30 yrs old and I share this feeling. I will add to this list Pawn Hearts by Van Der Graff Generator and Mirage by Camel and In the Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan and Pink Floyd's Meddle and King Crimson' Lizard.
A good selection of prog albums . I would add : Genesis : Selling England by the Pound Camel : Moonmadness and Rain Dances Marillion : Misplaced Childhood Moody Blues : On the Threshold of a Dream King Crimson: Discipline Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Porcupine Tree : Deadwing and In Absentia Well Done ! Cheers ..
Not including Selling England by the Pound was a surprise. I know he was limiting himself to 3 albums per band, though. That's why Moving Pictures wasn't included.
@@JohnPrepuceel tipo es sincero y pone lo que le gusta, su ranking. Me gustan más personalmente los cuatro álbumes anteriores a moving pictures y son más progresivos. Selling England parece que le gusta menos que foxtrot, nursery y the lamb, lo respeto, los 4 son buenísimos.
What a great stuff! I´m 64 and can assure you that if these albuns continue to be superb nowadays, imagine what they meant in the time they were launched. I lived in that time, and each album that we discovered was something to be understood, used to and, after all, we started to love them from then on. The seventies were plenty of good albuns and great songs, that we are still listening to in the 21st century. Congratulations for the seletions, I couldn´t agree more.
Great selection! It was nice to see 'Moving Waves' Focus in there. I'm a Brit living in the Netherlands. I cut my teeth on prog rock back in the late 60's early 70's and have amassed rather a daunting vinyl collection. Despite their modest contribution to the international rock and prog scene it's majorly bizarre that most Dutch people haven't even heard of Focus. I actually discovered them when I was living in my home town near Liverpool. thanks!! 💫
My Camel Album Ranking 1 Rain Dances 2 Mirage 3 Moonmadness 4 I Can See Your House From Here 5 Camel 6 Snow Goose 7 A Nod & A Wink 8 Nude 9 Breathless 10 The Single Factor 11 Stationary Traveller 12 Rajaz 13 Harbor Of Tears 14 Dust & Dreams
He probably havn't even listened to them. Like he said in the beginning of the video they guy's a rookie, which makes me wonder why he would even make a top list when he hasn't even listened to that much prog.
Hello I am 53 and a prog rock fun for over 40 years. Nice video. As you get deeper into prog your list going to change in many ways. For example some great prog albums from the 70s: VDGG : Pawn Hearts, Soft Machine: 3, UK: UK, Renaissance : Turn of the cards, Caravan: In the land of Grey and Pink, Camel: Mirage, Robert Wyatt: Rock bottom, Egg: The Polite force, Steve Hillage: Fish Rising, Chris Squire : Fish out of water, Steve Hackett : The voyage of the Acolyte, PFM: Per Un amico. Keep going
Just gone past six in the morning here in Cape Town enjoy your show,, sixty next week, good to see someone of your age keeping the torch burning ..keep on truckin
Great video! I'm a little bit surprised that you didn't include Henry Cow/Art Bears which featured Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause and Chris Cutler. I would recommend 1981 LP "The World as It Is Today". Fred Frith also did an amazing LP titled 'Speachless' on The Residents Ralph Records.
New subscriber, Gary! Outstanding list with many of my favorites. Thanks for including the great underrated band Supertramp! Mixed and engineered in such a way that the louder it is played the clearer it sounds.
Great list. Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of prog rock and my favorites would be (in no particular order): Yes : Fragile, Close to the Edge, Going for the One Genesis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, Trick of the Tail Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn, Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge Jethro Tull: Aqualung, A Passion Play, Thick as a Brick ELP: Trilogy ELO: Eldorado Supertramp: Crime of the Century King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King, Wake of the Poseidon, Red Moody Blues: Days of Future Past, In Search of the Lost Chord Aphrodite’s Child: 666 Tangerine Dream: Phaedra, Atem Edgar Froese: Aqua Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon David Bedford: Instructions for Angels Marillion: Misplaced Childhood Paul Kantner: Blows Against the Empire, Dragonfly, Sunfighter Pete Sinfield: Still Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe, Oxygene Vangelis: Opera Sauvage, Themes, Rosetta Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow Klaus Schulze: Timewind Pekka: Mathematician’s Air Display Peter Gabriel: Melt, Security Kate Bush: Hounds of Love, Aerial Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid, I Robot, Tales of Mystery and Imagination Renaissance: Turn of the Cards, Scheherazade
Hi, I am getting more and more into Prog Rock and this is a great list. Nice to see that you included Focus - Moving Waves in you list as I am listening to it now and think it is superb and very much underrated. It also got me into Jan Ackerman , his guitar playing is sublime. Pink Floyd Dark side of the Moon is the best album of all time in my opinion also.
Very interesting list! Thank you for sharing with us! David Gilmour is a huge influence on my music too (you’ll hear it clearly on the solo of my song So Much Love, along with a little Brian May and a little Steve Rothery from Marillion). You may like it! :)
Pink Floyd Saucer Full of Secrets 1968. Great album . Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Also, you gotta check out The Tubes first album. I know you don't of The Tubes when talking about Prog but, check it out.
Nice job, young man. And thank you for helping extend the life of some great music. Possibly among the best of our time. As someone before me said, I’m sure your list won’t stay the same!
Great list. I’ve heard most of them. Don’t like the lamb lies down at all but love selling England by the pound by genesis. Individual taste is hard to fathom lol. Big👍
The Lamb is hard to get into after the previous albums.....but so worth the effort...bit like YES tales from topographic oceans...takes time...bit once you get it...it becomes their best
@@jameshoey303 Right? I had it for years, but really dove back into it a few years ago. There are some really amazing notes going on on the Lamb. If you haven't found it yet, there are 7 hours of the Headley Grange rehearsal tapes here on TH-cam.
