clepsydra - Fears Collage - Moonshine Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind Dead Can Dance - Aion Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase Dream Theater - Awake Dream Theater - Images & Words (x2) Echolyn - Echolyn Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom (x2) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Black Moon Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray French TV - The Violence of Amateurs (x2) Gathering, The - Nighttime Birds Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ (x2) Harpy - Speech On The Radio Hodgkinson, Tim - Each In Our Own Thoughts Holdsworth, Allan - Hard Hat Area Howe, Steve - Turbulence Höyry-kone - Huono Parturi Höyry-kone - Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa IQ - Ever (x2) Jadis - Across The Water Janison Edge - The Services of Mary Goode Keith Emerson Band - Changing States Keneally, Mike - Sluggo! King's X - Dogman Landberk - Indian Summer Landberk - One Man Tells Another (x2) Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (x2) Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2 Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern Mansun - Six Marillion - Brave Marillion - Holidays in Eden Mats/Morgan Band - The Music or the Money... Metheny, Pat - Imaginary Day Metheny, Pat - Secret Story Miller, Phil / In Cahoots - Live Minnemann, Marco - The Green Mindbomb Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust (x2) Motor Totemist Guild - City of Mirrors Mr. Bungle - California (x2) Música d' Repuesto - aV abuC Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family (x2) Nuova Era - Il Passo del Soldato Ozric Tentacles - Erpland Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake Pallas - Beat The Drum Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus Mundus Incompertus Parsons, Alan - Try Anything Once Pat Metheny Group - The Road to You Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture Pink Floyd - The Division Bell Porcupine Tree - Signify Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways, The (x2) Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito Radiohead - OK Computer (x5) Rush - Counterparts (x3) Rush - Roll the Bones Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws: Hurqalya Siddhatha - Siddhartha Sigur Rós - Ágætus Byrjun Sinkadus - Cirkus Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers (x2) Spock's Beard - The Light Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity Talk Talk - Laughing Stock Therion -Theli Thinking Plague - In Extremis (x2) Tipographica - God Says I Can't Dance Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (x2) Tortoise - Tortoise Toy Matinee - S/T Uakti - Mapa U Totem - U Totem Wakeman, Rick - Return to the Center of the Earth Weckl, Dave - Synergy Wyatt, Robert - Shleep Yes - Talk (x3) Yes - Union Zappa, Frank - Civilization Phaze III EDIT: I updated the above list to include John's (Mellotron Storm) choices. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. 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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: May 29 2022 at 10:00
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Echolyn- Echolyn 1991 Anglagard- Hybris 1992 Porcupine Tree- Up The Downstair 1993 Anekdoten- Vemod 1993 Landberk- One Man Tells Another 1994 Psychotic Waltz- Mosquito 1994 Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways 1995 Nuova Era- Il Passo Del Soldato 1995 Porcupine Tree- Signify 1996 The Gathering- Nighttime Birds 1996 Chroma Key- Dead Air For Radios 1998 Bruford Levin Upper Extremities- s/t 1998 Siddhatha- Siddhartha 1998 Sinkadus- Cirkus 1999 Kada- Kada 1999 Three PT's but one of the rest. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 29 2022 at 11:27
Sorry for the snipping... Wanted to quote both of these since they both relate (and a couple of others listed more than one album per act with Yes and Mansun)...
I have a number of "snaps" with your list, and one that I almost included with Dead Can Dance.
Thanks, John and Saperlipopette! for your lists (as well as all others) While I went with the one album per band/artist for my list, mostly so I could cover more ground by bands, I find it interesting to see which bands are favoured by individuals by number of albums. That kind of favourite artists topic would be interesting to me -- I did something like that for the 90s before. I'll update the list of all submissions (minus the bonus entries) if we get a few more submissions, and actually I'd like to do a bonus entries list itself. Lists and lists, I read at another site, Progressive Ears, someone saying that the PA forum members are obsessed with lists and this forum is pretty much all about list-making. I know I am. :) I guess my top four in terms of releases in the 90s PA would be: Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (1991) - The Great Annihilator (1995) - Soundtracks for the Blind (1996) Swans has been rocking my world so much this year. I really got to know the music by this band much more quite recently. Art Zoyd - Faust (1995) - Häxan (1997) I love both of these albums by Art Zoyd. I went with Häxan for the poll, but I actually return to Faust more. Both Marathonnerres could also be listed, but it's those above two that are particularly special and were my two favourite albums of the 90s for some years. Tortoise - Tortoise (1994) - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) - TNT (1998) Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind (1992) - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (1994) - All the Pretty Little Horses Could also mention Horsey (1997) (this albums features a cover song of Comus' "Diana"). Current 93 is one of those bands that I have to be in the right mood for usually. I could imagine some saying that you have to have the "wrong" kind of mood to appreciate it. Outside of PA when it comes to favourites of mine by artists with multiple loved by me albums, I would include Pram, Stereolab, Portishead (I adore those three bands). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 01 2023 at 04:07
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In no particular order, here are my fifteen favorite albums included in the PA from the 90s: 1. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are 2. Echolyn - As the World 3. Marillion - Brave 4. Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture 5. Radiohead - OK Computer 6. Arena - The Visitor 7. Galahad - Following Ghosts 8. IQ - Subterranea 9. The Flower Kings - Flowerpower 10. Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom 11. Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight 12. Pendragon - The Window of Life 13. Galahad - Sleepers 14. IQ - Ever 15. The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures
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