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.
@bdp24 - I was a huge fan of Procol Harum right up until 'Grand Hotel'. My favorite P.H. album was 'Home', and my opinion is quite different from your's on that matter, as I don't think they ever sounded like 'just another English blues-based band'! 😀 I wish I would have seen them on that tour that you did.... But differing opinions are good, and so sad about Gary Brooker, such a fantastic singer and music songwriter....
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Oh @larsman, you’re quite right about PH not sounding "just like" any of the other English Blues-based bands; they couldn’t with Gary Brooker singing! My feeling is that they became "just another" English Blues-based band. Perhaps too fine a distinction? At any rate, I knew several other early PF fans who, like you, liked the Home album just as much as the first three. It’s not the first time I’ve disagreed with someone about a musical matter ;-) . My favorite Fleetwood Mac album is Kiln House, for instance. I know a guy whose favorite album of theirs is Tusk, an opinion shared by few! |
I am also a boomer, but my tastes in music have never stopped evolving. The vast majority of people have their tastes in music set by their early 30's. Most people have a large nostalgia component in the music they listen to. As you mention about reminiscing, many people seem to want the music they listen to, to be music that was part of the 'soundtrack' of their youth. The things I like in music are, most or all of the following* (no particular order): high level of musicianship, complexity, deep and broad range of emotional and/or intellectual content, avoidance of verse>chorus>bridge song format, (usually) extended song structure, avoidance of an obvious 'hook'. Within those attributes, I am pretty genre agnostic, so to speak. As long as music has all or most of those attributes, I will most likely enjoy it. Since I enjoy music with these attributes, more than any particular 'style' of music, I was able to get into prog-metal and technical-metal in my 50's, despite not really being a metal fan previously. I was also able to get into modern classical music in my 50's, despite not being much of a classical fan previously. All the following have all or most of those attributes, and are the genres and subgenres I listen to. Prog and most of its subgenres (avant-prog, Zeuhl, Canterbury, classic prog, prog-metal, technical-metal), jazz and many of its subgenres (post-bop, fusion, avant-garde, M-Base, chamber-jazz), and classical (avant-garde, serial, modernism, contemporary). Yes, I still listen to plenty of prog from the 70's, but it is not about reminiscing or nostalgia for me. Either the music holds up on its own merit, or it doesn't. But I also listen to plenty of recent prog as frequently as the 70's stuff. *it's not as if I consciously chose to only like music with these attributes, I just noticed at one point, that music that did not fit them, was uninteresting to me
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@sns I think I remember listing Bundles. I’ll go back and check. |
