Modern album FINAL!!! Hybris v. Spirit of Eden

pffff..

you all suck. Tio Bitar should have won.. 

rushfan4 wrote: Raff wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Honestly, I think that it is rather a shame, and quite frankly, kind of embarassing, that with all of the great modern prog bands and albums that have been released in the last 30+ years, that a debatable prog album from a non-prog band would win the modern tourney.  Seems odd that the purveyors of all things prog couldn't select a more representative album of modern prog to win the modern prog portion of the tournament.    I am not sure I understand what you mean by "purveyors of all things prog". Lots of albums were selected, and - if you remember - everyone was involved in suggesting albums. After that,  people chose according to their tastes. It's called democracy. Personally, though I like Spirit of Eden a lot, I would've liked other albums to win, but I knew they did not stand a chance. As to Spirit being "debatable" in prog terms, most modern albums - unless they reproduce classic prog modes verbatim - are likely to be called so. Just out of curiosity... Which album(s) would you have wanted to win? By "purveyors of all things prog" I meant "your ultimate prog rock resource". (I was too lazy to scroll back to the top to look at the PA slogan.) The number of great modern prog albums that have been released are too numerous to list.  Certainly, albums by Steve Wilson or Porcupine Tree (hate them as much as you may) are far more representative of what "modern prog" is these days.  Personally, I would have preferred to see an album by The Flower Kings, or Spock's Beard or The Tangent, or some such band win the modern side of things, but realize that this site is way to avant leaning for something like that to happen.  Thus, I'd also have been more expecting to see a band come out of the prog metal side of things, given that is pretty much all modern.  I'll have to track down the brackets to be more specific to the tournament as to which bands I would have wanted to win, but I suspect that list might be fairly long too.

FWIW, despite my disappointment with the results, I do want to send a hardy thank you and some micky's way for running the tournaments.  Although, I may not have agreed with most of your comments nor cared for your "college spirit", I did appreciate having inspirations to check out some of the unfamiliar acts.  Not enough free time to check them all out, but maybe some day.


Edited by rushfan4 - October 06 2015 at 15:04

It was indeed a lot of fun, particularly in the early rounds, much like March Madness or the World Cup group stages. Well done micky and Raff.

First and second rounds were really funny and revealing. The other rounds were less frantic.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Svetonio wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:  (....) those you are profiting with  in Bandcamp...(...) I told you several times that I don't work for Bandcamp. And no once I asked you to show a proof of your assertion that I work for Bandcamp as a bot, and you did not have any proof; in real life, you are an renowned lawyer as you said, so you should know that the false accusation is something bad. I'm very sorry because you don't like Bandcamp for some reason, but it's a legal stream & download site and, consenquently, those Bandcamp links are allowed at the Prog Archives. Bye!   (...) I like Bandcamp, I don't like you

Really? I didn't know that detail til now, thank you Ivan       

Dean wrote: Well Hugues, that seemed to work better than expected.

Svetonio wrote: Sean Trane wrote: (...)  Talk Talk, the Post Rock band (...)        If Talk Talk were a post-rock band in any moment of their career, then Brian Eno, with his 70s Ambient LPs, was the first post-rock artist ever So, what Post Rock Team are waiting for?! Let's move Mr Eno in Post-Rock section!

Sean Trane wrote:   (...)   Talk Talk inventeed the genre, even before it existed or the term was coined.   (...)

Talk Talk were recorded, I repeat myself again, a great 80s Art Rock album, but they invented nothing what didn't existed before that album. If we discussed about "post-rock before post-rock", then for example this well know and less than 4-minute long Eno's song from 1975, in fact sounds more like "progressive" post-rock than anything on Spirit of Eden.

 

 

You're still trying to reason with somebody who says that Sade is math-rock? Come on, guys, let's be serious!