I was glad to see you included Jethro Tull, probably the most versatile songwriting in the 70s - 90s, at least from the British isles.. I almost agree with your list, although I find it a little "Yes-heavy", and you missed my favorite albums "Selling England By The Pound" and "Trick Of The Tail", both by Genesis of course..
Nice list! Here's what I've come up with (we have some overlap but you didn't include much modern prog rock or prog metal but I put some of that on mine): My Top 10 Classic Prog Rock (pre-1984) 1. Rush - Moving Pictures (1981) 2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975) 3. Yes - Fragile (1971) 4. Gentle Giant - Free Hand (1975) 5. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) 6. Journey - Dream, After Dream (1980) 7. Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (1976) 8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (1971) 9. Supertramp - Crime of the Century (1974) 10. Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971) My Top 10 More Modern Prog Rock 1. Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places (2014) 2. Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (2019) 3. Leprous - Malina (2017) 4. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (2013) 5. Devin Townsend Project - Ghost (2010) 6. Orbs - Asleep Next to Science (2010) 7. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003) 8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007) 9. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension (2012) 10. The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (2015) My Top 10 Prog Metal 1. Protest the Hero - Kezia (2005) 2. Between the Buried and Me - Colors (2007) 3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory (1999) 4. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil (2011) 5. TesseracT - Altered State (2013) 6. Haken - Aquarius (2010) 7. Today I Caught the Plague - Lore (2011) 8. Caligula’s Horse - Moments from Ephemeral City (2011) 9. Art by Numbers - Reticence: The Musical (2012) 10. Native Construct - Quiet World (2015)
@@jameshoey303 I'm always happy to help fellow prog lovers find new artists to listen to and always looking for more to explore myself. I hope you find some in that list that you end up enjoying. If you're looking for more, my channel has lots of album ranking and music-list-related content.
@@voshche I just listened to Agusa for the first time this weekend. Solid band. I haven't heard the others you mentioned but they sound like good ones to check out.
Great list! You could have named this video Alan's favorite albums except for the omission of Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Camel, Caravan, and Nektar. Not the best that you showed, but my very favorite: A Passion Play.
Very good selection, some "must" are anyway missing like Caravan, Camel and VGG. For my personal taste I would add also "Trilogy" from ELP. There also some "One shot" band very important like "Spring" for ex and the italian progressive "brand" ... too much good stuff : )
Hey, great picks! Here's a few I would add. Hawkwind : Space Ritual (1973), Lucifer's Friend : Banquet (1974), Nektar : Recycled (1975), Starcastle : Starcastle (1976), Jon Anderson : Olias of Sunhillow (1976). Cheers!
Good to see a young American presenter featuring so many British bands in his list. I'm 67 and I have most of these albums on vinyl. I started listening to all of this stuff when I was 14. It was my life then. Some of these bands are still around today. I saw Wishbone Ash recently at Buxton Opera house and they did the whole of the Argus Album in their second set. What a band. Far play these choices are the best I've seen on you tube. Make it a top 50 so you can put in some Camel, Caravan, Man, T2 and two more Wishbone Ash albums particularly their first two Wishbone Ash and Pilgrimage. Phil Tennant. Derbyshire
The good: All the albums on the list!, the Bad: All the albums Not on the list... especially: Camel_(Moonmadness), Eloy_(Ocean), Uriah Heep_(The Magician's Birthday) among many others. ... I'm SURE your list will change 😎 Cheers!
We have the same top 3. I have a couple from the early 70's for you to checkout that you may not of heard. Together by Jane Remember the Future by Nektar (this could be my # 3 if not for Thick as a Brick)
Yes a fairly traditional and valid list of choices. However Camel are a very conspicuous omission. If you have only recently come across Van Der Graff then they may be off your radar currently. Also worth checking out; Alan Parsons Project, Magnum, Renaissance and the criminally always overlooked Saga. GIven the obvious weight of 70's inclusions, a more rounded and up to date list should take note of at least one album by both Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree.
Very good selection , it is just a matter of likes , to me the two 45 minutes Jethro Tull albums Thick as a Brick and Passion Play are the most talented smart and sophisticated progressive rock albums, then I prefer Foxtrot, Close to the Edge, Selling England by the Pound and some from Pink Floyd as Animals and The wall. And the album Tubular bells of Mike Olfield.
A majority of these I grew up with but we never considered anything prog, we just considered it great music. Just a few weeks ago I started surfing "prog rock" on TH-cam and I can't believe I never listened to Gabriel-era Genesis given some of my top favorite bands are Grateful Dead, Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc. I think I've purchased a few dozen albums in the last couple of weeks as my journey into classic progressive progresses. A few others I have recently discovered are Camel, Caravan, Eloy, Gentle Giant, Marillion. One I never see on a list of prog lists, maybe its more space prog, I'm not much into labels, is Planet P Project's self-titled album and Pink World by Tony Carey who was keyboardist on the Rainbow Rising album with Dio and Blackmore. Why Me made a splash for awhile on radio. If you don't want to label it prog, call them concept albums, but based on your list, you may find them interesting. Anyway, so much great music to explore. Life is good! Thanks for sharing your favorites.
Prog rock is a difficult genre to define. I think the one definition that makes a band "prog" is unusual time signatures, frequent change of time signature, tempo, key, chord progression and mood changes throughout a single song. A song doesn't have to be long and epic or touch intellectual or fantastical subject matters in its lyrics. That's why even the first two albums by Boston, which most would consider pop-oriented arena rock, can be also defined as prog rock because some of their early songs have those structural complexities. Technically all jazz fusion bands are prog rock using that definition, or the avantgarde of Frank Zappa and Magma, for that matter. On the other hand, early Deep Purple had some long and technical songs with multiple parts, but they were structurally simple and therefore not prog, but Uriah Heep, a similar sounding band, had odd time signatures with frequent changes on early albums and therefore they can be considered prog.
@@elimalinsky7069 I like your definition, however, as it is with any descriptor that is this general, St. Stephen from the Grateful Dead should be considered Prog, but it is never on any list. Personally, the Dead are in their own class that should never be put in a "group" assigned by the sociologists. That was the biggest crime of the century. No prog inferences intended. :) My point is that labels often, as much as they are helpful, are also misleading. Thus I disdain labels. With that said, I like your definition of Prog. It is very helpful but also shows the limitations. All said, if its good music, it deserves a listen! I have found so much great music by perusing the Prog lists on TH-cam and am very pleased that I have! Can't believe how much music I have missed out on over the years!
Maybe album title Red was because when a bands record engineers don't want the sound to get too loud for the microphones and get distorted sound when indicator needle goes from in the green into the dangerous red area. They show the needle going into the red area on a photograph on the back of the cd. The inside gatefold on Dark Side Of The Moon shows the visual trace of a heartbeat, which does feature throughout the album.
Good on ya for including the first Utopia album. If I was to ever do a youtube video on the single best prog rock album EVER!, I would choose that one. Everything else is...meh, whatever.
Like another said, most of these I grew up with. I had heard the term progressive rock at the time, now though labeled as ‘prog’. Surprised at some of the top 10 here. For example I would never put any other KC album above In the Court of the Crimson King. Once Greg Lake left the band it just wasn’t the same. Also surprised to see so many Rush albums. That might just be a product of my generation. If you do like Rush so much I’m surprised Caress of Steel is missing. My fav Rush album, flowed by 2112. I do agree with your top two. Hard to argue with those.
DUDE! You nailed it! Do yourself a favor and discover Procol Harum BEFORE you become a fossil like me. I own and treasure all of these 35 albums, and in 1983 you would have heard most of these blowing out of my art school dorm room. Great presentation!
Thank you… about Procul Harum. My favorite band. They seem just forgotten on all these type of reviews. Not sue why. How does it get better than Shine on Brightly; which maybe the start of prog
@@markrothkopf5598Check out the live Beat Club version of Quite Rightly So on TH-cam. The organ solo is way more intense than the original recording. Exotic Birds and Fruit was a fantastic album also. I got to see them on a cruise shortly before Brooker passed.
I don't think he's heard of Marillion .. or IQ, Twelfth Night, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Frost, Big Big Train, Pendragon, Spocks Beard, Haken, and 2112 is only 1/2 a progressive rock album.
Van Der Graaf Generator rule!! I am sure Godbluff has moved up your list by now. I highly recommend H To He and Pawn Hearts as well and don’t sleep on Hammill’s solo stuff. It’s a really deep well with a pile of buried treasure at the bottom.
This is one of the best list on TH-cam. I would have to put Camel in their..and Jethro Tull , Higher..i am hitting the top 5..i am still hoping you Do Not include , Steve Wilson..sweet no Wilson and yes Dark Side is the best album of all time..sounds like it was recorded yesterday..
Great list but where’s Arabesque/tales of power? Camel/moon madness and anything by Grobschnitt! If you’re not familiar with these bands please go check them out. You’ll thank me later.
When I think prog rock, ELO isn't a band I'd include in a list of top 20, 30 or even 50 albums. BUT if I had to, I'd only pick the first two (ELO & ELO II. Definitely not Eldorado and Out of the Blue, since the band were, in my opinion, already in their pop phase by then.
thin there are albums that I do not know. thank you ! It would have been the best if there was a list it would be good for those who do not speak English..but tksss
There are no bands that can pull this quality off today. They're all way to generic. This period you cover is the greatest epoch of music in the modern era ever. 1968 - 1980 the absolute best period.
Emmaus Road Band - This Could Be The Beginning song Blew me away once it started. Great twists n turns n soulful vocals. Also Micheal Omartain was so good even Steely Dan used him on Aja as keyboardist. Alive n Well is nostalgic ad hell. Omartain as a producer gave Christopher Cross his debute sound. Long list of accomplishments
1 Hot Rats- zappa 2 Thick as a brick -tull 3 Bundles-Soft Machine 4Larks tongues in aspic-Crimson 5Close to the edge-Yes 6Physical Graffiti-Led 7Three Friends-Gentle Giant 8South Saturn Delta-Hendrix 9Meddle-Pink Floyd 10Third-Soft Machine 11Waka Jawaka-Zappa 12Are you experience-Hendrix 13 Heavy Horses-Tull 14In the court of the crimson-king-crimson 15Presence-Led 16Going for the one-Yes 17The soft Parade-the doors 18Construção-Chico 19O clube da esquina-Milton 20Alagbon close-Fela Kuti
You know, I like your selections but it makes me wonder if some of those albums just have only a few tracks which are "prog" but the rest of the music is more straight ahead rock, or hard rock, even fusion. I guess it depends on the definition of "prog" I suppose.
Interesting selection I cannot disagree with your personal choices as it is yours. I would probably disagree with some of them on a Prog sensibility though. There are quite a few essentials that you missed maybe you have not dived that deep yet.
Gracias!!! Garry, escuché todos gracias!!! a Dios ❣️ aún se que hay más música, ese que se ve de Génesis en la pantalla también me gusta, espero mas LPs o CDs deliciosa la música ☮️😃 Mcdonald & Giles. It's Beautyful Days, Mark Harmond, Supertramp, E,L & P. King Crimson. Pinky Floyd. Queen 1. Y otros Janis, Hendrix, The Beatles, Rollins stone, y más me tocó gracias!!! Garry Elton John Lennon Cat Stevens. Alice Cooper. Lee Michaels. The Who. Allmans brother band, Deep Purple, Black Sabath. Cactus. Frank Zappa. Crosby, Still, Nash & Neil Young. Grand Funk. Y más música gracias!!! Garry ☮️
for some reason I no longer listen to all this stuff although still keep most of these lps & cds in my collection. Today I'd rather listen to This Mortal Coil projects or modern musicians like the Voidz, Symposium, Addy Edward or Banzai Florist. B.R, from Russia
Yeah! DSOTM is a turnover and epitome in music. Perfectly recorded. Inspired. Still and absolute album of all time! Animals is a heart choice for me too...
Ι doubt that even a 100 greatest would be sufficient. There are so many less known masterpieces of progressive rock. Several of them don't even come from the UK or the USA which nearly monopolize the scene for obvious reasons. Anyway, this is a good list, i too really love most of these albums.
Enjoying watching this & poring thru’ comments at the same time. However, only 3mins in & … ‘Out of the Blue’?? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fucking great album: I remember buying it the day it was released. But, ‘Prog’?
top ten prog records gentle giant playing the fool 1976 caravan green 1970 yes tales of trop oceans 1974 minstral in the gallery jethro tull 1975 genesis sebtp 1973 claypool lennon delirium South Of Reality 2019 porcupine tree deadwing 2005 todd rungrens utopia 1974 PF animals 77 supertramp supertramp 1970
@@ymmit7459 i think that's correct. i heard title track on the radio and my head exploded! i bought it the next day. that was 1975. it remains my favorite tull album.
Great list!! .. Agree with all but Rush, I could never get into them!! Maybe some Camel in their place!! Great to see Argus on your list, one of my favourite albums.Thanks for posting!
Mike Oldfield : "Ommadawn" and Camel : "The Snowgoose" (or maybe "Moonmadness") Marillion : Misplaced Childhood" and Genesis "Selling England by the pound" are missing . But Supertramp and ELO wasn't considered as prog rock at the time, it was rather pop rock . Asia, though were formed by former prog rock stars plays AOR / FM music.
There are so many 70s albums that you could of included and all that without a mention of deep purple, black sabbeth,mike oldfield.rick wakeman to name but a few. just a shame there all on CD i think all bar two of the list i have on vynal and bought when they where released. If you can get hold of a copy try listening to White Noise, an electric storm. That will blow you mind 🤪 headphones required lol
How could you forget the name Emerson Lake and Palmer when you're holding the freaking disc right in front of you. And only at number 22 that is one of the albums that introduced the world to progressive rock and contains the Barbarian and knife edge which for all purposes were the first two prog metal songs😮
there are plenty Italian and German prog bands but he does not know them ... and this list should be at least 100 fav bands-- 70s is too great decade for prog rock 😉
This is a great comprehensive list excepting “Rush”. I’ve seen them perform live several times starting in 1974. I just don’t get them as a progressive rock group. To me “Rush” is more derivative than progressive.
Regarding ABWH, I viscerally hate the song Teakbois. So I replaced it by Vultures in the City, B-side of Brother of Mine single. It makes a much better album to my ears!
Ciao, i advise you: Pawn Hearts - VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Felona e Sorona - LE ORME Photos of ghost - PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI Preludio, tema, variazioni, canzona - OSANNA (with Bacalov) Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO The six wives of the Henry VIII - RICK WAKEMAN Elegy - NICE and in the end Trilogy of EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER one of the first five position
This guy is young, once you've listened to his list you start to look world wide. I love PFM, Museo Rosenbach, Harmoniam, Banco, Le Orme. Funny how he missed Pavlov's Dog (as he's an American) the best prog band from the US. I sort of get No Marillion! all that ELP!!! Tarkus yes the others no. Why Oh why "No Camel".
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i'm 20 years old, and i much love the 70s prog rock, long live the old school
golden era of prog rock music
30 yrs old and I share this feeling. I will add to this list Pawn Hearts by Van Der Graff Generator and Mirage by Camel and In the Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan and Pink Floyd's Meddle and King Crimson' Lizard.
No Camel or Caravan...
Homework. Camel Mirage, The Snow Goose and Moon Madness. Caravan In The Land Of The Grey n Pink.
Happy Listening!
A good selection of prog albums . I would add :
Genesis : Selling England by the Pound
Camel : Moonmadness and Rain Dances
Marillion : Misplaced Childhood
Moody Blues : On the Threshold of a Dream
King Crimson: Discipline
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
Porcupine Tree : Deadwing and In Absentia
Well Done ! Cheers ..
Not including Selling England by the Pound was a surprise. I know he was limiting himself to 3 albums per band, though. That's why Moving Pictures wasn't included.
@@JohnPrepuceel tipo es sincero y pone lo que le gusta, su ranking. Me gustan más personalmente los cuatro álbumes anteriores a moving pictures y son más progresivos. Selling England parece que le gusta menos que foxtrot, nursery y the lamb, lo respeto, los 4 son buenísimos.
What a great stuff! I´m 64 and can assure you that if these albuns continue to be superb nowadays, imagine what they meant in the time they were launched. I lived in that time, and each album that we discovered was something to be understood, used to and, after all, we started to love them from then on. The seventies were plenty of good albuns and great songs, that we are still listening to in the 21st century. Congratulations for the seletions, I couldn´t agree more.
Great selection! It was nice to see 'Moving Waves' Focus in there. I'm a Brit living in the Netherlands. I cut my teeth on prog rock back in the late 60's early 70's and have amassed rather a daunting vinyl collection. Despite their modest contribution to the international rock and prog scene it's majorly bizarre that most Dutch people haven't even heard of Focus. I actually discovered them when I was living in my home town near Liverpool. thanks!! 💫
My favorite progressive album is Pink Floyd Meddle
That's definitely my favorite Pink Floyd album.
Excellent list! I really think Camel should make your list. Maybe in the years ahead, you’ll give them a full listen.
Thanks for sharing!
He didn't include Camel? Thanks man, i Will skip the video then...
My Camel Album Ranking
1 Rain Dances
2 Mirage
3 Moonmadness
4 I Can See Your House From Here
5 Camel
6 Snow Goose
7 A Nod & A Wink
8 Nude
9 Breathless
10 The Single Factor
11 Stationary Traveller
12 Rajaz
13 Harbor Of Tears
14 Dust & Dreams
He probably havn't even listened to them. Like he said in the beginning of the video they guy's a rookie, which makes me wonder why he would even make a top list when he hasn't even listened to that much prog.
Hello I am 53 and a prog rock fun for over 40 years. Nice video. As you get deeper into prog your list going to change in many ways. For example some great prog albums from the 70s: VDGG : Pawn Hearts, Soft Machine: 3, UK: UK, Renaissance : Turn of the cards, Caravan: In the land of Grey and Pink, Camel: Mirage, Robert Wyatt: Rock bottom, Egg: The Polite force, Steve Hillage: Fish Rising, Chris Squire : Fish out of water, Steve Hackett : The voyage of the Acolyte, PFM: Per Un amico. Keep going
Aphrodite's Child 666 maybe? cheers from Belgrade
Finally someone mentioned Renaissance! 😄
Great list, and I have the same podium, but no Selling England :(
Very difficult for me to understand your list no "SELLING ENGLAND by the POUND" :(
Great list but I would definitely have included Selling England By The Pound and Going For The One.
Just gone past six in the morning here in Cape Town enjoy your show,, sixty next week, good to see someone of your age keeping the torch burning ..keep on truckin
Great video! I'm a little bit surprised that you didn't include Henry Cow/Art Bears which featured Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause and Chris Cutler. I would recommend 1981 LP "The World as It Is Today". Fred Frith also did an amazing LP titled 'Speachless' on The Residents Ralph Records.
New subscriber, Gary! Outstanding list with many of my favorites. Thanks for including the great underrated band Supertramp! Mixed and engineered in such a way that the louder it is played the clearer it sounds.
Great list.
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of prog rock and my favorites would be (in no particular order):
Yes : Fragile, Close to the Edge, Going for the One
Genesis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, Trick of the Tail
Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn, Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge
Jethro Tull: Aqualung, A Passion Play, Thick as a Brick
ELP: Trilogy
ELO: Eldorado
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King, Wake of the Poseidon, Red
Moody Blues: Days of Future Past, In Search of the Lost Chord
Aphrodite’s Child: 666
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra, Atem
Edgar Froese: Aqua
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon
David Bedford: Instructions for Angels
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
Paul Kantner: Blows Against the Empire, Dragonfly, Sunfighter
Pete Sinfield: Still
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe, Oxygene
Vangelis: Opera Sauvage, Themes, Rosetta
Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
Klaus Schulze: Timewind
Pekka: Mathematician’s Air Display
Peter Gabriel: Melt, Security
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love, Aerial
Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid, I Robot, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Renaissance: Turn of the Cards, Scheherazade
So many wonderful albums in your list.
Hi, I am getting more and more into Prog Rock and this is a great list. Nice to see that you included Focus - Moving Waves in you list as I am listening to it now and think it is superb and very much underrated. It also got me into Jan Ackerman , his guitar playing is sublime. Pink Floyd Dark side of the Moon is the best album of all time in my opinion also.
Have you heard Ok Computer? the only album that can be compared to the moon.
Very interesting list! Thank you for sharing with us! David Gilmour is a huge influence on my music too (you’ll hear it clearly on the solo of my song So Much Love, along with a little Brian May and a little Steve Rothery from Marillion). You may like it! :)
Pink Floyd Saucer Full of Secrets 1968. Great album . Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Also, you gotta check out The Tubes first album. I know you don't of The Tubes when talking about Prog but, check it out.
Great choices.
But
Supertramp is my number one.
I know every word on that album
Nice job, young man.
And thank you for helping extend the life of some great music. Possibly among the best of our time. As someone before me said, I’m sure your list won’t stay the same!
PROCOL HARUM , MOODY BLUES !!..
SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND? )=
Great list. I’ve heard most of them. Don’t like the lamb lies down at all but love selling England by the pound by genesis. Individual taste is hard to fathom lol.
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The Lamb is hard to get into after the previous albums.....but so worth the effort...bit like YES tales from topographic oceans...takes time...bit once you get it...it becomes their best
@@jameshoey303 Right? I had it for years, but really dove back into it a few years ago. There are some really amazing notes going on on the Lamb. If you haven't found it yet, there are 7 hours of the Headley Grange rehearsal tapes here on TH-cam.
Very good list. Love seeing Utopia on there!!! Prog on, my friend.
I was glad to see you included Jethro Tull, probably the most versatile songwriting in the 70s - 90s, at least from the British isles..
I almost agree with your list, although I find it a little "Yes-heavy", and you missed my favorite albums "Selling England By The Pound" and "Trick Of The Tail", both by Genesis of course..
Nice list! Here's what I've come up with (we have some overlap but you didn't include much modern prog rock or prog metal but I put some of that on mine):
My Top 10 Classic Prog Rock (pre-1984)
1. Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
3. Yes - Fragile (1971)
4. Gentle Giant - Free Hand (1975)
5. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
6. Journey - Dream, After Dream (1980)
7. Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (1976)
8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (1971)
9. Supertramp - Crime of the Century (1974)
10. Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)
My Top 10 More Modern Prog Rock
1. Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places (2014)
2. Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (2019)
3. Leprous - Malina (2017)
4. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (2013)
5. Devin Townsend Project - Ghost (2010)
6. Orbs - Asleep Next to Science (2010)
7. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)
9. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension (2012)
10. The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (2015)
My Top 10 Prog Metal
1. Protest the Hero - Kezia (2005)
2. Between the Buried and Me - Colors (2007)
3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory (1999)
4. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil (2011)
5. TesseracT - Altered State (2013)
6. Haken - Aquarius (2010)
7. Today I Caught the Plague - Lore (2011)
8. Caligula’s Horse - Moments from Ephemeral City (2011)
9. Art by Numbers - Reticence: The Musical (2012)
10. Native Construct - Quiet World (2015)
Thanks for your suggestions...some new artists for me to explore..that what makes these messages great fun
@@jameshoey303 I'm always happy to help fellow prog lovers find new artists to listen to and always looking for more to explore myself. I hope you find some in that list that you end up enjoying. If you're looking for more, my channel has lots of album ranking and music-list-related content.
Busy collecting the albums you suggested...looking forward to investigating...thank you
Agusa, Black bonzo, Hypnos 69 , Alamaailman Vasarat???
@@voshche I just listened to Agusa for the first time this weekend. Solid band. I haven't heard the others you mentioned but they sound like good ones to check out.
glad to see a ranking with more than one album from the great bands.If I do a ranking like this Yes would have at least six albums in it
Excellent list...
But, man, you forgot Zappa!
Especially - "One Size Fits All."
Peace on earth.
Great list! You could have named this video Alan's favorite albums except for the omission of Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Camel, Caravan, and Nektar.
Not the best that you showed, but my very favorite: A Passion Play.
I'm proud to have the most of those 35 in Vinyl ❤️
Very good selection, some "must" are anyway missing like Caravan, Camel and VGG. For my personal taste I would add also "Trilogy" from ELP. There also some "One shot" band very important like "Spring" for ex and the italian progressive "brand" ... too much good stuff : )
Some great pics dude!
Great Review...Greetings from Ireland
Glad to see Wish Bone Ash's Argus and Kansas's -Point of No return . Both are highly underrated and deserve a place in top 20
Love Argus...a real treat
Very true
Hey, great picks! Here's a few I would add. Hawkwind : Space Ritual (1973), Lucifer's Friend : Banquet (1974), Nektar : Recycled (1975), Starcastle : Starcastle (1976), Jon Anderson : Olias of Sunhillow (1976). Cheers!
Good to see a young American presenter featuring so many British bands in his list. I'm 67 and I have most of these albums on vinyl. I started listening to all of this stuff when I was 14. It was my life then. Some of these bands are still around today. I saw Wishbone Ash recently at Buxton Opera house and they did the whole of the Argus Album in their second set. What a band. Far play these choices are the best I've seen on you tube. Make it a top 50 so you can put in some Camel, Caravan, Man, T2 and two more Wishbone Ash albums particularly their first two Wishbone Ash and Pilgrimage. Phil Tennant. Derbyshire
The good: All the albums on the list!, the Bad: All the albums Not on the list... especially: Camel_(Moonmadness), Eloy_(Ocean), Uriah Heep_(The Magician's Birthday) among many others. ... I'm SURE your list will change 😎 Cheers!
Excellent list I love all this albums just need a Oldfield and Pendragon album
Excelente!!!! Coincido contigo!!!! Tal vez hayas olvidado el Mirage de Camel. Yo lo hubiese agregado Felicitaciones amigo!!!!
Camel?, The Moody Blues?, Eloy?
I totally agree, nice selection, this looks almost the same as mine lol
Fair enough. There are several Pink Floyd albums I prefer to Dark Side of The Moon, but I would agree it was the most influential. 😎
Great list , only two words : music history
We have the same top 3. I have a couple from the early 70's for you to checkout that you may not of heard.
Together by Jane
Remember the Future by Nektar (this could be my # 3 if not for Thick as a Brick)
That's my Top 3 too and in the same order.
Yes a fairly traditional and valid list of choices. However Camel are a very conspicuous omission. If you have only recently come across Van Der Graff then they may be off your radar currently. Also worth checking out; Alan Parsons Project, Magnum, Renaissance and the criminally always overlooked Saga. GIven the obvious weight of 70's inclusions, a more rounded and up to date list should take note of at least one album by both Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree.
Very good selection , it is just a matter of likes , to me the two 45 minutes Jethro Tull albums Thick as a Brick and Passion Play are the most talented smart and sophisticated progressive rock albums, then I prefer Foxtrot, Close to the Edge, Selling England by the Pound and some from Pink Floyd as Animals and The wall. And the album Tubular bells of Mike Olfield.
A majority of these I grew up with but we never considered anything prog, we just considered it great music. Just a few weeks ago I started surfing "prog rock" on TH-cam and I can't believe I never listened to Gabriel-era Genesis given some of my top favorite bands are Grateful Dead, Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc. I think I've purchased a few dozen albums in the last couple of weeks as my journey into classic progressive progresses. A few others I have recently discovered are Camel, Caravan, Eloy, Gentle Giant, Marillion. One I never see on a list of prog lists, maybe its more space prog, I'm not much into labels, is Planet P Project's self-titled album and Pink World by Tony Carey who was keyboardist on the Rainbow Rising album with Dio and Blackmore. Why Me made a splash for awhile on radio. If you don't want to label it prog, call them concept albums, but based on your list, you may find them interesting. Anyway, so much great music to explore. Life is good! Thanks for sharing your favorites.
Prog rock is a difficult genre to define. I think the one definition that makes a band "prog" is unusual time signatures, frequent change of time signature, tempo, key, chord progression and mood changes throughout a single song. A song doesn't have to be long and epic or touch intellectual or fantastical subject matters in its lyrics. That's why even the first two albums by Boston, which most would consider pop-oriented arena rock, can be also defined as prog rock because some of their early songs have those structural complexities. Technically all jazz fusion bands are prog rock using that definition, or the avantgarde of Frank Zappa and Magma, for that matter.
On the other hand, early Deep Purple had some long and technical songs with multiple parts, but they were structurally simple and therefore not prog, but Uriah Heep, a similar sounding band, had odd time signatures with frequent changes on early albums and therefore they can be considered prog.
