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Points: 12933 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2015 at 10:52
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

None of you people are familiar with Nemo???


Didn't look too closely at my list did you? I mentioned Presage and both Si albums, maybe I should have added Barberous as well.

I do really like a couple of their albums but they wouldn't make a best of list for the years they came out let alone this list. No offense, there's just SO much great music out there.
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Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

None of you people are familiar with Nemo???


Didn't look too closely at my list did you? I mentioned Presage and both Si albums, maybe I should have added Barberous as well.

I do really like a couple of their albums but they wouldn't make a best of list for the years they came out let alone this list. No offense, there's just SO much great music out there.


Same here. What I have heard of them was nice, but didn't really make a lasting impression. I am sorry they called it a day, though, and hope they will get back together one day. Quite a few people I know love them a lot.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

good calls Hugues...  I do love those Espers albums man


you oughta give a shot to PS Six's first two albums... stunning stuff

he's become more Fairporty in his last albums (more group efforts)
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 08:25
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^Names would be more useful than pictures, that 3rd image has no writting on it at all so I have no idea who the band is or the name of the album, making it a useless suggestion.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Names would be more useful than pictures, that 3rd image has no writting on it at all so I have no idea who the band is or the name of the album, making it a useless suggestion.
Oh so sorry, this is a band from Belgium called South Of No North and their debut album Octopussies Liquor Store http://humptydumptyrecords.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmpty014-south-of-no-north-octopussies.html
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My favorites from what I have heard thus far. If I have any glaring omissions, it's probably because I haven't heard the album yet. Wink

Anathema - Weather Systems
Ayreon - The Human Equation / 01011001
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic, Parts 1 and 2
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard / English Electric, Parts 1 and 2
Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension and Descension
Discipline - To Shatter All Accord
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence / Octavarium
An Endless Sporadic - s/t
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Gazpacho - Night
Haken - Aquarius / Visions / The Mountain
Hiromi - Another Mind / Time Control
IQ - The Road of Bones
King Crimson - The Power to Believe / A Scarcity of Miracles
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium / Frances the Mute
Moon Safari - Lover's End, Part III
Muse - Absolution / Black Holes & Revelations
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Spock's Beard - V / X
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning / The Raven that Refused to Sing
Tangerine Dream - Machu Picchu
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever / Kaleidoscope
Yes - Fly from Here
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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 11:43
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

good calls Hugues...  I do love those Espers albums man


you oughta give a shot to PS Six's first two albums... stunning stuff

he's become more Fairporty in his last albums (more group efforts)





sounds like it belongs right up my alley!

Thanks Hugues.. I'll be sure to check that out. Especially since I have a lot of prep work to do in advance of the album contest. I thought I was fairly conversant with the modern stuff.. hah.. threads like this and the similar one in the collab zone where we have been putting together the album lists have completely blown away that notion.  More often than not I haven't heard of, much less actually listen to, many of the suggestions.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 12:59
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Names would be more useful than pictures, that 3rd image has no writting on it at all so I have no idea who the band is or the name of the album, making it a useless suggestion.
Oh so sorry, this is a band from Belgium called South Of No North and their debut album Octopussies Liquor Store http://humptydumptyrecords.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmpty014-south-of-no-north-octopussies.html

Thanks, giving it a try now. The artwork really caught my attention.
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Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

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I looked up the first one on the list and unhelpfully there are no reviews on PA and just 4 ratings (average 4.5 stars), so any chance you could review it?
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 17:12
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Names would be more useful than pictures, that 3rd image has no writting on it at all so I have no idea who the band is or the name of the album, making it a useless suggestion.
Oh so sorry, this is a band from Belgium called South Of No North and their debut album Octopussies Liquor Store http://humptydumptyrecords.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmpty014-south-of-no-north-octopussies.html

Thanks, giving it a try now. The artwork really caught my attention.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

