Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1994
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Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1994
Posted By: Mirakaze
Subject: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1994
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 01:12
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Happy to know that the year of my birth was able to provide me with a top 10 I'm pretty satisfied with. My relationship with The Downward Spiral over the years has been very strange, going from obsessing over it, to associating it with a particularly bad time in my life and therefore wanting to purge it from memory, to the present time where I can look at it with more emotional distance and acknowledge it as the finely crafted musical opus that I believe it to be (EDIT: Rectification further down this page) 1. Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III 2. Tim Hodgkinson - Each In Our Own Thoughts 3. Vangelis - Blade Runner: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 4. U Totem - Strange Attractors 5. Robert Fripp - 1999: Soundscapes Live In Argentina 6. French TV - Virtue In Futility 7. Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence 8. Popol Vuh - City Raga 9. Il Berlione - In 453 Minutes Infernal Cooking 10. FFWD - FFWD Honourable mentions: * California Guitar Trio - Yamanashi Blues * Herbie Hancock - Dis Is Da Drum
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 01:24
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Marillion - Brave Fates Warning - Inside OutDream Theater - Awake King's X - Dogman Tiles - s/t Soul Cages - s/t Threshold - Psychedelicatessen Ivanhoe - Visions And Reality Citizen Cain - Somewhere But Yesterday Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 02:35
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Jon Anderson - Change We Must Peter Bardens - Big Sky Eloy - The Tides Return Forever The Enid - Tripping the Light Fantastic Annie Haslam - Blessing in Disguise Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth Sally Oldfield - Three Rings Mike Pinder - Among the Stars Pink Floyd - The Division BellRick Wakeman - Chronicles
Yes - Talk |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 03:12
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.O.rang - Herd of Instinct Bark Psychosis - Hex Richard Sinclair - R.S.V.P. Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Stamping Ground Live Tortoise - s/t Fred Frith - Quartets Robert Fripp - 1999 Soundscapes: Live in Argentina David Byrne - s/t Legendary Pink Dots - 9 Lives to Wonder |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 05:19
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Those with asterisks are not in PA, and sorry going over ten and not just sticking with "Prog", I love this year. Portishead - Dummy* Pram - Helium* .O.rang - Herd of Instinct Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude* Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet* Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery Faust - Rien 5uu's - Hunger's Teeth Zbigniew Preisner - Trois couleurs: Rouge* Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer Koenji Hyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji Tortoise - Tortoise U Totem - Strange Attractors X-Legged Sally - Eggs and Ashes John Greaves - Songs |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 09:03
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In no particular order Bark Psychosis - Hex Collage - Moonshine The Spacious Mind - Organic Mind solution Ines - Hunting The fox Landberk - One Man Tell´s Another O.Rang - Herd Of Instinct Anglagard - Epilog Citizen Cain -Somewhere But yesterday Porcupie Tree - Staircaise Infinities Honorable mentions Red Jasper - The winter´s Tale Jeff Buckley - Grace Il Trono Dei Ricordi - Il Trono Dei Ricordi Finisterre - Finisterre Cairo - Cairo Clepsydra - More Grains Of Sand |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 09:31
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1. Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck 2. Dream Theater - Awake 3. Echolyn - As The World 4. King's X - Dogman 5. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 6. Soundgarden - Superunknown |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 10:37
Clearly the emotional distance isn't quite wide enough yet... After hearing it again and ruminating on this decision for a while, it no longer sits well with me to accredit this album in such a way. The unrelentingly aggressive and resentful nature of the lyrics is what repels me once more; I think even later NIN albums were better able to dose or channel their negative emotions in a more bearable fashion. I have no problem per se with unfiltered expressions of anger and despair in music, but the one emotion that in my experience exudes most of all from The Downward Spiral is downright hatred, seemingly borne from some of the ugliest and most sinister forms of misanthropy. I cannot relate to it and I don't want to be associated with it anymore. If it were mostly instrumental I might have stood by it, but right now I'm taking it off my list. ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Mirakaze wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 11:09
