Best Prog Year of the 2010's
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Topic: Best Prog Year of the 2010's
Posted By: someone_else
Subject: Best Prog Year of the 2010's
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 14:00
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The 2010's are behind us and the last AotY list of the decade has been compiled. Now I am curiuous what has been the best prog year for you. Speaking for myself, I find this a hard nut to crack; the only thing I know for sure of that this has been the best prog decade in my book since the 1970's. Vote away and, if you wish, leave a comment  .------------- 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 14:42
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This will require some extensive review. Every one of the last 10 years seemed to have an equal number of stinkers and gems with a large collection of "so whats". My favorite album of the decade came from 2017. But again, it will require some review to make a choice. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 14:45
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^ I will also need to review, but my gut says it'll be earlier rather than later. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 16:23
| I don't know. As others already said, it would take a lot of research. There's been a lot of great albums, so it's hard to say for sure. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 16:35
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Last year - 2019 - A huge number of great albums bought (as my bank balance will testify to). Excellent modern prog. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 17:36
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I'm going for 2010 for Univers Zero Rational Diet Vezhlivy Otkaz Yugen Jaga Jazzist elephant9 Pikapika Teart Aranis Uz Jsme Doma ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 17:45
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No question, 2019. Richard Henshall Thank You Scientist The Psychedelic Ensemble Thieves' Kitchen Marco Minnemann Antoine Fafard Chick Corea Trilogy 2 Body Hound Izz Big Big Train Morglbl The Mercury Tree Hooffoot Lonely Robot On the Raw Dream Theater
And many more.... all killer. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 20:53
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Looking at my Year-end lists I thought it was going to be 2018 or 2011 but my gut/heart is saying 2013 1. HOMUNCULUS RES Limiti all'eguaglianza della Parte con il Tutto 2. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Not This City 3. THE GABRIEL CONSTRUCT Interior City 4. VOTUM Harvest Moon 5. JAMES BLAKE Overgrown 6. EMPTY DAYS Empty Days 7. SETNA Guérison 8. KARNIVOOL Asymmetry 9. EDISON'S CHILDREN The Final Breath Before November 10. MIDAS FALL Wilderness
12. NOT A GOOD SIGN Not A Good Sign 13. TIRILL Um Himinjǫður 14. AIRBAG The Greatest Show on Earth 15. FLICKER How Much Are You Willing to Forget? 16. LIFESIGNS Lifesigns 17. KOSMOS Salattu Maailma 18. ULVER Messe I.X-VI.X 19. LIZARD Master & M 20. BROTHER APE Force Majeure
22. STELLARDRONE Light Years 23. INNER EAR BRIGADE Rainbro 24. SCARLET STORIES Scarlet Stories 25. DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS In Extremis 26. STEVEN WILSON The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) 27. INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE In hoc signo 28. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Tale of The Golden King 29. UNREAL CITY La crudelta di Aprile 30. VIENNA CIRCLE Silhouette ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Tasartir
Date Posted: March 03 2020 at 22:37
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I just had a VERY quick look at my music collection and chose 2011 given the following: Devin Townsend's Ghost Discipline's To Shatter All Accord Phideaux's Snowtorch Primus' Green Naugahyde Riverside's Memories In My Head Not sure this is actually my favorite year in music of the past decade, but it's pretty good. ------------- ...Histoires Sans Paroles... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 00:53
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2012 Anathema - Weather Systems Big Big Train - English Electric Part One Anglagard - Viljans Oga The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly Glass Hammer - Perilous The Enid - Invicta Headspace - I Am Anonymous just for the top two alone would be enough for me 2013 was also a great year Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing Haken - The Mountain Spocks Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep The Three Monks - The Legend Of The Holy Circle BBT - English Electric Part Two Fright Pig - Out Of The Barnyard 2016 BBT - Folklore Haken - Affinity Bent Knee - Say So Headspace - All The You Fear Is Gone 2018 All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light Far Corner - Risk The Tangent - Proxy IO Earth - Solitude 2014 Dream The Electric Sleep - Heretics IQ - The Road Of Bones Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies Deluge Grander - Heliotians 2019 Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis Steve Hackett - At The Edge Of Light IQ - The Resistance Thieves' Kitchen - Genius Loci |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 02:11
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I have an absolute blank spot on prog for the last decade, lol. I'll have to do some digging. It went by fast, and didn't really feel like it's own decade TBH! What a "grey zone" 2010-2019 was. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 03:15
| The 80s was the best musical decade for me after the 70s. Then in third place I would say the 90s. |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 03:28
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2019: IQ, Isildurs Bane / Hammill, Karfagen and Jordsjo. ------------- I'm guitarist and songwriter for the prog-related band Mother Bass. Find us at http://www.motherbass.com. I also enter stages throughout the Netherlands performing my poetry. |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 06:00
| 2018 - Arena - Double Vision but I voted for 2019 by mistake. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 06:44
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Going to have to go through a lot of albums to decide. No vote for now. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 06:46
my thought exactly
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Mormegil wrote:Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 10:14
