Your Album of the Years for 2005-2023

2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque

Seems like we've done this before.

05 - Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
06 - Frost* - Milliontown
07 - Anti-Depressive Delivery - Chain Of Foods
08 - Thieves' Kitchen - The Water Road
09 - Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
10 - Helmet Of Gnats - High Street
11 - The Aristocrats - s/t
12 - Thank You Scientist - Maps Of Non-Existent Places
13 - The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
14 - Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
15 - Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
16 - Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
17 - Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
18 - FAT - #awesome
19 - Marco Minnemann - My Sister
20 - Pat Metheny - From This Place
21 - Ske - Insolubilia
22 - Wippy Bonstack - 22
23 - Rascal Reporters - The Strainge Case of Steve

I did two topics recently, first on the "winners" of the Prog Archives official Album of the Year event (and then a runners-up one), which goes back to 2005. I posted my alternate list with one album per act and not covering the albums in the list. Essexboy made me think that maybe I should start a topic for people's lists to compare to the officia winners (and runners-up). You don't have to do it the way I did (just one album per act, not duplicating any of the winning albums) to participate.

essexboyinwales wrote: FOABP gets my vote, seeing as Resistance was the album that finally showed IQ to be fallible….. But none of the albums that I have listened to from this list would get anywhere near my top 50 from these years!😊

I know choosing and looking up can be rather tough. Easy for me due to earlier topics I made. I just had to do a little working it out.

Here is mine (and I added a youtube playlist with a favourite track off each because that is what I do, and it's helping me to get set up for a video blog/podcast).

My List (excluding AOTY winners and just one album per act)

2005: Coil - The Ape of Naples
2006: OOIOO - Taiga
2007: William D. Drake - Briny Hooves
2008: Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
2009: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
2010: Kayo Dot - Coyote
2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon
2012: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
2013: Kosmischer Läufer - Volume One
2014: Swans - To Be Kind
2015: Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
2016: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2017: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
2018: Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
2019: black midi - Schlagenheim
2020: Ciśnienie (with Lód 9) - The Brass Album
2021: Squid - Bright Green Field
2022: Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
2023: Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy

And a playlist of one track per album as is my wont just in case:



The Winners of PA's official AOTY

2005: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006: Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
2007: Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
2008: Opeth - Watershed
2009: Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2010: Univers Zero - Clivages
2011: Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
2012: Anglagard - Viljans Öga
2013: Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories
2014: Opeth - Pale Communion
2015: Anekdoten – Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar
2017: Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
2018: All Traps On Earth - A Drop of Light
2019: IQ - Resistance
2020: Zopp - Zopp
2021: Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2
2022: black midi - Hellfire
2023: Agusa - Prima Materia

The Runners-Up for the official AOTY

2005: Van der Graaf Generator - Present
2006: PFM - Stati di immaginazione
2007: Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
2008: Il Bacio della Medusa - Discesa agl'inferi d'un giovane amante
2009: maudlin of the well - Part the Second
2010: Frogg Café - Bateless Edge
2011: Opeth - Heritage
2012: Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One)
2013: Haken - The Mountain
2014: IQ - The Road of Bones
2015: Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2016: Gösta Berlings Saga - Sersophone
2017: Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto
2018: Far Corner - Risk
2019: Izz - Don't Panic
2020: Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
2021: black midi - Cavalcade
2022: Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
2023: Zopp - Dominion

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Love to see your lists and how they compare to the official lists. A number of those in those official lists were my albums of the year. In the polls I made, I voted for David Bowie - Blackstar and black midi - Cavalcade .

Edited by Logan - February 02 2024 at 18:19