Collaborators' Top Albums of 2012

Replace Anglagard with Wilson or TMV and we may agree.

Epignosis wrote: I think that Anglagaard could put out anything and people here would worship it.

It's all a matter of taste people. Epignosis(Rob) has made it well known that he doesn't like Anglagard which is cool. I'm not a fan of Kansas either or ELP except for their debut. It's good we all have different tastes and opinions isn't it ?

Slartibartfast wrote: 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.

I like what you did there Slarts 

Horizons wrote: Anthony H. wrote: The "fanboyism" yell is nonsense. Yes, because if you don't like an album, anybody who does is obviously just a fanboy! And I wonder why I don't participate with this site too much anymore. I liked it, i was just surprised on how much attention and praise it got. Mreh.

The audio sample that Andy put up, is that sort of the style of the whole Mars Volta album ? Cause i really liked that tune.

Mellotron Storm wrote: I personally didn't think Anglagard's new one was as good as their previous two but in time that may change. I still had it at number three in my list though.

In my opinion, although it's not a bad album, I can't help but feel the same way about the new Anglagard album as you, John. For me it's a little too fragmented, and the instrumental melodies are not quite as memorable. There's also not as many reprises/repeated passages as on their previous albums, which helped them have a real flow. Still a fine album, but then you put on either `Hybris' and `Epilog' and it shows up how much better than the newie they are!

I think I sort of had it in my top 10 list for a little while, but it very quickly dropped off....too many more exciting instrumental albums last year that were far superior to my ears!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - February 04 2013 at 21:38

Synth-Prog yo.

Edited by Horizons - February 04 2013 at 20:59

Mellotron Storm wrote: Sean Trane wrote: 98 Perigeo Il Giardino Onirico 24   What's this one.... I love the old Italian fusion band , but neither ProgArchives nor Rate Your Music list if...   ============   Great work Andy Hey Hugues i had to look this one up myself. The album's title is Perigeo and the band's name is Il Giardino Onrico. Yeah a little confusing.

Edited by Sean Trane - February 05 2013 at 04:06

Where do you see me elevating my opinion over the herd. I put my opinion on a page with numerous other opinions. Actually I respect your opinion about my opinion. My opinion is not more valid than others but as I pointed out the people who make up the body have a more complete opinion than the collaborators poll and it says the album you mentioned is a 3.7 album after over 250 ratings. We could talk about the other two albums also but I won't bother. So don't make it about me. Who cares anyway in the long run.

Last year at the Collab polls we had Opeth in  the number 2 position of the year while an absolute masterpiece of prog  rock, in the top 50 albums of all the history of prog rock was in 4th place. All I would say to a newbie, which I did say in my original post was the top 100 albums of the year is a better and more accurate opinion of an album's worth. That does not mean the Collab poll is not of value. The format of it is absolutely wonderful and I wish the top 100 albums of the year had such an awesome format. As one person said he believed such and such a band could release anything and people would go bonkers about it. I think that is true to a certain degree but I also think time is the great leveller. What is a masterpiece today may be run of the mill in the future.