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Poll Question: What is, in your opinion, the best year for prog in the 2010s?
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    Posted: September 11 2020 at 10:43
If you're new to this poll series, I will be making a series of polls on the best year for prog for each decade from 1960 to 2019. After three days from the making of this poll, I will announce voting is closed, and whichever year is winning at the time will be declared the ultimate winner (all votes after that will not count). I will then repeat the process for every other poll. When the last poll, the 2010s poll, is closed, the ultimate winners will be put in in the "Best Ever Year in Prog" poll... and the year that wins that will have to be a pretty good year for prog. Wink
So far, the winners are...
1969
1972
1980
1997
2009
2019
Good Lord, we've finally got to the '10s! I would include 2020 (which, at this rate, will probably become my second- or third-favourite year in prog), but, since it's really from the 2020s rather than 2010s, and it's also not over yet, I have not included it - though if I had, I'd vote for it. Instead... I think I'll go for 2019, purely for IQ's Resistance - though also for the Who's marvelous album released that year, though I shouldn't really be counting that as it's not one of the Who's most proggy albums.
So... let the voting begin!
Poll is closed: the winner is... 2019!


Edited by FatherChristmas - September 13 2020 at 05:09
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Easiest decision yet. 2019 was one of the best years ever for prog.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
Izz - Don't Panic
Chick Corea - Trilogy 2
Virgil Donati - Ruination
Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
Thieves' Kitchen - Genius Loci
Charlie Cawood - Blurring into Motion
Body Hound - No Moon
Big Big Train - The Grand Tour
Antoine Fafard - Borromean Odyssey
The Psychedelic Ensemble  - Mother's Rhymes
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Easiest decision yet. 2019 was one of the best years ever for prog.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
Izz - Don't Panic
Chick Corea - Trilogy 2
Virgil Donati - Ruination
Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
Thieves' Kitchen - Genius Loci
Charlie Cawood - Blurring into Motion
Body Hound - No Moon
Big Big Train - The Grand Tour
Antoine Fafard - Borromean Odyssey
The Psychedelic Ensemble  - Mother's Rhymes
Have you noticed, in the past few years, prog has much more abundant and much better than usual...
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Have you noticed, in the past few years, prog has much more abundant and much better than usual...
I have noticed. Great time to be a prog fan.
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According to my statistics, 2016, 2013, and 2018 had the greatest number of highly-rated albums, in that order.
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2010
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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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

According to my statistics, 2016, 2013, and 2018 had the greatest number of highly-rated albums, in that order.


Yes... I enjoyed 2019 more though... like something was coming. 2020 looks even better to me now - we'll see.
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2010
Areknamés - In Case of Loss ...

Taken from another poll:

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2011
Akt - Blemmebeya
Discipline - To Shatter All Accord

2012
Echolyn - s/t
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One)

2013 (The Year of Many Minor Masterpieces)
Days between Stations - In Extremis

2014
Deluge Grander - Heliotians

2015 (The Year of the Long Awaited Albums)
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes
Alejandro Matos - La Potestad

2016
Nine Stones Close - Leaves
Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue
Shamblemaths - s/t

2017
Big Big Train - Grimspound
Deluge Grander - Oceanarium
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere

2018
Oaksenham - Upon All the Living and the Dead
Dean Watson - Track of Days

2019
IZZ - Don't Panic
Jordsjř - Nattfiolen

These are the standout albums of the decade. But I had to plough through my AotY lists to determine what was the best year in my book, examining the lower ranks. I expected 2015 or 2017 to be the best, but in the lower regions there were some excellent albums in 2013 and 2018. I think 2018 had the best prog to offer.
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mmmmhhh!!!... This decade certainly got better with time...
The early 10's were, all things considered, relatively poor (I had problems making a top 20 for PA's AOTY, even counting the non-prog albums), as I averaged 18 or 19 Gnosis 10+ per year (with 7/8 Gnosis 11+)
But starting with 2014, the amount of Gno10+ shot up to a mimnimum of 27 and up to 45.

From memory, I had retained 15 (28 Gno11+)  and 18 (26 11+) as the best (most numerous too), but 17 (16 Gno11+) ranks right up there too.



Sooooo, 2015 is the winner, an exceptional millesime, unseen sing the end of the 70's.

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13 Washington, KamasiThe Epic


12 Aka Moon / Fabian FioriniThe Scarlatti Book


12 AnekdotenUntil All the Ghosts are Gone


12 HooffootHooffoot


12 Maalouf, IbrahimKalthoum


12 Ręve GénéralHowl!


12 Scherzoo03


12 VakAedividea


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

mmmmhhh!!!... This decade certainly got better with time...
The early 10's were, all things considered, relatively poor (I had problems making a top 20 for PA's AOTY, even counting the non-prog albums), as I averaged 18 or 19 Gnosis 10+ per year (with 7/8 Gnosis 11+)
But starting with 2014, the amount of Gno10+ shot up to a mimnimum of 27 and up to 45.

