With A Little Hell From My Friends is 9.9/10. Sorry!!! Not good enough!!! Try a little harder next time maybe. I’m kidding, obviously. You are a treasure and I am so glad I discovered your music!!! ❤️❤️❤️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
I’m one of those crazy people who would say Tales from Topographic Oceans is perfection… it’s just a perfectly structured rock symphony… but certainly the perfection of Close to the Edge is indisputable. Great selections overall!
Hey Scot, new to the channel, but I'm so glad you mentioned PFM Per Un Amico! I rarely see it get brought up in any conversations, and it deserves a lot more attention than it receives!
I’m a huge fan of Italian Prog: PFM, Le Orme, Banco, Area, etc I think Per Um Amico is a masterpiece. The only Italian album I rate higher is Museo Rosenbach’s “Zarathustra.” 👍👍👍
Love your enthusiasm for prog! Feel the same way about so many of these albums! Of bands not listed I would include: Anyone's Daughter - Adonis, Spirogyra - St Radigunds, Amon Duul II - Wolf City, Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft, Magma - Kohntarzosz, Nektar - Remember the Future, Dom - Edge of Time, Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra, Agitation Free - Malesch, Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine
plus Wind - Seasons, Gila - s/t, Ancient Grease - Women and Children First, Fantasy - Paint A Picture / Beyond The Beyond, Bakerloo - s/t, Quatermass - s/t, Peter Bardens - The Answer, Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys. ... btw too much to list 😉
#1 for me is Yes "Relayer" but I totally get the number one choice. Hot Rats (and The Grand Wazoo!) , Crime Of The Century, Dark Side Of The Moon, Hand Cannot Erase etc... all fantastic albums!
Thanks for going with Wish You Were Here over the other ones. Dark Side is the obvious choice and Animals is a personal favourite of mine (and you too apparently), but Wish You Were is phenomenal. The best sounding album - production wise - of the 70s.
Ok, my turn : -Pink Floyd Meddle -Pink Floyd Animals -Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets -Pink Floyd Wish you Were Here -Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon -Pink Floyd The Piper At the Gates of Dawn -Pink Floyd Ummagumma
You just keep getting better and better . I look forward to all your videos . I can appreciate all these bands but of course the best of the best will always be YES . ROCK ON SCOTT 🎉🎉👍👍💪
Scot, my wife (Lizzy) asks that you stop encouraging me to buy more vinyl! I just ordered Similitude and The Great Adventure after watching perfect prog albums. Please don't listen to her. I love my prog and my vinyl!
Great video Scot! Fascinating list, and some albums for me to go out and discover. I only bought my first Styx album last year which was 'Pieces of eight' i must pick up 'The grand illusion' soon, and some Steven Wilson solo work. No arguments with the no.1 choice!
This was a perfect list! Ommadawn is my favourite Mike Oldfield album too! Love the little horse song at the end haha.. Can Tago Mago =🔥 Awesome video Scot! Peace! :)
I loved Tubular Bells as much as anyone, but Ommadawn was better. Tubular Bells was a bit of advertisment: "I'm Mike Oldfield. You haven't heard of me but I'm a great musician. Stay tuned." That's truth in advertiseing; but the music on Ommadawn was better and you had no sense that Oldfield was showing off.
Great selections! You were down to the final few and I was wondering where King Crimson, Genesis and Yes were - and you didn't let me down. Thanks for some suggestions of albums I've never heard, also! And not that it matters to anyone, I was hoping to see Fish Out Of Water (Chris Squire), which would have been my number one. I'd hoped prog would go more in that direction, but I guess I'm in the minority. A masterpiece.
It’s like trying to pick a favorite child ,you can’t. I do agree with #1 , I’ve spent a great part of my 62 years listening to it. On a side note about 20 years ago Jon Anderson moved into our little town on the coast of California ( He’s really friendly and very social) it’s really cool to see him in Trader Joe’s or Starbucks. Thanks for the video.
Excellent list!! I would have also mentioned the following albums: Alan Parsons Project - "I robot" T2 - "It'll all worked out in boomland" Novalis - "Banished bridge" Manfred Mann's Earthband -"Solar fire' Spring - "Spring" Omega - "Time robber" Goblin - "Roller" Colosseum - Valentyne suite" Focus - "Moving waves" Wallenstein - "Blitzkrieg"
The second and third albums by Caravan , the second third and fourth by Gentle Giant and all the early 70's output by Van der Graf Generator are Prog / Rock perfection . So much good music came out in the early 70's that the great music and albums from this genre is impossible to list but the ones l've mentioned instantly sprung to mind .
Nothing from Renaissance (“Live at Carnegie Hall”) or the Moody Blues (“Days of Future Passed”)? I love Squire’s solo “Fish Out of Water.” I love Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells,” but will investigate “Ommadawn.” Check out Harmonium’s “If We Needed a Fifth Season” and some young guys from NCarolina called Paradigm Blue.
Great list! I agree on the surprise that Scenes from a Memory wasn't suggested, that gets a pick from me. My Rush pick would probably be Moving Pictures. Whirlwind and Similitude will always be there. Lastly, I really think the Asia debut album is perfect, though it might be more prog adjacent.
I'm not sure what the criteria for "perfect" is, but IF it means "love every song/track on it" then my list would probably be VERY different from most others. Usually the FIRST one that pops into my head is Images and Words by Dream Theater. If I chose a Pink Floyd album, it would probably be Animals. I think you already know that my favorite albums by Kansas & Rush are Point of Know Return & Moving Pictures. For Genesis, I most likely would include Trick of the Tail. Not because I have ANYTHING against Peter Gabriel, but Like with most of my other choices, I think this album was the culmination, or peak of where they were heading, or "progressing'," and their sound really GELLED on this one. They had all of the elements that made them great: The PROG sound, the melodic sound, but it was quite a bit more "accessible" or "mainstream" then anything they had done before, so it was the kind of sound that could reach a wide audience without compromising what made MADE them Genesis. As for Yes, I would have a hard time deciding between The Yes Album, Close to the Edge, and 90125, as eclectic as that may sound. For ELP, I pretty much see their first album as something that they never surpassed. I'm not really much of a Styx fan these days, but in my younger years I ALSO would have picked The Grand Illusion.
