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Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 2016 |
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Mirakaze 
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 Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 2016Posted: April 22 2022 at 02:26 |
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For the #1 spot I'm including an album by an artist who was rejected for inclusion in the archives (which I won't fault the staff for necessarily since her later output is much more poppy) but which I nonetheless want to mention because it's in my opinion one of the best progressive albums of the decade, combining majestic folk prog with dreamy electronic pop under a unifying esoteric sci-fi/fantasy concept. 2. David Bowie - Blackstar 3. Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling 4. Mud Moths - e 5. Yugen - Death By Water 6. French TV - Ambassadors Of Good Health And Clean Living 7. Jake Tobin - Accidentally On Purpose 8. Hiromi - Spark 9. Jork - Almost Music 10. Horse Lords - Interventions Honourable mentions: * Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actual Events * Rachel Flowers - Listen
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 03:41 |
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a fairly small vintage (especially compared to 2015), but a very jazzy one 12 Agusa Katarsis Swe 2016 12 Gösta Berlings Saga Sersophane Swe 2016 12 King Crimson Live in Toronto Var 2016
12 Shabaka and the Ancestors Wisdom of Elders Var 2016 11 Costello, Graham / STRATA STRATA Sco 2016 11 Dinosaur Together, As One Eng 2016
11 GoGo Penguin Man Made Object Eng 2016
11 King Crimson Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind Eng 2016 11 McCraven, Makaya In the Moment USA 2016 11 Panzerpappa Pestrottedans Nor 2016 11 Perret,
Guillaume Free Fra 2016 11 Pierre,
Antoine Urbex Bel 2016 11 Santana IV USA 2016
11 Youssef, Dhafer Diwan of Beauty and Odd Tun 2016 Edited by Sean Trane - April 24 2022 at 02:20 |
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 04:41 |
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1. MICE ON STILTS Hope for a Mourning 2. TONY PATTERSON Equations of Meaning 3. GHOST MEDICINE Discontinuance 4. THE GHOSTS OF JUPITER The Great Bright Horses 5. AXON-NEURON Metamorphosis 6. VANETA Antimemory 7. UNAKA PRONG Margot 9. MOTHER TURTLE II 10. THE MERCURY TREE Permutations 11. IAMTHEMORNING Lighthouse 12. STARE AT THE CLOUDS This Clear Divide 13. UTOPIANISTI The Third Frontier 14. PROMENADE Noi al dir di di noi 15. THE ARBORIST Acrylic Road 16. LOST WORLD Of Things and Beings 17. GADI CAPLAN Morning Sun 18. iNFiNiEN Light at The Endless Tunnel 19. MANTRA VEGA The Illusion's Reckoning20. DUNGEN Häxan 21. ILL WICKER Untamed 22. ANAKDOTA Overloading 23. THENCE We Are Left With A Song 24. GRAVITY SAYS_I Quantum Unknown 25. WHALEPHANT KaMMA 26. JACK O' THE CLOCK Repetitions of The Old City - I 27. THE WINSTONS The Winstons 29. KAYO DOT Plastic House on Base of Sky 30. ULVER ATGCLVLSSCAP Honorable Mentions: 31. THE COLIN TENCH PROJECT Hair in a G-String (Unfinished but Sweet) 32. YVES POTIN Waters 33. ANTOINE FAFARD Sphère 34. SHAMBLEMATHS Shamblemaths 35. INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE Warm Spaced Blue 36. SEVEN IMPALE Contrapasso 37. NOSOUND Scintilla 38. AMOEBA SPLIT Second Split 39. AKT II (Binario) 40. ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique 41. AMPLEDEED BYOB 42. MYRATH Legacy 43. YUGEN Death by Water 44. VESPERO Lique Mekwas 45. RESINA Resina
46. ZHONGYU Zhongyu 47. MATTHEW PARMENTER All Our Yesterdays 48. LOST KITE Remains 49. SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO Work in Progress |
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 05:22 |
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1. Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
2. Hiromi - Spark 3. Dewa Budjana - Zentuary 4. Mike Keneally - Scambot 2 5. Antoine Fafard - Sphere 6. Big Big Train - Folklore 7. Polyphia - Renaissance 8. Haken - Affinity 9. Plini - Handmade Cities 10. Marco Minnemann - Schattenspiel Others... Fates Warning - Theories of Flight French TV - Ambassadors of Good Health and Clean Living Frost* - Falling Satellites The Jelly Jam - Profit The Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream Edited by Grumpyprogfan - April 22 2022 at 05:23 |
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 06:42 |
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Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne In Love With - Axel Erotic Yugen - Death By Water Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land Free Salamander Exhibit - Undestroyed Horse Lords - Interventions Jeremy Flower - The Real Me Corima - Amaterasu Panzerpappa - Pestrottedans Jack O The Clock - Repetitions Of The Old City Part I Non-Prog Gogo Penguin - Man Made Object The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirit Mammal Hands - Floa Anna Meredith - Varmint Nik Bartsch Mobile - Continuum Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker Shabaka & The Ancestors - Wisdom Of The Elders Supersilent - 13 |
