Your top prog tunes of 2020
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Topic: Your top prog tunes of 2020
Posted By: earlyprog
Subject: Your top prog tunes of 2020
Date Posted: February 20 2021 at 11:14
List your Top 2020 Prog Tunes  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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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 04:50
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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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Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 12:00
Excellent track  |
richardh wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 12:58
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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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 13:54
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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... |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 13:57
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this will be exceedingly difficult ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 14:11
And that's the title of a track by....Liquid Tension Experiment? no, wait, wrong year!
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 14:30
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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 ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 15:27
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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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 16:30
| ^Thanks, we both picked Pat and Vulkan, small world. I shall check out your TOTY. |
Posted By: emisan
Date Posted: February 25 2021 at 01:49
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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 |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: February 25 2021 at 11:44
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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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 25 2021 at 12:19
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Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: February 25 2021 at 14:16
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
 This could very well alter my list  |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 25 2021 at 15:09
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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 ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 08:25
Great choices, thanks Lots of great music. Seems I still got some catching up to do on 2020. |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: March 14 2021 at 13:43
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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
The number of ballots can still be raised until deadline April 2. More entries awaited....unless you're satisfied with this as a winner: |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 15 2021 at 07:27
Thanks for posting that John Ludi song! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: April 02 2021 at 15:41
| Your top prog tunes coming up.... |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 08:39
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. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 15 2021 at 17:34
My list looks shockingly like yours. I won't bother. I'll kick in two Nodo Goriano's tunes- "Limbic Rendez-vous" and "After Dusk"
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