Classic Rock magazine's top 50:Progressive Rock Albums from 1966-2009

[pjbleek]

1. Freak out!- The Mothers of Invention
2. Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band-The Beatles
4. Procol Harum-Procol Harum
5. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
6. Days of Future Past-Moody Blues
7. The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack-The Nice
8. In the Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson
9. Liege and Lief-Fairpoint Convention
10. Volume Two-Soft Machine
11. Air Conditioning-Curved Air
12. The Least We Could Do Is Wave at Each Other-Van Der Graaf Generator
13. Magma-Magma
14. Once Again- Barclay James Harvest
15. Aqualung-Jethro Tull
16. In the Land of Grey and pink-Caravan
17. Tarkus-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
18. Moving Waves- Focus
19. Fragile-YES
20. Foxtrot-Genesis
21. Octopus-Gentle Giant
22. Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
23. Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield
24. Birds of Fire-Mahavishnu Orchestra
25. Selling England by the Pound-Genesis
26. Brain Salad Surgery-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
27. Angels Egg-Gong
28. Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman
29. Crime of the Century-Supertramp
30. Electric light Orchestra- Eldorado- A symphony by...
31. Autobahn-Kraftwerk
32. Warrior on the edge of time-Hawkwind
33. Scheherazade-Renaissance
34. Moonmadness-Camel
35. Tales of Mystery and imagination-Alan Parsons Project
36. Leftoverture-Kansas
37. Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel
38. A Farewell to Kings-Rush
39. The Kick Inside-Kate Bush
40. Asia-Asia
41. Misplaced Childhood-Marillion
42. 90125-Yes
43. Operation Mindscreme-Queensryche
44. When Dream and Day unite-Dream Theater
45. OK Computer- Radiohead
46. Blackwater Park-Opeth
47. Deloused in the Comatorium-The Mars Volta
48. Deadwing-Porcupine Tree
49. Black Holes and Revelations-Muse
50. Crack the Skye- Mastodon

I counted nine of the fifty that are in my personal collection at one time or another...any comments on the music? the bands?

 

[skyblue]

tubular bells is a work of art

 

[Alien Allen]

1. Freak out!- The Mothers of Invention
2. Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band-The Beatles
4. Procol Harum-Procol Harum
5. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
6. Days of Future Past-Moody Blues
7. The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack-The Nice
8. In the Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson
9. Liege and Lief-Fairpoint Convention
10. Volume Two-Soft Machine
11. Air Conditioning-Curved Air
12. The Least We Could Do Is Wave at Each Other-Van Der Graaf Generator
13. Magma-Magma
14. Once Again- Barclay James Harvest
15. Aqualung-Jethro Tull
16. In the Land of Grey and pink-Caravan
17. Tarkus-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
18. Moving Waves- Focus
19. Fragile-YES
20. Foxtrot-Genesis
21. Octopus-Gentle Giant
22. Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
23. Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield
24. Birds of Fire-Mahavishnu Orchestra
25. Selling England by the Pound-Genesis
26. Brain Salad Surgery-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
27. Angels Egg-Gong
28. Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman
29. Crime of the Century-Supertramp
30. Electric light Orchestra- Eldorado- A symphony by...
31. Autobahn-Kraftwerk
32. Warrior on the edge of time-Hawkwind
33. Scheherazade-Renaissance
34. Moonmadness-Camel
35. Tales of Mystery and imagination-Alan Parsons Project
36. Leftoverture-Kansas
37. Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel
38. A Farewell to Kings-Rush
39. The Kick Inside-Kate Bush
40. Asia-Asia
41. Misplaced Childhood-Marillion
42. 90125-Yes
43. Operation Mindscreme-Queensryche
44. When Dream and Day unite-Dream Theater
45. OK Computer- Radiohead
46. Blackwater Park-Opeth
47. Deloused in the Comatorium-The Mars Volta
48. Deadwing-Porcupine Tree
49. Black Holes and Revelations-Muse
50. Crack the Skye- Mastodon

Those are in my collection. Journey to the Center of the Earth was one of the best concerts I ever went to. Wakeman was amazing

 

[pjbleek]

1. Freak out!- The Mothers of Invention
2. Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band-The Beatles
4. Procol Harum-Procol Harum
5. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
6. Days of Future Past-Moody Blues
7. The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack-The Nice
8. In the Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson
9. Liege and Lief-Fairpoint Convention
10. Volume Two-Soft Machine
11. Air Conditioning-Curved Air
12. The Least We Could Do Is Wave at Each Other-Van Der Graaf Generator
13. Magma-Magma
14. Once Again- Barclay James Harvest
15. Aqualung-Jethro Tull
16. In the Land of Grey and pink-Caravan
17. Tarkus-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
18. Moving Waves- Focus
19. Fragile-YES
20. Foxtrot-Genesis
21. Octopus-Gentle Giant
22. Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
23. Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield
24. Birds of Fire-Mahavishnu Orchestra
25. Selling England by the Pound-Genesis
26. Brain Salad Surgery-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
27. Angels Egg-Gong
28. Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman
29. Crime of the Century-Supertramp
30. Electric light Orchestra- Eldorado- A symphony by...
31. Autobahn-Kraftwerk
32. Warrior on the edge of time-Hawkwind
33. Scheherazade-Renaissance
34. Moonmadness-Camel
35. Tales of Mystery and imagination-Alan Parsons Project
36. Leftoverture-Kansas
37. Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel
38. A Farewell to Kings-Rush
39. The Kick Inside-Kate Bush
40. Asia-Asia
41. Misplaced Childhood-Marillion
42. 90125-Yes
43. Operation Mindscreme-Queensryche
44. When Dream and Day unite-Dream Theater
45. OK Computer- Radiohead
46. Blackwater Park-Opeth
47. Deloused in the Comatorium-The Mars Volta
48. Deadwing-Porcupine Tree
49. Black Holes and Revelations-Muse
50. Crack the Skye- Mastodon

