In the Prog Seat: Our Favorite Prog/Fusion Albums of 1972
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- Join the In the Prog Seat crew as they rank their Top 5 albums released in 1972. #1972
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Pete's picks:
1) Yes-Close to the Edge
2) Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick
3) Genesis-Foxtrot
4) Gentle Giant-Three Friends
5) Gentle Giant-Octopus
Honorables: Nektar-A Tab in the Ocean, PFM-Storia di un Minuto ,Banco-Banco
Chad's picks:
1. Yes, "Close to the Edge"
2. Genesis, "Foxtrot"
3. Gentle Giant, "Octopus"
4. ELP, "Trilogy"
5. Gentle Giant, "Three Friends"
HM:
Chick Corea/Return to Forever, "Light as a Feather"
Banco del Muto Soccorso, "Darwin!"
PFM, "Per Un Amico"
George's picks:
5. PFM - Per Un Amico
4. Gentle Giant - Octopus
3. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin!
2. Jehtro Tull - Thick as a Brick
1. Yes - Close to the Edge
HMs
Quella Vecchia Locanda - s/t
Genesis - Foxtrot
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - s/t
Luis' picks:
5. YES -Close to the edge, 4. PFM - Per un Amico, 3. Gentle Giant - Octopus, 2. Frank Zappa - Grand Wazoo, 2. Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick. HM: Banco (Eponymous and Darwin), Genesis - Foxtrot, Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Ken's picks:
1.Yes - Close To The Edge
2.ELP - Trilogy
3.Genesis - Foxtrot
4.Il Balletto Di Bronzo - Ys
5.Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean
HMs:
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin
PFM - Storia Di Un Minuto
Agitation Free - Malesch
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Steven's picks:
5. Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
4. Wishbone Ash - Argus
3. Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
2. Yes - Close To The Edge
1. Gentle Giant - Octopus
Hon Mentions
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Uriah Heep - The Magician’s Birthday
Eric’s picks
5. Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
4. Yes - Close to the Edge
3. Jethro Tull - TAAB
2. Gentle Giant- Three Friends
1. Genesis - Foxtrot
HM
PFM - Per Un Amico
Frank Zappa - Waka Jawaka
ELP - Trilogy
Again/. Thank you for your lists. PETE 👍💯
Attached would've been my list for 1972:
-Roxy Music-Roxy Music
-Caravanserai-Santana
-Crossings-Herbie Hancock
-Live In Tokyo-Weather Report
-Return To Forever-Chick Corea
-On The Corner-Miles Davis
Sorry for the late response to this video, I had originally had this list done yet I had do some last minute shopping that evening.
Coincidently, I had originally posted "Caravanserai" and "On The Corner" on my Facebook page before I even knew the both albums were celebrating their album releases that same day.
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I was 18 in 1972 so I was out buying these albums, and going to the gigs watching most of these bands. A big thanks to everyone who took part in the show, which is probably my favourite ever show.
I was 14 in 1972. I came home one night from partying with my friends. I turned on the TV and the show The Midnight Special was on . This band was playing and the singer was wearing a long cape. His face was painted and he had bat wings coming out from his shoulder blades. I was thinking who is this? It was Genesis performing Watcher of the Skies. From that moment on I became a huge fan!
George describing Italian progressive Rock bands as “Pasta Prog” killed me 😂
Too much guitar noodling?
Great LIST! I saw Gentle Giant open for Jethro Tull in Germany on the Aqualung tour. I never saw them again, but I was impressed with the sound they made. I've just downloaded the two albums mentioned on the top 5 lists. I've seen YES, Jethro Tull, Genesis, and ELP over the years. Now I have some others to discover. I LOVE Light As A Feather!
One of the best episode of the year. Great discussions by the panel and great comments by Luis !
You are much too kind. Thank you.
