2006 Album Releases

Done two today cause I am still recuperating and as a combination PA chart and collab choices for the Collab Album of the Year event (also has my personal faves section of course), this series is coming to a close. I know some are trying to play catch up with their own lists I think the first collaborator AOTY was for 2005, the first one I joined. I would like a topic dedicated to our yearly lists at Awesome Prog in PA (I like such duplication). If one of Mike's (MikeEnRegalia) topics works well for that, then perhaps we could use that to share here too. I am at about 1985 now and would like to go back to 1960 at least with my own lists there. But to me it's not enough to make a list, I like to share and compare lists and discuss selections with others (well, to some extent, as I am not terribly sociable and I am hardly adept at forum chat). Some might want to share lists at rateyourmusic too, I have yet to do that, but we have some people with many themed lists there such as Silly Puppy Mike. It would be wise to take a break from polls and maybe some others who may find many of these topics dissatisfying will come up with their own lists, topics and ideas. Build some topics, it will be brilliant!

Mostly standard yet perhaps somewhat strangely modified spiel:

The first eight are taken from the unfiltered, except by year, Prog Archives Top Album Chart for 2006. The second eight is taken from the top eight listed albums of the 2006 Collab Album of the Year topic. This is a first, not only does the top eight in the PA Chart for 2006 and the top eight for the Collab chart not share any of the same albums, but neither does the top 10 0f each list. The third section are taken from my top 11 picks of a list of 30 albums at Awesome Prog. In my top eight I share two with the PA top four chart and one with the Collab AOTY poll (it's "winner", or sausage as one person might have said). I also have liked One Shot very much. As ever, I don't wish to duplicate albums across sections in the poll.

"Other" as a voting option is intended to use if you don't like any of the listed albums in the poll. That said, I would ask people to mention their favourites both on and off the list. If, for instance, your favourite in the poll is Unexpect's In a Flesh Aquarium, but your actual favourite from 2006 is Kevin Federline's Playing With Fire (anyone here remember him?), then I request both voting for and mentioning Unexpect's album in a post while also mentioning Federline's tour de force, or more like a farce, as being your actual favourite album of 2006.

So I would like to hear about what people like both on AND off the list if applicable and, to reiterate, for the "other" voting poll option ONLY to be used if nothing is liked that is already listed. Please do mention as many of your favourites as you like, both in and off the poll. And feel free to mention what you don't like that is listed too, and then preferably why it does not appeal. If one would be so kind, please mention your vote, mention if you can't or won't vote for any of the listed options (reason), and mention other likes if applicable. Thanks. :) And there is no multiple choice.

PA's top eight from the 2006 Top Prog Albums chart

1. Sylvan - Posthumous Silence (Neo-Prog)
2. Nemo - Si, Partie 1 (Eclectic Prog)
3. Magyar Posse - Random Avenger (Post Rock/Math Rock
4. OOIOO - Taiga (RIO/Avant-Prog)
5. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (Experimental/Post Metal)
6. One Shot - Ewaz Vader (Jazz Rock/Fusion)
7. The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra (Experimental/Post Metal)
8. Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium (Experimental/Post Metal)

(Note: Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes is in ninth and Negura Bunget's om is in tenth)

Collab Top Eight Albums of 2006

1. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (in Avant Prog, at least now, the collab album of the year, how TheT hated it)
2. PFM - Stati di immaginazione (RPI, I was disappointed with this album)
3. Steve Hackett - Wild Orchids (Eclectic Prog)
4. Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third (Crossover Prog)
5. Tool - 10,000 Days (Experimental/Post Metal)
6. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (Experimental/Post Metal)
7. Frost* - Milliontown (Neo-Prog)
8. The Mars Volta - Amputechture (Heavy Prog)

(Note: 9. Peter Hammill - Veracious (with Stuart Gordon) is in ninth and The Tangent - A Place in the Queue in in tenth)

