Your ‘Top 10’ Favorite Progressive Rock Albums

As others have said, it's pretty difficult to narrow down to just ten even when going for one album per performer. Ask me tomorrow and the list might be different but for now:

Barclay James Harvest XII (1978)

Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura (2007)

Flamborough Head - One For The Crow (2002)

Illusion - Out Of The Mist (1977)

The Enid (originally credited to Godfrey & Stewart) - The Seed & The Sower (1986)

Marillion - Seasons End (1989)

Kansas - Leftoverture (1976)

Davis Minasian - Random Acts Of Beauty (2010)

Big Big Train - English Electric Full Power (2013)

ChimpanA - S/T (2007)

I've left out so many great bands and albums that it's painful but I dearly love the records listed.

 

King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
McDonald & Giles
King Crimson - Lizard
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
King Crimson - Islands
King Crimson - Red
David Bedford - Star’s End

 

My top 10 (in no particular order)

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side
2. Genesis - Selling England
3. Yes - Close To The Edge
4. King Crimson - In The Court
5. Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
6. Queen - Queen II
7. Genesis - Duke
8. Mike Rutherford - Smallcreeps Day
9. Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
10. Peter Gabriel - 1 / Car

 

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
AGitation Free: Malesch
Guru Guru: Hinten
Cosmic Jokers: S/T
KLaus Schulze: Irrlicht
FAust: IV
Cluster: Zuckerzeit
EMbryo: Father Son Holy Ghosts
ELoy: Floating
GIla: Free Electric Sound

 

I guess I never considered myself a Progressive Rock fan and there are a few posts in the thread where I do not recognize any of the bands or albums but in general there are many albums listed which I have so I guess I at least have my foot in the door of the fraternity.

 

no order

Genesis = Lamb lies down - duke
King crimson - red - larks tongues - thrak
Jethro tull - think as a brick - passion play
Pink Floyd - atom heat mother - dark side of the mood - wish you were here - animals
Gentle Giant - Free hand - power and the glory - interview
Dire straits - love over gold (prog light, i know, but marvelous)
Decemberists - Hazards of love (again prog light)
Yes - Close To The Edge
ELP - Brain Salad Surgury
Procul harum - Procul harum

Just the ones off the top of my head ... my memory isn't what it once was

 

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Peter Gabriel - Security
Genesis- Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Pink Floyd - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here
Yes - Close to the Edge, Tales

 

Those are both great, nothing wrong with "prog light"

 

My list varies every time this comes up. One per band.

King Crimson Red
Genesis A Trick of the Tail
String Driven Thing The Machine That Cried
IQ Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Procol Harum Exotic Birds and Fruit
Camel Stationary Traveler
It Bites Once Around the World
Strawbs Hero and Heroine
Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Curved Air Phantasmagoria

 

1.) Yes - Close to the Edge
2.) Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
3.) King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
4.) Yes - Fragile
5.) Genesis - Nursery Cryme
6.) Yes - The Yes Album
7.) Genesis - Foxtrot
8.) Pink Floyd - Animals
9.) Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
10.) Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

 

Raven is a good one. So is Opeth's Heritage

 

Order in not particular any (except for #1). No repeats!
1. Renaissance-Scheherazade and Other Stories
2. Yes-Tales From Topographic Oceans
3. Nektar-Recycled
4. ELP-Brain Salad Surgery
5. Genesis-Wind & Wuthering
6. Jethro Tull-Minstrel In The Gallery
7. King Crimson-In The Court of the Crimson King
8. Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells
10. Rush-2112

 

One per artist:

Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
King Crimson: Red
Procol Harum: s/t
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
Deep Purple: Concerto for Group & Orchestra
Frank Zappa: Grand Wazoo
Moody Blues: Days of Future Past
Flashman: s/t (Released in 1977 on Pye/Vanguard)

 

There are so many excellent lists on this thread; however, I must weigh in on some overlooked or nearly overlooked classics:
Gong: Angel's Egg
Gong: You
Gong: Camembert Electronique
Henry Cow: Leg End
Hawkwind: Space Ritual
Family: Fearless
King Crimson: Lizard
Family: Bandstand
Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom

 

Almost impossibly difficult but - cutting this down to one album per artist and only basing this on my feelings today -

Genesis, Foxtrot
Magma, Ëmehntëhtt-Ré
Big Big Train, The Underfall Yard
The Who, Quadrophenia
Mike Oldfield, Incantations
King Crimson, Red
Steven Wilson, The Raven That Refused To Sing and other stories
Jethro Tull, Minstrel In The Gallery
Marillion, Clutching At Straws
Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

 

Strong list!

 

Don't know Flashman. Have to look them up!

 

Back in the late 70's, I paid a dollar for it at the "record factory." My brother and I loved it so much, we went back and bought 4 more copies.
It's like Elton John going progressive rock with wonderful results!

A copy is selling at Amazon for 12 dollars (plus shipping)....so it appears, the word is out on this brilliant and obscure LP.
http://www.amazon.com/flashman-LP-F...=UTF8&qid=1417031682&sr=1-5&keywords=flashman

 

1: Genesis: the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. King Crimson: Lark's Tongue in Aspic
3. Marillion: Marbles
4. Yes: The Yes Album
5. Steven Wilson: Hand CAnnot Erase
6. Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
7. Peter Gabriel: IV
8. Peter Hammill: Over
9. Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
10. Fripp and Sylvian: Damage

 

1. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
2. Jethero Tull: Stand UP
3. Emerson Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
4. Supertramp: Crime of the Century
5. The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis
6. Wishbone Ash: Argus
7. Kansas: Leftoveture
8. Triumvirat: Spartacus
9. Styx: Pieces of Eight
10. ELO: On the Third Day

 

Yes: Close To The Edge

Yes: Fragile

Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans

Yes: The Yes Album

Yes: Going For The One

Yes: Relayer

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon

Porcupine Tree: Signify

Porcupine Tree: Up The Downstair

 

Fabulous album.

 

one of the handful of albums in recent times to really grab me ... when i first heard it i must have listened to it a dozen times, and these days for me that's fairly rare

 

You've really got me curious. I'm off to Amazon!

 

Yes - The Yes Album
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Phish - Lawn Boy
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Yes - 90125
Rush - Hemispheres
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory