Rolling Stone Top 10 Prog Albums

[Sox]

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That list SUCKS. Only one Yes album and no ELP albums at all. Also I would consider DT to be prog metal, not prog rock. Here's my list:

1. Mike Oldfield - Incantations
2. Yes - Close to the Edge
3. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
4. Yes - The Yes Album
5. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
6. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
7. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
8. Yes - Relayer
9. Yes - Fragile
10. Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Honorable mentions: Pink Floyd - Animals, Emerson Lake & palmer debut, Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All, King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King, Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans, Rush - 2112, ELP - Tarkus, Pink Floyd - Meddle

Some top picks there CA, I'm gonna give this some thought and have a go. I reckon Brain Salad Surgery and A Farewell To Kings will be on.

 

[Cannons Ahoy]

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Some top picks there CA, I'm gonna give this some thought and have a go. I reckon Brain Salad Surgery and A Farewell To Kings will be on.

You won't regret it

 

[Sox]

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My top would be something like ...

In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Fragile - Yes
Brain Salad Surgery - E.L.P.
Warrior On The Edge Of Time - Hawkwind
Death Walks Behind You - Atomic Rooster
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Moving Waves - Focus
A Farewell To Kings - Rush

The order could easily be juggled mind.

 

[LG]

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^^I thought you were going to load up with RUSH albums Mighty Ent...??

Cannons, I had a feeling you were going to go heavy with YES, but 4 albums in the top ten??

Dream Theater is as much old fashioned prog rock as prog metal, hate splitting hairs when it comes to this but there's no avoiding it these days.

 

[Lynch]

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Very surprising to see Dream Theater at the top of the list. Good for them.

 

[electric funeral]

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Don't like Dream Theater at all. I'd put some Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Gentle Giant albums in such a list. Oh, and Clutching at Straws.

 

[Cannons Ahoy]

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^^I thought you were going to load up with RUSH albums Mighty Ent...??

Cannons, I had a feeling you were going to go heavy with YES, but 4 albums in the top ten??

Dream Theater is as much old fashioned prog rock as prog metal, hate splitting hairs when it comes to this but there's no avoiding it these days.

Yeah, Yes is my second favorite band ever just after Led Zeppelin... and their best albums are amongst my favorite albums of all time. I'm a little biased towards them

 

[Khor1255]

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I'm more pleasantly surprised by the list than anything else. Rush listed several times? Cool! Dream Theater as #1? Not cool.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

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YES ~ Close to the Edge
PINK FLOYD ~ Animals
PINK FLOYD ~ Wish You Were Here
ELP ~ Tarkus
YES ~ Fragile
ELOY ~ Ocean
GENTLE GIANT ~ Free Hand
RUSH ~ Fly By Night
FRANK ZAPPA ~ One Size Fits All
KANSAS ~ Song For America

Tried to mix the bands up it up but still have bands pulling double duty

 

[zeppelin rocker]

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I love Dream Theater but i don't consider Scenes From A Memory the best Progressive rock album of all time..