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Points: 66 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2011 at 02:19
My top 5 of 2010 .... (probably, unless I forgot something) Wink

The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Live (download only)
Probably my album of the year and definitely the best live prog album for many a year IMO, showing the band are happy to re-work and jam things live. Brilliant.

The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing
Another great album from a great band.

Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
Not reaching the heights of Ressurectionists & Night Raider but still excellent.

Mogwai - Special Moves
Stunning, the DVD in particular is a real visual and audio treat.

Spock's Beard - X
Surprise of the year for me, this was on heavy rotation for a while....  and also brilliant live on the European tour.


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Points: 3126 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2011 at 02:56
In general a poor year for prog, but some really good albums this year, though I can only think of 9 in all
 
1.  Kaipa - In The Wake Of Evolution
2.  Future Sound Of London - Environments 3
3.  The Orb (featuring D Gilmour) - Metallic Spheres
4.  Glass Hammer - If
5.  Agents Of Mercy - Dramarama
6.  The Black Dog - Music For Real Airports
7.  Spocks Beard - X
8.  Carl Cox - Black Rock Desert
9.  BT - These Hopeful Machines
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Modest Midget - The Great Prophecy of a Small Man
BunChakeze - Whose Dream?
Kayo Dot - Coyote
Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
Phlox - Talu
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
Hiromi Uehara - A Place To Be
Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

From the top of my mind. I have most certainly forgot some great ones.
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Originally posted by Conor Fynes Conor Fynes wrote:

Originally posted by SoundscapeMN SoundscapeMN wrote:

rym list
1st entry
50-31
30-16
15-1

50e. Apparatjik | We Are Here
50d. Black Milk - Album of the Year
50c. Avenged Sevenfold | Nightmare
50b. Dean Magraw & Marcus Wise | How the Light Gets In
50a. In Vain | Mantra
49. Henry and the Nightcrawlers | Henry and the Nightcrawlers
48. Water & Bodies | The Rain City Sessions Part 2
47. The Chap | Well Done Europe
46. Pat Metheny | Orchestrion
45. Laura Veirs | July Flame
44. Adebisi Shank | This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
43. Jeremy Messersmith | The Reluctant Graveyard
42. Broken Social Scene | Forgiveness Rock Record
41. Enditol | Enditol
40. Bend Sinister | Spring Romance
39. Skeleton Staff | Solipsism
38. Field Music | Field Music (Measure)
37. Walking Sleep | Measures
36. Averse | The Endesque Chants
35b.Renaissance | The Mystic And The Muse
35a. Ihsahn | After
34. Annuals | Sweet Sister
33. Cyclamen | Senjyu
32. Dead Letter Circus |This Is the Warning
31. Grammatics | Krupt
30. Jimmy Gnecco | The Heart
29. The River Empires | Demos/Unfinished/B-Sides
28. The Gloomcatcher | Slow Chorale
27. Punch Brothers | Antifogmatic
26. Distrails | Dry Flies
25. The Apples in Stereo | Travellers in Space and Time
24. Journal | Unlorja
23. Orphaned Land | The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
22. Negroni's Trio | Just Three
21. Timbre | Little Flowers
20. Judgement Day | Peacocks / Pink Monsters
19. Timmy Sean | Songs From & Inspired By Noisewater
18. Anathema | We're Here Because We're Here
17. 22 - Flux
16. The Reign of Kindo | This Is What Happens
15. Everything Everything | Man Alive
14. Pure Reason Revolution | Hammer and Anvil
13. Oceansize | Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
12. Revere | Hey! Selim
11. Jazzkamikaze | Supersonic Revolutions
10. Emanuel and the Fear | Listen
9. Foals | Total Life Forever
8. Warpaint | The Fool
7. Agalloch | Marrow of the Spirit
6. Menomena | Mines
5. Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz
4. Cloud Cult | Light Chasers
3. Janell Monáe | The Archandroid
2. Lehto & Wright | Children's Songs
1. The River Empires | The River Empires (Epilogue)


Originally posted by Conor Fynes Conor Fynes wrote:


 2) Oceansize - Self-Preserved As The Bodies Float Up

After several engaging, dynamic and exciting listens to this incredible album, it's no wonder why this is Steven Wilson's (of Porcupine Tree) favourite album of 2010.




favorite?
here's his list
it was on his there, but at #8. Shearwater's "The Golden Archipeligo" appears to be at least listed as his #1 or one would assume "favorite" record in 2010.


Hmm, guess that's the last time I take a friend's word for fact!


SW said he'd not include albums he'd worked on on the list.
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Points: 10189 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2011 at 22:18
Will elaborate this further, it's late.

