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Jazz-Rock Fusion, ESSENTIAL, Artist Profile, Seventies Albums, ian-carr, nucleus, karl-jenkins,

Elastic Rock, the debut album from Nucleus, the Pioneers of Jazz-Rock Fusion.

FrancescoProg

04-12-2025 11:43

Elastic Rock, Nucleus's first album from 1970, pioneered a "progressive" jazz-rock style unlike any other British jazz album...

Neo-Prog, ESSENTIAL, 2010s Albums, iq,

The Road of Bones by IQ

FrancescoProg

04-12-2025 10:55

The Road of Bones by IQ, 2014 album. Their masterpiece and a masterpiece of progressive rock, an album I consider Essential. It has a dark sound ....

Symphonic Rock, EXCELLENT, Artist Profile, 2025 Albums, 2020s Albums, neal-morse, spock-s-beard, nick-dvirgilio,

The Archaeoptimist by Spock's Beard and Leonard Nimoy's unusual beard.

FrancescoProg

02-12-2025 15:22

The Archaeoptimist degli Spock's Beard, album del 2025. Fusione e sovrapposizione di stili musicali diversi in un unico disco e spesso in un unico brano...

Neo-Prog, EXCELLENT, 2000s Albums, marillion, pete-trewavas,

Marbles by Marillion

FrancescoProg

01-12-2025 20:23

Marbles by Marillion, 2004 album. An introspective, atmospheric album, with great emotional intensity, exceptional production, and tracks that range from ...

Symphonic Rock, EXCELLENT, Artist Profile, Nineties Albums, the-flower-kings, roine-stolt,

Back in the World of Adventures and the sunny and positive Symphonic Prog of The Flower Kings

FrancescoProg

01-12-2025 14:59

Back in the World of Adventures, the first album by The Flower Kings, from 1995, one of their best albums, and it is a record with a clear progressive rock inspiration.

Heavy Prog, GREAT, Sixties Albums, high-tide,

Sea Shanties by High Tide

FrancescoProg

30-11-2025 23:18

Sea Shanties, High Tide's debut album from 1969, has a sound that, considering the era in which it was composed and released, seems ahead of its time...

Symphonic Rock, GREAT, Seventies Albums, rick-wakeman,

Journey to the Centre of The Earth by Rick Wakeman

FrancescoProg

30-11-2025 18:23

Journey to the Centre of The Earth by Rick Wakeman from 1974. It is his second solo album, which is a live album, based on the story by Jules Verne ...

Symphonic Rock, GOOD, Seventies Albums, kansas,

Masque by Kansas

FrancescoProg

30-11-2025 15:04

Masque by Kansas, from 1975. A "hybrid" album that, in addition to maintaining their characteristic progressive rock in some tracks, contains purely rock songs...

Neo-Prog, GREAT, Artist Profile, Eighties Albums, steven-wilson, solstice, clive-bunker,

Silent Dance by Solstice, the beginning of a long song of thanksgiving to life

FrancescoProg

27-11-2025 15:52

Silent Dance, 2025 Remaster of Solstice's 1984 debut album. It is their debut album, immediately characterized by their wonderful ....

Post Metal, ESSENTIAL, Nineties Albums, tool, danny-carey,

Ænima by TOOL, the path to a higher state of being

FrancescoProg

26-11-2025 22:29

Ænima, TOOL's second LP, from 1996. Ænima is a masterpiece, complex, atmospheric, with complex lyrics based on philosophical and spiritual concepts...

Zeuhl, ESSENTIAL, Artist Profile, 2000s Albums, magma,

K.A. (Kohntarkosz Anteria) by Magma and the Kobaïan Saga

FrancescoProg

26-11-2025 11:45

K.A. (Kohntarkosz Anteria) of Magma, 2004 album. A triumphant return, twenty years after their golden age, and a masterpiece of the Zeuhl genre...

