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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Dewa Budjana


An album that I really "took to". In fact I was showing a lot of my Indian co-workers that Indian flavoured cover art, plus Moheny Dey on bass just kills here. For discovering her alone through this album makes this record important to me. Another co-worker who is older and a metal fan first was going on and on about the opening track I told him about.
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Originally posted by Mormegil Mormegil wrote:

Pendragon, followed by Ayreon.


Glad to see them get vote. I must admit the Ayreon album doesn't do much for me but it was cool to see all the guests from various styles being part of that.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

2018 to be sure. However, I voted for The Magus due to a feeling that its highly-unusual sound needed some lovin' here.


Right? 2018 was in my opinion the last great year for our music. My opinion of course, but covid seems to have affected 2019 and the years that followed.
Thanks for picking The Magus. That's another album that intrigued me greatly when I bought it. Mammoth and so well done with that zeuhl flavour. A mysterious and dark vibe here.
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Originally posted by Olape Olape wrote:

Diagonal's debut.


Yes! I was hoping for a vote for this incredible debut. A large 7 piece band that draws on the seventies in different ways.
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For myself it was between Insurgents and Vortex and neither had a vote. I went with Sonar as I feel this was the start of something special with David Torn being a part of this band's sound. Insurgents just connects with me big time with the inspiration wilson drew from from the 80's etc. I know I seem to one of the few who feels this is a masterpiece let alone his best solo record.
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either Elephant9-Dodovoodoo or Anna Von Hausswolff-Dead Magic. I have to think about it.
I went with Dodovoodoo as it didn't have any votes. When it came out it was so refreshing, and it has given me a lot of listening pleasure over the years. And if you ever get a chance to catch them live, you've got something to look forward to. A real beast of a power trio.
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Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

2018 to be sure. However, I voted for The Magus due to a feeling that its highly-unusual sound needed some lovin' here.


Right? 2018 was in my opinion the last great year for our music. My opinion of course, but covid seems to have affected 2019 and the years that followed.


Seeing as Covid didn’t kick off until March 2020 I don’t see how it could have affected 2019! Which I thought was a great year…..
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

2018 to be sure. However, I voted for The Magus due to a feeling that its highly-unusual sound needed some lovin' here.


Right? 2018 was in my opinion the last great year for our music. My opinion of course, but covid seems to have affected 2019 and the years that followed.


Seeing as Covid didn’t kick off until March 2020 I don’t see how it could have affected 2019! Which I thought was a great year…..


The question often becomes, how informed an opinion is it? My opinion commonly is that if you find a year weak then you just have not explored enough, and/or your interests are, and net is, too narrow. And I don't care to differentiate if it's Prog or not commonly (I don't like the Prog/non-Prog dichotomy often).

2019 had various really great releases for my ears -- it's not one of the strongest years for me, but there are thousands of albums I have not heard that I might get to like if I heard them. I have Lingua Ignota's Caligula at number one (would not be to all tastes to say the least). From 2020, I love Cisnienie's The Brass Album. 2022-2024 were really great years for me in terms of both quantity and (subjective) quality of releases. I did step-up my listening for those years which no doubt made a difference. The more you hear, and the more diversity you can appreciate, the more you might find to appreciate. I sound like a broken record, but at least from the late 50s up, every year is a great year for me as I know releases that I love. Quantity is not my main gauge. I only have two kids but still find them great and would not exchange them for ten different kids. I would have liked one more, but we decided to stick with two.

By the way, this is just an angle of mine (a perspective). I'm not claiming that you are wrong in finding 2018 to be the last great year for music. Of course how much you are into and how much you know is going to be a factor.

Edited by Logan - 3 hours 14 minutes ago at 12:56
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Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Anna von Hausswolff's for me.

1998 is a favourite year of mine. My avatar is of a 1998 release and my favourite concert happened in 1998 (but released in 1999) and a couple of my favourite concerts were released that year. Fabulous year. And 2008 has one of my very favourite albums with Portishead's Third (I consider it to be prog related anyway). With 2018, I really love Dead Magic, which gets my vote. I also like the Elpehant9, Far Corner, and UTO particularly. I have preferred the earlier Thinking Plague releases, but should play in Extremis again, which was the first TP album I heard. Last time I heard it I enjoyed it more than I did when I bought the album in I think 2004. I did enjoy the All Traps too.


For 1998 I didn't include Bruford Levin Upper Extremities which is possibly my favourite from that year. Also there's an album by Smith/Coster/Coryell record called "Cause And Affect" which is great. Siddhartha from Turkey released their debut that year. Love that record. As far as what I listed for '98 I'd go with Kevin Moore's Chroma Key record over In Extremis.
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I haven't even heard the Bruford Levin album, at least I know of it. I will check it out when I can, nor that Coryell et al album. I have heard some music of Siddharta before, and I remember appreciating it.

From 1998, I really love albums like Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right Children, Air's Moon Safari, Pram's, Neutral Milk Hotel's, Tortoise's TNT, Portishead's live, Swans live, Komeda, and I adore the Fishmans live whose concert came at the end of 1998. Pretty hipsterish stuff, perhaps, that has got some derision from some people at PA and I would not tend to recommend to you on the whole. The Anekdoten-related Morte Macabre is another fave of mine from the year. If I were to choose one year for music that was either recorded or released to represeent a lot of what I have been most into in pretty recent years, 1998 would be a good one. 1996 and 1997 are really special to me too, and 1995 and 1999 ain't too shabby either. :)

I forgot to mention Diagonal from the poll as one I have liked before. As ever, I appreciate the variety of music in these polls (multiple things that I really like and different albums for different interests).

Edited by Logan - 2 hours 27 minutes ago at 13:43
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