Your ‘Top 10’ Favorite Progressive Rock Albums

1. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
2. King Crimson - Red
3. Yes - Fragile
4. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
5. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
6. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
7. King Crimson - Lizard
8. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
9. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Emerson Lake and Palmer
10. Soft Machine - Third

 

Limiting myself to one per group:

1. King Crimson, Red
2. UK. UK
3. Genesis, A Trick of the Tail
4. Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom
5. Yes, Relayer
6. White Willow, Ignis Fatuus
7. PFM, Per un amico
8. Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Galllery
9. Van der Graaf Generator, Pawn Hearts
10. Renaissance, Scheherazade and Other Stories

Honorable mentions (still one per group):
Strawbs, Grave New World
Marillion, Clutching at Straws
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Io sono nato libero
Harmonium, Si on avait d'un cinquième saison
Mike Oldfield, Five Miles Out
Can, Future Days
Peter Hammill, Over
Le Orme, Uomo di pezza
Landberk, Riktig Akta
Gentle Giant, Free Hand

 

Good call on Moody Blues and Queen.

 

In no order:

Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson: Red
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
Yes: The Yes Album
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun
Gentle Giant: Octopus

Note: I don’t consider Pink Floyd to be progressive rock, and the only Tull albums I view as progressive rock are TAAB and A Passion Play. YMMV

 

I consider Queen II to be any early example of prog metal but of course most people **** on that but to me it's pure prog magic .

 

Gonna dig deep into the 70's Prog Rock netherworlds for these 10 in alpha order:
Algarnas Tradgard-Framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i forntiden (1972)
Ash Ra Tempel-Schwingungen (1972)
Il Balletto di Bronzo-Ys (1972)
Cornucopia-Full Horn (1973)
Day of Phoenix-Wide Open N-Way (1970)
Flea-Topi o Uomini (1972)
The Four Levels of Existence-s/t (1976)
Freedom's Children-Astra (1970)
Gila-s/t (1971)
Golem-Orion Awakes (1973)

 

Oh. Why not? 10 more. Slow night at work........
Grobschnitt-Solar Music Live (1978)
Gryphon-Red Queen to Gryphon Three (1974)
Guru Guru-Kanguru (1974)
Steve Hillage-Fish Rising (1975)
Home-The Alchemist (1973)
Jade Warrior-s/t (1974)
Jane-Together (1972)
Jody Grind-Far Canal (1970
Kebnekajse-Resa Mot Okant Mal (1971)
King Ping Meh-s/t (1971)

Yeah. My "Prog Rock" taste leans heavily into the "Heavy Psych" realm. Fun thread.

 

Limiting myself to my favourites that were not mentioned over here yet:

Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
Cherry Five - s/t
ELP - Trilogy
Steve Hillage - Green
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Curved Air - Second Album
The Nice - Five Bridges
Eloy - Power And The Passion
Eloy - Dawn

Other 10 that I give honourable mention to:

Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
Curved Air - Air Cut
Le Orme.- Contrappunti
Buon Vecchio Charlie - s/t
Guru Guru - Dance Of The Flames
Aranis - Made In Belgium
Univers Zero - Uzed
The Future Kings Of England - s/t
Roz Vitalis - Patience Of Hope
Tasavallan Presidentti - Lambertland

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I was just going to recall these two masterpieces

 

1. Yes - "Close to the Edge" (1972)
2. Yes - "Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973)
3. Yes - "Relayer" (1974)
4. Genesis - "Foxtrot" (1972)
5. Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" (1974)
6. Wigwam - "Being" (1974)
7. Jethro Tull - "A Passion Play" (1973)
8. Rush - "Hemispheres" (1978)
9. King Crimson - "Red" (1974)
10.The Flower Kings - "Flower Power" (1999)

 

Good to see PH getting some love here. Over is some pretty heartbreaking stuff but hes more than ready to point to himself as the source.


Sometimes I'd play the wild rover
Sometimes I'd just get smashed all day...
On Tuesday she used to do yoga,
On Tuesday she went away

 

Off the top of my head & not in any particular order:




Family Music in a Doll's House (1968)


Van Der Graff Generator Pawn Hearts (1971)


Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery (1973)


King Crimson Lizard (1970)


Yes Fragile (1971)


Gong Angel's Egg (1973)


Genesis Trespass (1970)


Anthony Phillips The Geese & The Ghost (1977)


Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970)


Smak s/t debut (1975)

 

In no particular order

Genesis - Seconds Out
King Crimson - Red
Rush - Hemispheres
Pink Floyd - Animals/ Wish You Were Here (tied)
U.K. - Debut Album
Nektar - Remember The Future
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Yes - Drama
Camel - Moonmadness
Caravan - Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974

 

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Genesis - Foxtrot
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Jethro Tull - Broadsword And The Beast
Yes - 90125
Yes - Fragile

 

5 pages and no mention of Floyd's 'More'. Really surprising....

 

Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King
Rush - 2112
Yes Close To The Edge
King Crimson - Lizard
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Fragile
Rush - Moving Pictures

I am pretty new to all of the above artists except Pink Floyd so my prog knowledge isn't much. I recently got the entire output of Rush, King Crimson and Yes studio albums so I have been digging into them.

 

In no particular order ...

Genesis Selling England By The Pound
Genesis Foxtrot
Yes Fragile
Yes Close To The Edge
Camel Mirage
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Caravan In The Land Of Grey And Pink
King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson Larks' Tongues In Aspic

That's how I feel right now, but choosing ten is hard ....

 

One per band/artist, sorted roughly in order of how well they conform to typical definitions of the genre:

Happy the Man - Happy the Man
Yes - Fragile
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Phish - Junta (surprised this isn't recognized more often as a progressive rock album!)
Gong - You
Harmonium - Harmonium
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
Eberhard Weber - Silent Feet

Honorable mentions, now in alphabetical order:

5uu's - Hunger's Teeth
Daevid Allen - Good Morning (cheating a little here since he's in above with Gong, but this is such a good record)
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Fred - Notes on a Picnic
Group 1850 - Paradise Now
Hatfield & the North - Hatfield & the North
Nucleus - Elastic Rock
Patto - Hold Your Fire
Soft Machine - Volume Two

 

Jody Grind- Far Canal is an awesome record.

 

Confining myself to one per band:

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Yes - Going For the One
Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Anathema - Weather Systems
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments
Mike Oldfield - Incantations

 

Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison (1975)
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning (1973)
Eloy - Ocean (1977)
Los Jaivas - Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1981)
Le Orme - Felona e Serona (1973)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)
Genesis - Foxtrot (1972)
Yes - Yessongs (1973)
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975)
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood (1977)
King Crimson - Lizard (1970)
Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)

Is that eleven? Damn it.

 

Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick
King Crimson--In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes-Close to the Edge
Yes-Fragile
Yes- The Yes Album
Frank Zappa-Uncle Meat
Frank Zappa-Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Frank Zappa-Hot Rats
Frank Zappa--The Grand Wazoo
Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra--Birds of Fire

 

Here's 10 albums amongst the other 90 personal favourites. I haven't thought about post-1980 albums as yet.

Eloy - Ocean
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Gong - Flying Teapot
Camel - Mirage
King Crimson - Red
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Yes - Drama
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Madder Lake - Still Point
Rush - Hemispheres

 

Brain Salad Surgery
Hand Cannot Erase
The Whirlwind
Bridge Across Forever
Relayer
The YES album
Close to the Edge
Tales from Topgraphic Oceans
RA
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance