15 of your fave albums included in PA from the 90s

Sorry for the snipping... Wanted to quote both of these since they both relate (and a couple of others listed more than one album per act with Yes and Mansun)...

Saperlipopette! wrote: I always follow my own one album only per artist/band-rule, but those two Tortoise-albums may be my two most listened to 1990's albums included in PA:...

I have a number of "snaps" with your list, and one that I almost included with Dead Can Dance.

Mellotron Storm wrote: ...Three PT's but one of the rest.

Thanks, John and Saperlipopette! for your lists (as well as all others)

While I went with the one album per band/artist for my list, mostly so I could cover more ground by bands, I find it interesting to see which bands are favoured by individuals by number of albums. That kind of favourite artists topic would be interesting to me -- I did something like that for the 90s before. I'll update the list of all submissions (minus the bonus entries) if we get a few more submissions, and actually I'd like to do a bonus entries list itself. Lists and lists, I read at another site, Progressive Ears, someone saying that the PA forum members are obsessed with lists and this forum is pretty much all about list-making. I know I am. :)

I guess my top four in terms of releases in the 90s PA would be:

Swans
- White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (1991)
- The Great Annihilator (1995)
- Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)

Swans has been rocking my world so much this year. I really got to know the music by this band much more quite recently.

Art Zoyd
- Faust (1995)
- Häxan (1997)

I love both of these albums by Art Zoyd. I went with Häxan for the poll, but I actually return to Faust more. Both Marathonnerres could also be listed, but it's those above two that are particularly special and were my two favourite albums of the 90s for some years.

Tortoise
- Tortoise (1994)
- Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
- TNT (1998)

Current 93
- Thunder Perfect Mind (1992)
- Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (1994)
- All the Pretty Little Horses

Could also mention Horsey (1997) (this albums features a cover song of Comus' "Diana"). Current 93 is one of those bands that I have to be in the right mood for usually. I could imagine some saying that you have to have the "wrong" kind of mood to appreciate it.

Outside of PA when it comes to favourites of mine by artists with multiple loved by me albums, I would include Pram, Stereolab, Portishead (I adore those three bands).

Thanks to all for your contributions. Its been enjoyable looking through them, comparing lists, and listening to music.

Not including the honorable mentions, I included the 15 (or 14 in one case) lists that were posted in this topic and compiled them. I really like the tracks posted too, and that in itself would be deserving of a proper response. A number of these acts and albums were on my longer list that I pared down for my 15: Abou-Khalil (I was going to go with Blue Camel), Dead Can Dance (Aion), Tipographica, Bondage Fruit (with II), Motor Totemist Guild, Sigur Rós, French TV. Thought about adding that Thinking Plague, wanted to add that Tortoise by opted to go with only Millions, and I would have liked to mention three Swans: Soundtracks For the Blind (which I went with) as well as The Great Annihilator and White Light... Love Swans (feel like playing To Be Kind again now, which grew and grew on me). I would also have liked to mention a second by Art Zoyd with Faust. Lots I know and like in the list. Lewian mentioned a track by 'O'rang, and I really like the album Herd of Instinct.

I have mentioned the number of times albums have been mentioned (again, excluding the honorary mentions). Not surprisingly to me from this quite small sample size, Radiohead's OK Computer made the most lists (5x). Rush and Yes are coming up the rear of Radiohead with their Counterparts and Talk (3x each).

Abou-Khalil, Rabih - Al-Jadida
After Crying - Megalázottak é Megszomorítottak
Änglagård - Hybris (x2)
Arena - The Visitor
Art Zoyd - Häxan
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Bill Bruford Earthworks - A Part, and Yet Apart
Björk - Homogenic
Bondage Fruit - II
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (x2)
Bowie, David - Black Tie White Noise
Bowie, David - Earthling
Bozzio , Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - s/t
Cardiacs - Sing to God (x2)
Chick Corea Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask
Chroma Key - Dead Air for Radios
Clarke, Stanley, Al di Meola & Jean-Luc Ponty - Rites of Strings
Clepsydra - Fears
Collage - Moonshine
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Images & Words (x2)
Echolyn - Echolyn
Echolyn - Suffocating the Bloom (x2)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Black Moon
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray
French TV - The Violence of Amateurs (x2)
Gathering, The - Nighttime Birds
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ (x2)
Harpy - Speech On The Radio
Hodgkinson, Tim - Each In Our Own Thoughts
Holdsworth, Allan - Hard Hat Area
Howe, Steve - Turbulence
Höyry-kone - Huono Parturi
Höyry-kone - Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa
IQ - Ever (x2)
Jadis - Across The Water
Janison Edge - The Services of Mary Goode
Keith Emerson Band - Changing States
Keneally, Mike - Sluggo!
King's X - Dogman
Landberk - Indian Summer
Landberk - One Man Tells Another (x2)
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (x2)
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Mansun - Six
Marillion - Brave
Marillion - Holidays in Eden
Mats/Morgan Band - The Music or the Money...
Metheny, Pat - Imaginary Day
Metheny, Pat - Secret Story
Miller, Phil / In Cahoots - Live
Minnemann, Marco - The Green Mindbomb
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust (x2)
Motor Totemist Guild - City of Mirrors
Mr. Bungle - California (x2)
Música d' Repuesto - aV abuC
Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family (x2)
Nuova Era - Il Passo del Soldato
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
Pallas - Beat The Drum
Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions
Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus
Mundus Incompertus
Parsons, Alan - Try Anything Once
Pat Metheny Group - The Road to You
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways, The (x2)
Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair
Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito
Radiohead - OK Computer (x5)
Rush - Counterparts (x3)
Rush - Roll the Bones
Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws: Hurqalya
Siddhatha - Siddhartha
Sigur Rós - Ágætus Byrjun
Sinkadus - Cirkus
Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers (x2)
Spock's Beard - The Light
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Therion -Theli
Thinking Plague - In Extremis (x2)
Tipographica - God Says I Can't Dance
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (x2)
Tortoise - Tortoise
Toy Matinee - S/T
Uakti - Mapa
U Totem - U Totem
Wakeman, Rick - Return to the Center of the Earth
Weckl, Dave - Synergy
Wyatt, Robert - Shleep
Yes - Talk (x3)
Yes - Union
Zappa, Frank - Civilization Phaze III

EDIT: I updated the above list to include John's (Mellotron Storm) choices.

Edited by Logan - May 30 2022 at 05:06

Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions

I always follow muy own one album only per artist/band-rule, but those two Tortoise-albums may be my two most listened to 1990's albums included in PA:

Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise - Tortoise
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Al-Jadida
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Uakti - Mapa
Radiohead - OK Computer
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞
Radiohead - OK Computer
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Mr. Bungle - California


Edited by Saperlipopette! - May 26 2022 at 03:07

You know, I completely overlooked:

Maybe I'll try and come up with a list later, but here's two huge favourites of mine.

Echolyn - Suffocating The Bloom
Pat Metheny Group - The Road to You
Mike Keneally - Sluggo!
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Chick Corea Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask
Allan Holdsworth - Hard Hat Area
King's X - Dogman
Radiohead - OK Computer
French TV - The Violence of Amateurs
Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
Marco Minnemann - The Green Mindbomb
Phil Miller In Cahoots - Live
Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake
David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise
Bill Bruford Earthworks - A Part, And Yet Apart

   

Jared wrote: Logan wrote: Thanks Jared for the albums list. No, thank you. I had a look at my 'elementary, off the cuff' entries from the previous list which David has provided the link for, when I had just come back to PA, but your post has given me more chance to think about some more of the great Neo, Heavy & Symph albums I have enjoyed from that decade in the past; a few of them I will have to reacquaint myself with... there's too much great music and simply not enough listening time!

Making lists, revisiting lists, and re-working, re-thinking and delving deeper into lists can help me to appreciate music all the more.

I was pleased to see that you also posted your honourable mentions. My 15 above came from a list of about 25 which I rather painfully whittled down. I commonly make my lists from scratch even if I have made similar ones before, which is inefficient, but my interests shift over time and of course I discover new-to-me things. I do these mostly based on memory, I double-check often, and quite often look up charts for the familiar.   For this I had quite a few albums in a longer list of which I used to be a fan, but in returning to them for consideration here, quite a few that I had not heard in 15 or so years lost their appeal. My tastes have become rather more conventional and conservative over time, even if my tastes would still be seen as eccentric by many. I do like how thinking about making lists often gets me to return to and re-evaluate music. Sometimes this leads to a much deeper appreciation and sometimes the appreciation seems to have mostly vanished.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Logan wrote: Thanks Jared for the albums list. And thanks Ian for the track choices -- from both of those albums I would have wanted to highlight tracks and in both cases my choice would have been different. I would have gone with "Dirty Boy" and "Exit Music..." from Sing to God and OK Computer. Dirty Boy & Dog Like Sparky were in the running on STG, Exit, Paranoid & Airbag were on OKC

I don't think one could really go wrong with any of those. :)

Logan wrote: Thanks Jared for the albums list.

Thanks Jared for the albums list. And thanks Ian for the track choices -- from both of those albums I would have wanted to highlight tracks and in both cases my choice would have been different. I would have gone with "Dirty Boy" and "Exit Music..." from Sing to God and OK Computer.