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    Posted: February 20 2021 at 11:14
List your Top 2020 Prog Tunes Smile

Deadline: April 2, 2021 (not an Aprils Fool!).

I intend to make a ProgArchives Tune Of The Year (TOTY) 2020 list after the deadline.

My top 20 list:

1. Thy Catafalgue - A Valosag Kazamatai
2. Pure Reason Revolution - Silent Genesis
3. Laughing Stock - Vultures, Bats and Reptiles
4. Lufeh Batera - The Unknown
5. Pat Metheny - America Undefined
6. Agora - Realidad Virtual
7. Vulkan - Bewildering Conception Of Truth
8. Logos - Paessagi Di Insonnnia
9. Fren - Twin Peaks
10. ZOPP - The Noble Shirker
11. Manticora - Katana - Awakening the Lunacy
12. Pain Of Salvation - ICON
13. King Gorm - The Witch Of Irondale
14. Rubber Tea - On Misty Mountains/Downstream
15. John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity
16. The Flower Kings - A new Species
17. Neal Morse - Warmer than the Sunshine
18. Kansas - The Absence Of Presence
19. Cloudkicker - What they do is not Art
20. Isobar - Weekend of Mammals




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I find it hard to do list of current songs so will stick with just one

Pendragon - Starfish and The Moon
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I find it hard to do list of current songs so will stick with just one

Pendragon - Starfish and The Moon

Excellent track Thumbs Up




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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I find it hard to do list of current songs so will stick with just one

Pendragon - Starfish and The Moon

Good call Richard, although I would go for "Afraid of Everything" from the same album. My other song of 2020 is "One Small Soul" from Abel Ganz's Honey Bee album.
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Cool thread. Anxious to see more replies. This is what I have, so far.

1. Them Moose Rush - Judes Got Another
2. Haken - Carousel
3. Helmet of Gnats - Afternoon T
4. Intervals - 5HTP
5. French TV - A Cornucopia of Riches
6. Vulkan - This Visual Hex
7. Sanguine Hum - Still as the Sea
8. Panzerballett  - Urchin vs. Octopus
9. Lonely Robot  - The Silent Life
10. Harrison/Fafard - Transmutation Circle
11. Plini - Perfume
12. Wobbler - Five Rooms
13. Pat Metheny  -  Everything Explained
14. Lazuli  - Les chansons...
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this will be exceedingly difficult 
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

this will be exceedingly difficult 

And that's the title of a track by....Liquid Tension Experiment? no, wait, wrong year! LOL
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Interesting challenge, dlk! I'm gonna have to think on this one!

OKay. I've had a few days. Here's my list:

1. "Frozen Souls" by John Ludi
2. "The End and the Beginning" by Once and Future Band
3. "Yogi Tea" by Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
4. "The Life of the Honeybee and Other Moments of Clarity" by Abel Ganz
5. "Wehr Mahrü" by Dai Kaht
6. "Soul and the Sea" by Pendragon
7. "1" by Tom Doncourt & Mattias Olsson's Cathedral
8. "Utopia" by Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
9. "Automatic Air" by Once and Future Band
10. "Dagarna försvann" by Neo Heart

11. "Contes lunaires" by Arnaud Bukwald
12. "Erwin's Opera" by ZIO
13. "Wavering" by Battlestations
14. "Stage 4: The Dream" by The Reticent
15. "Sleeping Giants" by ESP Project
16. "Beat Thief" by The Light in the Ocean
17. "Water" by Pendragon
18. "LOS" by Vespero
19. "Whisper in the Wind" by John Ludi
20. "Oligicene" by Ocean




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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Cool thread. Anxious to see more replies. This is what I have, so far.

1. Them Moose Rush - Judes Got Another
2. Haken - Carousel
3. Helmet of Gnats - Afternoon T
4. Intervals - 5HTP
5. French TV - A Cornucopia of Riches
6. Vulkan - This Visual Hex
7. Sanguine Hum - Still as the Sea
8. Panzerballett  - Urchin vs. Octopus
9. Lonely Robot  - The Silent Life
10. Harrison/Fafard - Transmutation Circle
11. Plini - Perfume
12. Wobbler - Five Rooms
13. Pat Metheny  -  Everything Explained
14. Lazuli  - Les chansons...

Great list! Suppose it could have been my own as I have the entries listed high on my TOTY except for your #1, 3, and 10 which I do not know. Will give them a listen....


