Prog Magazine Top 100 - The Full List

[Valen]

Appreciate there's already a thread on this, but thought it would be helpful to put the full list on the top page, for those that don't want to scroll through other posts.

Prog Magazine Top 100

1. Close To The Edge – Yes
2. In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson
3. Selling England By The Pound – Genesis
4. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
5. Thick As A Brick – Jethro Tull
6. Foxtrot – Genesis
7. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
8. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – Genesis
9. The Raven Who Refused To Sing – Steven Wilson
10. Fragile – Yes
11. Brain Salad Surgery – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
12. Red – King Crimson
13. Moving Pictures – Rush
14. Animals – Pink Floyd
15. 2112 – Rush
16. The Wall – Pink Floyd
17. Scenes From A Memory – Dream Theater
18. Fear of a Blank Planet – Porcupine Tree
19. Relayer – Yes
20. Misplaced Childhood – Marillion
21. A Trick of the Tail – Genesis
22. Tales from Topographic Oceans – Yes
23. Hemispheres – Rush
24. Pawn Hearts – Van Der Graaf Generator
25. Images and Words – Dream Theater
26. Going for the One – Yes
27. Deadwing – Porcupine Tree
28. Tarkus – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
29. Brave – Marillion
30. Larks Tongues In Aspic – King Crimson
31. The Snow Goose – Camel
32. The Yes Album – Yes
33. Lateralus – Tool
34. Bridge Across Forever – Transatlantic
35. In the Land of Pink and Grey – Caravan
36. Blackwater Park – Opeth
37. Meddle – Pink Floyd
38. English Electric – Big Big Train
39. The Whirlwind – Transatlantic
40. Script for a Jester’s Tear – Marillion
41. Nursery Cryme – Genesis
42. Trilogy – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
43. Aqualung – Jethro Tull
44. Wind and Wuthering – Genesis
45. Colours – Between The Buried and Me
46. Ghost Reveries – Opeth
47. Clutching at Straws – Marillion
48. The Incident – Porcupine Tree
49. A Passion Play – Jethro Tull
50. Grace for Drowning – Steven Wilson
51. Mirage – Camel
52. Marbles – Marillion
53. A Farewell to Kings – Rush
54. The Mountain – Haken
55. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Rick Wakeman
56. Acquiring the Taste – Gentle Giant
57. Crack the Skye – Mastodon
58. Moonmadness – Camel
59. Weather Systems – Anathema
60. Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield
61. De-loused in the Crematorium – The Mars Volta
62. Aenima – Tool
63. The Parallax II – Between The Buried and Me
64. Operation Mindcrime – Queensryche
65. Octopus – Gentle Giant
66. In Absentia – Porcupine Tree
67. Insurgentes – Steven Wilson
68. Rock Bottom – Robert Wyatt
69. Permanent Waves – Rush
70. Discipline – King Crimson
71. Atom Heart Mother – Pink Floyd
72. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
73. Godbluff – Van Der Graaf Generator
74. Hot Rats – Frank Zappa
75. Free Hand – Gentle Giant
76. Songs from the Wood – Jethro Tull
77. Crime of the Century – Supertramp
78. Still Life – Opeth
79. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
80. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence – Dream Theater
81. Leftoverture – Kansas
82. Subterannea – IQ
83. Still Life – Van Der Graaf Generator
84. Remedy Lane – Pain of Salvation
85. UK – UK
86. Six – Mansun
87. OK Computer – Radiohead
88. Snow – Spock's Beard
89. Awake – Dream Theater
90. Afraid of Sunlight – Marillion
91. Damnation – Opeth
92. The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth – Rick Wakeman
93. Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
94. War of the Worlds – Jeff Wayne
95. To Our Children’s Children’s Children – The Moody Blues
96. Lizard – King Crimson
97. Voyage of the Acolyte – Steve Hackett
98. Tago Mago – Can
99. Moving Waves – Focus
100. Drama - Yes

[arabicadabra]

No Dixie Dregs?

[ProgMusician]

No Dixie Dregs?

Yeah,... what you said! Add to that Renaissance (my vote: A Song for all Seasons). Also, UK's UK should be in the top 5. Blue Shift's "Not the Future I Ordered" and Masque Premiere's "Another Abandoned Dream" also deserve mention.

[Dana5140]

Worse. No Magma. WTF?

Another click-bait list designed to bring out the arguers and increase monetization.

[Valen]

Another click-bait list designed to bring out the arguers and increase monetization.

That's one way of looking at it, but I prefer to see it as an opportunity to broaden my tastes.

I was impressed by newbies like Big Big Train and Haken scoring quite respectably against the big guns, and consequently I've just placed purchase orders for both albums. If other readers are equally inspired and buy into a band's back catalogue I see that as a positive thing for the reader, the band and the wider prog community.

Of course you'll never please everyone, but I was surprised at having over 85% of the albums that were chosen (by readers - not by committee!).

The editorial comments about us all 'liking lists' were nicely tongue in cheek and aware of the potential for heated debate....

[N_Singh]

Worse. No Magma. WTF?

Another click-bait list designed to bring out the arguers and increase monetization.

You know maybe they're just taking a stand AGAINST white supremacist Waffen SS mofos. To that I say, bravo!

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

You know maybe they're just taking a stand AGAINST white supremacist Waffen SS mofos. To that I say, bravo!

uhh... isnt Coltrane one of Vander's idols?

Coltrane was black guy

[zombywoof]

uhh... isnt Coltrane one of Vander's idols?

Coltrane was black guy

He's just trolling.

Let him be.

[N_Singh]

uhh... isnt Coltrane one of Vander's idols?

Coltrane was black guy

Doing a google search for "Christian Vander"---- 2nd entry self populated by google after his actual name is "Christian Vander nazi" .

[NogbadTheBad]

No Magma, no Henry Cow, no Hatfield, no Tangerine Dream, no Fusion, no Avant, first Canterbury at 35, first Krautrock at 98, yikes. Pretty exclusively old "classics" and Heavy to Metal leaning.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

No Magma, no Henry Cow, no Hatfield, no Tangerine Dream, no Fusion, no Avant, first Canterbury at 35, first Krautrock at 98, yikes. Pretty exclusively old "classics" and Heavy to Metal leaning.

QFT!

what a myopic, sickly list that thing is

[Poisoned Youth]

That's one way of looking at it, but I prefer to see it as an opportunity to broaden my tastes.

Reading this forum is a better way to do that. You aren't going to get particularly broad from this list.

No Magma, no Henry Cow, no Hatfield, no Tangerine Dream, no Fusion, no Avant, first Canterbury at 35, first Krautrock at 98, yikes. Pretty exclusively old "classics" and Heavy to Metal leaning.

Not one band that isn't English, US, or Canadian or such except for Opeth...and way down to 98/99 with Can and Focus. Not even one Italian album!

I think it's a great reflection of PROG magazine's readership and tastes despite people in the past who have come here to assure us to the contrary.

[Trane]

Worse. No Magma. WTF?

Another click-bait list designed to bring out the arguers and increase monetization.

No Magma, no Henry Cow, no Hatfield, no Tangerine Dream, no Fusion, no Avant, first Canterbury at 35, first Krautrock at 98, yikes. Pretty exclusively old "classics" and Heavy to Metal leaning.

Waddya expect from them??

8 x Porc Tree/SW, 3 DT, 2 Transatlantic, two Between The Buried and Me (whoTF are they??)...

Limited knowledge means meaningless lists...

know why I even orefer picking up a Classic Rock Mag twice a year rather than pick up one Prog/Rag year

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43 albums from the prog list... don't care to count from the PA list...

[smcfee]

two Between The Buried and Me (whoTF are they??)...

Pretty interesting... uh... progressive metalcore band? At least, Colors is more metal (and there is a DVD showing them replicating it live), while Great Misdirect and Parallax go more to progressive metal (in a current sense informed by extreme metal, not the Dream Theater style). Technically quite proficient but highly unlikely to appeal to people around here. Although if you guys are wondering why there aren't a lot of young people getting into prog, it's partly because those disposed to the technical end of things are listening to stuff like this instead.

[Trane]

43 albums from the Prog list....

I must be around 90 from the Gnosis top 100 (ridded from those polluted anniv editions abd boxsets >> more than 20 votes)

Ditto for the PA 100 list... I must have roughly between 85 and 90 of them.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

No Magma, no Henry Cow, no Hatfield, no Tangerine Dream, no Fusion, no Avant, first Canterbury at 35, first Krautrock at 98, yikes. Pretty exclusively old "classics" and Heavy to Metal leaning.

indeed, a self-serving feast of mayo on wonder bread
nerddom's version of 'the good ol' boys'

[Kcrimso]

No Magma, no Henry Cow, no Hatfield, no Tangerine Dream, no Fusion, no Avant, first Canterbury at 35, first Krautrock at 98, yikes. Pretty exclusively old "classics" and Heavy to Metal leaning.

"...no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears,
candy-floss, toffee apples, no clowns."

[ScottAM]

"...no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears,
candy-floss, toffee apples, no clowns."

Perfect! Thank you for the laugh.

It'd be cool to have a "Classic Prog List"...up until 1980, and then a more "Contemporary Prog List", too. I'd be interested in hearing people's top prog releases from the last 20 or so years, more than bickering about which 60's/70's classics are "better" than another. I'm much more interested in the current state of prog and discovering new relevant bands than categorizing the old guard.

[JKL2000]

"...no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears,
candy-floss, toffee apples, no clowns."

Great, now I'm going to have nightmares...

[Skeptrick]

Doesn't look to be any Italian prog either.

[Dana5140]

he editorial comments about us all 'liking lists' were nicely tongue in cheek and aware of the potential for heated debate....

Ergo, click bait.

[bondegezou]

Ergo, click bait.

Click bait is an odd term for something published in a paper magazine.

Henry

[BobM]

Let's count the ways ...

I have 67. Probably another 20 or so that I've heard and not particularly liked. That leaves @ a dozen that I need to check out.

[Reginod]

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[DTA]

Someone please tell me how Radiohead's OK Computer is prog. Great album? Yes. Prog? NO.