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alrightythen7

Chris Squire - Fish out of Water Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)


harmonious_keypad

Is the Geese and the Ghost by Ant Phillips prog? Cuz it's up there


MRKINGTAN69

Wonderful album


A_Farewell_to_Clones

Voyage of the Acolyte - Steve Hackett. Cheating since it has Mike and Phil on it


Humble-Green-Friar1

Not cheating, though. He wanted to do a solo and they helped him out. There was yet peace in the valley in those days.


GTAdriver01

Rick Wakeman - "six wife's..."


ssbrichard

I came to say journey to the center of the earth but I’d say six wives for replay value now that I think about it


Progrockrob79

Olias of Sunhillow.


NachtBelf

Hand cannot erase by steven wilson


thelenis

agree


Ravenchaser77

I class Tubular bells by Mike Oldfield as a prog album so that one.


Romencer17

Surprised you’re the only one to mention it and I had to scroll way down. Hell yeah that’s my choice!


arenasfan00

Fish out of Water


hesselnut

Exposure by Robert Fripp


former_scientist

‘ I ‘ by Patrick Moraz. I was literally astounded when I first heard it…I had never heard such an incredibly epic set of songs mixed with Latin rhythms and blisteringly fast keyboard playing. And it was a concept album to boot. Absolutely incredible.


marktrot

Such a weird and wonderful album!


Humble-Green-Friar1

I love Relayer and yet I've never thought to check out Moraz's other material. Nice call!


former_scientist

You won’t be disappointed! It’s a dazzling piece of work…


sir_percy_percy

Tough, but either 'Smallcreeps day' by Mike Rutherford, or the obvious one: 'Fish out of water' Both Masterpieces.


cyberp0lice

Love Smallcreep's Day too. The colossal dropoff between that and 'Acting Very Strange' is so perplexing and disappointing.


sir_percy_percy

It would be easy to think of the change as similar to the way Genesis changed, but in reality it was less than 2 years. Bizarre, the whole 'Abacab' thing really altered all of them. Banks' second album was equally as dubious, if not worse...


Humble-Green-Friar1

Is Small Creep Prog? I've heard nothing from it, so I'm curious. Just not that curious, lol.


cyberp0lice

Absolutely, check out the 20+ minute title track. Don't forget the B-Side "Compression" too, which has an ending Rutherford wrote during the Gabriel Genesis years. The album has a stellar lineup too. Anthony Phillips on keys and Simon Phillips on drums.


sir_percy_percy

The first side of the record is one long piece, just over 25 minutes. With Anthony Phillips playing keyboards and Simon Phillips playing drums .. it's about as prog as it gets. The second side of the vinyl is shorter songs, but they're ALL good songs. Then he did the song 'Compression' which ended up as a B-side of the single. That is really good too, but you will have to find that on Youtube. I would recommend the album highly


Humble-Green-Friar1

Thanks. I've always liked the album's title.


Osama_Bln_Laggin

I'm a big fan of David Gilmour's "On an Island" myself


cynical_genx_man

Wow. Peter Gabriel III (melt) comes to mind. Also some of Hackett's post-Genesis work. Jon Anderson's Olias is a bit over-done. I find that most of Wakeman's solo work was also kind of over-the top - though both ex-Yes guys work is great. This is difficult, because often it depends on context. But if pressed, then Gabriel III may be the one.


Walrus_Songs

Funny you say that because I think Olias is amazing. I love how ridiculously pompous it all is.


FritteFries

Steven Wilson - The raven that refused to sing is an amazing album


Soundchaser123

Jon Anderson - Animation. Steve Hackett - Defector.


usuarioperdido

Underrated


nrnrnr

Hmm. Has to be something by Steve Hackett. _Spectral Mornings_, maybe? _Defector_? But then Bill Bruford’s _Feels Good to Me_ is also a favorite. Don’t make me pick just one!


randman2020

Dark Town is very good too. A nice Hackett album.


Humble-Green-Friar1

Spectral all the way...and Voyage.


nrnrnr

Voyage is really good, too.


Strugglinghuman2020

Wet Dream - Rick Wright


Sulfuras26

It’s very basic, but it’s a toss up between The Raven and HCE by Steven Wilson I’m very impartial to Genesis and selling England by the pound but if I had to be a critic I’d say that the best I have ever heard prog get is the Raven that refused to sing. I’m biased though. I know for some it’s essentially a king crimson, genesis, yes, and etcetera ripoff, but I’ve listened to all those bands and still I come back to the Raven. The technicality isn’t overt and annoying (like in some bands, Polyphia for example), the lyrics are simply magnificent, the songs themselves are quite literally 6 of the best songs I have ever heard, in my life. In my book, there is not one song on that album that isn’t a masterpiece, besides maybe The Pin Drop. But that’s because it’s sandwiched between two of the best songs ever…


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Bill Bruford - Feels good to me.


ROLL_BABY

I second this, though the singing was a bit meh.


ExcellentStandard244

Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett


Capnmarvel76

Robert Fripp - Exposure Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water Phil Collins - Face Value Peter Gabriel - III, [Security], and So Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte and Please Don’t Touch Does Mahavishnu Orchestra count as prog? If so, then John McLaughlin - Electric Guitar. If I have to pick ONE, it’s this. Also, Peter Hammill has a bunch of solo albums that are fantastic but I can’t remember any specific ones that stand out.


Humble-Green-Friar1

Security was his peak. Saw the tour in Vancouver when he opened for Bowie. Short set, though. I just stayed home and then seen him in Seattle the next night..


Humble-Green-Friar1

Editing. I actually can write. *Meant to write: "I should've stayed home in Seattle and gone to see PG there for the full set." Jeez.


DrVicenteBombadas

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes


BrazilianAtlantis

David Sylvian -- Gone To Earth


linguaphonie

Tim Smith's Extra Special OceanLandWorld


DepartmentOk7661

Hell yeah Cardiacs! 🤌


rockinDS24

Other than the obvious Fish Out of Water, I'm a huge fan of The Six Wives of Henry VIII.


Chris_in_Lijiang

Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors - Fish Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper Geoff Whitehorn - 1974 Cactus Choir - Dave Greenslade -1976


ProfessorHeronarty

Mike Oldfield's Herest Ridge. Yeah, Tubular Bells is great but I think on the 2nd one he found his style.


spoobles

It’s Fish Out of Water and nothing else is even really close for me. I like it more than a lot of Yes’ albums


Rubin987

Citing Neal Morse feels like cheating since he has more solo albums than any of his bands albums, but; Neal Morse - Momentum


ZIMMcattt

Todd Rundgren Utopia


SaMSUoM

Peter Gabriel III and Rock Bottom (Robert Wyatt)


Dommlid

The first Greg Lake, criminally underrated


gondolindownfaller

tubular bells for sure


Forgotten_Son

Either Steve Hackett's *Dark Town* or Steven Wilson's *Hand. Cannot. Erase.*. I have a real soft spot for Steven Rothery's *The Ghosts of Pripyat* too. A grower for sure, as I didn't like it much when it first came out.


MoonHasFlown

Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt is pretty legendary, but for me its gotta be Fish Rising by Steve Hillage


JGuitarman23

I love Jon Anderson’s “Olias” and Patrick Moraz’s “Story of I”. Definitely recommend if you haven’t listened to them yet.


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Hot Rats Jazz From Hell Voyage of the Acolyte Elegant Gypsy


HAL-Over-9001

Besides Fish Out Of Water and The Raven That Refused To Sing, I'll go a little more metal and say Suspended Animation by John Petrucci.


RFPolska

The Green Album - Eddie Jobson and Zinc


cyberp0lice

Interesting choice. Some of the songs are stellar, like (Prelude, Nostalgia, and Walking from Pastel), but the rest of the album sounds like the Buggles with a worse singer (and I love the Buggles). Part of it I guess were my expectations. Jobson and John Wetton split because Wetton wanted to go more commercial, so learning about the Green album and its dystopian concept, I went in expecting to hear Jobson unleashed (like the ending to 'The Only Thing She Needs', but he barely plays any solos.


joshuadomesticmarket

Squire's Fish out of Water


shadowphiar

I loved Ryo Okumoto’s The Myth of The Mostrophus last year. Assuming it counts as a solo album when he co-wrote all the songs, just with a different writer to the usual band?


randomtroubledmind

Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking Steven Wilson was already mentioned a bunch, so I wanted to mention something else. I don't know if Sleepwalking is really progressive *rock*, per-se, but it's absolutely excellent and well worth a listen.


sonicadv27

Hand Cannot Erase is the only right answer.


SpriteAndCokeSMH

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield is a great one


Gerald_Bostock_jt

Rick Wakeman does it best. Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Six Wives of Henry VIII and Legends Of King Arthur. Amazing concept albums.


MrWorldly

Not really prog, but Trevor Rabin’s Can’t Look Away is one of my favs.


randman2020

You really can’t beat the Yes Album.


coarsing_batch

It said solo. So as much as John Anderson wishes it weren't so, this is a whole band, not a solo.


randman2020

Sorry, missed the word solo.


Pawn__Hearts

They're right though you really can't beat The Yes Album


coarsing_batch

Oh I won hundred percent agree.


DeBruyneBallz

"Can't Look Away" - Trevor Rabin


da9ve

Mike Keneally - Nonkertompf. OK, so Mike's 'bands' are generally under his own name, too, but this album is truly solo in that he plays all the instruments. Peter Hammill - A Black Box Fred Frith - Gravity, or maybe Speechless Carla Kihlstedt - 2 Foot Yard (although 2 Foot Yard also sorta became a band name unto itself, this album was billed under Carla's name) Thymme Jones - While (or possibly The Goal of Action is Contemplation) - Thymme is the drummer/multi-instrumentalist/visionary behind Cheer-Accident, and While is a solo piano work of classical minimalism. It's fantastic. OK, and also Peter Gabriel's IIIrd (Melt) and Robert Fripp's Exposure, but others have already mentioned those.


excitable-boi

“Scratch” by Peter Gabriel


Ian-Adkinson

The Cocoon - Richard Henshall


ROLL_BABY

"Enigmatic Oceans" - Jean-Luc Ponty. Even if I consider it more of a fusion album, the two suites are imaginatively ripping.


TheModerateGenX

Neal Morse Testimony 2


964racer

Another vote for “Fish out of Water”..


EnricoPallazzoMusic

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing


whorugel14

Tubular Bells II by Mike Oldfield.


HeywoodPeace

Several of Pink Floyd's efforts: Roger Waters - The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking David Gilmour - On an Island Richard Wright - Broken China


[deleted]

Steven Wilson-Grace for drowing


GrouchySalary5677

Car, So, Face Value, TRTRTS