Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 2006

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Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 2006
Posted: March 01 2022 at 01:08

Frost* - Milliontown

OSI - Free

Mastodon - Blood Mountain

The Mars Volta - Amputechture

Tool - 10,000 Days

The Tangent - A Place in the Queue

The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel

Dream Theater - Dark Side of the Moon

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

The Dear Hunter - Act I

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Posted: February 28 2022 at 16:39

Here are my very loose answers, which will probably be different tomorrow:

1: Act I: The Lake South, The River North by The Dear Hunter

2: Random Avenger by Magyar Posse

3: Si, Partie 1 by Nemo

4: Somewhere Along the Highway by Cult of Luna

5: Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue by Kayo Dot

6: The Crane Wife by The Decemberists

7: Synchestra by The Devin Townsend Band

8: Stati di Immaginazione by PFM

9: 10,000 Days by Tool

10: Posthumous Silence by Sylvan

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Posted: February 18 2022 at 01:39

1. Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium

2. Martyr - Feeding the Abscess

3. Deluge Grander - August in the Urals

4. Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse

5. Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem

6. OOIOO - Taiga

7. Korekyojinn - Jackson

8. Dysrhythmia - Barriers and Passages

9. Nebelnest - Zepto

10 Art Zoyd - Les Champs des Larmes

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Posted: February 06 2022 at 14:27

omg not sure how I missed Midlake so here is my list again with Midlake added

Circulus - Clocks are Like People

Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Faveravola - Contea dei Cento Castagni

Galahad - Ladhivan

Gavin O'Loghlen and the Cottar's Bequest - Land of the Vast Horizon

Midlake - Trials of Van Occupanther

Poor Genetic Material - Spring Tidings

Seven Reizh - Samsara

Tenhi - Maaaet

Viima - Ajatuksia...

Woven Hand - Mosaic

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Posted: February 06 2022 at 11:02

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2006

2. PURE REASON REVOLUTION The Dark Third

3. MAGYAR POSSE Random Avenger

16. NEGURA BUNGET Om
18. RED SPAROWES Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun

TO-MERA Transcendental

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Posted: February 06 2022 at 10:58

2006
1. KOTEBEL Omphalos

2. PURE REASON REVOLUTION The Dark Third

3. MAGYAR POSSE Random Avenger
4. SYLVAN Posthumous Silence

5. CLINT MANSELL featuring KRONOS QUARTET & MOGWAI The Fountain (music from the Motion Picture)
6. ROBIN GUTHRIE Continental and 2 EPS, Everlasting and Waiting For Dawn

7. IONA The Circling Hour
8. PAATOS Silence of Another Kind
9. UZVA Uomo
10. KARDA ESTRA The Age of Science and Enlightenment

11. OOIOO TAIGA
12. ANTIQUE SEEKING NUNS Double Eggs with Chips (and Beans)
13. iNFiNiEN How to Accept
14. ESPERS II
15. FROST* Milliontown

16. NEGURA BUNGET Om
17. MONO You Are There
18. RED SPAROWES Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun
19. ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE Øresund Space Collective
20. MIDLAKE The Trials of Van Occupanther

Honorable Mentions:

NEXUS Perpetuum Karma

BELIEVE Hope to See Another Day

TO-MERA Transcendental

UNEXPECT In a Flesh Aquarium

RUSSIAN CIRCLES Enter

PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI Stati di immaggionazione
ESTRADASPHERE Palace of Mirrors
THE GATHERING Home
THE D PROJECT Shimmering Lights

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Posted: February 06 2022 at 09:37

The only 2 from that year I play (own) are...

Espers 2

Antique Seeking Nuns-Double Egg......

I must live an insular life regarding prog rock............ LOL

Edited by dr wu23 - February 06 2022 at 09:37

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Posted: February 06 2022 at 03:35

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

The Mars Volta - Amputechture

Deluge Grander - August In The Urals

Lazuli - En Avant doute..

Magenta - Home + New York Suite

Steve Hackett - Wild Orchids

Tangerine Dream - Paradiso

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 18:53

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Grumpyprogfan wrote:

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9. Sympozion - Kundabuffer

Superb album, music reminds me of National Health. A shame they didn't release a second album. I put this in my top ten of 2005 list. That's the copyright date on the CD. Maybe that's wrong?

