My 100 All-Time Favorite Albums

[Mebert78]

My 100 all-time favorite albums and my favorite song from each album.


1) Queensrÿche - Promised Land (1994)




2) Dream Theater - Awake (1994)




3) Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray (1997)




4) Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (2005)




5) Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day (2009)




6) OSI - Office of Strategic Influence (2003)




7) The Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream (2016)




8) Pain of Salvation - Be (2004)




9) Evergrey - Hymns for the Broken (2014)




10) Tesseract - War of Being (2023)




11) Haken - The Mountain (2013)




12) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)




13) Threshold - Hypothetical (2001)




14) Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)




15) Chroma Key - Dead Air for Radios (1998)




16) Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992)




17) Queensrÿche - Empire (1990)




18) Fates Warning - Disconnected (2000)




19) Redemption - The Origins of Ruin (2007)




20) Riverside - Wasteland (2018)




21) Porcupine Tree - In Abesentia (2002)




22) Evergrey - The Storm Within (2016)




23) Tesseract - Altered State (2013)




24) OSI - Free (2006)




25) Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (2002)




26) Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)




27) Faith No More - The Real Thing (1989)




28) Tool - Lateralus (2001)




29) Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days (1998)




30) Fates Warning - Parallels (1991)




31) Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory (1999)




32) Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (1988)




33) Redemption - The Fullness of Time (2005)




34) Riverside - Out of Myself (2003)




35) Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (2005)




36) Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element (2000)




37) Haken - Fauna (2023)




38) Threshold - Critical Mass (2002)




39) Rush - Counterparts (1993)




40) Fates Warning - Theories of Flight (2016)




41) Dream Theater - Dream Theater (2013)




42) Pain of Salvation - The Passing Light of Day (2017)




43) Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015)




44) OSI - Blood (2009)




45) The Neal Morse Band - The Great Adventure (2019)




46) Darkwater - Human (2019)




47) Leprous - Pitfalls (2019)




48) Valis Ablaze - Boundless (2018)




49) The Contortionist - Clairvoyant (2017)




50) Caligula's Horse - In Contact (2017)




51) IQ - The Road of Bones (2014)




52) Teramaze - Her Halo (2015)




53) Voices From the Fuselage - Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams (2018)




54) Lunatic Soul - Walking on a Flashlight Beam (2014)




55) Voyager - The Meaning of I (2011)




56) Chroma Key - You Go Now (2000)




57) Rush - Test for Echo (1996)




58) Metallica - And Justice For All... (1988)




59) The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight (1995)




60) Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (1992)




61) Tool - Ænima (1996)




62) Faith No More - Angel Dust (1992)




63) Stabbing Westward - Ungod (1994)




64) Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night (2020)




65) Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)




66) Redemption - This Mortal Coil (2011)




67) The Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger (2021)




68) Haken - Affinity (2016)




69) Rush - Clockwork Angels (2012)




70) Symphony X - Paradise Lost (2007)




71) Leprous - Aphelion (2021)




72) Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant (2020)




73) Evergrey - Escape of the Phoenix (2021)




74) Threshold - Dividing Lines (2022)




75) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)




76) Temic - Terror Management Theory (2023)




77) Valis Ablaze - Render (2019)




78) Tool - Fear Inoculum (2019)




79) Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)




80) The Tea Party - Transmission (1997)




81) Rush - Power Windows (1985)




82) Megadeth - Youthanasia (1994)




83) Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement (2007)




84) Porcupine Tree - The Incident (2009)




85) Threshold - Subsurface (2004)




86) Queensrÿche - Tribe (2003)




87) Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul (2008)




88) DGM - The Passage (2016)




89) Fates Warning - Inside Out (1994)




90) Dream Theater - Octavarium (2004)




91) Rush - Hold Your Fire (1987)




92) Redemption - The Art of Loss (2016)




93) Voices from the Fuselage - Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds (2015)




94) Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (2009)




95) Haken - Virus (2020)




96) Threshold - Dead Reckoning (2007)




97) Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods (2020)




98) Ray Alder - What the Water Wants (2019)




99) Evergrey - The Atlantic (2019)




100) Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World (2021)

[delerium]

Let's see.. my top 10 of all time

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Chroma Key - DAFR
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
U2 - Joshua Tree
Arch / Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Dream Theater - I&W
Rush - Power Windows
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Fates Warning - Parallels
Jeff Buckley - Grace

[vivace]

OK instead of thinking of which ones i `liked' the best i tried to honestly just ask myself which 10 prog albums i have spent the most time listening to and are therefore my favorite. ( OSI FMT is not in consideration)

1. King Crimson - Red
2. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3. Rush - Moving Pictures
4. Dream Theater - Awake
5. Queensryche - Mindcrime
6. Iron Maiden - seventh son of a seventh son
7. De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
8. Panopticon - Isis
9. Perfect Symmetry - Fates Warning
10. OSI - Blood

[pink]

ok, this is no easy task, but i'll try

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[virtueorvice]

Nice! IQ's new album can go into many progressive fans' all-time selection!

Here is my top twenty progressive albums: (I didn't add Chroma Key's to this list because Chroma Key's are sort of different from the rest of these albums:)

1) Dream Theater – Awake (1994)
2) Diablo Swing Orchestra – The Butcher’s Ballroom (2006)
3) Dream Theater – Images and Words (1992)
4) Opeth – Ghost Reveries (2005)
5) Porcupine Tree – Fear of Blank Planet (2007)
6) Rush – Grace Under Pressure (1984)
7) Redemption – The Fullness of Time (2005)
8) Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
9) Kvazar – A Giant’s Lullaby (2005)
10) Roger Waters – Amused to Death (1992)
11) Arch/Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance (2011)
12) Adagio – Dominate (2005)
13) Symphony X – The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997)
14) Spock’s Beard – X (2010)
15) OSI – Free (2006)
16) Fates Warning – Darkness In A Different Light (2013)
17) IQ – The Road of Bones (2014)
18) Haken – The Mountain (2013)
19) Pendragon – Pure (2008)
20) Dream Theater – Falling Into Infinity (1997)

[Mebert78]

I decided to expand my Top 10 list to a Top 50 list this year. I plan to keep this list growing bit by bit over the years as new releases grab me, eventually reaching a Top 100. Check 'em out!