Your ‘Top 10’ Favorite Progressive Rock Albums

Allan Holdsworth-IOU
Gentle Giant-Three Friends
Yes-Fragile
Zappa-Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar
ELP-Tarkus
Mike Keneally-Sluggo
Soft Machine Vol 1
National Health-Of Queues And Cures
Bruford-One Of A Kind
Hatfield & The North-Rotters Club

 

Phish - Lawn Boy
Phish - Junta
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Yes - Fragile
Yes - The Yes Album

 

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Yes: Fragile
Yes: Close to the Edge
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Self-titled
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Rush: Hemispheres
Gentle Giant: In a Glass House

Note: Zappa and Canterbury scene bands (Soft Machine, Caravan, etc.) were often listed, but they were jazz rock, not prog rock. They are often mistaken for prog because their music had a lot of prog in it, unlike other jazz rock bands like Colosseum, BS&T, Chicago, seventies Traffic, and Steely Dan. Phish is really an updated jazz rock band most of the time, although Junta and Lawn Boy were heavily influenced by prog.

 

It's not really my subgenre in Rock, but I have some favorites....

Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Misplaced Childhood (Marillion)
Stupid Dream (Porcupine Tree )
Operation : Mindcrime ( Queensryche )
Animals (Pink Floyd)

 

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Genesis - Foxtrot
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
ELP - Tarkus
Yes - Close to the Edge
Kansas - Leftoverture
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Genesis - Trespass
Genesis - Winds and Wuthering
Yes - Fragile