My First XI, including some already mentioned, would probably look something like this:
Dark Side of the Moon
Meddle
Close to the Edge
Fragile
Itcotck
SEBTP
W & W
Tubular Bells
Oxygene
Aqualung
TAAB
My First XI, including some already mentioned, would probably look something like this:
Dark Side of the Moon
Meddle
Close to the Edge
Fragile
Itcotck
SEBTP
W & W
Tubular Bells
Oxygene
Aqualung
TAAB
My Second XI:
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Hot Rats
White Album
Revolver
Abbey Road
Snow Goose
Acquiring The Taste
Procol Harum
Days of Future Passed
In The Land of Grey and Pink
Benefit
While not exactly the benchmark indicator, for what it's worth, there are 229 albums that have been rated by at least 70+ raters on Gnosis. This at least gives a rather probable pool to choose from. From that list, I would note these as top contenders:
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Yes - Close to the Edge/Fragile
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick/Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon/Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - IV
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
The Doors - s/t
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Kansas - Leftoverture
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
Used to own Asia and Enya debuts back at the times. No more, though...
Ian
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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?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Yup, people only claim to listen to stuff like Trout Mask Replica for others to purportedly think they are advanced listeners or "cool" or something. They never actually listen to it though, seeing how terrible the music is and the fact that when you yourself could never listen to it, they can't either.
Gets the world ahead.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
My suggestion would be something like
Dark Side of the Moon
Close to the Edge
Itcotck
SEBTP
Tubular Bells
Oxygene
Crime Of The Century
Brain Salad Surgery
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
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?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
No to all
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Let's just go with what I have (and no doubt more will be listed by the time I post):
DSotM
CttE
Fragile
SEbtP
W&W
White Album
Revolver
Abbey Road
Acquiring the Taste
Brain Salad Surgery
Doors 1st
Queen NatO
Electric Ladyland
I have almost everything listed on page two. All of PeterG`s first two posts and a lot of the other stuff.
Glad my thread has gotten some good mileage, and even a spinoff thread!
I added the last three (Gabriel, Asia, Enya) because I was trying to figure out what non-prog we might all have in common.
Specifically, I added Asia because I thought everyone here would at least have *bought* it not necessarily that they liked it... Maybe I should've asked what albums we all owned at some point?
And I added Enya because in my senior-year college dorm (1987-88), literally everyone who liked music had it on my hall. Even the one guy who mostly liked punk.
Anyway, very surprised everyone doesn't own Dark Side; where did all those 30 million copies go?
First prog albums?
I think something like this:
Kayak
Yessongs
Welcome back my friends...
Seconds out
A tab in the ocean
Regarding Asia: I think you will find there is a whole demographic of progressive music fans who passed on Asia. Those would be people whose formative listening years would have exposed them to Yes, and who would have heard "Heat of the Moment" and immediately dismissed it as Yes-lite.
There is probably another demographic, somewhat younger, who were largely unfamiliar with Yes, and when they heard Asia they thought, "Wow, this is great, this is rock but a bit different!"
A former housemate of mine, a guy quite well versed in progressive rock, had a friend who fitted this description. He was saying he had got the Asia album and what a killer album it was. My housemate kind of rolled his eyes and said "Ummm, yeah. But you need to listen to the real deal." By which he meant albums such as CTTE and GFTO.
Yeah, I had the debut on vinyl, now that I think about it.
The only reason I have DSotM is that my ex-wife bought it for me; she thought it was a crime that I didn't have it. I was never much of a Pink Floyd fan, though I used to have Ummagumma and enjoyed it, mostly because buying it coincided with my discovery of weed.
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