Top 25 Progressive Albums

[rtbuck]

This months cover story in Goldmine Magazine is on the Top 25 Progressive Rock albums of all time
Here's the order:

1) ELP "Brain Salad Surgery"
2) Yes "Close to the Edge"
3) King Crimson "In the Court Of the Crimson King"
4) Genesis "Selling England By the Pound"
5) Jethro Tull "Thick As a Brick"
6) Caravan "In the Land Of Grey & Pink"
7) Premiata Forneria Marconi "Per Un Amico"
8) Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Sono Nato Libero
9) Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
10) Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of the Moon"
11) Tudor Lodge
12) Locanda Delle Fate "Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Piu"
13) Skin Alley
14) Le Orme "Felona E Sorona"
15) Carmen "Fandangos In Space"
16) Kansas "Leftoverature"
17) Spocks Beard "Snow"
18) Camel "Moonmadness"
19) Gentle Giant "Octopus"
20) Rush "2112"
21) East of Eden "Mercator Projected"
22) Van Der Graaf Generator "Pawn Hearts"
23) Pulsar "Halloween"
24) Nektar "Down to Earth"
25) UK

[axisboldaslove]

Unlike most of these types of list, nothing jumps out at me as being really stupid. I don't know every album on the list, but the ones I do know seem logical. I'm impressed they included Van Der Graaf Generator. I don't agree with everything on the list (for example, there are many artists on the list where I would have picked a different album), but it's not offensive. Unlike the RnR Hall of Fame list of the top 200 albums of all time. That was retarded.

[DreamTide]

Marillion
Script For A Jester's Tear

Dream Theater
Images And Words

Kate Bush
Hounds Of Love

Shadow Gallery
Tyranny

Rush
Hemispheres

Pind Floyd
The Wall

Eloy
Metromania

QUEEN
A Night At The Opera

Jethro Tull
Heavy Horses

Uriah Heep
Look at Yourself

Kansas
Point Of Know Return

Alan Parsons Project
Eye In The Sky

Star One
Live On Earth

Royal Hunt
Paradox

Led Zeppelin
IV

Deep Purple
Machine Head

Judas Priest
Sad Wings Of Destiny

Iron Maiden
Powerslave

Blue Öyster Cult
Imaginos

Mike Oldfield
Crises

Kayak
Merlin - Bard of the Unseen

Camel
Stationally Traveller

[caljam]

It's not a bad list. I never though ELP and Yes were the best British prog bands of their time though, but can't deny their quality.

My list:

1. In The Land Of Grey & Pink - Caravan
2. In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
3. Asylum - Cressida
4. Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
5. Mirage - Camel
6. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
7. Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic
8. Foxtrot - Genesis
9. Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
10. Tago Mago - Can
11. Hall of the Mountain Grill - Hawkwind
12. Journey To The Centre Of The Eye - Nektar
13. Third - Soft Machine
14. Valentyne Suite - Colosseum
15. Camembert Electrique - Gong
16. Galactic Zoo Dossier - Arthur Brown's Kingdome Come
17. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
18. Farewell to Kings - Rush
19. Acquiring the Taste - Gentle Giant
20. Phantasmagoria - Curved Air
21. Octoberon - Barcalay James Harvest
22. Arzachel - Arzachel
23. For All We Shared... - Mostly Autumn
24. The Dog That Bit People - The Dog That Bit People
25. The Definitive Unsolved Mysteries Of... - Mr Quimby's Beard

[ProgRocks]

I would have to add In Absentia by Porcupine Tree.

Mark