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Topic: your 5 favorite prog albums of decade 2000-2009
Posted By: BaldJean
Subject: your 5 favorite prog albums of decade 2000-2009
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 13:52
what are your favorite 5 prog album of the decade 2000-2009? mine are these (in no specific order):




by the way: I am surprised B for Bang are still not in the archives. they made 2 very interesting albums; besides the one I mentioned from 2008 also this one from 2010:


one of their key (sic!) members is Katia Labeque, famous classical pianist and former wife of John McLaughlin. their first album is one of the most experimental albums EVER! the second is a bit more tame but still quite experimental.

for those who don't know their albums and are curious here one of the most experimental tracks from the first album:



if this was too experimental for you here a less experimental (but still experimental) track from the album:


and here a track from their second album:



since this is still definitely an experimental track (a completely rewired version of "Dear Prudence" by the Beatles) but it is from the less experimental album you can guess just how experimental the first one is


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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 14:57
1. Maudlin Of The Well - Part The Second :
 
 
 
2. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition :
 
 
 
3. Mastodon - Crack The Skye :
 
 
 
4. Toe - For Long Tomorrow :
 
 
 
5. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet :
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 15:21
Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
Miriodor - Avanti!
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness

Then one of (depending on mood)

The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis
Aranis - Songs From Mirage
Ahvak - s/t
Combat Astronomy - Dreams No Longer Hesitate





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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 15:32
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
Miriodor - Avanti!
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness

Then one of (depending on mood)

The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis
Aranis - Songs From Mirage
Ahvak - s/t
Combat Astronomy - Dreams No Longer Hesitate





What about the mighty Five SunsWink?


Posted By: Homotopy
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 15:43
1. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
2-3. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
2-3. Ayreon - The Human Equation
4-5. Any two from: Somewhere Along The Highway; Death's Design; Deadwing; Harvest Aorta; Contagion; Ghost Reveries

Wow that's rather mainstream. Oh no.


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 15:50
This decade is one from which I have far more non-prog in my top albums. Anyway:
1 Art Zoyd - Metropolis
2 Jannik Top - Infernal Machina (France takes first and second spot!)
3 Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
4 Radiohead - Kid A
5 Holger Czukay - Linear City
shared with
5a Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (put Holger over this one because its less known)
Looking at what is already nominated, To Watch the Storms is almost up there.


Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 15:53
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
Miriodor - Avanti!
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness

Then one of (depending on mood)

The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Orvis
Aranis - Songs From Mirage
Ahvak - s/t
Combat Astronomy - Dreams No Longer Hesitate





What about the mighty Five SunsWink?


Brain lock, add it to the first 4.

I could easily add Present, Thinking Plague, Koenji Hyakkei

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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 16:48

1. Exivious - s/t
2. Nebelnest - Nova Express
3. Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
4. Pain of Salvation - Be (original stage production)
5. Bondage Fruit - VI

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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 16:53
Well I don't know a ton of modern prog, but there's nothing out there which could shove The Resistance or Origin Of Symmetry out of my top 5.



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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 17:25
Subject to change.

1. Mike Keneally - Dancing
2. Spock's Beard - V
3. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
4. Izz - The Darkened Room
5. Frost* - Milliontown


Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 20:27
wow.. so many great ones.  Rivals the 70's for shear quantity of great albums. It was a 2nd golden age.

1. Dungen - Tio Bitar
2. Miriodor - Avanti baby!
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. Guapo - Elixers
5. Shadow Circus - Whispers and Screams 


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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 22:16
Let's see,
Terria, from Devin Townsend,
Out There, from Rick Wakeman,
Train of Thought, from Dream Theater,
Anno Domini High Definition, from Riverside,
The Whirlwind, from Transatlantic.

And not so prog, I might add, Mother Earth from Within Temptation, Secret of the Runes from Therion, and I guess Cult and Reflections from Apocalyptica. Perhaps also Ilumination from Tristania.


Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: June 22 2020 at 22:20
1. Risto: II (this album isn´t in PA, but it should be)
2. Absoluuttinen Nollapiste: Pisara ja Lammas 2
3. Magma: K.A
4. Haikara: Tuhkamaa
5. Faust: Fresh Air

Ones like to mention also are Jambinai: a Hermitage & Knifeworld: Bottled Out Of Eden



Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 00:25
1. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
2. Magma - K.A
3. Deluge Grander - August in the Urals
4. Anekdoten - A Time of Day
5. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura


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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 00:48
Taal - Skymind
Dreadnaught - Musica En Flagrante
Sky Architect - Excavation of the Mind
Estradasphere - Palace Of Mirrors
Antique Seeking Nuns - their 3 EPs

Others I really have to mention are
Tool - Lateralus
Halloween - Le Festin
universal totem orchestra - The Magus


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 01:59
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


3. Battles - Mirrored
 

Ouch! That one had slipped off my radar!


Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 07:29
This is a very hard one, there were so many great albums, but here's mine:

1. Magma - K.A.
2. The Mars Volta - Deloused in Comatorium
3. Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt
4. Opeth - Damnation
5. Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third

Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation - BE Embarrassed


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 07:30
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:


Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation - BE Embarrassed

are you embarrassed for enjoying Pain of Salvation? 



Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 07:32
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:


Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation - BE Embarrassed

are you embarrassed for enjoying Pain of Salvation? 


This is just a bone for those that knew me on Progarchives in 05-07. Golden age of Progarchives if you want to call it that. LOLLOLBig smile


Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 07:37
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

wow.. so many great ones.  Rivals the 70's for shear quantity of great albums. It was a 2nd golden age.

1. Dungen - Tio Bitar
2. Miriodor - Avanti baby!
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. Guapo - Elixers
5. Shadow Circus - Whispers and Screams 

Tio Bitar would rank in my top 20, but I chose Ta Det Lugnt! 4 is also really great too.


Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 08:55
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

4. Opeth - Damnation

For me this is the greatest Opeth-album! Although not heard all their growl-albums, Ghost Reviers and this are the only ones before Heritage.


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 08:58
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:


Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation - BE Embarrassed

are you embarrassed for enjoying Pain of Salvation? 


This is just a bone for those that knew me on Progarchives in 05-07. Golden age of Progarchives if you want to call it that. LOLLOLBig smile

you used the "embarrassed" emoticon, so I thought you felt that way. 
No one should ever be embarrassed by any kind of music they enjoy. 


Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 09:13
There are so many, that I will first just list 5 that are prog folk

Midlake - Trials of Van Occupanther
Faveravola - Contea dei cento Castagni
Corde Oblique - Volonta D'Arte
Decemberists - Picaresque
Oloferne - Oloferne

but here are some others

Jade Warrior - Now
Albion - Wabiac Ciene
Dice - Within vs Without Next Part
Mirage - Tales from the Green Sofa
Poor Generic Material - Spring Tidings
Believe - Yesterday is a Friend
Satellite - Evening Games
Clepsydra - Alone
Il Castello Di Atlante -  http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=22077" rel="nofollow - Cap. 7 - Tra Le Antiche Mura
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon



Posted By: projeKct
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 09:35
My top 15 albums 2000-2009, by artist alphabetical order :

An Endless Sporadic - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25827" rel="nofollow - An Endless Sporadic  
The Flower Kings - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11155" rel="nofollow - Paradox Hotel  
The Flower Kings - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=373" rel="nofollow - Space Revolver  
The Flower Kings - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2014" rel="nofollow - Unfold the Future  
Steve Hackett - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4184" rel="nofollow - To Watch the Storms  
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=22272" rel="nofollow - Time Control  
Kaipa - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3142" rel="nofollow - Keyholder  
Pain of Salvation - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6402" rel="nofollow - Be  
Pain of Salvation - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1025" rel="nofollow - Remedy Lane  
Pain of Salvation - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1024" rel="nofollow - The Perfect Element Part 1  
Spock's Beard - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1276" rel="nofollow - V  
The Tangent - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3300" rel="nofollow - The Music That Died Alone  
Tirill - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=39889" rel="nofollow - A Dance with the Shadows  
White Willow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1394" rel="nofollow - Sacrament  
White Willow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6517" rel="nofollow - Storm Season  

