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Mr Badguy

08-11-2007, 06:25 AM

And I don`t know how you define progressive so anything goes.

Here`s mine:

(In no order)

Emerson, Lake And Palmer "Brain salad surgery"
Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick"
Yes "Going For The One"
Marillion "Script For A Jesters Tear"
King Crimson "Discipline"
Pink Floyd "Animals"
The Mars Volta "Francis The Mute"
Queensryche "Promised Land"
Roxy Music "For Your Pleasure"
Jon Anderson "Olias Of Sunhillow"

Shaun Ponsonby

08-11-2007, 09:11 AM

This is a difficult one...

Spock's Beard-Snow
Yes-Close to the Edge
A.C.T.-The Last Epic
Rush-Farewell to Kings
E.L.P.-Brain Salad Surgery
The Nice-The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
Transatlantic-Bridge Across Forever
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds
Porcupine Tree-Deadwing (although they don't like being labelled)

DrMaddVibe

08-11-2007, 12:39 PM

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Van Der Graff Generator - Godbluff

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Mission UK - Children

Rush - 2112

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Genesis - Seconds Out

Yes - Magnification

Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

katie

08-11-2007, 12:41 PM

I keep coming back to this CD time and time again

http://www.landofgenesis.fr/genesis/albums/06selling.jpg

Mr Badguy

08-11-2007, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds

Good pick!

Mr Badguy

08-11-2007, 12:52 PM

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Yes - Magnification

And another!

Really under-rated.

cMb

08-11-2007, 04:46 PM

Is Moving Pictures considered prog?

My top ten would have to be a combination of early (70's & 80's) Rush & Pink Floyd albums.

Jérôme Frenchise

08-11-2007, 07:05 PM

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
And I don`t know how you define progressive so anything goes.

Here`s mine:

(In no order)

Emerson, Lake And Palmer "Brain salad surgery"
Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick"
Yes "Going For The One"
Marillion "Script For A Jesters Tear"
King Crimson "Discipline"
Pink Floyd "Animals"
The Mars Volta "Francis The Mute"
Queensryche "Promised Land"
Roxy Music "For Your Pleasure"
Jon Anderson "Olias Of Sunhillow"

Great list!

I'll keep two in mine.

1) King Crimson: "Red"
2) Pink Floyd: "Animals"
3) Jethro Tull: "Thick as a Brick"
4) Robert Wyatt: "Rock Bottom"
5) King Crimson: "THRAK"
6) Soft Machine: "Third"
7) Pink Floyd: "Atom Heart Mother"
8) Yes: "Close to the Edge"
9) Kraftwerk: "Autobahn"
10) Genesis: "abacab" (I'm gonna get flamed with this one :D)

Mr Badguy

08-11-2007, 07:33 PM

Originally posted by cMb
Is Moving Pictures considered prog?

Hell yes.

"YYZ", "The Camera Eye" and "Vital Signs" are about as prog as they come.

Reverberator

08-11-2007, 08:23 PM

Animals and Hemispheres .

Two that sping to mind imediatley.

rustoffa

08-12-2007, 12:49 AM

In no particular order

Supertramp- Crime of The Century

Rush- A Farewell To Kings

Kansas- Leftoverture

Blue Oyster Cult- Tyranny & Mutation (it's pretty progressive)

Pink Floyd- Animals

Yes- Tormato

Rush- Hemispheres

ELP- Brain Salad Surgery

Jeff Beck- You Had It Coming

That old Styx record.

Wawazat

08-12-2007, 03:28 AM

GPS - Window to the Soul

Gong - Flying Teapot

Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink

UFO - Flying

Neu! - 75

Amon DüülII - Only Human

The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka

Ton Steine Scherben - IV

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance

delta5150

08-12-2007, 07:35 AM

10) Genesis: "abacab" (I'm gonna get flamed with this one )

Oh la honte! jeje!

delta5150

08-12-2007, 07:35 AM

10) Genesis: "abacab" (I'm gonna get flamed with this one )

Oh la honte! Jérôme jeje!

delta5150

08-12-2007, 07:42 AM

I'm no prog fan :o , but I do like Dream theatre's "Images and words"

Jérôme Frenchise

08-12-2007, 08:55 AM

Originally posted by rustoffa
Blue Oyster Cult- Tyranny & Mutation (it's pretty progressive)

Must be. The one I have, "Secret Treaties", could also be defined as "prog". I should have included it in my list, instead of "abacab". :o

Originally posted by delta5150
Oh la honte! jeje!

:D Hey! You sound genuinely French-speaking-like here!
:cool:

Originally posted by delta5150
I'm no prog fan :o , but I do like Dream theatre's "Images and words"

They're amazing musicians, but I could never listen to a whole album - I think you have to be into guitar a lot to get really hooked, don't you?

Originally posted by Wawazat
Gong - Flying Teapot

Great call, Wawazat! :)

I only have one Gong album, the double "Live etc" from 1977.
But there's a real gem I've kept from my late uncle's collection, a 7"-record featuring founding singer/guitarist Daevid Allen, "Est-ce que je suis"/ "Hip hypnotize you", which is amazingly funny and inventive, dating back from 1968 or so (there are references to the 1968 springtime "revolution" in Paris, like "Tonight I'm dancing in Les Halles/ Waltzing on the streets - all naked!!!").
That Da"e"vid Allen, an Aussie musician who came to live in France c. 1968, is a curious character, to say the least. He's like the Syd Barrett of GONG, who carried on touring and recording very cool stuff after his departure, though.
There's a version of "Est-ce que je suis" on "Live etc.", but they do it like it would be just any song, whereas it isn't at all. :cool:

GO-SPURS-GO

08-13-2007, 04:22 AM

The only one that matters.... EAT EM' AND SMILE!!!!!!

Shaun Ponsonby

08-13-2007, 07:07 PM

Eh?

MAPRamone

08-14-2007, 06:38 AM

What no Zappa anyone? But then Frank might not be considered prog. He's kinda in a musical universe of his own.

Shaun Ponsonby

08-14-2007, 12:16 PM

I think Zappa was just in his own universe, nevermind musical universe.

Hyman Roth

08-16-2007, 01:08 PM

Hyman Roth

08-16-2007, 01:15 PM

Hyman Roth

08-16-2007, 01:42 PM

Hyman Roth

08-17-2007, 12:42 PM

"Really don't miiiiiiiiind if I sit this one out..."

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flappo

08-17-2007, 01:54 PM

queen

II to NATO

take yer pick

:)

Hyman Roth

08-18-2007, 08:01 AM

Originally posted by flappo
queen

II to NATO

take yer pick

:)

Great rock and roll for sure....don't know if I consider it "progressive rock" though. I suppose it has some elements, mainly great musicianship.

Hyman Roth

08-18-2007, 08:08 AM

Now this...this, my friends, is classic prog at its finest:

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(bass players and squire fans - notice the fender jazz bass)

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