The Best of the 21st Century So Far
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Topic: The Best of the 21st Century So Far
Posted By: Raff
Subject: The Best of the 21st Century So Far
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 06:50
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First of all, I apologize if there is already a thread about the same topic. I tried to run a search - to no avail. As the past 15 years have seen a resurgence of progressive rock (and progressive music in general), I am curious to know which albums PA members consider as milestones of this particular period, in any of the subgenres listed here. Personally, I have a few ideas, but I will have to think it over a bit, as there has been so much great music released since the beginning of the century that is often hard to choose. |
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 07:22
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The more I think of it the more I consider this to be a very difficult question. Prog has become so fractured and diverse in the last 20-25 years, and with the retro side of it so damn strong, that it's almost impossible to pick albums out that have been massively influentel and helped to drive the genre forward. The impression I have is that on the whole it tends to creep forward by taking bits and pieces from all over and adding to whats all ready there, slowly changing piece by piece without really having one album, or selection of albums, that can be identified as a game changer. Metal would be one of the few areas I could point to some such albums though: Isis- Oceanic: Probably where the Post Metal genre fully formed alongisde Cult of Luna's Salvation and Pelican's The Fire in Our Throats Will Beccon the Thaw Between the Buried and Me- Alaska: One of the first attempts to mix Metalcore and Prog and by far the most successful of the early attempts. Weakling- Dead as Dreams: The first album in the Atmospheric Black Metal genre, fairly obscure but directly resonsible for bands like Wolves in the Throne Room, Negura Bunget, Drudkh, Alcest, Fen, Thy Catafalque, Altar of Plagues etc Enslaved- Isa: The other side of the Black Metal coin for prog. Of course if your looking for what I would consider to be the absolute best albums of the last 15 years then thats a different list. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 07:42
All the sub-genres listed on PA are currently litmus tests for the Prog credentials of artist submissions received from the site members. This may or may not be consistent with the future aims of the site. For me, credible Prog ceased circa 1979-80 so I'm intrigued that like many other PA members, you appear to believe without demur that progressive rock and progressive music in general continues to be reflected in the roster of artists admitted to our archive from 2000 onwards. If this is so, would it not suggest that PA is no longer a Prog Rock archive but is really a progressive music appreciation site? ------------- 
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Raff wrote:Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 08:26
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^It seems that PA's been a progressive music appreciation site for many a moon, Ian. However, I don't feel that that position dilutes PA. In fact, that makes the site accessible to a broader range of people that don't have an appreciation site for a bands like Gojira and the like.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 09:17
More like a splitting hairs site.  ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 09:56
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Interpreting "milestones" as simply "really awesome albums", I think this should be a fairly uncontroversial topic. Maybe best to set aside the questions of which albums pushed music forward the most, and whether or not those albums should be on PA. I'll get back to ya on this. Food for thought. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 10:42
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Yeah, going with "really awesome albums from 2000 onwards", I'll say these with 5 star masterpieces in bold and the rest a good 4.5 from me: Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite, Iconoclast Transatlantic- SMPTe IQ- The Seventh House, The Road of Bones Madder Mortem- All Flesh is Grass, Deadlands maudlin of the Well- Bath, Leaving Your Body Map, Part the Second Opeth- Blackwater Park Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element, 12:5, Remedy Lane, BE Sigh- Imaginary Sonicscape, In Somniphobia Porcupine Tree- In Absentia In the Woods....- Liveatthecaledonianhall Kayo Dot- Choirs of the Eye, Blue Lambency Downward, Coyote, Hubardo, Coffins on Io The Mars Volta- De Loused in the Commatorium, Amputechture, The Bedlam in Goliath Muse- Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations Nemo- Presages, Si Partie I, Si Partie II Virgin Black- Elegant... and Dying, Requiem Mezzo Forte Cult of Luna- Salvation, Somewhere Along the Highway Disillusion- Back to Times of Splendor, Gloria Enslaved- Isa, Ruun Far Corner- s/t The Gathering- Sleepy Buildings Guapo- Five Suns, Black Oni Isis- Wavering Radient Marillion- Marbles Paatos- Timeloss Peccatum- Lost in Reverie Virus- Carheart White Willow- Storm Season, Terminal Twilight Indukti- SUSAR Ram-Zet- Intra Sieges Even- The Art of Navigating by the Stars Drudkh- Blood in Our Wells, Microcosmos Ellipsis- Imperial Tzadik Hiromi- Spiral Gijira- From Mars to Sirius, The Way of All Flesh NeBeLNeST- Zepto OOIOO- Taiga Protst the Hero- Kezia Sikth- Death of a Dead Day Unexpect- In a Flesh Aquarium, Fables of the Sleepless Empire Between the Buried and Me- Colors, The Great Misdirect, The Parrallaz II: Future Sequence Canvas Solaris- Cortical Tectonics, The Atomized Dream Deathspell Omega- Fas--Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum; Paracletus Epica- The Divine Conspiracy The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds Riverside- Rapid Eye Movement, Anno Domine High Definition Yakuza- Transmutations, Of Seismic Consequence Birds and Buildings- Bantom to Bohemoth Burst- Lazarus Bird Cynic- Traced in Air Dark Suns- Grave Human Genuine Intronaut- Prehistoricisms, Valley of Smoke Saena- s/t Sculptured- Embodiment To-Mera- Delusions, Exile Delue Grander- The Form of the Good Diablo Swing Orchestra- Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delerious Fen- The Malediction Field, Epoch, Dustwalker Giant Squid- The Icthyologist Karnivool- Sound Awake Mastodon- Crack the Skye Thy Catafalque- Roka Hasa Radio Wobbler- Afterglow Ihsahn- After In Lingua Mortua- Sona des Refuses Rolo Tomassi- Cosmology Universe Zero- Clivages hAND- Breathing Leprous- Bilateral Sub Rosa- No Help for the Mighty Ones Tartar Lamb II- Polyimage of Known Exits Frequency Drift- ...Laid to Rest, Over Headspace- I Am Anonymous Vaura- Selenelion ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 10:44
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Milestones eh? I'd say you could make an argument for most of these: Ulver - Perdition City Porcupine Tree - In Absentia NIL - Nil Novo Sub Sole Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye (Not too fond of it myself, but I hear it's innovative powers quite clearly) Vespero - By The Waters Of Tomorrow The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands ZU - Carboniferous Cabezas de Cera - Metalmusica - Aleaciones Aleatorias Grails - Burning Off Impurities Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure et Force Thinking Plague - A History Of Madness Polytoxicomane Philharmonie - Psycho Erectus Godspeed - Pimp Your Jimmy Mits Guapo - 5 Suns Swans - The Seer The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium Don Caballero - American Don Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M Dungen - 4 Bark Psychosis - Dustsucker Russian Circles - Enter Some I chose because they were part of establishing an entirely new scene/sound such as Godspeed and Bark Psychosis - the latter credited for having one of the first post rock albums under it's belt in 'Hex', but it is with Codename: Dustsucker they perfected the sound. Others because they revitalised a scene by bringing in entirely new and fresh approaches to the mix. Here I'm thinking of Kayo Dot and The Gourishankar in particularly. Dungen? Hmmmm yeah.....erm.... They're just so damn awesome
 Nobody sounds like them, not really. Tame Impala overtly copied the style but they lack the ferociousness of the Swedes...and then obviously that unique summer morning feel there is to everything they touch.------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 11:01
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Oh my Frish, milestones .. I wanted to say Viljans Öga, which certainly was a milestone for me. I list it under contemporary classical, not really prog, so it's a "contemporary classical/symphonic milestone of the 21st century". I was very much impressed by Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, but I don't even know if they are listed on PA. Probably not. To me, they are a milestone development of the 'progressive big band' style. I was also very pleased with the way Jaga Jazzist have evolved in the past several years. In their personal evolution, their latest with Britten Sinfonia is a milestone. My greatest personal discovery was Impossible Ark, which is not a band, but rather a collective of London-based musicians of different backgrounds, with Riaan Vosloo and Benedict Lamden at their center of gravity Nil Recurring is everything I need from Ms. Wilson; in this sense it's a milestone, of sorts? Hiromi Uehara and Jeremy Pelt have come up with what I consider milestone "fusion" of the 21st century.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 14:02
OK, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing either but I just wish that the site would 'come clean' and admit as much i.e. change the name to avoid confusion and end the hypocrisy of continuing to expect the genre teams to implement an admissions policy designed solely to establish an artist's Prog quotient. It's hardly 'splitting hairs' to expect the contents to be consistent with what's written on the tin is it? We both know that this is never gonna happen because once PA acknowledges itself as a progressive music appreciation site (c/f Prog Rock archive), the infrastructure will simply collapse under the deluge of strays clamoring at our flimsy catflap... (Think I over cooked the feline metaphors there a tad...  )-------------
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 14:10
^ Clappies to you, Sir!------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 15:11
Or that there's plenty of people that just disagree with you and see no point in such a pointless change. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 15:12
^That's vintage Ian, Sleeper!  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 18:23
Thank you, Steve, for expressing in clearer words what I probably botched. This will teach me to post threads just before I have to leave for work, without thinking over every single word to avoid being misunderstood. Indeed, what I meant was "really awesome albums", and my main purpose in asking this was to encourage people (myself included) to explore the great music produced in the first 14 years of this century. My reference to PA subgenres was merely instrumental, though I see I should have specified that being included in the database was not necessary. In any case, I never intended this thread to turn into a discussion on the direction PA should take. When I decided to come back to the forums a few months ago, after a four-year absence, it was not in order to try to change the way this site works. My one and only purpose is to spread the word about new music worth listening to, not to question whether prog still exists, or whatever other quasi-philosophical issue some people want to talk about. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 19:19
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 19:26
^You should see how many albums I skipped over!
Probably my fault for taking the word milestones too literally, and for some reason Ian seems to have been pushing the same point in every thread recently, as if the "prog vs progressive" debate hadn't been flogged to death already. Anyway, I hope you can find something of interest from my list. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 19:46
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Electric Masada - Mountains Of Madness - radically different, noisy, jazz-metal, shocking Magma - K.A. - Reemergence of one of the greats Nik Bartsch Ronin - Holon - Minimalism is a rock environment, landmark Thinking Plague - A History Of Madness - one of the two TP albums that announce TP as a force on the Avant scene Ske - 1000 Autunni - Yugen keysman blend a beautiful mix of avant, symph, jazz & retro, stage setting for new experimentation Aranis - Songs From Mirage - Chamber Rock without drums, stretching the pallet back to area previous covered by the likes of Julverne Present - Barbaro - Definitive in the way to release a CD/DVD, stunning Guapo - 5 Suns - one of the best representative of the new young wave of Zeuhl bands carving out their own territory Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune - Post-Punk Pop Prog - multifaceted, ever changing, echoes of Cardiacs, another band stretching definitions Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi-Lebedi - Russian Folk Avant classic one of the great Eastern European bands opened up to new audiences by AltrOck distribution. Miriodor - Avanti! - One of the best of the Avant instrumental bands, a personal favorite as it introduced me to modern avant along with C-A Koenjiyakkei - Angherr Shisspa - One of the modern wave of Japanese dark heavy edgy Avant bands Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History - Unlike anyone else, single-handedly created Metal In Opposition Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M - blending Metal, Folk & Middle Eastern vibes Diablo Swing Orchestra - Singalong Songs Of The Damned & Delirious - Swing Metal with an Operatic vocalist - bizarre but it works. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 21:18
I see we have two of the same listed Ian 5 Suns and Book M. Consider this two official recommendations people! They're absolutely indispensable. EDIT: Make that three with A History of Madness!
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 22:01
I certainly didn't mean to derail the thread Raff but your OP simply triggered a few thoughts and it snowballed from there. Apologies if any perceived offence was taken. -------------
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 12 2015 at 22:03
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Hmmm... I don't know from milestones (because the time for prog milestones was over 40 years ago), but offhand I would say I think these were important and great, and don't look silly sitting forlornly by themselves away from the rest of my record collection: Tool - Lateralus The Decemberists - Hazards of Love Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing Riverside - Second Life Syndrome Big, Big Train - English Electric, Part One Sigur Rós - Takk ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 02:12
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I'm just going to list my 10 favourite albums post 2000 IQ - Frequency Muse - Absolution Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Tangerine Dream - Purgatorio Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret Kate Bush - Aerial Par Lindh Project - Veni Vidi Vici Neal Morse - One Anathema - Weather Systems Steve Wilson - Grace Before Drowning includes some well trodden sub genres but I think those albums do make a statement. For instance the unusual medieval music on disc two The Inconsolable Secret and the nice use of female classical/opera singers on TD's Purgatorio really hit me. Par Lindh also crafted a very original modern symph prog classic that bares no resemblance to ELP or Yes. Kate Bush returned with a typical quirky mix of songs but little that was just a retread. New bands like Muse and Anathema have freshened things up and I've picked my favourite albums by them. Morse blew off the cobwebs from religious music completely. Lastly IQ got the one thing they always lacked - a truly awesome drummer in Andy Edwards. Province Of The King is truly scary in all the best ways. No plodding here. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 03:12
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1. Echolyn - Echolyn 2. Part the Second - Maudlin of the Well 3. English Electric (Part One) - Big Big Train 4. Heliotians - Deluge Grander 5. K.A. - Magma 6. Blemmebeya - Akt 7. In Extremis - Days between Stations 8. A Time of Day - Anekdoten 9. Sola Scriptura - Neal Morse X. To Shatter All Accord - Discipline Others worth a place in this list: Gravity - Anekdoten In a Cold Embrace - Battlestations You Have a Chance - Camelias GardenSecond Sound - Druckfarben Mei - EcholynBrighter Skies - FreddeGredde Safe in Conformity - HamadryadFear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree (to be cont'd)
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 03:32
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I may forget a few that were right on the turn of the century, but these are the ones that really hit me the hardest. Pain of Salvation - Be Bondage Fruit VI Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium Virus - Carheart Mirthkon - Vehicle Panzerballet - Star Stücke Koenjihyakkei - Angher Shispa Animals as Leaders Pochakaite Malko - Laya Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse Haken - Mountain ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 07:53
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Hi,
Someone will have to explain to me how a comparison of 30 years of music to a different 15 years of music, is a valid comparison, and supposedly to make a distinction that one is better than the other!
I'm OK with looking for and findind trends, but the comparison is silly and nothing but a beatov for folks with nothing better to do?
While I appreciate new fans and all that, and the site succeeds in that area, it is stuff like this that makes the whole of the work get thrown under the carpet ... how will a silly comparison like that EVER help elevate the work of many artists over 50 years? No wonder so many folks in academia think that progressive is sh*t ... you don't think any better of it?
Yeah ... we all better go back to diaper days ... it's all crap and some of the fans are worse!
