PA AOTY 2024 (Deadline extended until Feb 2) - Progressive Rock Music Forum

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ Yes, I needed some code to identify the type of poll. Can be extended to several artists. As an example, just for fun, here's a poll pitting Deep Purple "against" Opeth:

https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aota-1431-3928/vote

https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/ap/Symphonic%20Metal/vote

wen?

Edited by bardberic - November 23 2024 at 19:39

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Ultimately lists and tiers/ratings are competing features. tiers and ratings are much more powerful, once a release is tiered/rated it can appear in many automatically generated lists. But lists are more organic and fun to compile.

Also, what does "aota" stand for? Album of the Artist?

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ I enjoyed it as well, and I think that "great" describes it well. I put it in the "Great" tier at AP and it's still my lowest-rated DP release, most of the others are awesome or even stellar.

If anyone wants to try out the poll system some more, here's a poll on the Deep Purple releases:

https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/ap/aota-1431/vote

hmmm, this new feature seems like a cleaner, more streamlined (and ultimately better) version The Top Tens...

Edited by bardberic - November 23 2024 at 04:41

richardh wrote:

Puzzled by a lot of comments. I love this year a lot and it's at least as good as last year in my estimation.Steve Hackett is barely clinging onto my top 30 for the year and that is a fine album. Deep Purple don't make my personal top 50 but it's another great album from a band in late career bloom. Oh well.

Deep Purple's last album is great, I enjoyed it a lot. Thumbs Up

I was pleased to see our weird Bakullama Sleepers at #343 overall at AP (eclectic prog).

Thanks to all who had a listen this year! We're going to work on a better more polished album for 2025. I've been so busy I have not had time to listen to even the top 10, so the next few weeks will be devoted to doing that. I tend to agree that there is a certain 'sameness' in many of the tracks I have heard (which isn’t many) , I'm looking for NEW & DIFFERENT approaches but when I go too far outside the norm, they become less and less PROG-proper (by definition). Genres and labelings are stifling to a degree, but necessary...

The bent Knee 20 pills is one of the ones towards the top that I'm familiar with. And like.

I don't know how many of you find the time to listen to SO MUCH Music... Amazing! Those of you who are familiar with this music... Could you point me in the direction of the more Krautrock, spacerock, stoner type music released this year that does not sound like Steve Wilson, Tool, and or Genesis? It's not that I dont like that music... I really did!

Edited by Valdez - November 22 2024 at 13:47

https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024

^ Have listened to it three times today, it's my new #1 Smile

BTW: If you register at AP and submit your list again, you'll be able to make subsequent updates much more easily without having to copy/paste forum code.

My Top 25 of 2024 episode will air December 10th on The Prog Corner YouTube channel.

Overall, I think 2023 had more great albums but 2024 has been deeper with many, many very good albums.

As a result, this year is going to be really difficult with some very painful cuts being made...

The Prog Corner

It's very easy to add albums, I added 20 to complete my list. Sonar and Thelen are in the database.

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - November 21 2024 at 08:23

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

^ I agree. Having listened to 200+ releases of 2024, although my tolerance for "sounding similar" is probably higher than yours, there seem to be fewer releases which really stand out as unique than last year.

Just did a [tiny] expanded update of my original list. Embarrassed