From: The Irish Bastard <smcfee@prince.carleton*no-spam*.ca>
Subject: Re: Best Albums Of All Times
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 98 15:56:00
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Newsgroups: rec.music.progressive,alt.music.dream-theater,alt.music.fates-warning,
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In rec.music.progressive FatesWar <fateswar@usa.net> wrote:
>     I'm wondering, which albums do you all consider to be the best of
> all times?

        I'm going to restrict myself to prog since I don't think I've
listened to enough classical and other styles to pick with any authority
on them.
        There are a lot of prog albums that I think are really good, the
usual suspects abound (Yes' Fragile, King Crimson Red, Pink Floyd's Dark
Side, early Genesis, early Mike Oldfield) but if I had to choose a few albums
I think stand head over the others (and I guess I do at this point <G>) I
would say:

Yes: Relayer and Close to the Edge
VdGG: Pawn Hearts
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

        Just a notch below these:

Camel: The Snow Goose
Anglagard: Epilog
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: BMS (I only own the 1991 re-recording however)
Magma: Mekanik Kommandoh


        These are the ones that come to mind. You'd think I would have
come up with more than 8 out of 300 albums but I guess these are the ones
I really like beginning to end with not one track that's not a pleasure to
listen to. Lots of Italian prog would go just below what I listed, I'd
also have Univers Zero and IQ (wow, neo-prog!) lurking somewhere below
what was listed.

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