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 08:22
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Who crapped in your pint? It's just a bit of fun to look at great albums in the last 15 years. Nothing more significant than that. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 09:38
No, I believe Mosh prefers flitting from table to table, crapping in other people's pints. Which I guess is the classic definition of "party pooper". ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:21
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:38
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Here's a really crowded top 15 of sorts: 1 Guapo- Five Suns (Black Oni, Elixirs) 2 Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons (Book M - and everything else) 3 Vektor - Black Future (Outer Isolation) 4 Non Credo - Impropera 5 Kayo Dot- Blue Lambency Downward (Coffins on Io, Choirs of the Eye) 6 Radiohead Kid A (Amnesiac) 7 Woven Hand - Mosaic (Consider the Birds, Blush Music) 8 Jono El Grande - Neo Dada (Phantom Stimulance) 9 Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo (Walk The Nile) 10 Umberto - From the Grave (Prophesy of the Black Widow) 11 Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (Yanqui U.X.O.) 12 Dungen - 4 13 Aranis - II 14 The Styrenes - In C 15 Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung! - Tub Gurnard Goodness Honorable mention to 65Daysofstatic, Sinoia Caves, Zombi, Boredoms, Matt Berry, Kosmischer Läufer... ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:38
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Classic Moshkito, out to ruin everybody elses fun by complaining about something that doesnt exist ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 10:49
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To elaborate a bit on that Mosh: would you be kind enough to read the original post before you go off on a tangent? Raff was trying to shed some light on the past 15 years of music - trying to get people excited about the new stuff - giving the new kids on the block a chance to be recognised. That is, at least, what I get from the opening post. Has nothing to do about comparing one era of music to another one and finding out which is the best  That's nonsense. It's about appreciating new music.------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 14:44
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I always wanted to make a poll of Moshkito's most bizarre posts... This one might be in the top 5.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 15:19
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As I am a lady, and quite tired after a day at work, I will refrain from reacting the way I would really like to. Next time someone calls me crap and tells me to go back to diaper days, I am going to tell them what I truly think of them. For crying out loud....Every little bit of innocent fun (which, in this particular case, is a way to give some bands and artists the exposure they deserve) has to become the subject of a rant for some people. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 16:09
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It is best to ignore the child throwing a tantrum on the supermarket floor. Drawing more attention to it feeds the beast. Sooner or later they grow tired and cry themselves out. It's a good subject that is worthy of discussion. The site and forum are here for sharing. So thank you. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 16:10
Ok, normally, I let this stuff slide, my mantra is that it's typically easier to simply not say anything. Every once in a while though, I feel the irrational need to chime in. This is one of those cases.
Did you read the initial post or just skip right here to complain. I'm fairly certain that the original post asked for great albums of this century, not your opinion on how modern music sucks and will never hold a candle to the revered oldies.
Is it really that much to ask that you be respectful of other people's opinions rather than dismissing them as crap? Is your opinion really the only valid one? Even worse, if I read your post correctly, then all fans of new music are worse than crap? That's what it sounds like.
As I said, normally I don't say anything, but I'm grandstanding here for a purpose. When a revered member of the site comes back after a long hiatus (Yep, talking about you here Raff), someone that has contributed a ton of time and effort to this site, I'm not going to stand by idly and let you demoralize her or any of the other members here that enjoy modern music.
I don't think it's too much to ask to be respectful of other people's opinion. There is no reason to be insulting as every opinion is as valid as yours. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 13 2015 at 16:25
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The goal of hijacking the thread has already been accomplished. Can we just re-engage in the original subject? ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 14 2015 at 01:55
That's one of Moshkito's funnier posts to be fair. None of us are worthy , we just do not understand music at all. Actually I don't care if I understand music at all in the least . I just like to enjoy music and talk about it. I just hope 'it' is not offended by my ignorance
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Posted By: Altairius
Date Posted: January 15 2015 at 03:15
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Order isn't too particular: SMPTe - Transatlantic Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings One - Neal Morse V - Spock's Beard Frequency - IQ The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) - Steven Wilson Deadwing - Porcupine Tree Shadowlands - Glass Hammer The Shaming of the True - Kevin Gilbert Echolyn - Echolyn The Power to Believe - King Crimson To Watch the Storms - Steve Hackett Selective Memory - Témpano Milliontown - Frost* Sleeping in Traffic Pt. 1 - Beardfish The Underfall Yard - Big Big Train Clivages - Univers Zéro A Child in the Mirror - Ciccada Kublai - Accordo Dei Contrari Last Epic - A.C.T The Water Road - Thieves' Kitchen Return to the Origin - Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij Unrecorded Beam - Billy Bottle and the Multiple
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: January 15 2015 at 08:44
Yeah , and isn't it even more interesting when it happens to like to enjoy music that you didn't like before? About the thread, I'm still willing to check out the bands suggested by Raff in the site http://www.altrock.it" rel="nofollow - http://www.altrock.it (http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=96334&KW=ARANIS&PN=7), btw every new day the time for me badly seems to get even shorter, it's sort of damn annoying always having a 'poor' Internet and now having to cope with almost 10 days without it   . Now I'm searching for a professional and liable internet provider - unfortunately this is still a common reality in my country... -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 15 2015 at 10:14
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Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta Guapo - History Of The Visitation Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons Battles - Mirrored Giraffes?Giraffes! - More Skin With Milk-Mouth Magyar Posse - Random Avenger Tortoise - Standards Chrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit Zombi - Spirit Animal Labirinto di Specchi - Hanblecheya Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa The Mars Volta - Amputechture Pelican - City Of Echoes Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium Tool - Lateralus ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 15 2015 at 10:27
Forgot about that one. Might actually be my Tortoise-favorite s well. -------------
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 15 2015 at 10:53
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Seneca is one of the best Tortoise tracks out there. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 16 2015 at 01:49
A lot of very nice selections especially the Steve Hackett , Frost* and King Crimson ones as well as ones I included on my list. Also a lot of albums and artists I don't know especially the last half dozen. I'll check out some of those as you obviously have such good taste in music
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 16 2015 at 04:45
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This is a really nice surprise, as I had already written off this thread after it was derailed. I see a lot of great albums mentioned, and hope more will come! Remember that the main purpose of this thread is to encourage people to explore and broaden their musical horizons. My own nominations will come some time during the weekend. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: January 16 2015 at 20:28
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Great idea for a thread, Raffaela!
