8 of the Best Prog Rock Albums of All Time

[strawberrybrick]

For me it will always be Fragile because that was the first record I asked for an got.

[miamiscot]

This is how it should look:

1) Tales From Topographic Oceans
2) The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
3) Thick As A Brick
4) Close To The Edge
5) Brain Salad Surgery
6) Wish You Were Here
7) Foxtrot
8) Larks' Tongues In Aspic

[Bucka001]

This is how it should look:

1) Tales From Topographic Oceans
2) The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
3) Thick As A Brick
4) Close To The Edge
5) Brain Salad Surgery
6) Wish You Were Here
7) Foxtrot
8) Larks' Tongues In Aspic

You lost me at Tales :-)

My list would include MDK, Ege Bamyasi, Troutmask (if that's not progressive, what is), and Godbluff. So, as I'm sure certain people would run screaming from the room at my choices, I can't say my list would be any more valid yours (but it would be way different)!

[arthurfrayn]

Gentle Giant's Octopus and Free Hand belong on this list before a lot of this stuff IMO. Both are undeniably progressive in all senses of that word, and both are concise, and excellent representations of the style.
I have a hard time thinking of Wish You Were Here as progressive. Why more so than Dark Side or Animals? I don't think of those as progressive so much either. Atom Heart Mother UmmaGumma, Meddle -those are feeling progressive.

EDIT -replaced all uses of the term -"prog"

[bennymania]

Fucking ASIA???

That would take forever.

[Toothyspook]

And that article correctly uses the word progressive. When all those albums were released, and as I remember it, the shortened term 'prog' was still a good few years away.

[arthurfrayn]

Well I don't want to get into the notion that there is a distinction between the terms "progressive" and "prog", if there are any, so I'll just go back and edit the post.