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I looked up the first one on the list and unhelpfully there are no reviews on PA and just 4 ratings (average 4.5 stars), so any chance you could review it?
Nope. I have no talent to write a serious analysis about the albums I'm listening to. Though, I can tell you that you can be sure that Goldbug's The Seven Dreams is a really great avant prog album; there are samples at their Bandcamp page, so you can check the atmosphere - if you like avant prog, of course. 
And here's a review by Sid Smith on Classic Rock Magazine (UK)
"Starting out as a project between Base3_ colleagues Tim Motzer (guitar) and Barry Meehan (bass), Goldbug came into being after a fortuitous jam session with the gifted drummer Eric Slick, then in-between sessions with the Adrian Belew Power Trio.The results are as energetic as they eclectic. After an impressionistic, FX-laden introduction, the album album gets underway appropriately enough with The Departure. Slick’s hyper-active drumming creates a beguiling rhythmic static intermittently pierced by Barry Meehan’s combative quicksilver bass runs. Motzer doesn’t so much play a solo as smear luminescent echo-drenched notes against the fields of colour and rhythm created by his colleagues.There’s a real sense of tension throughout the record that comes from never being quite sure of what might lie around the corner. Thus we have a constantly percolating space-jazz, flecked with the radiant arcs of gleaming solos, notes colliding via irregular orbits, intriguing clusters of intense interplay, interspersed mysterious dissonant events of glitch-infused electronica.The strategic addition of UK sax and flute player, Theo Travis, shifts the gears and expertly stokes up The Seven Dreams’ fiery clamour exactly when needed.The Past Is Still Present, tethered to Mehan’s recurrent motif - not a million miles away from Coltrane’s A Love Supreme - is a courtly dance conjured by spiralling tom-toms and Motzer’s sustained minimalist picking. Suddenly Travis’s tenor enters raking over the coals, adding his own spark and raucous bite. Stirring stuff for sure." 
 

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Anything by: OSI, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson (solo), The Gathering, Haken, last 3 albums of Fates Warning (+ Arch/Matheos), Redemption, IQ, Subsignal, Threshold, Poverty's No Crime, The Aurora Project, Anubis Gate, Pagan's Mind, Airbag and I'm sure there's more but I'll get back to that. Big smile

Marillion - Marbles
Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating by the Stars
Myrath - Hope (2007) and Tales of the Sand 2011)
Pax Romana - Trace of Light (2005)
Kingcrow - Phlegeton (2010) and In Crescendo (2013)
Ark - Burn the Sun (2001)
Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree (2004)
Dream Theater - Train of Thought and Octavarium
Tunnelvision - Tomorrow (2002)
God is an Astronaut - All is Violent, All is Bright
Opeth - Damnation




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Cookie's TOP 20 Best of the 21st Century So Far (not only prog - various genres);

20.

Elephant - The White Stripes (2003)

19.

Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True - Fair To Midland (2007)

18.

Sound Awake - Karnivool (2009)

17.

The Bedlam In Goliath - The Mars Volta (2008)

16.

Bodily Functions - Matthew Herbert (2001)

15.

Archandroid - Janelle Monae (2010)

14.

The Eraser - Thom Yorke (2006)

13.

Crack The Skye - Mastodon (2009)

12.

Romances - Kaada & Patton (2004)

11.

Vocalcity - Luomo (2000)

10.

Amputechture - The Mars Volta (2006)

9.

Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré - Magma (2009)

8.

Asymmetry - Karnivool (2013)

7.

Lateralus - Tool (2001)

6.

Come Play With Me - Cuong Vu (2001)

5.

Give - The Bad Plus (2004)

4.

De-loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta (2003)

3.

Kid A - Radiohead (2000)

2.

Amnesiac - Radiohead (2001)

1.

Vespertine - Björk (2001)



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Top 30:

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3. Gorillaz - s/t
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
6. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World
7. Swans - To Be Kind
8. deadmau5 - Random Album Title
9. Gorillaz - Demon Days
10. Radiohead - Amnesiac
11. Guster - Ganging Up On The Sun
12. Death Grips - The Money Store
13. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
14. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
15. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
16. Radiohead - In Rainbows
17. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
18. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise!
19. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
20. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
21. Ween - Quebec
22. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
23. The Strokes - Is This It
24. David Bowie - Blackstar
25. Gorillaz - D-Sides
26. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
27. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
28. Ween - White Pepper
29. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
30. Cake - Comfort Eagle

Only two prog albums. I should hand in my card. 
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Dylan Modern Times beats out any prog ive heard in the 21st.
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