TOP 10 PROG ALBUMS OF 2006 - POLL RESULT!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: The T wrote:     Well, as I will write in my new review, now I strongly disagree with the choice for album of the year. Then you risk that your review will be deleted. A review is supposed to describe one particular album, it's not a platform for complaints.

I know that. Don't worry, read it and you'll see I review the album and make my arguments very clear. Not bashing for bashing's sake, so to speak.

I wouldn't like my review to be deleted just because I don't agree with the "album of the year"... If one of my reviews is ever deleted, I hope it would be because it's insulting, has no coherence, is just a bashing post disguised as review, or something like that.

EDIT: But you'll never see me writing like that. No unless I get intoxicated with mushrooms that weren't supossed to be eaten.

     
    

Edited by The T - January 20 2007 at 14:37

Thanks, appreciate the welcome.

I cannot believe Mastodon's 'Blood mountain' did not make the top 10, my choice for album of the year. Also Zero Hour's 'Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond' for me is not far behind. A criminally overlooked album and band.  

The T wrote:      Well, as I will write in my new review, now I strongly disagree with the choice for album of the year.

    


"Then, THE INCREDIBLE: MUSIC!"

awesome review,though I consider KD's album a good one(3 star in a whole).That's maybe because I like Doom and use to play that kind of music in a band

    Well, as I will write in my new review, now I strongly disagree with the choice for album of the year.

Tony R wrote: The new Blackfield album, though "only" Prog-Related, is wonderful. Absolutely stunning!! Will be high on my list for 2007...

I only have one album off that list ,the much over hyped Frost album (3 stars at best IMO).I'm just listening to some of the samples on the site and the Kayo Dot stuff would just send me to sleep to be honest while the PFM stuff sounds like the kind of boring jazz rock that the likes of Brand X chucked out in the seventies.I may get the Steve Hackett album as I like him generally.The PRR stuff sounds interesting and more up my street and I like Tool so I may get that as well.

For an alternate, non-collab (and possibly more representative?) view on the Top albums of 2006, check out the Prog Archives list as voted by ALL the site members with their reviews. TMV's Amputechture is #1 by a country mile.

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?year=2006

Remember, the list on the front page is Collaborator generated, and thus voted on by old farts like me. My votes went to Prog stalwarts like Adrian Belew, Steve Hackett, Fish, and Peter Hammill.


Edited by Cluster One - January 18 2007 at 18:24

StyLaZyn wrote: Tony R wrote: The new Blackfield album, though "only" Prog-Related, is wonderful. Absolutely stunning!! Will be high on my list for 2007... I found it merely OK. A nice adult alternative style CD. I don't consider it Prog. That being said, I can't wait for the new PT!

It's not Prog at all, I was referring to Blackfield's status here.

I was unsure on first play but with a few spins I have grown to love it. I am not a big fan of the first album but this is a real classy affair and I urge you to give it a few more listens.

Sean Trane wrote:   I also have a prpoblem with Kayo Dot as progmetal, but Avant prog certainly not.   I think more of KD as a mix of drone metal ala Sun O)))) and Post Rock ala Sigur Ros.   And I think their first was much better also    As for the rest, I believe that Amputecture gets placed too low, but my #1 choice Nebelnest did not show as I expected it to.

*passing the buck* It's Ghandi [sic for my lame purposes] 2's fault, he said it before me! If in doubt, always blame the second coming of Mahatma Gandhi.  He-he, ho-ho. "Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side" (random Gandhi quote). "Gandhi didn't believe in that stupid stuff anyway, since he was a Buddhist" (Ghandi 2 quote).

But seriously, you're right.   Post-rock (or post-metal) is more apt for Kayo Dot.  I said it could be in various categories utilising various Prog subgenre tags.  Art Rock sprung to mind first since the band is quite eclectic in terms of inspiration (but then Prog usually is), but with the latter release I'm inclined to say it's more fart than art.

However, I do think KD show significant avant Prog tendencies, particularly in the band's, I think, debut album (which is why I thought the tag fit).  I'm more familiar with the debut over the subsequent one, as I have only casually heard the second one once at an acquaintance's house as background noise and subsequent listening of samples.

You mention Nebelnest, I have yet to hear the whole album, but from what I have heard I prefer it to either KD album.  I must say, I was rather surprised to see KD's album take it since I thought their debut so much better.

Amputechture did nothing good for me, but chacun a son gout.  One man's meat is another man's poison and one man's fish is another man's poisson, as I like to say.

I like Avestin's list.  I have several of those albums and have sampled most of them and consider them to be excellent (still don't know Deluge Grander -- a big oversight as I've been meaning to check out their samples for some time -- not in the archive yet, are they?).  I would have predicted that Gargamel's album (the first album of 2006 I heard -- or was Hamster Theatre my first?) to get into the top ten earlier in the year.  Later I thought Maschera might take it (though I prefer the Gargamel).  The Nemo one is very good, but I didn't expect it to make more than the top twenty.  And of course, as I said, Zaar is my pick, but a close call.

'Twas a pretty good year year for Prog -- not up to 2003 (or 2005 or...) for my tastes from what I know, but then I probably don't know enough.  There hasn't been one year from the late 60's on that doesn't have a Progressive album I know and love -- well maybe there is, but none that I'm aware of. ;)


Edited by Logan - January 18 2007 at 14:12