Thank you! This is the first prog rock assessment video I've seen which gives little snippets of music for those of us who are not familiar with all the bands.
The (Moving Waves) album by Focus will stomp on quite a few of the albums in your first series. I haven't heard any of the other "honorable mentions" yet but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other really good ones too.
Not sure why the cutoff in '69 starting with King Crimson. I would have started with the first concept album and one of the first Progressive Rock records, Days of Future Past by the Moody Blues.
I'm thinking 1966 and Freak Out Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention was the first Prog release to the main stream- note Prog is not a UK only affair
Great selection !!! I would also mention some German bands that also stood out very well: TRIUMVURAT (Spartacus, 1975); ELOY (Power and Passion, 1975); JANE (Together, 1972); KRAFTWERK (Autobahn, 1974); FRUMPY (Frumpy 2, 1971).
Not my list but certainly interesting. It of course depends a lot on your personal history and what you're acquainted with. I really love that you include some Italian and other non-Anglosaxon progrock.
It´s a good and coherent list indeed but at the same time surprised for the absence of The Dark Side Of The Moon, some Gentle Giant masterpieces, Wobbler´s From Silence To Somewhere and Focus Hamburger Concerto.
This is a very appriciable selection, with a lot of well known (and much less known) gems. Personally I would have dropped Marillion (and in case one Jethro Tull record) to make room for at least one Gentle Giant album. The Honourable Mentions are certainly worthy... some of them (Area above all) would have certainly deserved a position in the proper ranking.
Definitely great list all classics are there, but I am personally missing newer great albums like Anglagard - Hybris or Flower Kings - Stardust... or anything from Transatlantic, Arena, Iluvatar, Discipline and many, many, many more 🙂. Whenever there is video with top X prog albums it include mostly only 70's classics...
I agree with what at least one other has said, this should of been titled, "My favorite" not "The Greatest" 40 bands. That said, I look forward to checking out the few bands I'm unfamiliar with and reconnecting with a few not heard in much too long. I did appreciate there were the 3 from Rush but brother, why the pass on 2112? Where's Crime of the Century? No Kansas or Gentle Giant? Again, too subjective to calling it the greatest, however, I would love to see your list of your favorite top 10 ranked!
Sostanzialmente condivido. Le honorables mentions andrebbero inserite tout court. Three friends dei Gentle Giant pure. Di Animals mi piace solo la copertina avrei scelto Atom Heart Mother
I'm thinking 1966 and Freak Out Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention was the first Prog release to the main stream- note Prog is not a UK only affair Good that Camel and Soft Machine/ Matching Mole is there but I would add Sebastian Hardie - Four Movements, Gong -Angels Egg and Ariel -A Strange Fantastic Dream
Gentle giant the greatest most most epic legendary unique innovative genius band ever This just prooves they are the most obscenely criminally underrated band ever.
"Storia di un minuto" is a great debut album but is far from being PFM's best album. Consider instead "Per un amico" (or "Photos of ghosts"), "L'Isola di Niente" (The world became the world") or "Chocolate Kings".
Love Rush also, glad to see 3 albums of their's on this list. Actually thought 2112 should have been on there as well. ELP was on this list with Tarkus.
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Tales from Topographic Ocean (Yes) are missing and I would add a couple more albums by VDGG. Nice that you mentioned Soft Machine 3 and didn't mention Gentle Giant, who are so overrated 🥱
It’s your list, so these are comments rather than complaints: 1) There are several albums listed I wouldn’t call prog rock, and 2) a list of prog rock albums that doesn’t have any Brian Eno seems suspect to me.
Eloy - Ocean, The Mars Volta - de-loused in the comatorium, Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2 Scenes From A Memory Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray Haken - The Mountain Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Maudlin of the Well - Part The Second Opeth - Blackwater Park Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Riverside - Second Life Syndrome Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
"Anything before october 1969 is not taken into considederation" is very sad statement. I'm sure you would find lots of wonderful prog bands albuns before that.
Ottime scelte sicuramente ma mi aspettavo altri albums storici e di grande livello come NURSERY CRYME dei GENESIS, BRAIN SALAD SURGERY degli EL &P , A PASSION PLAY dei JETHRO TULL, OCTOPUS dei GENTLE GIANT, e poi NIENTE STRAWBS, Niente CURVED AIR , e molti altri ancora??? È vero che la scelta era per 40 titoli ma potevano anche almeno 100 così che potevano entrarci da citare altri interessanti dischi!!!!!!!!!! Però ripeto questa scelta è abbastanza BUONA!!!!!!!!! Molti albums inseriti in questa lista,mi trovano pienamente d'accordo 👍
Io dei Genesis oltre a Trespass e Nursery Crime ( ci sarebbe anche a Trick of The Tail che meritava la presenza almeno tra i menzionati) che mancano non capisco come fa a mancare "The Lamb Lies Down on Brodway" che è, o almeno lo è per me una delle pietre miliari del movimento Progressive di tutti i tempi. Ma dato che giustamente rispecchia un gusto personale faccio i complimenti all'autore del video perchè piu o meno a messo tutti i gruppi che hanno avuto una parole in questo contesto musicale tranne forse i Gentle Giant che magari almeno con Octopus meritavano di starci in questa classifica.
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1974, Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimpe 1974, Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water -1975 and much more. Note: Italian records in the video are superfluous, grettings
Egg s/t, Beggars Opera Waters of Change, Gnidrolog Lady Lake,The Strawbs Just A Curious And Antiquies,Procol Harum Shine on Brightly,Spring s/t,Le Orme Felina e Strona,PFM The World became The World, Renaissance Ashes arę Burning.
Avete tralasciato i Gentle Giant, gli ELP, i Gong… messo solo 2 dei tanti capolavori dei Genesis… per mettere dischi sconosciuti e altri famosi che sono progressive per modo di dire!
It's sacrilege to exclude Supertramp's Crime of the Century or PFM's Per un amico. Your list is replete with several Italian albums and you have the gall to exclude PFM?
I’m fine with the most -but whats so great about Red by KC? Everyone hypes it; I still don’t get it - i tried it out time and time again, to me it’s disharmonic and noisy (don’t get ge wrong, i‘m a great admirer of Gentle Giant, and love complex structures!)
Not sayin' I fon:t agree with some of your choices, but, this should be titled "My favourite 40 prog rock albums, because this is certainly not the greatest 40 in my opinion😊
my opinion is that it is incorrect to single out 40, 50 or even 100 best prog rock albums, because thanks to fate and the musicians, we can enjoy thousands of great prog rock albums, and their number is only increasing to this day, and I am also the happy owner and listener of about 2,500 such records. Progrock forever Tamas from Hungary
@@DimitriAnanie I want to like prog more than I actually do. Like Moxie, I drink it because I think I want to like it. I do love Rush, who I realize are definitely on the more generally palatable end. What wouldst thou call Roxy Music
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 I love Rush too, my fav album is Hemispheres. I like also Roxy Music, but they’re not among my most- liked actually. of course they’re not prog, I would say glam/art rock
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In una lista dei 40 migliori album prog non possono mancare i GENTLE GIANT
Am not missing them 😂
Thank you! This is the first prog rock assessment video I've seen which gives little snippets of music for those of us who are not familiar with all the bands.
Glad you put Zappa's One Size Fits All on the list. Been arguing for years that it is a progressive rock album. Interesting list.
The (Moving Waves) album by Focus will stomp on quite a few of the albums in your first series. I haven't heard any of the other "honorable mentions" yet but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other really good ones too.
Not sure why the cutoff in '69 starting with King Crimson. I would have started with the first concept album and one of the first Progressive Rock records, Days of Future Past by the Moody Blues.
I'm thinking 1966 and Freak Out Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention was the first Prog release to the main stream- note Prog is not a UK only affair
Great selection !!! I would also mention some German bands that also stood out very well: TRIUMVURAT (Spartacus, 1975); ELOY (Power and Passion, 1975); JANE (Together, 1972); KRAFTWERK (Autobahn, 1974); FRUMPY (Frumpy 2, 1971).
