My Ten Comfort Albums

Ten albums to soothe my soul.

[@MattOLearyMusic]

100% agreed on The Snow Goose and Wind & Wuthering. Comfort prog. Afterglow is ultimate comfort.

[@alexstewart8097]

Right where theY want you, comfortably numb, soon a ''happy slave'' to the CCP? .Hope and pray that never so...Shema!!!.

[@jhillst]

One album that provided a lot of comfort for me several years ago was Anthony Phillips's The Geese And The Ghost. Back in my early 20's, I met a girl at a coffee shop in my hometown and had a very nice -- if somewhat awkward -- relationship with her for about a year and a half. She then moved about three hours away to college, and then a few years later moved to Las Vegas to start a career in the costuming field. I missed her a lot and kept in touch with her online from time to time, but I never got to see her face to face and always hoped that I would again someday. Sadly, back in 2019, she passed away from an illness that had given her severe blood clots. Upon reading the news on Facebook, I was devastated, knowing that my dream of reuniting with her would never come true (although I did manage to make it to her funeral.) During the weeks after I heard the news, I listened to TGATG countless times, particularly the songs Which Way The Wind Blows and God If I Saw Her Now. The former song comforted me with its lyrics about the struggle to achieve inner peace when facing uncertain circumstances, and the latter song almost perfectly reflected how I felt when reminiscing on our past relationship and how I would feel if I saw her again...which never happened.

[@TheProgCorner]

God If I Saw Her Now!!!! What a great song. And what a sad story. You have a pure heart.

[@uncletom618]

Yeah, imfeelin you. God If I Saw Her Now

[@kevinogracia1615]

Yea, a fine album.

[@ImprobableTodd]

A clever clinic on overtracking brilliance, making lush 12-strings bathe in a nest of complimentary flourishes that would make a goose blush.

[@TheProgCorner]

Well said!

[@NelsonMontana1234]

I may be a stone cold prog head, but at the end of the day, I can always listen to the first three Grand Funk albums and any Iron Maiden album between Number of the Beast to 7th Son or most of what was in the Top 10 on AM radio from 1968 to 1970.

[@loganreifsnider3182]

Jesus is our Savior!! Great video Scot like always and also a great list. Prog on budd

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes indeed!!!

[@vagabond197979]

I don't often admit this, but Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story is such a feelgood album for me.

[@TheProgCorner]

10/10 record. His best. I love Rod.

[@sealisa1398]

It was such a huge hit. Indeed.

[@simpleman5688]

“My body stunk, but I kept my funk…”

[@vagabond197979]

@@simpleman5688 How can you go wrong with lyrics like that?

[@ChasingTone666]

Jon Anderson LP is absolutely beautiful. Such a chill album. Andy Edwards mentioned it on his show and I found it and love it so much

[@TheProgCorner]

One of my all time favorites!

[@fpacheco3211]

Doomsday Afternoon by Phideaux; How much are you willing to forget by Flicker; Pride by Phosphorescent; Listen by Phil Manzanera, always put me in the right mood.

[@TheProgCorner]

Fantastic!!!

[@iceclimbers22]

I grew up in the 90s and was a strange kid in elementary school because I exclusivley listened to the local oldies radio station. Groups like The Guess Who were my first love and got me into music. Burton Cummings may have my favorite voice in music, period.

[@TheProgCorner]

Burton Cummings is the best singer ever. There. I said it!!!!

[@lastminute3767]

According to Prog Magazine online Chicago has always considered themselves a Prog band. It would be great to have a Top Ten list of Chicago songs that reflect this.

[@TheProgCorner]

I like that idea!

[@timhollis3390]

I just listened to The Snow goose for the first time and you're right it's fantastic.Thanks for the turn on.

[@TheProgCorner]

Such a masterpiece!!!

[@thomasbeck2934]

I approached this as albums that mellow me out and comforts me. Any Gazpacho album Roxy Music: Avalon Hall and Oates: Abandoned Luncheonette Doobie Brothers: Takin It To The Streets Grateful Dead: Wake of the Flood Genesis: Selling England Pink Floyd: Dark Side Santana: Caravanserai Bob Dylan’s greatest hits vol. 2 Yes: Close to the Edge

[@TheProgCorner]

Avalon!!!! What a great call.

[@alexstewart8097]

What's wrong with you?. Nothing comforting about Selling England by the pound, specially if vou like Gazpacho albums Senor...Shema!!!.

[@thomasbeck2934]

For me…I find the melodies Tony created in Dancing With the Moonlit Knight, Firth of Fifth, Cinema Show very pleasing. Hackett’s After the Ordeal is wonderful. So the album is overall quite relaxing for ME.

[@AngryCalvin]

Caravanserai Is the most essential Santana album. Blows the previous albums out of the water and gets ignored almost completely.

[@richardthorne2804]

Wow love your comments about Jesus. Love your list too. Your depth of music is incredible and i have learned so much from you and prog nation.

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!! 🙏👍

[@simpleman5688]

Yep. We all have learned.

[@vinyltimewithamy1984]

Scot, this video had me smiling from start to finish. I loved learning how you overcame prison life, and the albums that helped you get through some difficult times. 🤍 We love ya Scot! ✨

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you, Amy!!!

[@markbaston8147]

My biggest comfort album is Blueprint Of The World by Enchant. The lyrics just move me like no other album and the guitar solos are just heavenly.

[@YESFan1971]

Olias is a SUPER CLASSIC.

[@TheProgCorner]

Indeed.

[@YESFan1971]

@@TheProgCorner ...Olias holds a special place in my heart, having seen YES live 49 times and having Jon be gracious enough to list my name (Ken Krapf) on the back of his 1000 Hands CD as a Contributor. Jon also invited me to lunch at Carmine's in Chicago (I bought, of course.....and still have the receipt). I can die a happy man. Thanks to you for all you do for Prog Rock. Great channel.

[@TheProgCorner]

What a great Jon story!!! 1000 Hands is awesome.

[@stephenjames4937]

I could not agree more with you, Scot. Music indeed has the power to heal. Thank goodness I've always had great music in my life, through good times and bad.

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutely!!!!

[@arvidsson56]

Città Frontale is new to me. I will definitely check them out. Olias of Sunhillow is one of my favourites as well. I bought the album when it came out and I still listen to it more often than most Yes albums, I think. Behind you I see Osibisa’s first album. Great music with an iconic Roger Dean cover. I was in my early teens when it came out, and it was one of my first introductions to African music.

[@TheProgCorner]

Mine too!!!! What a cool band.

[@uncletom618]

Confession time, … I feel so ashamed! I’ve always been a huge Yes fan. Saw them 5 times in all but most recent incarnations. But i have never heard a single song from Tales. And now im deaf in my right ear, so it’s too late for me to hear it in stereo. Woe is me! I just got pulled elsewhere at the time(s). Gonna try to rectify that today. Gonna sit and listen to the whole thing right now. Got a frosty Heineken, a fresh fatty, and the sincere inclination to immerse myself there. Thanks for all your work, for sharing all that prog passion and knowledge!

[@TheProgCorner]

Get ready for the most important 80 minutes of your life!!!! Fatty optional. (Although recommended…)

[@charleswagner2984]

Tom, Scot is right. I suggest part of your preparation includes reading the liner notes Jon wrote about each song. Tales is the only album that he did that for, and it's not for nothing.

[@alexstewart8097]

Listening with just one hear isn't necessarily not listening in stereo or mono.

[@MudFlanagan]

You'll wish you were deaf in your left ear after listening to that...:)

[@TheProgCorner]

That’s kinda not funny.

[@NotesReviews]

I love seeing these!! 'm so glad that this idea has caught on and I can see everyone's comfort albums! Great list!!

[@TheProgCorner]

You are an inspiration!!!! And great job on the Devin Wheel Of Prog.

[@BlindArthurBlake]

Al Stewart - Time Passages was always a sort of comfort album for me. I don't know if it's the songs, the Alan Parsons production, the nostalgia for the time when it was released or all of the above.

[@TheProgCorner]

Good one!!! I almost placed Year Of The Cat on my list!!!

[@uncletom618]

My ten. In no particular order. 1. Genesis -Seconds Out 2. Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling 3. Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind 4. Dixie Dregs - What If 5. Stevie Wonder -Innervisions 6. Kansas- Two For The Show 7. Yes - Going For The One 8. Elton John Band - Captain Fantastic And The Brow Dirt Cowboy 9. Crowded House - Together Alone 10. Art In America (featuring uncredited Steve Morse, listen to his solo on Undercover Lover :) - Art In America Honorable Mentions - A- Utopia - Ra B - Steve Hackett - Live At NearFest (the sax solo alone on Walking Away From Rainbows will make you WEEP! C - Mike Rutherford- Smallcreep’s Day D - Paul McCartney - McCartney E - Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

[@uncletom618]

ok NOW Ill start Tales!

[@TheProgCorner]

RA!!!! Singring!!!!

[@user-tn5xq6fe7x]

What If is great Dregs. Although I use that to amp me up, not chill out!

[@TheProgCorner]

Take It Off The Top!!! If that doesn’t fire you up…

[@juliemusique-tn4dp]

thank very nice hearing about you

[@oy6793]

Linda Perhacs-paralleograms from 1970 is my best comfort album

[@oy6793]

Mellow candle swaddling songs J.rider no longer anonymous Magna carta songs from wasties orchard

[@michaelbaucom4019]

I define comfort as making me feel good/a reminder of good times/nostalgic. Not all are prog, given my definition, my ten Kansas: Song For America Supertramp: Crime Of The Century Dire Straits: Love Over Gold Steely Dan: Aja Boston: Debut Billy Joel: The Stranger Paul McCartney/Wings: Venus and Mars Styx: Paradise Theater Genesis: Duke Al Stewart: Time Passages Honorable mentions: Dan Fogelberg/Tim Weisberg: Twin Sons Of Different Mothers The Cars: Debut Eagles: Hotel California

[@TheProgCorner]

I almost put Billy Joel on my list!!!!

[@pelegrim3264]

Wind & Wuthering is also one of my comfort albums. Especially in cold autumn with a hot tea. 🍵❤‍🔥

[@TheProgCorner]

Exactly!!!!

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Greetings !!!! Love your energy,Scot! I love that Guess Who greatest hits. I’m from Toronto, so I’ve been hearing those Guess Who songs on the radio for years. I think I know all the lyrics from that album lol. That Camel record and Genesis record are also top shelf. I love them too! Cheers ✌️

[@TheProgCorner]

👍👍👍

[@PJprog]

Scot , somehow Olias of Sunhillow was just destined to top this list of yours. You're so right , couldn't agree more with that. Moonmadness from Camel has that similar feeling for me too. Great video Scot. 🎵🎵😍🤘

[@TheProgCorner]

I almost went with Moonmadness but I wanted an instrumental album on the list - and The Snow Goose is awesome.

[@johnstucky2168]

Totally with you on the Guess Who. One of my first favorite bands!

[@TheProgCorner]

So good!!!

[@MarcioMarquesdeSouza]

Your videos are my comfort moment, thanks a lot for the amazing music that you share with us.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yeah!!!! There you go!!!! We have a winner. (Seriously, thank you.)

[@vincenthuggett4259]

Great list, my number one would be Moody Blues on the threshold of a dream.

[@TheProgCorner]

Awesome!!!!!

[@martinspencer1618]

I've never got them: they just seem bland and wimpy. And three gay moustaches is three too many.

[@kevinbossick8374]

Nice on a lazy Sunday morning. Excellent album.

[@kevhead1525]

Are You Sitting Comfortably has grown on me alot.

[@christianhaynes1954]

Amen brother 👍love the video dude 🙌 . Music is powerful for sure 👌

[@TheProgCorner]

It is powerful. It is the language of heaven.

[@phillipburton8055]

Well I can’t believe it I have been loving your show so much and thanking the powers above that you have come and spread the gospel that is prog and then you say you have been in the can and I am shocked, I am 74 and a veteran and I think how could any civil society put someone like you inside, are one of the great characters of our time,a light in a very dark and scary world, I love your work and I love you, long may you spread the prog light to all the uninitiated. Long life Scott 👌

[@TheProgCorner]

I deserved everything that happened to me. And I am better for it. It’s part of my origin story now!!! Sometimes to find the light one needs to live in darkness for a spell…

[@phillipburton8055]

@@TheProgCorner you have obviously come out of it a better man so more power to you and keep up your excellent work ✊

[@uncletom618]

Hey Scot, that was an outstanding vid!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!!!!

[@grommet3798]

The Guess Who compilation is an excellent record. When I want that kinda feeling, I go with similar acts like Three Dog Night, BS&T, early Chicago, the pop stuff from the Doors and Grand Funk, Leon Russell, Carole King, post-Beatles Beatles, and that folksy Laurel Canyon stuff. Totally 1972 pop-rock. A little brass goes a long way. Also, Tales of Topographic Oceans sides 1 and 4, and Atom Heart Mother.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!!!

[@harryberry474]

Creedence Clearwater Revival "Greatest Hits & All Time Classics" album 24 songs every one a hit WOW!

[@therealtwiggyleaf]

Good to watch once again. I love your Number One. What a brilliant album. You know, Scot, I so remember the time I bought this album. I didn't know about it, but I was a big Yes fan, and I had always argued with my young peers that Jon was not just a vocalist, but also playeed an important part in the orchestration of Yes music. So, I was at my favourite record shop, and they had a massive sale section, which is where I mainly bought from, being a teenager with not too much money for full price albums. I was immediately struck by the art on the album cover but couldn't quite make out the writing. I opened the gatefold to find a double fold with great pictures, lyrics and all. I soon found out it was a Jon Anderson album I had never even heard of, and bought it immediately. I was so impressed with this album, and it remained one of my favourite solo albums throughout the years. Now, ama gonna DANCE WITH SNAKES too! 😎😎😊😊❤❤

[@TheProgCorner]

🐍

[@LarryGravesCanadianStudmuffin]

Great idea, Scot! Nice to see the first choice, and love your last choice also, although I am picking another album by that artist. I'll be doing my video today and I'll be sure to credit you.

[@TheProgCorner]

Awesome!!!! Thank you, Larry. You’re the best!!!

