Top 18 Progressive Rock Albums
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I remember first listening to Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' back in 2007/08 time and was blown away by the journey the album took me on. Since then, I've been discovering many great progressive rock bands thanks to the likes of MS and Progarchives.com including Transatlantic, Rush and King Crimson. While it has occasionally been a challenging genre to appreciate (King Crimson's 'Red' took a few spins), it has become a genre I return to often.
So here are my favourites of the subgenre with my rating and release year: (Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here) If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of progressive rock, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands! My other lists: Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated) Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated) Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres) Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning) So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)
Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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| nonZero Posts: 1336  |
Are there any must-listens I'm missing here? I've listened to Porcupine Tree, Yes, Genesis and Marillion - all fantastic bands but I didn't enjoy them quite enough to make this list. Some albums that you may expect to be on this list I might have included on my Top Progressive Metal Albums list.
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| Roman Doez Hallucigenia Posts: 978  |
Having no Yes album in the list is crazy My immediate recommendations would be for you to check out Camel and Kansas, which are imo peak prog rock. Camel's first four albums are fantastic and Mirage might just be my favourite prog rock album ever. Kansas' first 5 are really great and the band only being known for "Dust In The Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son" is doing them a massive disservice when they have so many bangers in store. For lesser known stuff, I think Carol Of Harvest, Earth And Fire, Julian Jay Savarin or Renaissance all have some pretty cool releases worth checking out. If you're open to weirder, more experimental stuff, I heavily recommend checking out Magma, Eskaton, Weidorje, Area, Koenji Hyakkei, Bondage Fruit or Pochakaite Malko, which all play some variant of zeuhl or avant-prog. Catherine Ribeiro mostly plays avant-folk but she has some more prog rock oriented albums, and I recommend checking out her whole discog in general. Finally, for some weird half prog half jazz stuff, The Keith Tippett Group is worth checking out as well.
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5364  |
There's some great album's on this, here's a few I'd recommend: Yes - Close To The Edge Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus Genesis - Selling England By The Pound Eloy - Ocean Edit: I just realized you weren't taken by Genesis or Yes which is a shame.
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| nonZero Posts: 1336 |
Written by Roman Doez on 17.10.2024 at 05:31 I've listened to some Kansas, but will be sure to check out more along with Camel. I'll check out the others, thanks for the recommendations! Written by AndyMetalFreak on 17.10.2024 at 08:32 I'll have to give Genesis and Yes another listen. But I'll be sure to check out the others you recommended - thanks again!
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