Not my list but certainly interesting. It of course depends a lot on your personal history and what you're acquainted with. I really love that you include some Italian and other non-Anglosaxon progrock.
Styx grand illusion is one of the best albums ever. I know everybody likes it but having said that it’s still so underrated.
Great album, but more pop than Prog.
@@johndemars2551 I don’t agree with that comment at all
i agree
STYX is the post progress rock.
It´s a good and coherent list indeed but at the same time surprised for the absence of The Dark Side Of The Moon, some Gentle Giant masterpieces, Wobbler´s From Silence To Somewhere and Focus Hamburger Concerto.
The Dark Side of the Moon. that's a GLARING omission!
Absolutely!
Aphrodite's Child - 666
This is a very appriciable selection, with a lot of well known (and much less known) gems. Personally I would have dropped Marillion (and in case one Jethro Tull record) to make room for at least one Gentle Giant album. The Honourable Mentions are certainly worthy... some of them (Area above all) would have certainly deserved a position in the proper ranking.
Excellent and comprehensive. Needs more Gentle Giant!
Spartacus by Triumvirat 1975
Or Pompeii, or my personal top Illusions on a Double Dimple.
You missed Kansas...
Supertramp: Crime Of The Century
Styx: The Grand Illusion
Definitely great list all classics are there, but I am personally missing newer great albums like Anglagard - Hybris or Flower Kings - Stardust... or anything from Transatlantic, Arena, Iluvatar, Discipline and many, many, many more 🙂. Whenever there is video with top X prog albums it include mostly only 70's classics...
I agree with what at least one other has said, this should of been titled, "My favorite" not "The Greatest" 40 bands. That said, I look forward to checking out the few bands I'm unfamiliar with and reconnecting with a few not heard in much too long. I did appreciate there were the 3 from Rush but brother, why the pass on 2112? Where's Crime of the Century? No Kansas or Gentle Giant? Again, too subjective to calling it the greatest, however, I would love to see your list of your favorite top 10 ranked!
P.S. where's the Moody Blues?
In sports you can talk about the best and about your favorite, not in music. In music, the best = my favorite.
Sostanzialmente condivido. Le honorables mentions andrebbero inserite tout court. Three friends dei Gentle Giant pure. Di Animals mi piace solo la copertina avrei scelto Atom Heart Mother
I'm thinking 1966 and Freak Out Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention was the first Prog release to the main stream- note Prog is not a UK only affair
Good that Camel and Soft Machine/ Matching Mole is there but I would add Sebastian Hardie - Four Movements, Gong -Angels Egg and Ariel -A Strange Fantastic Dream
No Gentle Giant?
Gentle giant the greatest most most epic legendary unique innovative genius band ever This just prooves they are the most obscenely criminally underrated band ever.
@@1359401Acquiring the taste should be in there!
Place 1 to 9 Gentle Giant (you can't count the last two albums) Next: Place 40 Yes Fragile
The most overrated of all prog bands. Complexity is not a quality in itself.
I could see Kansas on this list with "Song for America", "Left Overture", and "Point of no Return".
KANSAS...the first album is the blueprint..good place to start
Good list. How about Triumvirat-Spartacus, and Gentle Giant-Free Hand.
Bravo Harmonium, la fierté du Québec.
"Storia di un minuto" is a great debut album but is far from being PFM's best album. Consider instead "Per un amico" (or "Photos of ghosts"), "L'Isola di Niente" (The world became the world") or "Chocolate Kings".
Thanks for making it international. Not surprising I have about 90% of them.
Love Rush! But no Gentle Giant and EL&P? Strange
Love Rush also, glad to see 3 albums of their's on this list. Actually thought 2112 should have been on there as well. ELP was on this list with Tarkus.