[@hihihi686868]

Olias of Sunhillow is also my #1 comfort album

[@TheProgCorner]

You know!!!

[@AngryCalvin]

From what I remember the instrumental part of Wind and Wuthering was rejected material from Phil Collins Brand X Jazz Fusion side project. Maybe the debut Unorthodox Behavior considering this was 1976? Definitely a more relaxed album compared to the previous but a couple of the greatest Genesis tracks of all time in One for the Vine and Blood on the Rooftops make the album essential! Oh man where do I start?.., Pat Metheny Group-PMG(1978) Lifesigns-Lifesigns Big Big Train-English Electric Full Power Pink Floyd-Obscured by Clouds Weather Report-Heavy Weather Miles Davis-In a Silent Way David Gilmour-On an Island Steely Dan-Aja Dream Theater-The Astonishing Iamthemorning-~

[@TheProgCorner]

Fabulous!!!!

[@terrymtbnurse4760]

Hey Scott, great show. I'm 56 yo and been a metal head all my life, However, if I want to relax and let the stress melt away it's Prog for me. 1. Marillion - happiness is Cologne. That live version of Afraid of Sunlight is just out of this world. 2. Opeth - Damnation. I'm in another world listing to this masterpiece. 3. Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture. If you haven't listened to this one, stop what you're doing and spin this masterpiece. You'll forget where you're at. 4. The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution. Bro, Gavin Harrison is all that needs to be said. To be honest Scott, you got me hooked on that Le Orme - ll leone e la bandriera albu. It absolutely takes me away, I love it.

[@TheProgCorner]

Opeth!!!! Nice. I love that album.

[@Prognosis__]

@@TheProgCornerI saw Damnation at my record store but Blackwater park was there too..new vinyl record are expensive in Australia

[@grahamharfleet6026]

What a great idea and indeed a great video. Love the enthusiasm you have for music. A couple of my “comfort” albums are “Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren” and also the supreme (and my favourite Vangelis album) “L’Apocalypse Des Animeaux”.

[@TheProgCorner]

I love Todd’s voice!!!!

[@kratino]

Seeing Burton Cummings is on my bucket list. I saw him with Ringo Starr forever ago, but I need to see a whole lot more Guess Who. Stellar.

[@TheProgCorner]

Burton Cummings voice. The best!!!

[@kratino]

@@TheProgCorner Well, if you remember, I'm the one who wanted four Greg Lake heads on the prog vocal Mt. Rushmore, so. . . (LOVE you, Burton.)

[@TheProgCorner]

@@kratino That’s right!!!!!

[@kratino]

@@TheProgCorner You and I don't agree on everything, but I love your channel. You're a gem in a sea of baloney. I'm Kathy, BTW. A rare female subscriber, I would imagine.

[@progman777]

Great list Scot!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!!

[@Heptafon]

I started to sing along with you "Take on the world"....just two days after seen Judas live!!!

[@TheProgCorner]

I LOVE JUDAS PRIEST!!!!!

[@markspooner1224]

Città Frontale and a bag of peanut M&M's, now that's comfort!

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!!!!!

[@jasonnitert6184]

Hey Scott…really love your positive spirit and energy…it’s infectious…thank-you. I owe you and Pete a debt of gratitude for turning me on to Arabs in Aspic…they are sooo good. My favorite tune in a long time is Arabide…what a riff. Anyway…Animals by Floyd is as comforting as a burger and fries.

[@TheProgCorner]

Nothing more comforting than being dragged down by the stone, stone, stone…

[@tullfan2560]

A comfort album for me is anything dreamy and ambient I can drift off to. Dark Side of the Moon, Starfish, Priest=Aura, Stupid Dream, Wish You Were Here. And great dreamy songs are Baker Street and Year of the Cat. In fact all of Al Stewart's albums are chill.

[@TheProgCorner]

I almost went with both WYWH and Year Of The Cat!!!!!!

[@newdawnofprog]

Besides many fantastic prog that I adore I always love to return to some classic 90s hip-hop, like 2pac -All Eyez on Me, or Wu Tang clan -Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), I love those albums and they remond me of the time when I was very young. Another amazing episode, cheers and prog on.

[@TheProgCorner]

Wu Tang Forever!!!

[@newdawnofprog]

@@TheProgCorner Hahaha , yes my friend, brilliant lyricists.

[@dano1962]

Great topic! I remember listening to Pink Floyd The Wall in high school over & over again. It changed my brain for the better. I have to hear the whole album in one setting to get the full effect.

[@TheProgCorner]

There you go!!! That’s what I’m talking about!!!

[@pelegrim3264]

And Countdown To Ecstasy in the background is my favorite album to dance to! 💃

[@TheProgCorner]

Your Gold Teeth always brings them out onto the dance floor!!!!

[@toddspango]

I think this is my favorite Prog Corner ever.

