I guess there could be a separate thread title: What 5 prog albums do you think you've listened to the most? But I decided to open it to everything first.
I know, it's a hard decision with just five...
Crosby, Still, and Nash--s/t
Joni Mitchell--hard to pick just one, Court & Spark
Genesis--Live
Bob Dylan--again, hard choices, John Wesley Harding or Nashville Skyline
The Band--Big Pink
No idea. Wild ass guesses... Seconds Out, Get Yer Ya Yas Out, Hot Rocks, UK, Cosmic Messenger. Probably inaccurate.
Perhaps the Beatle's Blue and Red compilations ought to be in there.
This is a head scratcher.
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Mason Profitt - Come and Gone
Love - Forever Changes
Strawbs - Bursting at the Seams
Doug "Sir Douglas" Sahm - Get a Life
Lou
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On my list as well!Originally Posted by Lopez
Plus:
Cornelis Vreeswijk: Ballader och grimascher
John McCabe: Piano Music by Erik Satie
Lars Klevstrand: Til Dere
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I think the best I can do is to rattle off the first albums that come to mind. I only know that I’ve heard these lots of times, not necessarily the most...
All Things Must Pass (Well, the first 4 sides)
Bookends
Uncle Meat (minus side 4)
Black Market
Absolutely Free
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Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Frank Black - S/T
Faust Tapes - Faust
The Greatest Living Englishman - Martin Newell
Godbluff - VDGG
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Just guessing:
Yes: Fragile
PMG: The First Circle
Zappa: Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar
The Dregs: Unsung Heroes
Mike Keneally: Sluggo
Richard Pinhas ‘Chronolyse’
Terry Riley ‘Persian Surgery Dervishes’
Phillip Glass ‘Music with Changing Parts’
Steve Reich ‘Music For 18 Musicians’
Soft Machine ‘Volume II’
All of these because they are good ‘work music / working music’ for me.
Steve F.
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"the masses have spoken, and this has appropriately vanished into the great Prog boner pile in the sky."
“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's...
King Crimson - Discipline
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Next on the list would probably be Rush - Signals, and DSOTM would follow soon after, I think.
Just guesses, of course...
Kansas - Leftoverture
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
Marillion's Script, Misplaced and/or Clutching are all likely contenders, too.
Pampered Menial - Pavlov's Dog
Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
Soulfire - The Flames
Pawn Hearts - VDGG
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard - Robert Wyatt
We walked arm in arm with madness, and every little breeze whispered of the secret love we had for our disease (P. Blegvad)
The top two may be reversed but they are definitive the top two. Still listen to all of these albums.
PF - Dark Side of the Moon
PF - Wish You Were Here
Genesis - Three Sides Live (US version). My driving album, especially if I was going on a road trip, or off to play basketball or dek hockey
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Honorable Mention:
Yes - Fragile
Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Genesis - The Longs. Genesis, especially the latter music, is better live.
Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling
Kitaro - Live in America
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony - Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic (deutsche grammophon)
Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
The Muppet Show
https://www.discogs.com/release/3762...he-Muppet-Show
Carpenters - Greatest Hits
Asia - Asia
while maybe not top 5 - all top 10 - first that came to mind...
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I'd say Beethoven's symphonies but they have been on various recordings.
As for the rest. Genesis - Nursery Cryme. Foxtrot. The Lamb. Selling England. After that one of the other Genesis 70s albums
Genesis - Lamb, Selling, Trick and Wind
Yes - Close To The Edge
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
LOL... when I read the subject these 5 LP's literally came to mind as my choices!!
Others that would be close, Relayer, Going for the One, Camel Moonmadness, Dust and Dreams, RTF Romantic Warrior, Sting Nothing Like the Sun, Phil Face Value & Hello I Must Be Going, Supertramp Crime and Crisis...
In No Particular Order, lots of guessing since I still play lots of albums from way back.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Yes - Fragile, CTTE, Relayer
Rush - 2112
Just to see recent history, I checked my squeezebox statistics. They include both my and my wife's selections. She listens to a couple far more than I would listen to an album.
For most frequently played albums with the highest number of tracks played over the last 10 years:
Peter Gabriel II
Flower Kings - Unfold The Future
Pink Floyd - Animals
Änglagård - Epilog
Ephemeral Sun - Harvest Aorta
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
I can't sleep without listening to a very particular kind of super-gentle ambient music, so the real lifetime heavy hitters are less about favorite albums and more just the things I've gotten in the habit of using to shut out the world:
Richard Tyler - Compositions and Soundpictures
Richard Tyler - Fathoms
Steve Roach - Stillpoint
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (mostly just disc 2)
Richard Tyler is/was a fairly obscure ambient musician from... somewhere. There's minimal info about him on the Internet. A friend of mine got one of his CDs from a head shop as a free gift for spending over a certain threshold. He and I have both listened to it while falling asleep more than I can count.
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Hola Hyppypants ... good question!
In my case, I usually go back frequently to any album by Luis Alberto Spinetta, solo or by any of his groups (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, Spinetta y Los Socios del Desierto)
Best.
Tomas.
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Unfortunately, the albums that I listened most to in my life are not Prog LP's, as such, but early Pop and Hard Rock albums which is all I had at the time. Now, I only listen to my favorite Prog albums every few months at the most and then only a couple of tracks from each. I never want to overplay great music or listen to an album in it's entirety. The more I like it, the less I play it. Here's the Top 5 that I played way too much in my previous life:
Any Beatle Album - 1964-1969
Santana - Abraxas
Mystic Moods Of Love - Mystic Moods Orchestra
Four Moments - Sebastian Hardie (okay, I lied, this is the Prog album that I played way too much and no longer own it.)
Roxy Music - Avalon
Tales From Topographic Oceans
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth
Close To the Edge
Foxtrot
Trespass
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Very popular thread with the same title on the Steve Hoffman site.
I can't answer the question, too many candidates...
Tough call, if I still had my itunes working I would be able to give a fair estimation. If I had to guess I would go with things I've been listening to mostly near the beginning of my music exploration:
KC - Discipline
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Zappa - One Size Fits All
Jethro Tull - TAAB
Henry Cow- Legend
Hopefully I will have more time to change my answers.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
Never let good music get in the way of making a profit.
I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
A tricky one - some albums are old favourites but don't get a lot of playing these days, and some though newer discoveries have been spun an awful lot in the last 20 years;
1)Incredible String Band - Wee Tam & The Big Huge
2) Donovan- A Gift From A Flower to A Garden
3) Beatles- Sgt Pepper
4) Nick Drake Bryter Layter (or a compilation of his tracks)
5) Brian Wilson Presents Smile
'I would advise stilts for the quagmires"
1. Magma- Live
2. MC5- first record (Live)
3. John Coltrane- Selflessness
4. John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
5. Mahavishnu Orchestra- Birds of Fire
Love all of these so much!
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
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