# Prog Rock Essentials

A curated list by [TheVinylSpinnah](https://waxlog.com/user/thevinylspinnah) on Waxlog.

> My favourite Prog Rock Albums

130 releases · last updated 2024-11-01

## Releases

1. **Adrian Belew** — Lone Rhino
2. **Al Stewart** — Time Passages
3. **The Alan Parsons Project** — I Robot
4. **The Alan Parsons Project** — Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
5. **Alan White** — Ramshackled
6. **Asia** — Asia
7. **Blackfield** — Blackfield
8. **Blackfield** — Blackfield II
9. **Brand X** — Unorthodox Behaviour
10. **Camel** — Mirage
11. **Camel** — Rain Dances
12. **Camel** — I Can See Your House From Here
13. **Chris Squire** — Fish Out Of Water: Deluxe Edition
14. **Colosseum** — Daughter Of Time
15. **Crack The Sky** — Safety In Numbers
16. **David Gilmour** — On An Island
17. **Dream Theater** — Octavarium
18. **echolyn** — echolyn
19. **echolyn** — I Heard You Listening
20. **Electric Light Orchestra** — Electric Light Orchestra II
21. **Electric Light Orchestra** — On The Third Day
22. **Emerson, Lake & Palmer** — Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends \- Ladies And Gentlemen
23. **Emerson, Lake & Palmer** — Tarkus
24. **Emerson, Lake & Palmer** — Pictures At An Exhibition
25. **Emerson, Lake & Palmer** — Brain Salad Surgery
26. **Focus** — Focus 3
27. **Focus** — Moving Waves
28. **Frank Zappa** — Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
29. **Frank Zappa** — Apostrophe \('\)
30. **Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart & The Mothers** — Bongo Fury
31. **Genesis** — Selling England By The Pound
32. **Genesis** — Foxtrot
33. **Genesis** — Seconds Out
34. **Genesis** — Wind & Wuthering
35. **Genesis** — Nursery Cryme
36. **Genesis** — A Trick Of The Tail
37. **Genesis** — The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
38. **Genesis** — Trespass
39. **Gentle Giant** — Playing The Fool
40. **Gentle Giant** — The Power And The Glory
41. **Happy The Man** — Happy The Man
42. **It's A Beautiful Day** — It's A Beautiful Day
43. **Jean\-Michel Jarre** — Oxygene
44. **Jethro Tull** — A Passion Play
45. **Jethro Tull** — Aqualung
46. **Jethro Tull** — War Child
47. **Jethro Tull** — Thick As A Brick
48. **Jethro Tull** — Stand Up
49. **Jethro Tull** — Songs From The Wood
50. **Jon Anderson** — Song Of Seven
51. **Kansas** — Leftoverture
52. **Kansas** — Point Of Know Return
53. **Kansas** — Masque
54. **Kansas** — Song For America
55. **Kansas** — Kansas
56. **Kinetic Element** — The Face Of Life \(A Symphony In E Major\)
57. **King Crimson** — Larks' Tongues In Aspic
58. **King Crimson** — Starless And Bible Black
59. **King Crimson** — In The Court Of The Crimson King \(An Observation By King Crimson\)
60. **King Crimson** — In The Wake Of Poseidon
61. **King Crimson** — Red
62. **Manfred Mann's Earth Band** — The Roaring Silence
63. **Marillion** — Misplaced Childhood
64. **Marillion** — Script For A Jester's Tear
65. **Marillion** — An Hour Before It's Dark
66. **Massimo Pieretti** — A New Beginning
67. **The Moody Blues** — Days Of Future Passed
68. **The Moody Blues** — In Search Of The Lost Chord
69. **The Moody Blues** — Seventh Sojourn
70. **The Mothers** — Over\-Nite Sensation
71. **The Mothers** — Freak Out\!
72. **Patrick Moraz** — The Story Of i
73. **Peter Gabriel** — I/O \(Dark\-Side Mixes\)
74. **Pink Floyd** — The Dark Side Of The Moon
75. **Pink Floyd** — Meddle
76. **Pink Floyd** — Ummagumma
77. **Pink Floyd** — Animals
78. **Pink Floyd** — Atom Heart Mother
79. **Pink Floyd** — Wish You Were Here
80. **Pink Floyd** — A Momentary Lapse Of Reason \(Remixed & Updated\)
81. **Pink Floyd** — The Division Bell
82. **Porcupine Tree** — Deadwing
83. **Porcupine Tree** — Lightbulb Sun
84. **Porcupine Tree** — Fear Of A Blank Planet
85. **Porcupine Tree** — In Absentia
86. **Porcupine Tree** — Closure / Continuation
87. **Porcupine Tree** — On The Sunday Of Life...
88. **Porcupine Tree** — Voyage 34
89. **Queen** — A Day At The Races
90. **Queen** — A Night At The Opera
91. **Queen** — Queen II
92. **Queensrÿche** — Empire
93. **Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble** — No Earthly Connection
94. **Rick Wakeman** — The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
95. **Rick Wakeman** — Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
96. **Rush** — 2112
97. **Rush** — Clockwork Angels
98. **Rush** — A Farewell To Kings
99. **Rush** — Caress Of Steel
100. **Rush** — Hemispheres
101. **Rush** — Archives
102. **Ryo Okumoto** — The Myth Of The Mostrophus
103. **Spock's Beard** — Snow Live
104. **Spock's Beard** — The Kindness Of Strangers
105. **Steven Wilson** — The Raven That Refused To Sing \(And Other Stories\)
106. **Steven Wilson** — Hand. Cannot. Erase.
107. **Styx** — The Grand Illusion
108. **Styx** — Styx II
109. **Styx** — Styx
110. **Styx** — The Mission
111. **Styx** — Crash Of The Crown
112. **Supertramp** — Crime Of The Century
113. **Supertramp** — Even In The Quietest Moments...
114. **Triumvirat** — Spartacus
115. **Triumvirat** — Illusions On A Double Dimple
116. **UK** — U.K.
117. **UK** — Danger Money
118. **Uriah Heep** — Demons And Wizards
119. **Utopia** — Todd Rundgren's Utopia
120. **Walter Carlos** — Switched\-On Bach
121. **The Who** — Tommy
122. **Yes** — Relayer
123. **Yes** — The Yes Album
124. **Yes** — 90125
125. **Yes** — Yessongs
126. **Yes** — Going For The One
127. **Yes** — Close To The Edge
128. **Yes** — Fragile
129. **Yes** — Tales From Topographic Oceans
130. **Yes** — Drama

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