RESULTS!! - Ultimate PA Album List 2016 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

So De-Loused (#21) is the highest-ranked modern album (modern in this case meaning post-1990). Disappointing really considering we are in the Second Golden Age of Prog.

Still, I have four of the top 5 (all except #1).

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I'm happy enough that Animals won the Pink Floyd -internal contest, even though it didn't make it to number 1.
I'm surprised as some others about Abbey Road - I wouldn't even put it in my Beatles top 3 (Revolver - Sgt. Pepper - Rubber Soul) and it regularly gives me the feeling that I totally don't get some stuff. I don't have any clue why people would vote for this. Same with Ziggy Stardust; every time I give it a chance, it makes me wonder why why why some rate it so highly.
Just while I'm writing this I think I should listen to these again and find out - but I failed often enough, I guess.

I had DM's Violator on my list but was near the bottom I think.

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Interesting that nobody voted the overall #1 as their personal #1. Also, I'm the only one who voted for A Dramatic Turn of Events. You guys need to get to hearing that! It's a refreshing masterpiece!

Abbey Road in the top ten doesn't surprise me at all - I think it's the Beatles' best album, and far better than the drastically over-rated Sergeant Pepper. The second side is sheer genius.

^Well, I suppose this is just another "overrated" issue, but if you take away the fact that Sergeant Pepper was supposedly so groundbreaking, there are many songs on the album that just aren't that good. Fixing a Hole? She's Leaving Home? With a Little Help from my Friends? Lovely Rita? Honestly, if these songs were on any other album, would you really ever listen to them?

A Day in the Life, absolutely. A brilliant song, and I'm always glad to hear For the Benefit of Mr. Kite, but otherwise - meh.

Revolver, on the other hand, is just great, ditto the White Album and Abbey Road.

emigre80 wrote:

Abbey Road in the top ten doesn't surprise me at all - I think it's the Beatles' best album, and far better than the drastically over-rated Sergeant Pepper. The second side is sheer genius.

Agreed

Abbey Road > Revolver > White Album > Magical Mistery Tour > Sgt. Pepper's > Let it Be > Rubber Soul for me.

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emigre80 wrote:

RoeDent wrote:

Interesting that nobody voted the overall #1 as their personal #1.

Interesting point. Does that make CTTE the least-objectionable prog masterpiece? Because I had five Yes albums on my list ahead of it, yet it made it to a number of lists and notably, to a number of top-ten rankings. Whereas DSOTM wasn't even on my list - it's an album that I couldn't care less if I never hear again, and it appears that other top ten albums arouse mixed feelings - but CTTE everyone seems to like a fair amount, even if it isn't their top pick.

Eh. I don't think it suggests anything as strong as that- CttE had 4 #2 votes, which is an extremely strong performance, and all of the other top albums had similarly large numbers of votes under 10 or 20. Same goes for anything else with surprisingly few #1 or #2 votes. For example, Animals' highest vote was #4, but it had 5/18 votes in the top 10, 10/18 in the top 20, and 15/18 in the top 30, all of which are very high rankings in the scheme of things.

Lewian wrote:

Thanks a lot for this!

I'm happy enough that Animals won the Pink Floyd -internal contest, even though it didn't make it to number 1.

sleeper wrote:

even if I was rooting for Animals to get the top spot.

Animals was actually in the #1 spot for the majority of the time (I was adding lists as they were posted), which would have been fun, but #2's not bad.

RoeDent wrote:

So De-Loused (#21) is the highest-ranked modern album (modern in this case meaning post-1990). Disappointing really considering we are in the Second Golden Age of Prog.

Disappointing because there are no post-1990 (or post-1981) albums in the top 20? Yeah. It's interesting- one of the general results of this poll in comparison with the earlier ones isn't unexpected- a pretty significant drop in modern metal and heavy stuff, when Dream Theater, Opeth, Tool and Porcupine Tree used to be very strongly represented (In Absentia was in the top 10 in 2008). But it seems with those bands dropping away, they haven't really been replaced by other modern bands, and so the performance of modern bands in these polls has seemingly lessened over time.

Of course I'm just saying all of this based on my impressions, I haven't actually gone through and found the numbers to back me up here.

Lewian wrote:

By the way, mainstream rock classics from the 60s and 70s are well appreciated here... but was there a single vote for Depeche Mode? Well, not from me, but as somebody who started to get into music about 1980 and is surrounded by people who think this is one of the best bands ever... I'd have expected at least something.

Yeah, zravkapt had the only vote for Depeche Mode. Different crowds. And yeah, the strength of the classic rock vote, while they're obviously well-liked around here, was kind of surprising.

Guldbamsen wrote:

Nice one Kazza. Grab a free bj in the PA lounge.

Hah.

emigre80 wrote:

She's Leaving Home? With a Little Help from my Friends?Honestly, if these songs were on any other album, would you really ever listen to them?

Absolutely.

Edited by Kazza3 - February 06 2016 at 20:11