Top 10 Symphonic albums according to you
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Topic: Top 10 Symphonic albums according to you
Posted By: Thufir Hawat
Subject: Top 10 Symphonic albums according to you
Date Posted: January 19 2006 at 17:54
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This topic is pretty self explanatory...
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 19 2006 at 18:02
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Posted By: anael
Date Posted: January 19 2006 at 18:25
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1. YES. Close to The Edge 2. WALLENSTEIN. Blitzkrieg 3. KING CRIMSON. In The Court of The Crimson King 4. CAMEL. Mirage 5. YES. Relayer 6. YES. Fragile 7. GENTLE GIANT. Octopus 8. CAMEL. The Snow Goose 9. ELP. Pictures at an Exhibition 10. WELCOME. Welcome ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 19 2006 at 20:01
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hmmm... my top 10... 1. Yes - Close to the Edge 2. Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells 3. ELP - ELP 4. Renaissance - Scheherazade and other stories 5. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans 6. Camel - The Snow Goose 7. Genesis - Nursery Cryme 8. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery 9. Gentle Giant - Octopus 10. Focus - Hamburger Concerto .... can't leave this one off... labels be damned 11. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: January 19 2006 at 20:10
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I dont wanna repeat any bands here, though some have amazing prog masterpieces. So in no order...
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: January 20 2006 at 14:39
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king crimson red finch glory of the inner force happy the man crafty hands echolyn as the world banco darwin gentle giant interview jethro tull thick as a brick camel mirage kansas song for america gentle giant in a glass house |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: January 20 2006 at 15:49
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2112 - rush trilogy - e l p close to the edge - yes relayer - yes aquiring the taste - gentle giant snowgoose - camel mirage - camel atom heart mother - pink floyd gone to earth - barclay james and harwest braine salad surgery - e l p |
Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 01:32
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 01:37
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Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 01:39
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I'll place a few in no particular order. ITCOTCK - King Crimson CTTE - Yes Selling England By The Pound - Genesis Acquiring the Taste - Gentle Giant Meddle - Pink Floyd In all honesty, I have only touched the surface of progressive music, I still have much to listen to and buy. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 04:44
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1.Brain Salad Surgery - ELP 2.Close To The Edge - Yes 3.Foxtrot - Genesis 4.Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull 5.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 6.Animals - Pink Floyd 7.666 - Aphrodites Child 8.A Trick Of The Tail - Genesis 9.A Farewell To Kings - Rush 10.In The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 05:57
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 06:02
I LIKE YOUR POST Ricochet
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Ricochet wrote:
Posted By: W.Chuck
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 06:37
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Symphony X - V
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Genesis - Trespass Genesis - Foxtrot Yes - Close to the Edge Spock's Beard - V King Crimson - Red UK - UK Transatlantic - Live in Europe ------------- 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 07:08
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well i like my post too,Rover (and I knooow what I like)
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 07:27
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1) GENESIS "Wind and Wuthering" 2) YES "Yessongs" 3) GENESIS "Live" 4) RUSH "Exit Stage Left" 5) TRIANA "El Patio" 6) SOLARIS "1990" 7) BACAMARTE "Depois Do Fim" 8) PINK FLOYD "The Wall" 9) CAMEL "Mirage" 10) BARCLAY JAMES HAVEST "Live" |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 08:22
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Symphonic? not easy to say but something like this: 1. Foxtrot 2. Selling England By The Pound 3. Close To The Edge 4. The Yes Album 5. Wind & Wuthering 6. In The Court of The Crimson King 7. Duke (well its not very symphprog but its awesome) 8. The Lamb 9. Hamburger Concerto 10. A Trick of the tail or... hmm Snow from Spock's Beard =( |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 08:33
I don't think Rush or Tull are symphonic prog. You've listed two of their GREATEST albums but I wouldn't call either "Symphonic" prog ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 09:39
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I agree....Tull's folk...
