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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Not to mention

    Tommy & Quadrophenia
    Electric Ladyland
    The Wall
    Chicago Transit Authority & II & 3 & VII
    Wheels Of Fire


    Yup, Tales is amongst the weaker ones
    Wheels of Fire is a great double album but sadly doesn't fit this bill as only side 1 and 2 are in the studio. It may be my all time favorite double album.

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    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!

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Not to mention

    Chicago 3
    If you actually believe that Chicago 3 is better than Tales, I would just give up on listening to music.

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    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by yoyiceu View Post
    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...
    Hmmm...Year One did a double album, but it was mid-70s, and their single album came earlier, and with a different name, (Fantasy,) due to having a different vocalist that wasn't on the later 2LP set. Probably not them.

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    I'll be original and recommend, the Lamb.

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    Finally remembered: Gypsy. Their first (double) album came out in 1970, and they apparently recorded three more.

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    Lamb

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    Quote Originally Posted by yoyiceu View Post
    Finally remembered: Gypsy. Their first (double) album came out in 1970, and they apparently recorded three more.
    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.
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    I think I prefer "Tanz' as well man....and actually 'Phallus Dei' too.

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    AD2 - Yeti
    CAN - Tago Mago
    SM - Third
    MO - Incantations
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    Physical Grafitti - eclectic and progressive.

    But, I'd go with LLDOB over Tales.

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    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

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    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.

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    Spock's Beard - SNOW. Just a classic from start to finish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffCarney View Post
    If you actually believe that Chicago 3 is better than Tales, I would just give up on listening to music.
    How is 3 any wrse than II or CTA?? they're almost carbon copies?

    Quote Originally Posted by Adinfinitum View Post
    Physical Grafitti - eclectic and progressive.
    Why not Goodbye Yellow Brick Road while you're at it??

    Quote Originally Posted by zutul View Post
    Magma - First album
    ooooh, good one!! How could I have forgotten this ?? It's probably my fave Magma nowadays
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    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/


    Quote Originally Posted by yoyiceu View Post
    Finally remembered: Gypsy. Their first (double) album came out in 1970, and they apparently recorded three more.
    I guess I got some investigations to do, thanks

    How "rare" is their vearly albums to find?
    Last edited by Trane; 04-17-2016 at 05:54 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by arabicadabra View Post
    Spock's Beard - SNOW. Just a classic from start to finish.
    I prefer Snow over let's say The Lamb for the fact it has less padding!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    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.

    I far prefer ADII's "Tanz Der Lemminge" over the more popular "Yeti."

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