Albums from the 21st Century that blew me away: Iona - Open Sky — the most amazing collaborative group I know! Paatos - Timeloss — A voice, a guitarist, an extraordinary drummer! Karda Estra - Eve — All this and no drums! Björk - Vespertine — What planet did this woman come from and where can we get more like her? Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third — The layers! Hiromi’s Soncibloom - Time Control — Fusion is alive! Kayo Dot — Choirs of the Eye — devastating use of dynamics, bleak space and aggression. The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium — such raw power and controlled chaos! UneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium — never even knew this music was possible! Odyssey: The Greatest Tale — nine amazing prog epics prove: Prog is Alive! Mediæval Bæbes - Mirabilis — the Middle Ages never had it so good! Faun - Renaissance —‘Pagan Folk’ rocks! Kotebel - Omphalos — operatic voices with tight virtuosic jazz rock. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun — An epitaph for the human predicament! Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet — lyrics present a snapshot of modern techno society. Ga’an - Ga’an — American Zeuhl (!) fresh and GORGEOUS! Proghma-D - Bar-do Travel — didn’t know Tool and Eno could be blended! maudlin of the Well - Part the Second — Like nothing I’d ever heard before. Brother Ape - A Rare Moment of Insight — Joy in progressive rock music?!! Anathema - Falling Deeper — orchestrated Anathema is the best Anathema! The Amazing - Gentle Stream — the warmest music of the 21st Cent. Votum - Harvest Moon — didn’t know there could be this diversity in metal. Poland’s best! Swans - The Seer — such raw visceral emotion! Five-Storey Ensemble - Not That City — Classical chamber neo-folk! The Gabriel Construct - Interior City — an exciting young voice in progressive music. Seven Impale - City of the Sun — VDGG/Hammill/Discipline/Parmenter done better! Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror — Canterbury is back and better than ever! Electric Orange — Volume 10 — Krautrock is back and better than ever! Pingvinorkestern - Push — finally another group from Björk’s planet! Antoine Fafard - Ad Perpetuum — the newest “best fusion” album I’ve ever heard. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 16 2015 at 20:59
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Well, here's what I got only the stuff that was made and/or released since 2000 - Beck, Jeff You Had It Coming 2000 Bruford Levin Upper Extremities Blue Nights 2000 Budd, Harold Room, The 2000 Claypool, Les Frog Brigade Live Frogs - Set 1 2000 Code Talkers, The with Col. Bruce Hampton Bootleg Live 2000 Djam Karet New Dark Age 2000 Dunmall, Paul Octet Great Divide 2000 Enya A Day Without Rain 2000 Explosions In The Sky How Strange, Innocence 2000 Explosions In The Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever 2000 Fayman (Jeffery) & Fripp (Robert) a temple in the clouds 2000 Fleck, Bela & the Flecktones Outbound 2000 Fleck, Bela & The Flecktones Live At The Quick 2000 Frith, Fred clearing 2000 Gabriel, Peter OVO:The Millenium Show 2000 Gunn, Trey Band, The Joy of Molebdenum, The 2000 High Llamas, The Buzzle Bee 2000 Husband, Gary Things I See, The 2000 Incredible Expanding Mindf**k Arcadia Son 2000 Jackson, Joe Night and Day II 2000 Jarre, Jean Michel Metmorphoses 2000 Jarre, Jean Michel Sessions 2000 2000 Kansas Somewhere to Elsewhere 2000 King Crimson ConstruKtion of Light, The 2000 Levin, Tony Waters of Eden 2000 Mitchell, Joni Both Sides Now 2000 Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun 2000 Radiohead Kid A 2000 Rypdal, Terje Lux Aeterna 2000 Steeley Dan Two Against Nature 2000 Stereolab First of the Microbe Hunters, The 2000 Synergy Barcodes 2000 Towner, Ralph Anthem 2000 van't Hof, Jasper, Charlie Mariano, Steve Swallow Brutto Tempo 2000 Walsh, Steve Glossolalia 2000 XTC Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) 2000 Ackerman, Will Hearing Voices 2001 Afro Celt Sound System Volume 3 : Further In Time 2001 Amos, Tori Strange Little Girls 2001 Anderson, Laurie Life On A String 2001 Anderson, Laurie Live at Town Hall New York City September 19-20 2001 2001 Bears, The Car Caught Fire 2001 Big Big Train Bard 2001 Buckethead Funnel Weaver 2001 Djam Karet Ascension 2001 Eno, Brian & J. Peter Schwalm Drawn From Life 2001 Europa String Choir Marching Ants 2001 Fleck, Bela Perpetual Motion 2001 Frith, Fred Digital Wildlife 2001 Garbarek, Anja Smiling And Waving 2001 Henry Fool Henry Fool 2001 Jones, John Paul Thunderthief 2001 Marillion anoraknophobia 2001 Metheny. Pat One Quiet Night 2001 Muffins, The Bandwidth 2001 Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been 2001 no-man returning jesus 2001 Oldfield, Sally Flaming Star 2001 Oysterhead Grand Pecking Order, The 2001 Ponty, Jean-Luc Life Enigma 2001 Porcupine Tree Warszawa 2001 Praxis Warszawa 2001 Prince Rainbow Children, The 2001 Radiohead Amnesiac 2001 Rhodes, Happy Find Me 2001 Stereolab Sound-Dust 2001 Stereolab ABC Music 2001 Sting …All This Time 2001 Vangelis Mythodea 2001 Yes Magnification 2001 Amos, Tori Scarlett's Walk 2002 Bowie, David Heathen 2002 Buckethead Bermuda Triangle 2002 Buckethead Electric Tears 2002 Claypool, Les Frog Brigade, The Purple Onion 2002 Codetalkers, The Codetalkers, The 2002 Coryell, Larry Tricycles 2002 Coryell, Larry, John Abercrombie, Badi Assad Three Guitars 2002 Djam Karet No Commercial Potential 2002 Gabriel, Peter Long Walk Home Music From The Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Gabriel, Peter Up 2002 Glass, Philip Naqoyqatsi 2002 Gong, Pierre Moerlen's Pentanine 2002 Hackett, Steve Darktown 2002 Holdsworth, Allan All Night Wrong 2002 King Crimson happy with what you have to be happy with 2002 Levin, Tony pieces of the sun 2002 Maserati Language of Cities, The 2002 Medeski Martin and Wood Uninvisible 2002 Metheny, Pat Group Speaking Of Now 2002 Nektar Prodigal Son, The 2002 O'Connor, Sinead Sean-Nos Nua 2002 Oregon Live at Yoshi's 2002 Pere Ubu St Arkansas 2002 Pineapple Thief, The Variations On A Dream 2002 Porcupine Tree in absentia 2002 Premiata Forneria Marconi Live in Japan 2002 2002 Residents, The Demons Dance Alone Limited Edition 2002 Roach, Steve Darkest Before Dawn 2002 Santana Shaman 2002 Synergy Reconstructed Artifacts 2002 Triggering Myth, A Forgiving Eden 2002 Umphrey's McGee Local Band Does O.K. 2002 Wakeman, Rick Songs Of Middle Earth (The Seven Wonders of the World/Heritage Suite excerpts) 2002 Yes Keystudio 2002 Afrocelts Seed 2003 Amos, Tori Tales of a Librarian 2003 Bass Communion Ghosts On Magnetic Tape 2003 Beck, Jeff Jeff 2003 Blackfield Blackfield 2003 Blue October History For Sale 2003 Bowie, David Reality 2003 Buckethead Bucketheadland 2 2003 Budd, Harold la bella vista 2003 Coryell, Larry Power Trio, The 2003 Djam Karet A Night For Baku 2003 Eluvium Accidental Memory In Case of Death, An 2003 Eluvium Lambent Material 2003 Explosions In The Sky Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place, The 2003 Fleck, Bela & The Flecktones Little Worlds 2003 Frith, Fred Rivers and Tides 2003 Frith, Fred/John Zorn 50th Birthday Volume 5 2003 Greenwood, Jonny Bodysong 2003 Grey Star Morning Heartwash Hotel 2003 Hackett, Steve To Watch The Storms 2003 High Llamas, The Beet, Maize & Corn 2003 High Llamas, The retrospective, rarities & instrumentals 2003 Jackson, Joe Band Volume 4 2003 Jethro Tull Jethro Tull Christmas Album 2003 King Crimson Power To Believe, The 2003 McLachlan, Sarah Afterglow 2003 Monade Socalism Ou Barbarie 2003 Mono Holy Ground: NYC Live 2003 no-man together we're stranger 2003 Oldfield, Mike Tubular Bells 2003 2003 Porcupine Tree Futile 2003 Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People 2003 Radiohead Hail to the Thief 2003 Roach, Steve Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces 2003 Steely Dan Everything Must Go 2003 Stereolab Instant 0 In The Universe 2003 Talisma Corpus 2003 Univers Zero Implosion 2003 Wyatt, Robert Cuckooland 2003 Wyatt, Robert Solar Flares Burn for You 2003 Amos, Tori Welcome To Sunny Florida 2004 Amos, Tori Beekeeper, The 