I agree. My favorite of all time album, any genre, any group is The Children’s album for a host of very personal reasons not to mention the very coherent theme of space, solitude, loneliness that could be set millions of years in the past or the future or even right now.
Let’s gooo banger video while kicking back relaxing. Lot of stuff on the go right now but Important to make the time to chill out and nerd out about some Prog rock!! Love the vids and love ur vibes Rock on
Hey Scot! I'm back. Great vid. The Prog people got it right and so did you with CTTE being number 1. To think that it was only the 5th album from the greatest band on this or any other planet!! Genesis and Peter in the two spot where they belong! Lol! FOREVER YES❗️❗️❗️😎
Hi Scott, I will agree with YES, Genesis, Crimson, ELP, Gentle Giant, Floyd, Wobbler, Van der Graaf, Supertramp, PFM, Zappa and CAN... Though not necessarily with the same album choices. Hamburger Concerto by Focus on my list, as well as the 1st Wakeman and Squire's solos
A great variety of styles and geographies. I enjoy most of those albums already, and the ones I haven't heard yet are going on a listening list as of today
Scot! I'm going through the list listening to each album, in turn - either again (in some cases for the 200th time!) or for the first time (Hatfield and the North S/T). Right now, I'm listening to "Hand Cannot Erase". First time. It's beautiful! I am enjoying it even more than, "TRTRTS". A re-listen to "Ommadawn" is next. Thanks, yet again, for opening our eyes and ears to new listens.
Great list. As regards VDGG. Got to be Pawn Hearts or H to He for me though Scot. Surprised Nektar's Remember the Future, Gong's - You and more contemporary albums like Porcupine Tree - In Absentia and Riverside - Second Life Syndrome, didn't make it, but so much good stuff to choose from.
I like how you kept stressing favorites verses perfection. When I started listening to more and more prog experts they always seem to sight Close to the Edge as Yes' most perfect album. My favorite has always been "The Yes Album" It was the first prog album I ever heard. On 8-track no less, think I was 8😂. I still listen to it today, but have to agree CTTE is perfection.
The Yes Album holds up very well, especially as it was a new direction for the band. I think the first two albums as heavily influenced by the Beatles, as so many bands were. I first heard the Yes Album while driving around Maryland and every time I heard one of the songs I said "What is that?" In much later live recordings these songs hold their own
Glad you have Ommadawn so high on your list ! I bought it when it came out ( I had to get a replacement copy because the needle kept jumping - those were the days ! ), I also got it on cassette and CD. Still one of my top comfort albums. Musical bliss.
Great list although I’d personally pick In the Court of the Crimson King over Larks because that album to me is the definition of perfection.. including the artwork of course.
@@TheProgCorner I get where you’re coming from but to me the dreamy, surrealistic improv section on Moonchild actually adds to the eclecticism of the LP.. the first of its kind in Prog too.. sort of paved the way for Larks and Tongues.
Great list and a fantastic starting point for new prog fans, a fantastic mix of classic and newer prog. One more perfect album i would like to mention is Il bacio della medusa - Discesa Agl'Inferi d'un Giovane. Cheers my friend and prog on.
I had a glaring ommision in my collection- which was just corrected by buying the Close To the Edge DVD. I've owned it in the past- albums, tapes... lent them out, divorce, ect. Back on track now !! 🚬😎👍
My #1 prog album of all time is also "Close to the Edge". It's really the meaning of perfection! Nice video, man. Thanks for sharing this! Greetings from Brazil!
Great list! My only adds would be David Bowie - Ziggy, The Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card (or I Robot or Tales), all three are perfect in my book. =) Any Moody Blues Days of Future Past is pretty darn perfect for me.
Hello, I’ve been listening to Prog for about a year, and since then, Rush has become my favourite band of all time. I’d love to see a video where you rank the albums if possible, but no worries. Great video!
I need to get myself back to vynil. Completely fed up with listening to spotimusic, plastic cds et al. I remember back in the day taking Relayer from my collection, pulling out the vynil and protective sleeve from the album cover. Such fantastic artwork. Dropping the tactile record onto the deck, sitting back with a cold beer, the Wharfdales start to hum, a moment of anticipation, turn the amp up, sod the neighbours. The pure sound of recorded music in ALL its glory. My top 5, no particular order : Tarkus, Tago Mago, Close to the Edge, Ommadawn, Hall of the Mountain Grill.
Love how the top 5 are also my personal favorites of all time as well. I must confess a few on this wonderful list I am unfamiliar with, going to be listening to some new music this week!
Thanks, Scot. My prog rock collection tends to be somewhat limited as far as artists are concerned but I am attempting to expand it. At the moment I'm a big Camel, ELP, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Yes fan. I have Gentle Giant's "Octopus" on order
What a perfect show, you are awesome man!! When I saw the title of this show, two albums immediately jumped to mind and after thinking about it for several minutes, could only come up with two others I would qualify as perfect. It's tricky because perfect doesn't necessarily mean the ultimate favorite or the best...but darn close! I'm so stoked to see that 3 of the 4 were on your list...Leftoverture and The Grand Illusion (the first two Prog Albums I ever owned) and Thick as a Brick. The other album I consider perfect is the Snowgoose....Moonmadness or Mirage may be a bit better, but the Snowgoose is perfection to me!
Thanks for this. I never got into Camel enough. I’ll look for some of your others and give ‘em a try. I’ve never been a “collector” of Prog, probably because for most of my life I’ve never been part of a Prog ‘community’, I didn’t know anyone else that liked Genesis. Or King Crimson. (I’m 70 HS class of ‘71, Pasadena) Started off w/ Moody Blues and hopscotched around from there. And I LOVE Porcupine Tree ! Carry on, Brutha !
I've been watching your videos for some time now and I still hadn't realized that I wasn't subscribed to your channel. Now, I am! Sorry about that, good man. Btw I agree with you, Foxtrot has always been my favorite Genesis album.
Again a brilliant list! And yes, Larks' Tongues in Aspic kinda creeps me out to this day. And then King Crimson followed that up by sledge hammering me with Starless and Bible Black!
