The Fifty Essential Prog Records

[DethMaiden]

I'm currently working on this list, with the ones I own in bold. The original list had 52, but to shave it to a nice round number I got rid of a greatest hits collection and a live album (which I accidentally bought, not realizing it was just live shit). So tell me which of the non-bold ones I should make it a goal to get next, and if you're especially bored, embolden the ones you own

The Alan Parsons Project- Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Alan Parsons Project- Eye in the Sky
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe- Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe
Arena- The Visitor
Asia- Asia
Ayreon- Into the Electric Castle
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Camel- The Snow Goose
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Electric Light Orchestra- Eldorado
Emerson, Lake and Palmer- Tarkus
Emerson, Lake and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery
Fish- Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Focus- Moving Waves
Genesis- Foxtrot
Genesis- Selling England By the Pound
Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
IQ- Subterranea
Jeff Wayne- The War of the Worlds
Jethro Tull- Thick As a Brick
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Electric Ladyland
Kansas- Leftoverture
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson- Red
Landmarq- Infinity Parade
Marillion- Misplaced Childhood
Marillion- Brave
Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells
The Nice- Five Bridges
Pendragon- Masquerade Overture
Peter Gabriel- So
Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Porcupine Tree- Stupid Dream
Queen- A Night At the Opera
Queensrÿche- Operation: Mindcrime
Roger Waters- The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Rush- Hemispheres
Saga- Generation 13
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Spock’s Beard- The Light
Supertramp- Paris
Tangerine Dream- Tangram
U2- The Joshua Tree
UK- UK
Van Der Graaf Generator- H to He Who Am the Only One
Vangelis- Spiral
The Who- Tommy
Yes- Close to the Edge
Yes- 90125

[Maiden33]

If you do this, I'm making a 50 essential power metal albums list.

[JRA]

Originally Posted by DethMaiden

Kansas- Leftoverture

Is "Carry On My Wayward Son" on there? That was on Guitar Hero 2 as an encore it was awesome to hear!

[es156]

Now that is a bizarre list. Since when are the Beatles prog? Or Mike Oldfield? Or U2?

[JRA]

Get Sgt. Peppers.

[Div]

U2? What is the matter w...


ew, I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth

[ADD]

This is a weird list.

[Angelripper]

Originally Posted by Maiden33

If you do this, I'm making a 50 essential power metal albums list.

No. No. No.

[DethMaiden]

Originally Posted by neilpeartjr.

Is "Carry On My Wayward Son" on there? That was on Guitar Hero 2 as an encore it was awesome to hear!

Yes.

And to those who find it bizarre, the listmakers justified it by saying you don't have to be a prog band to make a prog album. So, the ones that aren't really prog aren't ones I have yet, so I can't judge, but I expect this to hold true.

[SomewhereInTime72]

Ew what a terrible list.

Of those, I recommend 90125, Asia, and Stupid Dream. In that order I suppose.

But seriously just get Lark's Tongues In Aspic by King Crimson instead. Fuck this list.