Best Year in Prog: The 2010s
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Topic: Best Year in Prog: The 2010s
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Subject: Best Year in Prog: The 2010s
Date 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. 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!
------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 10:55
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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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 10:58
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...
------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 11:56
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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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 14:10
According to my statistics, 2016, 2013, and 2018 had the greatest number of highly-rated albums, in that order.
------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 14:12
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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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 14:17
BrufordFreak wrote:
According to my statistics, 2016, 2013, and 2018 had the greatest number of highly-rated albums, in that order.
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Yes... I enjoyed 2019 more though... like something was coming. 2020 looks even better to me now - we'll see.
------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 14:18
2010 Areknamés - In Case of Loss ...
Taken from http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=122411&PID=5736053#5736053" rel="nofollow - another poll :
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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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 12 2020 at 01:50
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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Aka Moon / Fabian Fiorini | The Scarlatti Book |
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http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/anekdoten.htm" rel="nofollow - Anekdoten | Until All the Ghosts are Gone |
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Maalouf, Ibrahim | Kalthoum |
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Ręve Général | Howl! |
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Scherzoo | 03 |
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: September 12 2020 at 03:15
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.
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http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/anekdoten.htm" rel="nofollow - Anekdoten | Until All the Ghosts are Gone |
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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.
------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten
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Posted By: Boboulo
Date Posted: September 12 2020 at 19:01
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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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 13 2020 at 03:00
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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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: September 13 2020 at 03:34
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!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: September 13 2020 at 05:06
Well, that's settled. 2019 is the clear winner. Poll closed. And now... the best ever year in prog!!!
------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 13 2020 at 08:36
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 Uz Jsme Doma - Jeskyne
------------- Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 13 2020 at 09:54
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.
------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: September 13 2020 at 15:27
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 14 2020 at 08:03
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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