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    So if you were going to invite young proggers to go deeper, assuming they already know the classics, what 10 albums do you think they should check out. Think of it as a sophomore syllabus, if you will.

    Here's one modest example:

    Amon Düül II - Wolf City
    Arthur Brown's King Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier
    Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    Far Out - Nihonjin
    Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
    Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness, & Charm
    King Crimson - Level Five
    Magma - Félicité Thösz
    Phish - Rift
    Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins - A Night of Desirable Objects

    All of which have given me immense please, and I can enthusiastically recommend.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    Which one dont you have and do you own BOTH Silent Corner and Chameleon?
    I don't have BJH. I DO have Chameleon and Silent Corner!

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    Quote Originally Posted by notallwhowander View Post

    Amon Düül II - Wolf City
    Arthur Brown's King Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier
    Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    Far Out - Nihonjin
    Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
    Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness, & Charm
    King Crimson - Level Five
    Magma - Félicité Thösz
    Phish - Rift
    Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins - A Night of Desirable Objects

    All of which have given me immense please, and I can enthusiastically recommend.
    Oooh, I only have 3/10!

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    Quote Originally Posted by notallwhowander View Post
    So if you were going to invite young proggers to go deeper, assuming they already know the classics, what 10 albums do you think they should check out. Think of it as a sophomore syllabus, if you will.
    Can - Tago Mago
    Änglagård - Hybris
    England - Garden Shed
    Maneige - Les Porches
    Cardiacs - Sing To God
    Matching Mole - Matching Mole
    Pulsar - Strands Of The Future
    Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
    Shylock - Île De Fièvre
    Return To Forever - Hymn To The Seventh Galaxy
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    Quote Originally Posted by notallwhowander View Post
    So if you were going to invite young proggers to go deeper, assuming they already know the classics, what 10 albums do you think they should check out.
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    Giles Giles & Fripp-The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles And Fripp
    Godspeed You Black Emperor-F#A#
    Phil Miller-Fred Baker-Double Up
    National Health-D.S.Al Coda
    ZNR-Barricade 3
    Gastr Del Sol-Camoufleur
    Miles Davis-Jack Johnson
    Nico-The Marble Index
    Baba Scholae-69
    Quiet Sun-Mainstream
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    I have 7 from the list - Supertramp's Crime of the Century might be classified as art rock but not prog rock. Still, it's one of the few albums I view as perfect songcraft.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progatron View Post
    Can - Tago Mago
    Änglagård - Hybris
    England - Garden Shed
    Maneige - Les Porches
    Cardiacs - Sing To God
    Matching Mole - Matching Mole
    Pulsar - Strands Of The Future
    Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
    Shylock - Île De Fièvre
    Return To Forever - Hymn To The Seventh Galaxy
    I have six of the ones listed above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progatron View Post
    Can - Tago Mago
    Änglagård - Hybris
    England - Garden Shed
    Maneige - Les Porches
    Cardiacs - Sing To God
    Matching Mole - Matching Mole
    Pulsar - Strands Of The Future
    Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
    Shylock - Île De Fièvre
    Return To Forever - Hymn To The Seventh Galaxy
    I have 7, good list.
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    Quote Originally Posted by arthurfrayn View Post
    IMO...


    I love the sentiment, and love that record, but that's not the Cardiacs record that I would pick as one of the best prog records of all time - It's On the Land and In the Sea. A life changer, for me!! Astonishing record - truly astonishing! Nothing like it!!
    I didn't pick it as "One of the best prog records of all time" either. I don't know where you got that subject from, since it's neither the main thread topic nor the question I was directly answering.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    I have 7, good list.
    I only have four, but it looks like I should be taking notes...
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    For the "sophomore" person...

    Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat
    Todd Rundgren - Todd
    Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
    Tangerine Dream - Zeit
    Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1st)
    Robert Fripp - Exposure
    Camel - The Snowgoose
    Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
    Hatfield And The North - Hatfield And The North
    Renaissance - Novella

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ88 View Post
    I like all the albums to some degree. Nice to see BJH on it, but Berlin is an unusual choice- the concert itself was historic and the album sold well, but it's a famously heavily overdubbed 'live' album, some years after their prime 'prog' period. I'd have gone for Once Again, maybe.
    On the other hand, one could consider Berlin as a kind of Best of... album. It has some beautyful songs, like Berlin, Hymn, Nova Lepidoptera and Child of the univers

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    Quote Originally Posted by notallwhowander View Post
    So if you were going to invite young proggers to go deeper, assuming they already know the classics, what 10 albums do you think they should check out. Think of it as a sophomore syllabus, if you will.

    Here's one modest example:

    Amon Düül II - Wolf City
    Arthur Brown's King Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier
    Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    Far Out - Nihonjin
    Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
    Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness, & Charm
    King Crimson - Level Five
    Magma - Félicité Thösz
    Phish - Rift
    Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins - A Night of Desirable Objects

    All of which have given me immense please, and I can enthusiastically recommend.
    I only have one. My list would be different, picking the first I heard by each artist:

    Wim Mertens - Maximising the audience
    Bel Canto - White-out conditions
    In The Nursery - Stormhorse
    Death Can Dance - Within the realm of a dying sun
    Pekka Pohjola - Visitation (actually the first I heard was Mike & Sally Oldfield Pekka Pohjola)
    Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He who am the only one
    Hoelderlin - Live Traumstadt
    Kraan - Wiederhören
    Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
    Novalis - Konzerte

