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

As a sort of complementary list-making exercise to David's 15 of your fave non-Prog albums from the 90's?, this is "15 of your fave albums included in PA from the 90s". So for this list, whether you think it Prog or not is not as important as whether or not it has been added to ProgArchives as a listed artist in any of the categories.

Here is my list, which only has one album per act and are all studio albums.

Art Zoyd - Häxan
Björk - Homogenic
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞
Höyry-kone - Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family
Radiohead - OK Computer
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
U Totem - U Totem
Wyatt, Robert - Shleep

Additionally, I would appreciate it very much if one track is listed that comes from one of your album choices. Ideally a youtube embed or link to another site where the music can be streamed will be provided so that others may more easily check out the track you chose. I might do a poll on those later. If someone else has already posted your particular favourite track, then you might wish to post another (while perhaps mentioning that the aforementioned track would have been your choice).

I will go with Swans' "Helpless Child" as my track choice from the albums on my list.



EDIT: As David pointed out his ten Prog albums poll, and this comes a little close, will continue and emphasise more with the fave tracks of faves albums in PA idea as an additional thing so the topic is not the same and cover both. If embedding, not too many please. So to add to Swans' "Helpless Child".

Art Zoyd - "Épreuves d'acier"



Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a film)



Björk's "Jóga", Cardiacs' "Dirty boy" (sure to get mentions I would hope), Current 93's "Riverdeadbank" are some other faves.

If I do make a poll out of this, maybe I will do it as two song mentions per person per poll option.

Edited by Logan - May 23 2022 at 11:16

Well, this topic is rather too close then to that as set up for my liking. Instead I will modify to put more emphasis on mentioning the tracks. It will also include mentioning albums still, and cover that different "tracks" ground which your topic did not.

Edited by Logan - May 23 2022 at 11:01

Thanks for this Greg, I have thoroughly enjoyed giving this one some thought.

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.

Logan wrote: Thanks Jared for the albums list.

   

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. :)

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

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

You know, I completely overlooked:

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