I don't know. I don't have it in front me and was basing my list on what I own on RYM (which dates it to 2006, but I apparently have the 2007 issue from Unicorn Digital UNCR-5036). I don't know if I can find my physical copy because I'm transitioning between storage solutions and everything I own from G to Z is piled up on a large dog grooming table (I know, that sounds weird). Embarrassed

Discogs shows 2006 as the original release date. I see they have 2005 as the release date here on PA.

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 18:48

One Shot- Ewas Vader
Katatonia- The Great Cold Distance

Pineapple Thief- Little Man

Zero Hour- Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond
Antique Seeking Nuns- Double Egg With Chips And Beans

Russian Circles- Enter

Zombi- Surface To Air
Noekk- The Grimalkin

Gargamel- Watch The Umbles

OOIOO- Taiga

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 15:05

Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue

Mogwai - Mr Beast

Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway Callisto - Noir

Mono - You Are There

Antique Seeking Nuns - Double Egg With Chips And Beans

Enslaved - Ruun

October Equus - October Equus

Gargamel - Watch For The Umbles

Nebelnest - ZePTO

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 10:03

Jared wrote:

On the subject of Fench bands,...

... Did you ever check out the first two albums by Spheric Universe Experience? They are very strong... the 3rd and 4th much less so, when they went mainstream...

also, Venturia's 'Hybrid' in particular is great...

Yes, i know Spheric Universe Experience, their last album was pretty terrible though. good band still.

Venturia? Didn't do much for me.

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 09:59

On the subject of French bands,...

... Did you ever check out the first two albums by Spheric Universe Experience? They are very strong... the 3rd and 4th much less so, when they went mainstream...

also, Venturia's 2nd, 'Hybrid' in particular is great...

Edited by Jared - February 03 2022 at 10:00

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 09:54

Jared wrote:

Cristi wrote:

^ that's a great list, forgot about Mind's Eye, great band.

Also Adagio is great, too.

The best Mind's Eye album by some way is 'A Gentleman's Hurricane', Dominion is Adagio's most unexceptional and mainstream album; it's OK, but it's not as strong as either of the first two or Archangels in Black...

Adagio is still one of the greatest prog-power bands from France, Symphony X influenced, a lot of fun IMO.

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 09:51

Cristi wrote:

^ that's a great list, forgot about Mind's Eye, great band.

Also Adagio is great, too.

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 09:38

^ that's a great list, forgot about Mind's Eye, great band.

Also Adagio is great, too.

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 09:25

Top 10:

Vanden Plas: Christ.0 (One of my fave albums of all time....)

Seventh Wonder: Waiting In The Wings

Pure Reason Rev: The Dark Third

Frost*: Milliontown

Zero Hour: Specs Of Pictures

Beyond Twilight: For The Love Of..

Magenta: Home

Novembre: Materia

Wolverine: Still

Andromeda: Chimera

Some Hon Mentions:

Mind's Eye: Walking On H20

Proto-Kaw: The Wait Of Glory

Rocket Scientists: Revolution Road

Green Carnation: Acoustic Verses

To-Mera: Transcendental

Adagio: Dominate

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 08:50

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9. Sympozion - Kundabuffer

Superb album, music reminds me of National Health. A shame they didn't release a second album. I put this in my top ten of 2005 list. That's the copyright date on the CD. Maybe that's wrong?

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Posted: February 03 2022 at 08:28

I have far more non-prog than prog from these years, it was surprisingly hard to get to 10. Not sure whether 2007 is any better. I looked up the "2006 top albums" on PA and only list a single one of those; I maybe know four or five.

Adrian Belew - Side Three

North Sea Radio Orchestra - s/t

Mogwai - Mr. Beast

Art Zoyd - Champ Des Larmes

Asmus Tietchens - Zeta-Menge

Battles - EP C/B (this has more than album length in fact, despite being listed as EP)

Legendary Pink Dots - Alchemical Playschool

Halma - Back to Pascal

Clogs - Lantern

Peter Hammill - Singularity

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