Collaborators Top Prog-Rock Albums 2008

that would be awesome.

We should prepare an article as to why nobody reads Rolling Stone anymore

It's a band from the 60's, right?

Edited by Kotro - January 01 2009 at 06:39

Trademark wrote:  " I just remembered that 2009's gonna be a worthless year for making a top, because Porcupine Tree will come up with something new, and the album will be automatically #1." As if the same weren't true for Opeth in 2008.  it was decided the day the release was announced, truly sad. #1 & 6-10 are unlistenable.   #2 I haven't heard but am curious about.   #4, & 5 are decent, solid 4 star stuff.  Only The Tangent would have made my top ten for the year. We migfht as well just change the name to Prog Metal Archives and get it over with.

Looks like someone needs to listen something else than the prog clichés . . .

Henry Plainview wrote: Kayo Dot and Mars Volta aren't metal...And they're only unlistenable if you have boring taste. :P   If Opeth were as foregone as Porcupine Tree, then why has everyone else been surprised? It got trashed by Certified, T, and p0mt3, and most of the other collabs who reviewed it gave it mediocre reviews.   Unless the new PT is something very different from what I'm expecting, I will be very happy if it doesn't win.

Couldn't agree more, specially regarding that first sentence. In fact i am very surprised with the fact that TMV latest album have so many negative reviews, but again proggers are a strange kind: they like the edgy 70's sound, but whine when a band brings new things to the table because they "don't want so strange things" (and yet they listen to progressive rock) and they whine when a band emulate the 70's because they are not bringing anything new to the table. 

The fan itself don't like progressive rock nor progressive music, he only likes Yes or Genesis and God knows what will happen if he likes both. The fan likes the senseless noises that are Henry Cow's, Magma's and Zappa's music, but can't listen to five seconds of The Mars Volta because there is "too much noise". The fan likes the heavy distorted guitars and bass that King Crimson uses in Red but hates anything labeled "progressive metal" as if Pain of Salvation, Atheist and Kayo Dot were the same thing. The fan likes the endless repetition of the same thing overandoverandoveroverandoverandover that is Krautrock or electronic prog, but they think a new band is not being original if they play the song there more than 3 times in a 40 minute song. The fan hates growling vocals, but thinks that every male/female vocalist with a clean vocal from any new band sound exactly like X 70's vocalist and, therefore, the new band is an useless piece of garbage.

No surprise the prog rock scene is always in the brink of disappearing and the prog bands are searching for the metal, indie, pop-rock, new age, etc audience instead of the prog rock audience: the prog rock fan suck big floppy donkey d**ks because they don't want anything sounding new or old, they just want to listen the same old songs over and over again and that's it.

IMO, people should stop listening to the bands and start listening to prog rock and then maybe "new" prog genres, like the 20-year-old progressive metal or the 15-year-old post-rock, and stop thrashing then, maybe the bands from those genres could be more interested in the prog-rock fan than in the metal or indie fan.

People need to remember that different is not the same as worse.


Edited by CCVP - January 01 2009 at 09:05

Nice job Rico, BTW.

might throw CR magazine in that... anyone see their top albums of 2008?

Finnforest wrote: Great work Rico and applause for all the Collabs.  I was thrilled to see David do well in the sea of Goliaths, and the kids in BDM really, really deserved the nod.  They're such nice people and they made a great freakin' record.  For Rico and for BDM

It's probably safe to say that the only thing keeping BDM out of the #1 slot was the fact that Opeth is a "standard" so they made it onto many lists...whereas BDM didn't show up as much but they were high on anyone's who heard it.  Watershed is a great record, but I don't think it comes close to "Discesa..."

Damn, I always forget about voting hahahaha...

Good list, good albums this year! Although personally I would have liked to see Kayo Dot higher... make it number 1 higher . A 5 star review is coming up

Add this to your list-The Sale by Crack The Sky.