Them Moose Rush - Heavy prog is a favorite genre of mine and this tune is catchy and almost like a hardier edge MUSE or MEW. I like it


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^Thanks, we both picked Pat and Vulkan, small world. I shall check out your TOTY.
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1. Logos - Sadako e le mille gru di carta
2. La Maschera Di Cera - Il Tempo Millenario
3. Wobbler - By the Banks
4. Logos - Zaini di elio
5. La Maschera Di Cera - Vacuo Senso
6. La Maschera Di Cera - Il Cerchio del Comando
7. Logos - Paesaggi di insonnia
8. Wobbler - Five Rooms
9. The Tangent - Lie Back & Think of England
10. The Samurai of Prog - The Giants
11. Wobbler - Merry Macabre
12. Fren - Surge
13. Zopp - The Noble Shirker
14. Ellesmere - Challenge
15. Gungfly - On the Shoulders of Giants
16. Zopp - V
17. Motorpsycho - The All Is One
18. Ellesmere - Endeless 
19. Legacy Pilots - Immortal 
20. Ellesmere - Endeavour 
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Cool thread. Anxious to see more replies. This is what I have, so far.

1. Them Moose Rush - Judes Got Another
2. Haken - Carousel
3. Helmet of Gnats - Afternoon T
4. Intervals - 5HTP
5. French TV - A Cornucopia of Riches
6. Vulkan - This Visual Hex
7. Sanguine Hum - Still as the Sea
8. Panzerballett  - Urchin vs. Octopus
9. Lonely Robot  - The Silent Life
10. Harrison/Fafard - Transmutation Circle
11. Plini - Perfume
12. Wobbler - Five Rooms
13. Pat Metheny  -  Everything Explained
14. Lazuli  - Les chansons...

I was anxious to listen to Harrison/Fafard as JR/Fusion hasn't excited me since the early 70's. Unfortunatey, this didn't excite me either. 

I yet have to find Helmet Of Gnats. Seeing that they are also listed as JR/Fusion at PA doesn't raise my hopes.


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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

I was anxious to listen to Harrison/Fafard as JR/Fusion hasn't excited me since the early 70's. Unfortunatey, this didn't excite me either. 

I yet have to find Helmet Of Gnats. Seeing that they are also listed as JR/Fusion at PA doesn't raise my hopes.
Well if fusion isn't your thing. Neither of these are for you. No biggie.
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Originally posted by emisan emisan wrote:

1. Logos - Sadako e le mille gru di carta
2. La Maschera Di Cera - Il Tempo Millenario
3. Wobbler - By the Banks
4. Logos - Zaini di elio
5. La Maschera Di Cera - Vacuo Senso
6. La Maschera Di Cera - Il Cerchio del Comando
7. Logos - Paesaggi di insonnia
8. Wobbler - Five Rooms
9. The Tangent - Lie Back & Think of England
10. The Samurai of Prog - The Giants
11. Wobbler - Merry Macabre
12. Fren - Surge
13. Zopp - The Noble Shirker
14. Ellesmere - Challenge
15. Gungfly - On the Shoulders of Giants
16. Zopp - V
17. Motorpsycho - The All Is One
18. Ellesmere - Endeless 
19. Legacy Pilots - Immortal 
20. Ellesmere - Endeavour 


Great list! We actually have a couple of identical tunes on our TOTYlist. 

Admittedly, I still haven't listened to the great Norwegian bands', Wobbler and Motorpsycho's releases of 2020 Embarrassed This could very well alter my list Wink


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Kind of difficult narrowing it down and just to be fair I picked 20 from 20 different artists. I could pick a different 20 in another month or put them in another order.

1. Horse Lords - Fanfare for Effective Freedom
2. LogoS - Sadako e le mille gru di carta
3. La Maschera di Cera - Il Tempo Millenario
4. Ring Van Möbius - The Seven Movements of the Third Majesty
5. Tom Doncourt & Mattias Olsson's Cathedral - #1
6. JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Redbug
7. Wyxz - Headweight
8. Fren - Surge
9. Fervent - Bull Nosed Man
10. Artús - Faust
11. Le Grand Sbam - Nephčsh
12. Grimény - A'Zade
13. Nick Prol and the Proletarians - Cludges
14. Sc'ööf - Beater
15. Dan Weiss Starebaby - Acinna
16. Zopp - The Noble Shirker
17. Arabs in Aspic - I Vow to Thee, My Screen
18. Wobbler - Merry Macabre
19. French TV - Look at the Bears! Look at the Bears! Look at the Bears!
20. Magenta - Masters of Illusion

