Your ‘Top 10’ Favorite Progressive Rock Albums

I think it’s time for another progressive rock ‘Top 10’.

My list (in no particular order):

Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Pink Floyd: Animals
Yes: Close to the Edge
King Crimson: Red
Rush: Grace Under Pressure
Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Marillion: Brave
U.K.: self-titled
Gentle Giant: Octopus

 

Ok I’ll bite:
The Yes Album
Genesis - Nursery Cryme & Foxtrot
King Crimson - Red, Starless BB, Larks
The Decemberists - The Tain, The Hazards of Love
ELP (original first one)
The Flower Kings- Paradox Hotel (and others)

Hon mention, Stereolab for various compositions, though not an album ... Blue Milk, ... sudden stars, Cosmic Country Noir, Puncture in the Radax Permutation, I Feel the Air (Of Another Planet), Margerine Melodie, New Orthophony etc ...

 

I'm off to discover the decemberists....sadly never heard them thanks for the heads up.

Yes....the yes album, close to the edge, fragile

King crimson....69 through 74 all of them

Genesis....nc, foxtrot, selling England, lamb lies down

Gentle giant...first album and acquiring the taste

Greenslade....spyglass guest

 

Too hard to do with out leaving out great albums. I could pick 10 by Yes alone
Genesis: Foxtrot, Duke
Pink Floyd: Meddle
Yes: Drama, Fragile
King Crimson: Discipline
Rush: Permanent Waves
Marillion: Marbles
Steven Wilson: Grace for Drowning
Porcupine Tree: The Incident
Kansas: Leftoverture

 

alphabetically

Can - Ege Bamyasi
Genesis - Selling England
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Soft Machine - Third
Yes - Close to the Edge
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

 

Have seen them 3 times. Those are the 2 prog recommendations, a lot of the other stuff veers into folk alt rock. Another suggestion is an album cut, at 12 min and def prog, “The Island”. Also “The Mariner’s Revenge Song”

 

Signals
Animals
CTTE
Thick as a Brick
Starless and Bible Black
Selling England...
Hot Rats
Permanent Waves
The Final Cut
Tago Mago

Oh shoot, forgot Drama, Octopus, Brain salad Surgery, Abacab, Trick, The Raven and In Absentia.

 

Good additions

 

You got it

 

Catapilla S/T
Arcadium: Breathe Awhile
Blonde On Blonde: Rebirth
The Flow: Greatest Hit
Family: Entertainment
ClarkHutchinson: A=Mh2
Paladin S/T
Andromeda S/T
Audience: Friends
Demon Fuzz: Afreaka

 

In The Court of The Crimson King
The Yes Album
The Dark Side of the Moon
Red
Wish You Were Here
Animals
Deadwing
Grace for Drowning
Pale Communion (Opeth)
Until the Ghosts Are Gone (Anekdoten)

I'm relatively new to the genre , although I'm old--- but I've absorbed a lot of the more popular bands ( Yes, Tull, Rush, Genesis) through the years and I like what I like. Apart from Pink Floyd and ItCotKC, all of these albums I discovered in my own.

 

Welcome to the world of prog, JoeF! Some fine choices there for sure. King Crimson’s Red is one of the most incredible albums I’ve ever heard. I’ve even got a t-shirt of the album.

 

I take it you dig some Can.

 

One per artist:
1 Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
2 Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
3 King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
4 Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
5 PFM - Per Un Amico
6 Camel - The Snow Goose
7 Rush - Hemispheres
8 Supertramp - Crime of the Century
9 Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
10 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing

 

Relayer
SEBTP
Bridge Across Forever
Fear of a Blank Planet
AFTK
Snow Goose
Red
Anglegard Viljans Oga
Maudlin of the Well Part the Second
Ghost Reveries

 

Great list, but I’ve never been able to appreciate Jethro Tull.

 

Without thinking too hard, and omitting the Moody Blues from consideration:

Genesis - Foxtrot; Nursery Cryme; Selling England by the Pound
Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land; Jumbo
England - Garden Shed
Yes - Close to the Edge; Going for the One
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards

That's nine. I'd have to think before selecting a tenth. I'm not so much into later prog but I will point out that I like Nomzamo by IQ.

 

I would genuinely struggle to narrow down a top 100 tell about a top 10...

 

Thanks, progressive rock is my favorite genre. Try starting with Stand Up, then progress album by album

 

Yes, Close to the Edge
Genesis, Foxtrot
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Rush, Signals
Rush, Moving Pictures
Genesis, Selling England By the Pound
Rush, A Farewell to Kings
Yes, The Yes Album
Pink Floyd, Obscured By Clouds

Tried to fit Camel's Moonmadness to mix it up a bit, but couldn't find a spot.

 

This is going to be a hard one...

Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - The Yes Album
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson
King
King Crimson - Red
Pink Floyd - Animals
Rush - 2112
Rush - Moving Pictures
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

Edit: I forgot to include something by Camel. It would have been either The Snow Goose or Moonmadness

 

I’m going to cheat and make an alternate list:

David Sylvian: Gone to Earth
Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn
Anathema: Weather Systems
Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink
Camel: Moonmadness
Hatfield and the North: self-titled
Hawkwind: Warrior on the Edge of Time
Andy Summers/Robert Fripp: I Advance Masked
Harmonium: Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison

 

In no particular:

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson - Red
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Relayer
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

 

Not really in any order here.

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Lizard, Starless and Bible Black, Discipline, Thrak, Islands, Beat
Yes - Relayer
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - s/t, Another Live

 

Thanks, but I own many of their albums (Stand Up all the way up to Heavy Horses). I’ve tried for years and years to appreciate them, but still can’t get past certain aspects of their style that kind of annoy me (mainly the inflexibility of Anderson’s vocals, but also the lack of memorable themes and interesting twists in their pieces). I did kind of like A Passion Play at one point, but that’s really only for Forest Dances I & II.