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Camion Blanc third batch (Jérôme Alberola books + others) (2010-2018)

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Well, I did it again... I have to stop roaming the websites for Camion Blanc Editions and Tsunami Edizioni as I always dig some new lists. Here are three from Jérôme Alberola in his "Anthology" series, after the hard rock anthology, here are three others he did for prog rock, girls music and "extremism in modern music". While the hard rock anthology was pretty clearly structured, those have different, more vague structures in my opinion, which made it a bit difficult at first to get them. Aside from the Jérôme Alberola, there are also three other lists, one for Christian Metal, a very short one for Ambient and a longer one for Italian prog rock.

Prog rock anthology: Travels in elsewhere (Jérôme Alberola, 2010)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... rs-272.php

The book that followed the hard rock anthology, and the one which structure is closest to the former. However, he ditched the distinction between primary and secondary entries, instead choosing to make a list structured as "proto-prog", "pioneers" - Marillion (as the author was obsessed with Iron Maiden for hard rock, he's obsessed with Marillion for prog) - "heirs" - "prog metal", plus an additional list as "and if we really had to only keep 50" (with a double entry, so 51, and which excludes prog metal because they're supposed to be summed up to the very best already). I'll therefore mark these 51 as primary entries with a note in brackets, while the prog metal entries must be understood as being primary entries already. As a refreshing approach, the author actually thinks that progheads obsession with the 70s classic era is excessive attachment and he seems to like the "heirs" era more (his "heirs" definition being lenient, as he also puts there albums from veteran acts). I guess that's because his musical upbringing was into hard rock and metal initially.

Proto-prog

The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 [top 50]
The Who | The Who Sell Out | 1967 [top 50]
Small Faces | Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | 1968 [top 50]
The Kinks | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society | 1968 [top 50]
The Pretty Things | S.F. Sorrow | 1968 [top 50]

Pioneers

Ange | Au-delà du délire | 1974
Camel | Mirage | 1974 [top 50]
Camel | The Snow Goose | 1975
Camel | Moonmadness | 1976
Camel | I Can See Your House from Here | 1979
Caravan | In the Land of Grey and Pink | 1971 [top 50]
Caravan | For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night | 1973
Eloy | Ocean | 1977
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 1970
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Trilogy | 1972
Serge Gainsbourg | L'Homme à tête de chou | 1976
Genesis | Nursery Cryme | 1971
Genesis | Foxtrot | 1972 [top 50]
Genesis | Selling England by the Pound | 1973
Genesis | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 1974 [top 50]
Genesis | A Trick of the Tail | 1976
Gentle Giant | Octopus | 1972
Gong | You | 1974
Steve Hackett | Voyage of the Acolyte | 1975
Happy the Man | Crafty Hands | 1978
Harmonium | L'Heptade | 1976
Jean-Michel Jarre | Oxygène | 1976 [top 50]
Jethro Tull | Thick as a Brick | 1972
King Crimson | In the Court of the Crimson King | 1969 [top 50]
Kraftwerk | Die Mensch Maschine | 1978
The Moody Blues | Days of Future Passed | 1967 [top 50]
Mike Oldfield | Ommadawn | 1975 [top 50]
Pink Floyd | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 1967
Pink Floyd | Atom Heart Mother | 1970
Pink Floyd | Meddle | 1971
Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973
Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | 1975 [top 50]
Pink Floyd | Animals | 1977
Pink Floyd | The Wall | 1979 [top 50]
Premiata Forneria Marconi | L'isola di niente | 1974
Premiata Forneria Marconi | Chocolate Kings | 1975
Renaissance | Turn of the Cards | 1974
Return to Forever | Romantic Warrior | 1976
Todd Rundgren | A Wizard, a True Star | 1973 [top 50]
Klaus Schulze | Timewind | 1975
Soft Machine | Volume Two | 1969 [top 50]
Supertramp | Even in the Quietest Moments... | 1977
Traffic | Mr Fantasy | 1968 [top 50]
Van Der Graaf Generator | Pawn Hearts | 1971 [top 50]
Robert Wyatt | Rock Bottom | 1974 [top 50]
Yes | Fragile | 1972
Yes | Close to the Edge | 1972 [top 50]
Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans | 1974 [top 50]

Marillion

Script for a Jester's Tear | 1983
Fugazi | 1984
Misplaced Childhood | 1985 [top 50]
Clutching at Straws | 1987
B'Sides Themselves | 1988
Seasons End | 1989
Holidays in Eden | 1991
Brave | 1994
Afraid of Sunlight | 1995
This Strange Engine | 1997
Radiation | 1998
marillion.com | 1999
Anoraknophobia | 2001 [top 50]
Marbles | 2004 [top 50]
Somewhere Else | 2007
Happiness Is the Road | 2008

Heirs

Aelian | The Watcher | 1992
After Crying | Show | 2003 [top 50]
The Alan Parsons Project | Eye in the Sky | 1981
Anekdoten | Nucleus | 1995
Aragon | Mouse | 1995
Arena | Songs from the Lion's Cage | 1995
Arena | The Visitor | 1998 [top 50]
Asia | Asia | 1982 [top 50]
Bang Bang | Silicone | 2003 [top 50]
Barclay James Harvest | Best of Barclay James Harvest | 1991
Beardfish | Destined Solitaire | 2009 [top 50]
Blue Man Group | The Complex | 2003
Kate Bush | Hounds of Love | 1985 [top 50]
The Butterfly Effect | Final Conversation of Kings | 2009
Cog | Sharing Space | 2008
Era | Era | 1996
Fields of the Nephilim | Elizium | 1990
Fish | Internal Exile | 1991
The Flower Kings | Back in the World of Adventures | 1995 [top 50]
The Flower Kings | Adam & Eve | 2004
Frost* | Milliontown | 2006
Genesis | Calling All Stations | 1997
Goldfrapp | Felt Mountain | 2000 [top 50]
Goldfrapp | Black Cherry | 2003
Goldfrapp | Supernature | 2005
Goldfrapp | Seventh Tree | 2008
Roger Hodgson | In the Eye of the Storm | 1984
Hooverphonic | Presents Jackie Cane | 2002
IQ | Tales from the Lush Attic | 1983
IQ | The Wake | 1985 [top 50]
IQ | Nomzamo | 1987
IQ | Are You Sitting Comfortably? | 1989
IQ | Ever | 1993
IQ | Subterranea | 1997 [top 50]
IQ | The Seventh House | 2000
IQ | Dark Matter | 2004
IQ | Frequency | 2009
King Crimson | Thrak | 1995
The Mars Volta | Frances the Mute | 2005 [top 50]
The Mars Volta | Bedlam in Goliath | 2008
Maserati | Inventions for the New Season | 2007
Massive Attack | Mezzanine | 1998
Mercury Rev | All Is Dream | 2001
Muse | Absolution | 2003 [top 50]
Various Artists [curated by the Musea label] | Le Meilleur du rock progressif européen | 1995
Mike Oldfield | The Complete Mike Oldfield | 1985
Outer Limits | Stromatolite | 2007
Ozric Tentacles | Eternal Wheel | 2004
Paatos | Silence of Another Kind | 2006
Pageant | Raden Gensou / La Mosaïque de la rêverie | 1986 [top 50]
Pain of Salvation | Be | 2004 [top 50]
Pallas | The Sentinel | 1984
Pendragon | The Jewel | 1985
Pendragon | The Window of Life | 1993
Pendragon | Fallen Dreams and Angels | 1994
Pendragon | The Masquerade Overture | 1996 [top 50]
Pendragon | Not of This World | 2001
Pendragon | Pure | 2008
Pink Floyd | The Division Bell | 1994
Porcupine Tree | Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991-1997 | 2002
Porcupine Tree | Stupid Dream | 1999 [top 50]
Porcupine Tree | Lightbulb Sun | 2000
Porcupine Tree | In Absentia | 2002
Quidam | Quidam | 1996
Radiohead | OK Computer | 1997 [top 50]
Röyksopp | Melody AM | 2001 [top 50]
Röyksopp | The Understanding | 2005
Röyksopp | Junior | 2009
Röyksopp | Senior | 2010
Seven Reizh | Strinkadenn' Ys | 2001 [top 50 - double entry]
Seven Reizh | Samsāra | 2006 [top 50 - double entry]
William Sheller | Ailleurs | 1989 [top 50]
Spock's Beard | The Light | 1995
Spock's Beard | The Kindness of Strangers | 1997
Spock's Beard | Day for Night | 1999
Spock's Beard | V | 2000 [top 50]
Spock's Beard | Snow | 2002 [top 50]
Tale | Elysium Fields | 1998
The Tangent | A Place in the Queue | 2006
Tempus Fugit | The Dawn After the Storm | 1999
Transatlantic | Bridge Across Forever | 2001 [top 50]
Unitopia | The Garden | 2008 [top 50]
Way Out West | Intensify | 2001 [top 50]
Yes | Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe | 1989