Ooops, you asked for top 5 ? Sorry... Embarrassed


Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 13:37
Anekdoten - Gravity (2003)
The Gathering -  If Then Else (2000)
GYBE! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! (2000)
Liquid Scarlet - II (2005)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002)

Honorable mentions:

Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun (2007)
Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)
Areknames - Areknames (2003)
Univers Zero - Crawling Wind (2001)
Mono - Hymn to the Inmortal Winds (2009)
Agalloch - The Mantle (2002)
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (2004)
In The Woods... - LiveAtTheCaledonienHall (2003)
Maudlin Of The Well - Leaving Your Body Map (2001)
Moongarden - Roundmidnight (2004)
Spratleys Japs - Pony (2001)
Ef - Give me Beauty Or Give Me Death (2006)
Eksi Ekso - I´m Your b*****d wings (2008)
Oceansize - Effloresce (2003)
Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars (2005)


Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 15:31
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

wow.. so many great ones.  Rivals the 70's for shear quantity of great albums. It was a 2nd golden age.

1. Dungen - Tio Bitar
2. Miriodor - Avanti baby!
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. Guapo - Elixers
5. Shadow Circus - Whispers and Screams 

Tio Bitar would rank in my top 20, but I chose Ta Det Lugnt! 4 is also really great too.

I love them all actually.. by far my favorite modern prog group...but Tio Bitar was my gateway into them.. and is still my favorite.. one of favorite night and day.. light and dark albums. It hits my multiple musical G-spots with all the length and girth they deserve. God almighty does it flat out rock at times.. yet with the next song you would get this absolutely gorgeous melodic piece.  Doesn't hurt it probably has the only modern entry on my 'greatest blow thy speakers' ever recorded list.  At #8




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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 15:42
Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


3. Battles - Mirrored
 

Ouch! That one had slipped off my radar!

surprised that it did but not surprised...

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

wow.. so many great ones.  Rivals the 70's for shear quantity of great albums. It was a 2nd golden age.



there simply were so many great albums.. in fact.. one might argue..  more than one had the 70's. There was a reason the prog revival really hit and sites like this blossomed..  there was SO MUCH great music for us to discover.. and of such expanded and different styles from all over the f**king world man


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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip


Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 16:03
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:


Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation - BE Embarrassed

are you embarrassed for enjoying Pain of Salvation? 


This is just a bone for those that knew me on Progarchives in 05-07. Golden age of Progarchives if you want to call it that. LOLLOLBig smile

you used the "embarrassed" emoticon, so I thought you felt that way. 
No one should ever be embarrassed by any kind of music they enjoy. 


Those who were there at the time know and remember WinkLOL! I'll leave it at that.

Anyway, here's some of my favourites from those years:

Guapo - Five Suns
Miriodor - Avanti!
Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe du Fou
Afroskull - To Obscurity and Beyond
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Radiohead - Kid A
Battles - Mirrored
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute


Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 16:15
hahah..  oh I remember that.. hell I greeted him back in the politics thread with that when he came back to the site after that long break. It was classic PA's kind of sh*t man...

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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 16:34
Here's my top 5 prog albums in no order with only one album per band:
Simon Says - Tardigrade
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
Von Hertzen Brothers - Love Remains the Same
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil

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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 16:47
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:


Anyway, here's some of my favourites from those years:

Guapo - Five Suns
Miriodor - Avanti!
Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe du Fou
Afroskull - To Obscurity and Beyond
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Radiohead - Kid A
Battles - Mirrored
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 17:52
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

wow.. so many great ones.  Rivals the 70's for shear quantity of great albums. It was a 2nd golden age.

1. Dungen - Tio Bitar
2. Miriodor - Avanti baby!
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. Guapo - Elixers
5. Shadow Circus - Whispers and Screams 

Tio Bitar would rank in my top 20, but I chose Ta Det Lugnt! 4 is also really great too.

I love them all actually.. by far my favorite modern prog group...but Tio Bitar was my gateway into them.. and is still my favorite.. one of favorite night and day.. light and dark albums. It hits my multiple musical G-spots with all the length and girth they deserve. God almighty does it flat out rock at times.. yet with the next song you would get this absolutely gorgeous melodic piece.  Doesn't hurt it probably has the only modern entry on my 'greatest blow thy speakers' ever recorded list.  At #8



That song Mon Amour rips, along with many of their other tracks.


Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 21:33
it rips.. it smokes .. it rules.. almost as much as Reine's hair does..LOL

what make that album so great..  hell all of them is the diversity in them.  They do have a couple of songs per album that Reine self immolates.. but they are balanced with some really folky melodic and at times.. I dare say.. flat out beautiful stuff.

this is another major fav of mine..




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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: June 24 2020 at 10:32
1. King Crimson - The Power To Believe
2. California Guitar Trio - CG3+2
3. Nuito - Unutella
4. Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
5. Ahleuchatistas - Even In The Midst...

Honourable mentions:
- Salle Gaveau - Alloy
- Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa
- Farmers Market - Surfin' USSR

I really love Radiohead's Kid A too, but I don't normally think of it as a prog album.


Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 07:17
Neal Morse - Question Mark
Moon Safari - Blomljud
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
The Flower Kings - Sum Of No Evil
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard


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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 12:57
The Human Equation
Blomljud
Frequency
The Seventh House
01011001


Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 17:37
Indukti-SUSAR
The Future Kings of England-any of the three
Beardfish-The Sane Day
Opeth-Damnation
Porcupine Tree-Fear of a blank planet



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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 20:02
Off the top of my head:
Odyssey:  The Greatest Tale - Various Artists; a Colossus Magazine/Musea Records project
Ulver Shadows of the Sun
Iona Open Sky
maudlin of The Well Part the Second
Kotebel Omphalos



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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 09 2021 at 20:58
Originally posted by Olape Olape wrote:

Indukti-SUSAR
The Future Kings of England-any of the three
Beardfish-The Sane Day
Opeth-Damnation
Porcupine Tree-Fear of a blank planet



Man I always seem to share favourites with you and Progmind. Maybe I have South American in me. Big fan of all your choices.
Anekdoten-Gravity
Porcupine Tree-In Absentia
Fates Warning-Disconnected
Violeta De Outono-Volume 7
Opeth-Damnation




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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 00:32
1. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
2. Anekdoten - A Time of Day
3. Magma - K.A.
4. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
5. Deluge Grander - August in the Urals

Some honourable mentions:
Echolyn - Mei
Fish - 13th Star
Hamadryad - Safe in Conformity
Alejandro Matos - Freak



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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 01:14
Can't stop at 5, obviously:

Gong - Zero to Infintea
Radiohead - Kid A
Globalys - 03x/ 02/ 01
PG Six - Wall Of Memory
Espers - II
Paatos - Timeloss
Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Dreamland
UZ - Implosion
Balu Llama - Eris
Setnia - Cycle 1
VDGG - Trisector
Wrong Object - Stories From The Shed





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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 01:50
1. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2. Par Lindh Project - Veni Vidi Vici
3. IQ - Frequency
4. Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
5. Magenta - Seven


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 02:52
Ark - Burn The Sun (2001)
Marillion - Marbles (2004)
Threshold - Subsurface (2004)
Chroma Key - You Go Now (2000)
Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars (2005)


Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 04:24
Jon Anderson - Tour of the Universe (2005) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC10NWCLXoqKdu2_8fnqbkn" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC10NWCLXoqKdu2_8fnqbkn
Kate Bush - Aerial (2005)  - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lv4gmUSB_M4fhiS4fCyujoU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lv4gmUSB_M4fhiS4fCyujoU
The Enid - Sheets of Blue (2006) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLmpX6ZRDaw6Q0jFTbf-StW" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLmpX6ZRDaw6Q0jFTbf-StW
David Gilmour - On an Island (2006) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDDOzoxhTl7wl-tAGNIGp8Q" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDDOzoxhTl7wl-tAGNIGp8Q
Jon Lord - Beyond the Notes (2004) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzD4Ef2CsuYBlk2s_dwJVsH9" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzD4Ef2CsuYBlk2s_dwJVsH9
Mike Oldfield - Music of the Spheres (2008) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAmdvwm5HNW2kWSR0P7ml_x" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAmdvwm5HNW2kWSR0P7ml_x
Renaissance - Dreams and Omens (2008) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCExCw0f0WtOfxkC305HeBD" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCExCw0f0WtOfxkC305HeBD
Rick Wakeman - Out There (2003) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu4u9ia3dmybR8-wrmo8Psl" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu4u9ia3dmybR8-wrmo8Psl
Within Temptation - The Silent Force (2004) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEC55BA9FA547E28F" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEC55BA9FA547E28F
YES - Magnification (2001) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAuwaZ2oTty65iuP2Bu1aIB" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAuwaZ2oTty65iuP2Bu1aIB