Great video! Prog rock is my favorite sun genre of music and I know I good amount of prog bands but I’d like to know more. This video helped out thanks!
A fascinating list and I'll be checking out some of the albums I haven't heard yet. There do seem to be some rather glaring omissions though: Alan Parsons "Turn of a friendly card", Golden Earring "Moontan", Manfred Mann "The roaring silence", Rick Wakeman "Journey to the centre of the earth", Roger Waters "Amused to death", Santana and Moody Blues have claims as well. I also question whether Styx can really be considered prog rock, the seem pure pop to me...
Styx is definitely on the Prog borderline!!! I didn’t consider live albums so Journey was excluded. And I would say Alan Parsons is in the exact territory as Styx: kinda Prog but AWESOME!!!
@@TheProgCorner ~ A sterling choice, since you can’t really go wrong with any 70s Annie album. I would probably pick Turn of the Cards or Scheherazade and Other Stories. Keep up the stellar stuff, Scot! Cheers!
I can't believe you didn't have any IQ on your list. Almost any release like Subterranea, Dark Matter, The Road of Bones, Resistance, Frequency, and Ever. And for me, Triumvirat-Illusions on a Double Dimple, Galleon-From Land to Ocean, Yes-Drama, Citizen Cain-Somewhere But Yesterday, Dreamscape-End of Silence, Fates Warning-A Pleasant Shade of Grey, The Flower Kings-Space Revolver, Wolverine-Communication Lost, Still, and Machina Viva. Those are just some in my collection that are deserving of the description of "perfect". I do like your choices of Marillion-Misplaced Childhood and Genesis-Foxtrot...pure perfection! I wouldn't put Yes-Close to the Edge in there. And You and I is a good lightweight prog song that is dreamy and kind of draggy, and I never could get into Siberian Khatru. The title track is mind blowing though! I would also add any number of Watch and A.C.T. albums to my list.
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / Animals / The Wall Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis Tool - Lateralus
Yes some great albums in there and some that made me applaud: Crime of the Century, Foxtrot, Thick As a Brick, any Rush from ‘75 to ‘78. I thought I knew all the old stuff but you mentioned a few bands I never heard of. Finally you mentioned that polarizing slate Tales From Topographic Oceans; people love it or hate it. I could never get into it (blasphemy?). But hey it took me several listens until I finally warmed up to Larks Tongue in Aspic. Nice list!
The TR's Utopia album sound quality on LP is sub-par because they had to squeeze in 30 minutes of sound per side. ;) Also, a pristine remix can't be created, cuz some of the original tapes got lost and the tapes that are available now are 4th+ generation from what I've heard.
Cool beans, Scot! I'll have to try to compile my own personal top 25 list at some point. Sorry I missed your Friday tweet or I might have made a suggestion or two. The first one that comes to mind for my list that you didn't mention would be Ambrosia's debut. I love that record! But always fun to hear someone run through the classics, even the ones that give me bitter beer face like Can. LOL
HAPPY THE MAN... please explain the complete dismissal of them, the greatest PURE American Progband? 70% agree, other than having too many POP/ROCK semi-Prog listed
Hi, only just found your channel, have you EVER mentioned the great English band FAMILY with the amazing singer Rogar Chapman? Give them some love, they deserve some attention 😊. They never cracked the US/Canada, but were one of the most popular live bands around 1968 to 1973 in the U.K./Europe! In fact Rogar Chapman is still performing and has a great blues song recorded recently which is fantastic!🎉
More perfect prog ... - Both UK albums - take your pick - Focus - Hamburger Concerto - Sky1 ... controversial, I know, but every track is quality and the opus is amazing - Steve Hillage's Green is perfect if hippie lyrics don't bug you - Stomu Yamashta - Go! ... some don't care for the funky passages but it's full of perfect prog.
Thanks for the good vibe video! I'm a fan of Uriah Heep, so would've had Demons & Wizards in there. Don't know if they have a perfect album, but Big Big Train - particularly The Transit of Venus Across The Sun - are worth listening. Top three definitely agree with. Love Ommadawn and TFTO like you. Hadn't heard of Transatlantic, so I'll give that a listen...and also The Grand Illusion, cause what I've got of Styx I like. I would've gone with Trilogy over Brain Salad Surgery (in the album cover stakes as well, for me). Despite what many say, I can't get into Rush or King Crimson...but maybe I'll keep tryin'.:).
I agree with you about "Foxtrot", having more consistent strength than "Selling England..." You mentioned More Fool Me but the other thing that let it down was the rapid talking vocals towards the end of "Epping Forest". Foxtrot is good but I prefer the Seconds Out version of Supper's Ready. "Misplaced Childhood" by Marillion is good but, for me "Clutching At Straws" is better.
wonderful list, scott. plenty here that i love (and that fits the “perfect” label, like foxtrot over SEBTP. the latter is my fav from genesis but i agree it ain’t perfect because of more fool me. Foxtrot wins there), and plenty that i don’t know well enough or at all. love new suggestions to seek out. 3 others come to mind that are perfection to me: 1)Focus, Moving Waves 2) Nektar, Remember The Future 3) Renaissance, Scheherazade don’t think there’s a wonky note on any of these. oh, and it’s Relayer for me at the top. sublime and not of this world. cheers and keep up the Prog work:)
It deserves way more attention but the Prog elite aren’t really sure what to do about Todd. Too much talent (and genre-hopping?) But yeah, that debut Utopia album is among the greatest things these ears have ever heard!!!
Yeah I'm a Todd fan but have never warmed to the prog stuff...though A Wizard A True Star gets referred to as half prog. I'd say the first side is sonic doodling with hardly any development so it's debatable it's prog but it's definitely good. Rundgrens HEALING album is said to be influenced by Yes and that's one of my favourite albums but again its not really prog
Could you name a handful of these as recommendations for me? Love Genesis and Pink Floyd, but looking for something else like Marillion's misplaced childhood. Any more prog concept albums in the same sort of style?
Today i listened for the first time to brain salad surgery, one of the best prog album i ever listened to, still you turn me on, jerusalem, karn evil 9, what an album
Where's my album!!??
