The Top 10 or 20 Albums of Your Favorite Genre

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Recommendations are great. So I thought this would be a neat way to introduce people to some great albums in genres that they may like.


My favorite genres are progressive rock and classical so I did a top 20 of prog and a top ten of classical works.

Progressive rock:
1. Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
2. Ra by Utopia
3. Animals by Pink Floyd
4. Focus 3 by Focus
5. In The Court of King Crimson by King Crimson
6. Scheherazade and Other Stories by Renaissance
7. Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd
8. Selling England By The Pound by Genesis
9. The Yes Album by Yes
10. Hamburger Concerto by Focus
11. Fragile by Yes
12. A Night At The Opera by Queen
13. Sgt. Peppers by The Beatles
14. Todd Rundgren's Utopia by Utopia
15. The Wall by Pink Floyd
16. Brain Salad Surgery by ELP
17. Moving Waves by Focus
18. The Dreaming by Kate Bush
19. Nursery Cryme by Genesis
20. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project

Classical Works:
1. The Planets by Gustav Holst
2. The Cloud Messenger by Gustav Holst
3. A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughn Williams
4. The London Symphony by Raplh Vaughn Williams
5. The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky
6. Turnadot by Giacomo Puccini
7. The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
8. Symphonic Dances by Sergei Rachmaninov
9. The Rite Of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
10. Requiem by Gabriel Fauré

Now yours!
 
Screwtape2 said:

Classical Works:
1. The Planets by Gustav Holst
2. The Cloud Messenger by Gustav Holst
3. A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughn Williams
4. The London Symphony by Raplh Vaughn Williams
5. The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky
6. Turnadot by Giacomo Puccini
7. The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
8. Symphonic Dances by Sergei Rachmaninov
9. The Rite Of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
10. Requiem by Gabriel Fauré

NEEDS MORE SHOSTAKOVICH! Here's mine.

Prog:

01. Pink Floyd - Animals
02. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
03. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
04. Roger Waters - Amused To Death
05. Anathema - Judgement
06. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry (yes, this is prog in some circles, even though they're not officially labeled as such)
07. Rush - 2112
08. Queen - Queen II
09. Rush - Fly By Night
10. The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

Classical:

01. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
02. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
03. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
04. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ("Moonlight Sonata")
05. Igor Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring
06. Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony For Strings, Op. 110a
07. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony For Strings, Op. 118a
08. Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite
09. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6
10. Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird
 
I don't know what my favorite genre is. :sad: So I'll just throw some love out for some random genre:

Brit Pop

1. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
2. Supergrass - I Should Coco
3. The La's - The La's
4. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
5. Blur - Parklife
6. Pulp - Different Class
7. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
8. Oasis - (What's The Story?) Morning Glory
9. Elastica - Elastica
10. Suede - Suede

:happy:
 
Re: Re: The Top 10 or 20 Albums of Your Favorite Genre

GibsonGirl said:


NEEDS MORE SHOSTAKOVICH! Here's mine.

Prog:

01. Pink Floyd - Animals
02. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
03. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
04. Roger Waters - Amused To Death
05. Anathema - Judgement
06. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry (yes, this is prog in some circles, even though they're not officially labeled as such)
07. Rush - 2112
08. Queen - Queen II
09. Rush - Fly By Night
10. The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

NEEDS MORE COWBELL! Seriously, I recommend Focus and Renaissance they both have classical elements and are :drool: Drop your e-mail.

GibsonGirl said:

Classical:

I highly recommend these if you haven’t heard them before:
1. The Planets by Gustav Holst
2. The Cloud Messenger by Gustav Holst
3. A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughn Williams
4. The London Symphony by Ralph Vaughn Williams
 
this is a good thread, let's see...

post-rock:

10. "The Perfect Tango" by Neil on Impression
9. "Unnoticable in a Tiny Town, Invisible in the City" by Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson
8. "Quietly" by All Angels Gone
7. "And the Battle is Won" by UpCDownCLeftCRightABC+Start
6. "Ágætis Byrjun" by Sigur Ros
5. "The Fall of Math" by 65daysofstatic
4. "Easily Misunderstood" by The Samuel Jackson Five
3. "Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward" by A Silver Mt. Zion
2. "Enjoy Eternal Bliss" by Yndi Halda
1. "Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

hm: "The Allstar Project" by The Allstar Project, "Random Avenger" by Magyar Posse, "How Lonely Sits the City" by The Ascent of Everest and some others
 
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Death-ish metal
(You know you want to)
1. Pale Folklore by Agalloch
2. Mabool by Orphaned Land
3. The Moor by Opeth
4. Focus by Cynic
5. The Spear Of The Lily Is Aureoled by Sculptured
6. Moontower by Dan Swanö
7. Empiricism by Borknagar
8. The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus
9. Obscura by Gorguts
10. Symbolic by Death

Prog rock
1. Stupid Dream by Porcupine Tree
2. Judgement by Anathema
3. Awake by Dream Theater
4. The Dark Third by Pure Reason Revolution
5. Animals by Pink Floyd
6. Blackfield II by Blackfield
7. Bridge Across Forever by Transatlantic
8. Still by Wolverine
9. The 1st Chapter by Circus Maximus
10. Osiris by Osiris

I wanted to do a Dunedin Sound but a list was pretty hard. Here's some stuff you should really look at:
1. Submarine Bells by The Chills (In fact, EVERYTHING by The Chills. You especially can't go wrong with Kaleidoscope World, Brave Words, or Soft Bomb.)
2. Hail by Straitjacket Fits
3. A Cuppa Tea And A Lie Down by Able Tasmans
4. Juvenilia by The Verlaines (Everything from Egon Schiele to Paul Verlaine to Fyodor Dostoyevsky? Definitely the thinking person's band.)
 
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