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Posted: February 02 2013 at 10:44

1. Noctourniquet - The Mars Volta

2. English Electric (Part1) - Big Big Train

3. Quickly Quickly Quickly - The Tea Club

4. March of Ghosts - Gazpacho

5. Volume One - Perhaps

6. Banks of Eden - The Flower Kings

7. Glass Kites - Glass Kites

8. Gamma Knife - Kayo Dot

9. Samuel Jackson Five - SJ5

10. Utopia - Distorted Harmony

This was my final list for the collab contribution.

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 12:46

I don't think I could class these:
Anathema- Weather Systems

Anglagard- Viljans Olga

Astra- The Black Chord

Storm Corrosion- S/t

RPWL- Beyond Man and Time

Big Big Train- English Electric

Sigur Ros- Valtari

Marillion- Sounds that Can't Be Made

Echolyn- Echolyn

IZZ- Crush of Night

The Flower Kings- Banks of Eden

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 12:48

1. The Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly
2. Il Bacio Della Medusa - Deus Vult
3. Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted
4. Via Obscura - Gedanken
5. Ornithos - La Trasfigurazione
6. Maurizio di Tollo - L'Uomo Trasparente
7. iamthemorning- st
8. Spiral - Mind Trip in A Minor
9. Zaum - Materialismus
10. Field Music - Plumb

...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 12:59

The list that I submitted for the collab voting:

I narrowed it down to 30 albums and have taken what I believe to me my 10 favorite from these, but really feel bad about leaving out some really good albums.

1	The Pineapple Thief	All The Wars
2	Big Big Train	English Electric, Pt. One
3	Trioscapes	Separate Realities
4	Rush	Clockwork Angels
5	Sylvan	Sceneries
6	Anglagard	Viljans Oga
7	Shadow Circus	On A Dark And Stormy Night
8	Echolyn	Echolyn
9	The Flower Kings	Banks Of Eden
10	Baroness	Yellow and Green

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 13:31

Pineapple Thief at top? Pity placement or what?

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rushfan4

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 14:39

Nope. I really enjoy that album. Way more than your top album which placed at the bottom of my list for the year.

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 14:50

I know :(

I haven't heard their new album but I used to listen to the quite often when I joined here. Today, not so much. Is it any different?

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 15:12

All The Wars is very good. Some nice string orchestration as well.

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 19:58

1. "In Somniphobia" - Sigh

2. "The Seer" - Swans

3. "The Money Store" - Death Grips

4. "NO LOVE SEEP WEB" - Death Grips

5. "Eternal Turn of the Wheel" - Drudkh

6. "RIITIIR" - Enslaved

7. "kin" - iamamiwhoami

8. "Aftermath: Ascension" - Coheed and Cambria

9. "Gamma Knife" - Kayo Dot

10. "Ekstasis" - Julia Holter

A very good year, I thought.

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Posted: February 02 2013 at 20:13

Okay. Six weeks later, my revised list.

1. The Seer by SWANS

2-4. ~ by IAMTHEMORNING, Felicité Thosz by MAGMA, Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble by KOTEBEL,

5-8. English Electric, Part 1 by BIG BIG TRAIN, Viljans Ôga by ANGLAGARD, Quickly, Quickly, Quickly by THE TEA CLUB, Dodecahedron by DAAL

9. The Death Defying Unicorn by MOTORPSYCHO
10. Selenelion by VAURA

I'll check back again in six more weeks.

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Posted: February 03 2013 at 02:41

1. Corima - Quetzalcoatl
2. Can - Lost Tapes
3. Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta
4. Om - Advistic Songs
5. The World Heritage - Trvelling Silk Road
6. Unit Wail - Pangea Proxmia
7. Trioscapes - Seperate Realities
8. Hidria Spacefolk - Astronautica
9. Anglagard - Viljans Oga
10. Kotebel - Concerto For Piano & Electric Ensemble

Honorable Mention: The Muffins - Mother Tongues, Forgas Band Phenominon - Acte V, VDGG - Alt, Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!, Magma - FT

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Posted: February 03 2013 at 15:55

What a great year for prog, for me, 2011 was a bit of a down year, but 2012 was a great one. My top ten:

1) Banks of Eden - The Flower Kings

2) Frequency Drift - Laid to Rest

3) RPWL - Beyond Man and Time

4) Threshold - March of Progress

5) The Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud

6) Soulengine - Mind Colours

7) Beardfish - The Void

8) 3rdegree - The Long Division

9) Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One)

10) Sceneries - Sylvan

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Posted: February 03 2013 at 16:56

astra

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anglagard

thats it. can you tell I'm lazy?

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Posted: February 04 2013 at 06:47

My vote from the collabs' top album poll:

1 - Final Conflict - Return of the Artisan

2 - Anglagard - Viljans Oga

3 - iamthemorning - ~ (AKA Intermission)
4 - Big Big Train - English Electric, Part 1

5 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

6 - Magma - Félicité Thösz
7 - Marillion - Sounds That Can’t Be Made
8 - Motorpsycho - The Death-Defying Unicorn
9 - Baroness - Yellow and Green
10 - To-Mera - Exile

The albums which I liked but didn't make the top 10:

11 - Galahad - Beyond the Realms of Euphoria

12 - Frequency Drift - Laid to Rest

13 - Enslaved - RIITIIR

14 - The Gathering - Disclosure

15 - Galahad - Battle Scars

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Posted: February 04 2013 at 22:41

Well this is a little different from the list i submitted but when your trying to squeeze in a lot of releases late i was afraid this would happen. Same albums just a slightly different order with Motorpsycho moving to five and the rest moving down accordingly.

1-Steven Wilson-Get All You Deserve

2-Storm Corrosion-S/T
3-Anglagard-Viljans Oga

4-Can-The Lost Tapes

5-Motorpsycho-The Death Defying Unicorn
6-The Samuel Jackson Five-S/T
7-Astra-The Black Chord

8-Elephant9-Atlantis
9-Porcupine Tree-Octane Twisted
10-Alphataurus-Live In Bloom

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Posted: February 05 2013 at 15:55

1. Centric Jones - The Antikythera Method
2. Kompendium - Beneath The Waves
3. Hostsonaten - the rime of the ancient mariner, chapter one
4. Pitch - Conquistador
5. Final Conflict - Return of the Artisan
6. Hidden Lands - In Our Nature
7. Echolyn
8. The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden
9. Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
10. RPWL - Beyond Man And Time

Honorable mentions:
Frequency Drift - ...laid to rest
Ananke - Shangri-La
Stratospheerius -The Next World
Special Providence - Soul alert
Kaipa - Vittjar
Cirrus Bay - Whimsical Weather
Scarlet Hollow - What If Never Was
Songs of the Century
The Prog Collective
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited II
Squackett - A Life Within A Day
The Keith Emerson Band - Three Fates Project

Edit: I had to re-edit, because I forgot Hidden Lands!

Edited by Formentera Lady - February 05 2013 at 17:57

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