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Topic: Most Embarrassing Gaps in Your Collection
Posted By: thellama73
Subject: Most Embarrassing Gaps in Your Collection
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 00:01
Do you ever feel left out when the entire PA board is discussing an album you've never heard? I know I do! I even went so far as to buy Selling England By The Pound even though I don't like Genesis, just so I'd fit in better here. Sad, I know. Here are some of the well known and well regarded albums everyone talks about that I still don't own.

Yes - Fragile, The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
VdGG - Still Life, Godbluff.
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Anything RPI.

Feel free to share the most embarrassing gaps in your collection!


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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 00:17
I am lacking:

Any 70's Rush Albums
ITCOTCK - King Crimson
Any Camel album
Any Gentle Giant album
Any Soft Machine album/any canterbury other than In The Land Of Grey and Pink

Good thread idea


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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 00:20
VdGG and Rush.



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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 00:24
Dream Theater and most prog-metal bands.


Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 00:29
Myself:

I lack most of the early RIO/avant bands even though I've been largely into that area of prog lately. Including anything released by Henry Cow, or pre-2009 Magma.

Any non-Orme '70s RPI

Most Krautrock


Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 00:39
I have very little Prog Metal (regardless of sub genre)
I have very little Progressive Electronic
I have precisely zero Indo/raga Rock
I have precisely zero Neo-Prog




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Posted By: Blackbeard
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 02:22
- Zero Zappa
- Zero Indo/Raga
- Zero Arena
- Zero Queen
- Zero LeOrme
- Only one Magma
- Only few Krautrock


Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 02:49
Crime of the Century!
 
No, i have that album.. its just a crime OP does not have
 
Yes - Fragile, The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
VdGG - Still Life, Godbluff.
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
and
Anything RPI.
 
I have those of course BUT...

I actually do not own in my collection any:
Eloy
The Pineapple Thief
Univers Zero
Phideaux
Cardiacs
Decemberists
 
and most shameful of all..... I do not have the latest Gong album
 


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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 02:57
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.


Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:20
I have gaps, but none that I am embarrassed about. And I don't believe half the posters here are embarrassed.

But....I didn't get Foxtrot till awfully late (had heard it though) eventually got it sometime in late eighties I think.


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Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:25
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Do you ever feel left out when the entire PA board is discussing an album you've never heard? I know I do! I even went so far as to buy Selling England By The Pound even though I don't like Genesis, just so I'd fit in better here. Sad, I know. Here are some of the well known and well regarded albums everyone talks about that I still don't own.

Yes - Fragile, The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
VdGG - Still Life, Godbluff.
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Anything RPI.

Feel free to share the most embarrassing gaps in your collection!


Besides Yes and Genesis, I don't have those albums you put in! Oh and I have Pink Floyd too, but I strongly agree with RPI! I want one in my collection! Cry


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:26
I own nothing by these
 
VDGG
Zappa
Gong
Banco
Harmonium
Mahavishnu Orchestra
 
and not enough by
Gentle Giant
PFM
 
PFM-Per Un Amico (No 11) is the highest place album I don't own
 
 


Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:32
Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.
Hmmm you have me interested now
 
If its that bad i will probably hear these soonLOL
 
You didnt mention the Cardiacs so that must be OK. I heard they are great in the CR prog magazine


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Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:33
I got only 2 metal albums, which is Still Life by Opeth and some Dream Theater album (I didn't like the Dream Theater album), but i don't really feel that I have any gaps, since I am paying for a program that's called Spotify, so I hear alot of music from there.


Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:33
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.
Hmmm you have me interested now
 
If its that bad i will probably hear these soonLOL
 
You didnt mention the Cardiacs so that must be OK. I heard they are great in the CR prog magazine

Cardiacs are not post 89 mate.


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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:35
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I own nothing by these
 
VDGG
Zappa
Gong
Banco
Harmonium
Mahavishnu Orchestra
 
and not enough by
Gentle Giant
PFM
 
PFM-Per Un Amico (No 11) is the highest place album I don't own
 
 

http://berrymii.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/weekends-at-tampines-mall/attachment/27082010233/" rel="nofollow">

I could not breathe without these albums..... Get them NOW!
 
Dammit I will GIVE them to you!


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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:40
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.
Hmmm you have me interested now
 
If its that bad i will probably hear these soonLOL
 
You didnt mention the Cardiacs so that must be OK. I heard they are great in the CR prog magazine

Cardiacs are not post 89 mate.
Were you referring to Walter's crack about the other bands?
So Cardiacs are OK in your opinion?


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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:42
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.
Hmmm you have me interested now
 
If its that bad i will probably hear these soonLOL
 
You didnt mention the Cardiacs so that must be OK. I heard they are great in the CR prog magazine

Cardiacs are not post 89 mate.
Were you referring to Walter's crack about the other bands?
So Cardiacs are OK in your opinion?

I thought you were refering to Walter not mentioning Cardiacs. I may have gotten confused a bit though.LOL

But, yes, Cardiacs are great. Not to everyone's tastes of course. Are there sample here on PA?

Edit. Yes I see now. You mentioned them and Walter didn't comment on them. Yes as i said...they are pre 89Wink


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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:45
What I only feel as an embarrasing gap is the lack of RPI in my collection. I'm from Marseille, it's at 4 hours of the Italian border and I only have "Collage" by Le Orme.
On the other hand, my jazz collection is really poor and I don't even have anything by Ange!


Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:46
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.
Hmmm you have me interested now
 
If its that bad i will probably hear these soonLOL
 
You didnt mention the Cardiacs so that must be OK. I heard they are great in the CR prog magazine

Cardiacs are not post 89 mate.
Were you referring to Walter's crack about the other bands?
So Cardiacs are OK in your opinion?

I thought you were refering to Walter not mentioning Cardiacs. I may have gotten confused a bit though.LOL

But, yes, Cardiacs are great. Not to everyone's tastes of course. Are there sample here on PA?
They are on youtube and I am listening to them  now - cannot place the style really, but quite heavy into weird time sigs and melodic to the max. Great singing and unusual drumming. The non stop singing on below track is intense. That instrumental is off the scale!
 


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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:49
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Do you ever feel left out when the entire PA board is discussing an album you've never heard? I know I do! I even went so far as to buy Selling England By The Pound even though I don't like Genesis, just so I'd fit in better here. Sad, I know. Here are some of the well known and well regarded albums everyone talks about that I still don't own.

Yes - Fragile, The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
VdGG - Still Life, Godbluff.
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Anything RPI.

Feel free to share the most embarrassing gaps in your collection!
 Misfortunately I own all of those albums. Jey, it s geting close to Christmas. I have got to be grouchy. The guy down the street is driving me to madness with his Santa, lights & Reindeer front yard display. I think it is time to get my bazooka out. No, I think I am gping to take my thermal nuclear device out. But first I will have a few cases of whiskey.


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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:50
Have no Genesis, ELP, VdGG and Jethro Tull.  

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 03:55
hell I'm still not sure how to spell Zeuhl .. seriously though, we all know sometimes in Prog if your first impression of an artist is not so good, there isn't always time or money to keep trying their albums, sometimes you have to just move on - -
let's see, I've only owned one album each of;
Focus  Hamburger Concerto  (mmoookay)
Can  Tago Mago  (I just don't know)
Magma  Udu Wudu  (yeah, not sure what happened there)
Dream Theater  Awake (never got another, but I'd like to)
Porcupine Tree  Deadwing  (don't ask)
Kayo Dot  Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue (wow, gives the word "interesting" a whole new meaning)




Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 04:00
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:


Can  Tago Mago  (I just don't know)
Magma  Udu Wudu  (yeah, not sure what happened there)
Porcupine Tree
  Deadwing  (don't ask)
Kayo Dot  Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue (wow, gives the word "interesting" a whole new meaning)



LOL


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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 04:01
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

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The guy down the street is driving me to madness with his Santa, lights & Reindeer front yard display. I think it is time to get my bazooka out. No, I think I am gping to take my thermal nuclear device out. But first I will have a few cases of whiskey.


hey at least you don't have one of these idiots and there tacky, noisy displays right next door to you




Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 04:07
Have no Genesis, ELP, VdGG and Jethro Tull.  

