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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:14
No band in the world beats this album, track listing copied here below:

No.

Title

Length

1.

"Five Years"  

4:44

2.

"Soul Love"  

3:33

3.

"Moonage Daydream"  

4:35

4.

"Starman"  

4:13

5.

"It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies)

3:00

 

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No.

Title

Length

6.

"Lady Stardust"  

3:20

7.

"Star"  

2:50

8.

"Hang On to Yourself"  

2:40

9.

"Ziggy Stardust"  

3:13

10.

"Suffragette City"  

3:25

11.

"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide"  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:13
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:


God this track is sexy as hell (good hot hell that is) Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - HAMMERSMITH '73 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLZNBbxJ2xo&list=PLMyHPEAFkfwM_QhxdQ8EBNtoGg_AeGUSS&index=1
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette
The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget
Ohh how how how, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide
.................................... sigh Heartuhm ... xxxx



Oh yes!! I've always preferred it in a live setting. The much maligned David Live! also has a breathtaking performance from Bowie. He is in great voice that evening!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:12
Meltdowner you too!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:10
I agree with David, he could probably rate 5 stars on general music sites but for progressive fans it doesn't seem essential. This comes from the guy who rated most LZ albums with 5 stars though, I just couldn't rate it lower LOL I should update those Ermm
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:09
The spiders etc ziggy and mars blah ... is my fav album, did you know that rick wakeman played on one track in that album? A song called "It Aint Easy" :) xxxx
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:03
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No I'd rate Ziggy with 3 stars. It's a good album, just like the review guidelines suggest. Pin Ups and Young Americans I'd give 2
Remember this is coming from a looooong standing fan who absolutely adores the man.
Your last sentence is a tad exaggerated LOL really! lol Gulbamsen, another 10 min time out for it! Stern Smile
Plus Ziggy 3 stars, that's a sin! lol
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 04:00
God this track is sexy as hell (good hot hell that is) Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - HAMMERSMITH '73 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLZNBbxJ2xo&list=PLMyHPEAFkfwM_QhxdQ8EBNtoGg_AeGUSS&index=1
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 03:59
No I'd rate Ziggy with 3 stars. It's a good album, just like the review guidelines suggest. Pin Ups and Young Americans I'd give 2
Remember this is coming from a looooong standing fan who absolutely adores the man.

Edited by Guldbamsen - December 31 2014 at 04:01
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 03:54
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So just for fun, and partially because I think the 5 star trigger is being pulled waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too often, I'd like to ask PA members of how many genuine masterpieces they think were produced in 2014?

While I think the year has been absolutely drenched in wonderful releases, I do not feel comfortable in awarding any of them with the full monty. Some, however, do have the potential to reach the upper shelf, but for me that takes time. Maybe in a year, I'll be able to sing the praises of one of these albums - stamping a 5 star rating on my review, but I want to be sure and not just driven by the moment I first hear something good (like I strongly suspect a fair few reviewers tend to do).



I'll take you up on your challenge, David:

Of the 101 albums currently charting on PA's Top albums of 2014 list, I have heard 56, rated/reviewed 36 and given 5 stars to three (3):

---No tengas miedo by KANT FREUD KAFKA because it is truly an exemplary work of intelligently crafted symphonic prog with amazing flow and cohesion, great instrumental performances and contributions throughout, all inspired by a modern Pandora/Persephone-Demeter myth the story of which the music is synchronized. 

---City of the Sun by SEVEN IMPALE because they have produced an amazingly deep and memorable album of multi-layered hard rocking jazz which takes the music of VDGG and DISCIPLINE farther than their 'grandfathers' (Peter Hammill & co.) and 'fathers' (Matthew Parmenter & co.) did.

---Behind the Sun by MOTORPSYCHO because they have produced an album of amazing confidence and clarity of purpose in which exemplary vocal stylings, guitar play, active drumming, melodic and harmonic mastery, composition, enthusiasm and maturity are on full display in nearly every minute of every song (which cannot be said of many 1970s Genesis albums). 

