For fans of "Progressive Rock" Genre, a top 25 list

Some are a bit lame in my opinion, but top 25, or whatever, lists are always fun for discussion. http://music.ign.com/articles/767/767201p7.html Just something to think about on a snowy Sunday afternoon.

I may have to pick up that Genesis album, too.

by King Crimson. I am not sure what they mean by "Top 25". I am sure that you will get a lot of arguments for some of Genesis' earlier work such as Selling England by The Pound. I preferred "Moonmadness" by Camel, and "Remember the Future" by Nektar. By the way, this list calls Nektar a "German" band which isn't true. They are and were a British band who originally made it big in Germany. Speaking of Germany, where is Kraftwerk?

I need to get some of the live stuff.

One of my favorite albums. "Lunar Sea" is an exhilerating instrumental, with a brilliant Moog solo in the middle. Crank it up and close your eyes in a dark room....you'll feel like you're flying. It's incredible. Sad to note that keyboardist Peter Bardens passed on a few years ago, he was one who was gone too soon, as they say. A musician's musician.

I was glad to see Focus III on that list, Thijs van Leer is one of my influences on Hammond organ. Another musician's musician.

I do wish they could have stuck Anglagard in there though, their short-lived career was extremely brilliant.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

It's infuckingcredible.
"Falling In Between".
I like almost every song on the album-

but "Magicians Birthday" now that was one of my all time favorites from the 70's.

I can't seem to find it on CD.

These people know nothing!

I have a bunch of these albums, but heard most of it on XM's channel 51 MusicLab--they punked that to make roo for more sports coverage. :(

I think I need to send an email.

Don't know if I would have picked "Up The Downstair," but good for them for including Porcupine Tree. Meanwhile, that U.K. album never gets enough credit. It's absolutely brilliant.

we saw them two nights in a row at park west a year-and-a-half ago, when they were shooting their concert dvd.

Robert Fripp was the opening act- frippertronics doesn't make for much of a stage show, though.

Rush and Jethro Tull are always on it.
WHY?!

Songs from the Wood is really a better album for a list like this. I'd go so far as to say it's also just a better album. Pibroch (Cap in Hand) pretty much seals their place all by itself.

I personally always thought of Rush as hard rock, with poorly disguised prog tendencies.

You have a Top 25 Prog Albums list that contains no Dream Theater and no Spock's Beard.

Yeah, right.

Who the hell are they? I didn't make the list, I just presented it for discussion. Personally, my type of Rock music is raw gritty stuff like Good old Southern Rock and Zeppelin. Led Zep is the best ever. Period.

The three biggest prog bands that are still in business as Prog bands are Rush, Dream Theater (whose music has a nearly heavy-metal feel to it) and Spock's Beard (who is more like early Genesis in its approach...in more ways than one: like Genesis, Spock's Beard's singer left the band, and their drummer stepped into his void).

If you bought these six albums:

Octane by Spock's Beard
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater
2112 by Rush
Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis

you'd have a very good idea of what Prog is.

The best Prog songs are 30 minutes long, so I was careful to give you albums with these massive orchestrations on them.

They took a bit of getting used to, but they are one of the acts I miss most from the defunct XM 51 channel.

I usually describe Dream Theater as a "heavy metal Yes."

I need to dig out some o' this stuff.

It seems like everything but Porcupine Tree was an older group/release. They probably threw darts to figure out who got the "new band" slot.

Which albums, though? For me, the Spock's album would either have to be "V" or "Snow." Dream Theater...not quite sure. I haven't really given "Octavarium" a good listen yet. "Images and Words" and "A Change Of Seasons" would be good contenders.

Majestic.

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And, at #1, no less. That is a great LP.

It was good to see Porcupine Tree on there, as well.

I'd expect Fragile or Closer to the Edge to be in there.

Also at least an honorable mention to Dark Side of the Moon even if it's not considered Prog Rock by purists.

I think it's number 4 or 5.

They did mention that the only question was which Yes album to include!

great show which was, wow, twenty years ago when I saw them. I'm old :(

for Electronic Prog fans I'd also highly recommend Tangerine Dream's Phaedra & Rubycon.

I didn't know that is what they called it.