Prog metal

Ayreon | Into the Electric Castle | 1998
Crimson Glory | Transcendence | 1988
Cynic | Traced in Air | 2008
Death | Symbolic | 1995
Dream Theater | Images and Words | 1992
Dream Theater | Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory | 1999
Iron Maiden | Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 1988
Opeth | Blackwater Park | 2001
Opeth | Ghost Reveries | 2005
Orphaned Land | Mabool | 2004
The Provenance | Still at Arms Length | 2002
Queensrÿche | Operation: Mindcrime | 1988
Riverside | Anno Domini High Definition | 2009
Rush | A Farewell to Kings | 1977
Symphony X | The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 1997
Vanden Plas | Far Off Grace | 1999


Next book:

Beauties and beasts: anthology of feminine rock, from soul to heavy metal (Jérôme Alberola, 2012)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... al-379.php

For this one, Alberola took a much more scholar approach and therefore decided to talk extensively of the artists and the evolution of women's contributions to music, while the list part is much, much shorter. He also decided to apply a one-album-per-artist rule (except for the same double entry as in the previous book!), so he included an amount of compilations to make up for it. The book is therefore pretty interesting for the knowledge displayed (although there's a little amount of passive sexism that crept its way in) but frustrating from a list compiling standpoint. Well, that's always some points taken for the girls. There are several oddball choices in there, the Madonna entry for instance. Also, Rihanna, Aaliyah or Kelis are there, but not Beyoncé! At least that makes for a singular approach. And it's very recent music-oriented.

Aaliyah | Aaliyah | 2001
ABBA | The Album | 1977
Ace of Base | Happy Nation U.S. Version | 1993
Christina Aguilera | Back to Basics | 2006
Ellen Allien | Dust | 2010
Anastacia | Anastacia | 2004
Laurie Anderson | Big Science | 1982
Fiona Apple | Tidal | 1996
Tasmin Archer | Great Expectations | 1992
Archive | Take My Head | 1999 [typo'ed as Disc because of the album cover]
Joan Armatrading | Joan Armatrading | 1976
Asrai | Pearls in Dirt | 2007
Au Revoir Simone | The Bird of Music | 2007
Erykah Badu | Baduizm | 1997
Joan Baez | Hits/Greatest & Others | 1973
Banb Bang | Silicone | 2003
The Bangles | Everything | 1988
Bel Canto | Magic Box | 1996
The BellRays | Meet the BellRays | 2002
Pat Benatar | The Very Best of Pat Benatar | 1994
Bic Runga | Drive | 1997
Björk | Homogenic | 1997
Blondie | Parallel Lines | 1978
The Brand New Heavies | Get Used to It | 2006
Bran Van 3000 | Glee | 1997
The Breeders | Last Splash | 1993
Kate Bush | Hounds of Love | 1985
Anna Calvi | Anna Calvi | 2011
Jil Caplan | La Charmeuse de serpents | 1990
Rosanne Cash | Seven Year Ache | 1981
Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | 1988
Cocteau Twins | Treasure | 1984
Paula Cole | This Fire | 1996
Judy Collins | The Very Best of Judy Collins | 2001
The Cranberries | Bury the Hatchet | 1999
Sheryl Crow | Sheryl Crow | 1995
Dargaard | In Nomine Aeternitatis | 2000
Daughter Darling | Sweet Shadows | 2002
Alela Diane | The Pirate's Gospel | 2007
The Dø | A Mouthful | 2008
Duffy | Rockferry | 2008
Echobelly | The Best Of | 2008
Ephemera | Balloons and Champagne | 2001
Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Trip the Light Fantastic | 2007
Esthero | Breathe from Another | 1998
Evanescence | Fallen | 2003
Eyes Set to Kill | Reach | 2008
Fairport Convention | Liege & Lief | 1969
Marianne Faithfull | Broken English | 1979
Mylène Farmer | Anamorphosée | 1995
Fleetwood Mac | Rumours | 1977
Florence + The Machine | Lungs | 2009
Aretha Franklin | The Very Best of Aretha Franklin | 2003
Nelly Furtado | Loose | 2006
Garbage | Version 2.0 | 1998
The Gathering | How to Measure a Planet? | 1998
The Go! Team | Proof of Youth | 2007
Goldfrapp | Supernature | 2005
Gossip | Music for Men | 2009
Ellie Goulding | Bright Lights | 2010
PJ Harvey | Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea | 2000
Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 1998
Hole | Celebrity Skin | 1998
Hooverphonic | Presents Jackie Cane | 2002
Ike & Tina Turner | Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner | 1991
Natalie Imbruglia | White Lillies Island | 2001
Izia | So Much Trouble | 2011
Janet Jackson | The Velvet Rope | 1997
Wanda Jackson | Let's Have a Party | 2011
Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow | 1967
Joan as Police Woman | To Survive | 2008
Norah Jones | Come Away with Me | 2002
Rickie Lee Jones | Rickie Lee Jones | 1979
Janis Joplin | Pearl | 1971
Juliette & the Licks | You're Speaking My Language | 2005
Kelis | Kaleidoscope | 2000
Carole King | Tapestry | 1971
K's Choice | Cocoon Crash | 1998
Lacuna Coil | Comalies | 2002
Lady Gaga | The Fame Monster | 2009
Lafee | Jetzt Erst Recht | 2007
La Grande Sophie | Et si c'était moi | 2003
Avril Lavigne | Let Go | 2002
Le Prince Miiaou | Fill the Blank with Your Own Emptiness | 2011
Traci Lords | 1000 Fires | 1995
Madonna | American Life | 2003
Lene Marlin | Playing My Game | 1999
Loreena McKennitt | The Book of Secrets | 1997
Melanie C | Beautiful Intentions | 2005
Metric | Live It Out | 2005
Joni Mitchell | Court and Spark | 1974
Janelle Monaé | The ArchAndroid | 2010
Morcheeba | Charango | 2002
Moriarty | Gee Whiz But This Is a Lonesome Town | 2007
Alanis Morissette | Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | 1998
Meshell Ndegeocello | Devil's Halo | 2009
Nightwish | Once | 2004
Nina Hagen Band | Nina Hagen Band | 1978
The Noisettes | What's the Time, Mr Wolf? | 2006
Laura Nyro | Eli and the Thirteenth Confession | 1968
Hazel O'Connor | Breaking Glass | 1980
Sinéad O'Connor | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | 1990
Ollano | Ollano | 1996
Beth Orton | Central Reservation | 1999
Kelly Osbourne | Changes | 2003
Otep | Jihad | 2001
Paatos | Silence of Another Kind | 2006
Pageant | La Mosaïque de la rêverie | 1986
Vanessa Paradis | Vanessa Paradis | 1992
Dolly Parton | Coat of Many Colors | 1971
Pentangle | Basket of Light | 1969
Linda Perhacs | Parallelograms | 1970
Pascale Picard | Me, Myself & Us | 2008
Cat Power | The Greatest | 2006
Portishead | Dummy | 1994
Pretenders | Pretenders II | 1981
The Provenance | Still at Arms Length | 2002
Queen Latifah | Black Reign | 1993
Quidam | Quidam | 1996
Renaissance | Turn of the Cards | 1974
Rihanna | Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded | 2008
Les Rita Mitsouko | Cool Frénésie | 2000
Diana Ross & the Supremes | The No. 1's | 2003
Röyksopp | Junior | 2009
Olivia Ruiz | Miss Météores Live | 2010
The Runaways | The Runaways | 1976
Sade | Promise | 1985
Véronique Sanson | Amoureuse | 1972
Seven Reizh | Strinkadenn' Ys | 2001
Seven Reizh | Saṃsāra | 2006
Shakira | Fijació oral, Vol. 1 | 2005
Sia | We Are Born | 2010
Émilie Simon | The Big Machine | 2009
Nancy Sinatra | The Greatest Hits of Nancy Sinatra | 2002
Siouxsie and the Banshees | The Scream | 1978
Various Artists | Sister Funk: The Sound of the Unknown Sisters | 2000
Various Artists | Sister Funk 2: The Sound of the Unknown Sisters | 2007
Patti Smith | Horses | 1975
Various Artists | Fly Girls! B-Boys Beware: Revenge of the Super Female Rappers! | 2009
Sound of Rum | Balance | 2011
The Sounds | Dying to Say This to You | 2006
Britney Spears | In the Zone | 2003
Dusty Springfield | Dusty in Memphis | 1969
The Staples Singers | Be Altitude: Respect Yourself | 1972
Candi Staton | The Sweetheart of Soul | 2004
Stream of Passion | Embrace the Storm | 2005
Barbra Streisand | Guilty | 1980
Donna Summer | The Best of Donna Summer [here the author doesn't even care about giving a specific best of album!]
Tape On | Human Shape | 2003
Tina Turner | Private Dancer | 1984
Shania Twain | Come On Over | 1997
Suzanne Vega | Solitude Standing | 1987
The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1967
Way Out West | Intensify | 2001
Kim Wilde | The Very Best of Kim Wilde | 1984
Amy Winehouse | Back to Black | 2006
Whyzdom | From the Brink of Infinity | 2009
Zazie | Made in Live | 1999