I also gave 5 star ratings to several albums which PA has not (yet) included or which have fallen below the arbitrary cutoff rating number necessary to stay on the "Top" list, including: 
ELECTRIC ORANGE's Volume 10
ANTOINE FAFARD's Ad Perpetuum
PINGVINORKESTERN's Push
UT GRET's Ancestor's Tale, and 
HOMÍNIDO's Estirpe Lítica

Of these eight (8) albums I have to admit that three or four of them I'd give 9/10 or 4.5 star ratings were they used here on PA, but I choose to err on the side of my enthusiasm out of respect and admiration for the talented, hard-working musicians who receive their inspiration from and choose to work within the 'world' of prog.


Interesting, uhm speaking of 4 or 5 star reviews, Guldbamsen have you considered the fact that some P.A. Collabs only review albums that they really like and are up their alley in terms of music choice? The fact is this is an amateur site with people who actually have a great insight in many different genres of prog. Dismissing wonderful funny most insightful and articulate reviews by a collab especially (the love of a band by a newcomer fan also should not be disregarded btw) is the best thing about this site. I have no problem with low scoring reviews, in fact Gerinsky gave a 2 star rating review to my dearest favorite band in 2012, his review I cannot fault it because he clearly showed that he heard the whole album (hated it btw) this is doesn't matter but the fact he made an effort to listen, this was so clear he described the whole album, no running away from that. I love him qa lot and respect him so much as a reviewer even if our moozik taste is so far apart.
This said, you speak of collabs giving bands high ratings, I rather point out that some your collabs (not all and my buddy Gereinsky is brilliant example of a fab reviewer grrr bad taste in moozik tho' ; hihihi)  who really score bands low, the only thing they seem to mention is the band name, the rest redundant and could be related to any other band, no description as to why, all very general, lacking insight or articulate skills. Obviously some have not done their homework because what they say has nothing related to that band, i.e. one review even the only track they mentioned the name of the song title was wrong. Our tastes are very diverse and this is a good thing too, however instead of critiquing high scores by enthusiastic reviewers who one can clearly read/understand and feel how much they enjoyed an album, one should also pay attention to those who write negative and say nothing that a new listener/prospect may relate to..   


I never mentioned collabs Sonia. I am talking members in general
Loving music is imo also being able to see the moles and bad hair days - just like in relationships. Even if you love somebody, you can still be more infatuated with an earlier love that got away. I'm rambling now, but let me put it into David Bowie terms for ya, a man we both love I pressume: as much as I adore Ziggy with Moonage Daydream and Five Years and RnR Suicide, I would still probably give it a three here on PA, as I prefer almost all of the other Bowie releases from the 70s, bar Pin Ups and Young Americans yikes!!! Man Who Sold The World and Low fx are albums I would call masterpieces, but then again it's all down to taste baby.
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Cooee! Guldbamsen you'd score those Bowie albums only 3 stars?!!! I love him later albums not so much interms of music tho'.
But those Ermm you, you naughty one!
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 03:51
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So just for fun, and partially because I think the 5 star trigger is being pulled waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too often, I'd like to ask PA members of how many genuine masterpieces they think were produced in 2014?

While I think the year has been absolutely drenched in wonderful releases, I do not feel comfortable in awarding any of them with the full monty. Some, however, do have the potential to reach the upper shelf, but for me that takes time. Maybe in a year, I'll be able to sing the praises of one of these albums - stamping a 5 star rating on my review, but I want to be sure and not just driven by the moment I first hear something good (like I strongly suspect a fair few reviewers tend to do).



I'll take you up on your challenge, David:

Of the 101 albums currently charting on PA's Top albums of 2014 list, I have heard 56, rated/reviewed 36 and given 5 stars to three (3):

---No tengas miedo by KANT FREUD KAFKA because it is truly an exemplary work of intelligently crafted symphonic prog with amazing flow and cohesion, great instrumental performances and contributions throughout, all inspired by a modern Pandora/Persephone-Demeter myth the story of which the music is synchronized. 

---City of the Sun by SEVEN IMPALE because they have produced an amazingly deep and memorable album of multi-layered hard rocking jazz which takes the music of VDGG and DISCIPLINE farther than their 'grandfathers' (Peter Hammill & co.) and 'fathers' (Matthew Parmenter & co.) did.

---Behind the Sun by MOTORPSYCHO because they have produced an album of amazing confidence and clarity of purpose in which exemplary vocal stylings, guitar play, active drumming, melodic and harmonic mastery, composition, enthusiasm and maturity are on full display in nearly every minute of every song (which cannot be said of many 1970s Genesis albums). 

I also gave 5 star ratings to several albums which PA has not (yet) included or which have fallen below the arbitrary cutoff rating number necessary to stay on the "Top" list, including: 
ELECTRIC ORANGE's Volume 10
ANTOINE FAFARD's Ad Perpetuum
PINGVINORKESTERN's Push
UT GRET's Ancestor's Tale, and 
HOMÍNIDO's Estirpe Lítica

Of these eight (8) albums I have to admit that three or four of them I'd give 9/10 or 4.5 star ratings were they used here on PA, but I choose to err on the side of my enthusiasm out of respect and admiration for the talented, hard-working musicians who receive their inspiration from and choose to work within the 'world' of prog.


Interesting, uhm speaking of 4 or 5 star reviews, Guldbamsen have you considered the fact that some P.A. Collabs only review albums that they really like and are up their alley in terms of music choice? The fact is this is an amateur site with people who actually have a great insight in many different genres of prog. Dismissing wonderful funny most insightful and articulate reviews by a collab especially (the love of a band by a newcomer fan also should not be disregarded btw) is the best thing about this site. I have no problem with low scoring reviews, in fact Gerinsky gave a 2 star rating review to my dearest favorite band in 2012, his review I cannot fault it because he clearly showed that he heard the whole album (hated it btw) this is doesn't matter but the fact he made an effort to listen, this was so clear he described the whole album, no running away from that. I love him qa lot and respect him so much as a reviewer even if our moozik taste is so far apart.
This said, you speak of collabs giving bands high ratings, I rather point out that some your collabs (not all and my buddy Gereinsky is brilliant example of a fab reviewer grrr bad taste in moozik tho' ; hihihi)  who really score bands low, the only thing they seem to mention is the band name, the rest redundant and could be related to any other band, no description as to why, all very general, lacking insight or articulate skills. Obviously some have not done their homework because what they say has nothing related to that band, i.e. one review even the only track they mentioned the name of the song title was wrong. Our tastes are very diverse and this is a good thing too, however instead of critiquing high scores by enthusiastic reviewers who one can clearly read/understand and feel how much they enjoyed an album, one should also pay attention to those who write negative and say nothing that a new listener/prospect may relate to..   


I never mentioned collabs Sonia. I am talking members in general
Loving music is imo also being able to see the moles and bad hair days - just like in relationships. Even if you love somebody, you can still be more infatuated with an earlier love that got away. I'm rambling now, but let me put it into David Bowie terms for ya, a man we both love I pressume: as much as I adore Ziggy with Moonage Daydream and Five Years and RnR Suicide, I would still probably give it a three here on PA, as I prefer almost all of the other Bowie releases from the 70s, bar Pin Ups and Young Americans yikes!!! Man Who Sold The World and Low fx are albums I would call masterpieces, but then again it's all down to taste baby.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 03:31
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So just for fun, and partially because I think the 5 star trigger is being pulled waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too often, I'd like to ask PA members of how many genuine masterpieces they think were produced in 2014?

