TOP 10 PROG ALBUMS OF 2006 - POLL RESULT!

Meddler wrote: Cygnus X-2 wrote: E-Dub wrote: Well, 2007 is sizing up to be a damn fine year. I sure hope we can do better than Kayo Dot because I was expecting a lot more. E Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I guess, as I loved Dowsing (as well as the debut, Choirs of the Eye). Cheer up, Eric, there's a lot of good stuff coming out this year. Like another Kayo Dot album.

Just because I don't care for them doesn't mean that I don't want anyone else to enjoy them. I'm glad people dig their music; they're just not for me.

E
    

Cygnus X-2 wrote: E-Dub wrote: Well, 2007 is sizing up to be a damn fine year. I sure hope we can do better than Kayo Dot because I was expecting a lot more. E Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I guess, as I loved Dowsing (as well as the debut, Choirs of the Eye). Cheer up, Eric, there's a lot of good stuff coming out this year.

Like another Kayo Dot album.

Any chance we can see the complete list of nominees and their ranking? Only one of my 2006 acquisitions made it to the top 10 (Wild Orchids) and I'm really curious how well some of my favorites that didn't make the list did.

avestin wrote: Zaar - Zaar Gargamel - Watch for the Umbles La Machera Di Cera - Lux Ade Disen Gage – Libertage Karfagen – Continium Little Tragedies – New Faust and THE SIXTH SENSE (Prog-Jester's edit) Strangefish – Fortune Telling

also MINDGAMES' Actors in a Play is the best NEO album from 2006 so far.
Yep, Assaf, majority is always possessed with "the-ones-everyone-knows" and I wonder what prevents it from digging deeper. I, the Ukrainian student, have enough desire,money and time to find the ones I want to (or just maybe I'm the happiest person on Earth?) .I expressed some thoughts considering that problem in "emperor's new clothes"-thread...



ON MY "TO GET" LIST -
Steve Hackett - Wild Orchids(soon!!!)
Deluge Grander - August in the Urals(soon!!!)
PFM's new one
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun
Marygold – The guns of Marygold
Mono – You are there
NeBeLNeST - ZePTO
Nemo - Si partie I
Isis – In the absence of truth
...

Well, actually the first 3 are my favourites and after that it's 5-6 randomply ordered but also highly rated and the others, I jst couldn't remember all, so I went by A-B...

Anyway, Deluge Grander and Nemo are two great albums.
Also check out the previous incarnation of Deluge Grander with Dan Britton called Cerebus Effect and their Acts of Deception album.
As for Nemo, check all their albums. Pretty constant in their output (quality wise).

Just to be clear, my list is not aranged by any order (sorry for not mentioning it earlier).


    

Edited by avestin - January 18 2007 at 00:09

I agree with most of this Top 10... Exceptions: Tool and and Mars Volta. Not my cup of tea and I think that these both albums are very irregular...

And...

WHERE IS
RED SPAROWES - EVERY RED HEART SHINE TOWARDS THE SUN???

For all those that keep mentioning Tool, Mars Volta, PFM, Flower Kings, Tangent et al. (which I love as well) - I want to suggest the following albums which are somewhat not mentioned enough or have been forgotten in this discussion here (no particular order):

Nemo - Si partie I (also grab partie II that came out this month).
Deluge Grander - August in the Urals
Zaar - Zaar
Gargamel - Watch for the Umbles
La Machera Di Cera - Lux Ade
NeBeLNeST - ZePTO
October Equus - s/t
Hamster Theatre - Public Execution of Mr. Personality/Quasi Day Room
Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
Naikaku – Shell
Astrid Proll – s/t
Adrian Belew – Side Three
John McLaughlin - Industrial Zen
Brighteye Brison – Stories
Callisto – Noir
Disen Gage – Libertage
French TV – This is what we do
Hammers of Misfortune – The Locust Years
Unexpect – In a Flesh Aquarium
Isis – In the absence f truth
Karda Estra - The Age Of Science And Enlightenment
Karfagen – Continium
Kotebel – Omphalos
Little Tragedies – New Faust
Madder Mortem – Desiderata
Marygold – The guns of Marygold
Mono – You are there
Novembre – Materia
OOIOO – Taiga
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun
Russian Circles – Enter
Sensitive to light – Almost human
Strangefish – Fortune Telling
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Taproban - Posidonian Fields
Trespass – Morning Lights
A Triggering Myth - The Remedy Of Abstraction
Umphrey’s McGee – Safety in numbers
Uzva – Uoma
Vanden Plas – Christ O
Beyond Twilight - For the love of art and the making
Viima - Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta

To name a few (there are more).

So my point is, there is so much more than the "known" and "usual" names. Just look a bit further and take Top-10 lists with a grain of salt and not so seriously. Anyway, top lists - I don't like them too much. I like to expand as much as possible.
Do the same.
Explore and enjoy.

Anyone interested in sources for samples and info, feel free to PM me.

Have a good prog year, everyone.


    
    
    

Edited by avestin - January 18 2007 at 00:04

More places to buy PFM:
Wayside (yes they hold "regular" prog) - http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=09/SONY%208869703152

Kinesis - http://www.kinesiscd.com/storeframe1.htm (look in the catalogue)

BTF (Italian store) http://www.btf.it/default.asp?ij=3&qa=p&qb=sc&xy=cl007&jk=9802&zp=104D&ln=E&opt=dettaglio

avestin wrote: Slartibartfast wrote:      The PFM sample was quite good. But none of my usual internet CD sources are selling it. CD Universe had it under the backorder category. PFM's web site is in Italian. If CD Universe doesn't come through, can anyone point me to internet store where I can get it?      Have you tried Laser's Edge? www.lasercd.com EDIT: If you need more sources and online stores, PM me.

Ah, yes Triggering Myth's label. I need to bookmark that store. I'll wait on CD Universe, $26.29 vs. $34.00. Gotta stretch my prog dollars until they scream.

There's too much interesting stuff on Laser's Edge. Very scary.
    
    

Edited by Slartibartfast - January 17 2007 at 21:25