Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1994 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

1. The Flower King - Roine Stolt

2. Gothic Impressions - Pär Lindh Project

3. Thud - Kevin Gilbert

4. Battle Lines - John Wetton

5. Boil That Dust Speck - Mike Keneally

6. Somewhere but Yesterday - Citizen Cain

7. Thonk - Michael Manring

8. Epilog - Änglagård

9. Promised Land - Queensrÿche

10. The Division Bell - Pink Floyd

I'm the only one who puts the album name first. I have this huge list of albums by year and it's like this, so it's a bit of a hassle to change it now. I figured it makes sense given the album is the focus.

Edited by King Crimson776 - November 07 2021 at 06:56

Anyone who hasn't heard of Mike Keneally needs to do some research.

Ian

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

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

suitkees wrote:

Tapfret wrote:

1. Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I
2. Michael Manring - Thoňk
3. 5uus - Hunger's Teeth
4. Surman, Krog, Rypdal, Storas - Nordic Quartet
5. Meshuggah - None
6. Idiot Flesh - The Nothing Show
7. Laundry - Black Tongue
8. Koenji Hyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji
9. Buckethead - Giant Robot

10. Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck

Dammit, I don't know any album of this list. Got some work to do...

Not to worry. I don't know any of those artists or albums either. Embarrassed

1. Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I
2. Michael Manring - Thoňk
3. 5uus - Hunger's Teeth
4. Surman, Krog, Rypdal, Storas - Nordic Quartet
5. Meshuggah - None
6. Idiot Flesh - The Nothing Show
7. Laundry - Black Tongue
8. Koenji Hyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji
9. Buckethead - Giant Robot
10. Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck

Edited by Tapfret - November 05 2021 at 11:15

Bandcamp

Just a couple of not exactly Prog but still not mainstream:

Kyuss (US) - Sky Valley

Shellac (US) - At Action Park

Sonic Youth (US) - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and no Star

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

I'll take a stab at this

Anglagard - Epilog

Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit

Buckethead - Giant Robot

Dream Theater - Awake

Fates Warning - Inside Out

French TV III: Virtue In Futility

Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth

Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito

U Totem - Strange Attractors

Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III
Yes - Talk

David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio - Polytown

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter

Dream Theater - Awake
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence
Versailles - Le Trésor de Valliesres
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Cairo - s/t
MKII - Burning Daylight
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red

I hesitate to mention Marillion's Brave: every track is good to excellent, but I find the album as a whole too long and too boring.

Edited by suitkees - October 28 2021 at 08:56

The razamataz is a pain in the bum

Marillion - Brave

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

Dream Theater - Awake

Mike Oldfield - Songs Of Distant Earth

That's it. I was mostly listening to Pritpop and the like as I was at Uni. Great days (but shame about my musical tastes at the time....)

hooray, I can actually make a proper prog top ten!

Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions

Mike Oldfield - The Songs Of Distant Earth

Eloy - The Tides Turn Forever

Big Big Train - Goodbye To The Age Of Steam

Cairo - Cairo

Dream Theater - Awake

Yes - Talk

Anglagard - Epilog

Vangelis - Blade Runner (OST)

Marillion - Brave

in general 'rock music' was making a big comeback, this was the year Oasis released their debut album. You also had the likes of Soundgarden, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers , Portishead, REM, The Cranberries and The Stone Roses making a big splash. Cool year for music!

Mirakaze wrote:

My relationship with The Downward Spiral over the years has been very strange, going from obsessing over it, to associating it with a particularly bad time in my life and therefore wanting to purge it from memory, to the present time where I can look at it with more emotional distance and acknowledge it as the finely crafted musical opus that I believe it to be.

Clearly the emotional distance isn't quite wide enough yet... After hearing it again and ruminating on this decision for a while, it no longer sits well with me to accredit this album in such a way. The unrelentingly aggressive and resentful nature of the lyrics is what repels me once more; I think even later NIN albums were better able to dose or channel their negative emotions in a more bearable fashion. I have no problem per se with unfiltered expressions of anger and despair in music, but the one emotion that in my experience exudes most of all from The Downward Spiral is downright hatred, seemingly borne from some of the ugliest and most sinister forms of misanthropy. I cannot relate to it and I don't want to be associated with it anymore. If it were mostly instrumental I might have stood by it, but right now I'm taking it off my list.

By the way, your ranking of it on top made me listen to this for the first time - I love Ghosts and had sampled some other NIN before but the other stuff hadn't clicked with me. The Downward Spiral is musically very good, and I tend to ignore lyrics, however, as happens with quite some music, I don't like the voice much. For me he should stick to instrumentals.

Post Reply	Page 12 >