2004 Belew, Adrian side one 2004 Black Mountain Black Mountain 2004 Buckethead Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, The 2004 Buckethead population override 2004 Byrne. David Grown Backwards 2004 Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Big Eyeball in the Sky, The 2004 Fripp, Robert & Eno, Brian Equatorial Stars, The 2004 Frith, Fred and Arditti String Quartet, Uwe Dierkson, William Winant Eleventh Hour 2004 Gismonti, Egberto Retratos 2004 Hackett, Steve & The Underworld Orchestra Metamorpheus 2004 Happy The Man Muse Awakens, The 2004 Manzanera, Phil 6pm 2004 Marillion Marbles 2004 Medeski Martin and Wood End of the World Party (just in case) 2004 Metheny, Pat Group Way Up, The 2004 Muffins, The Double Negative 2004 Muffins, The Loveletter #2 "The Ra Sessions" 2004 Netkar Evolution 2004 Ozric Tentacles Spirals In Hyperspace 2004 Phideaux Fiendish 2004 Phideaux Ghost Story 2004 Praxis Tennessee 2004 2004 Prince Musicology 2004 Residents, The Animal Lover 2004 Stereolab Margerine Eclipse 2004 Stereolab 2004 Tour Single 2004 Umphrey's McGee Anchor Drops 2004 Afro Celt Sound System Volume 5: Anatomic 2005 Belew, Adrian Side Two 2005 Bush, Kate Aerial 2005 Crimson Jazz Trio King Crimson Songbook Volume 1 2005 Djam Karet Recollection Harvest & Indian Summer 2005 Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees 2005 Eno, Brian Another Day On Earth 2005 Explosions In The Sky Rescue, The 2005 Fripp, Robert Love Cannot Bear 2005 Johnson, Eric Bloom 2005 Manzanera, Phil 50 Minutes Later 2005 Monade A Few Steps More 2005 Morse, Steve Prime Cuts 2005 Nine Inch Nails [With Teeth] 2005 No Sound Sol29 2005 Oldfield, Mike Light + Shade 2005 PainKiller Prophecy, The 2005 Parallel Mind Colossus Adea 2005 Phideaux Chupacabras 2005 Porcupine Tree Deadwing 2005 Santana all that I am 2005 Spock's Beard Gluttons For Punishment 2005 Stereolab Oscillons from the Anti-Sun 2005 Talisma Chromium 2005 zincs, the dimmer 2005 Abercrombie, John Third Quartet, The 2006 Anderson, Jon Live From La La Land 2006 Belew, Adrian Side Three 2006 Blue October Foiled 2006 Claypool, Les Of Whales and Woe 2006 Code Talkers, The Now 2006 Eluvium When I Live By the Garden and the Sea 2006 Fripp & Eno Beyond Even (1992-2006) 2006 Guthrie, Robin/Harold Budd Before the Day Breaks 2006 Guthrie, Robin/Harold Budd After the Night Falls 2006 Hackett, Steve Wild Orchids 2006 Levin, Tony Resonator 2006 McLachlan, Sarah Wintersong 2006 Ozric Tentacles Floor's Too Far Away, The 2006 Phideaux 313 2006 Phideaux the great leap 2006 Pineapple Thief, The Little Man 2006 Premiata Forneria Marconi Stati Di Immaginazione 2006 Pure Reason Revolution Dark Third, The 2006 Residents, The Tweedles 2006 Rypdal, Terje Vossabrygg 2006 Simon, Paul Surprise 2006 Stereolab fab four suture 2006 Triggering Myth, A Remedy of Abstraction, The 2006 Umphrey's McGee Safety In Numbers 2006 Yorke, Thom Eraser, The 2006 Amos, Tori American Doll Posse 2007 Baku Llama Eris 2007 Big Big Train The Difference Machine 2007 Blackfield Blackfield II 2007 Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance Give Thanks To Chank 2007 Explosions In The Sky All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone 2007 Gorishankar, The 2nd Hands 2007 High Llamas Can Cladders 2007 Jonas Hellborg Art Metal 2007 Levin, Tony Stick Man 2007 Marillion Somewhere Else 2007 Maserati Inventions for the New Season 2007 Monade Monstre Cosmic 2007 Nine Inch Nails Year Zero 2007 Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D 2007 Observatory, The A Far Cry From Here 2007 Phideaux Doomsday Afternoon 2007 Pineapple Thief, The What We Have Sown 2007 Ponty, Clara Mirror Of Truth 2007 Ponty, Jean-Luc Acatama Experience, The 2007 Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet 2007 Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring 2007 Porcupine Tree We Lost The Skyline 2007 Radiohead In Rainbows 2007 Reasoning, The Awakening 2007 Umphrey's McGee Bottom Half, The 2007 Way, Darryl Ultra Violins 2007 Wyatt, Robert comicopera 2007 Zorn, John Dreamers, The 2007 Alitheia Chthonick 2008 Bass Communion Molotov And Haze 2008 Black Mountain In The Future 2008 Byrne, David and Brian Eno Everything That Happens Will Happen Today 2008 Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret. Songs of The Solar Ping 2008 Flood Tales From The Four Seasons 2008 Marillion Happiness Is The Road - Essence 2008 Marillion Happiness Is The Road - The Hard Shoulder 2008 McLaughlin, John Floating Point 2008 Nektar Book of Days 2008 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts 2008 Nine Inch Nails Slip, The 2008 no-man schoolyard ghosts 2008 Oldfield, Mike Music Of The Spheres 2008 Pineapple Thief, The Tightly Unwound 2008 Reasoning, The Dark Angel 2008 Residents, The Bunny Boy, The 2008 Stereolab Chemical Chords 2008 Talisma Quelque Part 2008 Tea Club, The General Winter's Secret Museum 2008 Tea Club, The Rabbit 2008 Various Artists Big Blue Ball 2008 Wilson, Steven Insurgentes 2008 Zappa, Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 2008 Zorn, John O'o 2008 Amos, Tori Abnormally Attracted To Sin 2009 Amos, Tori Midwinter Graces 2009 Beck, Jeff Emotion & Commotion 2009 Big Big Train Gathering Speed 2009 Big Big Train Underfall Yard, The 2009 Claypool, Les Of Fungi And Foe 2009 Cusick, Paul Focal Point 2009 Djam Karet Heavy Soul Sessions, The 2009 Hackett, Steve Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth 2009 Knifeworld Buried Alive: Tales Of Crushing Defeat 2009 Omphrey Omphrey 2009 Phideaux Number Seven 2009 Pineapple Thief, The Someone Here Is Missing 2009 Porcupine Tree Incident. The 2009 Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincent Omnia 2009 Stewart, Dave & Barbara Gaskin Green and Blue 2009 Umphrey's McGee Mantis 2009 Umphrey's McGee Prog Sampler 2009 Univers Zero Clivages 2009 Anderson, Laurie Homeland 2010 Black Mountain Wilderness Heart 2010 Eno, Brian with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams Small Craft on a Milk Sea 2010 Ferry, Bryan Olympia 2010 Frith, Fred Eye To Ear III 2010 Hassell, Jon Last night the moon came dropping its clothes on the street 2010 Maserati Pyramid Of The Sun 2010 McLachlan, Sarah Laws Of Illusion 2010 Metheny, Pat Orchestrion 2010 Phideaux Snowtorch 2010 Reasoning, The Acoustically Speaking 2010 Reasoning, The Adverse Camber 2010 Remez, Nadav So Far 2010 Stereolab Not Music 2010 Tea Club, The Quickly Quickly Quickly 2010 Tibbetts, Steve Natural Causes 2010 Ukab Maerd Waiting Room, The 2010 Umphrey's McGee Summer Sampler 2010 2010 Zorn, John Ipsissimus 2010 Amos, Tori Night Of Hunters 2011 Bush, Kate 50 Words For Snow 2011 Corea, Clarke & White Forever 2011 Discipline To Shatter All Accord 2011 Hackett, Steve Beyond The Shrouded Horizon 2011 Herd Of Instinct Herd Of Instinct 2011 Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins Scarcity Of Miracles, A 2011 Knifeworld Dear Lord, No Deal 2011 Levin, Tony, David Torn, Alan White Levin Torn White 2011 Primus Green Naugahyde 2011 Radiohead King Of Limbs, The 2011 Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion 2011 Umphrey's McGee Death By Stereo 2011 Wilson, Steven Grace For Drowning 2011 Zorn, John Nosferatu 2011 Zorn, John At The Gates Of Paradise 2011 Anderson, Ian Thick As A Brick 2 2012 Big Big Train English Electric 2012 Henry Fool Men Singing 2012 Knifeworld Clairvoyant Fortnight 2012 Maserati Maserati VII 2012 Ohmphrey Posthaste 2012 Pineapple Thief, The all the wars 2012 Reasoning, The Adventures In Neverland 2012 Samuel Jackson Five, The Samuel Jackson Five, The 2012 Staves, The Dead & Born & Grown 2012 Stereokimono Intergalactic Art Café 2012 Big Big Train English Electric Part Two 2013 Djam Karet Trip, The 2013 Herd Of Instinct Conjure 2013 Maserati 2013-10-26 Caledonia Lounge - Athens, GA 2013 Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks 2013 Premiata Forneria Marconi PFM In Classic - Da Mozart A Celebration 2013 Renaissance Symphony of Light 2013 Staves, The Dead & Born & Grown & Live 2013 Thieve's Kitchen, The One For Sorrow, Two For Joy 2013 Wilson, Steven Raven That Refused To Sing, The 2013 Zorn, John Dreamachines 2013 Zorn, John On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits 2013 Amos, Tori Unrepentant Geraldines 2014 Anubis Hitchiking To Byzantium 2014 Buckethead Listen for the Whisper 2014 Curved Air North Star 2014 Djam Karet Regenerator 3017 2014 Dream The Electric Sleep Heretics 2014 Electric Orange Volume 10 2014 Eno - Hyde Someday World 2014 Eno - Hyde High Life 2014 Fractile Mirror Garden of Ghosts 2014 Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus 2014 Knifeworld Unravelling, The 2014 McLachlan, Sarah Shine On 2014 Perfect Beings Perfect Beings 2014 Pineapple Thief, The Magnolia 2014 Primus Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble 2014 Pymlico Guiding Lignt 2014 Rothery, Steve Ghosts of Pripyat, The 2014 Swans To Be Kind 2014 Umphrey's McGee Similar Skin 2014 Way, Darryl Children Of The Cosmos 2014 It's all good stuff to one degree or the other. As far as what is the best, I'll have to get back to you... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: GhostPony750
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 00:04
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I think that the problem, with new progressive work, is that the artists solely focus on doing progressive music... I remember an interview with Peter Gabriel where he said that they didn't try to do anything complex, they just wanted to make good music. It's very difficult, or lets say easy to find boring prog because of that. For me, the best since the 2000's is Citizen Cain, but I don't really search for new stuff anymore, I'm often disappointed. But seriously, give Citizen Cain a try, it's just soooo good! |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 02:07
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just as much good stuff now as ever that's it I guess ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 05:39
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@Slarti: And I thought my list was long! ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 05:41
Well if you're just going to focus on Neo and the retro progscene then yes, this almost certainly true, but when you look to see just how far prog has expanded and how much it can do you'll see just how wrong that is, and how wrong Gabriel was since there's a lot of music out there considerably more complex than anything he's ever done. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 15:08
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21st century albums I love, and consider masterpieces or, at least, very strong 4 star releases:
Birds and Buildings - Bantam to Behemoth, Multipurpose Trap Bushman's Revenge - Thou Shalt Boogie! Dungen - Tio bitar Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo Grand General - s/t Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes Homunculus Res - Limiti all'eguaglianza della Parte con il Tutto Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush, One-Armed Bandit, Live with Britten Sinfonia Jono El Grande - Neo Dada, Phantom Stimulance Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io King Crimson - The Power to Believe The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium Mastodon - Crack the Skye Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling Motorpsycho - Roadwork Vol.2, Phanerothyme, In the Fishtank 10, The Death Defying Unicorn Møster! - Inner Earth Panzerpappa - Koralrevens klagesang, Astromalist A Silver Mt. Zion - F**k Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything Sigur Rós - ( ), Kveikur Trioscapes - Separate Realities Tusmørke - Underjordisk tusmørke Ultralyd - Inertiadrome Vespero - Droga Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning -------------  
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 15:24
Well said. Another way of putting it might be: 'looking for love in all the wrong places'. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 15:26
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Hey Audun! You got that Vespero album? I've been dying to get my hands on it, but not exactly crazy about having to import my music all the way from Russia. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 16:00
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Trimming the list of a few I can kick to the curb - Beck, Jeff You Had It Coming 2000 Bruford Levin Upper Extremities Blue Nights 2000 Budd, Harold Room, The 2000 Claypool, Les Frog Brigade Live Frogs - Set 1 2000 Code Talkers, The with Col. Bruce Hampton Bootleg Live 2000 Djam Karet New Dark Age 2000 Explosions In The Sky How Strange, Innocence 2000 Explosions In The Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever 2000 Fayman (Jeffery) & Fripp (Robert) a temple in the clouds 2000 Fleck, Bela & the Flecktones Outbound 2000 Fleck, Bela & The Flecktones Live At The Quick 2000 Frith, Fred clearing 2000 Gabriel, Peter OVO:The Millenium Show 2000 Gunn, Trey Band, The Joy of Molebdenum, The 2000 High Llamas, The Buzzle Bee 2000 Husband, Gary Things I See, The 2000 Incredible Expanding Mindf**k Arcadia Son 2000 Jackson, Joe Night and Day II 2000 Jarre, Jean Michel Metmorphoses 2000 Jarre, Jean Michel Sessions 2000 2000 Kansas Somewhere to Elsewhere 2000 King Crimson ConstruKtion of Light, The 2000 Levin, Tony Waters of Eden 2000 Mitchell, Joni Both Sides Now 2000 Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun 2000 Radiohead Kid A 2000 Rypdal, Terje Lux Aeterna 2000 Steeley Dan Two Against Nature 2000 Stereolab First of the Microbe Hunters, The 2000 Walsh, Steve Glossolalia 2000 XTC Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) 2000 Afro Celt Sound System Volume 3 : Further In Time 2001 Amos, Tori Strange Little Girls 2001 Anderson, Laurie Life On A String 2001 Anderson, Laurie Live at Town Hall New York City September 19-20 2001 2001 Bears, The Car Caught Fire 2001 Big Big Train Bard 2001 Buckethead Funnel Weaver 2001 Djam Karet Ascension 2001 Eno, Brian & J. Peter Schwalm Drawn From Life 2001 Europa String Choir Marching Ants 2001 Fleck, Bela Perpetual Motion 2001 Frith, Fred Digital Wildlife 2001 Garbarek, Anja Smiling And Waving 2001 Henry Fool Henry Fool 2001 Jones, John Paul Thunderthief 2001 Marillion anoraknophobia 2001 Metheny. Pat One Quiet Night 2001 Muffins, The Bandwidth 2001 Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been 2001 no-man returning jesus 2001 Oysterhead Grand Pecking Order, The 2001 Ponty, Jean-Luc Life Enigma 2001 Porcupine Tree Warszawa 2001 Praxis Warszawa 2001 Prince Rainbow Children, The 2001 Radiohead Amnesiac 2001 Rhodes, Happy Find Me 2001 Stereolab Sound-Dust 2001 Stereolab ABC Music 2001 Sting …All This Time 2001 Yes Magnification 2001 Amos, Tori Scarlett's Walk 2002 Bowie, David Heathen 2002 Buckethead Bermuda Triangle 2002 Buckethead Electric Tears 2002 Claypool, Les Frog Brigade, The Purple Onion 2002 Codetalkers, The Codetalkers, The 2002 Coryell, Larry Tricycles 2002 Coryell, Larry, John Abercrombie, Badi Assad Three Guitars 2002 Djam Karet No Commercial Potential 2002 Gabriel, Peter Long Walk Home Music From The Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Gabriel, Peter Up 2002 Glass, Philip Naqoyqatsi 2002 Gong, Pierre Moerlen's Pentanine 2002 Hackett, Steve Darktown 2002 Holdsworth, Allan All Night Wrong 2002 King Crimson happy with what you have to be happy with 2002 Levin, Tony pieces of the sun 2002 Maserati Language of Cities, The 2002 Medeski Martin and Wood Uninvisible 2002 Metheny, Pat Group Speaking Of Now 2002 Nektar Prodigal Son, The 2002 O'Connor, Sinead Sean-Nos Nua 2002 Oregon Live at Yoshi's 2002 Pere Ubu St Arkansas 2002 Pineapple Thief, The Variations On A Dream 2002 Porcupine Tree in absentia 2002 Premiata Forneria Marconi Live in Japan 2002 2002 Residents, The Demons Dance Alone Limited Edition 2002 Roach, Steve Darkest Before Dawn 2002 Santana Shaman 2002 Synergy Reconstructed Artifacts 2002 Triggering Myth, A Forgiving Eden 2002 Umphrey's McGee Local Band Does O.K. 2002 Bass Communion Ghosts On Magnetic Tape 2003 Beck, Jeff Jeff 2003 Blackfield Blackfield 2003 Bowie, David Reality 2003 Buckethead Bucketheadland 2 2003 Budd, Harold la bella vista 2003 Djam Karet A Night For Baku 2003 Eluvium Accidental Memory In Case of Death, An 2003 Eluvium Lambent Material 2003 Explosions In The Sky Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place, The 2003 Fleck, Bela & The Flecktones Little Worlds 2003 Frith, Fred Rivers and Tides 2003 Frith, Fred/John Zorn 50th Birthday Volume 5 2003 Greenwood, Jonny Bodysong 2003 Grey Star Morning Heartwash Hotel 2003 Hackett, Steve To Watch The Storms 2003 High Llamas, The Beet, Maize & Corn 2003 High Llamas, The retrospective, rarities & instrumentals 2003 Jackson, Joe Band Volume 4 2003 King Crimson Power To Believe, The 2003 McLachlan, Sarah Afterglow 2003 Monade Socalism Ou Barbarie 2003 Mono Holy Ground: NYC Live 2003 no-man together we're stranger 2003 Oldfield, Mike Tubular Bells 2003 2003 Porcupine Tree Futile 2003 Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People 2003 Radiohead Hail to the Thief 2003 Roach, Steve Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces 2003 Steely Dan Everything Must Go 2003 Stereolab Instant 0 In The Universe 2003 Talisma Corpus 2003 Univers Zero Implosion 2003 Wyatt, Robert Cuckooland 2003 Wyatt, Robert Solar Flares Burn for You 2003 Amos, Tori Welcome To Sunny Florida 2004 Amos, Tori Beekeeper, The 2004 Belew, Adrian side one 2004 Black Mountain Black Mountain 2004 Buckethead Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, The 2004 Buckethead population override 2004 Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Big Eyeball in the Sky, The 2004 Fripp, Robert & Eno, Brian Equatorial Stars, The 2004 Hackett, Steve & The Underworld Orchestra Metamorpheus 2004 Happy The Man Muse Awakens, The 2004 Manzanera, Phil 6pm 2004 Marillion Marbles 2004 Medeski Martin and Wood End of the World Party (just in case) 2004 Metheny, Pat Group Way Up, The 2004 Muffins, The Double Negative 2004 Netkar Evolution 2004 Ozric Tentacles Spirals In Hyperspace 2004 Phideaux Fiendish 2004 Phideaux Ghost Story 2004 Prince Musicology 2004 Residents, The Animal Lover 2004 Stereolab Margerine Eclipse 2004 Umphrey's McGee Anchor Drops 2004 Afro Celt Sound System Volume 5: Anatomic 2005 Belew, Adrian Side Two 2005 Bush, Kate Aerial 2005 Crimson Jazz Trio King Crimson Songbook Volume 1 2005 Djam Karet Recollection Harvest & Indian Summer 2005 Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees 2005 Eno, Brian Another Day On Earth 2005 Explosions In The Sky Rescue, The 2005 Fripp, Robert Love Cannot Bear 2005 Johnson, Eric Bloom 2005 Manzanera, Phil 50 Minutes Later 2005 Monade A Few Steps More 2005 Morse, Steve Prime Cuts 2005 Nine Inch Nails [With Teeth] 2005 No Sound Sol29 2005 Oldfield, Mike Light + Shade 2005 Parallel Mind Colossus Adea 2005 Phideaux Chupacabras 2005 Porcupine Tree Deadwing 2005 Stereolab Oscillons from the Anti-Sun 2005 Talisma Chromium 2005 zincs, the dimmer 2005 Abercrombie, John Third Quartet, The 2006 Anderson, Jon Live From La La Land 2006 Belew, Adrian Side Three 2006 Blue October Foiled 2006 Claypool, Les Of Whales and Woe 2006 Code Talkers, The Now 2006 Eluvium When I Live By the Garden and the Sea 2006 Fripp & Eno Beyond Even (1992-2006) 2006 Guthrie, Robin/Harold Budd Before the Day Breaks 2006 Guthrie, Robin/Harold Budd After the Night Falls 2006 Hackett, Steve Wild Orchids 2006 Levin, Tony Resonator 2006 McLachlan, Sarah Wintersong 2006 Ozric Tentacles Floor's Too Far Away, The 2006 Phideaux 313 2006 Phideaux the great leap 2006 Pineapple Thief, The Little Man 2006 Premiata Forneria Marconi Stati Di Immaginazione 2006 Pure Reason Revolution Dark Third, The 2006 Residents, The Tweedles 2006 Rypdal, Terje Vossabrygg 2006 Simon, Paul Surprise 2006 Stereolab fab four suture 2006 Triggering Myth, A Remedy of Abstraction, The 2006 Umphrey's McGee Safety In Numbers 2006 Amos, Tori American Doll Posse 2007 Baku Llama Eris 2007 Big Big Train The Difference Machine 2007 Blackfield Blackfield II 2007 Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance Give Thanks To Chank 2007 Explosions In The Sky All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone 2007 Gorishankar, The 2nd Hands 200707 Jonas Hellborg Art Metal 2007 Levin, Tony Stick Man 2007 Maserati Inventions for the New Season 2007 Monade Monstre Cosmic 2007 Nine Inch Nails Year Zero 2007 Observatory, The A Far Cry From Here 2007 Phideaux Doomsday Afternoon 2007 Pineapple Thief, The What We Have Sown 2007 Ponty, Clara Mirror Of Truth 2007 Ponty, Jean-Luc Acatama Experience, The 2007 Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet 2007 Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring 2007 Porcupine Tree We Lost The Skyline 2007 Radiohead In Rainbows 2007 Reasoning, The Awakening 2007 Umphrey's McGee Bottom Half, The 2007 Wyatt, Robert comicopera 2007 Zorn, John Dreamers, The 2007 Alitheia Chthonick 2008 Bass Communion Molotov And Haze 2008 Black Mountain In The Future 2008 Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret. Songs of The Solar Ping 2008 Flood Tales From The Four Seasons 2008 Nektar Book of Days 2008 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts 2008 Nine Inch Nails Slip, The 2008 no-man schoolyard ghosts 2008 Oldfield, Mike Music Of The Spheres 2008 Pineapple Thief, The Tightly Unwound 2008 Reasoning, The Dark Angel 2008 Stereolab Chemical Chords 2008 Talisma Quelque Part 2008 Tea Club, The General Winter's Secret Museum 2008 Tea Club, The Rabbit 2008 Various Artists Big Blue Ball 2008 Wilson, Steven Insurgentes 2008 Zappa, Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 2008 Zorn, John O'o 2008 Amos, Tori Abnormally Attracted To Sin 2009 Amos, Tori Midwinter Graces 2009 Beck, Jeff Emotion & Commotion 2009 Big Big Train Gathering Speed 2009 Big Big Train Underfall Yard, The 2009 Claypool, Les Of Fungi And Foe 2009 Cusick, Paul Focal Point 2009 Hackett, Steve Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth 2009 Knifeworld Buried Alive: Tales Of Crushing Defeat 2009 Phideaux Number Seven 2009 Pineapple Thief, The Someone Here Is Missing 2009 Porcupine Tree Incident. The 2009 Umphrey's McGee Mantis 2009 Umphrey's McGee Prog Sampler 2009 Univers Zero Clivages 2009 Anderson, Laurie Homeland 2010 Black Mountain Wilderness Heart 2010 Eno, Brian with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams Small Craft on a Milk Sea 2010 Ferry, Bryan Olympia 2010 Frith, Fred Eye To Ear III 2010 Hassell, Jon Last night the moon came dropping its clothes on the street 2010 Maserati Pyramid Of The Sun 2010 Metheny, Pat Orchestrion 2010 Phideaux Snowtorch 2010 Reasoning, The Acoustically Speaking 2010 Reasoning, The Adverse Camber 2010 Remez, Nadav So Far 2010 Stereolab Not Music 2010 Tea Club, The Quickly Quickly Quickly 2010 Amos, Tori Night Of Hunters 2011 Bush, Kate 50 Words For Snow 2011 Discipline To Shatter All Accord 2011 Hackett, Steve Beyond The Shrouded Horizon 2011 Herd Of Instinct Herd Of Instinct 2011 Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins Scarcity Of Miracles, A 2011 Knifeworld Dear Lord, No Deal 2011 Levin, Tony, David Torn, Alan White Levin Torn White 2011 Primus Green Naugahyde 2011 Radiohead King Of Limbs, The 2011 Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion 2011 Umphrey's McGee Death By Stereo 2011 Wilson, Steven Grace For Drowning 2011 Zorn, John Nosferatu 2011 Big Big Train English Electric 2012 Henry Fool Men Singing 2012 Knifeworld Clairvoyant Fortnight 2012 Maserati Maserati VII 2012 Ohmphrey Posthaste 2012 Pineapple Thief, The all the wars 2012 Reasoning, The Adventures In Neverland 2012 Samuel Jackson Five, The Samuel Jackson Five, The 2012 Staves, The Dead & Born & Grown 2012 Stereokimono Intergalactic Art Café 2012 Big Big Train English Electric Part Two 2013 Herd Of Instinct Conjure 2013 Maserati 2013-10-26 Caledonia Lounge - Athens, GA 2013 Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks 2013 Premiata Forneria Marconi PFM In Classic - Da Mozart A Celebration 2013 Renaissance Symphony of Light 2013 Thieve's Kitchen, The One For Sorrow, Two For Joy 2013 Wilson, Steven Raven That Refused To Sing, The 2013 Zorn, John Dreamachines 2013 Amos, Tori Unrepentant Geraldines 2014 Anubis Hitchiking To Byzantium 2014 Buckethead Listen for the Whisper 2014 Curved Air North Star 2014 Djam Karet Regenerator 3017 2014 Dream The Electric Sleep Heretics 2014 Electric Orange Volume 10 2014 Eno - Hyde Someday World 2014 Eno - Hyde High Life 2014 Fractile Mirror Garden of Ghosts 2014 Knifeworld Unravelling, The 2014 McLachlan, Sarah Shine On 2014 Perfect Beings Perfect Beings 2014 Pineapple Thief, The Magnolia 2014 Pymlico Guiding Lignt 2014 Rothery, Steve Ghosts of Pripyat, The 2014 Umphrey's McGee Similar Skin 2014 Way, Darryl Children Of The Cosmos 2014 More to trim out but so far.... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 16:04