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Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 10:40
| Does no one like Acquiring the Taste? I like it better than Octopus, mind you I've only listened to Octopus once. |
Posted By: Deliriumist
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 12:10
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 12:39
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 14:43
That surpises me to be honest.Thick As A brick is just about as symphonic as anything I've heard while Rush made four 'symphonic prog' albums with Caress Of Steel,2112,Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres.I don't except the 'prog metal' label for Rush. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 14:48
for what it's worth I agree.... Tull may be listed here as 'folk-prog' but I honestly see little folk in TaaB. The labels thing can be taken too far.. this is an albums list not a group list anyway. As far as Rush... I'll keep my opinions to myself but don't see any of their albums anywhere near a top 10 list of symphonic albums... with all the great albums that are out there that are CLEARLY symphonic in influence and execution. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 14:50
I think Rush are "Art rock" on the site. Tull are too folky to be symphonic I think ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 15:28
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1. Close to the Edge 2. Relayer 3. Fragile 4. The Yes Album 5. Tales from Topographic Oceans 1. Selling England by the Pound 2. Foxtrot 3. The Lamb lies down on Broadway 4. Nursery Cryme 5. Wind and Wuthering 1. In a Glass House 2. The Power and the Glory 3. Octopus 4. Free Hand 5. Three Friends 1. In the Court of the Crimson King 2. Red 3. Larks Tongue in Aspic 4. In the Wake of Poseiden 5. Islands (some might say Lizard here but it's a toss up) 1. Brain Salad Surgery 2. Trilogy 3. Tarkus 4. ELP 5. Pictures at an Exhibition 1. Pawn Hearts 2. H to He, Who am the Only One 3. The Least we caan do is Wave to Each Other 4. Godbluff 5. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome 1. Mirage 2. The Snow Goose 3. Rain Dances 4. Moonmadness 5. Camel 1. Shadowlands 2. Lex Rex 3. The Incosolable Secret 4. Chronometree 5. Perelandra How many bands is that, seven? Picking positions is too difficult for me to attempt so I had to write them out like that, but it would probably be the first couple of albums from the first couple of bands there... -------------  
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Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 15:28
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 15:45
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Acquiring The Taste is a fantastic album - frankly I'm surprised that there's hardly any Gentle Giant in these lists... Mind you, if the term "Symphonic" was used correctly, there would be a lot of The Enid in there too - and probably some Barclay James Harvest... |
Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 16:33
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Genesis- Selling England by the Pound BTW this list will probably change in the next few seconds. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 17:38
Chad... don't take the absence of it (like from my list) as not liking it. I think it is a great album... they all are for that matter, I just think Octopus is the Gentle Giant album that could/should be in a top 10 of symphonic prog albums. Certif1ed - will check up on THE ENID, can't say I've heard them before. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 19:26
Permanent Waves/Moving Pictures etc is 'art rock'.Rush have gone through several phases.Hard Rock,Symhonic Rock,Art Rock and back to hard rock again recently. Thick As A Brick doesn't sound 'folky' to me at all. |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 19:35
Really? I dunno, does to me, and I listen to a lot of folk. Maybe it's "Symphonic Folk" ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 21:09
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 01:04
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 07:54
Get "In The Region of the Summer Stars". It's the perfect blend of "Classical" and Rock - and I guarantee that it will knock the stars and stripes off your socks...
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 12:14
 thanks for the recommend, I will definitely put that at the top of my must check out list. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Gent
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 12:49
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In no order: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown A Concerto for Group and Orchestra - Deep Purple The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis Six Wives of Henry the VIII - Rick Wakeman Live at Carnegie Hall - Renaissance Night on Bald Mountain - Fireballet Close to the Edge - Yes Brain Salad Surgery - ELP Axis: Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix (I know, I know....) Live at the Fillmore East - The Mothers of Invention ------------- May God Bless you in all that you do. |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 14:40
Something like that, I oughta expand my prog collection with some VDGG. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 17:27
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Max. of two albums per band: 1. King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King 2. Van Der Graaf Generator- Pawn Hearts 3. Gentle Giant- In a Glass House 4. Jethro Tull- A Passion Play (Not listed as symphonic, I know, but it certainly is symphonic) 5. Van Der Graaf Generator- Godbluff 6. King Crimson- Starless and Bible Black (Even though it's not really symphonic at all, but it's listed as it, so whatever...) 6. Gentle Giant- Three Friends 7. Yes- Relayer 9. Genesis- Foxtrot 10. Camel- The Snow Goose ------------- Your life or your lupins!!! |
Posted By: Flying Dutchman
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 19:19
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1. Yes- Close to the Edge 2. Yes- Relayer 3. Genesis- Trespass 4. Van der Graaf Generator- Pawn Hearts 5. Genesis- Foxtrot 6. King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King 7. ELP- Pictures at an Exhibition 8. Van der Graaf Generator- H to He, Who am the Only One 9. ELP- Brain Salad Surgery 10. Yes- Going for the One.
As far as I'm concerned, Yes are the kings of symphonic prog, with Genesis and Vandy trailing shortly behind. |
Posted By: aortic_anuerism
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 20:19
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I persaonally think too many people here have got their prog and symphonic prog bands mixed up. In any critics knowledge (whether you liked them or not {hate seems to be the word}) ELP were the greatest symphonic prog band ever. Many, that have been added. do have fantastic albums, but most are not symphonic. Yes, Rush (not prog IMO),Pink Floyd....the list is endless. I agree that the Enid should be here, BJH, Camel, early KC. These bands are more symphonic than the rest, however that is my opinion and self opinions are allowed. ------------- ..and i knew that she seen me, because she dropped her bikini, the one that i got her, in Rome. |
Posted By: Mr Knowitall
Date Posted: February 03 2006 at 20:56
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5 --Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans 4--ELP - Self Titled 3-- Richard Wright - Wet Dreams 2--King Crimson - Larks' Tounges in Aspic 1--Pink Floyd - The Wall The fact that the albums are popular is mute when talking of thier greatness
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