Third book:

Pushin' the limits: anthology of extremism and transgression in modern music (Jérôme Alberola, 2016)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... ne-831.php

Biggest list of the bunch. The concept is a tad dubious as it is supposed to be a list of albums that crossed boundaries and explored uncharted territory (with some singles and songs, mostly at the very beginning). Although a featured chronology at the beginning of some innovations and transgressiveness goes back to 1919, the list of featured recordings only start in the 1950s. In reality, I find that the concept is mostly an excuse to once again go through prog and heavy metal (he recycles a number of entries from his previous books, not a majority, but enough to be noteworthy). In particular, no jazz, virtually no glam rock, not enough gangsta hip-hop (but a weirder and more interesting approach to hip-hop afterwards)... I think Alberola's concept is less accurately defined than it was for his other lists here. Although weird and somewhat unpredictable, it's probably the list with the roughest edges of the three. I don't find it that interesting once heavy metal kicks in, apart from some leftfield stuff.

Important note: I substracted four albums from the list because they were overtly nazi propaganda works that the author only added for the sake of showing a landscape as complete as possible of extreme music. But there are limits to my neutrality.

The 1950s

Wanda Jackson | Let's Have a Party | 2011 [compilation]
Elvis Presley | That's All Right/Blue Moon of Kentucky | 1954 [single]
Johnny Burnette & the Rock'n'Roll Trio | The Train Kept-a-Rollin' | 1956 [song]
Little Richard | Keep a-Knockin' | 1957 [song]
Link Wray | Rumble | 1958 [song]

The 1960s

The Shadows | The Shadows | 1961
The Kinks | You Really Got Me | 1964 [single]
The Trashmen | Surfin' Bird | 1963
Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited | 1965
The Sonics | Here Are the Sonics | 1965
The 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators | 1966
The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | 1966
The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced? | 1967
The Moody Blues | Days of Future Passed | 1967
Pink Floyd | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 1967
Traffic | Mr Fantasy | 1967
The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1967
The Who | The Who Sell Out | 1967
Laura Nyro | Eli and the Thirteenth Confession | 1968
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | Trout Mask Replica | 1969
Colosseum | Valentyne Suite | 1969
Soft Machine | Volume Two | 1969
King Crimson | In the Court of the Crimson King | 1969
Nick Drake | Five Leaves Left | 1969
Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | 1969
MC5 | Kick Out the Jams | 1969
Frank Zappa | Hot Rats | 1969

The 1970s

Amon Düül II | Yeti | 1970
Black Sabbath | Paranoid | 1970
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 1970
Kluster | Klopfzeichen | 1970
Pink Floyd | Atom Heart Mother | 1970
The Stooges | Fun House | 1970
Sweet Smoke | Just a Poke | 1970
Van Der Graaf Generator | The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other | 1970
Can | Tago Mago | 1971
Faust | Faust | 1971
Serge Gainsbourg | Histoire de Melody Nelson | 1971
Van Der Graaf Generator | Pawn Hearts | 1971
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Brain Salad Surgery | 1973
King Crimson | Lark's Tongues in Aspic | 1973
Magma | Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh | 1973
Todd Rundgren | A Wizard, a True Star | 1973
Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans | 1973
Gong | You | 1974
Kraftwerk | Autobahn | 1974
Tangerine Dream | Phaedra | 1974
Robert Wyatt | Rock Bottom | 1974
King Crimson | Red | 1974
Henry Cow | In Praise of Learning | 1975
Death | ...For the Whole World to See | 2009 [recorded mid-70s]
Lou Reed | Metal Machine Music | 1975
Klaus Schulze | Timewind | 1975
Van Der Graaf Generator | Godbluff | 1975
Serge Gainsbourg | L'Homme à tête de chou | 1976
The Residents | The Third Reich 'n' Roll | 1976
Boyd Rice | The Black Album | 1976
Scorpions | Virgin Killers | 1976
David Bowie | Low | 1977
Richard Hell & the Voidoids | Blank Generation | 1977
The Sex Pistols | Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 1977
Suicide | Suicide | 1977
Throbbin Gristle | The Second Annual Report | 1977
Chrome | Alien Soundtracks | 1978
Brian Eno | Music for Airports | 1978
Nina Hagen Band | Nina Hagen Band | 1978
Misfits | Static Age | 1996 [recorded 1978]
Pere Ubu | The Modern Dance | 1978
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft | Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft | 1979
Joy Division | Unknown Pleasures | 1979
Pink Floyd | The Wall | 1979
Nurse with Wound | Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella | 1979
Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | 1979
Univers Zéro | Hérésie | 1979