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My list doesn't include 2013 or 2014 albums as I have to come up with a list for those two years yet, but here's some of my favourites, 21 to be exact. King Crimson-The Power To Believe Steven Wilson-Insurgents Indukti-SUSAR or Idmen Xing Sa-Creation De L'univers Opeth-Damnation Violeta Di Outono-Volume 7 Porcupine Tree-In Absentia Picchio Dal Pozzo-Camere Zimmer Rooms Fates Warning-Disconnect Green Carnation-Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness Nosound-Sol 29 Anekdoten-Gravity John Arch-A Twist Of fate Guapo-Five Suns Anathema-We're Here Because We're Here Invisible Opera Company Of Tibet-UFO Planante Long Distance Calling-Avoid The Light IQ-Dark Matter One Shot-Ewas Vader Discipline-To Shatter All Accord Spock's Beard-V ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 16:11
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 16:23
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good calls Hugues... I do love those Espers albums man ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 17:09
It's the only Vespero I've heard though, so I can't compare it to the rest of their output, but, as I said, I love it, and if their other albums are half as good as Droga, they're one hell of a band! Highly recommend getting hold of a copy of it.
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 19:16
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None of you people are familiar with Nemo??? ------------- 
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 17 2015 at 22:02
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 18 2015 at 05:17
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. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 18 2015 at 10:52
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. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 18 2015 at 11:00
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. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 02:45
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) |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 08:25
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 08:39
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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. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 08:54
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 11:03
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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. 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 ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 11:43
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. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 12:59
Thanks, giving it a try now. The artwork really caught my attention. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 15:31
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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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 17:12
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 19 2015 at 17:23
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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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 21 2015 at 03:51
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.  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 |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 11:14
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Posted By: Cookie13
Date Posted: March 13 2016 at 10:02
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Cookie's TOP 20 Best of the 21st Century So Far (not only prog - various genres); 20. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/R367211113_3045849_21086174.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Elephant - The White Stripes (2003) 19. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/1905481jpg_1145889_18471593.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True - Fair To Midland (2007) 18. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/11998jpg_8387843_21086229.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Sound Awake - Karnivool (2009) 17. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/Agadezjpg_5668115_18471785.jpg" rel="nofollow">  The Bedlam In Goliath - The Mars Volta (2008) 16. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/BodilyFunc_3393337_21086121.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Bodily Functions - Matthew Herbert (2001) 15. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/janellemon_1213702_21086028.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Archandroid - Janelle Monae (2010) 14. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/R257007312_3546192_21086067.jpg" rel="nofollow">  The Eraser - Thom Yorke (2006) 13. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/R171167912_2384522_18471664.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Crack The Skye - Mastodon (2009) 12. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/R475949134_4247283_21085946.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Romances - Kaada & Patton (2004) 11. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/R135612533_4504427_18471732.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Vocalcity - Luomo (2000) 10. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/3476143jpg_8061550_18471631.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Amputechture - The Mars Volta (2006) 9. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/cover52241_4376997_21070551.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré - Magma (2009) 8. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/136193jpg_7926381_18471691.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Asymmetry - Karnivool (2013) 7. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/2625192jpg_3428751_18471621.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Lateralus - Tool (2001) 6. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/CuongVUCom_1240472_18471769.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Come Play With Me - Cuong Vu (2001) 5. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/51QujP01W0_1221190_18471794.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Give - The Bad Plus (2004) 4. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/marsvoltad_6393998_18471860.jpg" rel="nofollow">  De-loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta (2003) 3. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/Radioheadk_5807099_21085679.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Kid A - Radiohead (2000) 2. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/1250238jpg_9280170_18471826.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Amnesiac - Radiohead (2001) 1. http://pixvenue.com/showimage/R674342914_4498985_18471808.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Vespertine - Björk (2001) ------------- "Clipside of the pinkeye flight I'm not the percent you think survives I need sanctuary in the pages of this book." Son Et Lumiere - The Mars Volta |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 13 2016 at 12:09
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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. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 13 2016 at 12:45
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Dylan Modern Times beats out any prog ive heard in the 21st. ------------- |