Normally I prefer Genesis to Yes, but... 'Tales' is special. So much heart in it, and there are Genesis albums I prefer over the Lamb. So... oh I can't decide...
For more modern prog, easy 'English Electric' Full Power. Oh, but then there's 'Stardust We Are'.... Okay I don't appreciate being stressed about difficult choices during a weekend!
Lots of early prog or proto prog bands went for double albums...
Heaven 'Brass Rock 1' (Britain, 1971)
Junipher Green, 'Friendship' Norway 1971
Burnin Red Ivanhoe 'M 144'' (1969)
Odmenn (Iceland) 1970
I'd have to go with Tales myself also.
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A couple more...
Brainbox 'To You'
Focos III
Maybe Zeit and Trout Mask Replice
I'm trying to remember the name of an American band which debuted with a double album perhaps in the late sixties or early seventies, and they played early prog with West Coast style harmonies. They also recorded a later single album...
I'll be original and recommend, the Lamb.
Tales for me!!!
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Finally remembered: Gypsy. Their first (double) album came out in 1970, and they apparently recorded three more.
Lamb
there were five more as Gypsy. they released a new one last year called Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow. there were two as The James Walsh Gypsy Band and a couple of Mid America band compilations which had some songs from The Underbeats (before Gypsy). in 1977, I saw them in St. Louis at a Peaches record store and later the next day at Super Jam 77. they had reformed oddly enough w/o James Walsh and performed just that one show as the opening band. Gypsy still has a large fan base in the St. Louis area.
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Everyone else who mentions this band is going to go for Yeti, but I have to go for this one. Part of it’s nostalgia, it was my second album by them, and part of it’s because I genuinely prefer it to Yeti. Including the version of the cover of my original LP copy, complete with sides 1 and 4 on the first disc and sides 2 and 3 on the other:
My first copy had a ketchup stain on one of the sides, but I forget which now.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
I think I prefer "Tanz' as well man....and actually 'Phallus Dei' too.
AD2 - Yeti
CAN - Tago Mago
SM - Third
MO - Incantations
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Physical Grafitti - eclectic and progressive.
But, I'd go with LLDOB over Tales.
Nice to see so much for Tales. That's mine as well, although I love the Lamb.
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Arco Iris- Sudamerica/Ahitor Lucens
Pao Riba - Diptoria
Magma - First album
Has anyone else mentioned Mike Oldfield's Incantations? To my ears it is melodically similar to Tales from Topo. I'd put that in 2nd place.
How is 3 any wrse than II or CTA?? they're almost carbon copies?
Why not Goodbye Yellow Brick Road while you're at it??
ooooh, good one!! How could I have forgotten this ?? It's probably my fave Magma nowadays
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
in terms of proto-pro (and brass rock): Warm Dust's debut album called And It Came to Pass is pretty wild too
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al..._came_to_pass/
I guess I got some investigations to do, thanks
How "rare" is their vearly albums to find?
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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