The 1980s

Bauhaus | In the Flat Field | 1980
Circle Jerks | Group Sex | 1980
Dead Kennedys | Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 1980
Joy Division | Closer | 1980
Killing Joke | Killing Joke | 1980
Motörhead | Ace of Spades | 1980
Agent Orange | Living in Darkness | 1981
Black Flag | Damaged | 1981
Cabaret Voltaire | Red Mecca | 1981
Crass | Penis Envy | 1981
D.I. | Team Goon | 1981
Einstürzende Neubauten | Kollaps | 1981
Philip Glass | Glassworks | 1981
Iron Maiden | Killers | 1981
King Crimson | Discipline | 1981
SPK | Information Overload Unit | 1981
Venom | Welcome to Hell | 1981
T.S.O.L. | Dance with Me | 1981
Laurie Anderson | Big Science | 1982
Christian Death | Only Theatre of Pain | 1982
The Cure | Pornography | 1982
Discharge | Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing | 1982
The Exploited | Troops of Tomorrow | 1982
Diamanda Galas | The Litanies of Satan | 1982
(Charged) G.B.H. | City Baby Attacked by Rats | 1982
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five | The Message | 1982
Nina Hagen | NunSexMonkRock | 1982
MDC | Millions of Dead Cops | 1982
Anthrax | Fistful of Metal | 1983
Death in June | The Guilty Has No Pride | 1983
Manowar | Into Glory Ride | 1983
Metallica | Kill 'Em All | 1983
Minor Threat | Out of Step | 1983
Raven | All for One | 1983
Slayer | Show No Mercy | 1983
Subhumans | The Cradle to the Grave | 1983
Suicidal Tendencies | Suicidal Tendencies | 1983
Tank | This Means War | 1983
Verbal Abuse | Just an American Band | 1983
Agnostic Front | Victim in Pain | 1984
Bathory | Bathory | 1984
Broken Bones | Dem Bones | 1984
Broken Bones | F.O.A.D. | 1987
Celtic Frost | Morbid Tales | 1984
Current 93 | Nature Unveiled | 1984
Destruction | Sentence of Death | 1984
Manuel Gottsching | E2-E4 | 1984
Hüsker Dü | Zen Arcade | 1984
Yngwie Malmsteem | Rising Force | 1984
Mercyful Fate | Don't Break the Oath | 1984
Metallica | Ride the Lightning | 1984
Run-D.M.C. | Run-D.M.C. | 1984
Septic Death | Need So Much Attention | 1984
Siege | Drop Dead | 1984
Lärm | Campaign for Musical Destruction | 1984
Anthrax | Spreading the Disease | 1985
Death in June | Nada! | 1985
D.R.I. | Dealing with It | 1985
Exciter | Long Live the Loud | 1985
Exodus | Bonded by Blood | 1985
Helloween | Walls of Jericho | 1985
Manilla Road | Open the Gates | 1985
Megadeth | Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 1985
Morsüre | Acceleration Process | 1985
Possessed | Seven Churches | 1985
Slayer | Hell Awaits | 1985
S.O.D. | Speak English or Die | 1985
ADX | La Terreur | 1986
Bad Brains | I Against I | 1986
Camper Van Beethoven | II & III | 1986
Cryptic Slaughter | Convicted | 1986
Candlemass | Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 1986
Dark Angel | Darkness Descends | 1986
Detente | Recognize No Authority | 1986
Flotsam and Jetsam | Doomsday for the Deceiver | 1986
The Great Kat | Worship Me or Die! | 1986
Kreator | Pleasure to Kill | 1986
Megadeth | Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? | 1986
Nuclear Assault | Game Over | 1986
Onslaught | The Force | 1986
Possessed | Beyond the Gates | 1986
Slayer | Reign in Blood | 1986
Anthrax | Among the Living | 1987
Freya Aswynn | Fruits of Yggdrasill | 1987
Cro-Mags | The Age of the Quarell | 1987
Def Leppard | Hysteria | 1987
D.R.I. | Crossover | 1987
Heathen | Breaking the Silence | 1987
Laibach | Opus Dei | 1987
Loudblast/Agressor | Licensed to Thrash | 1987
Macabre | Grim Reality | 1987
Napalm Death | Scum | 1987
Testament | The Legacy | 1987
Wehrmacht | Shark Attack | 1987
XTC [as The Dukes of Stratosphear] | Psonic Psunspot | 1987
Barbelés Cardiac | Massacre à la nuit des temps | 1988 [bootleg-ish and obscure]
Carcass | Reek of Putrefaction | 1988
Death | Leprosy | 1988
KMFDM | Don't Blow Your Top | 1988
N.W.A. | Straight Outta Compton | 1988
Queensrÿche | Operation: Mindcrime | 1988
Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation | 1988
Voivod | Dimension Hätross | 1988
Wehrmacht | Biermacht | 1988
Beastie Boys | Paul's Boutique | 1989
Extreme Noise Terror | Holocaust in Your Head | 1989
Godflesh | Streetcleaner | 1989
Daniel Johnston | Hi, How Are You | 1989
Ludichrist | Powertrip | 1989
Morbid Angel | Altars of Madness | 1989
Naked City | Torture Garden | 1989
Obituary | Slowly We Rot | 1989
Pestilence | Consuming Impulse | 1989
Repulsion | Horrified | 1989
Terrorizer | World Downfall | 1989

The 1990s

Deicide | Deicide | 1990
Fields of the Nephilim | Elizium | 1990
Fugazi | Repeater | 1990
Public Enemy | Fear of a Black Planet | 1990
Sol Invictus | Trees in Winter | 1990
Suicidal Tendencies | Lights... Camera... Revolution! | 1990
Cathedral | Forest of Equilibrium | 1991
Cannibal Corpse | Butchered at Birth | 1991
Coil | Love's Secret Domain | 1991
Geto Boys | We Can't Be Stopped | 1991
Ice Cube | Death Certificate | 1991
Kyuss | Wretch | 1991
Morbid Angel | Blessed Are the Sick | 1991
Nirvana | Nevermind | 1991
Slayer | Decade of Aggression | 1991
Brutal Truth | Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses | 1992
Divine Styler | Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light | 1992
In Slaughter Natives | Enter Now the World | 1992
Ministry | Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs | 1992
NON | In the Shadow of the Sword | 1992
Pantera | Vulgar Display of Power | 1992
Cypress Hill | Black Sunday | 1993
Death | Individual Thought Patterns | 1993
Earth | Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version | 1993
Gehenna | First Spell | 1993
Fishbone | Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe | 1993
S.O.B. | Gate of Doom | 1993
Type O Negative | Bloody Kisses | 1993
Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 1993
Abruptum | In Umbra Malitae Ambulabo, in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebrarum | 1994
Anal Cunt | Everyone Should Be Killed | 1994
Ancient | Svartalvheim | 1994
Burzum | Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 1994
Darkthrone | Transilvanian Hunger | 1994
Emperor | In the Nightside Eclipse | 1994
Killing Joke | Pandemonium | 1994
Mayem | De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 1994
Merzbow | Venereology | 1994
The Prodigy | Music for the Jilted Generation | 1994
Thergothon | Stream from the Heavens | 1994
Various Artists | Cheap Shots | 1995
Various Artists | Cheap Shots Volume II | 1996
Various Artists | Cheap Shots Volume III | 1997
Various Artists | Cheap Shots IV | 2000
Anekdoten | Nucleus | 1995
Autechre | Tri Repetae | 1995
Atari Teenage Riot | 1992-2000 | 2006
Death | Symbolic | 1995
Death in June | Rose Clouds of Holocaust | 1995
Fleurety | Min Tid Skal Komme | 1995
Genocide Organ | Mind Control | 1995
Traci Lords | 1000 Fires | 1995
Mr Bungle | Disco volante | 1995
Oneroid Psychosis | Stillbirth | 1995
Oval | 94 Diskont | 1995
Paradise Lost | Draconian Times | 1995
Prince | The Black Album | 1995
Skepticism | Stormcrowfleet | 1995
Sol Invictus | In the Rain | 1995
Swans | The Great Annihilator | 1995
Synaesthesia | Desideratum | 1995
Angelcorpse | Hammer of Gods | 1996
Aphex Twin | Richard D. James Album | 1996
Blood Axis | The Gospel of Inhumanity | 1996
Cradle of Filth | Dusk... and Her Embrace | 1996
DJ Shadow | Endtroducing..... | 1996
Dr. Octagon | Dr. Octagonecologyst | 1996
Masonna | Inner Mind Mystique | 1996
Mysticum | In the Streams of Inferno | 1996
Sepultura | Roots | 1996
Slayer | Undisputed Attitude | 1996
At the Drive-In | Acrobatic Tenement | 1996
Elend | Les Ténèbres du dehors | 1996
Björk | Homogenic | 1997
Company Flow | Funcrusher Plus | 1997
Esoteric | The Pernicious Enigma | 1997
Various Artists | Extreme Music from Africa | 1997
Gospeed You! Black Emperor | F♯ A♯ ∞ | 1997
Jack or Jive | Kenka | 1997
Insane Clown Posse | The Great Milenko | 1997
Millencollin | For Monkeys | 1997
No One Is Innocent | Utopia | 1997
Primus | Brown Album | 1997
Boredoms | Super æ | 1998
Der Blutharsch | Der Sieg des Lichtes ist der Lebens Heil! | 1998
Everlast | Whitey Ford Sings the Blues | 1998
Marilyn Manson | Mechanical Animals | 1998
Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come | 1998
Slayer | Diabolus in Musica | 1998
Bonnie "Prince" Billy | I See a Darkness | 1999
Carnival in Coal | VivaLaVida | 1999
Coil | Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1 | 1999
Coil | Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2 | 2000
Immortal | At the Heart of Winter | 1999
Marduk | Panzer Division Marduk | 1999
Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile | 1999
Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles | 1999
Sigh | Scenario IV: Dread Dreams | 1999
Sigur Rós | Ágætis byrjun | 1999
Slipknot | Slipknot | 1999
Slumplordz | SunnMoonSekt | 1999