With A Little Hell From My Friends is 9.9/10. Sorry!!! Not good enough!!! Try a little harder next time maybe. I’m kidding, obviously. You are a treasure and I am so glad I discovered your music!!! ❤️❤️❤️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
WTH no Lucifer's friend or atomic 🐓! Gosh...
@@TheProgCorner Greco made a fantastic album one of the best in 2022 and trough time I think it will become a classic.
@@gorancabrajic3240 It's really great!!! My First Metal Swing Set!!!
Indeed.
Love your videos man! So much positive energy.
Thank you!!!! I get a little excited when I talk about Prog Rock!!! ❤️👍❤️
I’m one of those crazy people who would say Tales from Topographic Oceans is perfection… it’s just a perfectly structured rock symphony… but certainly the perfection of Close to the Edge is indisputable. Great selections overall!
You are preaching to the choir!!! Tales will always be my #1.
@@TheProgCorner hear, hear, brother!
@@TheProgCorner I absolutely hate it! It's a marmite album.
A wise man!!!!
Tales is THE Yes album I go back to again and again.
Hey Scot, new to the channel, but I'm so glad you mentioned PFM Per Un Amico! I rarely see it get brought up in any conversations, and it deserves a lot more attention than it receives!
I’m a huge fan of Italian Prog: PFM, Le Orme, Banco, Area, etc
I think Per Um Amico is a masterpiece. The only Italian album I rate higher is Museo Rosenbach’s “Zarathustra.”
👍👍👍
Love your enthusiasm for prog! Feel the same way about so many of these albums! Of bands not listed I would include: Anyone's Daughter - Adonis, Spirogyra - St Radigunds, Amon Duul II - Wolf City, Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft, Magma - Kohntarzosz, Nektar - Remember the Future, Dom - Edge of Time, Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra, Agitation Free - Malesch, Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine
Anyone’s Daughter!!!! So good.
plus Wind - Seasons, Gila - s/t, Ancient Grease - Women and Children First, Fantasy - Paint A Picture / Beyond The Beyond, Bakerloo - s/t, Quatermass - s/t, Peter Bardens - The Answer, Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys. ... btw too much to list 😉
For the first minute or so you nearly scared me off .. glad I held on till the end .. great picks! :)
I have the effect on people!!!! Definitely an acquired taste. Thank you!!!!
@@TheProgCorner haha, yes defo.. subscribed! :)
AWESOME!!!!! Man, that is cool. You just made my day!!!
#1 for me is Yes "Relayer" but I totally get the number one choice. Hot Rats (and The Grand Wazoo!) , Crime Of The Century, Dark Side Of The Moon, Hand Cannot Erase etc... all fantastic albums!
Can’t argue with you about Relayer!!!!
@@edljnehan2811 Don't be so ridiculous. Of course they are.
@@kingcurry6594that got elements but overall I’d say they’re just psychedelic/experimental rock
@@KingCrimson68 Which is, therefore, progressive rock.
Do you actually understand what progressive rock is and how the term came about?
@@kingcurry6594yeah prog fans just get all sensitive whenever Floyd is mentioned, idk why
Thanks for going with Wish You Were Here over the other ones. Dark Side is the obvious choice and Animals is a personal favourite of mine (and you too apparently), but Wish You Were is phenomenal. The best sounding album - production wise - of the 70s.
It is incredible and after much thought i decided it was indeed the best choice!!!
I always preferred it to Dark Side..
Me too!!!
Gilmore's Guitar work is other worldly on that album too...The outro on Have a Cigar is so sweet my teeth hurt...:)
Gilmour is not human.
Great list, Scot! Close To The Edge is my all time favorite album Ever man!
Simply perfect.
Awesome!!!
Mine too
Ok, my turn :
-Pink Floyd Meddle
-Pink Floyd Animals
-Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
-Pink Floyd Wish you Were Here
-Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
-Pink Floyd The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
-Pink Floyd Ummagumma
Awesome!!!!
Well, you are certainly consistent!
Obscured by Clouds :)
You just keep getting better and better . I look forward to all your videos . I can appreciate all these bands but of course the best of the best will always be YES . ROCK ON SCOTT 🎉🎉👍👍💪
Yes will always be my favorite band. And they have been since 1975...
Firstly, I'm really impressed that you showed all vinyl! I have most of these albums myself. So happy with these choices Scot.
Thank you!!!
Scot, my wife (Lizzy) asks that you stop encouraging me to buy more vinyl! I just ordered Similitude and The Great Adventure after watching perfect prog albums. Please don't listen to her. I love my prog and my vinyl!
Those two albums together equal 220 minutes of the best Modern Prog!!! Just amazing!!! Tell Lizzy it’ll be alright…
Oh, 220 minutes secreted away listening to prog. Freedom.
It's that easy persuading your wife, is it???
@@andrewlongshaw2128 I do a lot of things after she falls asleep...
Great video Scot! Fascinating list, and some albums for me to go out and discover. I only bought my first Styx album last year which was 'Pieces of eight' i must pick up 'The grand illusion' soon, and some Steven Wilson solo work. No arguments with the no.1 choice!
Pieces Of Eight!!! So good but yeah, The Grand Illusion is even better!!!! 👍
This was a perfect list! Ommadawn is my favourite Mike Oldfield album too! Love the little horse song at the end haha.. Can Tago Mago =🔥 Awesome video Scot! Peace! :)
Thanks!!!
..did you listen to 'Future Days' by Can? .. phenomenal grooves and rhythmic wizardry!
@@ephrimvael Your so right friend Future Days is excellent! Love Can way ahead of there time! :)
I loved Tubular Bells as much as anyone, but Ommadawn was better. Tubular Bells was a bit of advertisment: "I'm Mike Oldfield. You haven't heard of me but I'm a great musician. Stay tuned." That's truth in advertiseing; but the music on Ommadawn was better and you had no sense that Oldfield was showing off.
Great selections! You were down to the final few and I was wondering where King Crimson, Genesis and Yes were - and you didn't let me down. Thanks for some suggestions of albums I've never heard, also! And not that it matters to anyone, I was hoping to see Fish Out Of Water (Chris Squire), which would have been my number one. I'd hoped prog would go more in that direction, but I guess I'm in the minority. A masterpiece.
