could be giving me distant flashbacks to Legend maybe havent seen it since I was a kid

and yeah Rock Bottom is unreal. one of the most transportive headphone trips.

actually Rock Bottom one of the best recs I ever got as well @RASIE already knew Soft Machine but might have taken forever to get to RB

I remember you posted a YouTube link of Sea Song at me and I got halfway through before I turned it off because I knew I needed to cop the physical and take my first listen much more seriously lol.

9 years ago

Genesis dropped a mystic masterpiece that took me years to sink in,went from a 6 to almost a 10/10. Gabriel's best performance with them and the compositions work in a much different way to anything they did before. Even though its still insanely proggy it partially points the way toward both further Genesis and Peter solo while still being totally unique. also one of the most esoteric concepts, still have no idea what its about

even with Steve Hackett being significantly less prominent now than previous albums, every other band member is at their top level

looking forward to diving in

how many other 10/10's you got for this year?

Carpet Crawlers deep tones from Gabriel, passionate emotional climaxes, harmonizing with Collins, evocative lyrics about some abstract s*** peak

actually was looking and dont think i fully have one

the other closest contenders

Red
Rock Bottom
On the Beach
A Tábua de Esmeralda

Speaking of deep tone I'm not sure if I got to tell you that I enjoyed Over-Nite Sensation and Franks new voice quite a bit

Considerably toned down the condescending humor and grating arrangements good stuff

some other long prog opuses still going strong this year. including a mind-bogglingly 30 minute long Todd Rundgren one

@Elric definitely recommending getting on the Peter Hammill solo album from this year

I have 4

I was just thinking Van Der Graf better have something going this year lol

Mystic Queen off that first Camel sunk in

Montana solo is one of his best ever

2 classics coming this year with Roxy & Elsewhere and Apostrophe. canonical live album (even though I'm not big on the last side and some of the crowd working annoys me) and one of his most accessible albums. and probably the best year for his live band ever. Roxy footage is his best live footage. the goat firmly in his peak

can't be posting tracks off Relayer before me

Peter Hamills got 2 1974 albums but i havent got to the 2nd one yet

still 1 more year til the VDGG return

No Other and Warm Jets also on the tier of masterpieces just below those

had to get it in before OP posted just the edited version of the Soon part

5 minutes in this Camel is hitting

think I remember pops playing this

more prog. still some spanish language ones to post later

their best album. perfected their style

also in my 2nd tier masterpieces of the year

my boy Gouldman of Yardbirds songwriting fame holding down the Beach Boys lane for them mastapiece @Fella

that Premiata song whew

they also released a version of that album with different lyrics in English by King Crimson-associated Peter Sinfield if youre interested

Was on my list to post. Did you check out that Ronson song?

yeah ive had that album for a couple years its pretty good.

I think my favourite is the last bit of Pleasure Man where it sounds alot like Franz Ferdinand

off year for the captain but hes still pretty captivating