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you!!! It seems to have resonated well with people.

[@progrocktommyscorner]

Awesome top ten. "El Tor" love that album..

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!! So good.

[@deaconofbeacon733]

Excellent show...great topic for discussion. That Hotelier cover does NOT give me comfort! Here are my comfort LP's: Beach Boys - Endless Summer Beatles - Red Album Joni Mitchell - Blue Wings - Band on the Run Steve Miller Band - GH's Kansas - Leftoverture Styx - Grand Illusion Jimmy Buffet - Songs you know by Heart Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enough Steve Hackett - To Watch the Storms....Listened to this LP for about a year straight, it got me through my divorce and really started my dive back into Prog after many, many years.

[@TheProgCorner]

That cover is downright scary!!!

[@ericarmstrong6540]

My ultimate comfort album has to be Brian Eno's "Music for Films". I listen to it about once a week on average. It just puts me in a chilled out state of mind. Good video.

[@TheProgCorner]

Eno is a great call. I considered Another Green World…

[@docbobster]

Wind and Wuthering gets lost in the shuffle because Trick of the Tail was such a miraculous recovery from losing PG. But I know what you mean about W&W; there's just a special vibe to the whole album. Inspired by your video, I just went through my collection, and the ones that stood out as "comfort albums" completely took me by surprise because I'd never thought about it before. And yet my heart just sung out at certain titles, even though they aren't in my Top 10s or even the best by these artists: Harold Budd & Brian Eno (Plateaux of Mirror); Chris Squire (Fish out of Water); Duke Levine (Country Soul Guitar); Flaming Lips (Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots); Jimmie Spheeris (Isle of View); John McLaughlin (Plays Bill Evans: Time Remembered); Michael Hedges (Breakfast in the Field); Pat Metheny (New Chatauqua); Phish (any live recording -- that band got me through my "Book of Job" years); Steve Hackett (Spectral Mornings); Steve Tibbetts (Northern Song).

[@TheProgCorner]

Great choices!!!! Flaming Lips!!!

[@scottmcrae3355]

I played that Guess Who Greatest hits cassette so much in high school (and it was in the 90s). Huge nostalgia points for me. Super underrated down there in the States but they are huge legends up here in the Great White North! I would go as far as saying that a young Burton Cummings had one of the best rock and roll voices of all time.

[@TheProgCorner]

💯

[@morrisgautreau6704]

Very interesting choices! I need to check out some of those! (I also may borrow this video idea, I think I have great comfort albums.)

[@TheProgCorner]

I stole the idea from The Prog Nerd so it’s all good!!!!!

[@Terry-zl1cs]

Love your channel! Dave Mason-Alone Together

[@TheProgCorner]

Dave Mason. What a good call.

[@brentbristow2200]

Good choice for number 1!

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you, Brent!!!!

[@alanfloyd5473]

Always lead on such interesting musical journeys with the things I don't know about, and then with what I do know about I just know we're on the same page. I always thought when listening to the Genesis album "Wind and Wuthering" that a great tee shirt design would be one that simply has the caption, "Wot Gorilla?". That would get em thinking, eh!

[@josephgerard5473]

For 3 decades my comfort album was Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention. Since 2021 it's been Alone In A Quiet Place by UNIT. Anyway, this was an interesting concept for a short video. Honourable mentions for The Snow Goose and Wind & Wuthering.

[@TheProgCorner]

UNIT!!!!

[@sidecardog5244]

Great vid Scott! Generally I'm more of a playlist guy since the internet, so I'll confine my list to albums I own or have owned in the past: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Nursery Crymes Revolver Thick as a Brick Yes Album Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon V (Spock's Beard) Whirlwind The Raven Who Refused to Sing The Similitude of a Dream

[@TheProgCorner]

Similitude!!!!!! Absolutely.

[@alanclayton9277]

being estranged from the music that is part of your identity, in whatever circumstances, that's tough. you need your music constantly. i never understand people who feel any other way.

[@TheProgCorner]

It was rough!!!

[@MetalJohnIcedEarthGeek]

Iced Earth are my comfort band I go to relax & cooldown.

[@TheProgCorner]

Nice!!!👍

[@johngreen3587]

Very cool

[@TheProgCorner]

Thanks!

