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Best progressive rock album side

My intent is to seek albums which I may not own from the recommendations of you all. I ranked best sides of progressive rock albums on vinyl that I own and came up with the following list. I don't want it to undermine anything else that an artist has created. I love it all but as far as start to finish on one side this is what I came up with.

#1: Supper's Ready

#2: Terrapin Station

#3: Atom Heart Mother

#4 The Court of the King Crimson

#5 Echoes

Of course there are many more. Some may not be complete sides like Atom Heart Mother but the intent of the artisan was to make it a complete side. I had a very hard time deciding between #1 and #2. Both are very worthy in my mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is mostly pretentious crap by second rate musicians.  I didn't even like most of it when I was young.

This thread should be changed to 'which are the most over-rated prog rock discs'.

Let me start.  #1  All of Genesis   #2 Most of Yes     #3  Some of Pink Floyd

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It's my privilege not to enjoy much of this which is pretentious twaddle.

By the way Dr Sardonicus is not prog rock and I do like it.

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@simonmoon 

Thanks for filling me in on what seems to be a lifetime of progrock that none of use probably would have time to listen to.

I was there at the beginning in the late 60s and so figured as I didn't like it then I wouldn't like it now.

For those of us that haven't listened to (not enough lifetime) all the music available it does seem dangerous to me to categorise it so that people who find they don't like a category are likely to eschew it.  Also provokes argument about who's in a category and who isn''t.  Like we stumble on with Dr S - 'I like this Artist Y so he can't be X category'.

What about Marc Bolan?  He moved from progrock to glamrock - goodness, he knew his marketing as well as those three chords.  He released the same song six times and topped the chart with at least 4 of them.  I certainly have to say it was one helluva riff.  I'd like to have 12 inches of those but I'm not sure they pressed any.  Hot love to all.

 

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