While I think the year has been absolutely drenched in wonderful releases, I do not feel comfortable in awarding any of them with the full monty. Some, however, do have the potential to reach the upper shelf, but for me that takes time. Maybe in a year, I'll be able to sing the praises of one of these albums - stamping a 5 star rating on my review, but I want to be sure and not just driven by the moment I first hear something good (like I strongly suspect a fair few reviewers tend to do).



I'll take you up on your challenge, David:

Of the 101 albums currently charting on PA's Top albums of 2014 list, I have heard 56, rated/reviewed 36 and given 5 stars to three (3):

---No tengas miedo by KANT FREUD KAFKA because it is truly an exemplary work of intelligently crafted symphonic prog with amazing flow and cohesion, great instrumental performances and contributions throughout, all inspired by a modern Pandora/Persephone-Demeter myth the story of which the music is synchronized. 

---City of the Sun by SEVEN IMPALE because they have produced an amazingly deep and memorable album of multi-layered hard rocking jazz which takes the music of VDGG and DISCIPLINE farther than their 'grandfathers' (Peter Hammill & co.) and 'fathers' (Matthew Parmenter & co.) did.

---Behind the Sun by MOTORPSYCHO because they have produced an album of amazing confidence and clarity of purpose in which exemplary vocal stylings, guitar play, active drumming, melodic and harmonic mastery, composition, enthusiasm and maturity are on full display in nearly every minute of every song (which cannot be said of many 1970s Genesis albums). 

I also gave 5 star ratings to several albums which PA has not (yet) included or which have fallen below the arbitrary cutoff rating number necessary to stay on the "Top" list, including: 
ELECTRIC ORANGE's Volume 10
ANTOINE FAFARD's Ad Perpetuum
PINGVINORKESTERN's Push
UT GRET's Ancestor's Tale, and 
HOMÍNIDO's Estirpe Lítica

Of these eight (8) albums I have to admit that three or four of them I'd give 9/10 or 4.5 star ratings were they used here on PA, but I choose to err on the side of my enthusiasm out of respect and admiration for the talented, hard-working musicians who receive their inspiration from and choose to work within the 'world' of prog.


Interesting, uhm speaking of 4 or 5 star reviews, Guldbamsen have you considered the fact that some P.A. Collabs only review albums that they really like and are up their alley in terms of music choice? The fact is this is an amateur site with people who actually have a great insight in many different genres of prog. Dismissing wonderful funny most insightful and articulate reviews by a collab especially (the love of a band by a newcomer fan also should not be disregarded btw) is the best thing about this site. I have no problem with low scoring reviews, in fact Gerinsky gave a 2 star rating review to my dearest favorite band in 2012, his review I cannot fault it because he clearly showed that he heard the whole album (hated it btw) this is doesn't matter but the fact he made an effort to listen, this was so clear he described the whole album, no running away from that. I love him qa lot and respect him so much as a reviewer even if our moozik taste is so far apart.
This said, you speak of collabs giving bands high ratings, I rather point out that some your collabs (not all and my buddy Gereinsky is brilliant example of a fab reviewer grrr bad taste in moozik tho' ; hihihi)  who really score bands low, the only thing they seem to mention is the band name, the rest redundant and could be related to any other band, no description as to why, all very general, lacking insight or articulate skills. Obviously some have not done their homework because what they say has nothing related to that band, i.e. one review even the only track they mentioned the name of the song title was wrong. Our tastes are very diverse and this is a good thing too, however instead of critiquing high scores by enthusiastic reviewers who one can clearly read/understand and feel how much they enjoyed an album, one should also pay attention to those who write negative and say nothing that a new listener/prospect may relate to..   