Great show chaps. Caravanserai would feature for me amongst many that have been mentioned. Focus III too
A big thanks to everyone who shared their favourite albums from a fantastic year in music . All great picks
Sorry for your loss Ken. Great episode guys
Thanks Jim. He was a mentor for many of us.
Sometimes I sit here in amazement that you guys exist and love the same stuff so fully. Thanks guys, seriously!
Probably my favorite SOT episode. Very entertaining and informative. So much I don't know about prog music.
My picks...
1. Close to the Edge, Yes
2. Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull
3. Octopus, Gentle Giant
4. Foxtrot, Genesis
5. Trilogy, ELP
TBH, I'm not familar with most of the songs on 3,4,5 but I had to pick something. 1,2 I've heard a million times and each listen keeps getting better.
Thx guys. Always great stuff 👍💯
Uomo di Pezza: Le Orme
Hoodoo Man: Birth Control
Father Son and Holy Ghosts : Embryo
Focus III : Focus
Matching Mole:Matching Mole
Time In The Prog Seat is always time well spent. Thanks to everyone - even those who 'mailed in' their choices for their lists and discussion. '72 was the end of my junior year and start of my senior year of high school and as has probably been mentioned on other SoT episode comment boards, the top three would have to be Trilogy by ELP, Close To The Edge by Yes and Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull. Each of these was bought when released and played almost daily during those years and quite often since then. Thick As A Brick is probably the one pulled the most frequently for listening after all these years so will give it top spot today but love all these albums. This group and SoT have put me onto some of the Italian prog which is still only a few years old with me but quite enjoyable. Thanks, gentlemen, for your time and discussion.
Great episode guys ☕
Thanks Brandon!
I love that Luis pointed out that Barriemore Barlow is the key to TAAB. He is an absolute MONSTER on that record, his first with the band. Incredible record.
I cant agree with you more!
Great show ones again My top 5
1 - Yes Close To The Edge
2 - Jethro Tull : Thick As A Brick
3 - Gentle Giant : Octopus
4- Genesis : Foxtrot
5- PFM : Per Un Amico
HM
Frank Zappa : T he Grand Wazoo
Frank Zappa : Waka Jawaka
ELP : Trilogy
PFM : Storia Di Un Minuto
Gentle Giant : Three Friends
Thank you so much Steven for picking Captain Beyond's debut. My favourite album of all times period - any genre. I would have been sad if it didn't get a mention!
1. Genesis- Foxtrot
2. Yes- Close to the Edge
3. ELP- Trilogy
4. Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
5. Pink Floyd- Obscured By Clouds
6. Uriah Heep- Demons and Wizards/The Magician's Birthday
7. Gentle Giant- Octupus
8. PFM- Per un amico
9. The Moody Blues- Seventh Sojourn
Here's 5 honorable mentions (we all know most of the 10 in the top 5, right 😉) :
- Focus - Focus 3
- Le Orme - Uomo Di Pezza
- Moving Gelatine Plates - The World Of Genius Hans
- 2066 & Then - Reflections!
- Embryo - Steig Aus
I can't believe I forgot Focus III!!!!
Marvelous, thank you gentlemen.
Fabulous stuff gentlemen. My music horizons are again broadened by your insights and knowledge. Many thanks...........I am now constantly skint.... :(
1. Vol. 333 L 'Infonie 2. Ege Bamyasi Can 3. Kanguru Guru Guru 4. Little Red Record Matching Mole 5. Framtiden Algarnas Tradgard
Steven- Your number three pick is Captain approved. Hype sticker to follow. Cheers
Huge fan...especially of the opening track with Bobby Caldwell's odd time groove.
@@jazzpunk Yes Sir ! The Captain rules. Cheers
REALLY?? You actually like that record??? Never would have guessed. But seriously, read my other comment, I watched just to see if anyone had the smarts to suggest it...the others didn't seem to approve much, they looked a little puzzled...HA!!! Every few days I put that record on and play along with Bobby Caldwell to keep my chops up.
