2011 - Very disapointing so far?

^ This sure is on topic. :P

I haven't really found 2011 disappoiting. Nemo's Revolu$sion is amazing, Dev's Deconstruction and Ghost are really good, I also, contrary to many, find Beardfish' Mammoth effin fantastic, they added the only thing that I missed in their music, sax. Then there is Voice by Hiromi, another great album by her, and, well, VDGG's "A Grounding in Numbers", which I think is their best since the reunion, awesome lyrics and trully prorgessive music. Uriah Heep's new album is also very good. I also quite liked XXV by Pallas. And there are so many albums left that I have to listen to...

Disappointment? No not really. I'm not quite the metalhead, but I won't deny that Unexpect and Virus released albums. I just got Unexpect's (which are probably my favorite metal band in general, along with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum if you count them as metal) and from first listen it sounds fecking great! Virus I'm yet to buy but sounds exciting. Korekyojin out with a new album! Anything by Tatsuya Yoshida deserves a listen. I mean there's so much crap prog rock that I don't expect every new release to interest me (hardly so), I'm just happy with a few good ones, just like every year in every decade only had a few good prog rock albums, so will this one! Only now it's a bit more obscure to mainstream audiences, but who cares, if it's just as good every year (I'm pointing at you "WalterDigsTunes"!)!

Edited by frippism - June 06 2011 at 13:16

^ I must say I like your signature! Made me chuckle...

cstack3 wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: Unfortunately we are not still living in the year 1973. I'd settle for 1974!!  This is a gem of a find!

i,d even settle for 1977. Gentle Giant Giant For a Day hd some really great stuff on it. waitedi front of the record store fore that one.

that was supposed to be in reference to what the user saperlipopette just said...
yeah, about the best stuff I've found in the last year were all those songs in that
YouTube yeye neighborhood (German, French and Dutch)...excellent musicianship,
great melodies, that PROGresses me a bunch and a great way to learn a few
European languages.

Deerhoof's 2011 "Deerhoof vs. Evil" is fantastic, and really adds variety to the great releases this year.

Haven't heard too many 2011 releases yet, but I agree that Pendragon's new album Passion is quite good. My roommate even asked to borrow the CD after hearing some of it.

I liked Radiohead's King of Limbs, even though I wouldn't say it was the best thing they've ever done. It sounded more like the follow up to Amnesiac than their previous two albums, IMO.

Oh, and I guess I was more high on it than other people, but I did enjoy Blood Ceremony's new album.

But I definitely still want to get a couple of the releases already out this year, like VDGG and the King Crimson ProjeKct and some of the stuff off the top rated for 2011.

I am also looking forward to all the big name albums coming out over the summer and into the fall. Hopefully, with any luck some of the line-up changes that have happened over the past couple years will result in something fresh for those bands (or at least some spectacular "so-bad-they're-good" albums, I also find those entertaining.)


Edited by FunkyM - June 18 2011 at 09:58

I haven't heard much prog from this year.

I feel that by the end of the year, it will have been a very good year.  With Beardfish, The Mars Volta, Rush, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Devin Townsend, Pain of Salvation, Opeth, and many others, I am going to be overjoyed at the end of 2011.