Edited by irrelevant - Today at 03:51
 
 
^^^
Buy Genesis - Foxtrot, VDGG - Pawn Hearts, ELP - Brain Salad Surgery, Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick -
 
They are masterpieces! Trust me here.


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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 04:11
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

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The guy down the street is driving me to madness with his Santa, lights & Reindeer front yard display. I think it is time to get my bazooka out. No, I think I am gping to take my thermal nuclear device out. But first I will have a few cases of whiskey.


hey at least you don't have one of these idiots and there tacky, noisy displays right next door to you


What is the noise?
 
Dashing thru the snow One horse open sleigh...
 
 
or
 
 
We wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
 
 
I think I would prefer White Christmas
 
Why can't they make those things with a Jethro Tull Christmas song? - at least its proggish...
 
 
 


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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 04:38
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Do you ever feel left out when the entire PA board is discussing an album you've never heard? I know I do! I even went so far as to buy Selling England By The Pound even though I don't like Genesis, just so I'd fit in better here. Sad, I know. Here are some of the well known and well regarded albums everyone talks about that I still don't own.

Yes - Fragile, The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
VdGG - Still Life, Godbluff.
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Anything RPI.

Feel free to share the most embarrassing gaps in your collection!

I've got no VdGG and I don't care enough to be embarrassed.  My collection is chock full of plenty of good stuff and you really can't have everything anyway.


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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 04:49
I've got no Crimson, but hey, from what i've heard they are ridiculously overrated, so I've never bought any of their albums...

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Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 05:21
I have only one Porcupine Tree album which i have only listened to once so this is a large gap in my collection that everyone is always talking about

My biggest gap though is Neal Morse and Spocks Beard. I have never heard any of spocks beard or niel morse songs or albums and it gets talked about all the time on the forum.  



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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 05:24
Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

I have only one Porcupine Tree album which i have only listened to once so this is a large gap in my collection that everyone is always talking about

My biggest gap though is Neal Morse and Spocks Beard. I have never heard any of spocks beard or niel morse songs or albums and it gets talked about all the time on the forum.  

I bought Neal Morses testimony DVD last month and it is incredible.
 
The Spock's Beard albums are terrific especially Live, V, Snow and Octane.. oh and The Light!!!!


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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 05:58

No gaps that I know about but sure lots of gaps of which I'm not yet aware.


Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 06:15
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

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The guy down the street is driving me to madness with his Santa, lights & Reindeer front yard display. I think it is time to get my bazooka out. No, I think I am gping to take my thermal nuclear device out. But first I will have a few cases of whiskey.


hey at least you don't have one of these idiots and there tacky, noisy displays right next door to you


He is close enough beleive me. I think this subnormal wasted piece of human refuse just does this on purpose just because he knows it irratates the f**k out of me. Bt on Christmas Day he is in for a great great big f**king suprise. I will be blasting Guru Guru UFO. Stone In. Der LSD Marsch. Then maybe Electric Junk or Dagobert Ducks 100th Bothday. That ought to lighten him up. No Celine Dion Christmas songs for him. No Anne Murray Christmas. I will make it a hell Christmas.

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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 06:41
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Have no Genesis, ELP, VdGG and Jethro Tull.  
Shocked

I have many songs from VdGG from various sources but I do not own a full album. ShockedShocked
(I promise I'll change that, soon. Wink)





Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 06:59
^^^^PartyHug

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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 07:48
I do not have various albums that get discussed, but I'm not embarrassed by that. In most cases I just happen to not enjoy those bands so don't own any of their music. An example is VDGG. I have listened to much of their music, but don't really care for it so none is in my collection. It doesn't embarrass me though.


Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:04
pre-DSOTM Pink Floyd - never heard a complete album
Zappa - never heard a complete album

I think that's all.

Naturally, there is a lot of RIO/avant, tech/extreme metal and post/experimental metal I haven't heard, but I just don't care much for those sub-genres. Don't care much for regular prog metal either, but I've heard quite a lot from it in a previous much more metal-minded life.



Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:08
I posted a long list and got this:

Access Denied


Error Error
Only members with sufficient permission can access this page.

A security error has occurred with authentication.

Please ensure that all cookies are enabled on your web browser, you are not using a saved or cached copy of the page, and your Firewall/Proxy settings are not hiding or masking your IP address.


Angry



So forget it.  None of you were going to buy me one my gaps for Christmas anyway!  Tongue





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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:09
Rob-rage! LOL


Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:12
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I posted a long list and got this:

Access Denied


Error Error
Only members with sufficient permission can access this page.

A security error has occurred with authentication.

Please ensure that all cookies are enabled on your web browser, you are not using a saved or cached copy of the page, and your Firewall/Proxy settings are not hiding or masking your IP address.


Angry



So forget it.  None of you were going to buy me one my gaps for Christmas anyway!  Tongue




I hate it when that happens. If you make a long post try to get in the habit of highlighting it and copying it before pressing send. Then if all goes wrong simply paste back.


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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:13
Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:

Rob-rage! LOL


I will kick your ass.  Stern Smile


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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:14
I didn't say a thing. Don't mind me.

Embarrassed


Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:17
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I posted a long list and got this:

Access Denied


Error Error
Only members with sufficient permission can access this page.

A security error has occurred with authentication.

Please ensure that all cookies are enabled on your web browser, you are not using a saved or cached copy of the page, and your Firewall/Proxy settings are not hiding or masking your IP address.


Angry



So forget it.  None of you were going to buy me one my gaps for Christmas anyway!  Tongue




I hate it when that happens. If you make a long post try to get in the habit of highlighting it and copying it before pressing send. Then if all goes wrong simply paste back.


Yeah, I usually do that in one of the "serious" thread in General Discussions when I have to show someone the error of his ways.

Ah well.  Ninety seconds of precious life gone.  I probably would've wasted it elsewhere anyway. 


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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:17
Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:

I didn't say a thing. Don't mind me.

Embarrassed


Handshake

(Don't believe I've used that one yet)


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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 08:49
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I posted a long list and got this:

Access Denied


Error Error
Only members with sufficient permission can access this page.

A security error has occurred with authentication.

Please ensure that all cookies are enabled on your web browser, you are not using a saved or cached copy of the page, and your Firewall/Proxy settings are not hiding or masking your IP address.


Angry



So forget it.  None of you were going to buy me one my gaps for Christmas anyway!  Tongue




I hate it when that happens. If you make a long post try to get in the habit of highlighting it and copying it before pressing send. Then if all goes wrong simply paste back.


Yeah, I usually do that in one of the "serious" thread in General Discussions when I have to show someone the error of his ways.

Ah well.  Ninety seconds of precious life gone.  I probably would've wasted it elsewhere anyway. 

I have got the same message at more or less the same time on the same thread. It seems a temporary error, or somebody at the white house reading words like VdGG, ITCOCK, DSOTM os some Kobaian has thought to have found a wiki-something site Big smile


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Posted By: Theriver
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 09:42
I have no ELP, no Flower Kings, no Gentle Giants, no Eloy.............Yet


Posted By: ergaster
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 09:51
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Do you ever feel left out when the entire PA board is discussing an album you've never heard? I know I do! I even went so far as to buy Selling England By The Pound even though I don't like Genesis, just so I'd fit in better here. Sad, I know. Here are some of the well known and well regarded albums everyone talks about that I still don't own.