@@x-roytube2218 Cheers mate 🍺
You guys are my connection to my youth. The fact that record stores don't exist anymore is MORE THAN a shame. Kids these days (and I have 2 living in my house) have NO idea the joy we had rifling through those record racks trying to find something to buy.
Belated condolences, Ken (I’ve only just seen this 😢).
I was 14 in 1972 and just getting into prog in a big way then.
My top 5
1 Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2 Three Friends - Gentle Giant
2= Octopus - Gentle Giant
3 Magicians Birthday - Uriah Heep
4 Close To The Edge - Yes
5 Argus - Wishbone Ash
Great show for a great year.
Among the not mentioned ones :
1- Weather Report : I sing the body electric
2- Return to forever : Return to forever
3- McCoy Tyner : Sahara
4- Keith Jarrett : Expectations
5- Miles Davis : On the Corner
My pics:
1. Close to the Edge (Yes)
2. Octopus (Gentle Giant)
3. A Tab in the Ocean (Nektar)
4. Foxtrot (Genesis)
5. Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)
Need to add that Zappa to my collection. My mom went to high school with him.
Must've been an interesting home room...
Well I just listened to those 2 PFM albums for the first time and despite the Italian singing, they are both brilliant including the vocals.
1) Yes: Close to the Edge
2) Genesis: Foxtrot
3) ELP: Trilogy
4)Gentle Giant: Three Friends
5) Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
I know I went out on a limb there picking these albums.
Great to see a new topic, fabulous year of 1972!
Love this show! I do wonder how many of the panelists were at least 15 when prog rock was at their commercial peak? It seems as though these are often retrospective analyses of great albums by bands who never sold well, or at least didn't do so until later in the decade. I suspect that if these were picked at the time, the top five would include Trilogy, CttE, and TaaB. Yes, I realize that commercial success does not equate to quality, but there had to be a reason why those first three bands sold out arenas while most of the others sold out clubs and struggled to fill theaters. Looking back, it is one thing to hear, say, ItCotCK when it was released versus hearing it for the first time in the 80s or 90s. Being there shapes the context of the times...
My Top 5:
1) Miles Davis - On The Corner
2) Earth, Wind, & Fire - Last Days & Time
3) Weather Report - Live In Tokyo
4) Yes - Close To The Edge
5) Hiromasa Suzuki & Rock Joint Biwa - Kumikyoku Furukotohumi
What a freakin year
Genesis - Foxtrot
Tull - Thick as a Brick
Yes - Close to the Edge
ELP - Trilogy
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Yes - Close to the Edge
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
Genesis - Foxtrot
The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
For me, Close To The Edge, Tarkus, Thick As A Brick, Foxtrot, and Octopus.
Oops, Trilogy then.
Have always liked Wishbone Ash "Argus" and Pink Floyd "Obscured By Clouds", which I think is a fantastic album.
1.Yes-Close To The Edge
2.ELP-Trilogy
3.Genesis-Foxtrot
4.Jethro Tull-Thick As A Brick
5.Gentle Giant-Octopus
HM:
Nektar-A Tab In The Ocean
Gentle Giant-Three Friends
King Crimson-Islands
Khan-Space Shanty
Gong-Flying Teapot
Matching Mole
PFM-Storia di Un Minuto
Captain Beyond
in alphabetical order :
the big names :
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Renaissance - Prologue
Yes - Close To The Edge
runner up : Genesis - Foxtrot
some mentions :
Capability Brown - From Scratch
Ekseption - Five
Flash : In The Can, and self-titled album
PFM - Storia di un minuto, and Per un amico
William D. Fisher - (self-titled album)
1 Seventh Sojurn - Moody Blues
2 Close to the Edge - Yes
3 Obscured by Clouds - Floyd
4 Foxtrot- Genesis
5 Thick as a Brick - Tull
Nektar! First live show I ever attended.
I have a suggestion. Loved the HVS episode where you ranked what would be the top 4 thrash bands if the big 4 didn't exist. Maybe you can do everyones big 4 for prog rock. I think it would be interesting to see how everyone differs.