[@SomniRespiratoryFlux]

Interesting video to come out on my birthday (though I'm only commenting the next day, whoops). For me, I think there's a few albums I tend to really enjoy listening to for comfort, again usually stuff that I'm really familiar with or strongly associate with good memories. Boston's debut is the obvious one from childhood, but the live album An Evening With John Denver is also in that category. I've mentioned it before but if I'm really sad and just need to be sad for a while and get it out, I might go for Lyle Lovett's Joshua Judges Ruth, mainly because I heard it a decent amount when I was younger. I'd probably also include the soundtrack to some childhood facorite video game or other, probably Banjo-Kazooie if I had to pick just one. Getting into prog finally, my "greatest hits" album of choice is probably Rush's Retrospective 1 and/or 2, just so many great tracks all in a row there and it's how I fell in love with the band and with prog as a whole. And while it's similarly a weird example of "comfort" as the Lyle Lovett example, if I just have rage and need to let it out, I honestly think the prime example of an "anger" album is Disturbed's Indestructible. As for a more uplifting metal experience, I might get some flack for this but I really find little metal more empowering than the often-mocked DragonForce (probably Sonic Firestorm for a specific album). Are they cheesy? Sure. Formulaic? A bit, especially the early albums. But I like the sound, and if someone else doesn't, they're not the one listening to it anyway. For an instrumental pick, either of the first two Liquid Tension Experiment albums solidly would fit nicely. A couple albums I first heard in college come to mind to round out ten picks. ZABA by Glass Animals really takes me back to quiet times after dark on campus, and Haken's Affinity released right as I finished my last semester so it takes me back to a sense of accomplishment and (maybe premature) optimism for the future. Kind of a weird list of ten, lots of variety, not much prog, but hey, sometimes you find comfort in vastly different styles of music in different circumstances, and that's neat at the end of the day!

[@TheProgCorner]

Timing is so important in our musical tastes!!! John Denver!!! Yeah.

[@user-tn5xq6fe7x]

When I want to chill I like "Sarabande" the instrumental by Jon Lord. Or "Butterfly Ball" by Roger Glover and friends.

[@TheProgCorner]

Butterfly Ball!!!!!! So good!!!

[@BenTevikMusic]

Surprised I didn’t see the Kansas debut on your list! Great video 🤘

[@TheProgCorner]

Yeah. It’s just an automatic thing for me. Not sure what to put on? Yep, that Kansas debut is my usual answer!!!

[@LittleMilton1972]

Number 1 on my list of "comfort albums", 'This Is The Moody Blues'. Never lets me down.

[@TheProgCorner]

What a great compilation!!!

[@hanssipkes8179]

Pure for relaxation I like to listen to the oxygene and equinox albums from Jean Michel Jarre! Another album would be "perspektiv_n" from Louis Clark, 2sides of pure magic.

[@TheProgCorner]

Fantastic!!!

[@jfmitxelena5093]

Me encanta the snow goose. Mi preferido de Camel.

[@TheProgCorner]

Absolutamente!

[@aldebaran4154]

Wind and Wuthering is my favorite Genesis Phil as lead singer album. This is what I listed on Niamh's video of this topic. I cheated by adding two: 12) Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n All 11) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 10) The Cars - The Cars 9) Pink Floyd - Meddle 8) The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager 7) 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden 6) Cheap Trick - Rockford 5) ELO - Time 4) Yes - Close to the Edge 3) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc 2) Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin 1) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti It just dawned on me I could have added Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and any composition by Beethoven.

[@TheProgCorner]

Great call with Mahler and Beethoven. I might add Debussy…

[@aldebaran4154]

@@TheProgCorner Plus "Papa" Haydn and Schubert

[@Prognosis__]

My comfort album is, Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves. It helped me get through a breakup

[@TheProgCorner]

I love that one.

[@fogzax]

Great to see Hell Bent for Leather in there - I went for Point of Entry but Hell Bent is probably my fave Priest overall

[@TheProgCorner]

Point Of Entry. So underrated.

[@fogzax]

@@TheProgCorner Glad you think so - Just a great good time album - a lot of fun and the production is stellar

[@JohnnyRecently]

Hell Bent For Leather is my favorite Priest album. I listened to a comfort album yesterday. BTO- Not Fragile.

[@TheProgCorner]

BTO! Absolutely!!!

[@maxmustermann-hx3fx]

If you want to talk about it. You could a Story time video about your jail time. Especially how you got ur life back on track after you got out. I'm 21 and I still feel lost sometimes.

[@TheProgCorner]

I think that would be a great episode. I’m sure I’ll do just that eventually. Sometimes you have to be lost to be found…

[@maxmustermann-hx3fx]

@@TheProgCorner Yes totally although nothing happened to me and I live a fairly normal live for people my age the feeling of being lost also helps me sometimes to discover something new about myself.

[@JackJohnst2112]

The Snow goose is definitely on my list but I’d say my #1 pick is definitely Red which is also my favourite album of all time 👍 Great video Scott!

[@TheProgCorner]

Red is so good. Starless!!! Top Five song ever!!!

[@JackJohnst2112]

Yes! It doesn’t get enough for being one of the greatest songs of all time!

[@danaaronmusic]

And my comfort albums are . . . all of them!

[@TheProgCorner]

Good call!!!!

[@TigerMtnKing]

Love numbers 1 and 2! I think my number one is 'Tales from Topographic Oceans'. It always brings me out of my depression when I have it.🤩

[@TheProgCorner]

Yeah. You know it should be there but I feel like a broken record sometimes always talking about Tales, Tales, Tales!!!