From memory, I had retained 15 (28 Gno11+)  and 18 (26 11+) as the best (most numerous too), but 17 (16 Gno11+) ranks right up there too.



Sooooo, 2015 is the winner, an exceptional millesime, unseen sing the end of the 70's.

13 Maalouf, IbrahimRed and Black Light


13 Washington, KamasiThe Epic


12 Aka Moon / Fabian FioriniThe Scarlatti Book


12 AnekdotenUntil All the Ghosts are Gone


12 HooffootHooffoot


12 Maalouf, IbrahimKalthoum


12 Ręve GénéralHowl!


12 Scherzoo03


12 VakAedividea


12Walker, RyleyPrimrose Green



Thanks for the detailed evaluation, Sean. It is certainly true that in the early 10s things weren't looking so good, but it kept on improving, I'd say, from the Road of Bones onwards - the Road of Bones being released in 2014.
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Voted 2018 due to Gleb Kolyadin s/t, The Soft Machine's "Hidden Details", Ellesmere's "From Sea and Beyond", Lemmings Suicide Myth s/t, Homunculus Res' "Della stessa sostanza dei sogni", Spiralmaze's "Dunes Of Dorlmeus", ZWOYLD's ZGOND, Yesterdays' "Senki Madara", All Traps on Earth's "A Drop of Light", Galasphere 347 s/t,  Universe Effects' "Desolation" and Ostura's "The Room".
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Thanks for the detailed evaluation, Sean. It is certainly true that in the early 10s things weren't looking so good, but it kept on improving, I'd say, from the Road of Bones onwards - the Road of Bones being released in 2014.



Mmmmhhh!!!...

I don't think the early 10's were any better or worse than all of the 00's and most of the 90's, it's just that there has been a steady (but stabilized) increase from 2015 onwards.
BTW, I kind of included all kinds of related to prog music in my choices and counts (this ranks from "spiritual jazz" >> JR/F, to post-rock and Trip Hop, Stoner rock, etc...) , but TBH, not metal (prog or not) or very few.

The quality dirth was really between 84 until 89 (even jazz mostly sucked in those years), though there are a few classic albums that were released then. The later 80's were the time when whatever few RIO/Avant albums were released, they were the only ones around, IMHO. But for some "flying under my radar" reasons , I didn't find out of those until the mid-to-late-90's; which is kind of odd, since I found out about those early-90's Swedish prog bands (all flying under the radar as well) almost instantly.



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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Easiest decision yet. 2019 was one of the best years ever for prog.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
Izz - Don't Panic
Chick Corea - Trilogy 2
Virgil Donati - Ruination
Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
Thieves' Kitchen - Genius Loci
Charlie Cawood - Blurring into Motion
Body Hound - No Moon
Big Big Train - The Grand Tour
Antoine Fafard - Borromean Odyssey
The Psychedelic Ensemble  - Mother's Rhymes

A damn fine list!

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Well, that's settled. 2019 is the clear winner. Poll closed.
And now...  the best ever year in prog!!!
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Any particular reason you closed this poll after 2 days with the winner only 2 votes ahead of second?

I'm going for 2010 with

Pikapika TeArt - Moonberry
Vezhlivyi Otkaz - Gusi-Lebedi
Aranis - Roqueforte
Yugen - Iridule
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
Rational Diet - On Phenomena and Existences
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Well, that's settled. 2019 is the clear winner. Poll closed.
And now...  the best ever year in prog!!!

Really? A "clear winner"? Receiving four votes from a sample size of 11?

Also, I agree that the first half of the Teens had plenty of wonderful prog to offer--they have nothing to be ashamed of when compared to the second half. If you look at PA's 30 top rated albums from the 2010s, 19 ARE FROM THE FIRST HALF AND ONLY 11 ARE FROM THE SECOND; OF THE TOP 100, 65 ARE FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE DECADE AND 35 FROM THE SECOND! So, obviously, reviewers and raters here value the contributions of the early part of the decade far more than the latter half. 
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2016, 2017, 2019.
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

<span style="color: rgb0, 0, 0; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; : rgb255, 255, 255;">Well, that's settled. 2019 is the clear winner. Poll closed.</span><div style="color: rgb0, 0, 0; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now...  the best ever year in prog!!!


What?!!! Christ, you have to be quick on this... I've voted now....and it's 2019!!! But, er, ....
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