Close to the Edge. I just love it to bits, especially Siberian Khatru. So many musical changes. I literally don't have the slightest clue what the lyrics mean. Yet, strangely, they make sense.
Great episode as always! I really like the format 2 2 1 for picks, It adds a great value for the picks and the guest have more time to express his feelings also the video have more dynamic. Again great episode as always!!!
1: Yes - Close to the Edge
2: Aphrodite's Child - 666
3: Gentle Giant - Octopus
4: Genesis - Foxtrot
5; Wishbone Ash - Argus
Honourable mentions; Strawbs - Grave New World, Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick, Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido, Gnidrolog - Lady Lake, Khan -Space Shanty and Caravan - Waterloo Lily.
Interesting show, I only came across it today. Great year for prog and rock in general. My favourite prog album in 1972 would have to be Thick As A Brick but barely I would say followed by the two Zappa albums.
Then Close To The Edge and Trilogy from Yes and Elp Respectably and Argus by the most underrated band of them all Wishbone Ash and as Ken rightly said they are a prog band. Gentle Giant and Genesis I never could get into them as they bore me, bought some of their albums but they don't do it for me.
Steve, for your pleasure isn’t Roxy musics debut it’s the second album. Sorry if this was just a slip of the tongue. Great picks as always great show.
well this is quite easy for me (also I'm not counting Uriah Heep as prog here so they don't clog up my picks, but Magician's Birthday is one of my favorite albums of all time so there, it's mentioned)
1. Gentle Giant - Three Friends (and Octopus)
2. Genesis - Foxtrot
3. Birth Control - Hoodoo Man
4. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
5. Yes - Close To The Edge
and because those picks are quite obvious, have another 5
6. Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
7. Wallenstein - Mother Universe
8. Passport
9. Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
10. Horslips - Happy to Meet - Sorry to Part
Great call on the Birth Control and Gnidrolog picks!
Thanks for extra picks
I agree with you Luis. All those albums that were mentioned are great but for me Thick as a Brick from Tull is as close to perfection as it gets for an album. There is nothing else that remotely comes close to its uniqueness which for me puts it in a league all by itself!
1 Close to the Edge
2 Trilogy
3 Focus 3
4 Argus
5 Do Rei Me
1. Close To The Edge [Nobody touches Steve Howe]
2. Trilogy [Every Track - Even Sheriff is brilliant and fun - Keith is miles ahead of everybody ]
3. Argus [Masterpiece][Can make Prog without keyboards]
4. Thick As A Brick [Genius]
5. Octopus [Masterpiece ]
6. Foxtrot [Supper's ready has far too much Gabriel blah blah blah and not enough Hackett]
7.Three Friends [Nothing really tricky like Octopus]
Caravanserai by Santana deserves an honorable mention, at least!
My top 5 favorite prog/fusion albums of 1972 ( in no particular order) are Foxtrot - Genesis, Octopus - Gentle Giant, Darwin! - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Storia di un minuto - PFM and Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull,
My honorable mentions: Il Balleto Di Bronzo - Ys, Close to the Edge - Yes, Demons and Wizards - Uriah Keep, Per un Amico - PFM, A Tab in the Ocean - Nectar, Uomo di pezza - Le Orme, Quella vecchia locanda - Quella vecchia locanda, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Palepoli - Osanna.
Oh man! demons and Wizards is such a great album! One of my favorites for sure.
It is amazing how every single year from the late 60''s- mid 70's, could be considered the best in terms of great albums released.
My top two favorites are
1973 and 1975.
Same here. 1975 is the pinnacle for me...
For context, 1972 was the year these bands issued 2 of their seminal albums. 2. Yeah, 2. Really, 2. Not kidding, 2...Banco del Mutuo Socorsso, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Gentle Giant and Uriah Heep (2 Roger Dean artwork, and adding Octopus, that's 3 Roger Dean artwork kids).
