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Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 2001
Posted By: Mirakaze
Subject: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 2001
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 00:57
2001! We may not have had any alien monoliths disrupting our moon bases in order to bring on the next stage of human evolution that year, but at we least we got some cool prog albums!

1. Mats/Morgan Band - Live
2. Rascal Reporters - The Foul-Tempered Clavier
3. Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym
4. Rovo / Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Sino / Pan-American Beef Stake Art Federations
5. Nels Cline - Destroy All Nels Cline
6. French TV - The Case Against Art
7. Radiohead - Amnesiac
8. Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Report From Iron Mountain
9. Earthworks - The Sound Of Surprise
10. Present - High Infidelity


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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 03:42

13        Globalys          Globalys          Bel       2001   

12        P.G. Six            Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites     USA     2001   

11        Aka Moon       Invisible Moon            Bel       2001   

11        Akinetón Retard         Akinetón Retard         Chl       2001   

11        Interférence Sardines Zucchini          Can      2001   

11        King Crimson  Vrooom Vrooom        Eng      2001   

11        Magma           Trilogie Theusz Hamtaahk     Fra       2001 

11        Massacre        Meltdown       Var      2001   

11        Miriodor         Mekano          Can      2001   

11        Noir Désir      Des Visages des figures    Fra

11        Present           High Infidelity             Bel       2001   

11        Rêve d'Éléphant Orchestra    Racines Du Ciel          Bel       2001   

11        Santana, Carlos          Divine Light - Reconstruction & Mix Translation: Bill Laswell 



bubbling under:         

10        Ange    Culinaire Lingus         Fra       2001   

10        Bärtsch, Nik / Mobile Ritual Groove Music    Swz      2001   

10        Dagmähr        As Far as We Get        Can      2001   

10        Gongzilla         Live     Var      2001   

10        Kopecky          Orion   USA     2001   

10        Kvazar Kvazar             Nor      2001   

10        Mogwai          Rock Action     Sco      2001   

10        Tarentel          The Order of Things   USA     2001   

10        Tied + Tickled Trio     Electric Avenue Tapes           Ger      2001   

10        Vervloesem, Pierre    Chef d'oeuvre             Bel       2001   

10        Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orch         Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward



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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 05:11
ELO - Zoom
Greenslade - The Full Edition Live
Karda Estra - Eve
Magenta - Revolutions
Mostly Autumn - The Last Bright Light
Nektar - The Prodigal Son
Sally Oldfield - Flaming Star
Pallas - The Cross & the Crucible
Renaissance - Tuscany
Vangelis - Mythodea
Rick Wakeman - Out of the Blue
YES - Magnification


Only one live album and no compilations this time around. Smile


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 05:11
Threshold - Hypothetical 
Marillion - Anoraknophobia
Ark - Burn The Sun 
Shadow Gallery - Legacy
The Watch - Ghost
Antimatter - Saviour
Evergrey - In Search Of Truth
Devin Townsend - Terria
Poverty's No Crime - One In A Million
Zero Hour - The Towers Of Avarice


Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 08:09
Ark - Burn the Sun
The Bears - Car Caught Fire
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - The Sound of Surprise
Bubblemath - Such Fine Particles of the Universe
French TV - The Case Against Art
Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Jordan Rudess - Feeding the Wheel
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Thieves' Kitchen - Argot


Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 09:15
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym
Present - High Infidelity
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
Tool - Laterus
Miriodor - Mekano
Bob Drake - The Skull Mailbox and other Horrors
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Eskalation - Different Music for Bassoon, Wind Synthesizer and Sampled Percussion
Finnegan Wake - Pictures

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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 09:56
Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

2001! We may not have had any alien monoliths disrupting our moon bases in order to bring on the next stage of human evolution that year, but at we least we got some cool prog albums!
And the Y2K disaster never happened.


Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 10:53
^ 2001: A Prog Odyssey, and what a journey it was! Smile


Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 14:35
1)  Clepsydra- Alone
2)  Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
3)  Katatonia- Last Fair Deal Gone Down 
4)  Tool - Laterus
5)  Yes- Magnification 
6)  La Torre Dell'Alchimista- La Torre Dell'Alchimista
7)  Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
8)  Sigh- Imaginary Sonicscape
9)  Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym
10) Mostly Autumn- The Last Bright Light
11) Opeth- Blackwater Park
12)  Evergrey- In Search of Truth
13) Le Orme- Elementi
14) Present- High Infidelity 
15) No-Man- Returning Jesus







Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 15:04
1. Present - High Infidelity
2. Magenta - Revolutions
3. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
4. The Watch - Ghost
5. Traumhaus - Traumhaus
6. Nexus - Metanoia
7. Spaced Out - Eponymous II
8. Arion - Arion
9. Land of Chocolate - Unikorn on the Cob
10. Hamadryad - Conservation of Mass

Honorable mentions:
Ars Nova - Android Domina
Le Orme - Elementi
Attention Deficit - The Idiot King
The Lens - A Word in Your Eye
Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer
Distillerie di Malto - Il manuale del piccoli discorsi
Kvazar - Kvazar
Malibran - Oltre l'ignoto


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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 15:25
Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

5)  Yes- Magnification 
10) Mostly Autumn- The Last Bright Light


We have a match on two favourite albums for this year. Thumbs Up


Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 15:49
alphabetically

Arion - s/t
Clepsydra - Alone
Dice - Dice in Space
Mostly Autumn - The Last Bright Light
Le Orme - Elementi
Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn Ys
Renaissance Illusion - Into the Fire
Sad Minstrel - Flight of the Phoenix