Yes - Fragile, The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
VdGG - Still Life, Godbluff.
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Free Hand
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Anything RPI.

Feel free to share the most embarrassing gaps in your collection!


At this point, any gaps I have are deliberate, and therefore no embarassment. 

If I did want to keep up with all the discussions, I'd go broke.


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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 09:57
I have bought We Can't Dance in 1992 if I remember well, and I still have to finish the first listen...

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Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 10:11
I'm missing almost all of the top rated albums in PA, they're horribly expensive in Finland. Cry

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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 10:46
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Have no Genesis, ELP, VdGG and Jethro Tull.  

Edited by irrelevant - Today at 03:51
 
 
^^^
Buy Genesis - Foxtrot, VDGG - Pawn Hearts, ELP - Brain Salad Surgery, Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick -
 
They are masterpieces! Trust me here.

Oh I have heard Foxtrot, I just don't own it. Big smile


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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 11:13
Of some of the often mentioned bands on PA, I do not own any of the following artist's album:
VdGG
Gentle Giant (though I have a DVD of theirs)
Camel
Caravan
Flower Kings
Spock's Beard

I only own 3 Tull albums (Benefit, Songs From The Wood, Too Old To Rock And Roll..)

There are definitely others.


Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 11:34
I'm not missing anything I'm embarrassed about missing. 

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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 12:43
About the only huge gap I can think of is the total absence of any Gentle Giant.

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Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 12:52
Originally posted by JS19 JS19 wrote:

I've got no Crimson, but hey, from what i've heard they are ridiculously overrated, so I've never bought any of their albums...
 
OMG
 
You NEED to hear them, even if they are overrated, just as a benchmark for other prog bands.
 
Get their debut... if you hate it, get their 3rd, if you hate that, get their 5th, 7th and so on. LOL
 
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Posted By: Mastosis
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 19:14
Albums I need:

Yes- Close to the Edge
Van der Graaf Generator- (any)
Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet & In Absentia
Gentle Giant- (any)
King Crimson- Discipline
Ayreon- (any)
Mastodon- Lifesblood EP
Dream Theater- Falling Into Infinity & A Change of Seasons
Supertramp- Breakfast in America & Crime of the Century

That's about it for now. Although, for every one CD I buy, I can usually think of 2 or 3 more that I want. Geek


Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 19:18
I have very impressive gaps in my Frank Zappa collection (4 out of his 88 or whatever!)

I don't have Islands, Lizard, or Discipline by KC
Missing some VdGG
All of Yes and Camel Embarrassed

Oh, Tull is another one I am severely lacking


Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 19:36
Having nearly 500 albums, I still lack aproximately 70-80% of everything i wish to have, so I just have one HUGE gaps all over the place.

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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 20:52
I have no Red or Starless in my KC collection.

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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 21:08
I can't think of too many things that I'm missing from a prog collection, that I want of course, that are the big ticket gottahaves. I suppose things in the RPI realm is where I have much less than I should...quite expensive, and my lack of understanding Italian helps with that.
 
Where I do have large gaps is my jazz collection. I have little if anything from the really big names and certainly don't have alot of the important milestone jazz albums that most people who like jazz need to have. 


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Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 22:27
Anything by Camel
Anything by Caravan
Anything by Rush(although I sort of hate Rush for the most part)
In Absentia
Thick as a Brick(although I don't like Jethro Tull)
Pawn Hearts
Nursery Cryme
In a Glass House
Octopus
Meddle
Misplaced Childhood
Hot Rats
Queen II
Bitches Brew
Discipline
U.K.

I've got some work to do, I know!


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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 22:29
MWH brought up a good one.

My Jazz, as well as Classical, collection is terribly lacking Unhappy


Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: December 12 2010 at 23:37
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

I have very impressive gaps in my Frank Zappa collection (4 out of his 88 or whatever!)