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 04:47
not posting just 5 albums is cheating, that's why it's a hard thing to do coming up with 5 albums (in the first place). Big smile


Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 05:18
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

not posting just 5 albums is cheating, that's why it's a hard thing to do coming up with 5 albums (in the first place). Big smile
 
I know it's a hard thing to do to narrow it down to just five albums. That's why I chose ten albums instead. Tongue


Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 10:47
IQ-Frequency
Phideaux-Doomsday
PT-Deadwing
PT-In Absentia
Spocks Beard-V


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Posted By: bender99
Date Posted: February 10 2021 at 23:59
Wow this was tough, so I've picked a top 5 and then another 5 special mentions

Top 5 (alphabetical order):

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
IQ - Dark Matter
Morse, Neal - Sola Scriptura
Spock's Beard - V
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

Special mentions:

Ayreon - Universal Migrator 1 : The Dream Sequencer
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic II
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
IQ - The Seventh House
Morse,Neal - Question Mark


Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 11 2021 at 03:20
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Cynic - Traced in Air
Tool - Lateralus


Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 19 2021 at 05:57
… though, on a Friday, it could have been:
Magma Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
Oceansize Everyone Into Position
Big Big Train The Difference Machine
The Gathering If_then_else
Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third




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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 20 2021 at 19:24
Terria, by Devin Townsend.
Out There, by Rick Wakeman.
Train of Thought, by Dream Theater.
Originalis, by Cast.
Anno Domini High Definition, by Riverside.
The Whirlwind, by Transatlantic.

It ended up being 6, though.


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 01:23
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

… though, on a Friday, it could have been:
Magma Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
Oceansize Everyone Into Position
Big Big Train The Difference Machine
The Gathering If_then_else
Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third


nice to see The Gathering getting some love Clap


Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 02:25
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Tool - Lateralus
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue 
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard

P.S. Oh, and throw in The Future Kings of England - The Viewing Point, just for the hell of it.


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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 05:57
what a decade.. rivaling.. and in ways topping the 'golden age' of the 70's.  It was a great time to be collab on this site we literally had more great music thrown at us on the genre teams than you could fully assimulate.

1. Dungen - Tio Bitar.  The ultimate light and shade album..  incendiary and beautiful at the same time.
2. Miriodor - Avanti. The album that started me down the dark path of uncle Ian and auntie Raff
3. Guapo - Elxers.  Yeah everyone.. especially those two love Five Suns. This was the album that was a 2x4 to the head. Helped in large part by having my single favorite 'track' of the decade. The Selenotrope
4. Battles - Mirrored.  Called... and rightfully so.. the ITCOTCK of the 21st century.  The template for today's 'not your daddies' progressive rock
5. Agalloch - The Mantle.  Incredible album by my fellow Portlandiers which seemingly lost to many as it came out before the internet and music forums were beginning to rev up.




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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 05:59
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

5. Agalloch - The Mantle.  Incredible album by my fellow Portlandiers which seemingly lost to many as it came out before the internet and music forums were beginning to rev up.


one of the most respected and beloved metal albums. Smile


Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 06:19
Keeping it to one per artist

1: Ghost Reveries - Opeth
2: Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
3: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance - Dream Theater
4: The Odyssey - Symphony X 
5: A Nod and a Wink - Camel


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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 10:09
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

what a decade.. rivaling.. and in ways topping the 'golden age' of the 70's.  It was a great time to be collab on this site we literally had more great music thrown at us on the genre teams than you could fully assimulate.