I love Fish Out Of Water!!! Bruford and Squire together again…
@@TheProgCorner Me, too. Great combination.
Agreed on Fish Out of Water. Such a somber album. Never heard another like it.
It’s a one of a kind (Bruford reference intended…)
One of my favorite albums of all time
What a great set of albums here Scot. Simply brilliant
That was a lot of fun!!!
@@TheProgCorner it looked it mate!
It’s like trying to pick a favorite child ,you can’t. I do agree with #1 , I’ve spent a great part of my 62 years listening to it. On a side note about 20 years ago Jon Anderson moved into our little town on the coast of California ( He’s really friendly and very social) it’s really cool to see him in Trader Joe’s or Starbucks. Thanks for the video.
SLO!!! People from around there have reported seeing him at Walmart…
Hey, if you happen to bump into him, say hi for me. Jon Anderson is one of my favorite human beings of all time!
@@falconquest2068 no problem,will do
Wow, to chat with him in Starbucks...I bet he has some wonderous stories!! 😁😁😉
Great work again, that's a very good selection with only a couple of differences for me but our lists change all the time!
Indeed they do!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Excellent list!!
I would have also mentioned the following albums:
Alan Parsons Project - "I robot"
T2 - "It'll all worked out in boomland"
Novalis - "Banished bridge"
Manfred Mann's Earthband -"Solar fire'
Spring - "Spring"
Omega - "Time robber"
Goblin - "Roller"
Colosseum - Valentyne suite"
Focus - "Moving waves"
Wallenstein - "Blitzkrieg"
The second and third albums by Caravan , the second third and fourth by Gentle Giant and all the early 70's output by Van der Graf Generator are Prog / Rock perfection . So much good music came out in the early 70's that the great music and albums from this genre is impossible to list but the ones l've mentioned instantly sprung to mind .
I love it!!!!
For me Caravan and Herne Bay front . Also love the AA Man, but "Don't leave your dad in the rain from the Pink of Grey concrete jungle album
Nothing from Renaissance (“Live at Carnegie Hall”) or the Moody Blues (“Days of Future Passed”)?
I love Squire’s solo “Fish Out of Water.” I love Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells,” but will investigate “Ommadawn.” Check out Harmonium’s “If We Needed a Fifth Season” and some young guys from NCarolina called Paradigm Blue.
I don’t know Paradigm Blue but I love Harmonium!!!!
Great rankings! I still can't get into Larks, Tongues, Aspic... Don't know why... My favorite is Red from King Crimson.
Red was my runner up but Providence doesn’t level up to the rest of the album IMHO…
Great list! I agree on the surprise that Scenes from a Memory wasn't suggested, that gets a pick from me. My Rush pick would probably be Moving Pictures. Whirlwind and Similitude will always be there. Lastly, I really think the Asia debut album is perfect, though it might be more prog adjacent.
That Asia debut is perfect Prog Pop!!! I love it!!!
Yes about Scenes from a Memory. That album - wow!
So good!!!
I wood think 2112 is better choice for Rush. side note best Prog speakers, JBL L100's
They have so many great albums that it was hard to pick just one !!!
If it ain't topographic it has to be the edge! Love the fact that the artwork can make it perfect. 👌
Everything matters!!!
Roger Dean RULES !!
Indeed he does!!!!
I'm not sure what the criteria for "perfect" is, but IF it means "love every song/track on it" then my list would probably be VERY different from most others.
Usually the FIRST one that pops into my head is Images and Words by Dream Theater.
If I chose a Pink Floyd album, it would probably be Animals.
I think you already know that my favorite albums by Kansas & Rush are Point of Know Return & Moving Pictures.
For Genesis, I most likely would include Trick of the Tail. Not because I have ANYTHING against Peter Gabriel, but Like with most of my other choices, I think this album was the culmination, or peak of where they were heading, or "progressing'," and their sound really GELLED on this one. They had all of the elements that made them great: The PROG sound, the melodic sound, but it was quite a bit more "accessible" or "mainstream" then anything they had done before, so it was the kind of sound that could reach a wide audience without compromising what made MADE them Genesis.
As for Yes, I would have a hard time deciding between The Yes Album, Close to the Edge, and 90125, as eclectic as that may sound.
For ELP, I pretty much see their first album as something that they never surpassed.
I'm not really much of a Styx fan these days, but in my younger years I ALSO would have picked The Grand Illusion.
All excellent suggestions! Very well-thought out. I appreciate that!!! 👍👍👍
I find that almost every Moody Blues 7 core albums are perfect !
To me they are all almost perfect - like 9-9.5 territory. But what a string of greatness!!!
I don’t know… I really like A Question Of Balance…
I agree. My favorite of all time album, any genre, any group is The Children’s album for a host of very personal reasons not to mention the very coherent theme of space, solitude, loneliness that could be set millions of years in the past or the future or even right now.
Let’s gooo banger video while kicking back relaxing. Lot of stuff on the go right now but Important to make the time to chill out and nerd out about some Prog rock!! Love the vids and love ur vibes Rock on
Thank you!!!!!!
Nektar Remember the Future is one that should be included in my opinion!
You’re not wrong.
Great video. I had absolutely not intention of watching it and kept meaning to skip to the end, but you captivated me, hook, line and sinker.
That’s the nicest comment anyone has ever given me. Thank you!!!
Hey Scot! I'm back. Great vid. The Prog people got it right and so did you with CTTE being number 1. To think that it was only the 5th album from the greatest band on this or any other planet!! Genesis and Peter in the two spot where they belong! Lol! FOREVER YES❗️❗️❗️😎
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You know how I roll.
@@TheProgCorner YES, yes I do!😎
Hi Scott, I will agree with YES, Genesis, Crimson, ELP, Gentle Giant, Floyd, Wobbler, Van der Graaf, Supertramp, PFM, Zappa and CAN... Though not necessarily with the same album choices. Hamburger Concerto by Focus on my list, as well as the 1st Wakeman and Squire's solos
I love those solo albums!!!
Birds of Fire is a perfect album but might fit better in the jazz fusion category. It certainly inspired a lot of prog albums
Absolutely!!!!
A great variety of styles and geographies. I enjoy most of those albums already, and the ones I haven't heard yet are going on a listening list as of today
Awesome!!!!!!😎
Now Really Scot No “Porcupine Tree” ‘Fear of the Blank Planet’ or ‘In Absentia’?
No “Riverside” ‘Love Fear & the Time Machine’?
I had every intention of doing either Blank Planet or In Absentia on there. No excuse. Senior moment!!!
No kidding.
Hey, I’m an old guy!!! Cut me some slack!!! ❤️👍❤️👍
Scot! I'm going through the list listening to each album, in turn - either again (in some cases for the 200th time!) or for the first time (Hatfield and the North S/T). Right now, I'm listening to "Hand Cannot Erase". First time. It's beautiful! I am enjoying it even more than, "TRTRTS". A re-listen to "Ommadawn" is next. Thanks, yet again, for opening our eyes and ears to new listens.
YOU ARE WELCOME!!!
I go back on the Fish era Marillion era albums. I say It's out of Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws. Both are perfect albums.
Indeed they are!!!!
Great list. As regards VDGG. Got to be Pawn Hearts or H to He for me though Scot. Surprised Nektar's Remember the Future, Gong's - You and more contemporary albums like Porcupine Tree - In Absentia and Riverside - Second Life Syndrome, didn't make it, but so much good stuff to choose from.
All of those got consideration!!! The list was getting untenable!!!
I like how you kept stressing favorites verses perfection. When I started listening to more and more prog experts they always seem to sight Close to the Edge as Yes' most perfect album. My favorite has always been "The Yes Album" It was the first prog album I ever heard. On 8-track no less, think I was 8😂. I still listen to it today, but have to agree CTTE is perfection.
The Yes Album has so much warmth and character. A real charmer!!! Steve Howe saying “hello” to the world.
@@TheProgCorner still trying to learn "Clap" to this day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can’t do it. I gave up. I got Mood For A Day in an hour but Clap is another level…
The Yes Album holds up very well, especially as it was a new direction for the band. I think the first two albums as heavily influenced by the Beatles, as so many bands were. I first heard the Yes Album while driving around Maryland and every time I heard one of the songs I said "What is that?" In much later live recordings these songs hold their own
The Yes Album IS perfect. (I think Yes had six perfect albums but I am extremely biased!)
Glad you have Ommadawn so high on your list ! I bought it when it came out ( I had to get a replacement copy because the needle kept jumping - those were the days ! ), I also got it on cassette and CD. Still one of my top comfort albums. Musical bliss.
So good!!!! 👍👍👍
Great list although I’d personally pick In the Court of the Crimson King over Larks because that album to me is the definition of perfection.. including the artwork of course.
Moonchild hurt it a little…
@@TheProgCorner I get where you’re coming from but to me the dreamy, surrealistic improv section on Moonchild actually adds to the eclecticism of the LP.. the first of its kind in Prog too.. sort of paved the way for Larks and Tongues.
It’s a minor complaint. But KC is everything.
Great list and a fantastic starting point for new prog fans, a fantastic mix of classic and newer prog. One more perfect album i would like to mention is Il bacio della medusa - Discesa Agl'Inferi d'un Giovane. Cheers my friend and prog on.
Fantastic album!!! You know I love my Italian Prog...
I proudly say that I got 22 albuns from your list ! Great albuns !
Nice!!!! Well done!!!!!
Really enjoy your videos. Got me grinnin' from ear to ear. Thanks!
Aw schucks!!!
Great list 😊 Love the nods to RPI and Canterbury - GOTTA LOVE PROG! Nice alphataurus and Quella vecchia locanda in the background!
Also blocco mentale!!
POA!!!
@@TheProgCorner got POA on the shelf behind me too!! 🙌🏻🔥🙌🏻
We’ll done but…
I would definitely switch 1&2. Also might want to consider IQ’s Subterranean or the Wake making the list.
IQ came VERY close…
So pleased to see my beloved Crime Of The Century on your list. The first rock/ Prog album I ever listened to aged 14! 😊😊
It had to be there!!!!!👍❤️
I had a glaring ommision in my collection- which was just corrected by buying the Close To the Edge DVD.
I've owned it in the past- albums, tapes... lent them out, divorce, ect.
Back on track now !!
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It needs to be in every collection!!!!! 👍👍👍
Relatively new to prog and I always poke around this channel to find new albums to listen to. Keep up the awesome work man 🫡
Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!!
Exploring your back catalog😀. 2 of my favs that I go back to all the time are Arena’s The Visitor and the Sound Of Contact. I love those 🤘🤘🤘
Two GREAT albums. I miss Sound Of Contact!!!
My #1 prog album of all time is also "Close to the Edge". It's really the meaning of perfection! Nice video, man. Thanks for sharing this! Greetings from Brazil!
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@@TheProgCorner, music definitely has no boundaries! Subscribed! Cheers.
muito obrigado 👍❤️👍
Prog covers such a vast spectrum of different flavors
Indeed!!!!!
Its almost like the mashup genre
Love "Quella vecchia locanda - il tempo della gioia" behind u 🤩beautiful cover and album!
I love QVL!!! Both albums are 10/10 to me…
Great list! My only adds would be David Bowie - Ziggy, The Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card (or I Robot or Tales), all three are perfect in my book. =) Any Moody Blues Days of Future Past is pretty darn perfect for me.
Ziggy!!!!!
Hello, I’ve been listening to Prog for about a year, and since then, Rush has become my favourite band of all time. I’d love to see a video where you rank the albums if possible, but no worries. Great video!
Rush is awesome.
Crazy rundown. Great selection
Thank you!!!!
88k views!!!! Amazing Scot!!! Love that for you dude!! ❤️❤️🤘🤘😃😃🎵🎵
So weird. This video took off nine months after publication. UA-cam is a strange beast. 👍👍👍
I need to get myself back to vynil. Completely fed up with listening to spotimusic, plastic cds et al. I remember back in the day taking Relayer from my collection, pulling out the vynil and protective sleeve from the album cover. Such fantastic artwork. Dropping the tactile record onto the deck, sitting back with a cold beer, the Wharfdales start to hum, a moment of anticipation, turn the amp up, sod the neighbours. The pure sound of recorded music in ALL its glory.