Italian Progressive Rock, EXCELLENT, Artist Profile, Seventies Albums, claudio-rocchi, mauro-pagani, elio-d-anna, paolo-tofani,

Viaggio by Claudio Rocchi... A journey through music and life

FrancescoProg

25-11-2025 14:28

Viaggio, Claudio Rocchi's first solo album, was released in 1970. This debut album was released when he was just nineteen years old...

Symphonic Rock, GREAT, Seventies Albums, kansas,

Kansas self-titled album

FrancescoProg

24-11-2025 22:53

Kansas, self-titled debut album, released in 1974. An extraordinary debut album that immediately showcased the band's progressive and hard rock style...

Neo-Prog, EXCELLENT, Nineties Albums, iq,

Subterranea by IQ

FrancescoProg

24-11-2025 22:04

Subterranea by IQ, from 1997. An album with a dark and rock sound with melodic passages and dreamy atmospheres, with complex arrangements that give great emphasis.

Post Metal, ESSENTIAL, 2000s Albums, tool, danny-carey,

Lateralus by TOOL

FrancescoProg

24-11-2025 18:57

TOOL's Lateralus, released in 2001. An essential album, TOOL's masterpiece, in my opinion superior to any other album in their discography...

Neo-Prog, EXCELLENT, Nineties Albums, iq,

Ever degli IQ

FrancescoProg

24-11-2025 11:04

Ever by IQ, released in 1993. It is one of the band's most beautiful albums, which sees the return of the original singer Peter Nicholls as well as the ...

Progressive Metal, Northern Prog, GREAT, Nineties Albums, pain-of-salvation, daniel-gildenlow,

One Hour by the Concrete Lake by Pain of Salvation

FrancescoProg

23-11-2025 19:23

One Hour by the Concrete Lake by Pain of Salvation, from 1998. Second album, which is a concept album that tells the story of a man who works in the industry...

Neo-Prog, EXCELLENT, Nineties Albums, clive-nolan, pendragon,

The Masquerade Overture by Pendragon

FrancescoProg

21-11-2025 16:12

Pendragon's 1996 album The Masquerade Overture is one of their finest and a classic of neo-progressive rock.

Neo-Prog, GREAT, 2000s Albums, iq,

The Seventh House by IQ

FrancescoProg

21-11-2025 14:10

The Seventh House by IQ released in 2000. The compositions are elaborate and in a symphonic and melodic style with exceptional execution...

Post Metal, GREAT, Nineties Albums, tool, danny-carey,

Undertow by Tool

FrancescoProg

21-11-2025 10:28

Undertow, first LP by Tool, from 1993. Powerful album with heavy riffs, incisive bass lines by an excellent Paul D'Amour, hard and powerful drums...

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These are the categories with which I have classified, based on my personal evaluations, the albums on this Blog

★★★★★ Essential
Albums that I consider fundamental, which are indispensable and include essential tracks or content. I also assign this to albums that have historical importance and have strongly influenced the music of a genre or music as a whole. These are absolute masterpieces that transcend the classifications of musical genres.
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Albums that are a MUST in any quality music collection.

★★★★ Excellent
Albums of superior quality, of great value, that stand out for their characteristics. They are generally masterpieces of a specific genre.
Classification:
Albums that are indispensable in a collection that aims to be exhaustive for a specific genre.

★★★ Great
Albums that have reached very high levels of quality within the discography of a specific band.
Classification:
Albums that cannot be missing from the collection of a specific band.

★★ Good
Albums that, within a band's discography, are of acceptable or high quality but not in all their tracks or in some technical aspects such as mixing or production, which inevitably affect the overall quality.
Classification:
Albums that can be part of a band's collection for those who want to reach a medium level of completeness.

★ For Fans and Completists
Albums that can normally be missing from a collection as they do not have entirely relevant content or have low-quality content, but are necessary to complete a band's collection in all its parts.
It is a category that can also coexist with one of the others, as the previous ones are qualitative judgments, this one is essentially quantitative.
Classification:
Albums necessary to complete a band's collection in all its parts.