I never mentioned collabs Sonia. I am talking members in general
Loving music is imo also being able to see the moles and bad hair days - just like in relationships. Even if you love somebody, you can still be more infatuated with an earlier love that got away. I'm rambling now, but let me put it into David Bowie terms for ya, a man we both love I pressume: as much as I adore Ziggy with Moonage Daydream and Five Years and RnR Suicide, I would still probably give it a three here on PA, as I prefer almost all of the other Bowie releases from the 70s, bar Pin Ups and Young Americans yikes!!! Man Who Sold The World and Low fx are albums I would call masterpieces, but then again it's all down to taste baby.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 02:15
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

On a different note, P.A. members should know that in math's the rule is that score .5 or any number added a half above should be rounded to up not down. Stern Smile hugs anyway  WinkLOL
 
So a bad CD gets an extra .5 (+) of "sucks," right? LOL
hahaha Versible, lol LOL you are very naughty! Nope I did not say or mean that not at all, for instance a 1.5 even should be rounded up to a 2 Wink otherwise one should score it 1.4 to reduce it to 1, my point of view was in general and not specific.
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Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

On a different note, P.A. members should know that in math's the rule is that score .5 or any number added a half above should be rounded to up not down. Stern Smile hugs anyway  WinkLOL
 
So a bad CD gets an extra .5 (+) of "sucks," right? LOL
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On a different note, P.A. members should know that in math's the rule is that score .5 or any number added a half above should be rounded to up not down. Stern Smile hugs anyway  WinkLOL
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I judge reviews by content not stars.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2014 at 00:03
Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Usually there's only one album every year that I'd award 5-stars. That album isn't even always prog.

Agreed, I don't actually rate and review much here but I don't take 'masterpiece' lightly. To Be Kind qualifies for me this year, though I'm a bit tentative about it (the new Ambrose Akinmusire tops it, but it's not on prog). Last year nothing came close to masterpiece, and for me that would be the case with many years. If people really see a dozen albums every year as masterpieces, then I envy them, haha.

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Pseudo/Sentai deserves a mention too. There's something kind of exciting about their new album that I didn't get from their previous material.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2014 at 23:27
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So just for fun, and partially because I think the 5 star trigger is being pulled waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too often, I'd like to ask PA members of how many genuine masterpieces they think were produced in 2014?

While I think the year has been absolutely drenched in wonderful releases, I do not feel comfortable in awarding any of them with the full monty. Some, however, do have the potential to reach the upper shelf, but for me that takes time. Maybe in a year, I'll be able to sing the praises of one of these albums - stamping a 5 star rating on my review, but I want to be sure and not just driven by the moment I first hear something good (like I strongly suspect a fair few reviewers tend to do).


I'll take you up on your challenge, David:

Of the 101 albums currently charting on PA's Top albums of 2014 list, I have heard 56, rated/reviewed 36 and given 5 stars to three (3):

---No tengas miedo by KANT FREUD KAFKA because it is truly an exemplary work of intelligently crafted symphonic prog with amazing flow and cohesion, great instrumental performances and contributions throughout, all inspired by a modern Pandora/Persephone-Demeter myth the story of which the music is synchronized. 

---City of the Sun by SEVEN IMPALE because they have produced an amazingly deep and memorable album of multi-layered hard rocking jazz which takes the music of VDGG and DISCIPLINE farther than their 'grandfathers' (Peter Hammill & co.) and 'fathers' (Matthew Parmenter & co.) did.

---Behind the Sun by MOTORPSYCHO because they have produced an album of amazing confidence and clarity of purpose in which exemplary vocal stylings, guitar play, active drumming, melodic and harmonic mastery, composition, enthusiasm and maturity are on full display in nearly every minute of every song (which cannot be said of many 1970s Genesis albums). 

I also gave 5 star ratings to several albums which PA has not (yet) included or which have fallen below the arbitrary cutoff rating number necessary to stay on the "Top" list, including: 
ELECTRIC ORANGE's Volume 10
ANTOINE FAFARD's Ad Perpetuum
PINGVINORKESTERN's Push
UT GRET's Ancestor's Tale, and 
HOMÍNIDO's Estirpe Lítica

Of these eight (8) albums I have to admit that three or four of them I'd give 9/10 or 4.5 star ratings were they used here on PA, but I choose to err on the side of my enthusiasm out of respect and admiration for the talented, hard-working musicians who receive their inspiration from and choose to work within the 'world' of prog.