The new century

Atrox | Contentum | 2000
Dargaard | In Nomine Aeternitatis | 2000
Necro | I Need Drugs | 2000
Nile | Black Seeds of Vengeance | 2000
Radiohead | Kid A | 2000
Shape of Despair | Shades of... | 2000
The Sins of Thy Beloved | Perpetual Desolation | 2000
The Shape Shifters | Know Future | 2000
Sunn O))) | ØØ Void | 2000
Chaostar | Threnody | 2001
cLOUDDEAD | cLOUDDEAD | 2001
Dimmu Borgir | Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 2001
Evoken | Quietus | 2001
Finntroll | Jaktens tid | 2001
Miss Kittin & the Hacker | First Album | 2001
Mortiis | The Smell of Rain | 2001
Opeth | Blackwater Park | 2001
Otep | Jihad | 2001
Rammstein | Mutter | 2001
Silencer | Death - Pierce Me | 2001
Venetian Snares | Doll Doll Doll | 2001
Arcturus | The Sham Mirrors | 2002
The BellRays | Meet the BellRays | 2002
Boards of Canada | Geogaddi | 2002
Meshuggah | Nothing | 2002
The Provenance | Still at Arms Length | 2002
Ram-Zet | Escape | 2002
Agoraphobic Nosebleed | Altered States of America | 2003
Arch Enemy | Anthems of Rebellion | 2003
Blue Man Group | The Complex | 2003
Septic Flesh | Sumerian Daemons | 2003
Björk | Medúlla | 2004
DragonForce | Sonic Firestorm | 2004
Fantômas | Delìrivm Còrdia | 2004
MF Doom | MM... Food | 2004
Orphaned Land | Mabool | 2004
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Of Natural History | 2004
Kanye West | The College Dropout | 2004
Gojira | From Mars to Sirius | 2005
Kekal | The Painful Experience | 2005
The Mars Volta | Frances the Mute | 2005
m1dy | Japanese Mathafacka | 2005
Shining | IV: The Eerie Cold | 2005
System of a Down | Mesmerize | 2005
System of a Down | Hypnotize | 2005
Ahab | The Call of the Wretched Sea | 2006
Diablo Swing Orchestra | The Butcher's Ballroom | 2006
Curse ov Dialect | Wooden Tongues | 2006
Radium | Terminal Trauma | 2006
Asrai | Pearls in Dirt | 2007
Boys Noize | Oi Oi Oi | 2007
Dälek | Abandoned Language | 2007
Alela Diane | The Pirate's Gospel | 2007
Eths | Tératologie | 2007
Moriarty | Gee Whiz But This Is a Lonesome Town | 2007
Necro | Death Rap | 2007
Shining | Grindstone | 2007
Worship | Dooom | 2007
Cynic | Traced in Air | 2008
Grails | Doomsdayer's Holiday | 2008
Venomous Concept | Poisoned Apple | 2008
Der Blaue Reiter | Nuclear Sun | 2009
Mastodon | Crack the Skye | 2009
Various Artists | Fly Girls! B-Boys Beware: Revenge of the Super Female Rappers! | 2009
Sybreed | The Pulse of Awakening | 2009
The Dillinger Escape Plan | Option Paralysis | 2010
Ellen Allien | Dust | 2010
Igorrr | Nostril | 2010
Janelle Monaé | The ArchAndroid | 2010
Röyksopp | Senior | 2010
Sodom | In War and Pieces | 2010
Xasthur | Portal of Sorrow | 2010
Fair to Midland | Arrows & Anchors | 2011
G-Side | The One... Cohesive | 2011
Slayer | World Painted Blood | 2011
Sound of Rum | Balance | 2011
Khonsu | Anomalia | 2012
Necro | The Murder Murder Kill Kill | 2012
Nokturnal Hellstorm | Nokturnal Hellstorm | 2012
Laibach | Spectre | 2014
Holly Herndon | Platform | 2015
Scar Symmetry | The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity | 2014
Seven Reizh | La Barque ailée | 2015
David Bowie | Blackstar | 2016


Fourth book

White Metal, noise for the Man on the Cross (Esychia Pneuma, 2014)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... ix-531.php

Here's one more from another author called Esychia Pneuma, about a comparatively less covered subgenre of heavy metal: Christian Metal (here titled White Metal). As the author claims, having non-Satanistic lyrics in heavy metal is a difficult position to hold. The section "Anthology" in the book covers what he believes are the best Christian Metal albums out there, biased toward recent years, it seems.

A Hill to Die Upon | Omens | 2011
Adelaide | Perganum | 2009
Admonish | Insnärjd | 2007
Animae Capronii | Heavenly Unblack Metal | 2012
Antestor | The Forsaken | 2005
Antestor | Omen | 2012
Antidemon | Demonicidio | 1999
Antivenom | Sacred Funeral | 2012
As I Lay Dying | Awakened | 2012
Barnabas | Approaching Light Speed | 1983
Bealiah | Anthology of the Undead | 2008
Becoming the Archetype | Dichotomy | 2008
Believer | Transhuman | 2011
Benea Reach | Possession | 2013
Borgazur | 2P3: Alchemists Earth of Eon A.C. | 2008
Bride | Live to Die | 1988
Cerimonial Sacred | Our War Is Only Against Hell | 2005
The Crimson Armada | Conviction | 2011
Crimson Moonlight | Songs from the Archives | 2003
Daniel Band | Rise Up | 1986
Dark Endless | Dark End Times | 2004
Deliverance | A Decade of Deliverance | 1995
Deuteronomium | The Amen | 2013
Divine Fire | Eye of the Storm | 2011
Dodenstorm | The Great Tribulation | 2008
Drottnar | Stratum | 2013
Erasmus | Memento Mori I: Outrecuidance | 2013
Extol | The Blueprint Dives | 2005
Extol | Extol | 2013
Fire Throne | Days of Darkness... And Blackness | 2006
Fratello Metallo | Misteri | 2008
Frost Like Ashes | Tophet | 2005
Gideon | Costs | 2011
Golgota | Ceremonia en Vivo | 2008
The Gun Show | Discontentment | 2011
Horde | Hellig Usqvart | 1994
Hortor | Ancient Satanic Rituals Are Crushed in Dust | 2009
Immortal Souls | Under the Northern Sky | 2001
Impending Doom | Baptized in Filth | 2012
In Vain | Aenigma | 2013
Jerusalem | Prophet | 1994
La Chambre Ardente | Le Premier Tryptique de l'Apocalypse | 2009
Lengsel | The Kiss - The Hope | 2006
Leviticus | Setting Fire to the Earth | 1987
Mortification | Scrolls of the Megilloth | 1992
Narnia | Course of a Generation | 2009
Nephesh | Hated by This World | 2010
Onward to Olympas | The War Within Us | 2011
Poems of Shadows | Obscure Forest, Destructive Illusions | 2009
Resurrection Band | Lament | 1995
Rob Rock | Garden of Chaos | 2007
Sacred Warrior | Obsessions | 1991
Saint | Time's End | 1986
Sanctifica | Spirit of Purity | 1999
Stamina | Via Crucis | 2013
Stryper | To Hell with the Devil | 1986
Tourniquet | Psycho Surgery | 1991
Vanguard | Bring Hope | 2009
Vengeance Rising | Human Sacrifice | 1988
Veni Domine | Fall Babylon Fall | 1992
Whitecross | Whitecross | 1987
Wintersoul | Frozen Storm Apocalypse | 2010


Fifth book

Anthology of Ambient: From Erik Satie to Moby: webs, airports and sonic landscapes (Olivier Bernard, 2013)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... es-497.php

Although the book itself is thorough, the "Selective discography" section is very short and relegated in appendices. Oh well, that'll still be a few precious points.