Some bubbling under picks:
21. Schnellertollermeier - 209 Aphelion
22. Mezz Gacano - Unghstum
23. Tigran Hamasyan - Vortex
24. Scherzoo - Le réveil
25. WytchCrypt - Skinwalker
26. Isobar - Dinky Planet
27. Fatal Fusion - Broken Man Pt. 2
28. Gösta Berlings Saga - To Never Return
29. Time Structure - Why
30. Apogee - Overruled
31. Elds Mark - Elds Fall
32. Esthesis - Still Far to Go
33. Windom End - Starless Sky
34. Yacobs - It's Beautiful
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Interesting challenge, dlk! I'm gonna have to think on this one!

OKay. I've had a few days. Here's my list:

1. "Frozen Souls" by John Ludi
2. "The End and the Beginning" by Once and Future Band
3. "Yogi Tea" by Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
4. "The Life of the Honeybee and Other Moments of Clarity" by Abel Ganz
5. "Wehr Mahrü" by Dai Kaht
6. "Soul and the Sea" by Pendragon
7. "1" by Tom Doncourt & Mattias Olsson's Cathedral
8. "Utopia" by Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
9. "Automatic Air" by Once and Future Band
10. "Dagarna försvann" by Neo Heart

11. "Contes lunaires" by Arnaud Bukwald
12. "Erwin's Opera" by ZIO
13. "Wavering" by Battlestations
14. "Stage 4: The Dream" by The Reticent
15. "Sleeping Giants" by ESP Project
16. "Beat Thief" by The Light in the Ocean
17. "Water" by Pendragon
18. "LOS" by Vespero
19. "Whisper in the Wind" by John Ludi
20. "Oligicene" by Ocean



Great choices, thanks Smile Lots of great music. Seems I still got some catching up to do on 2020. 
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Be warned! 

A Prog Archives top prog tune of 2020 will be announced irrespective of the number of nominations this year Wink

The number of ballots can still be raised until deadline April 2.

More entries awaited....unless you're satisfied with this as a winner:
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Interesting challenge, dlk! I'm gonna have to think on this one!

OKay. I've had a few days. Here's my list:

1. "Frozen Souls" by John Ludi
2. "The End and the Beginning" by Once and Future Band
3. "Yogi Tea" by Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
4. "The Life of the Honeybee and Other Moments of Clarity" by Abel Ganz
5. "Wehr Mahrü" by Dai Kaht
6. "Soul and the Sea" by Pendragon
7. "1" by Tom Doncourt & Mattias Olsson's Cathedral
8. "Utopia" by Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
9. "Automatic Air" by Once and Future Band
10. "Dagarna försvann" by Neo Heart

11. "Contes lunaires" by Arnaud Bukwald
12. "Erwin's Opera" by ZIO
13. "Wavering" by Battlestations
14. "Stage 4: The Dream" by The Reticent
15. "Sleeping Giants" by ESP Project
16. "Beat Thief" by The Light in the Ocean
17. "Water" by Pendragon
18. "LOS" by Vespero
19. "Whisper in the Wind" by John Ludi
20. "Oligicene" by Ocean



Great choices, thanks Smile Lots of great music. Seems I still got some catching up to do on 2020. 


Thanks for posting that John Ludi song!
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Originally posted by emisan emisan wrote:

1. Logos - Sadako e le mille gru di carta
2. La Maschera Di Cera - Il Tempo Millenario
3. Wobbler - By the Banks
4. Logos - Zaini di elio
5. La Maschera Di Cera - Vacuo Senso
6. La Maschera Di Cera - Il Cerchio del Comando
7. Logos - Paesaggi di insonnia
8. Wobbler - Five Rooms
9. The Tangent - Lie Back & Think of England
10. The Samurai of Prog - The Giants
11. Wobbler - Merry Macabre
12. Fren - Surge
13. Zopp - The Noble Shirker
14. Ellesmere - Challenge
15. Gungfly - On the Shoulders of Giants
16. Zopp - V
17. Motorpsycho - The All Is One
18. Ellesmere - Endeless 
19. Legacy Pilots - Immortal 
20. Ellesmere - Endeavour 


That Ellemere album is so good. More people need to hear it. Shame it's not available on vinyl because the artwork is stellar...

And the Logos epic is definitely the best song I heard last year.

Nice work, sir. We have very similar taste.
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