I love Wishbone Ash Pilgrimage. The song The Pilgrim reminds in certain spots of Yes and King Crimson.
"Chad and Anthony could not make it tonight."
It's cool, we still have Flea and Frusciante
My top 3:
Genesis:Foxtrot
Yes:Close to the edge
Jethro Tull:Thick as a brick
1. Foxtrot - Genesis, 2. Close to the Edge - Yes, 3. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull, 4. Trilogy - ELP, 5, Ege Bamyasi - Can
HR: Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd, Neu - Neu, Zeit - Tangerine Dream,
Yes - Close to the Edge
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
Genesis - Foxtrot
Wishbone Ash -Argus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Pete please post the picks in the comments. Great show cheers!
Posted!
#1 Trilogy
Very enjoyable show and loved hearing everyone's favourites, the 70s was an amazing era for so much legendary music coming out. Here are my top 5 picks
1. ELP: Trilogy
2. Yes: Close To The Edge
3. Genesis: Foxtrot
4. Roxy Music
5. Uriah Heep: Demons And Wizards
All the suggestions show what a great era/ year it was for inventive music. ‘Argus’ is a wonderful album, can’t believe it wasn’t everyone’s choice. Two absolute classics by the mighty Gentle Giant too.
I would like to mention Strawbs Grave New World
Thank you for the Barry Barlow shout out for his work on TAAB!!! Any other drummer and the album would still be good, but Barlow's style and creativity raises it a couple of notches. I'm always amazed how Barlow doesn't get the love he deserves when people discuss brick. I would also shout out john Evan's work. So much of the studio album has his hammond organ out front with martin barre buried in the mix. When I saw them do it live, after the accoustic opening, i wasn't expecting barre's guitar to explode out of the sound system the way it did -- which in a sold out MSG just rocked the walls of the place.
I completely agree about Barriemore, he's my favorite drummer of all time, although Bobby Caldwell may be a close second...they're both brilliant and imaginative with amazing chops.
Yes, close to the edge
Sweetness
Excellent video guys thoroughly enjoyed it!! Really hard year lots of fantastic music
My picks
Pink Floyd-obscured by clouds
Hugh masakela-home is where the music is
Return to forever-light as a feather
ELP-trilogy
Focus-focus III
Honorable mentions
Miles Davis-on the corner
Jimmy mcgriff-fly dude
Nektar-a tab in the ocean
Yes-close to the edge
Genesis-foxtrot
The Grand Wazoo, Return To Forever debut, and On The Corner are all historic- plus the obvious UK prog.
You guys are the epitome of great taste. 1972 was a fantastic year for Prog, most of the seminal bands with the exception of King Crimson and VDGG recorded their "magnum opus". So many prog bands recorded some impressive albums, not only the usual suspects, some well known and some obscure bands. A Top 5 for such an impressive year comes seriously short. My Top 25 Prog Albums + 5 Fusion Albums in alphabetical order would be:
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Flash - Flash
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Il Balletto Di Bronzo - YS
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Khan - Space Shanty
Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean
New Trolls - UT
Osanna - Palepoli
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia Di Un Minuto
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Q̤uella Vecchia Locanda
Reale Accademia Di Musica - Reale Accademia Di Musica
Renaissance - Prologue
Sandrose - Sandrose
Supersister - Pudding En Gisteren
Tasavallan Presidentti - Lambert Land
Wallenstein - Blitzkrieg
Yes - Close To The Edge
Frank Zappa - Waka Jawaka
Good God - Good God
Larry Coryell - Offering
Santana - Caravanserai
Volker Kriegel - Inside Missing Link
18:48 - Ooooooh mmmyyyyyy
There's a typo on the new Megadeth album. The Target version's bonus tracks are listed as This world's on fire and Dystopia (live), but it's actually The Conjuring (live)!
A wonderful year to music indeed! Impossible to pick only 5 records.