Promoted to get to 10
Colin Masson - Isle of Eight
Flaming Bess - Fata Morgana

Hon Mentions - 
Alias Eye - Field of Names
Poor Genetic Material - Summerland





Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 16:00
A Nod and a Wink is from 2002. Smile


Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 00:56
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

A Nod and a Wink is from 2002. Smile

oops ok, thanks!  I updated my list.  It looks like 2002 will be a big year Big smile


Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 01:06
Bridge Across Forever - Transatlantic

Recordings - Porcupine Tree

Not of this World - Pendragon

Delayed - Älgarnas Trädgård

Wooden Smoke - Mike Keneally

Elementi - Le Orme

Hypothetical - Threshold

The Rainmaker - The Flower Kings

The Cross & the Crucible - Pallas

Feeding the Wheel - Jordan Rudess



Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 01:23
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

A Nod and a Wink is from 2002. Smile

oops ok, thanks!  I updated my list.  It looks like 2002 will be a big year Big smile

Thumbs Up


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 02:47
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

10        Tied + Tickled Trio     Electric Avenue Tapes           Ger      2001  

Not listed on PA, but one of my favourite bands. First time I see anyone else mentioning them here.
Electric Avenue Tapes is a live album, and I was in the audience when this was recorded. Big smile


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:47
Holger Czukay - Linear City
Karda Estra - Eve
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Irmin Schmidt & Kumo - Masters of Confusion
Tortoise - Standards
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Art Zoyd - u-B-I-Q-U-e
Bjork - Vespertine
Mogwai - Rock Action
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 00:47
1. Tool - Lateralus
2. Par Lindh Project - Veni Vidi Vici
3. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
4. Magenta - Revolutions
5. Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
6. Le Orme - Elementi
7. Jordan Rudess - Feeding The Wheel
8. Vangelis - Mythodea
9. 
10.

again, unable to get to 10. 


Posted By: UncleRust
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 08:07
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

...
Bob Drake - The Skull Mailbox and other Horrors
...

Oh, thank you - I have this but really need to listen...its been so long.  ;)

My list (I think I am getting the year right) -

  1. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
  2. Tool - Laterus
  3. Radiohead - Amnesiac
  4. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  5. Marillion - Anoraknophobia
  6. Jannick Top - Soleil d'Ork
  7. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
  8. Motorpsycho - Phanerothyme
  9. Yes - Magnification
  10. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever

And non-prog, but I would rate all of these much higher than the Yes and Transatlantic albums - 
  • Bjork - Vespertine
  • Fugazi - The Argument
  • Autechre - Confield
  • Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part


Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: December 24 2021 at 10:32
Opeth - Blacwater Park
Mogwai - Rock Action
Bjork - Vespertine
Maudlin Of The Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Maudlin Of The Well - Bath
No Man - Returning Jesus
Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Days Of Darkness
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Porcupine Tree - Recordings
The silver Mt. Zion - Bron Into Trouble As The sparks Fly Upward

Honorable mentions

Akineton Retard - Akrania
Tool - Lateralus
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
Ben Folds - rocking The Suburbs




Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 00:41
Lots of good stuff in 2001 but my least favourite year of the 00's and rather easily at that.
Picchio Dal Pozzo- Camere Zimmer Rooms This is the release date but the music is from the 70's and 80's.
Green Carnation- Light Of Day, day Of Darkness
La Torre Dell'Alchimista- s/t
Tool- Laterlaus
IEM- Have Come For Your Children
Present- High Infidelity
Dungen- Dungen
Henry Fool- Henry Fool
Anathema- A Fine Day To Exit
lift To Experience- The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads


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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 27 2021 at 07:35
     2001     
1. BJORK Vespertine
2. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Leaving Your Bodymap
3. KARDA ESTRA Eve
4. DIANA KRALL The Look of Love
5. DAVID DARLING Cello Blue
6. TOOL Lateralus
7. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Bath
8. SEVEN REIZH Strinkadenn Ys
9. STEREOLAB Sound-Dust
10. OPETH Blackwater Park

Honorable Mentions: 
ANATHEMA A Fine Day to Exit
NO-MAN Returning Jesus
BILL BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS The Sound of Surprise
NEXUS Metanoia
DEVIN TOWNSEND Terria


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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 13:44
1. Radiohead - Amnesiac
2. Circulatory System - self-titled

3. Bjork - Vespertine

4. Maudlin of the Well - Bath

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

6. Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth…

7. Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush

8. Devin Townsend - Terria

9. Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map

10. Tool - Lateralus


Almost annoyed Amnesiac is my number one haha, but I've probably played it more times than all the other albums there collectively



Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: February 28 2022 at 16:36
Here are my very loose answers, which will probably be different tomorrow:

1: Lateralus by Tool
2: “Bath” by Maudlin of the Well
3: Terria by Devin Townsend
4: Leaving Your Body Map by Maudlin of the Well
5: Origin of Symmetry by Muse
6: Blackwater Park by Opeth
7: Metanoia by Nexus
8: Book M by Secret Chiefs 3
9: Vespertine by Björk
10: Magnification by Yes


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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 01 2022 at 01:42
Marillion - Anoranophobia
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
Yes - Keystudio
Tool - Lateralus
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
I. E. M. - Have Come for Your Children
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone



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