Best progressive rock Albums
These albums define progressive rock. Whether you're starting fresh or revisiting classics, this list highlights the records worth your time.
Top progressive rock Artists
progressive rock Albums
Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree · 2007
Works Volume 1
Emerson, Lake & Palmer · 1977
90125
Yes · 1983
From Genesis to Revelation
Genesis · 1969
Soundtracks for the Blind
Swans · 1996
About Face
David Gilmour · 1984
Who's Next
The Who · 1971
Script for a Jester's Tear
Marillion · 1983
Clutching at Straws
Marillion · 1987
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer · 1971
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer · 1970
Black Moon
Emerson, Lake & Palmer · 1992
Zoom
Electric Light Orchestra · 2001
Out of the Blue
Electric Light Orchestra · 1977
Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree · 2000
Closure/Continuation
Porcupine Tree · 2022
The Incident
Porcupine Tree · 2009
Dune
Toto · 1984
Kansas
Kansas · 1974
Live at the Orpheum
King Crimson · 2015
Live in Chicago
King Crimson · 2017
The Power to Believe
King Crimson · 2003
Music Is Our Friend: Live in Washington and Albany
King Crimson · 2021
Islands
King Crimson · 1971
Red
King Crimson · 1974
Earthbound
King Crimson · 1972
the construKction of light
King Crimson · 2000
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson · 1973
In the Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson · 1970
Starless and Bible Black
King Crimson · 1974
In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson · 1969
Live in Toronto
King Crimson · 2016
Live in Vienna (King Crimson album)
King Crimson · 2018
Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind
King Crimson · 2016
Meltdown: Live in Mexico City
King Crimson · 2018
Lizard
King Crimson · 1970
Yessongs
Yes · 1973
When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater · 1989
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater · 2002
Images and Words
Dream Theater · 1992
Awake
Dream Theater · 1994
Train of Thought
Dream Theater · 2003
Parasomnia
Dream Theater · 2025
Midnight at the Lost and Found
Meat Loaf · 1983
Heaven & Hell
Meat Loaf · 1989
Testify
Phil Collins · 2002
Going Back
Phil Collins · 2010
Brother Bear – An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
Phil Collins · 2003
Havoc and Bright Lights
Alanis Morissette · 2012
Under Rug Swept
Alanis Morissette · 2002