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  1. 09-05-2014 #1
    Tim35
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    Favorite prog albums excluding these 8 groups.

    List your 10 favorite prog albums excluding these 8 groups:

    Pink Floyd
    Jethro Tull
    ELP
    Genesis
    Rush
    King Cimson
    Yes
    Moody Blues

    These 8 bands made tons of great albums. We talk about them endlessly. Also, they are always listed in general favorite prog lists and had good chart success.

    I thought it would be fun to hear from people within the Progressive Ears community with a much deeper appreciation and knowledge of this type of music. Any era and sub genre of progressive rock is fair game.
    Most of us are familiar with most of the 8 I listed. This list will be a good way for us to discover some of the less obvious, but great albums.

    The only intention of this thread is to help great albums get recognition without competing with the most popular bands in the genre.
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    Let's see ...

    Transatlantic, SMPT:e
    Echolyn, Mei
    Bozzio Levin Stevens, Black Light Syndrome
    VDGG, Pawn Hearts
    Spock's Beard, V
    Anglagard, Hybris
    IQ, Dark Matter
    Tangerine Dream, Zeit
    Echolyn, As the World
    Astra, The Weirding

    I'd include a few Flower Kings albums, but even their greatest records tend to have a lot of stuff that I skip over.

    I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but those were the first ones I thought of.

    Edited (case in point) because I can't believe I forgot VDGG!
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    Not in any order and excluding solo albums:

    The Mothers of Invention, Uncle Meat

    Van der Graaf Generator, Still Life

    IQ, Ever

    Marillion, Brave

    Spectrum, Milesago

    Echolyn, Mei

    Godley and Creme, Consequences

    Banco, Come in un'ultima cena

    PFM, Per un amico

    Anglagard, Epilog
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    Excluding fusion, and not using any 'doubles':

    Änglagård - Hybris
    Peter Hammill - Over
    PFM - Storia Di Un Minuto
    IQ - Tales From The Lush Attic
    Marillion - Brave
    Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
    Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
    Banco - Seguendo Le Tracce
    Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret
    Opeth - Blackwater Park
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    Camel--A Live Record
    Caravan--In The Land Of Grey and Pink
    Talk Talk--Colour Of Spring
    Porcupine Tree--Sky Moves Sideways
    Jade Warrior--Way Of The Sun
    Peter Gabriel---3(melt)
    Marillion--Afraid Of Sunlight
    Steven Wilson---The Raven....
    Spirit--Spirit
    Eloy--Ocean
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    Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors
    Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
    Magma - MDK
    Hatfield & The North - Rotters Club
    Henry Cow - Western Culture
    Radiohead - Ok Computer
    Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
    Guapo - 5 Suns
    The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis
    CAN - Future Days
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    Let's see, how about:

    Magma: Köhntarkösz
    Magma: Live/Hhaï
    Magma: KA
    Magma: Retrospektïẁ III
    Gong: You
    Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
    IQ: The Wake
    Van Der Graaf Generator: Godbluff
    Nektar: Remember The Future
    Le Orme: Contrappunti

    Or something like that. A couple of those can be changed out, depending on my mood.
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    Lots of Gentle Giant and Camel
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    Name all the albums that are prog so I can make an informed choice.
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    Marillion - Marbles
    Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
    Spock's Beard - V
    Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
    Frost* - Milliontown
    Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
    Neal Morse - ?
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    The entire catalog of Porcupine Tree, IQ, It Bites, and most of Spock's Beard.
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    This could be fun. Okay…

    1. Kansas, Kansas
    2. Kansas, Song for America
    3. Karmakanic, Who's the Boss in the Factory?
    4. Spock's Beard, X
    5. IQ, Frequency
    6. Pendragon, Pure
    7. The Flower Kings, Space Revolver
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    Return To Forever - Anthology (contains all 4 of their Rock quartet albums)
    PFM - Per Un Amico
    Mandrill - Mandrill
    Camel - The Snow Goose
    Herbie Hancock - Sextant
    Bruford - One Of A Kind
    Santana - Caravanserai
    Sensations Fix - Portable Madness
    Stanley Clarke - S/T (aka the brown album)
    Happy The Man - Crafty Hands

    there are at least another 20+ perfect Prog albums that aren't by Crimso, Pink Floyd or the Popular Symph bands you mentioned.
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
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    In no particular order:

    Zappa - One Size Fits All
    Univers Zero - Heatwave
    VDGG - Pawn Hearts
    Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
    Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
    Gong - You
    Soft Machine - Vol. 2
    Can - Future Days
    Il Balletto di Bronzo - YS
    Magma - Kontarkosz
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian View Post
    Bozzio Levin Stevens, Black Light Syndrome
    great album

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    Spectrum, Milesago
    what's that sound like?

    Quote Originally Posted by Progatron View Post
    Änglagård - Hybris
    PFM - Storia Di Un Minuto
    2 more that could make the "perfect" list

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    Jade Warrior--Way Of The Sun
    cool album

    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
    Henry Cow - Western Culture
    Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
    The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis
    great albums all

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    Gong: You
    Le Orme: Contrappunti
    love em!

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    Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
    Honorable Mention - David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk (if that one is even allowed )
    both excellent

    Quote Originally Posted by zravkapt View Post
    Univers Zero - Heatwave
    Il Balletto di Bronzo - YS
    my fav UZ
    and that IBdB is killer
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
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    Renaissance - Live At Carnegie Hall
    Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
    Sean Filkins - War And Peace And Other Short Stories
    Frost - Milliontown
    It Bites - The Tall Ships
    IQ - Dark Matter
    Kansas - Leftoverture
    Kino - Picture
    Neal Morse - Testimony
    Todd Rundgren's Utopia
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    Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
    Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
    Porcupine Tree - Signify
    Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
    Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
    Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
    Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

    Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
    Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning

    err... you want 10? Um....

    Storm Corrosion - self-titled
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    Spock's Beard - Snow
    Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
    Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
    Anathema - Weather Systems
    Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
    Mike Oldfield - Incantations
    Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
    Echolyn - Mei
    Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret
    Karnataka - The Gathering Light
    IQ - Road of Bones
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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Lots of Gentle Giant and Camel
    .... and Caravan, and VdGG, Rush and.... dozens of other 70's bands
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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    Almost all Kate Bush.
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    Today I am in the mood for ascetic (sound) poetry...

    1-2. Talk Talk - "Spirit of Eden"/"Laughing Stock" (1988/1991)

    3. Rain Tree Crow - "Rain Tree Crow" (1991)

    4. Steve Day - "Song of the Fly" (2011)

    5. David Sylvian - "Secrets of the Beehive" (1987)

    6. Tape - "Luminarium" (2008)

    7. Third & the Mortal - "In This Room" (1997)

    8. Porcupine Tree - "Signify" (1996)

    9. Es - "Sateenkaarisuudelma" (2005)

    10. Prince - "N.E.W.S." (2003)
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    Most threads in here are in fact NOT about those eight bands, so why not just read the (vast majority of) other posts popping up?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow View Post
    Name all the albums that are prog so I can make an informed choice.
    Nice one!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Most threads in here are in fact NOT about those eight bands, so why not just read the (vast majority of) other posts popping up?
    Because you might find compiling such a list enjoyable?
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    Happy the Man first two
    PFM first two
    Gentle Giant In a Glass House Three Friends
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    Hatfield and the North first two..
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