Your favorite prog rock music? ?

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

Hey Xiekitchen,

Nice to see someone else appreciates Novella as much as I do. It never seemed to get much acclaim. I just can't get enough of Annie!

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.

I too Like Renaissance, especially Annie's 5 octave soprano voice! Her solo album "Annie Haslam" 1990 although not prog, is a masterpiece.

Any mind altering rock influenced music could probably get a prog label stuck on it. Most of the greats bust up any sub-genre boxes people try to put em' in. Can, Mahavishnu Orchestra, F.Z., Hendrix, Henry Cow, King Crimson, Capt. Beefheart all presented ideas that show up just about everywhere in post 70's rock. Sometimes leprechaun and unicorn worship or spinal tap cliches have surfaced on the prog grid but there's a huge reservoir of good (often criminally under appreciated) stuff out there. Some previous threads on this site have good lists.