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richardh 
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Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 26171 |
 Posted: January 13 2015 at 02:12 |
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I'm just going to list my 10 favourite albums post 2000
IQ - Frequency Muse - Absolution Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Tangerine Dream - Purgatorio Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret Kate Bush - Aerial Par Lindh Project - Veni Vidi Vici Neal Morse - One Anathema - Weather Systems Steve Wilson - Grace Before Drowning includes some well trodden sub genres but I think those albums do make a statement. For instance the unusual medieval music on disc two The Inconsolable Secret and the nice use of female classical/opera singers on TD's Purgatorio really hit me. Par Lindh also crafted a very original modern symph prog classic that bares no resemblance to ELP or Yes. Kate Bush returned with a typical quirky mix of songs but little that was just a retread. New bands like Muse and Anathema have freshened things up and I've picked my favourite albums by them. Morse blew off the cobwebs from religious music completely. Lastly IQ got the one thing they always lacked - a truly awesome drummer in Andy Edwards. Province Of The King is truly scary in all the best ways. No plodding here. |
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someone_else
Forum Senior Member 
VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 23998 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 03:12 |
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1. Echolyn - Echolyn
2. Part the Second - Maudlin of the Well 3. English Electric (Part One) - Big Big Train 4. Heliotians - Deluge Grander 5. K.A. - Magma 6. Blemmebeya - Akt 7. In Extremis - Days between Stations 8. A Time of Day - Anekdoten 9. Sola Scriptura - Neal Morse X. To Shatter All Accord - Discipline Others worth a place in this list: Gravity - Anekdoten In a Cold Embrace - Battlestations You Have a Chance - Camelias GardenSecond Sound - Druckfarben Mei - EcholynBrighter Skies - FreddeGredde Safe in Conformity - HamadryadFear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree (to be cont'd)
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Tapfret
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8571 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 03:32 |
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I may forget a few that were right on the turn of the century, but these are the ones that really hit me the hardest. Pain of Salvation - Be
Bondage Fruit VI Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium Virus - Carheart Mirthkon - Vehicle Panzerballet - Star Stücke Koenjihyakkei - Angher Shispa Animals as Leaders Pochakaite Malko - Laya Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse Haken - Mountain |
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moshkito
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 16165 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 07:53 |
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Hi,
Someone will have to explain to me how a comparison of 30 years of music to a different 15 years of music, is a valid comparison, and supposedly to make a distinction that one is better than the other!
I'm OK with looking for and findind trends, but the comparison is silly and nothing but a beatov for folks with nothing better to do?
While I appreciate new fans and all that, and the site succeeds in that area, it is stuff like this that makes the whole of the work get thrown under the carpet ... how will a silly comparison like that EVER help elevate the work of many artists over 50 years? No wonder so many folks in academia think that progressive is sh*t ... you don't think any better of it?
Yeah ... we all better go back to diaper days ... it's all crap and some of the fans are worse!
  Edited by moshkito - January 13 2015 at 07:55 |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Nogbad_The_Bad
Forum & Site Admin Group
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20205 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 08:22 |
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Who crapped in your pint? It's just a bit of fun to look at great albums in the last 15 years. Nothing more significant than that.
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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The Dark Elf
Forum Senior Member
VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 12701 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 09:38 |
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No, I believe Mosh prefers flitting from table to table, crapping in other people's pints. Which I guess is the classic definition of "party pooper".
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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Guldbamsen
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Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:21 |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 10048 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:38 |
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Here's a really crowded top 15 of sorts:
1 Guapo- Five Suns (Black Oni, Elixirs) 2 Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons (Book M - and everything else) 3 Vektor - Black Future (Outer Isolation) 4 Non Credo - Impropera 5 Kayo Dot- Blue Lambency Downward (Coffins on Io, Choirs of the Eye) 6 Radiohead Kid A (Amnesiac) 7 Woven Hand - Mosaic (Consider the Birds, Blush Music) 8 Jono El Grande - Neo Dada (Phantom Stimulance) 9 Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo (Walk The Nile) 10 Umberto - From the Grave (Prophesy of the Black Widow) 11 Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (Yanqui U.X.O.) 12 Dungen - 4 13 Aranis - II 14 The Styrenes - In C 15 Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung! - Tub Gurnard Goodness Honorable mention to 65Daysofstatic, Sinoia Caves, Zombi, Boredoms, Matt Berry, Kosmischer Läufer... |
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sleeper
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:38 |
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Classic Moshkito, out to ruin everybody elses fun by complaining about something that doesnt exist
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:49 |
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To elaborate a bit on that Mosh: would you be kind enough to read the original post before you go off on a tangent?