Interesting, uhm speaking of 4 or 5 star reviews, Guldbamsen have you considered the fact that some P.A. Collabs only review albums that they really like and are up their alley in terms of music choice? The fact is this is an amateur site with people who actually have a great insight in many different genres of prog. Dismissing wonderful funny most insightful and articulate reviews by a collab especially (the love of a band by a newcomer fan also should not be disregarded btw) is the best thing about this site. I have no problem with low scoring reviews, in fact Gerinsky gave a 2 star rating review to my dearest favorite band in 2012, his review I cannot fault it because he clearly showed that he heard the whole album (hated it btw) this is doesn't matter but the fact he made an effort to listen, this was so clear he described the whole album, no running away from that. I love him qa lot and respect him so much as a reviewer even if our moozik taste is so far apart.
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Pseudo/Sentai deserves a mention too. There's something kind of exciting about their new album that I didn't get from their previous material.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2014 at 14:57
Now that the year is pretty much well and truly over, I've got my list ready:

1)To Be Kind - Swans
2) City of The Sun - Seven Impale
3) A Glimpse of Possible Endings - Necromonkey
4) Half The City - St. Paul and The Broken Bones
5) Themes - Superdensecrushloadfactor
6) Perfect Beings - Perfect Beings
7) Coffins on Io - Kayo Dot
8) Trevor Something Does Not Exist - Trevor Something
9) Carrion Skies - Fen
10) Ultrasounds - Trout Cake
11) III - Deep Space Destructors
12) L'enigma della Vita - Logos
13) The Physical World - Death From Above 1979
14) Heliotians - Deluge Grander
15) Random Cosmic Violence - Usnea
16) Regenerator 3017 - Djam Karet
17) Hogtid - Agusa
18) I See You - Gong
19) Kindly Bent To Free Us - Cynic
20) Corvus Stone II - Corvus Stone
21) Miserable - Bongripper
22) King Nine - Blueneck
23) Walking on a Flashlight Beam - Lunatic Soul
24) Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk - Electric Wurms
25) Behind The Sun - Motorpsycho
26) Phosphorescent Dreams - Univers Zero
27) Envision - smallman
28) Ultraviolence - Lana Del Ray
29) Sweven - Morbus Chron
30) The People In Your Neighbourhood - Led Bib
31) Once More 'Round The Sun - Mastodon
32) The Endless River - Pink Floyd
33) Syro - Aphex Twin
34) Street Lights Fail - Nucleus Torn
35) GreyField - GreyField
36) Anechoic Horizon - Broughton's Rules
37) Belighted - iamthemorning
38) Z2 - Devin Townshend
39) Casualties of Cool - Devin Townshend
40) Hitchhiking to Byzantium - Anubis
41) We Die For Truth - Sleep Maps
42) Leviathan - Annot Rhul
43) Dances of The Drastic Navels - Daal
44) Chapter IV/The Murmur of Silence - Light Coorporation
45) Ukiyoe - Mondi Fluttuanti - Nichelodeon/InSonar
46) Replacements - Hibernal
47) Similarity - Eyot
48) Invisible Scope - In Morpheus' Arms
49) Supermodel - Foster The People
50) Made In Belgium II - Aranis
51) Heretics - Dream The Electric Sleep
52) The Road of Bones - IQ
53) Future Man - Solterra
54) Royal Blood - Royal Blood
55) Terrestrials - Sunn O))) & Ulver
56) 10^9 - Legendary Pink Dots
57) The Court of Miracles Vol. 1 - Orchestre Celesti
58) Light Damage - Light Damage
59) Describing The Paradox Vol. 1 - Kathaarsys
60) Distained and Untwined - Fotgjengeren
61) Demon - Gazpacho
62) LP1 - FKA twigs
63) Synthetic Love - Trevor Something
64) Journeys - Timecop1983
65) Autocatalytica - Autocatalytica
66) Turn Blue - The Black Keys
67) Lazaretto - Jack White
68) Superdensecrushloadfiller - Superdensecrushloadfactor
69) Pale Communion - Opeth
70) A New Day - Narrow Pass
71) 2014 - Zoundworks
72) Outside The Universe - Widek
73) Indie Cindy - Pixies
74) Demo Sheet - Gravity Eater