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Great year for avant leaning releases, the top 4 of my list are all top drawer. U Totem - Strange Attractors X-Legged Sally - Eggs & Ashes Deathprod - Treetop Drive Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth Virgil Moorefield - Distractions on the Way to the King's Party Anglagard - Epilog Finnegans Wake - Yellow Philharmonie - Nord Steve Roach - The Dream Circle
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 11:28
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1. 5uu's - Hunger Teeth 2. Citizen Cain - Somewhere but Yesterday 3. Marillion - Brave 4. Änglagård - Epilog 5. Mastermind - Mastermind III: Tragic Symphony 6. Cairo - Cairo 7. Versus X - Versus X 8. Roine Stole - The Flower King 9. Bob Drake - What Day Is It? 10. Afterglow - Yggdrasil Honorable mentions: AmonullunomA - Amplifeeding Fyrewarmtouch Cosmos - The Deciding Moments of Your Life High Wheel - Remember the Colours Mad Crayon - Ultimo Miraggio Ars Nova - Transi Eloy - The Tides Return Forever Landberk - One Man Tells Another Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence Ines - Hunting the Fox ------------- ---------- 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: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 15:05
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13 Portishead Dummy 12 Änglagård Epilog 11 Aka Moon Rebirth 11 Page, Jimmy / Robert Plant No Quarter Unledded 11 Zorn, John / Masada Alef (One) 11 Zorn, John / Masada Beit (Two) 11 Zorn, John / Masada Gimel (Three) 10 Finnegans
Wake Yellow 10 Isildurs Bane Lost Eggs 10 Lindh Project, Pär Gothic Impressions 10 Marillion Brave 10 .O.rang - Herd of Instinct 10 Present C.O.D. Performance 10 Spacious Mind Organic Mind Solution 10 Standarte Standarte 10 Tortoise Tortoise 10 X-Legged Sally Eggs and Ashes 10 Zazou,
Hector Songs from Cold Seas bubbling under: 10 Buckley, Jeff Grace 10 Dead Can Dance Toward the Within 10 dEUS Worst Case Scenario 10 Electric Orange Sessions Nebenan (CDR)09 Amos, Tori Under the Pink 09 Clepsydra More Grains of Sand 09 Crosby, David It's All Coming Back To Me Now 09 Daran et Les Chaises Huit Barré 09 Ensemble Nimbus Key Figures 09 Finisterre Finisterre 09 Fukkeduk Ornithozozy 09 Germinale Germinale 09 Justine Langages Fantastiques 09 Landberk Jag Är Tiden (EP) 09 Litfiba Spirito 09 Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence 09 Pearl Jam Vitalogy 09 Quaterna
Requiem Quasimodo 09 Santana Brothers 09 Schell, Daniel & Karo Gira Girasole 09 Sinclair, Richard R.S.V.P. 09 Sume Persersume 09 Third Ear Band Radio Session 09 Traffic Far From Home 09 Travis, Theo View from the Edge 09 Vervloesem, Pierre Home Made 09 Wizards of Ooze The Dipster 09 Zao Akhenaton ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 15:25
By the way, your ranking of it on top made me listen to this for the first time - I love Ghosts and had sampled some other NIN before but the other stuff hadn't clicked with me. The Downward Spiral is musically very good, and I tend to ignore lyrics, however, as happens with quite some music, I don't like the voice much. For me he should stick to instrumentals.
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 18:01
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This is the best year of the Nineties! 1. Marillion - Brave 2. John Wetton - Battle Lines 3. Yes - Talk 4. Traffic - Far From Home 5. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell 6. Jon Anderson - Change We Must 7. Saga - Steel Umbrellas
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 00:39
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hooray, I can actually make a proper prog top ten! Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions Mike Oldfield - The Songs Of Distant Earth Eloy - The Tides Turn Forever Big Big Train - Goodbye To The Age Of Steam Cairo - Cairo Dream Theater - AwakeYes - Talk
Anglagard - Epilog Vangelis - Blade Runner (OST) Marillion - Brave in general 'rock music' was making a big comeback, this was the year Oasis released their debut album. You also had the likes of Soundgarden, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers , Portishead, REM, The Cranberries and The Stone Roses making a big splash. Cool year for music! |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 02:58
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Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet Tim Hodgkinson - Each In Our Own Thoughts Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence ELP - In the Hot Seat Orbital - Snivilisation Future Sound of London - Lifeforms Loop Guru - Duniya Banco de Gaia - Maya Faust - Rien Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 06:49
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Marillion - Brave Pink Floyd - The Division Bell Dream Theater - Awake Mike Oldfield - Songs Of Distant Earth That's it. I was mostly listening to Pritpop and the like as I was at Uni. Great days (but shame about my musical tastes at the time....)