You missed a lot, but was glad to see you gave an honorable mention to Focus for Moving Waves
I would have liked to see Hamburger Concerto instead ;)
NEKTAR 9:24
I noticed I have most of the English speaking Lps. On vinyl. Hard trick to pull off on the foreign marketplace.
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…si tratta comunque di opinioni personali 😊
For me too YES number One ....cheers from Lisbon 🇵🇹
Tales from Topographic Ocean (Yes) are missing and I would add a couple more albums by VDGG. Nice that you mentioned Soft Machine 3 and didn't mention Gentle Giant, who are so overrated 🥱
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Gentle Giant ?
It’s your list, so these are comments rather than complaints: 1) There are several albums listed I wouldn’t call prog rock, and 2) a list of prog rock albums that doesn’t have any Brian Eno seems suspect to me.
D'accordo su molti, ma nn si può vedere Animals dei PF tra i dischi prog, Atom Heart mother è prog.
Mancano i Gentle Giant, i Focus, i Magma, i Gong.
Eloy - Ocean,
The Mars Volta - de-loused in the comatorium,
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2 Scenes From A Memory
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray
Haken - The Mountain
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Maudlin of the Well - Part The Second
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
That is hardest to make top video I have ever seen. Thanks for your effort
Brain Salad Surgery, Señor..
Good Choice
Thanks for uploading
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica? Holger Czukay's Movies? The Residents?
Focus, Gentle Giant, Vandergraf Gen, PFM
GONG YOU
"Anything before october 1969 is not taken into considederation" is very sad statement. I'm sure you would find lots of wonderful prog bands albuns before that.
I'm missing one album. I can only count 39 albums!?
Interesting list, thanks. Impressed that you included non English bands.
Fav album from this list is definitely Rush - Moving Pictures, one of my fav albums of all time!
Yeah. Permanent Waves caught me off guard, I was ready by MP.
@@michaelsmyth3935 Two great albums. I also love 2112 Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres.
Ottime scelte sicuramente ma mi aspettavo altri albums storici e di grande livello come NURSERY CRYME dei GENESIS, BRAIN SALAD SURGERY degli EL &P , A PASSION PLAY dei JETHRO TULL, OCTOPUS dei GENTLE GIANT, e poi NIENTE STRAWBS, Niente CURVED AIR , e molti altri ancora??? È vero che la scelta era per 40 titoli ma potevano anche almeno 100 così che potevano entrarci da citare altri interessanti dischi!!!!!!!!!! Però ripeto questa scelta è abbastanza BUONA!!!!!!!!! Molti albums inseriti in questa lista,mi trovano pienamente d'accordo 👍
Io dei Genesis oltre a Trespass e Nursery Crime ( ci sarebbe anche a Trick of The Tail che meritava la presenza almeno tra i menzionati) che mancano non capisco come fa a mancare "The Lamb Lies Down on Brodway" che è, o almeno lo è per me una delle pietre miliari del movimento Progressive di tutti i tempi.
Ma dato che giustamente rispecchia un gusto personale faccio i complimenti all'autore del video perchè piu o meno a messo tutti i gruppi che hanno avuto una parole in questo contesto musicale tranne forse i Gentle Giant che magari almeno con Octopus meritavano di starci in questa classifica.
For Rush I guess I would have also included 2112.
My thoughts exactly
How about Gentle Giant?
Uriah Heep : Salisbury.
Uriah Heep
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1974, Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimpe 1974, Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water -1975 and much more.
Note: Italian records in the video are superfluous, grettings
Jane and Jon Andersons' solo "Olias of Sunhillow".
Egg s/t, Beggars Opera Waters of Change, Gnidrolog Lady Lake,The Strawbs Just A Curious And Antiquies,Procol Harum Shine on Brightly,Spring s/t,Le Orme Felina e Strona,PFM The World became The World, Renaissance Ashes arę Burning.
STEVE HOWE - Beginnings (Oct. 1975) & The Steve Howe Album (Oct. 1979)
i wish i could like the albums with foreign vocals lyrics i jus can't
I think UK Danger Money was worth at least an honorable mention.
