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    Posted: October 06 2021 at 01:30
I'm still struggling a bit but at least I managed to scrape ten albums together this time (I was really hoping I wouldn't have to include We Can't Dance though...)

1. Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here
2. Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
3. Robert Fripp & The League Of Crafty Guitarists - Show Of Hands
4. Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
5. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
6. Earthworks - All Heaven Broke Loose
7. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
8. Al Di Meola - Kiss My Axe
9. Al Di Meola - World Sinfonia
10. Genesis - We Can't Dance
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Marillion - Holidays in Eden
Fates Warning - Parallels
Sieges Even - A Sense Of Change
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Conception - The Last Sunset
Ain Soph - Marine Menagerie
Al Di Meola - Kiss My Axe
Pendragon - The World
Voivod - Angel Rat 
Queen - Innuendo



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I've given up sticking exclusively to prog (just like the rest of you):

Borodin String Quartet - (Dmitri Schostacovich) String Quartets 3, 7 & 8
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Al-Jadida
UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus / The California EAR Unit - (Morton Feldman) Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph - Gift of the Gnawa
MC Solaar - Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo




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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I've given up sticking exclusively to prog (just like the rest of you)

well, I haven't given up, at least prog-related. 
Coming up with albums from whatever genre is easy. Sticking with prog & prog related is a welcome challenge, with prog lists I may find out about albums I do not know. Smile
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^ I couldn't make a prog top ten for this year filled with music love - or even like. But I do consider everything on my list as more genuinely progressive in "spirit" than Marillion was in 1991
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

^ I couldn't make a prog top ten for this year filled with music love - or even like. But I do consider everything on my list as more genuinely progressive in "spirit" than Marillion was in 1991

was that an insult? I cannot tell... 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

^ I couldn't make a prog top ten for this year filled with music love - or even like. But I do consider everything on my list as more genuinely progressive in "spirit" than Marillion was in 1991

was that an insult? I cannot tell... 
More of a factual thing really. The  music on Marillion's 1991-outing is prog-related or maybe even "prog" - but not very progressive music.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

^ I couldn't make a prog top ten for this year filled with music love - or even like. But I do consider everything on my list as more genuinely progressive in "spirit" than Marillion was in 1991

was that an insult? I cannot tell... 
More of a factual thing really. The  music on Marillion's 1991-outing is prog-related or maybe even "prog" - but not very progressive music.

I only disagreed on what you said that we've all given up on making a prog list. Well, I haven't, all the albums in the lists I made are at least prog related. Making a list with whatever genre is easy. 
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Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Cardiacs - Songs for Ships and Irons
Djam Karet - Suspension and Displacement
Djam Karet - Burning The Hard City
Phil Miller - Digging It
Mr Bungle - s/t
Miriodor - 3rd Warning
Slint - Spiderland
Pearl Jam - Ten
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Peter Bardens - Water Colors
Camel - Dust and Dreams
Eric Clapton - 24 Nights
Janus - Journey
The Moody Blues - Keys to the Kingdom
Procol Harum - The Prodigal Stranger
Strawbs - Ringing Down the Years
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rick Wakeman - Softsword
Darryl Way - Under the Soft
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Well, with live albums and compilations I don't have too much trouble to get to ten... (trying to privilege studio albums though):

Twelfth Night - Collector's Item
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Banco del mutuo soccorso - Da qui messere si domina la valle (1991 re-recordings of Banco & Darwin)
Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Cardiacs - Songs For Ships And Irons
Pascal Comelade - Ragazzin' the Blues
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Now - Spheres
Camel - Dust and Dreams
Pendragon - The World
Magellan - Hour of Restoration; hmm, maybe not really top ten...
Savatage - Streets, A Rock Opera then?
I hesitate to put Yes - Union in my top ten...

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^ Magellan Thumbs Up, good band, forgot about them, I should give them a listen, it's been a while, thanks for mentioning them Tongue
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^ It's been a while for me too that I listened to that album (the only one I know of them). I thought you might mention Savatage in your list...?

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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

^ It's been a while for me too that I listened to that album (the only one I know of them). I thought you might mention Savatage in your list...?

yeah, I overplayed Streets, I hardly ever listen to it anymore. 
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Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Jonas Hellborg - The Word
Marillion - Holidays in Eden
The Steve Morse Band - Southern Steel
Last Crack - Burning Time
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Voivod - Angel Rat
Galactic Cowboys - Galactic Cowboys
Al Di Meola - World Sinfonia
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

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^ I couldn't make a prog top ten for this year filled with music love - or even like. But I do consider everything on my list as more genuinely progressive in "spirit" than Marillion was in 1991

was that an insult? I cannot tell... 
More of a factual thing really. The music on Marillion's 1991-outing is prog-related or maybe even "prog" - but not very progressive music.

I only disagreed on what you said that we've all given up on making a prog list. Well, I haven't, all the albums in the lists I made are at least prog related. Making a list with whatever genre is easy.
My original comment was more of a self-defense thing... as I've "complained" earlier that seemingly everyone else posted lists filled with new wave and post-punk troughout the 1980's - while I was trying to "keep it real". And entering the 1990's I've given up trying myself.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

^ I couldn't make a prog top ten for this year filled with music love - or even like. But I do consider everything on my list as more genuinely progressive in "spirit" than Marillion was in 1991

was that an insult? I cannot tell... 
More of a factual thing really. The music on Marillion's 1991-outing is prog-related or maybe even "prog" - but not very progressive music.

I only disagreed on what you said that we've all given up on making a prog list. Well, I haven't, all the albums in the lists I made are at least prog related. Making a list with whatever genre is easy.
My original comment was more of a self-defense thing... as I've "complained" earlier that seemingly everyone else posted lists filled with new wave and post-punk troughout the 1980's - while I was trying to "keep it real". And entering the 1990's I've given up trying myself.

1990 was a tough year for prog, I could not come up with 10 albums, but 1991 was a much better year. Tongue
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Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Cardiacs - Songs For Ships And Irons
Slint - Spiderland
Fates Warning - Parallels
Eris Pluvia - Rings Of Earthly Light
Sieges Even - A Sense Of Change
Voivod - Angel Rat
Twelfth Night - Collector´s Item
Men Of Lake - Men Of Lake
Atheist - Unquestionable presence

Honorble mentions

Pendragon - The World
Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle
Magellan - Hour Of Restoration
Camel - Dust And Dreams
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A weak year for me...

1. Tale Cue - Voices Beyond My Curtain
2. Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
3. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin
4. Steve Howe - Turbulence
5. Egoband - Trip in the Light of the World
6. Cardiacs - Songs for Ships and Irons
7. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
8. Egdon Heath - The Killing Silence
9. Milo Black - Tail of Oskar the Fish
10. Robert Wyatt - Dondestan

Honorable mentions:
Magellan - Hour of Restoration
Marillion - Holidays in Eden
Rush - Roll the Bones
Fish - Internal Exile
Echolyn - Echolyn
Deus Ex Machina - Gladium Caeli
Phaesis - Labyrinthe
Genesis - We Can't Dance (only because of Fading Lights)

EDIT: Missed a couple and rearranged.


Edited by progaardvark - October 06 2021 at 10:03
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6. Rush - Roll the Bones


forgot about Rush, I like that album. Big smile
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