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 07:36 |
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A number of these are not in PA, but I consider all to be relevant. I have listed these alphabetically. This is one of my favourite years.
David Bowie - Blackstar Corima - Amaterasu Niechęć - Niechęć North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Swans - The Glowing Man Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth Wolf People - Ruins Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks IN PA bonus: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity Not in PA bonus - Matt Berry - The Small Hours (not one of his more proggy albums I think, but it's the legend that is Matt Berry) LATE EDIT: Wish I'd been more thoughtful and careful in the preparation of my list as looking at other lists, I should have included Gôsta Berlings Saga's Sersophane and Dungen's Hâxan. Edited by Logan - April 23 2022 at 10:49 |
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 16:27 |
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I was thinking that I'll run out of things to list because of my habit to buy new things often a few years later, but up to 2016... not so. Excellent year, all 10 of these would've been in the top 3 in many other years. David Bowie - Blackstar Iamthemorning - Lighthouse a.P.A.t.T. - Fun With Music Swans - The Glowing Man öOoOoOoOoOo - Samen Jeremy Flower - The Real Me North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne Tortoise - The Catastrophist Solarference - Locks and Bolts Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden |
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Posted: April 22 2022 at 19:18 |
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David Bowie - Blackstar
Sanguine Hum - What We Ask is Where We Begin: The Songs For Days Sessions North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne Gôsta Berlings Saga - Sersophane Vektor - Terminal Redux Seven Impale - Contrapasso The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land Dungen - Hâxan Yûgen - Death By Water The Amazing - Ambulance Honorable mentions: Voivod - Post Society Bubu - Resplandor Swans - The Glowing Man Syd Arthur - Apricity Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Panzerpappa - Pestrottedans |
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Posted: April 23 2022 at 01:16 |
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1. Nine Stones Close - Leaves 2. Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue 3. Shamblemaths – Shamblemaths 4. Big Big Train - Folklore 5. Frequency Drift - Last 6. North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne 7. Colin Tench Project - Hair in a G-string (Unfinished but Sweet) 8. Mother Turtle - II 9. Edensong - Years in the Garden of Years X. Panzerpappa - Pestrottedans
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Posted: April 23 2022 at 23:23 |
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Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream
Frost* - Falling Satellites Gustavo Santhiago - Ánimam Drifting Sun - Safe Asylum Big Big Train - Folklore Evership - Evership Fates Warning - Theories of Flight Watchtower - Concepts of Math: Book One Violeta de Outono - Spaces Höstsonaten - Symphony N. 1: Cupid & Psyche
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Posted: April 24 2022 at 10:31 |
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The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional Moogg - Italian Luxury Style Promenade - Noi al dir di Noi Big Big Train - Folklore Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue Karmakanic - Dot Gôsta Berlings Saga - Sersophane La Bocca Della Verità - Avenoth King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
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Posted: April 24 2022 at 18:57 |
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The Pineapple Thief- Your Wilderness
David Bowie- Blackstar Eye- Visions And Ageless Light Wolf People- Ruins Katatonia- The Fall Of Hearts
La Bocca Della Verita- Avenoth Ingranaggi Della Valle- Warm Spaced Blue Gong- Rejoice! I'm Dead! Steven Wilson- 4 1/2 The Winstons- The Winstons More favs... The Amazing- Ambulance Dark Suns- Everchild Votum- Ktonik Wolverine- Machina Viva Stick Men- Prog Noir |
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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Posted: April 24 2022 at 18:59 |
I'm going to have this problem for 2018 and 2019 even though I've pretty much got what I want but I still have to listen so I might cheat and then adjust my list for those two years later.