My top 5 - strictly prog - would be all German: 1) Neu! - 1; 2) Can - Ege Bamyasi; 3) Cluster - II; 4) Faust - So Far; 5) Tangerine Dream - Zeit. HM: Gentle Giant - Octopus; Agitation Free - Malesch.
Top 5 stricky jazz fusion: 1) Frank Zappa - Grand Wazoo; 2) Santana - Caravanserai; 3) Miles Davis - On the Corner; 4) Herbie Hancock - Sextant; 5) Soft Machine - Fifth; HM: Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric.
Great live! Keep them coming please.
No "Siberian Khatru" in "Buffalo 66". There's "Heart Of The Sunrise" sure, and the other two prog songs are "Moonchild" by KC and "Sweetness" by Yes. Unless I blinked and missed "SK" somewhere, but I'm pretty sure I didn't. Vincent Gallo was friends with Chris Squire and they even began doing a series of interviews for a proposed CS bio.
In no paticular order:
Focus - III
Yes - Close to the Edge
Supersister - Pudding en Gisteren
Gentle Giant - Three Friends & Octopus
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
My top 5
Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
Genesis - Foxtrot
Pink Floyd - Obscured by clouds
Yes - Close to the edge
Nektar - A tab in the ocean
HM
ELP - Trilogy
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Gnidrolog - Lady lake
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Caravan - Waterloo Lily
Curved Air - Phantasmagoria
Jane - Together
Uriah Heep - Demons and wizards
Catapilla - Changes
The Brown Bunny is Vincent Gallo’s movie with the Chloe Soveigny BJ.
Christina Ricci is in Buffalo ‘66 and there’s no BJ and the bowling alley scene with ‘Heart of The Sunrise’ is one of the best uses of music in any movie ever
"Music is either kick ass or shitty"- Luis Nasser
Classic! ...and you played in a band that covered TAAB?!?! Mucho respect! Wow!
As always it's Luis' pick that speak to me. Especially his #2 and #1. Grand Wazoo totally changed me. I didn't understand instrumental music before then. It just made no sense. I bought that album, with no knowledge because it was the 80s and that's how we rolled, put it in and very few lyrics and no lyrics and no lyrics and I'm completely bored. Then Eat That Question starts, that awesome keyboard from George Duke, just blew me away. It was like George and Frank reached into my head and flipped some switches. All of a sudden I GOT IT. Instrumental music made sense. And for Brick a friend had given me MU and I was hooked and went to the record store and bought a bunch of basically random Tull cassettes, which in the 80s had 0 liner notes, the cover on the front and the track listing on the flap. Which of course for Brick was: Side 1: Thick as a Brick Side 2: Thick as a Brick. Well that sure looked weird. Got home put it in. It starts with the part I knew from MU and keeps going. And keeps going. And keeps going. Flip the tape. More of the same song. Woh. I literally wouldn't be the kind of person that watches this channel without those albums.
Luis bang on about Ian Anderson's rewriting of history. Just what albums was he supposedly taking the piss out of, for example Foxtrot and CTTE came out later in the year as did Trilogy.
Amun Duul 2-Wolf City
Can-Ege Bamyasi
Embryo- Father Son Holy Ghost
Zappa-Grand Wazoo
Miles Davis-On the Corner
My five for 72 (in no order):
Yes - close to the edge
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
ELP - Trilogy
Khan - Space Shanty
HM (not mentioned, I think) - Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds & Lucifer's Friend - ...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
Here's my Top 5 without involving the "Classic Six" (Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and Jethro Tull) AND also Gentle Giant:
5. Khan - "Space Shanty"
4. Algarnas Tradgard - "Framtiden ar ett svavande skepp, forankrat I forntiden"
3. The Strawbs - "Grave New World"
2. Dom - "Edge of Time"
1. Cluster - "II"
Chick Corea - Return to Forever
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Yes - Close to the Edge
HM :
Weather Report - I sing the body electric
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Genesis - Foxtrot
Les McCann - Invitation to openness
The Mothers - Grand Wazoo
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Quella Vecchia Locanda
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Faust - So Far
Larry Coryell - Offering
Deuter - Aum
PFM - Per un amico
Just going with what I was listening to (a lot) in 1972 (14-years old)-
CLOSE TO THE EDGE - TAAB - CAPTAIN BEYOND (debut) - FLASH (debut) - DEMONS AND WIZARDS/THE MAGICIAN'S BIRTHDAY (took a Pardo mulligan)
Abaddon's Bolero is a synth orchestration masterpiece😛. It was the song I wasn't really looking forward too when I discovered the album, but today, it's the other way around. Trilogy is also their best production I think.