I don't have Islands, Lizard, or Discipline by KC
Missing some VdGG
All of Yes and Camel Embarrassed

Oh, Tull is another one I am severely lacking


Lizard is my second favorite Crimson album (after the debut) and I just got the remaster of Islands, which is well on its way to becoming my third favorite. I highly recommend both of them. I don't like Discipline, though.


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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 00:15
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

I have very impressive gaps in my Frank Zappa collection (4 out of his 88 or whatever!)

I don't have Islands, Lizard, or Discipline by KC
Missing some VdGG
All of Yes and Camel Embarrassed

Oh, Tull is another one I am severely lacking


Lizard is my second favorite Crimson album (after the debut) and I just got the remaster of Islands, which is well on its way to becoming my third favorite. I highly recommend both of them. I don't like Discipline, though.


Oh I've heard good things from people I trust, I just have yet to listen to them Cry


Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 06:51
If I write down the list of gaps in my discography, you will have to scroll down the post. However, I'm really sad I don't have any Gryphon.

I never heard any album of original neo-prog movement - Marillion, Pallas, IQ, stuff like that.




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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 10:51

Hmmm let's see:

-I don't have ANY Camel albums (I'd love to check them out)
-NO Porcupine Tree whatsoever
-1 Frank Zappa album (Hot Rats)
-Seriously lacking some RPI (I only have 3 PFM albums)
 
That's it for now...


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Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 12:22
Originally posted by Lark the Starless Lark the Starless wrote:

Hmmm let's see:

-I don't have ANY Camel albums (I'd love to check them out)
-NO Porcupine Tree whatsoever
-1 Frank Zappa album (Hot Rats)
-Seriously lacking some RPI (I only have 3 PFM albums)
 
That's it for now...

 Zappa is never an embarrassing gap you would have to be a true devotee and nutcase to own every one of his hundred+ albums!!!


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Posted By: sgt wilko
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 17:28
Originally posted by JS19 JS19 wrote:

I've got no Crimson, but hey, from what i've heard they are ridiculously overrated, so I've never bought any of their albums...
 
Me neither, and for the same reason
 
Also dont have any Dream Theatre, VDGG, Gong, Zappa, no Flower Kings, Transatlantic
 
I am missing Tull's Passion Play and havent replaced Thick as a Brick which I leant out a few years ago and never got back. Would be nice for Santa to bring those along with him.....


Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 18:00
I did a search for "gap" and there are no gaps in my collection so I have nothing to be ashamed of.  The closest I came was Gapu by Yothu Yindi and I'm not embarrassed by that either.


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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 18:07
I don't have any Yes and very little Genesis in my personal collection, which isn't something I'm particularly ashamed of.  What I am ashamed of is that I've explored very little of second-phase VdGG (still haven't heard Still Life), and that I have a distinct lack of appreciation for any King Crimson album after Islands.  I've listened to Red a few times, but it just slides off my back...save for Starless, which will cause anyone even slightly into prog to experience multiple musical orgasms in quick succession.  Starless and Bible Black, Larks Tongues in Aspic...I've heard, but don't possess.

I've also never investigated Zappa.  I'm sort of terrified of choosing a starting point.


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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 23:39
Originally posted by Lozlan Lozlan wrote:

 
I've also never investigated Zappa.  I'm sort of terrified of choosing a starting point.

Start with One Size Fits AllThumbs Up


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Posted By: parapet
Date Posted: December 14 2010 at 07:10
Dun

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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: December 14 2010 at 13:56
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


I actually do not own in my collection any:

The Pineapple Thief

Phideaux

Decemberists


You don't need any of that at all. That vile smut should stay out of anyone and everyone's collection.
Hmmm you have me interested now
 
If its that bad i will probably hear these soonLOL
 
You didnt mention the Cardiacs so that must be OK. I heard they are great in the CR prog magazine


I gotta stand up for Phideaux here. One of my favorite bands. Doomsday, Chupacabras, and number 7 are all great albums.


Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 10:44
I don't have any Zeuhl whatsoever.
 
I'd like to try out Magma.
 
I'd also like to try The Cardiacs. They seem interesting.
 
Not really embarrassing but when others discuss them here, I feel left out LOL
 
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Posted By: ferush
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 15:35
I don't like too much Pink Floyd and for every Floyd albums I heard I keep only:
 
Atom Heart Mother
Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
The Wall
The Division Bell
 


Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 16:58

i have all of yes albums with wakeman on it but i dont have any of his solo albums  [ only have journey to the center of the earth  on dvd ]



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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 17:06
When I joined PA a few years ago I had never heard of Magma or Zeuhl, never considered Kansas or Rush "progressive," and new nothing of the amazing Eastern and Northern European prog renaissance! (I had been into classical, jazz, and New Age stuff in the 90s.)

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Posted By: esky
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 17:11
I'm an oldster who doesn't even recognize some of the names of bands that fellow loungers bandy about. The collection is really limited to the Seventies and early Eighties, I'm afraid. In other words, it's one big gap getting larger all the time (damn!).


Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 18:01
I have few artists from the Neo Prog sub genre. I've listened to a good amount of it but only kept what I liked on my iPod... 3 albums total; Arena, IQ, Marillion. I suppose I could use some Pendragon but I'm not too worried about it.

Other than that no embarrassment, only keep discovering awesome music thanks to this site.

However, I am disturbed by some of the lists others are posting here. So many essential albums/artists people do not have, and their content to not acquire them sickens me. I think we need to assign some people homework...


Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 22:17
I don't own ANY King Crimson beyond ITCOTCK.  I've heard enough of it to know that I don't tremendously enjoy it... yet.  I'll probably come around eventually.
 
Also, I consider myself a HUGE Dream Theater fan, but I've never even listened to SFAM.
 


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Posted By: esky
Date Posted: December 16 2010 at 16:27
Originally posted by Mr. Maestro Mr. Maestro wrote:

I don't own ANY King Crimson beyond ITCOTCK.  I've heard enough of it to know that I don't tremendously enjoy it... yet.  I'll probably come around eventually.
 
Also, I consider myself a HUGE Dream Theater fan, but I've never even listened to SFAM.
 
 
Well, then! Do come along! It's a little ol' album titled Red.


Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: January 04 2011 at 05:55

I've got nothing from Luxembourg



Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: January 04 2011 at 07:39
The Rolling Stones
The Police
Bob Marley & The Wailers
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: January 04 2011 at 07:49
While Rush is one of my favorite bands, i've still not heard Test for Echo & Vapor Trails.

Same with the Yes & Time and a Word.

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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: January 05 2011 at 06:08
I haven't yet found vinyl prints of

King Crimson - Red (yes I know..)
Focus - Moving Waves (can't find one in good quality)
Magma - Wurdah Itah (own all other albums on vinyl though)
Pink Floyd - Wish You were here (ain't to interested in polished sympho)


Posted By: Ozexpat
Date Posted: January 06 2011 at 15:00
Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:

I've got nothing from Luxembourg

 
....and I have nothing from Italy.


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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: January 06 2011 at 19:56
Let's see. Most important gaps in terms of popularity among Proggers would be:
 
Gentle Giant- Acquiring The Taste, Three Friends
Rush- Hemispheres
Anglagard- Hybris
Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells
No Magma at all
 
Except for the Oldfield album, I've never seen the others at reasonable prices. And some of them (Magma or Anglagard), I've never seen them at all here in Argentina.


Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: January 07 2011 at 04:42
I'm not embarassed by any omission from my collection, but I don't have any...