Brian Eno | Ambient 1: Music for Airports | 1978
Harold Budd & Brian Eno | Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror | 1980
Laraaji | Ambient 3: Day of Radiance | 1980
Brian Eno | Ambient 4: On Land | 1982
Steve Roach | Structures from Silence | 1984
Constance Demby | Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate | 1986
Harold Budd | The White Arcades | 1988
Lustmord | Heresy | 1990
The KLF | Chill Out | 1990
Robert Rich | Geometry | 1991
Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992
Global Communication | 76:14 | 1994
The Future Sound of London | Lifeforms | 1994
Aghast | Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis | 1995
Biosphere | Substrata | 1997
Arcana | ...The Last Embrace | 2000
Carbon Based Lifeforms | Hydroponic Garden | 2003
Stars of the Lid | And Their Refinement of the Decline | 2007
M83 | Digital Shades [Vol. I] | 2007
Marconi Union | Beautifully Falling Apart [Ambient Transmissions Vol. 1] | 2011


Sixth & Seventh books

Louis de Ny – The little world of Italian Progressive Rock (2015)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... se-556.php

The albums reviewed are rated "essential", "recommended" or "if you're curious", and they are occasionally accompanied with a fourth level "Should also be listened to" where albums are not reviewed. The author forgot to rate a couple ones.

L'Albero del Veleno | Le radici del male | 2013 [Recommended]

Alphataurus | Alphataurus | 1973 [Essential]

Alphataurus | Attosecondo | 2012 [Essential]

Alusa Fallax | Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione | 1974 [Recommended]

Apoteosi | Apoteosi | 1975 [Essential]

Arti & Mestieri | First Live in Japan | 2006 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
Tilt – Immagini per un orecchio | 1974
Giro di valzer per domani | 1975

Il bacio della Medusa | Discesa agl'inferi d'un giovane amante | 2008 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
Il bacio della Medusa | 2004
Deus lo vult | 2012

Il Balletto di Bronzo | Ys | 1972 [Recommended]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | 1972 [Essential]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Darwin! | 1972 [Essential]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Io sono nato libero | 1973 [Recommended]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Seguendo le tracce | 2005 [Essential]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Garofano rosso | 1976 [If you're curious]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Come in un'ultima cena | 1976 [Recommended]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | ...Di terra | 1978 [If you're curious]

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso | Canto di primavera | 1979 [If you're curious]

Baroque | La fiaba della buenanotte | 2008 [If you're curious]
Should also be listened to:
Rocq | 2011

Biglietto per l'Inferno | Biglietto per l'Inferno | 1974 [Essential]

Biglietto per l'Inferno | Il tempo della semina | 1992 [If you're curious]

Biglietto per l'Inferno [as Biglietto per l'Inferno.folk] | Tra l'assurdo e la ragione | 2009 [If you're curious]

Campo di marte | Campo di marte | 1973 [Recommended]

Carnascialia | Carnascialia | 1979 [If you're curious]

Tony Carnevale | La vita che grida | 1995 [If you're curious]

Il Castello di Atlante | Sono io il signore delle terre a nord | 1992 [Recommended]

Il Castello di Atlante | Quintessenza | 2004 [Recommended]

Il Castello di Atlante | Concerto acustico | 2006 [Recommended]

Il Castello di Atlante | Cap. 7 – Tra le antiche mura | 2009 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
L'ippogrifo | 1995

Celeste | Celeste – Principe di un giorno | 1976 [Recommended]

Il Cerchio d'Oro | Il viaggio di Colombo | 2008 [Recommended]

Il Cerchio d'Oro | Dedalo e Icaro | 2013 [Recommended]

Conqueror | Stems | 2014 [Recommended]

Consorzio Acqua Potabile | ...Nei gorghi del tempo | 1993 [Recommended]

Consorzio Acqua Potabile | Robin delle Stelle | 1998 [Recommended]

Consorzio Acqua Potabile | Il bianco regno di Dooah | 2003 [Recommended]

Corte Aulica | Il temporale e l'arcobaleno | 2007 [If you're curious]

Corte dei Miracoli | Dimensione Onirica | 1992 [If you're curious]

Corte dei Miracoli | Corte dei Miracoli | 1976 [Recommended]

La Coscienza di Zeno | La Coscienza di Zeno | 2011 [Recommended]

La Coscienza di Zeno | Sensitività | 2013 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
La notte anche di giorno | 2015

Daemonia | Dario Argento Tribute | 2000 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
Zombi/Dawn of the Dead | 2013

De De Lind | Io non so da dove vengo e non so dove mai andrò. Uomo è il nome che mi han dato | 1973 [Recommended]

Delirium | Dolce acqua | 1971 [Recommended]

Delirium | Lo scemo e il villaggio | 1972 [Recommended]

Delirium | III – Viaggio negli arcipelaghi del tempo | 1974 [Recommended]

Delirium | Il nome del vento | 2009 [Recommended]

Divae | Determinazione | 1995 [Not rated]

Eneide | Uomini umili popoli liberi | 1990 [Recommended]

Ẽra di Acquario | Antologia | 1973 [If you're curious]

Errata Corrige | Siegfried, il drago e altre storie | 1976 [Recommended]

Exploit | Crisi | 1972 [If you're curious]

FeM | Sulla bolla di sapone | 2014 [Essential]

Festa Mobile | Diario di viaggio della festa mobile | 1973 [Essential]

Fiaba | XII L'Appicato | 1994 [If you're curious]
Should also be listened to:
I racconti dei giullare cantore | 2005

Finisterre | Finisterre | 1995 [Recommended]

Finisterre | In limine | 1996 [Recommended]

Finisterre | In ogni luogo | 1998 [Recommended]

Finisterre | La meccanica naturale | 2004 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
Storybook/Live at Progday 1997 | 2000
Harmony of the Spheres | 2002

Garybaldi | Nuda | 1972 [Recommended]

Garybaldi | Astrolabio | 1973 [Recommended]

Germinale | Cielo & terra | 2001 [If you're curious]

Goblin | Roller | 1976 [Recommended]

Goblin | Il fantastico viaggio del "bagarozzo" Mark | 1978 [Recommended]

Höstsonaten | Höstsonaten | 1997 [If you're curious]

Höstsonaten | Mirrorgames | 1998 [If you're curious]

Hunka Munka | Dedicato a Giovanna G. | 1972 [If you're curious]

Ibis | Ibis | 1975 [If you're curious]
Should also be listened to:
Canti d'innocenza, canti d'esperienza | 1973 [as Nico, Gianni, Frank & Maurizio]
Sun Supreme | 1974

Ingranaggi della Valle | In hoc signo | 2013 [Essential]

Jacula | In cauda semper stat venenum | 1969 [If you're curious]

Latte e Miele | Passio secundum Mattheum | 1972 [If you're curious]

Latte e Miele | Papillon | 1973 [Recommended]

Latte e Miele | Aquile e scoiattoli | 1976 [Essential]

Locanda Delle Fate | Forse le lucciole non si amano più | 1977 [Essential]

Locanda Delle Fate | The Missing Fireflies | 2012 [Recommended]

Mad Fellaz | Mad Fellaz | 2013 [Recommended]

La Maschera Di Cera | Il grande labirinto | 2003 [Essential]

La Maschera Di Cera | LuxAde | 2006 [Recommended]

La Maschera Di Cera | Le porte del domani | 2013 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
La Maschera Di Cera | 2002
Petali di fuoco | 2010

Maury e i Pronomi | (Ec)citazioni neoclassiche | 2004 [If you're curious]

Maxophone | Maxophone | 1975 [Essential]

Metamorfosi | Inferno | 1973 [Essential]

Murple | Io sono Murple | 1974 [Recommended]

Museo Rosenbach | Zarathustra | 1973 [Essential]

