Top 10 favorite prog albums without drums

[No Pride]

I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make.

Just that drummers who only keep time bore the shit out of me.

Or to elaborate a little further: If I was a drummer and you were a bandleader, it wouldn't work out; I'd probably quit after the first rehearsal.

[WytchCrypt]

And quite honestly, I would think electronic drums would count as well, but that leads me back to the question -- why? I love drums. It's certainly interesting, I'm just curious what the motivation was behind the thread, that would help solve the "do they or don't they" count question.

Well, the motivation came to me a couple nights ago when I was listening to the Fuhrs & Frohling album Ammerland (which is just guitar and keyboards). I was comparing it to the Shicke, Fuhrs & Frohling albums (which added drummer Eduard Shicke to make a trio). It got me thinking about how different Ammerland is from the SFF albums, the difference being a lack of a drummer. Then I thought back to Bruford who got a writing credit on Crimso's song Trio for not playing and showing "admirable restraint". I thought it would be fun to see what people came up with for drummerless-prog

[Progbear]

Well, the motivation came to me a couple nights ago when I was listening to the Fuhrs & Frohling album Ammerland (which is just guitar and keyboards). I was comparing it to the Shicke, Fuhrs & Frohling albums (which added drummer Eduard Shicke to make a trio). It got me thinking about how different Ammerland is from the SFF albums, the difference being a lack of a drummer.

To be fair, a lot of the Ammerland album sounds like pieces that Fröhling intended to be solo guitar pieces. Some of these sound like Führs’ keys were tacked on as an afterthought, and the use of synths and Mellotron comes across as intrusive on them (I’m thinking of some of the songs in the middle of Side 1 in particular here, like “Gentle Breeze” and “Sarabande”). They blend the best on “Every Land Tells a Story,” rather obviously, considering it’s a co-write.