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    8 of the Best Prog Rock Albums of All Time

    Are any of these "best prog" lists that crop up from time to time *not* completely original and incisive, bringing a new angle to the topic?!

    ;-)

    This one came out a few weeks ago

    http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainm...tml/?a=viewall

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    Yay: One Size Fits All and Future Days
    Nay: WYWH at #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by zravkapt View Post
    Nay: WYWH at #1
    .....or at 2-8.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucka001 View Post
    Are any of these "best prog" lists that crop up from time to time *not* completely original and incisive, bringing a new angle to the topic?!

    ;-)

    This one came out a few weeks ago

    http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainm...tml/?a=viewall
    I think they are good for anyone who has never heard of prog before or is just starting to discover the genre. I think most of us on here have at least heard OF all these albums.

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    I think the lists are great because they end discussions.

    // Mattias

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucka001 View Post
    Are any of these "best prog" lists that crop up from time to time *not* completely original and incisive, bringing a new angle to the topic?!

    ;-)

    This one came out a few weeks ago

    http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainm...tml/?a=viewall
    Not another 'best prog' list! Has anyone compiled a list of best prog lists?

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    The top 10 on Rate Your Music (with their overall position in the RYM ratings in brackets).

    1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (2)
    2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (4)
    3. In the Court of the Crimson King - KC (6)
    4. Lift Yr Skinny Fists... Godspeed You Black Emperor (25)
    5. Animals - Pink Floyd (31)
    6. Red - King Crimson (39)
    7. Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Ros (45)
    8. F♯A♯∞ - Godspeed You Black Emperor (60)
    9. Tago Mago - Can (65)
    10. Close to the Edge - Yes (70)

    Looking throughout the top 100 - Pink Floyd, King Crimson, GSYBE and Yes are liked very much by the music-rating general public.

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    That list - with Pink Floyd on the top and with Zappa and Can somewhere in the middle - circulating for several months on various pages, methinks.
    Because I remember that I was arguing, due to the same list, with some people about that the Pink Flolyd weren't considered as a Progressive rock band [as in the 70s the PF were almost a synonyme for Psychedelic rock] before the 90s when a new generation of listeners were emerged, and who thought that the music on daddy's Pink Floyd LPs and Yes LPs - was made in the same genre i.e. "prog".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Facelift View Post
    The top 10 on Rate Your Music (with their overall position in the RYM ratings in brackets).

    1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (2)
    2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (4)
    3. In the Court of the Crimson King - KC (6)
    4. Lift Yr Skinny Fists... Godspeed You Black Emperor (25)
    5. Animals - Pink Floyd (31)
    6. Red - King Crimson (39)
    7. Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Ros (45)
    8. F♯A♯∞ - Godspeed You Black Emperor (60)
    9. Tago Mago - Can (65)
    10. Close to the Edge - Yes (70)

    Looking throughout the top 100 - Pink Floyd, King Crimson, GSYBE and Yes are liked very much by the music-rating general public.
    Where's Trespass ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
    Where's Trespass ?
    Yeah. Trespass is certainly a better album than commercial pseudo-psych WYWH the album [Animals is THE album that we could tagged as "progressive psych" as well] and yet Trespass belongs to the original progressive music from the era.
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    The only "best of prog" list that I like is the one that Rolling Stone Magazine did a few years ago. They covered most of the landmark albums from the '70s (and even thru in Dream Theater & The Mars Volta).

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    Any list that includes Pawn Hearts and One Size Fits All has something going for it whether original or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Svetonio View Post
    Because I remember that I was arguing, due to the same list, with some people about that the Pink Flolyd weren't considered as a Progressive rock band [as in the 70s the PF were almost a synonyme for Psychedelic rock] before the 90s when a new generation of listeners were emerged, and who thought that the music on daddy's Pink Floyd LPs and Yes LPs - was made in the same genre i.e. "prog".
    I agree, when I was really into "Prog" (capital P) in the late 70s / throughout the 80s, my circle of friends and other Prog fans I met didn't consider Floyd as part of that genre (and neither did the Rolling Stone record guide in their description of the genre and its practitioners). But since joining this Prog forum and others, I've seen that some people agree with me and others don't. Prog magazine, now on its 70th-something issue, certainly gets a lot of mileage by putting PF on every other cover, so who knows... But, yeah, not "Prog" in my book. Others see it differently and that's cool by me.

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    It's a shame no prog rock has been made after 1975.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roth-Handle Studios View Post
    I think the lists are great because they end discussions.

