Modern Prog: Fourth Album
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Topic: Modern Prog: Fourth Album
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Modern Prog: Fourth Album
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 00:12
There's Still Life in these polls yet, and while I may be Clutching at Straws, I think this poll could Signify a win for Porcupine Tree, although I could be wrong, again. 
 2003: Anekdoten - Gravity - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxGd9bfHMt4rrmcp8GmFoV8Oi6sErQipU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxGd9bfHMt4rrmcp8GmFoV8Oi6sErQipU  2004: Big Big Train - Gathering Speed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaAFErNPQMqZHZwruhIuyxL" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaAFErNPQMqZHZwruhIuyxL 1995: Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWXG8rbHM2tUkDz0tIOLTEaSWswZyvnNc" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWXG8rbHM2tUkDz0tIOLTEaSWswZyvnNc 1999: The Flower Kings - Flower Power - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQswd0y5zT8AqiPXvPvhM6oROA9FDDkt8" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQswd0y5zT8AqiPXvPvhM6oROA9FDDkt8 1989: IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKWlzgxqnwfUKVsqnsD-a9P" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKWlzgxqnwfUKVsqnsD-a9P  2006: Magenta - New York Suite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcvG-OXfRo" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcvG-OXfRo 1987: Marillion - Clutching at Straws - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZSj97j2ofIKq5xlVB5BKBp" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZSj97j2ofIKq5xlVB5BKBp 2001: Mostly Autumn - Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbyF28C2EYG0kHXkFh6grhA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbyF28C2EYG0kHXkFh6grhA 2021: Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGKY69mlxRIoLTUdWGR0tKDfs6y8ZD_ec" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGKY69mlxRIoLTUdWGR0tKDfs6y8ZD_ec  1999: Opeth - Still Life - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzS6aMbbwuN1hIhrwf9npFIzLrprkiV_4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzS6aMbbwuN1hIhrwf9npFIzLrprkiV_4  2001: Pallas - The Cross & the Crucible - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKSPwLBWy-Z8KH7dzCuO8Us" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKSPwLBWy-Z8KH7dzCuO8Us 1993: Pendragon - The Window of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDQUkhpfsA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDQUkhpfsA 1996: Porcupine Tree - Signify - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEajx5x7EfyhKYKUcrlyOuQT" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEajx5x7EfyhKYKUcrlyOuQT 2009: Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlK4jNAlrM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlK4jNAlrM 2010: Solstice - Spirit - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJiXJ_p7OaRdQ4_b9m9the4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJiXJ_p7OaRdQ4_b9m9the4 1999: Spock's Beard - Day for Night - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkTu74HV3qs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkTu74HV3qs 1988: Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJo40Y3lTzwowB4howqb-4wdC3GF8TkDY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJo40Y3lTzwowB4howqb-4wdC3GF8TkDY 2014: Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qRcBOKhZcw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qRcBOKhZcw 2017: Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2W_UAIqwbk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2W_UAIqwbk |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 00:34
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Wobbler followed by Anekdoten. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 00:43
| Marillion - Clutching at Straws (1987) |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 01:07
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5 Suns ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 02:11
| Riverside |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 02:22
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Five Suns. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 02:45
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Guapo! ------------- 
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 03:19
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Sing To God, followed closely by In Extremis ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - New album! |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 03:50
| Indeed, plenty of straw clutching going on here except for the fabulous Cardiacs!! |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 04:05
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Thinking Plague > Anekdoten > Guapo > Present > The Flower Kings > Wobbler ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 05:45
| The Flower Kings, Spock’s Beard, Transatlantic, and Porcupine Tree. I cannot decide among these. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 05:59
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Talk Talk > Cardiacs, Anekdoten, Porcupine Tree, Thinking Plague (deja vu...) Oh, and Guapo! |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 06:13
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Opeth - Still Life. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 06:45
| Signify. That one and The Sky Moves Sideways got me into PT. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 06:46
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Impossible for me to split Guapo & Cardiacs. I voted Cardiacs as I have to vote for one of them. Fantastic set of avant albums. Cardiacs/Guapo > Thinking Plague > Talk Talk > Present ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 07:34
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Wobbler. Of course. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 09:02
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Wobbler over Marillion for this round. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 09:46
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PT then Wobbler ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 16:41
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impossible to me choose between 2 of my favs records Talk Talk "Spirit Of Eden" = Cardiacs "Sign To God" Anekdoten "Gravity" and Guapo "5 suns" are amazing too
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 16:50
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I did actually consider Clutching at Straws, even though its my least favourite of Marillion's first eight albums. BUT Music inspired by Lord of the Rings by Mostly Autumn has Goodbye Alone, with THAT guitar solo.
