Top-10 albums of 2017. Your list?

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Hello fellow Progers! 
Here we are, almost at the end of 2017, so now it could be a good time for us to write down our favourite albums of this year.
I will begin frist of course, and I hope that many more will follow.
My Top-10 list is based upon the albums I listened carefully, and they are not less than 68.
So, based on these 68 albums, here's my Top10 list. (Alphabetical order):

BIG BIG TRAIN: Grimspound
CELLAR NOISE: Alight (In case you never heard this album, you should give it a try!)
CHRYSILIA: Et in Arcadia Ego (Fantastic album by the Greek Folk/Metal band Chrysilia, which is nowhere to be found in PA. I want to add them, but I don't know how).
DRIFTING SUN: Twilight
GANDALF'S FIST: A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer (2017 re-issue)
MACHINES DREAM: Black Science (excellent album!)
MOSTLY AUTUMN: Sight of Day
NOLAN CLIVE: King's Ransom (If you like Rock operas/musicals, do not miss this one!)
TIME COLLAPSE: Night to Day (One more excellent album from Greece)
THRESHOLD: Legends of the Shires

I would also like to mention a few more that didn't fit in my Top-10 list, but definitely worth mentioning:

INNERSPACE: Rise (Dark and wonderful album!)
SOEN: Lykaia
SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE:(Only for the cover version they did on Space Oddity, it's worth buiying it!)
WATERS ROGER: Is this the Life we Really Want? (Excellent comeback after many years, and a looot of "The Wall" tours around the globe).
Well, I hope you will find my list interesting and helpful...
Can't wait to see your lists now. :-)

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The Jester Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 13 2012 Location: Athens Greece Status: Offline Points: 698	Topic: Top-10 albums of 2017. Your list? Posted: December 30 2017 at 13:28
	Hello fellow Progers! Here we are, almost at the end of 2017, so now it could be a good time for us to write down our favourite albums of this year. I will begin frist of course, and I hope that many more will follow. My Top-10 list is based upon the albums I listened carefully, and they are not less than 68. So, based on these 68 albums, here's my Top10 list. (Alphabetical order): BIG BIG TRAIN: Grimspound CELLAR NOISE: Alight (In case you never heard this album, you should give it a try!) CHRYSILIA: Et in Arcadia Ego (Fantastic album by the Greek Folk/Metal band Chrysilia, which is nowhere to be found in PA. I want to add them, but I don't know how). DRIFTING SUN: Twilight GANDALF'S FIST: A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer (2017 re-issue) MACHINES DREAM: Black Science (excellent album!) MOSTLY AUTUMN: Sight of Day NOLAN CLIVE: King's Ransom (If you like Rock operas/musicals, do not miss this one!) TIME COLLAPSE: Night to Day (One more excellent album from Greece) THRESHOLD: Legends of the Shires I would also like to mention a few more that didn't fit in my Top-10 list, but definitely worth mentioning: INNERSPACE: Rise (Dark and wonderful album!) SOEN: Lykaia SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE:(Only for the cover version they did on Space Oddity, it's worth buiying it!) WATERS ROGER: Is this the Life we Really Want? (Excellent comeback after many years, and a looot of "The Wall" tours around the globe). Well, I hope you will find my list interesting and helpful... Can't wait to see your lists now. :-)
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Nogbad_The_Bad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20250	Posted: December 30 2017 at 13:36
	From the Collaborators list for 2017 1) Art Zoyd - 44 1/2 Live and Unreleased Box 2) Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope 3) Vezhlivy Otkaz - Military Verses 4) Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn 5) Schnellertollermeier - Rights 6) Simon Steensland - 25 Years Minimum R&B 7) Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse 8) Yolk - Solar 9) Yowie - Synchromysticism If you don't like Art Zoyd's box being in there add Cheer-Accident - Putting Off Death
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Mortte Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 11 2016 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 5538	Posted: December 30 2017 at 13:39
	Not listened many 2017 albums, I think here are almost all (in order): 1. Lee Ranaldo: Electric Trim 2. Pere Ubu: 20 Years In a Montana Missile Silo 3. Boss Hog: Brood X 4. Thurston Moore: Rock N Roll consciousness 5. Hawkwind: Into the Woods 6. Procol Harum: Novum 7. Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want? 8. Saxman Syrjänen & Jukka Gustavson: Mojomen 9. the Who: Tommy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 10. King Crimson: Live In Chicago

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	Seems I haven't really payed attention this year and may have been a little fixated. The order might change (all PA-worthy music according to me): King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe The Ilk - The Battle of Winwaed oh boy you must all check out the Ilk - also previous albums King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Sketches of Brunswick East King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland Andrea Belfi - Ore King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble The Unseen - The Blackheath Tapes Meridian Brothers - Dónde estás María? Edited by Saperlipopette! - December 30 2017 at 16:37


