Yes - Close to the Edge
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Zappa - One Size Fits All/Sleep Dirt
Univers Zero - UZED
Hatfield and The North - s/t
Soft Machine - Fourth
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Camel - Mirage
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
Magma - Kobaia
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
OK my top 12, but impossible to prioritize these any further than "they are in the group". Yes, there are more than 12, because there are. No, I expluded bands that tap more into the jazz realm, but are still prog, like Weather Report and McLaughlin and such, though I did include Return to Forever, because it's my list. Of course, TMMV, and it will, but these albus were all influential to me. Maybe not your best, but I played then to death, more than others by the same group, and that's what counts. And of course there are bands that aren't my cup of tea that will definitely be on your list, like Rush and such, and others that are amazing but don't quite step into my "best" list. So be it.
Yes - Close to the Edge
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall (yes, live albums count in my list)
Tull - Thick as a Brick
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (another live one)
King Crimson - Red
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Nektar - Remember the Future
IQ - The Road of Bones
Alan Parsons - Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allen Poe
Big Big Train - English Electric pt1
Brand X - Moroccan Roll
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Crack The Sky - Live
Echolyn - As The World
Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Happy The Man - Live
Kansas - Song for America
Kevin Gilbert - Thud
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
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Nice list - although I don't think there are many people who would chose Kobaia to represent Magma in it.Originally Posted by nosebone
Can't Magma be represented by the Könzert Zünd box?
It's my favorite.
It really is just a terrific weird French jazz-rock album.
I have to be in the right head for the full klingon opera chanting albums.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
I said the above in post #14, I might as well 'put my money where my mouth is', so to speak.
My top twelve, no particular order:
Yes - Close to the Edge
Genesis - The Lamb
PFM - Per un Amico
Thinking Plague - In Extremis
Magma - K.A.
Banco - Io Sono Nato Libero
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Deus ex Machina - Equilibrismo da Insofferenza
Eskaton - 4 Visions
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Anglagard - Hybris
Area - Crac!
Although, the following 11 albums could also make my list: Univers Zero - Clivages, VDGG - Pawn Hearts, After Crying - Megalázottak És Megszomorítottak, Henry Cow - Western Culture, Il Balletto di Bronzo - YS, Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane, Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra, IQ - Subteranea, Renaissance - Ashes Burning, ELP - Tarkus
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1.YES Close to the Edge
2.YES Relayer
3.GENESIS Selling England
4.JETHRO TULL Thick as a Brick
5. RUSH Moving Pictures
6. RENAISSANCE Scheherezade
7.GENTLE GIANT Free Hand
8.IQ Ever
9.MARILLION Misplaced
10.CAMEL Snow Goose/Moonmadness (tie)
11.ELP Trilogy
12. KC Thrak
13. Genesis Foxtrot
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The life I love, the dream I weave."
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It is an enjoyable exercise to put one of these lists together every 2-3 years for PE. I wonder how different this is from the last time I did this? Note these are just personal favorites; I understand there are many albums that are more influential and impactful. Also I tried to be broad in the definition of "prog" including jazz rock/fusion/blues rock. But there is a progressive slant to all of them. I excluded pure jazz artists who I love and who would have albums on a universal top 12 list for me (e.g., Coltrane), same with classical (Bach, Shostakovich), or pop-rock (Beatles).
1. MILES DAVIS: Bitches Brew
2. YES: Tales from Topographic Oceans
3. MAGMA: K.A.
4. CARAVAN: Land of Grey and Pink
5. SOFT MACHINE: Third
6. CAN: Tago Mago
7. NEU!: Neu '75.
8. CHICK COREA: Return to Forever
9. COLOSSEUM: Live
10. VDGG: Godbluff
11. MAHAVISHNU: Apocalypse
12. MILTON NASCIMENTO: Milagre dos Peixes
Totally valid - just a surprise.
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