1. Wishbone Ash: Argus
2. Jane: Together
3. Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
4. Yes: Close to the Edge
5. Moody Blues: Seventh Sojourn
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Trilogy
Gentle Giant: Octopus
Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds
Gentle Giant: Three Friends
Nektar: A Tab in the Ocean
Jane is great
Steven,Roxy Music,you held up their second album “For Your Pleasure”
Small gripe.
"For Your Pleasure" was released in 73....
Remember those cool SoT classic album wars from 2019 Steven? Argus v. Demons and Wizards were put against each other if memory serves me right.
I will need to go back and check that out. Thanks!
Steamhammer - Speech, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier
Return to Forever's "Light as a Feather" was 1973 was it not?
My picks aren’t radically different, just a different order:
1. Foxtrot - Genesis
2. Close to the Edge - Yes
3. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
4. Trilogy - ELP
5. Demons and Wizards - Uriah Heep
HM’s: Gentle Giant “ Three Friends”, Uriah Heep “The Magician’s Birthday”, Pink Floyd “Obscured by Clouds”
1 tie: Yes - Close to the Edge
Genesis - Foxtrot
3. ELP - Trilogy
4. Gentle Giant - Three Friends
5. Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Why was Steven talking about 1972's "Roxy Music" but showing the cover of 1973's "For Your Pleasure"?
Only five? Im.Frackin.Possible.
Just scratching the (mostly Anglo-centric) surface, 1972 yielded:
Two albums from Banco.
Two albums from Franco Battiato.
Two albums from Gentle Giant.
Pictures At An Exhibition and Trilogy from ELP.
Two awesome albums from post-Flo & Eddie Zappa.
Both Gnidrolog albums.
Both Matching Mole albums.
PFM's first two albums.
Miles' On The Corner.
And the Genesis. And the Tull. And CTTE. Seventh Sojourn. Focus III. Debuts from Roxy Music and Klaus Schulze and Flash and Grobschnitt. Hoodoo Man from Birth Control. Cluster II.
Fine albums from Captain Beyond, Caravan, Ian Carr, Family, Herbie Hancock, Bo Hansson, Jonesy, Khan, Tangerine Dream, Man, Nektar, Pekka Pohjola, Renaissance, Soft Machine, Strawbs, Supersister, Tasavallan Presidentti, Univeria Zekt, Weather Report, Wild Turkey and Wishbone Ash.
Just for starters. Jeez. Exhausting in a good way.
Yeah I had many more too (and that was believe it or not AFTER pruning the list - still left with 47 total bands and 50+ albums...)
I felt fragile and the Yes album were the high points. But everyone's different.
Everyone seems to pick Close to the Edge as Yes' best album and maybe the greatest prog album of all time. It's hard to argue when you have a lot of experts saying the same thing. That said, my favorite Yes album is....The Yes Album. It was the first Yes album I heard (on 8track no less) and it just rung a chord with me.
@@TABL3SIX yeah the yes album is brilliant. Maybe I need to listen to CTTE again. In my circle yes considered a not "obscure" enough so I didn't find out about yes til recently. So far so good though, great musicianship.
1971
@@TABL3SIX I love early Yes too & Tony Kaye - even the pre-Howe Banks stuff