What Classic Progressive Rock Album Are You?

Yes' magnum opus, a three song juggernaut of relentless complex, richly emotional, virtuosically executed of an album. "Close To The Edge" is an enduring work of progressive rock, released in the peak of the genre's creative explosion. While Jon Anderson's lyrics may be elusive in meaning, the feeling being this album is optimistic, romantic, and adventurous - just like you. You see hope in dark places, chase the things you want most, and are unafraid of the deepest caverns and highest peaks. You may find yourself close to an edge now and again, but it is in those moments that you thrive.

King Crimson's mystical masterwork introduced the world to the possibilities and potential of progressive rock. This thrilling ride through gritty back alleys, windswept planes, ancient burial grounds, and the halls of mythical royalty is a triumph of musical composition as well as of the imagination. This album, like you, is the kind that dreams big and doesn't care what the world around it thinks. Even when the real world gets you down and all magic seems only to exist in lore, there is always a place for dreamers and children of the moon.

With this concept album to end all concept albums, Genesis - led for the last time by Peter Gabriel - created a work of staggering musical composition and imagination. Following a leather-jacket clad wanderer through the dream - like underworld beneath a mythic New York City - impossible things happen and a man is confronted with his worst fears and deepest desires. Like this album, you believe that there is more to life than meets the eye, and that those you love are well worth fighting for.

Gentle Giant is the odd little (or big) brother of classic progressive rock. These mighty minstrels of all things strange and beautiful were never more on top of their game than on their masterwork "octopus." Like this album, you are quirky and that is precisely what makes you powerful. You could really do anything, but you choose to do those things which delight and spark imagination in others and in yourself.

Frank Zappa is the musical godfather of all things strange and wonderful. On this seminal album he, and his band of insane (not to mention insanely talented) musicians, The Mothers of Invention, take the listener on a wild musical ride through space and time, down alleys and over mountains, all while grinning wildly with Zappa's particular swagger. You live in the real world, but like this album, are able to bend it to your imaginative world. Anything, from pajamas to sofa cushions, can become magic carpets and portals into other worlds.