Your favorite prog rock music? ?


I was just listening to, and burning some CDs for work when I heard "Time and a Word." I started thinking about some of the prog rock I have, but wondered what I should have that I don't have...

I mean music!
nrchy

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OH MY GOSH so many prog rockers!
I've got 'em all...
You're missing:

Happy the Man - two LP's from late 70's BETTER than G.G.
Jade Warrior (the four Island pressings from '74-78)
Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior, Morrocan Roll and Livestock
Bill Bruford's solos - specifically One of a Kind
Steve Hackett solos - spec. Spectral Mornings and Defector
UK - 1st one and Live
PFM - Jet lag my favorite
Allan Holdsworth solos - jazz fusion or prog?? hard to say
same goes for Jeff Beck - Wired and Blow by Blow
Guru Guru
Pierre Moerlin's Gong - (ok I see somebody else mentioned Gong)
Anthony Phillips - Geese and the Ghost is best
Vangelis - China is my favorite
Supertramp - Crisis, what Crisis? I'll consider them in the prog. camp
Matching Mole

To all you Genesis, Gentle Giant, Renaissance, Camel, Yes (WELL OF COURSE YES!)King K. et all fans, I salute you.
How to tell a true prog. rock vinyl audiophile:
1. Owns 1st edition UK pressings (red and plum Atlantic) of Fragile and The Yes Album
2. Owns original UK 1st pressing Island pink "eye" pressing of Tull's Stand UP
3. Owns MoFi pressings of Aqualung, Close to the Edge, Scherazade(spelling??), Crime of the Century, DSOM, Trick of the Tale, Alan Parson's "Tales...Poe", I Robot, Trilogy, Tarkus, and ?? any I forgot.
Dan ed,
That one was my favorite, looked a long time to find a clean mint UK pressed LP of it... much better than U.S. pressing.
Had to come back here -
Thanks for catching so many I missed, like Budgie, Vandergraaf G. or Badger(never thought ANYONE would remember them!) Favorites I forgot about: Kansas, Song for America, Icarus, Miracles out of Nowhere (yeah not as mature as Yes but Kansas wasn't bad) and Starcastle's 1st album.
Wasn't till near the end of the thread that Focus gets mentioned...

Some ya'll forgot? Druid (not that they were any good)
Art Bears
1st 3 solo albums by Gabriel, Robert Fripp solos,
Kit Watkins solos.

Anyone check out the LATEST Happy the Man album on CD, "The Muse Awakens" The group re-materialized a few years ago after 25+ years absence...

Boiling it all down, for me the tops are:
1. Yes Close to the Edge
2. ELP Brain Salad
3. Genesis Selling England
4. Renaissance Novella
5. King Crimson Starless
6. Happy the Man Crafty Hands
7. Bill Bruford One of a Kind
8. Brand X Morrocan Roll
9. Jade Warrior Kites
10.Camel Moonmadness
Hello Bdgregory:
I too really like "Song for All Seasons" and "Scherazade": you must obtain original U.K. pressings of Renaissance or the MFSL pressing of "S" other wise you're right...U.S. pressings are poor.
Same for the Jade Warrior... Kites is bad to begin with, almost IMPOSSIBLE to find Kites on the very 1st Antilles label which is better pressed than Island.. I have gone through about 3 each copies of U.K. pressings of "Waves" and "Floating World" before finding mint clean copies.