What Are The Best Progressive Rock Albums?

__The Yes Album__ Yes
__Crime of the Century__, __Breakfast in America__ Supertramp
__Days of Future Passed__ The Moody Blues
__Aqualung__ Jethro Tull
__Dark Side of the Moon__, __Wish You Were Here__, and __The Wall__ Pink Floyd

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@trailsillustrated —what album(s) of theirs do you recommend most?

I think At The Drive In counts as progressive rock. If so I suggest Relationship of Command.

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I like the new Flaming Lips albim Embryonic very much. I’d file it under Progressive Rock.

Here’s a page that will list such bands from the late 1960s until today.

Personally, I consider this the first Progressive Rock song. Or maybe proto-Progressive Rock. And for that matter, the first Doctor Who theme in 1963 was pretty damn progressive. I’ll bet the Yes boys watched that show as kids. And Gary Numan, too.

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@casheroo Oh sure, pick on the prog rock thread.

Rush: Closer To The Heart
Queen: The Game, Night At The Opera, Day At The Races or anything older
Heart (can’t think of one single album name)

Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

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CAN – They have some good stuff in the early seventies. (Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi).

Also, Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother wasn’t included earlier, and I think it’s an amazing album, along with Animals and Meddle.

I love De-loused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta. It’s a great album.

The Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and The Final Cut.
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Moody Blues: Days of the Future Past

My favorite of these? The Final Cut. Pink Floyd was incredible.

Old…
Yes – Close to the Edge
Tales From Topographic Oceans
New…
Porcupine Tree – Piano Lessons
Deadwing

Dream Theater anyone? (Also, 3 of the members from Dream Theater went off and made Liquid Tension Experiment with some guy from another bands, another prog band)

PROG rock people! How many people are just stating rock?

@Sarcasm Good call on the Dream Theatre call, Train of Thought is the best album for me.

Personally I’m more of a Spock’s Beard kinda guy (any of their early stuff, before the original lead singer left. Also Transatlantic, One of the best SuperBands ever if you ask me!

The Yes Album and Fragile
2112
DSOTM

King Crimson – In the Hall of the Crimson King – EPIC!

Here are just a few of my personal favorites:

Pagan’s Mind – any album, they’re all good

Symphony X – Symphony X, V: The New Mythology Suite, Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, The Divine Wings of Tragedy, etc..

Evergrey – Torn, Monday Morning Apocalypse, The Inner Circle, The Dark Discovery, etc…

Steve Hackett & The Underworld Orchestra (ex-Genesis guitarist) – Metamorpheus

David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) – Live at Gdansk

ELP: Tarkus, Soft Machine: Third, AreA: Arbeit Macht Frei, Henry Cow: In Praise of Learning,

Tool – 10 000 days