Glad to see that Tortoise album on there. Edited by Mellotron Storm - April 24 2022 at 18:59 |
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
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Posted: April 24 2022 at 19:30 |
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Hiromi - Spark
Vektor - Terminal Redux Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts Opeth - Sorceress Gojira - Magma Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool David Bowie - Blackstar Marillion - F E A R Kansas - The Prelude Implicit To echo the sentiments above, it took a surprisingly small amount of time making my list. Honestly, it was way harder to make a top 10 for 2015 than it was for this year
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1. Artús - Ors
2. La Bocca della Verità - Avenoth 3. Herd of Instinct - Manifestation 4. Glass Hammer - Valkyrie 5. Horse Lords - Interventions 6. Anima Mundi - I Me Myself 7. Huis - Neither in Heaven 8. Gong - Rejoice! I’m Dead! 9. Ascorbic Acid - People 10. The Far Meadow - Given the Impossible Honorable mentions: Eye - Vision and Ageless Light Big Big Train - Folklore David Bowie - Blackstar Opeth - Sorceress Sonus Umbra - Beyond the Panopticon
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Posted: April 25 2022 at 11:00 |
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Funnily enough, 2016 was the next Top Ten of the Year to update on my blog site, and this has been updated tonight (just go to Top Ten Albums By Year page and click on 2016).
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With every one, there is either a review or briefer comments, and at least one video from each album to see and hear what all the fuss is about. Edited by lazland - April 25 2022 at 11:00 |
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Big Big Train - Folklore David Bowie - BlackstarHeadspace - All That You Fear Is Gone Haken - Affinity Moulettes - Preternatural Wolf People - Ruins Bent Knee - Say So Glass Hammer -Valkyrie Lazuli - Non ames saoules Kansas - The Prelude Implicit |
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 2016: Big Big Train - Folklore - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa34pJfuqbxjtJl9QFy88nD 2016: Steve Hackett - The Total Experience: Live in Liverpool - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYSthAPoEL0QlowMdidsIUo 2016: Hawkwind - The Machine Stops - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lsnkiaceu8vLoDb1isjGGnn 2016: Heather Findlay Band - I Am Snow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaMdYqRR5zDcYMpfEtrWWBs 2016: Jadis - No Fear of Looking Down - 2016: Janus - Gravedigger House Calls - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lih0rTKK-tG0BBWnnAwxRGd1nwIwUnph0 2016: Josh & Co. Ltd - Transylvania Part 1: The Count Demands It - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa1jk-zU8l2Tq6N759EeRZB 2016: Anthony Phillips - Private Parts & Pieces V-VIII - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZc55j4NXzmqM9xKD205NC0 2016: Rick Wakeman - Myths & Legends - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvB1GvJ8s7xBNrPveo47iDE 2016: Darryl Way - Myths, Legends and Tales - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJILIYb1njs-3pVjZyNenrUEdited by Psychedelic Paul - May 23 2022 at 09:15 |
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