#1 - Everything Everything - Man Alive
#2 - Kayo Dot - Coyote
#3 - Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
#4 - Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
#5 - miRthkon - Vehicle
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Originally posted by Roj M30 Roj M30 wrote:

In general a poor year for prog, but some really good albums this year, though I can only think of 9 in all
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No way, it's far better than 2009 was
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Roj M30 Roj M30 wrote:

In general a poor year for prog, but some really good albums this year, though I can only think of 9 in all
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No way, it's far better than 2009 was
 
Thank you! I thought I was the only one who thought this year was better. Everyone seems so negative towards '10.
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Points: 182 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2011 at 03:49
the only album I've listen from 2010 is PoS - Road Salt One.(which is a great album).
I didn't found anything interesting.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2011 at 06:23
2010 was more of a year for going on artist raids where I get into someone and pick up a bunch of albums from their discography.  Despite that 2010 wins the quantity round.  8/43.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Roj M30 Roj M30 wrote:

In general a poor year for prog, but some really good albums this year, though I can only think of 9 in all
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No way, it's far better than 2009 was

No way man, just compare the best albums of 2010 with the ones of 2009.
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Points: 5210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2011 at 10:03
Not a great year IMO. But that forced me to check out some bands I'd never have bothered with otherwise.
 
Shaolin Death Squad was the only metal album that came near masterpiece status for me this year.
 
I think among metal fans, the year was probably decided by how much you liked Coyote and how much you like black metal. Since neither do a lot for me, it was a weak year.
 
There was some good fusiony stuff and Jaga Jazzist (which I just got) and Frogg Cafe were great new finds, but certainly not masterpieces.
 
2009 had two Devy albums and Part the Second.
 
But 2011 could be amazing.
 
I'm revising my list back on the first page...
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Something I noticed when reviewing the Top 10 albums of 2010 on New Year's Eve* ....

- 6 of the Top 10 were 1st albums for the bands concerned (vs Nil -'09, 2 -'08, 2 -'07, Nil -'06, 1 -'05)
- 8 of the Top 10 were 1st OR 2nd albums for the bands concerned (vs 2 -'09, 7 -'08, 2 -'07, 3 -'06, 3 -'05)

Whilst I confess this is hardly an exhaustive piece of statistical analysis, it might point to a new generation of bands breaking through ... examples include Il Tempio delle Clessidre (1st), Haken (2nd), Ciccada (3rd) and Xing Sa (4th).  Only time will tell - of course - if any or all of them are here to stay!

The second point I looked at is the number of 'metal' albums in the Top 10 over a longer period of 15 years - albums within the Prog Metal, Tech/Extreme Prog Metal and Experimental/Post Metal categories.  Again the results were interesting if not conclusive ... suggestive of a waning interest in Metal perhaps? (go on all you metalheads shoot me down in flames) particularly as there are probably more albums released in these 3 sub-genres collectively than any other.

Food for thought anyway....

-2010 - 1 'metal' album
-2009 - 3
-2008 - 1
-2007 - 4
-2006 - 5
-2005 - 7   
-2004 - 7
-2003 - 3
-2002 - 4
-2001 - 9
-2000 - 2
-1999 - 5
-1998 - 8
-1997 - 5
-1996 - 6

*Yes, I know, I should've been out burning up the town but stayed in and progged out instead. Embarrassed
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Points: 4521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2011 at 16:10

^ The point about metal is easy to answer, most fans and contributors of metal went to MMA, hence less ratings and reviews for metal.
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^^^ Not a good year, how can we know? This site alone has about 500 albums now for 2010 and more will be added as bands get added or discographies are updated.
And Prog is just a tiny fraction of all that is released.

I managed to hear about 50 albums from 2010. SO frustrating...
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Guess you're probably well qualified to say folks moved to MMA as you're in the Prog Metal Team.
Always good to see new bands making a mark and suggests that "prog" is becoming increasingly vibrant again - albeit across a much, much broader spectrum of styles than was ever the case in the 1970's.
Also, with each passing year, one would expect that the musical output from most of the older / more established bands will naturally slow - definitely fewer albums from these guys this year IMHO.
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Points: 4521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2011 at 16:32

By the way I count 3 metal albums in the top 10. (I included Haken as that is Prog Metal)
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Now that's cheating!! ;-) as Haken's classed as Heavy Prog.  I concur there is Metal there but so too is there Neo, Eclectic, Symphonic and Heavy so like so many bands v difficult to classify to everyone's satisfaction.
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Originally posted by echo lynn echo lynn wrote:

Now that's cheating!! ;-) as Haken's classed as Heavy Prog.  I concur there is Metal there but so too is there Neo, Eclectic, Symphonic and Heavy so like so many bands v difficult to classify to everyone's satisfaction.


Haken's listed as a progressive metal everywhere except on PA:

PA's sister site;
Metal Archives;
And even TOW.

It is either the whole internet that is wrong or PA is wrong. Wink
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Originally posted by echo lynn echo lynn wrote:

  I concur there is Metal there but so too is there Neo, Eclectic, Symphonic and Heavy.


Yes, that could be an exact definition of Prog Metal Tongue



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Originally posted by echo lynn echo lynn wrote:

Now that's cheating!! ;-) as Haken's classed as Heavy Prog.  I concur there is Metal there but so too is there Neo, Eclectic, Symphonic and Heavy so like so many bands v difficult to classify to everyone's satisfaction.
There a metal band, almost a Dream Theater clone, and should never have been added to Heavy in the first place.

Anyway, most metal albums released this year have come in the traditional prog metal sub, which tends to get mostly so-so ratings anyway, except for a few exceptions, as its all pretty derivative now. Black Metal did have a very strong year though.
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