Museo Rosenbach | Zarathustra, Live in Studio | 2012 [Recommended]

Museo Rosenbach | Barbarica | 2013 [Recommended]

G.C. Neri | Logos | 2009 [If you're curious]

New Trolls Atomic System | N.T. Atomic System | 1973 [Recommended]

Not a Good Sign | Not a Good Sign | 2013 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
From a Distance | 2015

Nuova Era | Nuova Era | 2010 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
L'Ultima viaggio | 1988
Dopo l'infinito | 1989
Io e il tempo | 1992
Il passo del soldato | 1995

Obscura | Le città invisibili | 2007 [Recommended]

Le Orme | Collage | 1971 [Recommended]

Le Orme | Uomo di pezza | 1972 [Essential]

Le Orme | Felona e Sorona | 1973 [Recommended]

Le Orme | Contrappunti | 1974 [Recommended]

Le Orme | Verità nascoste | 1976 [If you're curious]

Le Orme | Florian | 1979 [Not rated]

Le Orme | Live in Pennsylvania | 2008 [Essential]

Le Orme | La via della seta | 2011 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
Il fiume | 1996
Elementi | 2001
L'infinito | 2004
Aldo Tagliapetra | Nella pietra e nel vento | 2012

Osanna | Palepoli | 1973 [Recommended]

Osanna & David Jackson | Prog Family | 2009 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
L'uomo | 1971
Preludio, tema, variazioni e canzona/Milano Calibro 9 | 1972

Il Paese Dei Balocchi | Il paese dei balocchi | 1972 [Recommended]

Periferia del mondo | Un milione di voci | 2002 [Recommended]

Periferia del mondo | Perif3ria del mondo | 2006 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
Nel regno dei Ciechi | 2013

Perigeo | La valle dei templi | 1975 [Recommended]

Planetarium | Infinity | 1971 [Recommended]

Premiata Forneria Marconi | Storia di un minuto | 1972 [Essential]

Premiata Forneria Marconi | Per un amico | 1972 [Essential]

Premiata Forneria Marconi | L'isola di niente | 1974 [Essential]

Premiata Forneria Marconi | PFM in Classic, da Mozart a Celebration | 2013 [Essential]

Procession | Fiaba | 1974 [Recommended]

Progenesi | Ulisse: l'alfiere nero | 2013 [Essential]

Quella Vecchia Locanda | Quella vecchia locanda | 1972 [Essential]

Quella Vecchia Locanda | Il tempo della gioia | 1974 [Essential]

Raccomandata Con Ricevuta Di Riturno | Per... un mondo di cristallo | 1972 [Recommended]

RanestRane | A Space Odyssey, Part One – Monolith | 2013 [Recommended]

Ricordi d'Infanzia | Io uomo | 1973 [Recommended]

Il Rovescio Della Medaglia | Contaminazione | 1973 [Essential]

Il Ruscello | Paesaggio solare (Estate 1972) | 2009 [Recommended]

Paolo Rustichelli & Carlo Bordini | Opera prima | 1973 [Recommended]

Samadhi | Samadhi | 1974 [Recommended]

Semiramis | Dedicato a frazz | 1973 [Recommended]

Sithonia | La soluzione semplice | 2011 [Recommended]

Ske | 1000 autunni | 2011 [Recommended]

Stradaperta | Maida Vale | 1979 [If you're curious]

Il Tempio delle Clessidre | Il tempio delle clessidre | 2010 [Recommended]

Il Tempio delle Clessidre | AlieNatura | 2013 [Recommended]

La Torre dell'Alchimista | La Torre dell'Alchimista | 2001 [Recommended]

La Torre dell'Alchimista | U.S.A.... You Know? | 2005 [Recommended]

La Torre dell'Alchimista | Neo | 2007 [Recommended]

Unreal City | La Crudeltà Di Aprile | 2013 [Recommended]

Unreal City | Il paese del Tramonto | 2015 [Recommended]

L'uovo Di Colombo | L'uovo di Colombo | 1973 [Recommended]

Zauber | Zauber/Il sogno | 1978 [If you're curious]



Louis de Ny – A dive at the heart of Italian Progressive Rock: The theatre of emotions (2018)
http://www.camionblanc.com/detail-livre ... s-1187.php

A sequel. For some reason, the album "Il paese del Tramonto" is reviewed again without any justification, and with a different rating.


Alphataurus | Prime Numbers | 2014 [If you're curious]

Armonite | Inuit | 1999 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
The Sun Is New Each Day | 2015

Aufklärung | De la tempesta... l'oscuro piacere | 1995 [Essential]

Aurora Lunare | Aurora Lunare | 2013 [Recommended]

Sophya Baccini's Aradia | Big Red Dragon | 2013 [Recommended]

Il Balletto di Bronzo | Trys | 1999 [If you're curious]

Barock Project | Misteriose voci | 2007 [If you're curious]

Barrock | Oxian | 1994 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
L'alchimista | 1991
La strega | 1999

La Batteria | La Batteria | 2015 [Recommended]

Blocco Mentale | ΠOA | 1973 [Essential]

La Bocca della Verità | Avenoth | 2016 [Recommended]

Buon Vecchio Charlie | Buon Vecchio Charlie | 1990 [Recommended]

I Califfi | Fiore di metallo | 1973 [If you're curious]

Calliope | Il madrigale del vento | 1995 [Recommended]

Il Castello di Atlante | ArX AtLantis | 2016 [Recommended]

Il Cerchio d'Oro | Il fuoco sotto la senere | 2017 [Recommended]

Cherry Five | Il pozzo dei giganti | 2015 [Recommended]

Riccardo Cocciante | Mù | 1972 [If you're curious]

Consorzio Acqua Potabile + Alvaro "Jumbo" Fella | Coraggio e Misterio | 2016 [Essential]

La Coscienza di Zeno | La notte anche di giorno | 2015 [Recommended]

Delirium | L'era della menzogna | 2015 [Recommended]

D.F.A. | 4th | 2008 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
Lavori in corso | 1997
Duty Free Area | 1999

La Fabbrica dell'Assoluto | 1984: L'Ultimo uomo d'Europa | 2015 [Essential]

Formula 3 | Sognando e Risognando | 1972 [Recommended]
Should also be listened to:
La Grande Casa | 1973

Germinale | Scogli di sabbia | 2005 [If you're curious]

Höstsonaten | Symphony N. 1 Cupid & Psyche | 2016 [Essential]

Jumbo | DNA | 1972 [Essential]

Jumbo | Vietato ai minori di 18 anni? | 1973 [Essential]

Latte e Miele | Marco Polo sogni e viaggi | 2009 [If you're curious]

Latte e Miele | Passio secundum Mattheum – The Complete Work | 2014 [Essential]

Logos | L'enigma della vita | 2014 [Recommended]

Lothlorien | Il sale sulla coda | 1998 [Recommended]

Malleus | Paranorm: Opera Totale | 1993 [Recommended]

Mary Newsletter | Del perduto corragio | 2000 [Recommended]

La Maschera di Cera | Petali di fuoco | 2010 [Recommended]

Maxophone | La fabbrica delle nuvole | 2017 [Recommended]

Montefeltro | Il tempo di far la fantasia | 1992 [Essential]

Napoli centrale | Napoli centrale | 1975 [If you're curious]

Notturno Concertante | Canzoni allo specchio | 2012 [Recommended]

Nuova Era | L'ultimo viaggio | 1988 [Recommended]

Odessa | Stazione Getsemani | 1999 [If you're curious]

The Old Castle | Storie Nascoste | 2001 [If you're curious]

L'Ombra della sera | L'Ombra della sera | 2012 [If you're curious]

Le Orme | Il fiume | 1996 [Recommended]

Le Orme | Elementi | 2001 [Recommended]

Le Orme | L'infinito | 2004 [Essential]

Osanna | Rosso Rock | 2012 [Recommended]

Osanna | Palepolitana | 2015 [Essential]

Pangea | Invasori | 2007 [Recommended]

Panther & C. | L'Epoca di un altro... | 2014 [Recommended]