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	1. Cheer-Accident - Putting off Death (http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/putting-off-death) 2. Yolk - Solar (http://yolkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/solar) 3. Bent Knee - Land Animal (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfMBXSLZAyyfT7ogAZ68pibMrBzOPDaok) 4. The Knells - Knells II (http://theknells.bandcamp.com/album/knells-ii) 5. Charlie Cawood - The Divine Abstract (http://charliecawood.bandcamp.com) 6. Schnellertollermeier - Rights (http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rights) 7. Bubblemath - Edit Peptide (http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/edit-peptide) 8. Schnauser - Irritant (http://schnauser.bandcamp.com/album/irritant) 9. Nick Prol & the Proletarians - Loon Attic (http://proletarians.bandcamp.com/releases) 10. Miriodor - Signal 9 (http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/signal-9) Edited by Zugzwang - December 30 2017 at 15:48

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	01. Wobbler- From Silence to Somewhere" 02. Barock Project- Detachment 03. Big Big Train- Grimspound 04. Cirkus- Wild Dogs 05. Unreal City- Frammenti Notturni 06. Magenta- We are Legend 07.Panther & C- il Giusto Equilibrio 08. Sparks- Hippopotamus 09. Leprous- Malina 10. Monarch Trail- Sand

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	Threshold - Legends of the Shires Magenta - We Are Legend (very underrated by many!) Nad Sylvan - The Bride Said No Big Big Train - Grimspound Lonely Robot - The Big Dream Steve Hackett - The Night Siren Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star Anathema - The Optimist IT - We're All in This Together Strawbs - The Ferryman's Curse Honourable mentions for Mogwai, Wobbler, Intervals, Mostly Autumn, The Physics House Band, Amplifier, Voyager, Sons of Apollo, The Mute Gods and even Steven Wilson! Apologies for any others I haven't heard yet - so much great music....so little time!
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Mortte Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 11 2016 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 5538	Posted: December 30 2017 at 23:20
	Forgot one great album from the list. So I changed it a little. 1. Lee Ranaldo: Electric Trim 2. Pere Ubu: 20 Years In a Montana Missile Silo 3. Boss Hog: Brood X 4. Circle: Terminal 5. Thurston Moore: Rock N Roll consciousness 6. Hawkwind: Into the Woods 7. Procol Harum: Novum 8. Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want? 9. Saxman Syrjänen & Jukka Gustavson: Mojomen 10. the Who: Tommy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

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	I haven't finalized my list just yet, but it's looking something like this: 1. Agusa - Agusa 2. Nau Aletheia - Los Misterios De Eleusis 3. Vespero - Shum-Shir 4. Nova Collective - The Further Side 5. Hadal Sherpa - Hadal Sherpa 6. Deluge Grander - Oceanarium 7. Jordsjo - Jord 8. Maxophone - La Fabbrica Delle Nuvole 9. On The Raw - Big City Awakes 10. Yolk - Solar
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	Keeping it to prog (I don't have much): Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea Faust - Fresh Air King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Sketches of Brunswick East Vespero - Shum-Shir Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana Thundercat - Drunk King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
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	Still working on it. The list reflects more than a bit that 2017 was a great year for Symphonic Prog, but I can't help it: 1. Big Big Train - Grimspound 2. Deluge Grander - Oceanarium 3. Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere 4. Jordsjø - Jord 5. Cast - power and Outcome 6. Dean Watson - Sum of Parts 7. Il Tempio delle Clessidre - Il-lūdĕre 8. Unreal City - Frammenti Notturni 9. Nooumena - Controlled Freaks X. Djam Karet - Sonic Celluloid


