Top Progressive Rock Albums of All Time (According to Me)

Here's the commentary if you're interested, but otherwise, for the sake of discussion—and I welcome any engagement here—my top 50+ prog albums:

1. Top Progressive Rock Albums (1969–1974)
   1. Yes – Close to the Edge (1972)
   2. Genesis – Selling England by the Pound (1973)
   3. Pink Floyd – Meddle (1971)
   4. Amon Düül II – Yeti (1970)
   5. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Apostrophe (‘) (1974)
   6. Hawkwind – Space Ritual (1973)
   7. Yes – The Yes Album (1971)
   8. Jethro Tull – Aqualung (1971)
   9. The Electric Light Orchestra – The Electric Light Orchestra (1972)
   10. Nektar – A Tab in the Ocean (1971)
   11. Utopia – Todd Rundgren’s Utopia (1974)
   12. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
   13. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
   14. King Crimson – Red (1974)
   15. Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971)
   16. Gong – You (1974)
   17. Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
   18. Can – Tago Mago (1971)
   19. Soft Machine – Third (1970)
   20. The Move – Message from the Country (1971)
   21. Yes – Yessongs (1973)
   22. Wishbone Ash – Argus (1972)
   23. Supertramp – Crime of the Century (1974)
   24. Genesis – Live (1973)
   25. Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts (1971)
   26. Queen – Queen II (1974)
   27. Pink Floyd – Ummagumma (1969)
   28. Premiata Forneria Marconi – Per un amico (1972)
   29. Egg – The Polite Force (1971)
   30. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus (1972)
   31. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (1972)
   32. Triumvirat – Illusions on a Double Dimple (1974)
   33. Camel – Mirage (1974)
   34. Magma – Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh (1973)
   35. Kevin Ayers – Shooting at the Moon (1970)
   36. Faust – Faust IV (1973)
   37. Strawbs – Hero and Heroine (1974)
   38. Gentle Giant – Octopus (1972)
   39. Matching Mole – Matching Mole (1972)
   40. Tangerine Dream – Phaedra (1974)
   41. Carmen – Fandangos in Space (1973)
2. Honorable Mentions
3. Second Wave (1975–1981)
   1. Queen – A Night at the Opera (1975)
   2. Rush – 2112 (1976)
   3. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
   4. Genesis – A Trick of the Tail (1976)
   5. Utopia – Ra (1977)
   6. Rush – Hemispheres (1977)
   7. Rush – Moving Pictures (1981)
   8. Crack the Sky – Crack the Sky (1975)
   9. Happy the Man – Happy the Man (1977)
   10. Steve Hillage – L (1976)
   11. Steve Hillage – Fish Rising (1975)
   12. Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
   13. Genesis – Duke (1980)
   14. Steve Hackett – Voyage Of The Acolyte (1976)
   15. U.K. – U.K. (1978)
   16. Peter Gabriel – Melt (1980)
   17. Starcastle – Starcastle (1976)
   18. Kansas – Leftoverture (1976)
   19. Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
4. Honorable Mention
   1. Marillion – Clutching at Straws (1987)
5. Third Wave (1995–2003)
   1. The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
   2. Opeth – Blackwater Park (2001)
   3. Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory (1999)
   4. Tool – Ænima (1996)
   5. Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve (1995)
   6. Ruins – Hyderomastgroningem (1995)