Late Mentions:
Music For Pogonologists - Oresund Space Collective
Vol. 10 - Electric Orange
Lizards Exist - Lizards Exist

It was a great year all around prog, metal, and indie. I'm very happy. Big smile


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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So just for fun, and partially because I think the 5 star trigger is being pulled waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too often, I'd like to ask PA members of how many genuine masterpieces they think were produced in 2014?

While I think the year has been absolutely drenched in wonderful releases, I do not feel comfortable in awarding any of them with the full monty. Some, however, do have the potential to reach the upper shelf, but for me that takes time. Maybe in a year, I'll be able to sing the praises of one of these albums - stamping a 5 star rating on my review, but I want to be sure and not just driven by the moment I first hear something good (like I strongly suspect a fair few reviewers tend to do).


I'll take you up on your challenge, David:

Of the 101 albums currently charting on PA's Top albums of 2014 list, I have heard 56, rated/reviewed 36 and given 5 stars to three (3):

---No tengas miedo by KANT FREUD KAFKA because it is truly an exemplary work of intelligently crafted symphonic prog with amazing flow and cohesion, great instrumental performances and contributions throughout, all inspired by a modern Pandora/Persephone-Demeter myth the story of which the music is synchronized. 

---City of the Sun by SEVEN IMPALE because they have produced an amazingly deep and memorable album of multi-layered hard rocking jazz which takes the music of VDGG and DISCIPLINE farther than their 'grandfathers' (Peter Hammill & co.) and 'fathers' (Matthew Parmenter & co.) did.

---Behind the Sun by MOTORPSYCHO because they have produced an album of amazing confidence and clarity of purpose in which exemplary vocal stylings, guitar play, active drumming, melodic and harmonic mastery, composition, enthusiasm and maturity are on full display in nearly every minute of every song (which cannot be said of many 1970s Genesis albums). 

I also gave 5 star ratings to several albums which PA has not (yet) included or which have fallen below the arbitrary cutoff rating number necessary to stay on the "Top" list, including: 
ELECTRIC ORANGE's Volume 10
ANTOINE FAFARD's Ad Perpetuum
PINGVINORKESTERN's Push
UT GRET's Ancestor's Tale, and 
HOMÍNIDO's Estirpe Lítica

Of these eight (8) albums I have to admit that three or four of them I'd give 9/10 or 4.5 star ratings were they used here on PA, but I choose to err on the side of my enthusiasm out of respect and admiration for the talented, hard-working musicians who receive their inspiration from and choose to work within the 'world' of prog.



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Thanks for your in depth response Drew. 
I hope you're doing good over there and have celebrated Christmas a-ok and are ready for the brand new dear tomorrow!

I've been listening again to Electric Orange's latest and loving every minute of it. It genuinely feels like the Krautrock spirit of yore, yet no real imitations are present on the record....which is quite the feat if you ask me. It's not calculated or forced and feels like "natural" experimentations. The hypnotising and thundering climax of that Navajo post rock thang they've got going is pretty damn tasty too. SAWEEET mama!!! Damn that really killed me today...and generally I don't go for the psychedelic stuff when I'm out walking in the snow, yet here it definitely worked like a charm. Crazy fun feeling like an urban Indian in 10 cm of snow. I heartily recommend it.


 
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