Best of 2007 ...

So, the year is not over yet, tthere are still two months, but I think we can already make our personal lists of what we think are!were the best albums of this year. You can either make your own list, where you put your favorites, or you can make a list keeping in mind the big names, the revolutionary albums and everything the collabs always take into account when they make the top albums list every year... its up to you!

Ok, I will make mine... but only from 5 albums

• 1) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In glorious times

I know, this might sound like a cry from a fan boy, but Im telling you its true! This is the album of the year, not only is it one of their best (well.. you only have two others to chose from jejeje), but its a great representative of the genre, a forward thinking band that keeps pushing boundaries and overall an excellent album from start to finish. Highly original!

• 2) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet

The most anticipated and talked about prog album of the year, is also one of the very best the band has ever delivered. A concept album that deals with a current subject, like it or not, Wilson makes it sound not as a problem, but as a warning. The whole band is at the top of their game, specially Gavin Harrison who with this album has insured his place among the best drummers of prog history. Plus... the album has, what I believe is the best song of the year: Anesthesize!

• 3) Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon

This is the album that put Phideaux in everybodys album collection. Even though the man has been making good music for a good while, Doomsday Afternoon made a giant step forward in terms of popularity and quality. Also a concept album, and one with recurring themes and melodies (which I love in concept albums), this is almost a rock opera with more than one voice telling the story. The production is flawless and many instruments like violins give it an extra deph most of us appreatiate.

• 4) Ulver - Shadows of the sun

Trickster G.´s band is known for their eclectic style and for never remaining in the same place for too long, and their altest album is no difference. But at the same time it seems Ulver discided to stop their eclectisism and remain for a good while in a calmer, minimalist place where sound effects and experimentation take a minor role, while Trickster´s vocals and lyrics gain more importance. The result is probably their most personal and emotional effort this far.

• 5) *Moonsorrow - V- Havitetty *

Even though this band is not in the archives, and it´s even understandable why, as they aren´t completly prog metal, more viking than anything else, this last album is a jewl. With only two songs, both of the most epic proportions metal can deliver, clocking almost an hour between both, the band has never been tighter and more creative. The first song "Jaasta Syntynyt - Varjojen Virta" (30 min) is in my book, along with "I" from Meshuggah, the best metal epic ever written.


Edited by el böthy - November 09 2007 at 12:49

The best one so far is Do Make Say Think's latest, in my opinion. 

I have 9 official prog by this site.  Like them all, in alphabetical order:

Edited by Slartibartfast - November 09 2007 at 16:36

My favorite of 2007 as a fan boy is Snakes and Arrows by Rush.

I have lost track of the year 2007, I have only listened to
FOABP by P.Tree

Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet
Oceansize - Frames
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
Grayceon - Grayceon
Canvas Solaris - Cortical Tectonics.

Arghh, too early to be choosing favorites... Maybe by 2017 I can have a proper 2007 list...

1. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (4)
1. Gazpacho - Night (4)
3. Porcupine Tree - FOABP(3.5)
3. Rush - S&A (3.5)
3. Blackfield - Blackfield II (3.5)
3. Symphony X - Paradise Lost (3.5)
7. Marillion - Somewhere Else (3)
7. Galahad - Empires Never Last (3)
7. Neal Morse - Sola Scriputra (3)
7. Planet X - Quantum (3)
7. Kamelot - Ghost Opera (3)
7. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (3)

?. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (?) (not enough listens, haven't listened to it fully)

Not prog: Radiohead - In Rainbows (4)

Still want to hear badly (will likely make it high on the list):

Fish: 13th Star
Glass Hammer: Culture of Ascent
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
A bunch of other stuff people mentioned




Edited by stonebeard - November 10 2007 at 14:59

I'm still getting into a few recent buys and there's time yet for another excellent cd or 2( or 20 ) to get into my collection before the end of the year but my top 10 will almost certainly include the latest releases by Rush, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, Beardfish, The Flower Kings, Threshold, Riverside and Amaran's Plight.......and that's just the Prog stuff.

darkmatter wrote: I haven't listened to Yndi Halda enough to rank it.

Unfortunately, YNDIes' EP is from 2006. If it would bt from 2007, I'd have no problems with defining The Album of the Year


UPD: wait, you gave only 4 stars to Frames?