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 13 2022 at 22:30
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The Flower Kings then Porcupine Tree Spock's Beard, Pendragon, Marillion and Transatlantic all have very good albums here too. I still need to listen to the Neal Morse Band album.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 14 2022 at 02:25
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"From Silence to Somewhere" ahead of "Anno Domini High Definition" and "Sing to God" ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 14 2022 at 02:44
| Riverside |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 27 2022 at 02:57
| Riverside |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 27 2022 at 12:35
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'Flower Power' for me |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 27 2022 at 20:05
| Riverside, I guess. Strangely enough, I do love their classic sound, and this is perhaps the album that departs the most from it, but it's also my favourite from them. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 28 2022 at 10:34
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PT....Wobbler.....Flower Kings... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 28 2022 at 11:14
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I don't have that Swans album yet (I've been very into Swans of late). It's a tough choice between the Cardiacs and Guapo albums for me. I love both of those. Much as it pains me not to vote for Five Suns, which I think fantastic, I'm voting for an album I don't find as perfect but love (even if it's not altogether consistent for me and not my favourite Cardiacs album) which is of course Sing to God. Heck, even if it was just down to "Dirty Boy", which is for me one of the greatest songs ever I'd, be wanting to vote for Sing to God. And it led to my favourite cover album that covers a whole album (and it's a double album), Singin' to God by the The 180 Gs. Shared this various times, but Dirty Boy off it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VV-0xRj3TI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VV-0xRj3TI This is another of my favourite Dirty Boy covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sq0nTW6RpE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sq0nTW6RpE I like hearing others takes on favourites of mine. |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: January 29 2022 at 17:43
| Pendragon - The Window of Life |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: January 29 2022 at 17:54
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Anekdoten Gravity very tough poll |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 21 2022 at 08:30
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Marillion again! IQ fall short but only just, it’s still a fantastic album. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 05 2022 at 09:49
I only just realised that Dream Theater's fourth album in the poll should have been "A Change of Seasons" (1995). It's listed as an EP on Wikipedia, even though the album's 57 minutes long. 
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 05 2022 at 10:13
| ^You made no error. It is an EP. The title track is 23 minutes, while the rest of the album is cover tunes. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 05 2022 at 10:35
Thanks for your reassurance, but "A Change of Seasons" still seems like a genuine full-length album to me, especially considering I have the full-priced album in my CD collection.
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Grumpyprogfan wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 15 2022 at 10:23
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I've finally got around to listening to all of the nineteen albums in this 4th Modern Prog poll (again ignoring the five Avant Prog albums) with the Neo Prog bands Magenta; Mostly Autumn; Pallas; Pendragon all predictably rated highest of all, but with Opeth still stuck in a growling 2-star rut, although I've heard from a reliable source (Cristi) that they improve massively with their fifth album, Blackwater Park, produced by Steven Wilson and described as Opeth's magnum opus on Wikipedia - unlike Opeth's first four albums which are more of a magnum 'opeless, although that's purely a matter of subjective opinion on my part.  2003: Anekdoten - Gravity - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxGd9bfHMt4rrmcp8GmFoV8Oi6sErQipU" rel="nofollow - 2004: Big Big Train - Gathering Speed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaAFErNPQMqZHZwruhIuyxL" rel="nofollow - 1995: Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWXG8rbHM2tUkDz0tIOLTEaSWswZyvnNc" rel="nofollow - 1999: The Flower Kings - Flower Power - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQswd0y5zT8AqiPXvPvhM6oROA9FDDkt8" rel="nofollow - 1989: IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKWlzgxqnwfUKVsqnsD-a9P" rel="nofollow - 2006: Magenta - New York Suite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcvG-OXfRo" rel="nofollow - 1987: Marillion - Clutching at Straws - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZSj97j2ofIKq5xlVB5BKBp" rel="nofollow - 2001: Mostly Autumn - Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbyF28C2EYG0kHXkFh6grhA" rel="nofollow - 2021: Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGKY69mlxRIoLTUdWGR0tKDfs6y8ZD_ec" rel="nofollow - 1999: Opeth - Still Life - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzS6aMbbwuN1hIhrwf9npFIzLrprkiV_4" rel="nofollow - 2001: Pallas - The Cross & the Crucible - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKSPwLBWy-Z8KH7dzCuO8Us" rel="nofollow - 1993: Pendragon - The Window of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDQUkhpfsA" rel="nofollow - 1996: Porcupine Tree - Signify - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEajx5x7EfyhKYKUcrlyOuQT" rel="nofollow - 2009: Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlK4jNAlrM" rel="nofollow - 2010: Solstice - Spirit - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJiXJ_p7OaRdQ4_b9m9the4" rel="nofollow - 1999: Spock's Beard - Day for Night - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkTu74HV3qs" rel="nofollow - 1988: Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJo40Y3lTzwowB4howqb-4wdC3GF8TkDY" rel="nofollow - 2014: Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qRcBOKhZcw" rel="nofollow - 2017: Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2W_UAIqwbk" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: June 17 2022 at 04:42
| Sing to God - just 'Dirty Boy' on it's own should win this hands down (but it won't...) |
Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: June 17 2022 at 15:39
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Clutching at Straws. ------------- 
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 06 2022 at 13:14
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Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere (2017) ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: July 08 2022 at 03:56
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I'm going with Opeth today. Probably the only album from them I genuinely enjoyed from start to finish, excluding Blackwater Park, which just, to me, felt like like half-assed follow up to Still Life (in that it lacks the atmosphere, imo), such that while I enjoy it, I see no reason to listen to it when Still Life is just simply better. |