From my top 11 for 2006 at Awesome Prog

1. North Sea Radio Orchestra - North Sea Radio Orchestra (in PA, Prog Folk)
2. Joanna Newsom - Ys (not in PA, Chamber Folk, Progressive Folk)
3. Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (in PA as Post Rock/Math rock)
OOIOO - Taiga (my number four already is listed for the PA chart at number four)
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (my number five is the Collab album of the year)
Magyar Posse - Random Avenger (my #6 already listed for PA album chart entries)
4. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky (in PA, Prog Folk)
5. Espers - II (in PA, Prog Folk)
6. Saturnia - Muzak (in PA, Indo-Prog/Nipple Rock)
7. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (in PA, Prog Folk)
8. Le Silo - 3.27830 (in PA, Avant Prog)

My top 20 at Awesome Prog:

1. North Sea Radio Orchestra - North Sea Radio Orchestra
2. Joanna Newsom - Ys [AP Non-Prog]
3. Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
4. OOIOO - Taiga
5. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
6. Magyar Posse - Random Avenger
7. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky [AP Non-Prog]
8. Espers - II
9. Saturnia - Muzak [AP Non-Prog]
10. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
11. Le Silo - 3.27830
12. Hideki Taniuchi - Death Note [AP Prog]
13. Panzerpappa - Koralrevens Klagesang
14. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies [AP Prog]
15. Yūgen - Labirinto d'acqua [AP Prog]
16. Zaar - Zaar
17. Tenhi - Maaäet
18. One Shot - Ewaz Vader
19. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
20. Korekyojinn - Jackson

A track from my album of the year:



One more to go, at least in this exact form (lol)! I deeply appreciate all the people who have taken the time to respond to these polls. I hope I can be as supportive when it comes to other people's topics.

Crane Wife for me. 

I mean I knew before I even looked at your list Jonana Newsom's Ys would be on it and that I would be voting for that. Another all-time favourite album of mine. She's the reason I travelled to Chicago in 2013 to see Pithcfork festival.

Mr. Hackett.

Voted for the Decemberists - I just LOVE those two releases (Crane Wife and Hazards of Love).

I like your personal first two most, Greg: NSRO > Joanna Newsom. In 2006 Barbara Morgenstern did The Grass Is Always Greener, which is probably my most played album after 1990.

progaardvark wrote: Voted other - Zombi's Surface to Air. There is nothing like being wrapped up in a warm paragraph.

Ditto. A wheatgrass shot makes a fine tire sealant.

TheGazzardian wrote: I mean I knew before I even looked at your list Jonana Newsom's Ys would be on it and that I would be voting for that. Another all-time favourite album of mine. She's the reason I travelled to Chicago in 2013 to see Pithcfork festival. 2006 is before my time, and I know a few from this list (OOIOO, Unexpect, Decemberists) but nothing else on the list comes even close to the majesty that is Joanna Newsoms best album imo...

It is a wonderful album and could have been in my top spot, and in fact if I were to choose one track then "Only SKin" would have been my immediate thought.



Glorious. I opted to give that album a vote despite my love for that North Sea Radio Orchestra album. She is something really special. I liked her then very much, but I now really love her music.

And thanks for the list, and others too!

verslibre wrote: progaardvark wrote: Voted other - Zombi's Surface to Air. There is nothing like being wrapped up in a warm paragraph. Ditto. A wheatgrass shot makes a fine tire sealant.

Kind of surprised that neither of you like any albums in the poll, but that is a good album that I had neglected for my Awesome Prog list. Listening again, it has been many years since I last listened to it.

Lewian wrote: I like your personal first two most, Greg: NSRO > Joanna Newsom. In 2006 Barbara Morgenstern did The Grass Is Always Greener, which is probably my most played album after 1990.

I have been exposed to various of her music via you (and others methinks) and I should give that album a spin.

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As for my list, while in 2006/2007 my list would have been Avant Prog/Zeuhl dominated, this is now a heavy folk year for me (dominates my top 10 overall), in which I would include Natural Snow Buildings... Was nice to find that had been added to PA as I have been very into NSB and related acts for many years.

First vote for The Mars Volta (and my favourite album by them). A Matter Of Life and Death is Maiden's masterpiece for me but they are strictly 'Prog related' so is excluded from PA's lists.

Deluge Grander - August in the Urals.