Release Polls: Rank & Tier your Favorite Artists!

Mike Oldfield:

1. (S) Ommadawn (1975, listened extensively) [SPO]
2. (S) Hergest Ridge (1974, listened extensively) [SPO]
3. (S) Incantations (1978, listened extensively) [SPO]
4. (S) The Songs of Distant Earth (1994, listened extensively) [SPO]
5. (S) Tubular Bells (1973, listened extensively) [SPO]
6. (S) Amarok (1990, listened extensively) [SPO]
7. (S) Platinum (1979, listened often)
8. (S) Return To Ommadawn (2017, listened extensively) [SPO]
9. (A) Crises (1983, listened extensively) [SPO]
10. (A) Tubular Bells III (1998, listened extensively) [SPO]
11. (A) QE2 (1980, listened extensively) [SPO]
12. (A) Guitars (1999, listened often)
13. (A) Five Miles Out (1982, listened extensively) [SPO]
14. (A) The Millenium Bell (1999, listened often)
15. (A) Tubular Bells 2003 (2003, listened often)
16. (B) Discovery (1984, listened extensively) [SPO]
17. (B) Voyager (1996, listened extensively) [SPO]
18. (B) Tr3s Lunas (2002, listened often)
19. (B) Music of the Spheres (2008, listened often)
20. (B) The Killing Fields (1984, several listens)
21. (B) Tubular Bells II (1992, listened extensively)
22. (C) Islands (1987, listened often)
23. (D) Light + Shade (2005, several listens)
24. (D) Earth Moving (1989, several listens) [SPO]
25. (D) Man On The Rocks (2014, several listens)
26. (E) Heaven's Open (1991, several listens)

1. (S) Aphrodite's Child - 666 (1972, listened extensively) [SPO]
2. (S) Pink Floyd - Animals (1977, listened extensively) [SPO]
3. (S) Magenta - Seven (2004, listened extensively) [BC]
4. (S) Eloy - Time To Turn (1982, listened extensively) [SPO]
5. (S) Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura (2007, listened extensively)
6. (S) Camel - Nude (1981, listened often) [SPO]
7. (S) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974, listened extensively) [SPO]
8. (S) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988, listened extensively) [SPO]
9. (S) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973, listened extensively) [SPO]
10. (S) Neal Morse - One (2004, listened extensively)
11. (S) Arena - The Visitor (1998, listened extensively) [SPO]
12. (S) Echolyn - Mei (2002, listened often) [SPO]
13. (S) Amplifier - The Octopus (2011, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
14. (S) Lazuli - Le fantastique envol de Dieter Böhm (2020, listened often) [SPO]
15. (S) Glass Hammer - Dreaming City (2020, listened often) [BC]
16. (S) Wyatt E. - Zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1 (2025, first listen) [AP Prog] [BC, SPO]
17. (S) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967, listened extensively) [SPO]
18. (S) IQ - Subterranea (1998, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
19. (A) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007, listened often) [BC, SPO]
20. (A) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015, listened often) [BC, SPO]
21. (A) Le Orme - Felona e Sorona (1973, listened often) [SPO]
22. (A) Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern (1997, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
23. (A) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (1972, listened extensively) [SPO]
24. (A) Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999, listened often) [SPO]
25. (A) The Who - Quadrophenia (1973, listened often) [SPO]
26. (A) Infringement - Black Science & White Lies (2024, listened often) [BC, SPO]
27. (A) Galahad - The Long Goodbye (2023, listened often) [BC, SPO]
28. (A) Built For The Future - 2084: Heretic (2023, listened often) [BC, SPO]
29. (A) Alan Parsons - I Robot (1977, listened extensively) [SPO]
30. (A) Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (1985, listened extensively) [SPO]

Mike Oldfield:

1. Ommadawn (1975) [SPO]
2. Hergest Ridge (1974) [SPO]
3. Tubular Bells (1973) [SPO]
4. Incantations (1978) [SPO]
5. Amarok (1990) [SPO]
6. Return To Ommadawn (2017) [SPO]
7. Tubular Bells II (1992)
8. Tubular Bells III (1998) [SPO]
9. The Songs of Distant Earth (1994) [SPO]
10. QE2 (1980) [SPO]
11. Five Miles Out (1982) [SPO]
12. Crises (1983) [SPO]
13. Platinum (1979)
14. Music of the Spheres (2008)
15. Discovery (1984) [SPO]
16. Voyager (1996) [SPO]

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ No Ayreon?

Llistened to the remastered and remixed version of The Human Equation yesterday. Enjoyed it but was never the biggest fan only because my brain isn't big enough. Certainly a massive chunk of creativity, kind of Frank Zappa for the prog metal age

richardh wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ No Ayreon? Llistened to the remastered and remixed version of The Human Equation yesterday. Enjoyed it but was never the biggest fan only because my brain isn't big enough. Certainly a massive chunk of creativity, kind of Frank Zappa for the prog metal age

Put The Source on repeat, I think it's his most accessible release. My favorite is Y, but only by a very narrow margin

New Feature! I'm now beginning to introduce links between artists. I started with Arjen, linking his artist account to all his projects. So here's a poll containing all of Arjen's releases:
https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aota-11736/vote

1. (S) Ayreon - 01011001 (2008, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
2. (S) Ayreon - The Source (2017, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
3. (S) Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle (1998, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
4. (S) Ayreon - The Human Equation (2004, listened often) [BC, SPO]
5. (S) Star One - Space Metal (2002, listened extensively) [SPO]
6. (S) Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything (2013, listened often) [BC, SPO]
7. (S) Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real (2012, several listens) [SPO]
8. (S) Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution - The Golden Age of Music (2023, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
9. (A) Ayreon - Transitus (2020, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
10. (A) Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day (2009, several listens) [SPO]
11. (A) Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator (2000, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
12. (A) Star One - Revel In Time (2022, several listens) [BC, SPO]
13. (A) Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine - The Long-Lost Songs (2024, several listens) [AP Prog-Adj] [BC, SPO]
14. (A) Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer (2000, listened extensively) [BC, SPO]
15. (B) Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer (2001, listened often) [SPO]
16. (B) Ayreon - Actual Fantasy (1996, listened often) [BC, SPO]
17. (B) Stream of Passion - Beautiful Warrior (EP, 2023, first listen) [BC, SPO]
18. (B) Ayreon - The Final Experiment (1995, listened often) [BC, SPO]

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - May 02 2025 at 05:02

richardh wrote: kind of Frank Zappa for the prog metal age

How is Arjen the Frank Zappa of progressive metal?! In no way he comes close to the genius of Zappa.
Arjen's always played it safe, applied the same formula, but his fans seem to like that.

richardh wrote: Cristi wrote: richardh wrote: kind of Frank Zappa for the prog metal age How is Arjen the Frank Zappa of progressive metal?! In no way he comes close to the genius of Zappa. Arjen's always played it safe, applied the same formula, but his fans seem to like that. ''Playing it safe''

How is he not playing it safe?!

richardh wrote: T I can only hear what I hear, I don't hear anything that is safe or formulaic.

I get it, no problem, but to me, he's applying a formula over and over, that's become rather predictable.