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	I am still trying to wrap my head around the many many releases I bought this year. I'm so glad PA's deadline for AOTY is at the end of January. But 10 releases off the top of my head that right this minute are fluctuating high on my list are: Zu - Jhator Faust - Fresh Air Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar Tusmørke - Bydyra Cheer Accident - Putting Off Death Major Parkinson - Blackbox Grails - Chalice Hymnal Elder - Reflections of a Floating World Himmellegeme - Myth of Earth Aquaserge - Laisse ca Etre
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	Not finalized but close enough for now... Accordo Dei Contrari- Violato Intatto Wobbler- From Silence To Somewhere Jordsjo- Jords Thinking Plague- Hoping Against Hope John Zorn- A Garden Of Earthly Delights Atavismo- Inerte The Tangent- The Slow Rust Of Forgotten machinery MediaBanda- Bombes En El Aire Nova Collective- The Further Side Phlox- keri Nik Turner, Miriodor, Pineapple Thief, Kotebel, Agusa, Ekos, Riverside & Electric Moon all are up there too.
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noni Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1092	Posted: December 31 2017 at 15:49
	Not quite 10, I know!!...... Ryan Yard - The Nature of Solitude Mike Oldfield - The Return of Ommedawn Monarch Trial - Sand Kant Freud Kafka - Onirico Barock Project - Detachment Machine Dream - Black Science Quantum Fantay - Tessellation of Euclidean Space Lunatic Soul - Fractured Tiger Moth Tales - The Depths of Winter Kaipa - Children of the Sounds Panther & C - II Giusto Equilibrio Dave Kerzer - Static Magic Bus - Phillip the Egg Galahad - Quiet Storms The Winter Machine - The man Who Never Was Karda Estrad - Infernal Spheres Colin Tench - Minor Masterpiece Glass Hammer - Untold Tales Jordsjo - Jords Not too impressed with Wobblers new album.. Edited by noni - December 31 2017 at 15:53

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	Only a portion is really prog, but why not. My full list is here: Top 30 Albums of 2017 (Metal, Space Rock & Ritual/Dark Ambient) 10. Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void (Black/Death hybrid) 9. The Spacelords - Water Planet (Space Rock) 8. Paleowolf - Megafauna Rituals (Ritual Ambient) 7. Venenum - Trance of Death (Psychedelic Death) 6. Nokturnal Mortum - Істина (Folk/Black) 5. Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna (Progressive Black/Electronic) 4. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven (Atmoblack) 3. Dvne - Asheran (Proggy Stoner) 2. Electric Moon - Stardust Rituals (Space Rock) 1. The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia (Black/Doom/Folk)

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	10.《Wonderland (as TNNE)》 No Name / The No Name Experience 9.《Spooky Action at a Distance》+《Divining Rod》 Anubis Spire 8.《Light of Day》 Aldenfield 7.《Terminal》 Circle 6.《Fractured》 Lunatic Soul 5.《The Man Who Never Was》 This Winter Machine 4.《Rise》 Innerspace 3.《Power》 Staring Into Nothing 2.《Origins》 Existence 1.《Black Science》 Machines Dream 搜索复制 < ="">

noni Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1092	Posted: December 31 2017 at 19:19
	Another one to add Quaser - Last Transmission - 2017 Not quite Tangerine Dream but similar in style from this Italian band. Highly recommended... 10/10

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	Everyone, stop being so apologetic about your lists! It's yours, you can add whatever albums you like. 1. Steven Wilson - To the Bone 2. Big Big Train - Grimspound 3. Blackfield - V 4. Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly - On Her Journey to the Sun 5. Mostly Autumn - Sight of Day 6. Lonely Robot - The Big Dream 7. Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star 8. The Tangent - The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery

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	Pleased to see Magenta - We Are Legend getting a fee mentions. Its easily their best album since Seven. I liked the new Roger Waters album a lot as well. Perhaps oddly I preferred The Second Brightest Star over Grimspound as far as the years Big Big Train release's go. Dave Kerzner's second album is a delight and almost as good a New World. My wish for 2018 is that more people take notice of him! 1) Magenta - We Are Legend 2) Dave Kerzner - Static 3) Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star 4) Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want? 5) Wobbler - From Silence To Nowhere 6) Kaipa - Children Of The Sounds 7) Amplifier - Trippin With Dr Faustus 8) Caligula's Horse - In Contact 9) Lifesigns - Cardington 10) Big Big Train - Grimspound

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	10. DAM KAT ALAWN https://damkatofficial.bandcamp.com/album/alawn-new-record 9. THE CONTORTIONIST Clairvoyant http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=55694 8. WOBBLER From Silence to Somewhere https://wobbler.bandcamp.com/album/from-silence-to-somewhere 7. ALIO DIE & LINGUA FUNGI Lento https://aliodie.bandcamp.com/album/lento 6. KOTEBEL Cosmology https://kotebel-music.bandcamp.com/album/cosmology 5. TREE TOPS Ghosts Don't Dance with Shoes https://treetopsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts-dont-dance-with-shoes 4. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Night en Face https://altrockproductions.bandcamp.com/album/night-en-face 3. CHEER-ACCIDENT Putting Off Death https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/putting-off-death 2. WESERBERGLAND Sehr Kosmisch Ganz Progisch https://weserbergland.bandcamp.com/album/sehr-kosmisch-ganz-progisch 1. BATTLESTATIONS Vixit https://battlestations-be.bandcamp.com/
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