1999 to 1995 (five of my fave albums per year)
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Topic: 1999 to 1995 (five of my fave albums per year)
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 1999 to 1995 (five of my fave albums per year)
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 12:50
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I did a same-themed topic earlier today from 2004 to 2000 five five choices for each year. As that has not received any responses yet (only been a few hours), https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=134553" rel="nofollow - SEE HERE , I probably am putting this up much too soon, but I love these years and was excited to get to them. In choosing to only do five of my favourite albums for each year for a five by five poll (25 poll option spaces is the maximum for the forum) I am leaving off many favourites. Multiple votes enabled: Please vote for up to five of these -- or more if you want, I'm just giving people some structure -- and mention those in a post and those don't have to be one per year, but five of the 25 regardless of year. Please vote for and mention choices if you like any of them and please don't let not knowing most of these stop you from voting for and commenting on any of the choices. I'm fine with people mentioning their favourites from the year without knowing and liking any of the options, but please let me know if you only mention an "other" or "others" your status when it comes to knowing and liking ones in the poll. That context helps me to "get" better where people are coming from, Also, I will let people know that I do love sentences (should be name for this psychological condition) so sharing at least a few words to go along with your choice or choices is really appreciated. It gives me something more to connect with if anyone gets where I'm coming from. It makes it feel more interactive and personal. But people should do what they are comfortable with.Multiple votes enabled: Please vote for up to five of these -- or more if you want; I'm just giving people some structure -- and mention those in a post and those don't have to be one per year, but five of the 25 regardless of year. And I am a big fan of sentences, so if you have something to say along with your choices or choices, comments more than just a name, that would be hugely appreciated. But of course it is not a requirement, more like a bonus for me. :) 1999: 1. Fishmans - 98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare (live album, not in PA) 2. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun 3. Mr. Bungle - California 4. The Necks - Hanging Gardens (not in PA) 5. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun 1998: 1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (not in PA) 2. Air - Moon Safari (not in PA) 3. Tortoise - TNT 4. Pram - North Pole Radio Station 5. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs 1997: 1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. Stereolab - Dots and Loops 3. Portishead - Portishead (not in PA) 4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ 5. Art Zoyd - Häxan (really sad leaving off Bjork's Homogenic, which could as easily be there) 1996: 1. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind 2. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 3. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die 4. Fishmans - Long Season (not in PA) 5. Cardiacs - Sing to God 1995: 1. Swans - The Great Annihilator 2. Pram - Sargasso Sea 3. Art Zoyd - Faust 4. Cardiacs - All That Glitters Is a Mares Nest (live) 5. Björk - Post One of my favourite releases of 1999 is Perry Leopold's Christian Lucifer but as an archival release of an album recorded in 1973, I think of it as a 1973 album. Recorded date often is more important to me than release date). EDIT: Tortoise' Millions Living was in this twice as I just copied over my lists from AwesomeProg and it is erroneously there for both 1995 and 1996. I replaced it with Pram's Sargasso Sea for 1995. I would love to hear about what people like on the list, if any, and faves of yours that are not on the list. And if you dislike any of these, happy-enough to hear about that too. To each their own tastes. Thanks. :) |
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 13:02
| Some great albums here: Stereolab, Tortoise, Art Zoyd... one of the best musical eras since the final round of great prog albums of the late 70s |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 13:58
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Millions Now Living Will Never Die OK Computer Moon Safari California Faust ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 14:22
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Mercery Rev's Deserter's Songs is my fave of these. Also like OK Computer and that Fishmans live album. There are no more omelets on the Earth. ------------- ---------- 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: Lewian
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 15:41
| Is it on purpose that Millions Now Living Will Never Die is there twice, or did you want to put up something else instead? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 16:24
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^ An error involving copy pasting, I generally would not list the same twice intentionally in such a poll nor for different years without explanation (unless I forgot to comment on it). Not uncommon for me to make mistakes in such things. One will find Art Zoyd's Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités in my lists for 1976 and 1981 but those are different recordings and I have both in my collection EDIT: It is an issue with just copying over my lists for AwesomeProg, turns out it is listed for both years there. I have replaced it with Pram's Sargasso Sea which is now in my top five at AwesomeProg for 2005. The site will give automatic recommendations based on entries and so that is how I think it fell in both. That Tortoise is one of my clear favourite albums of the 1990s. 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 17:09
Indeed, although I do love the 80s too in its own way. That is a decade that I wish got more love from many at PA. The 90s is an awesome type for progressive/art music. One thing I really like is the revival of the influence of Krautrock and psychedelia (NeoPsych).
Sweet!
Glad to see some recognition for the Fishman's live, I adore the version of Long Season on it. It's my favourite Fishmans release and one of my very favourite live albums. I also really like the 96.12.26 Akasaka Blitz release. Brought it up afew times and I know a number here heard it because of me, sharing it again because I adore the live version of Long Season off it. Tragic to think that the leading man, Shinji Sato, would die less than three months after the 98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare concert on March 15, 1999. I can't help but wonder where Fishmans music might have gone (seems to have been moving in a post-rock direction). |
Rick1 wrote:Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 21:27
| Godspeed! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 22:32
| Kid A and Sing To God. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 02 2025 at 23:04
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Radiohead - OK Computer Bjork - Post
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 03 2025 at 01:24
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Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs Radiohead - OK Computer
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 03 2025 at 01:29
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Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun Air - Moon Safari Radiohead - OK Computer Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A#
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 03 2025 at 08:37
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Sing To God, Haxan, F# A#, TNT and Faust. I feel that this decade got better as it went with 1999 being pretty strong. Porcupine Tree released three great albums during the second half of the 90's. Nuova Era came through for RPI big time in 1995. As far as avant related I'd go Ur Kaos- Av Sprucket Ut Ar... Present- No.6 and Arcana- Arc Of The Testimony. Maybe Non Credo's Happy Wretched Family and Kada- s/t. The best retro album for me would be Sinkadus- Cirkus. Psychedelic would be Siddhartha from '98 and they are from Turkey. Jazz related Bruford Levin Upper Extremities s/t. And just because I love them Chroma Key- Dead Air For Radios, The Gathering- Nighttime Brids and Anekdoten- From Within. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 03 2025 at 09:32
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^ Thanks, John. And on another note, stereo is getting set up soon. Time to make my little man cave. I got some wonderful listening to do. Too much streaming for too long. I do want to get back to basics. The joy of actually playing physical product, smelling the polystyrene... I like Present's No. 6 and Non Credo's Happy Wretched Family. I only know Ur Kaos's self-titled from 1987, which I have liked a great deal, but will check out the other. From 1999, some of my faves not in the poll or mentioned in the OP are (the numbering means not that much except that higher numbers often got played more recently): 7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada 8. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn ... (not in PA) 9. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night 10. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 11. Cardiacs - Guns 12. Present - No. 6 13. Gustavo Cerati - Bocanada (not in PA) 14. Univers Zéro - The Hard Quest 15. Motor Totemist Guild - City of Mirrors 16. French TV - The Violence of Amateurs 17. NeBeLNeST - NeBeLNeST I only went to 17 in the list at AwesomeProg so far. Porcupine Tree is one I plan to be listening to more -- been years mostly. I picked up Deadwing when it came out and I do like early PT as well as later PT. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 03 2025 at 09:45
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