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Easy Livin 
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 Topic: Collaborators Top Albums of 2007 - Results
Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:40 |
Here's the results you've all been waiting for. Our Prog Reviewers, Collaborators, Special Collaborators, and Admins have voted, and the collation of the results undertaken.
The album in first place won by a substantial distance, thereafter things were much tighter.
1. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank Planet
2. = Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
2. = Grayceon- Grayceon
4. Anekdoten - a Time of Day
5. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
6. Battles - Mirrored
7. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
8. Pax Cecilia - "Blessed are the Bonds"
9=. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
9=. Riverside - Rapid eye movement
9=. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
12=. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
12=. Fish - Thirteenth Star
12=. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
15. Van der Graaf Generator - Real Time
16=. Oceansize - Frames
16=. The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, And All Things Regardlng Ms. Leading
18=. New Trolls - Concerto Grosso the Seven Seasons
18=. The Morningside - The Wind, The Trees and The Shadows of the Past
20=. Sieges Even - Paramount
20=. Shining - Grindstone
20=. Senogul - Senogul
20=. Reasoning - Awakening
20=. Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil
20=. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
20=. Alamaailman Vasarat - Maahan
About 100 albums were nominated in total. I can publish the full list if there an interest in it.
Let the comments commence!
Edited by Easy Livin - January 25 2008 at 14:47
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:47 |
 Unexpected results.... Full list, please?
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:49 |
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Apart from one GLARING omission, I must say that's a pretty solid list.
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Logan
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:50 |
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It's nice to see Comicopera in number two. I had forgotten that live albums were allowed.
Had hoped that more of these albums would fare better:
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Rational Diet - Rational Diet
Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses - Manfauna
Alamaailman Vasarat - Maahan
Soft Mountain - Soft Mountain
Salle Gaveau - Alloy
Far Corner - Endangered
Phlox -Rebimine + Voltimine
Lobster Newberg - Vernal Equinox
Calle Debauche - Potemkin Carnival
Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground
Faust & Nurse with Wound - Disconnected
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:51 |
Don't ya mean 2007, Bob?  = oops, yes  Maybe a more "beautiful" presentation design too?  = you can have it now warts and all, or in 6 months looking lovely! 
Edited by Easy Livin - January 25 2008 at 15:01
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:53 |
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Only two albums which were also in my top 5, considerably low on the chart.
Not a surprise that PT won it by miles at all, but strange how others turned up.
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Logan
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:55 |
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I really thought that John Zorn's "Six Litanies for Heliogabalus" would fare better.
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Ross Emerson
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:56 |
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Was Mar de Robles' "Indigena" nominated by any chance? I'm very sad it didn't make the top 20; for my money, nothing released in 07 came close ('cept for maybe Doomsday Afternoon.)
Regardless, it appears theres still a few albums from last year I better check out.
Thanks for the list
Ross
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Easy Livin
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:58 |
OK, here's the rest, batched according to equal position:
29=
Marillion - Somewhere Else
Salle Gaveau - Alloy
Rational Diet - Rational Diet
Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses - "Manfauna"
33=
Satellite - Into the Night
Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
Conqueror - 74 Giorni
Blotted Science - Machinations of Dementia
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Soft Mountain - Soft Mountain
38=
Tony Levin - Stick Man
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Shels- The sea of Dying dhow
Outer Limits - Stromatolite
Neverness - Cuentos De Otros Mundos Posibles
Hypnos 69 - Ecelectic Measure
Fromuz - Audio Diplomacy
Dirge- Wings of Lead over Dormant Seas
Cathedral - The Bridge
Aviva - Rokus Tonalis
Amarok - Sol de Medianoche
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Watch - Primitive
Sleeping People - Growing'
PFM: "35... E Un Minuto"
Notabene - Sei Lacrima D'Ambra
Little Atlas - Hollow
Jonas Hellberg - Art Metal
Gourishankar - 2nd Hands
Deadsoul Tribe - A Lullaby for the Devil
David Gilmour - Remember that Night
Azureth - The Promethean Syndrome
AmAndA - La Maison De Flore
Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum
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SBB - The Rock
R-U Kaiser - Ocelos
Porcupine Tree - Nil recurring
Pineapple Thief - What We Have Sown
Mar de Robles - Indigena
La Torre dell'Alchimista - Neo
Kevin Ayers - Unfairground
Jordan Rudess -The Road Home
John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabulus
Hidria Spacefolk - Symmetria
Glass Hammer - Culture of Ascent
Flor De Loto - Madre Tierra
Cosmic Nomads - Vultress
Blackmore's Night - Paris Moon
Blackfield - "II"
Far Corner - Endangered
78=
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Planet X - Quantum
Phlox - Rebimine + Voltimine
Medina Azahara-Se Abre La Puerta
Massacre - Lonely Heart
IZZ-Live at Nearfest
Galahad - Empires Never Last
Devin Townsend- Ziltoid the Omniscient
Big Big Train - The Difference Machine
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic Part 1
88=
Explosions In The Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Tartar Lamb - 60 Metonymies
Space Ritual- Otherworld
Moonsorrow - Havitetty
Maserati - Inventions for the New Season
Lazuli - En Avant
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Franco Battiato - Il Vuoto
Epica- The Divine Conspiracy
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Amaran's Plight - Voice in the Light
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 14:59 |
 Logan wrote:
It's nice to see Comicopera in number two. I had forgotten that live albums were allowed.
Had hoped that more of these albums would fare better:
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
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How much better would you have liked Comicopera to fare (?), it's on second place!  Regarding some other albums, including Lobster Newberg's, you have to recognize it was a poll of favorite albums even amongs us Reviewers and Collaborators.
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:04 |
Rico, Kontinuum....! 
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:06 |
Easy Livin wrote:
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Radiohead - In Rainbows
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We need new collabs.  No seriously, not a bad list at all. Glad to see PT, Wyatt, Battles, Oceansize, Sieges Even all up there, they really deserve it! Really shocked that Rush was so high, I thought that most people felt it to be a disappointment.
Edited by moreitsythanyou - January 25 2008 at 15:07
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:06 |
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cookieacquired
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:07 |
first off, ire works made top 100 olololol 
2nd off i thought phideaux's album'd fare better (top 5 or something)
glad to see ulver and sgm up there
and bob, you didn't even have to post #1, we all knew
oh yea and surprised that rush and dt fared so well
Edited by cookieacquired - January 25 2008 at 15:08
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micky
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:10 |
hahahh. .would have been higher if I voted... but I didn't
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:10 |
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Really surprised Into the Night isn't higher up.
I'm surprised Comicopera is so high too. It seems a top 10 or so, but it's a bit drab and downbeat, except for parts.
I'm also surprised at the love for Sieges Even. I don't have Paramount, but they don't seem to garner much praise on the forum.
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proggy
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:13 |
Steven and the boys should be proud......
I Loved the New Rush Album............... 
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:14 |
The list just shows what an amazing year 2007 was for prog. It's interesting to compare this list to the list of the top of 2007 according to Prog Archives reviews.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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rushfan4
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:17 |
I figured DT was that high because of Micky and Ghost Rider's secret ballot votes. Appears that Micky didn't get his vote in for them however.
I have only heard a small percentage of the albums that made the top 100. It will be interesting to see how this list compares with Logan's non-collab calculation.
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Lofcaudio
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:31 |
Surprises for me:
Systematic Chaos was much higher than I expected.
Ziltoid the Omniscient was much lower than I expected.
Where's Gazpacho with their Night album? Nowhere in the top 100!?!?!?!?
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