Collaborators' Top Albums of 2012

I'm working my way through the soundcloud clips right now.  Lots of good stuff.

Here's my take on the top 10 from the clips -

1 Viljans Oga - Anglagard: My first time sampling the band.  Put that one my to get list.

2 English Electric Part One - Big Big Train: Already got one, verry nice.

3 Echolyn - Echolyn: Sampled this one a few months ago on Progstreaming.  Already interested,

4 Banks of Eden - The Flower Kings: I've got one album already, still can't get into them.

5 The Death Defying Unicorn - Motorpsycho: I was expecting metal.  Pleasantly surprised.

6 Felicite Thosz - Magma: I've sampled Magma before on this site.  Still not interested.

7 Noctourniquet - The Mars Volta: I've sampled TMV on this site and wasn't impresses.  This intrigues me.
8 Quickly Quickly Quickly - The Tea Club: Interesting.  This one is at the bottom of the Progstreaming set, so won't be around much longer.  I'm going to have to try out the whole album.

9 Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion: The first I heard of this was in a recent Steven Wilson interview.  I was already curious.  This is on my must get list now.

10 Clockwork Angels - Rush: I only have the albums with the Cygnuses in my collection and used to have a VHS of the Grace Under Pressure tour live.  Of course I am familiar with more of their stuff it's just never been a high priority to add more albums for me.  However I may have to get this one.
 

Andy Webb wrote: ^I'm happy my soundclouding is being put to good use.

Any Colour You Like, I voted for 5R6, who are Kharkiv pals with Drudkh, let's share some kvlt here!

Andy's the man I have to admit this is the first top-3 in years I'm completely agree with - fantastic comebacks and amazing records, expecting my "echolyn" 2LP to arrive soon! A bit disappointed with Magma and Storm Corrosion being on Top-10 (the "i-put-on-a-list-popular-bands-only" syndrome from fellow collabs, eh?) and pi$$ed off with The Mars Volta there, IMO this is their weakest effort. Glad for The Tea Club underdogs, what an excellent album they got! Shame Marillion didn't make it, STCBM is their best since "Marbles" I guess

Edited by Prog-jester - February 03 2013 at 01:11

Well done Andy on this feat of endurance. I think I was pleased overall with the result as it features albums that I rated highly. Still not a fan of Storm Corrosion but that is becasue my expectations were so high. Mars Volta was a decent album but I was hoping Neal More might get in there. Also Shadow Circus deserve more recognition but too obscure I guess. 

Thanks for the work Andy. 

Edited by richardh - February 04 2013 at 08:31

Thanks for putting this all together. Great format. Great job. As for the poll itself. The cadillac of fanboyism. Mention Steven Wilson and frost it with some Opeth. Storm Corrosion is a mediocre album at best. Rush must be good. Mars Volta, come on. The inclusion of popular bands with mediocre albums to the  exclusion of less popular bands with great albums is a trademark of the collaborators poll. For any newbie the place to get an idea of an albums worth is the regular top 100 albums of the year. At least there the fanboyism does not try to justify itself

Tapfret wrote: Anybody know if the PA AOTY title has been used by any bands as endorsement for their album? Or promoting a new album, eg; "New material from 7 time Progarchives Album of the Year finalist Neal Morse"

Gallifrey wrote: Tapfret wrote: Anybody know if the PA AOTY title has been used by any bands as endorsement for their album? Or promoting a new album, eg; "New material from 7 time Progarchives Album of the Year finalist Neal Morse" I'm sure if it was won by someone who actually uses the site (Phideaux, etc), then they would, but would only use it if they won.

I can remember buying a CD once that had a sticker on it that referenced ProgArchives.  I can't remember what it was or what it said since it was from a few years ago but I remember thinking that it was pretty cool.

1 Viljans Oga - Anglagard 361
3 Echolyn 277
6 Felicite Thosz Magma 162
15 Lost Tapes - Can 102
19 Atlantis - Elephant9 82
28 Concerto for Piano and Electric… - Kotebel 66
38 Valta - Alamaailman Vasarat 52
46 Sister Death - Alex K. Redfearn 42
Pandora's Pinata - Diablo Swing Orchestra 42
Acte V - Forgas Band Phenomena - 42
53 Decline and Fall - Thinking Plague 40
Out of the Coma - Comus 40
66 Quetzacoatl - Corima 34
73 The Letter - Cosa Bravo 32
151 Made in Belgium - Aranis 14
179 Mirror - Yugen 12

These all made my top 30, nice year for an Avant head.

The ones missing that made my top 10 were

3 Mice : Elaine di Falco/Cedric Vuille/Dave Willey - Send Me a Postcard
Unit Wail - Pangaea Proxima
Bärtsch, Nik/Ronin - Live 2 x CDs



Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - February 04 2013 at 19:17