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It makes me laugh to think of someone in early 1980 asking the same question of the just dead decade. :) Wow? where would you even begin, not just with proggy stuff but with the early hard rock, the new wave, the punk and the synth, the electronica, the ambient, the experimental. I could only go by the year my fav album of all time was released rather than musical keypoints. So I'd have to say 1978 - The Kick Inside, and of course Lionheart. Which also happened to be the first real full year of New Wave. BUT also great albums from ELO, Japan, Elvis Costello, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, JM Jarre,Siouxsie and the Banshees, Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, XTC, Neil Young. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 13:38
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2011: SKE - 1000 Autunni Gevende - Sen Balik Degilsin Ki Phideaux - Snowtorch Gran Turismo Veloce - Di Carne, Di Anima Egonon - Same Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning Discipline - To Shatter All Accord Opeth - Heritage La Coscienza Di Zeno - Same Beardfish - Mammoth  ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 15:33
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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 Jordsjø - 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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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 16:35
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Will give it to 2016. Blackstar (listed here, so prog enough) - a.P.a.t.T.s superb Fun with Music - Lighthouse by iamthemorning - excellent albums by Swans, Jeremy Flower, Chenille, Tortoise, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Van der Graaf, Shamblemaths, Radian (not listed here but very progressive),...There are top highlights elsewhere (I a Moon, The Seer, Art Zoyd's 2017 box set and Phase V), but the range of good material to my ears is just best in 2016. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 17:17
It's up there. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 17:27
Coincidence that just as you are commenting on this, I'm listening to another 2016 one I know you like, Bottled Out Of Eden.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 19:19
Oh hell yeah, my top for 2016 were - Bent Knee - Say So Gogo Penguin - Man Made Object Nik Bartsch Mobile - Continuum Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne a.P.A.t.T. - Fun With Music Free Salamander Exhibit - Undestroyed Jeremy Flower - The Real Me So yeah it's a top year. I saw Jeremy Flower recently, he was playing guitar in Carla Kihlstedt's band Rabbit Rabbit Radio who were supporting Cheer-Accident. Went and had a quick chat afterwards and told him how much I enjoyed The Real Me, I think he was quite surprised.
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Posted By: bender99
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 21:42
| I've gone for 2019. A number of great releases for me, plus a few I haven't yet purchased but was really impressed with. 2015, 2014, and 2011 were also good years for me :) |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 04 2020 at 22:29
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I really can't choose. I try to approach the question by eliminating years. But every time I try that I remember some great album from that year. I have to say 13,14,17,18,19 were all awesemo. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 05 2020 at 00:19
I had forgotten about those Deluge Grander albums ( Heliotians especially) so I've updated my list.
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Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: March 05 2020 at 01:50
I'm a Kansas fan and I think it was 2016 when they released 'the prelude implicit' regardless of all the other great releases over the decade of which I've tried to listen to nothing means as much to me personally as when Kansas release new material, it's always a very special thing, well for me anyway. The more I play that album the more perfect it seems to get. I'm listening to it now as a matter of fact and still moved emotionally by it 
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: March 09 2020 at 10:02
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If I go by "Z's Top Prog Tracks List", it would easily be 2013. Admittedly, though, there is not (yet) anything beyond 2016 on the list, partly due to the fact that I don't typically rush out to get the latest albums, but usually lag a couple years; then usually take a lot of listens (over several months) before adding any "standout" tracks to the list. Of course, it is mostly (still) 70's that dominate the list. Of the 317 tracks currently on it, 35 are from the 2010's, and of those, 12 are from 2013. The albums from which these track come are: The Raven that Refused to Sing.... English Electric Part II Shrine of New Generation Slaves The Mountain Multipurpose Trap Out of the Barnyard Ritual (Nemrud) Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep ------------- Z |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: March 10 2020 at 08:38
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2019 Big Big Train Neal Morse Pattern-Seeking Animals Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Gong Jordsjo IZZ IQ Magic Pie Opeth Hasse Froberg Kaprekar's Constant The Tea Club Flying Colors Karfagen Asturias The Flower Kings Devin Townsend Thank You Scientist ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 12 2020 at 00:22
| I'm not sure, something between 2012 and 2013. |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: March 12 2020 at 01:08
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 12 2020 at 02:46
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surprised nobody voted 2015. Easily the best year in my book, though it's not just prog-wise.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 13 2020 at 02:06
I struggled to find anything in that year I really loved. Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase was okay but not at the same level of his 3 previous imo. I checked the collab list thread and I made no comment so it's likely I didn't even submit a list that year.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 13 2020 at 06:51
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2015 was a terrific for me, just not as great as 2010 Guapo - Obscure Knowledge Reve General - Howl Steensland, Simon - A Farewell To Brains Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges Sonar - Black Light Drake, William D. - Revere Reach Schnellertollermeier - X A Formal Horse - Morning Jigsaw Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect elephant9 - Silver Mountain Jaga Jazzist - Starfire Hooffoot - s/t Scherzoo - 03 ni - Les insurgés de Romilly ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |