The 50 best progressive rock albums of all time

The 50 Best Progressive Rock Albums of All Time (Original: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time ) is a list of 50 top albums of the music genre Progressive Rock published by Rolling Stone magazine on June 17, 2015.

Most frequent mentions

The British bands Genesis , King Crimson , Pink Floyd and the Canadian band Rush are each represented with three albums, followed by the British band Yes with two works. With the bands Amon Düül , Can , Tangerine Dream and Triumvirat , four German bands made it into the top 50 list.

The list

space	album	Band / performer	year	annotation
01	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	1973
02	In the Court of the Crimson King	King Crimson	1969	British band's debut album
03	Moving Pictures	Rush	1981
04th	Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	1975
05	Close to the edge	Yes	1972
06th	Selling England by the Pound	genesis	1973
07th	Thick as a brick	Jethro Tull	1972
08th	Future Days	Can	1973
09	The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	genesis	1974
10	Fragile	Yes	1971
11	Hemispheres	Rush	1978
12	Brain salad surgery	Emerson, Lake and Palmer	1973
13	Animals	Pink Floyd	1977
14th	Foxtrot	genesis	1972
15th	Red	King Crimson	1974
16	Octopus	Gentle giant	1972
17th	Tubular bells	Mike Oldfield	1973
18th	One size fits all	Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention	1975
19th	Per un amico	Premiata Forneria Marconi	1972
20th	Larks' Tongues in Aspic	King Crimson	1973
21st	Mirage	Camel	1974
22nd	2112	Rush	1976
23	Phaedra	Tangerine Dream	1974
24	Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh	magma	1973
25th	De-Loused in the Comatorium	The Mars Volta	2003
26th	Pawn Hearts	Van der Graaf generator	1971
27	Crime of the Century	Supertramp	1974
28	Blackwater Park	Opeth	2001
29	Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a memory	Dream theater	1999
30th	UK	UK	1978
31	Ashes are burning	Renaissance	1973
32	Leftoverture	Kansas	1976
33	Lateralus	Tool	2001
34	In the Land of Gray and Pink	Caravan	1971
35	Io sono nato libero	Banco del Mutuo Soccorso	1973
36	Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième season	harmonium	1975
37	Clutching at Straws	Marillion	1987
38	You	gong	1974
39	Fear of a Blank Planet	Porcupine Tree	2007
40	Third	Soft machine	1970
41	yeti	Amon Düül II	1970
42	Destroy Erase Improve	Meshuggah	1995
43	Eldorado	Electric Light Orchestra	1974
44	Hero and Heroine	Strawbs	1974
45	Illusions on a double dimple	triumvirate	1974
46	Fandangos in Space	Carmen	1973
47	Crack the Sky	Crack the Sky	1975	Debut album by the American band
48	Black noise	FM	1977	Debut album by the Canadian band
49	Hyderomastgroningem	Ruins	1995
50	Happy the Man	Happy the Man	1977

Web links

• 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time. In: rollingstone.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Dolan, Dan Epstein, Reed Fischer, Richard Gehr, Brandon Geist, Kory Grow, Will Hermes, Ryan Reed, Jon Weiderhorn: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time. In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 2, 2015 .