Another group one seldom sees on a list is the (criminally) underrated band Pendragon. Truly baffling
@@elimalinsky7069 I like your definition, however, as it is with any descriptor that is this general, St. Stephen from the Grateful Dead should be considered Prog, but it is never on any list. Personally, the Dead are in their own class that should never be put in a "group" assigned by the sociologists. That was the biggest crime of the century. No prog inferences intended. :) My point is that labels often, as much as they are helpful, are also misleading. Thus I disdain labels. With that said, I like your definition of Prog. It is very helpful but also shows the limitations. All said, if its good music, it deserves a listen! I have found so much great music by perusing the Prog lists on TH-cam and am very pleased that I have! Can't believe how much music I have missed out on over the years!
Maybe album title Red was because when a bands record engineers don't want the sound to get too loud for the microphones and get distorted sound when indicator needle goes from in the green into the dangerous red area. They show the needle going into the red area on a photograph on the back of the cd.
The inside gatefold on Dark Side Of The Moon shows the visual trace of a heartbeat, which does feature throughout the album.
Good on ya for including the first Utopia album. If I was to ever do a youtube video on the single best prog rock album EVER!, I would choose that one. Everything else is...meh, whatever.
Like another said, most of these I grew up with. I had heard the term progressive rock at the time, now though labeled as ‘prog’. Surprised at some of the top 10 here. For example I would never put any other KC album above In the Court of the Crimson King. Once Greg Lake left the band it just wasn’t the same. Also surprised to see so many Rush albums. That might just be a product of my generation. If you do like Rush so much I’m surprised Caress of Steel is missing. My fav Rush album, flowed by 2112. I do agree with your top two. Hard to argue with those.
Definitely Caress of Steel, Fly By Night (By-tor), and agree on KC. Not the same without Greg.
Love Caress of Steel; sooooo underrated!!
DUDE! You nailed it! Do yourself a favor and discover Procol Harum BEFORE you become a fossil like me. I own and treasure all of these 35 albums, and in 1983 you would have heard most of these blowing out of my art school dorm room. Great presentation!
Thank you… about Procul Harum. My favorite band. They seem just forgotten on all these type of reviews. Not sue why. How does it get better than Shine on Brightly; which maybe the start of prog
@@markrothkopf5598Check out the live Beat Club version of Quite Rightly So on TH-cam. The organ solo is way more intense than the original recording. Exotic Birds and Fruit was a fantastic album also. I got to see them on a cruise shortly before Brooker passed.
All great choices!
Always fun to see people's top lists, which generate discussion. But.... no Marillion?! 😳
I don't think he's heard of Marillion .. or IQ, Twelfth Night, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Frost, Big Big Train, Pendragon, Spocks Beard, Haken, and 2112 is only 1/2 a progressive rock album.
Van Der Graaf Generator rule!! I am sure Godbluff has moved up your list by now. I highly recommend H To He and Pawn Hearts as well and don’t sleep on Hammill’s solo stuff. It’s a really deep well with a pile of buried treasure at the bottom.
This is one of the best list on TH-cam.
I would have to put Camel in their..and Jethro Tull , Higher..i am hitting the top 5..i am still hoping you Do Not include , Steve Wilson..sweet no Wilson and yes Dark Side is the best album of all time..sounds like it was recorded yesterday..
I have tried and tried to hear the "Prog" in Wilson's music. I just don't hear any in there
Great list but where’s Arabesque/tales of power? Camel/moon madness and anything by Grobschnitt! If you’re not familiar with these bands please go check them out. You’ll thank me later.
When I think prog rock, ELO isn't a band I'd include in a list of top 20, 30 or even 50 albums. BUT if I had to, I'd only pick the first two (ELO & ELO II. Definitely not Eldorado and Out of the Blue, since the band were, in my opinion, already in their pop phase by then.
3:38 Mmm, I don't know that album "Making Waves" by Focus. Must be nice.
thin there are albums that I do not know. thank you ! It would have been the best if there was a list it would be good for those who do not speak English..but tksss
There are no bands that can pull this quality off today. They're all way to generic. This period you cover is the greatest epoch of music in the modern era ever. 1968 - 1980 the absolute best period.
Emmaus Road Band - This Could Be The Beginning song Blew me away once it started. Great twists n turns n soulful vocals.
Also Micheal Omartain was so good even Steely Dan used him on Aja as keyboardist. Alive n Well is nostalgic ad hell. Omartain as a producer gave Christopher Cross his debute sound. Long list of accomplishments
1 Hot Rats- zappa
2 Thick as a brick -tull
3 Bundles-Soft Machine
4Larks tongues in aspic-Crimson
5Close to the edge-Yes
6Physical Graffiti-Led
7Three Friends-Gentle Giant
8South Saturn Delta-Hendrix
9Meddle-Pink Floyd
10Third-Soft Machine
11Waka Jawaka-Zappa
12Are you experience-Hendrix
13 Heavy Horses-Tull
14In the court of the crimson-king-crimson
15Presence-Led
16Going for the one-Yes
17The soft Parade-the doors
18Construção-Chico
19O clube da esquina-Milton
20Alagbon close-Fela Kuti
You know, I like your selections but it makes me wonder if some of those albums just have only a few tracks which are "prog" but the rest of the music is more straight ahead rock, or hard rock, even fusion. I guess it depends on the definition of "prog" I suppose.
The Focus album is called 'Moving Waves' and not 'Making Waves'.
Interesting selection I cannot disagree with your personal choices as it is yours. I would probably disagree with some of them on a Prog sensibility though. There are quite a few essentials that you missed maybe you have not dived that deep yet.
