barryh471

Played this recently, and... wow! I'd have to rank this near the top of Brubeck's catalog. You don't think of this one when you think of Brubeck, it being a 1970s album and all, but the performances on this -- from the whole band, really -- are incredible. Anyone else in here feel this way?

As I stated in my original post, what I posted was not a "list," but simply the current highest-rated (based on a modified mean) 50 albums on a particular album-rating database, which I thought might be helpful for anyone interested in some top-notch prog albums that they perhaps had not heard of. I emphasize the word "current," because it changes all of the time -- there have been at least a 20 top rated albums on that site since I discovered it a number of years ago. The criteria to participate (at least, the last time I checked) is to be able to provide ratings for at least 2000 albums right off the bat, and then be able to contibute several per week thereafter -- thereby making it a much more valuable resource than other similar sites available on the internet, which are simply places where anybody can rate anything. The site administrators use responsible statistical models to develop their averages, so that albums with few reviews won't get rated disproportionately high or low, if those relatively few reviews bunch at the top or bottom of the ratings scale. I don't know why you'd discount the jazz albums in the ratings, since the purpose of the site is "exploratory, creative and original music of the past, present and future," and jazz certainly qualifies. They have rated several thousand jazz albums. If you want to throw out the jazz albums, however, then the more prog-related albums that would replace the five slots that the jazz albums had taken up, would be: 46. Osana -- Palepoli 47. Univers Zero -- UZED 48. Area -- Crac 49. Soft Machine -- Third 50. Le Orme -- Felona e Serona

Definitely an interesting list, including a couple of albums I wouldn't necessarily call "Prog". A little light on King Crimson though. Where's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" and "Starless and Bible Black"? :rsmile: Here's another list -- it's the current 50 highest rated albums at Gnosis2000.net, a progressive rock-oriented ratings database (though the database contains albums from many genres). Whereas about 1/3 of the above list isn't very good, IMO (Marrillion? IQ? Top 50???) all of these albums are worth checking out, and most of them are all-time greats. 50. Mahavishnu Orchestra -- Birds Of Fire 49. Picchio Dal Pozzo -- st 48. Miles Davis -- Complete Bitches Brew Sessions 47. Frank Zappa -- You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 46. Miles Davis -- Cellar Door Sessions 45. Gentle Giant -- Three Friends 44. Magma -- Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh 43. Bubu -- Anabelas 42. Van Der Graaf Generator -- Godbluff 41. Magma -- K.A. 40. King Crimson -- Lizard 39. Frank Zappa -- Hot Rats 38. Mahavishnu Orchestra -- Inner Mounting Flame 37. Area -- Arbeit Macht Frei 36. Magma -- Trilogie Theusz Hamtaahk 35. Kultivator -- Bardomens Stigar 34. Anglagard -- Epilog 33. Gentle Giant -- Giant On the Box (DVD + CD) 32. Gentle Giant -- Octopus 31. Gong -- You 30. Caravan -- The Land of Grey and Pink 29. Genesis -- Nursery Cryme 28. Eskaton -- Four Visions 27. John Coltrane -- A Love Supreme 26. King Crimson -- Great Deceiver Live 1973-1974 25. Il Balletto Di Bronzo -- Ys 24. Robert Wyatt -- Rock Bottom 23. Magma -- Hai/Live 22. Miles Davis -- Kind Of Blue 21. Univers Zero -- Ceux Du Dehors 20. Pink Floyd -- Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 19. John Coltrane -- Complete Village Vanguard 18. King Crimson -- Red 17. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso -- st 16. Gentle Giant -- In A Glass House 15. Hatfield & The North -- st 14. Jethro Tull -- Thick As A Brick 13. Van Der Graaf Generator -- Pawn Hearts 12. PFM -- Storia Di Un Minuto 11. National Health -- Of Cues And Cures 10. Genesis -- Foxtrot 9. Yes -- Close To The Edge 8. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso -- Io Sono Nato Libero 7. Hatfield & The North -- The Rotters Club 6. Genesis -- Selling England By the Pound 5. Anglagard -- Hybris 4. PFM -- Per Un Amico 3. Banco Del Mutual Soccorso -- Darwin 2. King Crimson -- Larks Tongues In Aspic 1. King Crimson -- In The Court Of The Crimson King