Raff was trying to shed some light on the past 15 years of music - trying to get people excited about the new stuff - giving the new kids on the block a chance to be recognised. That is, at least, what I get from the opening post. Has nothing to do about comparing one era of music to another one and finding out which is the best
 That's nonsense. It's about appreciating new music. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Sagichim
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 29 2006 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 6632 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 14:44 |
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I always wanted to make a poll of Moshkito's most bizarre posts...
This one might be in the top 5.
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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24391 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 15:19 |
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As I am a lady, and quite tired after a day at work, I will refrain from reacting the way I would really like to. Next time someone calls me crap and tells me to go back to diaper days, I am going to tell them what I truly think of them. For crying out loud....Every little bit of innocent fun (which, in this particular case, is a way to give some bands and artists the exposure they deserve) has to become the subject of a rant for some people
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Tapfret
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8571 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 16:09 |
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It is best to ignore the child throwing a tantrum on the supermarket floor. Drawing more attention to it feeds the beast. Sooner or later they grow tired and cry themselves out.
It's a good subject that is worthy of discussion. The site and forum are here for sharing. So thank you.
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Roland113
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 30 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Status: Offline Points: 3841 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 16:10 |
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Ok, normally, I let this stuff slide, my mantra is that it's typically easier to simply not say anything. Every once in a while though, I feel the irrational need to chime in. This is one of those cases.
Did you read the initial post or just skip right here to complain. I'm fairly certain that the original post asked for great albums of this century, not your opinion on how modern music sucks and will never hold a candle to the revered oldies.
Is it really that much to ask that you be respectful of other people's opinions rather than dismissing them as crap? Is your opinion really the only valid one? Even worse, if I read your post correctly, then all fans of new music are worse than crap? That's what it sounds like.
As I said, normally I don't say anything, but I'm grandstanding here for a purpose. When a revered member of the site comes back after a long hiatus (Yep, talking about you here Raff), someone that has contributed a ton of time and effort to this site, I'm not going to stand by idly and let you demoralize her or any of the other members here that enjoy modern music.
I don't think it's too much to ask to be respectful of other people's opinion. There is no reason to be insulting as every opinion is as valid as yours. |
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-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------
I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
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Tapfret
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8571 |
Posted: January 13 2015 at 16:25 |
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The goal of hijacking the thread has already been accomplished. Can we just re-engage in the original subject?
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richardh
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Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 26171 |
Posted: January 14 2015 at 01:55 |
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That's one of Moshkito's funnier posts to be fair. None of us are worthy , we just do not understand music at all. Actually I don't care if I understand music at all in the least . I just like to enjoy music and talk about it. I just hope 'it' is not offended by my ignorance
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Altairius
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 14 2014 Status: Offline Points: 187 |
Posted: January 15 2015 at 03:15 |
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Order isn't too particular: SMPTe - Transatlantic Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings One - Neal Morse V - Spock's Beard Frequency - IQ The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) - Steven Wilson Deadwing - Porcupine Tree Shadowlands - Glass Hammer The Shaming of the True - Kevin Gilbert Echolyn - Echolyn The Power to Believe - King Crimson To Watch the Storms - Steve Hackett Selective Memory - Témpano Milliontown - Frost* Sleeping in Traffic Pt. 1 - Beardfish The Underfall Yard - Big Big Train Clivages - Univers Zéro A Child in the Mirror - Ciccada Kublai - Accordo Dei Contrari Last Epic - A.C.T The Water Road - Thieves' Kitchen Return to the Origin - Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij Unrecorded Beam - Billy Bottle and the Multiple
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Rick Robson
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Joined: September 03 2013 Location: Rio de Janeiro Status: Offline Points: 1607 |
Posted: January 15 2015 at 08:44 |
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Yeah , and isn't it even more interesting when it happens to like to enjoy music that you didn't like before? About the thread, I'm still willing to check out the bands suggested by Raff in the site http://www.altrock.it (http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=96334&KW=ARANIS&PN=7), btw every new day the time for me badly seems to get even shorter, it's sort of damn annoying always having a 'poor' Internet and now having to cope with almost 10 days without it   . Now I'm searching for a professional and liable internet provider - unfortunately this is still a common reality in my country... |
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 "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
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zravkapt
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6446 |
Posted: January 15 2015 at 10:14 |
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Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta
Guapo - History Of The Visitation Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons Battles - Mirrored Giraffes?Giraffes! - More Skin With Milk-Mouth Magyar Posse - Random Avenger Tortoise - Standards Chrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit Zombi - Spirit Animal Labirinto di Specchi - Hanblecheya Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa The Mars Volta - Amputechture Pelican - City Of Echoes Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium Tool - Lateralus |
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Saperlipopette!
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Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 10048 |
Posted: January 15 2015 at 10:27 |
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Forgot about that one. Might actually be my Tortoise-favorite s well.
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