My top 5, no particular order : Tarkus, Tago Mago, Close to the Edge, Ommadawn, Hall of the Mountain Grill.
Now we are talking!!!!!!
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire: The bass line of Rick Laird on the track One Word is a killer!
Amazing!!!
Love how the top 5 are also my personal favorites of all time as well. I must confess a few on this wonderful list I am unfamiliar with, going to be listening to some new music this week!
Awesome!!!! That’s the whole idea!!!!
Thanks, Scot. My prog rock collection tends to be somewhat limited as far as artists are concerned but I am attempting to expand it. At the moment I'm a big Camel, ELP, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Yes fan. I have Gentle Giant's "Octopus" on order
You will not be sorry!!!!! Such a talented band. 👍👍❤️
What a perfect show, you are awesome man!!
When I saw the title of this show, two albums immediately jumped to mind and after thinking about it for several minutes, could only come up with two others I would qualify as perfect. It's tricky because perfect doesn't necessarily mean the ultimate favorite or the best...but darn close! I'm so stoked to see that 3 of the 4 were on your list...Leftoverture and The Grand Illusion (the first two Prog Albums I ever owned) and Thick as a Brick. The other album I consider perfect is the Snowgoose....Moonmadness or Mirage may be a bit better, but the Snowgoose is perfection to me!
Clearly we are hearing things similarly!!! Great minds think alike…
Thanks for this. I never got into Camel enough. I’ll look for some of your others and give ‘em a try. I’ve never been a “collector” of Prog, probably because for most of my life I’ve never been part of a Prog ‘community’, I didn’t know anyone else that liked Genesis. Or King Crimson. (I’m 70 HS class of ‘71, Pasadena) Started off w/ Moody Blues and hopscotched around from there. And I LOVE Porcupine Tree !
Carry on, Brutha !
You are part of a Prog community now!!!! LIKE IT OR NOT!!!! 👍❤️👍❤️
I've been watching your videos for some time now and I still hadn't realized that I wasn't subscribed to your channel. Now, I am! Sorry about that, good man. Btw I agree with you, Foxtrot has always been my favorite Genesis album.
Thanks for subscribing!!!! But it means way more to me that you’re actually watching!!!! Thank you!!!! 👍👍👍
@@TheProgCorner True. I know how important this is to you as a content creator, Scott. Keep up your great work, charismatic man. ♡
Yes indeed!!!! ❤️🤪
Again a brilliant list! And yes, Larks' Tongues in Aspic kinda creeps me out to this day. And then King Crimson followed that up by sledge hammering me with Starless and Bible Black!
I love it!!! And Red!!!
I loved you picked Darwin from Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. 🤩 It’s my fav prog album of all time. Besides, Foxtrot from Genesis is my second one. 💥
Wow! You have good taste!!!
Great video! Prog rock is my favorite sun genre of music and I know I good amount of prog bands but I’d like to know more. This video helped out thanks!
Thank you!!!
A fascinating list and I'll be checking out some of the albums I haven't heard yet.
There do seem to be some rather glaring omissions though: Alan Parsons "Turn of a friendly card", Golden Earring "Moontan", Manfred Mann "The roaring silence", Rick Wakeman "Journey to the centre of the earth", Roger Waters "Amused to death", Santana and Moody Blues have claims as well.
I also question whether Styx can really be considered prog rock, the seem pure pop to me...
Styx is definitely on the Prog borderline!!! I didn’t consider live albums so Journey was excluded. And I would say Alan Parsons is in the exact territory as Styx: kinda Prog but AWESOME!!!
Love your Channel! Perfect Prog Album for me is Close o The Edge and Amused To Death
Love the energy by the way
What about Argent - Nexus, Argent - Circus LPs?
Or All Together Now?
More psychedelic
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Love that you chose Octopus and Larks’ Tongues for GG and KC.
So hard with both of them - each having many great options!!!
Can’t argue with your number one. However, what is your perfect album from the underrated and most excellent Renaissance catalog?
I’m a weirdo and would go with Novella!!!
@@TheProgCorner ~ A sterling choice, since you can’t really go wrong with any 70s Annie album. I would probably pick Turn of the Cards or Scheherazade and Other Stories. Keep up the stellar stuff, Scot! Cheers!
Thank you!!!
I can't believe you didn't have any IQ on your list. Almost any release like Subterranea, Dark Matter, The Road of Bones, Resistance, Frequency, and Ever. And for me, Triumvirat-Illusions on a Double Dimple, Galleon-From Land to Ocean, Yes-Drama, Citizen Cain-Somewhere But Yesterday, Dreamscape-End of Silence, Fates Warning-A Pleasant Shade of Grey, The Flower Kings-Space Revolver, Wolverine-Communication Lost, Still, and Machina Viva. Those are just some in my collection that are deserving of the description of "perfect". I do like your choices of Marillion-Misplaced Childhood and Genesis-Foxtrot...pure perfection! I wouldn't put Yes-Close to the Edge in there. And You and I is a good lightweight prog song that is dreamy and kind of draggy, and I never could get into Siberian Khatru. The title track is mind blowing though! I would also add any number of Watch and A.C.T. albums to my list.
I could not believe that nobody nominated IQ. Road Of Bones would be my choice but Frequency and Dark Matter are up there for me too!!!
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / Animals / The Wall
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis
Tool - Lateralus
Excellent!!!!
Man... what you been smokin? Love your over the top presentation😂
Thank you!!! I get a little excited when I talk about PROG ROCK!!!!!!! (My poor wife…)
Yes some great albums in there and some that made me applaud: Crime of the Century, Foxtrot, Thick As a Brick, any Rush from ‘75 to ‘78. I thought I knew all the old stuff but you mentioned a few bands I never heard of. Finally you mentioned that polarizing slate Tales From Topographic Oceans; people love it or hate it. I could never get into it (blasphemy?). But hey it took me several listens until I finally warmed up to Larks Tongue in Aspic. Nice list!
Thanks, Guy!!! 👍👍❤️❤️🎄🎄
Great overall picks. I agree with most of your calls.
Thank you!!!! Spoiled for choice!!!!