Frank Zappa
Soft Machine
Gong
The Egg
Renaissance
BJH
...And a few others mostly Prog Metal which I'm not a real fan ofWacko


I know what you're thinking! I SHOULD be embarrassedSleepy


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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 22:01
A few albums from each of the following: Banco, PFM, Museo Rosenbach, Neal Morse, Transatlantic, Porcupine Tree, Kayo Dot, maudlin of the Well, etc. People here discuss a lot of obscure stuff as well, so I feel left out anyway and go back to listening to ma' British folk and American/Brit/Canadian singer/songwriter s%^t.


Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 23:21
Top 10 most embarrassing gaps in my collection:
1. Pretty Much Everything
2. Pretty Much Everything
3. Pretty Much Everything
4. Pretty Much Everything
5. Pretty Much Everything
6. Pretty Much Everything
7. Pretty Much Everything
8. Pretty Much Everything
9. Pretty Much Everything
10. Pretty Much Everything
HONORABLE MENTION: Pretty Much Everything


Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 23:55
Genesis: Foxtrot, The Lamb
King Crimson: ItCotCK (Heard it many times though)
All RPI (soon to change)
ELP: Love Beach (Just kidding... I have that one--don't worry.)
Pink Floyd: Echoes, Animals
And plenty of other stuff


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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 00:03
I have never in my life heard a single album by Gentle Giant, Camel, Pain of Salvation, Frank Zappa, or anything under the Canterbury subdivision.


Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 00:06
Sadly I do not own Indigo Pool's nineteen album Splinter Saga Vol. 5

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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 00:17
Originally posted by N-sz N-sz wrote:

ELP: Love Beach (Just kidding... I have that one--don't worry.)
Heh! ... As luck would have it, I've never heard that one.
Originally posted by Neo-Romantic Neo-Romantic wrote:

I have never in my life heard a single album by Gentle Giant, Camel, Pain of Salvation, Frank Zappa, or anything under the Canterbury subdivision.
But you are going to rectify this, right, my man?


Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 21:11

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by N-sz N-sz wrote:

ELP: Love Beach (Just kidding... I have that one--don't worry.)
Heh! ... As luck would have it, I've never heard that one.
Originally posted by Neo-Romantic Neo-Romantic wrote:

I have never in my life heard a single album by Gentle Giant, Camel, Pain of Salvation, Frank Zappa, or anything under the Canterbury subdivision.
But you are going to rectify this, right, my man?

Ha of course! If anything, it's always reassuring there's still such wonderful music out there waiting for me to hear. How terrible it would be if I didn't have any more room for growth!



Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 21:18
Seconds Out

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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 21:26
Don't think I'm embarrassed by any gaps in my collection but I don't have

Any Yes after GFTO
Any Genesis after Lamb
Any Tull after Heavy Horses
Any ELP other than Tarkus & BSS
Any Rush other than Exit Stage Left, 2112 & Moving Pictures
Any Porcupine Tree before In Absentia
Any Dream Theater
Any Opeth
Any Mars Volta
Any Marillion
Any BBT
Any IQ


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Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 23:15
I don't own a single Rush album but I'm not embarrassed about that at all Ermm




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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 23:34
Most holes are intended (no Genesis after "Abacab", no Gentle Giant after "Missing Piece", no Yes before "Fragile", no VDGG after "Vital", no ELP after "Love Beach") but the only hole that I think is embarrassing is I'm a huge fan of French prog and I've never heard Magma Wacko

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Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 23:58
Dark Side of the Moon, though I’ll probably eventually get one of the new expanded remasters, probably the one with the 2nd live disc.

I do, however, have the tribute albums put out by Magna Carta and Purple Pyramid.


Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 22 2013 at 06:18
I have many gaps in my collection.
Last years I had little money to spend on cd's, plus Spotify came in.
Examples of gaps: I have nothing from Rush (it took a long time before liking them, and even now I only like them just a bit)
I only bought a few Floyd and ELP albums in my life.
Most records I have was from my bachelor days, when I still bought what I liked: so Genesis and Yes, my first prog favorites; I bought a lot of albums from them.



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