1. Dungen - Tio Bitar.  The ultimate light and shade album..  incendiary and beautiful at the same time.
2. Miriodor - Avanti. The album that started me down the dark path of uncle Ian and auntie Raff
3. Guapo - Elxers.  Yeah everyone.. especially those two love Five Suns. This was the album that was a 2x4 to the head. Helped in large part by having my single favorite 'track' of the decade. The Selenotrope
4. Battles - Mirrored.  Called... and rightfully so.. the ITCOTCK of the 21st century.  The template for today's 'not your daddies' progressive rock
5. Agalloch - The Mantle.  Incredible album by my fellow Portlandiers which seemingly lost to many as it came out before the internet and music forums were beginning to rev up.

Nice updated list, Mickster! All stellar albums--each packing quite the punch. 

I've listened to all of Agalloch's albums now (studio releases) and wonder if you get the same sense that I do that the band got kind of stuck in a rut: they all sound the same! It's a great sound, but there is so little change or deviation or freshness to any of the albums it's almost shocking (to me). 

I love your perfect description of Tio Bitar: definitely the most Batman-like of all of their wonderful discography. (Don't guess you've ever had that convergence with Reine yet, have you?)



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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 12:46
Taken from my ratings on ProgFreak my top 5 are:

1. Transatlantic - SMPTe (2000)
2. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever (2001)
3. Presto Ballet - The Lost Art of Time Travel (2008)
4. The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone (2003)
5. Ayreon - The Human Equation (2004)


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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 12:48
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Taken from my ratings on ProgFreak my top 5 are:

1. Transatlantic - SMPTe (2000)
2. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever (2001)
3. Presto Ballet - The Lost Art of Time Travel (2008)
4. The Tangent - The Music That Died Alone (2003)
5. Ayreon - The Human Equation (2004)


3 of which all feature mr. Roine Stolt on guitar! <3

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Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 02:10
1-Riverside: Out Of Myself
2-Phideaux: Doomsday Afternoon
3-The Pineapple Thief: Variations On A Dream
4-Gazpacho: Night
5-Overhead: Metaepitome.


Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 09:11
"Battles - Mirrored.  Called... and rightfully so.. the ITCOTCK of the 21st century.  The template for today's 'not your daddies' progressive rock"

No, I think that would be PT's "in absentia." At least that's what PROG magazine says(although they didn't use the KC analogy). For me personally maybe the first Transatlantic album although that came out in 2000 and technically that might not be considered the 21st century. Another possibility would be the first Mars Volta album "deloused..."


Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 04 2023 at 11:18
In no particular order, here are my top five favorite prog albums from 2000-2009 today:

1. Arena - Contagion
2. Echolyn - The End Is Beautiful
3. The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel
4. Galahad - Empires Never Last
5. Marillion - Marbles


Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 04 2023 at 12:35

       5 couldn't make it, and in alphabetical order:

       Flor De Loto  (Peru)  -  Flor De Loto  (2005)  

Green Carnation  (N)  -  The Acoustic Verses  (2006)

Indukti  (PL)  -  S.U.S.A.R.  (2004)

        The Mars Volta  (USA)  -  De-loused in the Comatorium   (2003)

Riverside  (PL)   -  Out Of Myself   (2003)

Tool  (USA)  -  Lateralus   (2001)




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Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: August 04 2023 at 14:46
1. Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
2. Miriodor- Avanti!
3. Present - High Infidelity
4. Simon Steensland - Fat Again
5. Contemporary Noise Quintet - Pig Inside the Gentleman

HM:
Wobbler - Afterglow
Maestro Trytony - Heart of Gold
One Shot - Ewaz Vader
Höstsonaten - Springsong
Uzva -Tammikuinen Tammela


Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 04 2023 at 23:25
1. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
1. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth (2002)
1. GYBE! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! (2000)
1. Guapo - Five Suns (2004)
1. Non Credo - Impropera (2006)

-feels about as essential:

Wovenhand - Mosaic (2006)
Vektor - Black Future (2009)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons (2004)
Tortoise - Standards (2001)
Umberto - From the Grave (2009)

-not considered prog, but surely progressive enough for me:

Andrea Belfi - Between Neck & Stomach (2006)
The Necks - Chemist (2006)
Nico Muhly - Speaks Volumes (2006)
Josephine Foster - Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (2005)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)




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