[@jeffschielka7845]

Have to agree Jerry. Definitely top 3!!!👍😎

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@TheProgCorner So what! That's your baby!!👍☮️👑🐍😎

[@TigerMtnKing]

@TheProgCorner Be a broken record, it's the best!😍

[@TheProgCorner]

You know I like to mix things up sometimes. And then sometimes I just feel like talking about certain records…

[@GeoffNSmith-bs8rg]

I appreciate you and your insights and thanks for mentioning Jesus. He makes life a whole lot better.

[@TheProgCorner]

I try not to bring it up too much but at the same time I’m never going to deny Him.

[@ilabelle1]

It’s a great topic Scot. Particularly as of late. My life has changed drastically and I’ve been listening to a lot of Jethro Tull (they were Jenya’s favourite band). Unfortunately comforting comes with tears. But music has always been a good friend and I genuinely believe its ability to heal and nurture. Thanks for the episode Scot. It’s kinda hitting home for me.

[@TheProgCorner]

I hear you!!! My wife loves Tull so I can relate.

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee dredg - Catch Without Arms Pat Metheny Group - First Circle Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly

[@TheProgCorner]

Awesome picks.

[@mauricemorning]

I never realized there was such a thing as a comfort album. But as soon as I began to think about it I realized that I go to IQ's Dark Matter when I just want some musical comfort. It has nothing to do with "the greatest" or even "my favorite". It just spells C-O-M-F-O-R-T. Thank you Scott

[@TheProgCorner]

I love that album!!! Harvest Of Souls!!!

[@mauricemorning]

@@TheProgCorner I am looking forward to delving into that Sufjan Stevens album. My friend has been raving about him for almost a decade.

[@TheProgCorner]

I love him. All his records are cool but Illinoise is next level.

[@mauricemorning]

@@TheProgCorner A great album title for sure.

[@mauricemorning]

Reminds me of my original album titles--Ill Odyssey and Odd Iliad. Don't look for them--they are the fantasies of a failed artist.

[@pamnorris8954]

Foxtrot is my go to album. It fits into my faith and I usually cry at the end. Then Fragile and CTTE and Similitude to a Dream. Those are my favorites. I do love Jesus Freak DC Talk and Michael W Smith Lead Me Home. Check those ones out Scot. You will like them.

[@TheProgCorner]

Will do. And yeah, Similitude!!! “C’mon!!!!”

[@stevendavid5370]

Music has the power to heal, put you asleep, relieve stress.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes indeed. And so much more!!!

[@dylancat8988]

Listening now El Tor Città Frontale for the first time 👍Sufjan Stevens's Illinois feels like when you get comfortably gradually warmed up after tucking yourself under the blanket after you took a shower in the winter I used to wonder if Wind & Wuthering might be my favorite Genesis album even tho I prefer PG's era of Genesis I think I sometimes still do.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!!!

[@jornspirit]

...aye, Scot - you're just crazy, man, but in the way that I LOOVE crazy!! There's quite some albums, I never heard about before, so there's some explorations ahead! Having Jon Anderson at the helm of it all, can only be a winner!! And Genesis' W&W is my ultimate Autumn album - nobody ever did it better! 'Snow Goose' is beyond comparison - it stand on its own, on top of a large, large hill - such a master piece! From all I absorb from ya, I wonder if there is a masterpiece that escaped you so far: ever heard of 'L' by Godley & Creme? Zappa meets 10cc meets Beatles, and propels it all into a synthesis, that you didn't know, exists... its... mind blowing... and my gut feelings says, that its right down your alley... give it a try!

[@TheProgCorner]

I love 10cc but I really need to listen to those G&C records!!!!!

[@TABL3SIX]

For me it's "A Decade of Steely Dan" greatest hits. How many references to alcoholic beverages can we find in the lyrics. It's always a fun game. 😁😎

[@TheProgCorner]

The Dan!!!! So good.

[@AngryCalvin]

Gold is the one I had and included Aja instead. Here at the Western World and FM we’re on there. Honestly Aja could have been a double album had it included those songs and a few more. King of the World also an early gem. A must have to get songs from the more smooth side from The Dan.

[@Prog-Radio]

Excellent list. Made for 10 great Musical Musings!!! Well, actually 12, because I had to do THREE songs from the Best of the Guess Who album, as that was for sure one of my comfort albums growing up! Did you have the "floppy" vinyl? =) Burton Cummings voice is comfort in a can! One album for me that never fails to comfort me is McCartney's Ram.

[@TheProgCorner]

Ram is a great album!!!!!!!