Gracias!!! Garry, escuché todos gracias!!! a Dios ❣️ aún se que hay más música, ese que se ve de Génesis en la pantalla también me gusta, espero mas LPs o CDs deliciosa la música ☮️😃 Mcdonald & Giles. It's Beautyful Days, Mark Harmond, Supertramp, E,L & P. King Crimson. Pinky Floyd. Queen 1. Y otros Janis, Hendrix, The Beatles, Rollins stone, y más me tocó gracias!!! Garry Elton John Lennon Cat Stevens. Alice Cooper. Lee Michaels. The Who. Allmans brother band, Deep Purple, Black Sabath. Cactus. Frank Zappa. Crosby, Still, Nash & Neil Young. Grand Funk. Y más música gracias!!! Garry ☮️
Jean Luc Ponty, UK, Zappa, ty
Does Ok Computer & Revolver66 counts as Prog albums? Jan4, 714pm
Lonely Heart Club at least?
What... no Camel? Some of the best prog ever from them.
If you haven't heard them yet check out Steven Wilson's albums hand cannot erase and the raven that refused to sing.
Where is Selling England by the Pound from Genesis
How old are you?
for some reason I no longer listen to all this stuff although still keep most of these lps & cds in my collection. Today I'd rather listen to This Mortal Coil projects or modern musicians like the Voidz, Symposium, Addy Edward or Banzai Florist. B.R, from Russia
Well Kansas made the list...thanks
Yeah! DSOTM is a turnover and epitome in music. Perfectly recorded. Inspired. Still and absolute album of all time! Animals is a heart choice for me too...
To my list i would add Eloy and Marillion❗
Heck YEah man, I love bursting open a bruski
Ι doubt that even a 100 greatest would be sufficient. There are so many less known masterpieces of progressive rock. Several of them don't even come from the UK or the USA which nearly monopolize the scene for obvious reasons. Anyway, this is a good list, i too really love most of these albums.
Enjoying watching this & poring thru’ comments at the same time. However, only 3mins in & … ‘Out of the Blue’?? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fucking great album: I remember buying it the day it was released. But, ‘Prog’?
cool list. Would make a pretty good Crash Course for Prog actually.
I have 18 of them but mine are vinyl. Jim
Love Rush!!
no porcupine tree?
top ten prog records
gentle giant playing the fool 1976
caravan green 1970
yes tales of trop oceans 1974
minstral in the gallery jethro tull 1975
genesis sebtp 1973
claypool lennon delirium South Of Reality 2019
porcupine tree deadwing 2005
todd rungrens utopia 1974
PF animals 77
supertramp supertramp 1970
Tull baker Street muse, one of fans, supposedly never performed live.
@@ymmit7459 i think that's correct. i heard title track on the radio and my head exploded! i bought it the next day. that was 1975. it remains my favorite tull album.
That's supposed to read one of my favs, not fans. Minstrels great.
@@ymmit7459 i thought so
Fear of a blank planet?
Great list!! .. Agree with all but Rush, I could never get into them!! Maybe some Camel in their place!! Great to see Argus on your list, one of my favourite albums.Thanks for posting!
Mike Oldfield : "Ommadawn" and Camel : "The Snowgoose" (or maybe "Moonmadness") Marillion : Misplaced Childhood" and Genesis "Selling England by the pound" are missing . But Supertramp and ELO wasn't considered as prog rock at the time, it was rather pop rock . Asia, though were formed by former prog rock stars plays AOR / FM music.
There are so many 70s albums that you could of included and all that without a mention of deep purple, black sabbeth,mike oldfield.rick wakeman to name but a few. just a shame there all on CD i think all bar two of the list i have on vynal and bought when they where released. If you can get hold of a copy try listening to White Noise, an electric storm. That will blow you mind 🤪 headphones required lol
Except for Styx, this is a super selection. Camel & Caravan are missing though.
For Kansas, the best choice is Song For America....for Rush, Permanent Waves for ELO, Face The Music...no Camel or Spock's Beard?
Spock’s Beard!
How about Mekanik Destriktiw Kommandoh by Magma? Not for the faint hearted!
Thank God at least you got to elps t a r k u s in the upper rankings😊
moonmadness breathless and mirage by camel
How could you forget the name Emerson Lake and Palmer when you're holding the freaking disc right in front of you. And only at number 22 that is one of the albums that introduced the world to progressive rock and contains the Barbarian and knife edge which for all purposes were the first two prog metal songs😮
About 30 of the 35 are English bands. Wow they dominated this era.
England are the king of Rock & Metal!
there are plenty Italian and German prog bands but he does not know them ...
and this list should be at least 100 fav bands-- 70s is too great decade for prog rock 😉
This is a great comprehensive list excepting “Rush”. I’ve seen them perform live several times starting in 1974. I just don’t get them as a progressive rock group. To me “Rush” is more derivative than progressive.
I hope you've discovered Camel!!
Of course. Been a fan for quite some time
Camel Mirage, Moonmadness
I would put `from Genesis to Revelation` on 2nd place.
seek ye Gates of Delirium.
I takes 3 listens and you’re hooked.
Regarding ABWH, I viscerally hate the song Teakbois. So I replaced it by Vultures in the City, B-side of Brother of Mine single. It makes a much better album to my ears!
Ciao, i advise you:
Pawn Hearts - VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
Felona e Sorona - LE ORME
Photos of ghost - PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI
Preludio, tema, variazioni, canzona - OSANNA (with Bacalov)
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO
The six wives of the Henry VIII - RICK WAKEMAN
Elegy - NICE
and in the end Trilogy of EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER one of the first five position
This guy is young, once you've listened to his list you start to look world wide. I love PFM, Museo Rosenbach, Harmoniam, Banco, Le Orme. Funny how he missed Pavlov's Dog (as he's an American) the best prog band from the US. I sort of get No Marillion! all that ELP!!! Tarkus yes the others no. Why Oh why "No Camel".