Or UK first album
Avete tralasciato i Gentle Giant, gli ELP, i Gong… messo solo 2 dei tanti capolavori dei Genesis… per mettere dischi sconosciuti e altri famosi che sono progressive per modo di dire!
Angel=1975, ===Angel, Helluva Band- 1976 ...Classic POMP .New England-1979
It's sacrilege to exclude Supertramp's Crime of the Century or PFM's Per un amico. Your list is replete with several Italian albums and you have the gall to exclude PFM?
Although I like this list.Always remember the best list is always your own.
Magnum Opus : Sinestesia, Imagens, Trilogia, Ummo and Magnum Opus
Listing three albums by RUSH and only one by ELP and two by Genesis? That is skewed priorities.
I’m fine with the most -but whats so great about Red by KC? Everyone hypes it; I still don’t get it - i tried it out time and time again, to me it’s disharmonic and noisy (don’t get ge wrong, i‘m a great admirer of Gentle Giant, and love complex structures!)
What about gentle giant?
The correct name of the HARMONIUM album is: " Si on Avait Besoin D'une Cinquième Saison".
God’s child 777! Perfection!
No Kansas ???
Marillion but no Gentle Giant, UK?
I have 17 of those albums myself. But where is Gentle Giant? One of the absolute best prog rock bands ever.
Gypsy. A fantastic progressive rock band.
Kansas? Masque or Leftoverture?
Not sayin' I fon:t agree with some of your choices, but, this should be titled "My favourite 40 prog rock albums, because this is certainly not the greatest 40 in my opinion😊
Gong?
Отличная подборка... НО ГДЕ Gentle Giant??? 😯
my opinion is that it is incorrect to single out 40, 50 or even 100 best prog rock albums, because thanks to fate and the musicians, we can enjoy thousands of great prog rock albums, and their number is only increasing to this day, and I am also the happy owner and listener of about 2,500 such records. Progrock forever Tamas from Hungary
My favorite is Helen Reddys Greatest Hits.
Don't laugh cuz I don't know this but was prog big in italy?
it was huge. bands like genesis and vdgg became famous in italy even before than in uk.
@@DimitriAnanie oh, thanks. For some reason I wouldn't have thought that.
@@DimitriAnanie I want to like prog more than I actually do. Like Moxie, I drink it because I think I want to like it. I do love Rush, who I realize are definitely on the more generally palatable end. What wouldst thou call Roxy Music
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 I love Rush too, my fav album is Hemispheres.
I like also Roxy Music, but they’re not among my most- liked actually.
of course they’re not prog, I would say glam/art rock
@@DimitriAnanie art rock is a term I always forget about
Can -Tago Mago....Gong Camembert electrique....
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Acquiring the taste, valentine suite,air conditioned, fearless, elastic rock, the nice, ect ect
Di gran lunga Atom
What about Gentle Giant
many are missing
The first prog album is a record of vanilla fudge
Vanilla Fudge was never prog. They were heavy psych, too much jamming and too much psychedelic to be prog
NEKTAR Remember the future should be here as well
We're most greatest albums of King Crimson and Rolling Stones?! Why Doors doing in this list?
The definition of Progressive is arbitrary. I never heard thee term until Alan Parsons Tales of Mystery... Many on your list were called Art Rock.
Classifica demenziale i Genesis INARRIVABILI PER CHIUNQUE dovrebbero avere i primi cinque album nei primi dieci
Realmente a VGG le hiciste justicia...
No the lamb? I quit watching since that moment
Boohoo numbskull sniffy.
You forget HARMONIUM !
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Three friends by Gentle Giant
almost perfect selection, but for me Darwin by Banco is far superior to the first album and rock bottom must be on the 40
and Anima Latina by Lucio Battisti should be on the list. it’s the best italian album ever
Without the lamb lies down on broadway? Noooooooo
Leave one from Rush and consider A Trick of The Tail instead 😉
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No Taylor Swift?
Are you nuts?