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 07:54
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Epilog and Brave. Both amazing but the only other Prog album from 1994 that really hits me is Hunger Teeth. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 08:53
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Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III Yes - Talk David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio - Polytown Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter Dream Theater - AwakePink Floyd - The Division Bell Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence Versailles - Le Trésor de Valliesres dEUS - Worst Case Scenario Cairo - s/t MKII - Burning Daylight Laurie Anderson - Bright Red I hesitate to mention Marillion's Brave: every track is good to excellent, but I find the album as a whole too long and too boring. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 18:50
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1. COLLAGE Moonshine 2. BARK PSYCHOSIS Hex 3. LANDBERK One Man Tells Another 4. BONDAGE FRUIT I 5. JON ANDERSON Change We Must 6. SEAL II 7. KINGSTON WALL III: Trilogy 8. ÄNGLAGÅRD Epilog 9. PÁR LINDH PROJECT Gothic Impressions 10. JULIA FORDHAM Falling Forward Honorable Mentions: DREAM THEATER Awake AFTER CRYING Föld És Ég MARILLION Brave CITZEN CAIN Somewhere But Yesterday CLEPSYDRA More Grains of Sand ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 19:18
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I'll take a stab at this Anglagard - Epilog Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit Buckethead - Giant Robot Dream Theater - Awake Fates Warning - Inside Out French TV III: Virtue In Futility Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito U Totem - Strange Attractors Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 19:58
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Dream Theater Awake I don't know if I know any more prog from 1994. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 30 2021 at 09:47
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Just a couple of not exactly Prog but still not mainstream: Kyuss (US) - Sky Valley Shellac (US) - At Action Park Sonic Youth (US) - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and no Star ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: October 31 2021 at 08:44
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Not sure if I have ten for this year. In no particular order... Anglagard- Epilog Landberk- One Man Tells Another Purple Overdose- Purple Overdose Aragon- Rocking Horse Psychotic Waltz- Mosquito Bondage Fruit- Bondage Fruit Bark Psychosis- Hex X-Legged Sally- Eggs & Ashes Par Lindh Project- Gothic Impressions Material- Hallucination Engine Wow and that's everything I had written down for this year. Oops no it wasn't. Man I have these lists scribbled down and it's not neat. Missed... Kingston Wall- Trilogy 5UU's Hungers Teeth So that's 12 but I don't have an order.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 05 2021 at 11:10
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1. Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I 2. Michael Manring - Thoňk 3. 5uus - Hunger's Teeth 4. Surman, Krog, Rypdal, Storas - Nordic Quartet 5. Meshuggah - None 6. Idiot Flesh - The Nothing Show 7. Laundry - Black Tongue 8. Koenji Hyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji 9. Buckethead - Giant Robot 10. Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 05 2021 at 12:36
Dammit, I don't know any album of this list. Got some work to do... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 05 2021 at 12:55
Not to worry. I don't know any of those artists or albums either.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 06 2021 at 11:41
The hell you say? Here is a photo of my surprised face.  I wouldn't consider this a very obscure list. Most entries show up on at least 1 other person's list. Nordic Quartet is not a PA listed album. Probably a little hard to find. Laundry and Idiot Flesh are probably also pretty rare.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 06 2021 at 15:01
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Anyone who hasn't heard of Mike Keneally needs to do some research. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: projeKct
Date Posted: November 06 2021 at 22:16
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Not a big year for prog in my collection. But those five I like very much: King Crimson - VROOOM Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth Pink Floyd - The Division Bell Roine Stolt - The Flower King  |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 07 2021 at 02:26
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1. The Flower King - Roine Stolt 2. Gothic Impressions - Pär Lindh Project 3. Thud - Kevin Gilbert 4. Battle Lines - John Wetton 5. Boil That Dust Speck - Mike Keneally 6. Somewhere but Yesterday - Citizen Cain 7. Thonk - Michael Manring 8. Epilog - Änglagård 9. Promised Land - Queensr˙che 10. The Division Bell - Pink Floyd I'm the only one who puts the album name first. I have this huge list of albums by year and it's like this, so it's a bit of a hassle to change it now. I figured it makes sense given the album is the focus. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 12 2021 at 20:53
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The best year of the 1990s IMO, by far. So good I had to include 11 Alphabetically Albion - Survival Games Il Castello di Atlante - Passo Dopo Passo Clepsydra - More Grains of Sand Collage - Moonshine Grace - Pulling Strings and Shiny Things Kaos Moon - After the Storm James McCarty - Out of the Dark Men of Lake - Out of the Water Quaterna Requiem - Quasimodo Red Jasper - Winter's Tale Sagrado - Grande Espirito |