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Poll Question: Discuss and vote for your favorite from their list
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    Posted: March 16 2021 at 21:42
I am reading the December 2020 edition of Prog Magazine and the above list of 20 albums makes up their top 20 albums of 2020.  What do you think of this list?  Vote for your favorite out of these.
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Definitely Mollestad. 
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That list is a good example of why I stopped reading that magazine
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Well, I am astounded by some of the artists who don’t appear. I stopped buying the mag a while back as it was becoming a very expensive luxury.

Of this list, Fish, but it was nowhere near my favourite of either his or for the year as a whole.
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Prog rock has experienced far better years recently, I voted for Pain of Salvation in this poll. (However, I haven't heard all of these albums)
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Fish and Dyble Longdon were top three for me.

Fish > Dyble Longdon > Wobbler > Hausswolff
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Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet for me, the rest are so so to my ears
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Rick Wakeman's superb Martian odyssey - the only album I know in the poll. No surprise there. Smile
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I think I’ve got about half a dozen of those, but it’s a very safe selection of mainstream music/entry-level prog, which I guess is what one should expect from Prog magazine. (That’s not a criticism, by the way.)

There’s a lot of good music in there, but I think my favourite of those is probably Mariana Semkina’s debut album.

Given that March is Women’s History Month, I think it’s worth noting the amount of female artists in this selection. (Not that that has any bearing whatsoever on why I chose Semkina’s album.)
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Wobbler over Wakeman. 
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I have only heard two from this list, so no vote.
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Rick Wakeman got my vote easily.
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Went with Wobbler. Not enough weird stuff or RPI in the list. Haven't bought this magazine in over a year.
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Fish>Wobbler> Anna Von Hausswolff> Motorpsycho> Mariana Semkina> Haken> Katatonia> Pain of Salvation> Enslaved
> The Pineapple Thief> Rick Wakeman:



@Todd That list is a good example of why I stopped reading that magazine.


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2020 was definitely a better year than that list implies, although that is my purely subjective take on it. Honestly, I felt last year was such an amazing year - and so much better than I would ever have expected, given what the world was going through (and continues to deal with). There was, of course, a lot of music already composed and/or recorded, etc. before covid and quarantines changed out world. But there was an awful lot of music that came from that, which might otherwise never have come to be, or have been released so soon, or in the manner it was. I could write twenty different top 20 lists, for different styles of music. There was just so much great stuff.
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I like 9 albums here, I could vote for any of them... 
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I think that only the Wobbler and the Fish albums made my top 25.  I've heard them all except for the Jack Hues' album.  I think that all of these are pretty good.  I didn't really care for the POS album, but it has grown on me a bit with multiple listens.  As a Big Big Train fan, I really enjoy the Dyble Longdon album.  I didn't include it in my top 25 prog list, but I did have it as #1 on my non-prog list.  
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Rick Wakeman is an excellent form!!!!!
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