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siLLy puPPy View Drop Down

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:35

Wobbler was so good i'm voting for it next year as well LOL

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:33

That's the thing though. To me the new album is not at all new stuff. It sounds like a watered down take on Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. I don't mind him focusing on songs over the proggy stuff, but the songs need to have some zest and life to them.
Anyway I agree with most of what you say...I just don't think it fits in with Steven's latest.
I don't really give a ratt's arse about style if the music speaks to me.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:26

Guldbamsen wrote:

It puzzles me a little. How on earth you prefer Wilson's emo ode to the blue man group over anything that came before. Then again you just posted a Ratt vid

what is there really to puzzle over Dave... I put a premium on what an artist does .. for me it is all about quality.. not the style. Hence the Ratt love.. my rather out of bounds views on much of prog which quite honestly sucks.. by the numbers heard it all before kind of stuff... hence the counter-culture SWilson love. His prog sucks... heard it all before and much better. Perhaps I ain't as keen or well rounded in emo blue-balled artists.. but if SWilson's latest typifies the sound.. perhaps I should be listening to that.. over Yes clones and retreads that so many do seem to love haha

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:23

Tapfret wrote:

Thanks everybody. I was really inspired to dress things up a bit by Adam's MMA list last year. And I thank him for indirectly pointing out that I was way overthinking how to embed a table into the forum.

mathman0806 wrote:

Noticed a couple of repeat entries. Kant Freud Kafka at 209 and 245. Probably due to the accent on the i. Lunatic Soul at 59 and 212 (second entry forgot the d at the end of Fractured), but that would put them into top 50.

Also Unreal City at 17 and 225 (second entry has only one m in Frammenti).

So I went back and looked at my master lists and verified that the top scores on the above final list for Lunatic Soul and Unreal City were the combined scores and adjusted placement in the standings. I just forgot to erase the lower entry. Actually, Unreal City sticks out in my mind because the album title was spelled wrong twice. I erased one of them but not the bottom one, but verified that 17 was their final position. KFK wasn't coming close to the top. A shame since they were just outside my top 20. Beautiful album.

And really, just too many amazing albums this year. I listened to more albums this year than I probably did in the first 3 decades of my life.

Great job with the list. Must be hard to sort through alternative spellings. I agree about KFK. It would probably make top 20 for 2017 for me, but I haven't listened to nowhere near the number of albums listed. I enjoy seeing these lists to get recommendations for albums. Lots of good albums in 2017.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:19

Great job! Wobbler No 1 as expected but well deserved.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:53

Have you heard the Algiers debut Hugues? The Underside Of Power was really a big disappointment for me, though admittedly it's been months since I last gave it a shot.

Waters in first place? You mad dog.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:52

For those who may have missed the previous thread and might have any interest in this, here is a link to MetalMusicArchives top list of 2017. http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12879&FID=79&PR=3&PID=173051&title=mma-best-of-year-2017-results#173051 Number 1 over there shows up as 25 on the PA list.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:50

someone_else wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

And i couldn't L'Albero Veleno - Tale of a Dark Fate, for whom I voted

Look at #32-t Smile

:oopppssssie Embarrassed

my list was

Prog :

1. Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?(UK) - 9

2. Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto (It) - 2

3. Agusa - Agusa (Swe) - 7

4. Kotebel - Cosmology (Esp) - 13

5. Aranis - Smells Like (Bel) - 151

6. Siena Root - A Dream of Lasting Peace(Swe) - 105

7. MediaBanda - Bombas en el Aire (Chile) - 115

8. Jordsjo - Jord - 8

9. Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere (Nor) - 1

10. L'Albero Del Veleno - Tale of a Dark Fate - 32

11. Atavismo - Inerte - 30

12. Muffx - L'ora di tutti - 226

13 Narcotic Daffodils - Summer Love (Bel) > 250

14 Robert Plant - Carry Fire (UK) > 250

15 Hidden Orchestra – Dawn Chorus (UK) > 250

16 Art Zoyd - 44 1/2 Live and Unreleased Box - 40

17. John Zorn- The Garden Of Earthly Delights - 35

Hors concours (out of scope):