Those are in my collection. Journey to the Center of the Earth was one of the best concerts I ever went to. Wakeman was amazing

he did an interview with Classic Rock a couple months back...very interesting hearing about how he met up with Bowie

 

[cam elle toe]

1. Freak out!- The Mothers of Invention
2. Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band-The Beatles
4. Procol Harum-Procol Harum
5. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
6. Days of Future Past-Moody Blues
7. The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack-The Nice
8. In the Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson
9. Liege and Lief-Fairpoint Convention
10. Volume Two-Soft Machine
11. Air Conditioning-Curved Air
12. The Least We Could Do Is Wave at Each Other-Van Der Graaf Generator
13. Magma-Magma
14. Once Again- Barclay James Harvest
15. Aqualung-Jethro Tull
16. In the Land of Grey and pink-Caravan
17. Tarkus-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
18. Moving Waves- Focus
19. Fragile-YES
20. Foxtrot-Genesis
21. Octopus-Gentle Giant
22. Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
23. Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield
24. Birds of Fire-Mahavishnu Orchestra
25. Selling England by the Pound-Genesis
26. Brain Salad Surgery-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
27. Angels Egg-Gong
28. Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman
29. Crime of the Century-Supertramp
30. Electric light Orchestra- Eldorado- A symphony by...
31. Autobahn-Kraftwerk
32. Warrior on the edge of time-Hawkwind
33. Scheherazade-Renaissance
34. Moonmadness-Camel
35. Tales of Mystery and imagination-Alan Parsons Project
36. Leftoverture-Kansas
37. Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel
38. A Farewell to Kings-Rush
39. The Kick Inside-Kate Bush
40. Asia-Asia
41. Misplaced Childhood-Marillion
42. 90125-Yes
43. Operation Mindscreme-Queensryche
44. When Dream and Day unite-Dream Theater
45. OK Computer- Radiohead
46. Blackwater Park-Opeth
47. Deloused in the Comatorium-The Mars Volta
48. Deadwing-Porcupine Tree
49. Black Holes and Revelations-Muse
50. Crack the Skye- Mastodon

I counted nine of the fifty that are in my personal collection at one time or another...any comments on the music? the bands?

I have 6 still. I guess the title is "Progressive" so even though I havent heard of a lot of them, I'd have to agree

 

[Alien Allen]

he did an interview with Classic Rock a couple months back...very interesting hearing about how he met up with Bowie

I was not aware of that. I did a google and found out Wakeman wrote the piano part for Life on Mars.

One of my favorite all time songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1HVF7BE75I

 

[porterjack]

dark side of the moon has to be higher than 22

 

[TGLucario475]

I'm surprised that there isn't one Queen album on there!

 

[pjbleek]

I'm surprised that there isn't one Queen album on there!

Queen is not a progressive band, they are more rock and roll.

 

[Francis]

1. Freak out!- The Mothers of Invention
2. Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band-The Beatles
4. Procol Harum-Procol Harum
5. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
6. Days of Future Past-Moody Blues
7. The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack-The Nice
8. In the Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson
9. Liege and Lief-Fairpoint Convention
10. Volume Two-Soft Machine
11. Air Conditioning-Curved Air
12. The Least We Could Do Is Wave at Each Other-Van Der Graaf Generator
13. Magma-Magma
14. Once Again- Barclay James Harvest
15. Aqualung-Jethro Tull
16. In the Land of Grey and pink-Caravan
17. Tarkus-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
18. Moving Waves- Focus
19. Fragile-YES
20. Foxtrot-Genesis
21. Octopus-Gentle Giant
22. Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
23. Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield
24. Birds of Fire-Mahavishnu Orchestra
25. Selling England by the Pound-Genesis
26. Brain Salad Surgery-Emerson,Lake and Palmer
27. Angels Egg-Gong
28. Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman
29. Crime of the Century-Supertramp
30. Electric light Orchestra- Eldorado- A symphony by...
31. Autobahn-Kraftwerk
32. Warrior on the edge of time-Hawkwind
33. Scheherazade-Renaissance
34. Moonmadness-Camel
35. Tales of Mystery and imagination-Alan Parsons Project
36. Leftoverture-Kansas
37. Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel
38. A Farewell to Kings-Rush
39. The Kick Inside-Kate Bush
40. Asia-Asia
41. Misplaced Childhood-Marillion
42. 90125-Yes
43. Operation Mindscreme-Queensryche
44. When Dream and Day unite-Dream Theater
45. OK Computer- Radiohead
46. Blackwater Park-Opeth
47. Deloused in the Comatorium-The Mars Volta
48. Deadwing-Porcupine Tree
49. Black Holes and Revelations-Muse
50. Crack the Skye- Mastodon

I counted nine of the fifty that are in my personal collection at one time or another...any comments on the music? the bands?

Not a SINGLE Album by Queen, one of the best rock bands in history.. Who did this list and give me a break :thumbdown

 

[pjbleek]

dark side of the moon has to be higher than 22

was not listed 1-50.....it was by year

 

[cam elle toe]

the title is PROGRESSIVE...not best or favourite...there isnt any Led Zep on their either and probably shouldnt be.

Acts like The Mothers and Jethro tull are Progressive.

 

[porterjack]

was not listed 1-50.....it was by year

that is ok then

 

[TGLucario475]

Queen is not a progressive band, they are more rock and roll.

I'd say that their first album, Queen, was more prog-rock if I'm honest.