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Points: 20636 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2011 at 04:45
Originally posted by echo lynn echo lynn wrote:

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
 
not sure about what you're rambling on aboutTongueWink...
 
1- PA is here (online) since early 2004 under this form (it existed in  a different form before, though),
2- in the Collab Top 2010, I count three progmetal albums (Alcest, Kayo Dot and Agalloch)
3- Xing Sa is a side-project of Setna (all thre Xing are Setnas), so it can't really considered a first work
 
 
and last but not least... most PA members occupying their time on MMA are still active members here....
 
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2011 at 04:51
Kayo Dot's Coyote is avant-prog, Hugues Wink

RE the predominance of metal abums, echo lynn was talking about the general 2010 chart, not the Collab's top. But even there there aren't many metal abums, just Alcest and Shaolin Death Squad, plus Haken who could also be considered metal.
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Points: 20636 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2011 at 07:41
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Kayo Dot's Coyote is avant-prog, Hugues Wink

RE the predominance of metal abums, echo lynn was talking about the general 2010 chart, not the Collab's top. But even there there aren't many metal abums, just Alcest and Shaolin Death Squad, plus Haken who could also be considered metal.
 
 
OK thanks
 
 
but I still find that his/her list going to the mid-90's a bit suspect, but it doesn't matterWink, I'm just an old curmudgeon
 
as for KD being AP: ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused


Edited by Sean Trane - February 24 2011 at 07:42
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I didn't say Kayo Dot is avant-prog. Kayo Dot as a band is unclassifiable.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2011 at 08:46
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Kayo Dot's Coyote is avant-prog, Hugues Wink

RE the predominance of metal abums, echo lynn was talking about the general 2010 chart, not the Collab's top. But even there there aren't many metal abums, just Alcest and Shaolin Death Squad, plus Haken who could also be considered metal.
 
 
OK thanks
 
 
but I still find that his/her list going to the mid-90's a bit suspect, but it doesn't matterWink, I'm just an old curmudgeon
 
as for KD being AP: ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused
Well, they havnt metal in their sound since 2006, so I dont know what else you would call them.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Kayo Dot's Coyote is avant-prog, Hugues Wink

RE the predominance of metal abums, echo lynn was talking about the general 2010 chart, not the Collab's top. But even there there aren't many metal abums, just Alcest and Shaolin Death Squad, plus Haken who could also be considered metal.
 
 
OK thanks
 
 
but I still find that his/her list going to the mid-90's a bit suspect, but it doesn't matterWink, I'm just an old curmudgeon
 
as for KD being AP: ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused

I'm going to take a wild stab and say you've not heard a second of Coyote.
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Points: 20636 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2011 at 10:02
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Kayo Dot's Coyote is avant-prog, Hugues Wink

RE the predominance of metal abums, echo lynn was talking about the general 2010 chart, not the Collab's top. But even there there aren't many metal abums, just Alcest and Shaolin Death Squad, plus Haken who could also be considered metal.
 
 
OK thanks
 
 
but I still find that his/her list going to the mid-90's a bit suspect, but it doesn't matterWink, I'm just an old curmudgeon
 
as for KD being AP: ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused

I'm going to take a wild stab and say you've not heard a second of Coyote.
 
Yup, not a secondEmbarrassed
 
But I did listen to their previous one Anemone (I even think it was I voted it in my top 10 or top5 back then)
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2011 at 10:09
Anemone's the second album, and the lat one to have any metal in them, Blue Lambency Downward was the third, go to www.bluelambencydownward.com to see how much they've changed. 
 
Edit: Damn link seems to think thats part of PA's site, but the web adress is correct for a free streaming of that album.


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Points: 12625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 09:24
I finally managed to collect most of what I listened to in these posts:
Part 1 - Listening Trends
Part 2 - My favourites of the year (excluding the Top 3 albums)
Part 3 - The Top favourite 3 albums
Hanging Sounds

PA Index of prog music vendors


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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 09:28
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Kayo Dot's Coyote is avant-prog, Hugues Wink

RE the predominance of metal abums, echo lynn was talking about the general 2010 chart, not the Collab's top. But even there there aren't many metal abums, just Alcest and Shaolin Death Squad, plus Haken who could also be considered metal.
 
 
OK thanks
 
 
but I still find that his/her list going to the mid-90's a bit suspect, but it doesn't matterWink, I'm just an old curmudgeon
 
as for KD being AP: ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused

I'm going to take a wild stab and say you've not heard a second of Coyote.

As for someone talking about a band's genre when hearing less than 50% of their discography Confused
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Points: 195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 04:38
Compilation of the year has to be Up Above Our Heads [Clouds 1966-71], mainly because of the importance to the history of progressive music. 
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