Post-2000 Classics

Gerinski wrote: We all know what the 60's, 70's and even the 80's classics are, they have stood the test of time and they still feature often in our threads. Now, as an exercise of looking back and re-assessing our judgements, I am listing the PA Top 8 Albums from 2000 until 2004. Already between 14 and 19 years have passed so it should be a fair enough time to check which ones of them are also holding up to the test of time and can become deservedly considered as True Prog Classics for the future and which ones fall short. In total 40 albums rated as the top 8 in their respective years. Discussion about each of these albums is welcome !!! Which ones of them do you consider already as True Classics or which ones were perhaps highly rated at their time but were a bit of a hype and do not deserve such a status after 15 years of hindsight... Year 2000: Top #1 album: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Pt. 1 2. Spock's Beard - V 3. Symphony X - V The New Mythology Suite 4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists... 5. Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True 6. Transatlantic - SMPTe 7. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun 8. Fates Warning - Disconnected 2001: 1. Opeth - Blackwater Park 2. Tool - Lateralus 3. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 4. Devin Townsend - Terria 5. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever 6. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M 7. Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map 8. Maudlin of the Well - Bath 2002: 1. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia 2. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane 3. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 4. Agalloch - The Mantle 5. Echolyn - Mei 6. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors 7. Threshold - Critical Mass 8. Dredg - El Cielo 2003: 1. Riverside - Out of Myself 2. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 3. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium 4. Arena - Contagion 5. Enslaved - Below the Lights 6. No-Man - Together We're Stranger 7. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja 8. Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette 2004: 1. Magma - K.A. 2. Ayreon - The Human Equation 3. Disillusion - Back Times of Splendor 4. Enslaved - Isa 5. Angra - Temple of Shadows 6. Marillion - Marbles 7. Neal Morse - One 8. Pain of Salvation - Be

I can’t remember everything, but all of these has had the lasting qualities that defines a minor or major classic for me personally. I’ve been raving about loads of other albums throughout the years that that won’t be revisited anytime soon. And sorry to all my comeback heroes in Magma, Swans, Univers Zero, Present, VdGG, Zanov etc… You all did a very good job but I’m afraid ended up going back to your «original» classics. It’s not you it’s me.

Radiohead - Kid A (00) & Amnesiac (01)
Tortoise - Standards (01)
Guapo - Five Suns (04) Black Oni (05) & Elixirs (08)
Non Credo - Impropera (06)
Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward (08)
Secret Chiefs - Book M (01) & Book of Horizons (04)
Dungen - 4 (08)
Jono El Grande - Neo Dada (09)
Vektor - Black Future (09) & Terminal Redux (16)
Woven Hand - Consider The Birds (04) & Mosaic (06)
Aranis - St (05) & II (07)
GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O. (02)
Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo (08) & Walk the Nile (10)
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume One (13) & Volume Three (15)
Umberto - From The Grave (09) & Prophecy of the Black Widow (10)
The Ilk - The New Dark Age (14)

Is it still too soon to consider Wobbler's From Silence to Somewhere a classic? Even though it's stayed at 16th place on the PA top chart, over a year after its release... or is it too similar to the '70s classics to be considered a classic in its own right?

2000

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Sean Trane wrote: the only albums I classed a Gnosis 12 or above (that's above 4 stars here, BTW). during the era of 2000 uintl 2005 (incl)   Alamaailman Vasarat - Kaarmelautakunta Finnegans Wake - 4th   I know most of those wouldn't be classis  to your eyes, though. I'd certainly add those to a great album list but they're not well known enough to be classics.

Good call on Chupacabras.

I need to check out Metaepitome.