    The first 4 are probably not prog, but they sounded different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    On the other hand, one could consider Berlin as a kind of Best of... album. It has some beautyful songs, like Berlin, Hymn, Nova Lepidoptera and Child of the univers
    If that was the criteria, even then, I'd have gone for the previous two double live albums with the original band- the 1974 Live in particular, which might even be their best overall record.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ88 View Post
    If that was the criteria, even then, I'd have gone for the previous two double live albums with the original band- the 1974 Live in particular, which might even be their best overall record.
    I suppose I would too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by notallwhowander View Post
    So if you were going to invite young proggers to go deeper, assuming they already know the classics, what 10 albums do you think they should check out. Think of it as a sophomore syllabus, if you will.
    I would suggest:

    Gong: You
    Magma: Kohntarkosz
    Hawkwind: Space Ritual
    Caravan: For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night
    Nektar: Remember The Future
    Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso: Io Sono Nato Libero
    Amon Düül II - Wolf City
    Area: Are(a)zione
    PFM: Cook!
    Bi Kyo Ran: Parallex

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    Quote Originally Posted by notallwhowander View Post
    So if you were going to invite young proggers to go deeper, assuming they already know the classics, what 10 albums do you think they should check out. Think of it as a sophomore syllabus, if you will.
    Keeping it to the original era and one album per artist, I'd go:

    National Health - Of Queues and Cures
    Hatfield & The North - The Rotters Club
    Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
    Area - Crack
    PFM: Storia di un minuto
    Eskaton - 4 Visions
    Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
    Bubu - Anabelas
    Picchio Dal Pozzo - st
    Moving Gelatine Plates - st

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    Quote Originally Posted by Facelift View Post
    Keeping it to the original era and one album per artist, I'd go:

    National Health - Of Queues and Cures
    Hatfield & The North - The Rotters Club
    Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
    Area - Crack
    PFM: Storia di un minuto
    Eskaton - 4 Visions
    Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
    Bubu - Anabelas
    Picchio Dal Pozzo - st
    Moving Gelatine Plates - st
    That's a pretty damn fine list, may throw in a Henry Cow, or Univers Zero but otherwise pretty sweet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    That's a pretty damn fine list, may throw in a Henry Cow, or Univers Zero but otherwise pretty sweet.
    I was going to keep Henry Cow and Univers Zero for the senior thesis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    Maybe it's missing 9 Yes and Genesis albums so it's throwing people off.
    Ahahahahaa

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    Sophomore year?

    UK - UK
    Happy The Man - Crafty Hands
    Todd Rundgren's Utopia
    Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow
    Kayak - Royal Bed Bouncer
    Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
    Egg - The Polite Force
    Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
    Camel - The Snow Goose
    Henry Cow - Legend
    The Prog Corner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sputnik View Post
    The header of the article isn't actually albums you should own, but rather "10 Prog Albums You Must Hear." That's a big difference.
    Yeah, you're right and I thought I paid attention to that. I found this on a Facebook thread on my timeline, and I think the person who posted it labelled it "10 Prog Albums You Should Own" so I went with that. But, yeah, that's not the title of the article. I thought I double-checked that, but my bad...

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    Every Prog Fan has their own "must listen or must own" List. I would spell out a much different list than of that article leaving out the Hamill and Caravan stuff (too Canterbury scene for me) but in this era of streaming and cherry picking digital tracks only, as mentioned, it has no implications or relevance anymore. CD stores don't exist anymore, there are more stores selling vinyl and the only place to get CD's is at the concert merchandise concession stand.

    But again, I would replace the Canterbury stuff with albums by YES, ELP, Gentle Giant, PINK FLOYD and KING CRIMSON who are even listed. Whoever made that list needs some serious Prog music schooling!
    I may be older but, I saw live: Led Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Fish, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Marillion, IQ, UK, Saga, Rush, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Genesis with Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Triumph, Magma, Goblin, Porcupine Tree, The Musical Box, Uriah Heep, Dio, David Bowie, Iron Maiden, Queen with Freddie Mercury, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Steely Dan, Dream theater, Joe Satriani, you get the idea..

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    I hadn't given a listen to the Silent Corner in ages - one of the reasons being that I don't own it. But I know the songs very well, since a friend of mine loaned to me for a long time. The arrangements are quiet plain, which highlight even more the pure singing-songwriting beauty, and craftsmanship. If craftsmanship it is, there is a flow in stuff like Wilhelmina that suggests automatic inspiration (just saying). There is also a 60's acid haziness at points which I like a lot. This is a record that easily stands the test of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    one good thing about that list and this thread.

    It just made me re-listen to "The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage". I had forgotten how fucking great that one is.
    Quote Originally Posted by Zappathustra View Post
    I hadn't given a listen to the Silent Corner in ages - one of the reasons being that I don't own it. But I know the songs very well, since a friend of mine loaned to me for a long time. The arrangements are quiet plain, which highlight even more the pure singing-songwriting beauty, and craftsmanship. If craftsmanship it is, there is a flow in stuff like Wilhelmina that suggests automatic inspiration (just saying). There is also a 60's acid haziness at points which I like a lot. This is a record that easily stands the test of time.
    I used to be surprised at Silent Corner being singled out so much. Julian Cope gushed about it back in the late 70s in the pages of NME; for a long time it was rating pretty highly over at progarchives.com (haven't been there in a long time so don't know about these days); and it makes lists like these once in awhile. While I do think it's a great (even brilliant) album, I never thought it was any more or less a standout than Chameleon or In Camera (the two albums surrounding it).

    Btw, there is a golden nugget out there waiting to be discovered (if it still exists... one would think it has to somewhere). Apparently the recording session for the song "Red Shift," which was basically the members of VdGG with guitarist Randy California in tow, was filmed. Now that would be something to see.

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