"50 albums that 'have defined this most esoteric of genres"

[annie]

Good point
I prefer this list of 100 great although its got a few problems too.
Top Prog Rock Music Albums List

You cannot compare these two lists because Prog Archives lists multiple albums for the same group.

 

[Aktivator]

If I am not mistaken, they listed only one album per group so they chose 90125.

nope Yes and Pink Floyd both have two albums on the list

 

[AboutAGirl]

Piper? I didn't know this was a list of psychedelic acid rock records. Try Atom Heart Mother or Meddle.

 

[Sox]

I always thought the Sgt. Peppers album was a big push along a new path. Taking a musically progressive direction that many bands were to follow. Peppers shifted the goalposts for what could be achieved in the studio.

 

[TrekkiELO]

In the latest edition of Classic Rock magazine a poster lists the 50 albums that "have defined this most esoteric of genres"

Classic Rock consulted the 'progniscenti!' - everyone from Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, ELP's Carl Palmer, Fairport's Dave Pegg, Ihsahn, members of Marillion, Magenta, Pallas, Mastodon, Mostly Autumn and Dream Theater to long-term prog fans like Alice Cooper.

there are some interesting inclusions, especially for me - none other than Eldorado by E.L.O.! Most such lists never mention E.L.O.

"Always hugely and very obviously influenced by The Beatles, ELO's overtly symphonic sound was ideal to blend in with prog. ELO started to take the prog genre in new directions, as did Supertramp around the same time. Eldorado was the first to be recorded with a full orchestra and is a concept album about a daydreamer."

Indeed!




Eldorado, A Symphony by The Electric Light Orchestra, 1974

Also...


The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, 1976
The news that Pink Floyd engineer
Alan Parsons had teamed up with
songwriter and manager Eric Woolfson
was major news to fans of symphonic
prog. Enlisting the help of the band
Pilot (who Parsons had also produced)
and an array of guest vocalists, this
concept album kicked off a hugely
successful career for the duo.
Woolfson sadly died in December '09.

Classic Rock magazine, July 2010, Issue 146.

Signed,

Rick

 

[Mr. Shadow]

One question - Are Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper really prog?

They are works of art.

 

[Hepcat]

I never considered ... Sgt. Pepper prog albums.

What kind of navel gazing definition of "progressive rock" would exclude "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? I mean what does an album have to do to be considered "progressive rock"? Sell zero copies?

 

[Vader]

Wait a minute! '90125', one of the more straightforward pop/rock efforts from Yes is on here, but 'Close To The Edge', one of the great progressive albums as rated by the Progressive Rock Archives is not???
I don`t pretend to be an expert on progressive rock, but there are some glaring omissions.

Quoted for truth !!!!