Just found a list of the "Prog Magazine – Top 100 Albums of All Time" which can be found here:
http://www.theeuropeanperspective.com/?page_id=2099
While exclusions and inclusions in such a list are bound to be the subject of great debate, which you may or may not wish to pursue here, my main reason for this post is to see how the listed albums fare in the surround department.
In the lists that follow, it is possible I have made errors, so corrections are welcomed!
Here is what I found. Of the 100 albums listed:
The following are mixed in quad only:
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children (5.1 release is the quad mix)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Focus - Focus II (Moving Waves)
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
The following were mixed in Quad AND 5.1 surround:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The following were ONLY mixed in 5.1:
Anathema - Weather Systems
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood (Being mixed now for release in 2017!)
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
King Crimson - Discipline
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson - Lizard
King Crimson - Red
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Still Life
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Rush - 2112
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Rush - Moving Pictures
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Yes - Close To The Edge
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Relayer
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes - The Yes Album
And finally, the following are not available in any official surround format (upmixes do not count!):
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Between The Buried And Me - The Paralax II: Future Sequence
Big Big Train - English Electric: Full Power
Camel - Mirage
Camel - Moonmadness
Camel - Music Inspired By The Snow Goose
Can - Tago Mago
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Haken - The Mountain
IQ - Subterranea
Kansas - Leftoverture
Mansun - Six
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight
Marillion - Brave
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Marillion - Marbles
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Meddle * (Mixed but not released - don't get me started)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Radiohead - OK Computer
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Permanent Waves
Spock's Beard - Snow
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century * (Possibly mixed but not released)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
Tool - Ænima
Tool - Lateralus
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
U.K. - U.K.
Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Yes - Drama
Yes - Going For The One
So there you have it! Overall 52 of 100 are officially released in some form of surround, which ain't too bad. Thought you might enjoy the list.
http://www.theeuropeanperspective.com/?page_id=2099
While exclusions and inclusions in such a list are bound to be the subject of great debate, which you may or may not wish to pursue here, my main reason for this post is to see how the listed albums fare in the surround department.
In the lists that follow, it is possible I have made errors, so corrections are welcomed!
Here is what I found. Of the 100 albums listed:
The following are mixed in quad only:
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children (5.1 release is the quad mix)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Focus - Focus II (Moving Waves)
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
The following were mixed in Quad AND 5.1 surround:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The following were ONLY mixed in 5.1:
Anathema - Weather Systems
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood (Being mixed now for release in 2017!)
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
King Crimson - Discipline
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson - Lizard
King Crimson - Red
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Still Life
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Rush - 2112
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Rush - Moving Pictures
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Yes - Close To The Edge
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Relayer
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes - The Yes Album
And finally, the following are not available in any official surround format (upmixes do not count!):
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Between The Buried And Me - The Paralax II: Future Sequence
Big Big Train - English Electric: Full Power
Camel - Mirage
Camel - Moonmadness
Camel - Music Inspired By The Snow Goose
Can - Tago Mago
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Haken - The Mountain
IQ - Subterranea
Kansas - Leftoverture
Mansun - Six
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight
Marillion - Brave
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Marillion - Marbles
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Meddle * (Mixed but not released - don't get me started)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Radiohead - OK Computer
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Permanent Waves
Spock's Beard - Snow
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century * (Possibly mixed but not released)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
Tool - Ænima
Tool - Lateralus
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
U.K. - U.K.
Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Yes - Drama
Yes - Going For The One
So there you have it! Overall 52 of 100 are officially released in some form of surround, which ain't too bad. Thought you might enjoy the list.