Panther & C. | Il giusto equilibrio | 2017 [Recommended]

Pierrot Lunaire | Gudrun | 1976 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
Pierrot Lunaire | 1974

Plurima Mundi | Atto I° | 2009 [If you're curious]

Plurima Mundi | Percorsi | 2017 [Recommended]

Posto Blocco 19 | Motivi di sempre | 2014 [Recommended]

Premiata Forneria Marconi | Live in U.S.A./Cook | 1974 [Essential]

Premiata Forneria Marconi | Stati di immaginazione | 2006 [Essential]

Promenade | Noi al dir di noi | 2016 [Essential]

RanestRane | Nosferatu Il Vampiro | 2006 [If you're curious]

RanestRane | A Space Odyssey Part Two – H.A.L. | 2015 [Recommended]

Reale Accademia di Musica | Reale Accademia di Musica | 1972 [Recommended]

Il Rovescio della Medaglia | Tribal Domestic | 2016 [If you're curious]

Luca Scherani | Everybody's Waiting | 2012 [Recommended]

Sezione Frenante | Metafora di un viaggio (arditi voli di cervelli attenti) | 2014 [If you're curious]

Spettri | 2973 MMCMLXXIII La Nemica dei Ricordi | 2015 [Recommended]

Taproban | Strigma | 2013 [Recommended]

Il Tiempo delle Clessidre | Il-lūdĕre | 2017 [Essential]

Triade | 1998: la storia di sabazio | 1973 [Essential]

Tugs | Europa minor | 2013 [If you're curious]

Ubi Maior | Nostos | 2005 [Recommended]

Ubi Maior | Senza Tempo | 2009 [Recommended]

Ubi Maior | Incanti bio meccanici | 2015 [Essential]

Universal Totem Orchestra | Mathematical Mother | 2016 [Essential]
Should also be listened to:
Rituale Alieno | 1999
The Magus | 2008

Unreal City | Il paese del Tramonto | 2015 [Essential]

Unreal City | Frammenti notturni | 2017 [Essential]

Il Volo | Essere o non essere? | 1975 [Recommended]

Zuffanti & ZBand | Il mondo che era mio, Live in Studio 2014 | 2014 [Recommended]
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Interesting lists for sure. My dad would love the first one - big Marillion fan.

As much as I enjoy seeing women in music receive more of a focus, I'm always annoyed that it's about just "music," which is very broad. I'm more interested in specific genres and women's contributions to them (punk, R&B, hip-hop, folk, even country).

And as for the last one, it's an interesting concept, but I have a slight feeling in the pit of my gut that I'd dislike a lot of the albums they list. It's a little like the list I made, except a tad broader in focus (though there's a lot of overlap).
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Also: where the fuck is Sleater-Kinney on the second list???
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StevieFan13 wrote:Interesting lists for sure. My dad would love the first one - big Marillion fan.

As much as I enjoy seeing women in music receive more of a focus, I'm always annoyed that it's about just "music," which is very broad. I'm more interested in specific genres and women's contributions to them (punk, R&B, hip-hop, folk, even country).

And as for the last one, it's an interesting concept, but I have a slight feeling in the pit of my gut that I'd dislike a lot of the albums they list. It's a little like the list I made, except a tad broader in focus (though there's a lot of overlap).
StevieFan13 wrote:Also: where the fuck is Sleater-Kinney on the second list???
The lists are interesting but the unusual approaches certainly make for some frustration. Progheads used to the usual 70s love will probably raise eyebrows at being showered with Marillion, IQ and Pendragon albums while some 70s giants only have a few albums (ELP, Gentle Giant and Yes in particular). For the second one, it's true that although the focus is generally more on recent acts, the usual critical darlings are mostly avoided. Sleater-Kinney, but also Beyoncé, Joanna Newsom, St. Vincent... Weird results. And for the third one, it's way too thrash, death and black metal oriented (although there could be endless discussions over why the concept naturally favours such works), and there was even a nazi metal album in there (which I deleted as I mentioned above)! Still glad to see Captain Beefheart, Zappa, krautrock and Company Flow in there, among others, and the bizarre hip-hop choices are interesting.

To sum it up, overall I have mixed feelings about these lists.
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At the end of the book, there was also a selection of songs in 2 parts that have marked the history of progressive rock.

Metal/Hard Rock progressive:

Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell 1980
Deep Purple Child in Time 1972
Exciter Wake Up Screaming 1985
Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday Fro The Deceiver 1986
Gamma Ray Armageddon 1999
Guns N' Roses November Rain 1991
Guns N' Roses Coma 1991
Guns N' Roses Civil War 1991
Guns N' Roses Estranged 1991
Helloween Halloween 1987
Helloween Keeper of the Seven keys 1988
Iced Earth The Devil To Pay 2004
Iced Earth High Water Mark 2004

Iron Maiden
- Phantom of the Opera 1980
- Hallowed Be Thy Name 1982
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1984
- To Tame A Land 1983
- Fear of the Dark 1993
- Alexander The Great 1986
- Afraid To Shoot Strangers 1992
- Sign Of The Cross 1995
- The Thin Line Between Love And Hate 2000
- The Nomad 2000
- Dance Of Death 2003
- The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg 2006
- For The Greater Good Of God 2006
- The Legacy 2006

Judas Priest Blood Red Skies 1988
Led Zeppelin No Quarter 1973
Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven 1971
Led Zeppelin Kashmir 1975
Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy Suite Op. 5 1986
Manilla Road The Deluge 1986
Manowar Achilles, Agony And Ecstasy In Eight Parts 1992
Mercyful Fate Satan's Call 1983
Metallica Fade to Black 1985
Metallica Master of Puppets 1986
Metallica Orion 1986
Metallica Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 1986
Metallica The Call Of Ktulu 1984
Metallica ...And Justice For All 1988
Nightwish Ghost Love Score 2004
Rainbow Stargazer 1976
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody 1975
Queen Innuendo 1991
Scorpions Fly To The Rainbow 1974
Scorpions Fly To The Rainbow 1978 from Tokyo Tapes
Scorpions We'll Burn The Sky 1978 from Tokyo Tapes
Slayer At Dawn They Sleep 1985

Pop-Rock progressive:
ABBA Eagle 1978
ABBA I'm A Marionette 1977
ABBA The Visitors 1982
Archive Lights 2006
Richard Ashcroft Check the Meaning 2002
Barbara L'Aigle Noir 1970
Björk Bachelorette 1997
Björk Jóga 1997
Björk Pagan Poetry 2001
Tenth Chapter Prologue (The Carl Cox & Paul Van Dyk Radio Mix) 1994

David Bowie
- Art Decade 1977
- Warszawa 1977
- Weeping Wall 1977
- Subterraneans 1977
- Yassassin 1979

Dire Straits Telegraph Road 1982
The Doors Light My Fire 1967
The Doors The End 1967
Garbage The Trick Is To Keep Breathing 1999
Garbage You Look So Fine 1999
Isaac Hayes Ike's Mood I 1970
Jacques Higelin Champagne 1980
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 1968
Jefferson Starship Song To The Sun 1976
Jefferson Starship St. Charles 1976
Kansas Dust in the Wind 1977
Kings of Convenience Parallel Lines 2001
Traci Lords Distant Land 1995
Lovetronic You are Love 1999
Paul McCartney/Wings Band on the Run 1974
The Motels Suddenly Last Summer 1983
N.E.R.D. Wonderful Place 2004
The Police Synchronicity I 1983
The Police Synchronicity II 1983
Propellerheads On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1997
R.E.M. Saturn Return 2001
Rob Dougan Clubbed to Death 1995
Roxy Music If There Is Something 1972
Scissor Sisters Return To Oz 2004
Secret Garden Nocturne 1995
SolIllaquists Of Sound Ur Turn 2006
Spacehog Lucy's Shoe 1998
Al Stewart Year of the Cat 1976
Tears for Fears Sowing the Seeds of Love 1989
U2 The Unforgettable Fire 1985
U2 The Hands That Built America 2003
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