Your Favourite "Classic Prog" Album

Vote For Your Favourite "Classic Prog." Album.

  • Selling England By The Pound-Genesis

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Foxtrot-Genesis

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • Fragile-Yes

    Votes: 5 8.5%
  • Close To The Edge-Yes

    Votes: 8 13.6%
  • In The Court Of The Crimson King-King Crimson

    Votes: 5 8.5%
  • Lark's Tongue In Aspic-King Crimson

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Aqualung-Jethro Tull

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • Thick As A Brick-Jethro Tull

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • Dark Side Of The Moon-Pink Floyd

    Votes: 10 16.9%
  • Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd

    Votes: 5 8.5%
  • Godbluff-Van Der Graf Generator

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Pawn Hearts-Van Der Graf Generator

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Mirage-Camel

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Moonmadness-Camel

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • In A Glass House-Gentle Giant

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 2112-Rush

    Votes: 5 8.5%
  • In The Land Of Grey And Pink-Caravan

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • ELP-ELP

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Tarkus-ELP

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Brain Salad Surgery-ELP

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Crime Of The Century-Supertramp

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Per Un Amico-Premiata Forneria Marconi

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Birds Of Fire- Mahavishnu Orchestra

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Darwin-Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • other

    Votes: 6 10.2%

  • Total voters
    59

Black Dahlia

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My stock answer, to the exclusion of everything else has always been "Close To The Edge".

However... this time I am going with "Brain Salad Surgery". (Even I tire of seeing the same winner all the time! :tongue:)
 

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One of those polls where your answer would be different on another day.

Today, I voted for DSOTM

and feel bad for not voting for about half a dozen different options!
 

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Close to the Edge takes it by a country mile.

Second place goes to Moonmadness.

There are a few other worthy choices in the list ....2112, Selling England, Fragile.

I always liked 'Crime of the Century' too but a lot of people wouldn't rate it as a particular stand out album.

Personally I could never stand anything ELP ever did, and I think DSOTM is overrated (apart from 'Time')

Like the poster above I've also never heard the albums with the Italian names...although I have heard of PFM the band....
 
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Yeah for me it's close to the edge.
After that it was Pink Floyd Animals. IMO the best Floyd album but that is controversial.
I'd put Animals second.
Thick as a Brick is in there somewhere for sure.

I'd also mention Peter Gabriel's first post Genesis Album as a classic.

 
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Deke Leonard was in the Welsh progressive rock band MAN and he played electric guitar & organ and I did have at onetime not to long ago have a couple of his solo albums from the mid 1970s on cds one was Kamikaze and the other was Iceberg and I only found out about a year ago that he had died only a couple of years ago.

I have a nice dvd of MAN playing a German gig in 1975 that features Deke along with the late Mickey Jones on electric guitar, Deke on electric guitar and also organ, Martin Ace on bass & Terry Williams on drums.
 
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WYWH is my all-time favorite album. CTTE, Aqualung, Lamb Lies Down, and In The Court Of The Crimson King would be my other picks for top 5 in no particular order. As far as this list goes, anyway..

I'd also like to add Atomic Rooster's Death Walks Behind You as a "classic prog" album. A real power trio behind that one..


 
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