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?

[Dana5140]

Worse. No Magma. WTF?

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

[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.

[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."

[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....

[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.

[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.

[NogbadTheBad]

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

It's all opinion, I have everything by Radiohead from OK Computer onwardd squarely in the prog universe but then my definition is very very broad.

[undergroundrailroad]

"I know Radiohead say they aren't prog but, sorry chaps, you are, and it's brilliant." - Rick Wakeman

[Nearfest2]

No Eloy? No Def Leppard?

[Sunlight Caller]

It's a safe list, but then it's a poll of top 10s from readers of a niche magazine, that rotates the big 5 from issue to issue. I'm not complaining here, it's great to have a magazine that we can read each month, and it has improved in coverage and writing since the early days. Just to say it will always be a lowest common denominator list, there's no way of getting around this.

I had 75 of these, and the other 25 are the Dream Theater / Metal end of the equation, which do zip for me. The only one I want to hear and never yet have is Storm Corrosion.

Radiohead definitely tick my definition of progressive, but OK Computer although brilliant is somewhat a safer release than those that followed (Kid A and Amnesiac for starters). I was surprised even to see Can, but then there's nothing else remotely Krautrock, and as has been pointed out, no Italian, French, Scandinavian etc. The magazine could use it's audience to try and broaden tastes, but I suspect most people are fairly intransigent.

[Rufus]

It's a safe list, but then it's a poll of top 10s from readers of a niche magazine, that rotates the big 5 from issue to issue. I'm not complaining here, it's great to have a magazine that we can read each month, and it has improved in coverage and writing since the early days. Just to say it will always be a lowest common denominator list, there's no way of getting around this.

I had 75 of these, and the other 25 are the Dream Theater / Metal end of the equation, which do zip for me. The only one I want to hear and never yet have is Storm Corrosion.

Radiohead definitely tick my definition of progressive, but OK Computer although brilliant is somewhat a safer release than those that followed (Kid A and Amnesiac for starters). I was surprised even to see Can, but then there's nothing else remotely Krautrock, and as has been pointed out, no Italian, French, Scandinavian etc. The magazine could use it's audience to try and broaden tastes, but I suspect most people are fairly intransigent.

So you have the MANSUN album? I have some songs on the radio which I liked so do you reccomend them. Never associated them as Prog!

[Kcrimso]

I have 98 albums from that list.

[Musitron]

There is no perfect list but this is a good one. To me Marillon and Dream Theatre are there too many times but hey, this is only my opinion. :o)

[Rufus]

I have 98 albums from that list.

Which two are missing?

[dnieper]

Nothing with non-English lyrics.

[Patelena396]

Just to say it will always be a lowest common denominator list, there's no way of getting around this.

How exactly is a list made up of many of the most successful artists in the genre a "lowest common denominator" list? Because it doesn't fit with your specialized tastes? It's a poll and that"s what happens. The most well known and popular win. Generally speaking, more people are familiar with and like these albums than some of the representation that you and others on PE are looking for. If you put together a movie poll, many more people are going to vote for Steven Spielberg than say Francois Truffaut. It doesn't mean Truffaut wasn't talented, it's just that more people are familiar with and like Spielberg's work. I understand when people don't agree with these lists, but I don't get the idea of "how could it be this way??!!" and "where is this album or that band??!!" It is what it is. They took a poll and more people are familiar with these artists than say Can, Henry Cow, Italian prog, etc.

[dnieper]

I basically own all of them except:

54. The Mountain – Haken
59. Weather Systems – Anathema
63. The Parallax II – Between The Buried and Me
86. Six – Mansun

[Sunlight Caller]

So you have the MANSUN album? I have some songs on the radio which I liked so do you reccomend them. Never associated them as Prog!

Yes I do, they are a real favourite of mine, and I was surprised to see them on a Prog magazine list, shocked really! I personally prefer their first album "Attack Of The Grey Lantern", which is possibly a top 10 album of all time for me, it's proggy but in a new wave kind of way, and rocks too. "Six" is a really good album too though, worth your exploration for sure. "Little Kix" their third album isn't quite on a par, but they are unsung and deserve greater attention.

[Sunlight Caller]

How exactly is a list made up of many of the most successful artists in the genre a "lowest common denominator" list? Because it doesn't fit with your specialized tastes? It's a poll and that"s what happens.

That is not what I am saying at all. Many of these are amongst my favourite albums, but in a poll of thousands of respondents, it will only be those that appear frequently that will occupy the top places. I can imagine many many responses that looked almost identikit, and so those with more esoteric tastes would have been swamped in the deluge.

[Sunlight Caller]

I basically own all of them except:
59. Weather Systems – Anathema

You simply must get this one then, it's absolutely wonderful, and if you have the rest of the chart, you'll be sure to appreciate this release.