    // Mattias
    And even better, they're usually a great opportunity to post lots of YouTube videos of bands that everyone already knows!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tormato View Post
    It's a shame no prog rock has been made after 1975.....
    Some people are saying that it was 1973 "when everything was already done in prog"...
    So stupid, isn't?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yellow Jester View Post
    The only "best of prog" list that I like is the one that Rolling Stone Magazine did a few years ago. They covered most of the landmark albums from the '70s (and even thru in Dream Theater & The Mars Volta).
    I agree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucka001 View Post
    I agree, when I was really into "Prog" (capital P) in the late 70s / throughout the 80s, my circle of friends and other Prog fans I met didn't consider Floyd as part of that genre (and neither did the Rolling Stone record guide in their description of the genre and its practitioners). But since joining this Prog forum and others, I've seen that some people agree with me and others don't. Prog magazine, now on its 70th-something issue, certainly gets a lot of mileage by putting PF on every other cover, so who knows... But, yeah, not "Prog" in my book. Others see it differently and that's cool by me.
    Well, that is, if nothing else, and in the time of multiply tags, the Pink Floyd made the genre bigger as their albums brings many new prog-heads in the 90s and who, after PF psychedelic experience, also were discovered the 70s Symphonic rock and other sub-genres as well.

    However, often the reactions of some people are really hilarious when the historical facts are mentioned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Svetonio View Post
    Some people are saying that it was 1973 "when everything was already done in prog"...
    So stupid, isn't?
    It really is. There has been a lot of good stuff made since the 70s. Prog is a prisoner of past success in a lot of ways, not unlike Jazz in that regard.

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    I just penned these for the next edition of my book...

    Thirty-Three Essential Progressive Rock Albums
    1. The Nice - Thoughts Of Emerlist DavJack (Immediate 1967)
    2. Soft Machine - Volume Two (Probe 1969)
    3. Colosseum - Those Who Are About To Die We Salute You (Vertigo 1969)
    4. Jethro Tull - Stand Up (Reprise 1969)
    5. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (EG 1969)
    6. The Pretty Things - Parachute (Harvest 1970)
    7. Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink (Deram 1971)
    8. Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of (Elektra 1971)
    9. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (Charisma 1971)
    10. Yes - Fragile (Atlantic 1972)
    11. Amon Düül II - Carnival In Babylon (United Artists 1972)
    12. Tasavallan Presidentti - Lambert Land (Love Records 1972)
    13. Gentle Giant - Three Friends (Columbia 1972)
    14. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (Cotillion 1972)
    15. Family - Bandstand (Reprise 1972)
    16. Le Orme - Felona & Sorona (Charisma 1973)
    17. Magma - Mekanïk Destrukïw Kommandöh (A&M 1973)
    18. Ange - Au-delà du Délire (Philips 1974)
    19. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Atco 1974)
    20. Grobschnitt - Ballerman (Brain 1974)
    21. Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World (Manticore 1974)
    22. Gong - You (Virgin 1974)
    23. Nektar - Down To Earth (Passport 1975)
    24. Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water (Atlantic 1975)
    25. Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time (United Artists 1975)
    26. Hoelderlin - Clowns and Clouds (Spiegelei 1976)
    27. Rush - A Farewell To Kings (Mercury 1977)
    28. National Health - Of Queues Of Cures (Charly 1978)
    29. Tangerine Dream - Cyclone (Virgin 1978)
    30. Robert Fripp - Exposure (E.G. 1979)
    31. Peter Gabriel (Mercury 1980)
    32. Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets (PVC 1981)
    33. Asia (Geffen 1982)
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    Carnival In Babylon?
    Cyclone??
    Fucking ASIA???
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    A list that doesn't include CTTE is not very valid for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucka001 View Post
    Are any of these "best prog" lists that crop up from time to time *not* completely original and incisive, bringing a new angle to the topic?!

    http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainm...tml/?a=viewall

    It should be pointed out that CheatSheet is content fodder. The entire enterprise is devoted to entertainment click bait. I would imagine the person who wrote the article wrote 4 other things that day and he may not have even heard the albums in question. It's just their job to produce content, link it to social media sites, and get clicks.
    WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zravkapt View Post
    Carnival In Babylon?
    Cyclone??
    Fucking ASIA???
    "Always ready with the ray of sunshine"

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2steves View Post
    A list that doesn't include CTTE is not very valid for me.
    This !

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