Bertrand Cantat - Amor Fati
Algiers - The Underside of Power

Jazzzz:

1 Nordmann – Boiling Ground (Bel)

2 Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures - Glare of the Tiger (USA)

3 Yazz Ahmed - la Saboteuse (UK)

4 Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference (USA)

5 Dinosaur – Together As One (UK)

6 The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks (UK)

7 Chip Wickham - La Sombra (UK)

8 John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension - Ronnie Scott's Live (Int)

9 Andrew McCormack - Graviton (UK)

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:45

Yes absolutely, I forgot to mention that as well, I also love the new format Ian

I would love for you to come round my apartment and "arrange stuff". It'd be quite lovely I'm sure.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:37

Excellent job! It is always fun trying to listen to as many new albums as I can to generate a list to contribute to this poll and it is also fun to see the results of compiling the lists to see the group think of the collabs. Thank you Ian for all of your work in making this year's list happen. Love the format.

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:28

Maybe it's just hip to be square?
If everybody loves x then it's obviously poor.
If everybody hates x then it's probably quite good.

It puzzles me a little. How on earth you prefer Wilson's emo ode to the blue man group over anything that came before. Then again you just posted a Ratt vid

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:20

now that is too goddamn funny.. SWilson finally does a good album, and one I enjoy, and not only was it not the @1 album.. it barely cracks the top 20.

yet again.. Micky is from Mars I suppose the rest of you are from Venus...

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:18

^ LOL

I haven't listen to the AOTY album. I have some homework. :)

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 04:52

Steven Wilson does...not win AOTY? What is this madness???
Nah we all knew Wobbler would take this easily. Probably the finest Yes album since the 70s.

Great work Ian. I know how much effort this takes, so thank you very much

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 04:01

Sean Trane wrote:

And i couldn't L'Albero Veleno - Tale of a Dark Fate, for whom I voted

Look at #32-t Smile

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 03:59

Great job, Ian Clap

2017 was a great year. Lots of good prog albums turned compiling this year into a list a hard job. Three albums stood out in my humble opinion, and I find them at 1, 3 and 4! I cannot remember such a thing has happened before. The same goes for finding five albums I mentioned in the top 10.

My list (for anyone interested):

1. Big Big Train – Grimspound (3)
2. Deluge Grander – Oceanarium (4)
3. Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere (1)
4. Jordsjø – Jord (8-t)
5. Cast - Power and Outcome (80)
6. Dean Watson - Sum of Parts (45-t)
7. Il Tempio delle Clessidre - Il-Lūdӗre (72)
8. Unreal City - Frammenti Notturni (16-t)
9. Nooumena - Controlled Freaks (105-t)
10. Djam Karet - Sonic Celluloid (97)
11. The Tangent - The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery (16-t)
12. Maxophone - La Fabbrica delle Nuvole (39-t)
13. Jean-Pierre Louveton - Le Livre Blanc (230-t)
14. Steve Hackett - The Night Siren (239-t)
15. Discipline - Captives of the Wine Dark Sea (21)
16. Hamadryad - The Black Hole (256-t)
17. Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star (29-t)
18. Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want? (8-t)
19. PBII - Rocket! The Dreams of Wubbo Ockels (284-t)
20. Damanek - On Track (116-t)

Edited by someone_else - February 17 2018 at 04:35

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 03:46

Excellent job, Ian Clap

However I noticed a few blanks in your complete list...

And i couldn't L'Albero Veleno - Tale of a Dark Fate, for whom I voted

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Posted: February 17 2018 at 00:11

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Excellent work, nice to see Mike Oldfield and Thinking Plague rated so highly.

Yes. RIO/Avant was well represented this year. Was really hoping Cheer-Accident would crack the top-10. So close. I blame Trump for that since he caused Roger Waters Angry