[@lucasnering7353]

Another great video Scott. I know this is an unpopular opinion but one of my comfort albums is The Final Cut by Pink Floyd. Even though I like Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, Meddle, The Wall etc. more, the Final Cut has been a comfort album for several years now because I discovered it at a really tough time. Call it a trauma bond! 😂

[@TheProgCorner]

Awesome!!! Music can do that!!!

[@robertharvey2604]

Boston (debut) An Innocent Man (Billy Joel) Duke (Genesis) Chicago II Crime of the Century (Supertramp) London Calling (The Clash) New World Record (ELO) Abbey Road (The Beatles) Aja (Steely Dan) Exile on Main Street (Stones)

[@TheProgCorner]

Fantastic!!!! We are thinking the same way…

[@leightonfarms4962]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@jazzpunk]

Wow, Scott...couple weekends back, someone having a garage sale had a Good Guys Chuckie (in the box)...my wife picked it up for $40. Yours is a little different; she is wondering about that. My LP COUNTDOWN TO ECSTACY is framed in my room. The Guess Who GREATEST HITS LP is fantastic. Bought it while in Jr. High...everybody liked that album.

[@TheProgCorner]

And now The Guess Who are all but forgotten…

[@aquatarkus2022]

Share The Land is like a greatest hits album.

[@TheProgCorner]

What a band!!!

[@paulayers1111]

1. Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again… 2. Genesis - Trespass 3. The Residents - Eskimo 4. Camel - The Snow Goose 5. Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle 6. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 7. Tortoise - TNT 8. Brian Eno - Another Green World 9. Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka 10. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

[@paulayers1111]

Gastr Del Sol’s Camoufleur would almost make it to the list too

[@TheProgCorner]

Eskimo!!! (I actually almost put The Commercial Album on my list!!!)

[@paulayers1111]

@@TheProgCorner LOVE the Commercial album!!

[@harvesterofstorms4932]

The Snow Goose is of course amazing, but for me one of my comfort albums is definitely Camel’s debut album. “Slow Yourself Down” says it all.

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!

[@superretroworld9501]

The album that defines comfort for me is Tapestry by Carole King

[@TheProgCorner]

Yes!!!!!

[@jeremysette3657]

Currently listening to The Guess Who Greatest Hits- what a pick! Sufjan and Death Cab mmhmm great comfort. I'm sorry I don't know your top 4! Looking forward to digging in. Here's mine: 1. The Marshall Tucker Band- The Marshall Tucker Band 2. Fleetwood Max- Fleetwood Mac 3. Huey Lewis & The News- Sports 4. 311- 311 5. Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves 6. Blind Faith- Blind Faith 7. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young- Deja Vu 8. Anathema- Weather Systems 9. Rebelution - Courage to Grow 10. Green Day- Dookie My Christian comfort albums would be: 1. Josh Garrels- Home 2. Sandra McCracken- Psalms 3. The Hillbilly Thomists- Living For the Other Side

[@TheProgCorner]

311. Nice!!!

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Scot also my personal favorite album is Avalon from Roxy Music to be honest ❤😊

[@TheProgCorner]

Avalon!!! Perfect.

[@AngryCalvin]

Have the HDCD version I found used in a CD store and paid maybe less than $5 for it. It’s got some high quality sound. Can’t go wrong with any Roxy Music. The last album when Duran Duran was just getting started. Crazy it was that far back.

[@harryberry474]

Top Ten Comfort albums for me...#1 for me would be "Foxtrot" I've listened to it more than any other it is part of me. #2 Ambrosia, "Somewhere I've Never Traveled" the song Cowboy Star really strikes a cord with me takes me back in time. #3 Bread(s) first self titled album, perfect recording quality the best I've ever heard and the songs are great. #4 Blood, Sweat & Tears Greatest Hits album, #5 Joe Walsh "Barnstorm", #6 Jimi Hendrix "Are You Experienced", #7 Nova "Vimana", #8 Steve Hackett "Voyage Of The Acolyte", #9 Strawbs "Hero & Heroine" #10 Arthur Gee-Whizz Band "City Cowboy" amazing album was only sold as a "cut out" every copy I have is printed "for promotional use only" ... there are so many more but just a quick run down these are the ones I picked. IF you've never heard some of them check them out on KZbin. That Arthur Gee album I sent into and had a pro transfer a New never played album to CD (it was never released on CD)

[@TheProgCorner]

Fantastic!!!!!!

[@alexposilkin9683]

Cool topic. I have two categories of comforting albums. The first is nostalgic comfort of albums I loved in my teens: Dave Weckl: Master Plan Frank Zappa: Joe’s Garage Metallica: Master of Puppets Rush: A Show of Hands, Presto Soundgarden: Superunknown Jimmy Buffett: Feeding Frenzy The song Guelah Papyrus by Phish And there are my current comfort albums: Oscar Peterson: Night Train Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here Art Blakey: Moanin’ Hank Williams: Health & Happiness Shows

[@TheProgCorner]

Nostalgia is the key!!!