The TR's Utopia album sound quality on LP is sub-par because they had to squeeze in 30 minutes of sound per side. ;) Also, a pristine remix can't be created, cuz some of the original tapes got lost and the tapes that are available now are 4th+ generation from what I've heard.
And that’s real shame but what we do have is amazing!!!
I missed Gong "You" as an all time perfect album
Good catch.
Cool beans, Scot! I'll have to try to compile my own personal top 25 list at some point. Sorry I missed your Friday tweet or I might have made a suggestion or two. The first one that comes to mind for my list that you didn't mention would be Ambrosia's debut. I love that record! But always fun to hear someone run through the classics, even the ones that give me bitter beer face like Can. LOL
Bitter beer? No thanks!!! 👍
HAPPY THE MAN... please explain the complete dismissal of them, the greatest PURE American Progband? 70% agree, other than having too many POP/ROCK semi-Prog listed
Here’s my tribute:
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And they have a new single coming out tomorrow!!!!!!!!!! Seriously!!!!
@@TheProgCorner COOOL THANKS!!!
Only just found this fantastic video post just now. Stunned here that In The Land Of Grey And Pin wasn’t nominated!
It should have been there. A big oversight!!!! That Side Two epic…oh yeah…
Good selection Scott!!!
Hi, only just found your channel, have you EVER mentioned the great English band FAMILY with the amazing singer Rogar Chapman? Give them some love, they deserve some attention 😊. They never cracked the US/Canada, but were one of the most popular live bands around 1968 to 1973 in the U.K./Europe! In fact Rogar Chapman is still performing and has a great blues song recorded recently which is fantastic!🎉
I love Family!!! Chapman was a huge inspiration for a whole bunch of people! 👍👍👍
Yeah 'In My Own Time' great song. Roger Chapman terrific vocalist
Wow what memories I saw Brain Salad Surgery at the Omni Atlanta ... loved it my friends and I did some window pane ....
Amazing!!!
You hit all my favs.....especially Morse and Transatlantic. Great picks. Where is Ambrosia's debut?
That’s a great album!!!
More perfect prog ...
- Both UK albums - take your pick
- Focus - Hamburger Concerto
- Sky1 ... controversial, I know, but every track is quality and the opus is amazing
- Steve Hillage's Green is perfect if hippie lyrics don't bug you
- Stomu Yamashta - Go! ... some don't care for the funky passages but it's full of perfect prog.
Excellent choices!!!!
Which UK album would you pick? I cannot split them. If I had to I might as well flip a coin.
Wonderful ! Great list, thank you!
You’re the best!!!
Thanks for the good vibe video! I'm a fan of Uriah Heep, so would've had Demons & Wizards in there. Don't know if they have a perfect album, but Big Big Train - particularly The Transit of Venus Across The Sun - are worth listening. Top three definitely agree with. Love Ommadawn and TFTO like you. Hadn't heard of Transatlantic, so I'll give that a listen...and also The Grand Illusion, cause what I've got of Styx I like. I would've gone with Trilogy over Brain Salad Surgery (in the album cover stakes as well, for me). Despite what many say, I can't get into Rush or King Crimson...but maybe I'll keep tryin'.:).
We all have a band or two that just never clicked for us!!! But that’s what makes doing these lists so much fun.
@@TheProgCorner Loved The Grand Illusion, now enjoying Pieces of Eight!
I had not seen a yes album for the whole video until number one where I went "fhew!".
Had to be!!!!!!
I agree with you about "Foxtrot", having more consistent strength than "Selling England..." You mentioned More Fool Me but the other thing that let it down was the rapid talking vocals towards the end of "Epping Forest". Foxtrot is good but I prefer the Seconds Out version of Supper's Ready. "Misplaced Childhood" by Marillion is good but, for me "Clutching At Straws" is better.
Re: Marillion You’re splitting hairs there as both of those are 10/10 records!!!
I am a bit surprised that In The Court of The Crimson King wasn't chosen.
Moonchild.
Great Picks! Good taste Dude! I would change an album or 2 But Excelent taste Sir!
Thank you!!!
wonderful list, scott. plenty here that i love (and that fits the “perfect” label, like foxtrot over SEBTP. the latter is my fav from genesis but i agree it ain’t perfect because of more fool me. Foxtrot wins there), and plenty that i don’t know well enough or at all. love new suggestions to seek out.
3 others come to mind that are perfection to me:
1)Focus, Moving Waves
2) Nektar, Remember The Future
3) Renaissance, Scheherazade
don’t think there’s a wonky note on any of these.
oh, and it’s Relayer for me at the top. sublime and not of this world.
cheers and keep up the Prog work:)
Focus, Nektar and Renaissance!!! Three of the best bands ever!!!
Really Enjoyed this. Cheers
Thanks!!! 👍❤️👍❤️👍
Of all the prog know-it-alls on youtube, you seem to be the first to mention Todd Rundgren's first Utopia album. My hat is off to you, sir! Thank-you!
It deserves way more attention but the Prog elite aren’t really sure what to do about Todd. Too much talent (and genre-hopping?) But yeah, that debut Utopia album is among the greatest things these ears have ever heard!!!
Yeah I'm a Todd fan but have never warmed to the prog stuff...though A Wizard A True Star gets referred to as half prog. I'd say the first side is sonic doodling with hardly any development so it's debatable it's prog but it's definitely good. Rundgrens HEALING album is said to be influenced by Yes and that's one of my favourite albums but again its not really prog
Could you name a handful of these as recommendations for me? Love Genesis and Pink Floyd, but looking for something else like Marillion's misplaced childhood. Any more prog concept albums in the same sort of style?
Maybe IQ “Subterranea” or Spock’s Beard “Snow.”
@@TheProgCorner I'll give those a listen! Many thanks! :D
I find it very surprising that all the top 3 albums came out in the same year of 1972, almost as if the stars aligned or something
What a year!!!
Yay, my pick made #8! Though, I should’ve mentioned Eldorado by Electric Light Orchestra, one of the few albums I personally call perfect
Eldorado is an excellent call. I love it.
Today i listened for the first time to brain salad surgery, one of the best prog album i ever listened to, still you turn me on, jerusalem, karn evil 9, what an album
Wow!!!! One of my all time favorites!!!!