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A Crimson Mellotron 
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 Topic: Random Album Clash - 2003Posted: April 17 2021 at 01:35 |
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Random Album Clash is back with 2003 - one of the strongest years for progressive music in the 21st century. As usual, pick your favorite album out of the 15 you see in the list, leave a comment and give some suggestions for other great albums released that year. I could easily vote for 5 or 6 of these, but I will kick things off with a vote for Arena, whom I gave 5 stars in a recent review, just over King Crimson (one of my favorite KC albums), The Tangent, OSI and Opeth.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 01:49 |
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I don't know any of these albums, but The Tangent are on my current A-Z playlist.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 02:36 |
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KC
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 02:44 |
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Opeth - Damnation
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Theprogelitist
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 02:51 |
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De-Loused by a long shot! Every song is memorable while still being complex. Energetic. I actually couldn’t stand this album the first time I heard it but after a year or so, when my taste had evolved quite a bit, I started enjoying it thoroughly. I think it’s my favourite album since the 70’s!
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 02:53 |
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Anekdoten.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 03:05 |
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None of these bands or albums do it for me.
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Squonk19
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 03:30 |
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The Tangent - Andy deserves a vote for this one
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 03:34 |
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There are a lot of truly great albums in this poll, but one stands out for me, and that is The Mars Volta. However, if that album were not in this poll, I have no idea what I would choose. 😳
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 03:58 |
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King Crimson. Don't know the rest well or at all.
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Lewian
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 07:35 |
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These are the years where your taste (or even what you know) is very different from mine. I have and love a good number of stuff from these years but little that is on your lists. Which gives Anekdoten another vote... surely in these polls I pimp them a bit more than deserved, but that's how it is. I have a ton of non-prog from 2003 but a maybe little known prog (post rock) gem is "The impossible leap in one hundred simple steps" by From Monument to Masses. I'd also vote this year's output by Robert Wyatt, Set Fire to Flames, Radiohead, Fred Frith, Mogwai,... over what is listed here.
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Hercules
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 08:19 |
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Arena, closely followed by The Tangent.
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 08:26 |
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TMV.
Missing... Dream Theater, Enchant, Frogg Cafe, and Coheed & Cambria. |
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 08:39 |
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EXTREMELY hard choice between The Mars Volta and Kayo Dot, but I gave it to Kayo Dot since they didn't have any votes.
^Agreed that it's missing Coheed & Cambria, their strongest album imo.
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 09:07 |
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KC narrowly over Anekdoten. Arena would be my third choice.
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 09:23 |
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Kayo Dot ahead of KC
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 09:29 |
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Not the style of music I normally listen to but there is something special about Sikth's album and there are some fantastic tracks on it. So the first (and probably only) vote for Sikth
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Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 10:19 |
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De-loused surprised the eff out of me. A modern classic.
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 10:21 |
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KC
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Posted: April 17 2021 at 11:36 |
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My vote is Contagion.
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