Favourite Prog Albums Year by Year: 2000-2009

Normally I like to come up with a newly thought out list every time a similar topic comes up. But I'll post the exact same list[s} I did in an older topic that I responded to very recently. See Drew'sList one great album per year for the 2000s One could say that these kinds of topics involving release times are timeless at PA. I have read at another forum how much PAers are obsessed with lists, and I am no exception.

My top Prog, by PA standards albums are:

2009: Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2008: Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo
2007: William D. Drake - Briny Hooves
2006: OOIOO - Taiga
2005: Guapo - Black Oni
2004: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
2003: Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
2002: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
2001: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
2000: Radiohead - Kid A

And while not asked for, to me this not in PA list is relevant, and a line between Prog and non-Prog (the Prog and non-Prog dichotomy) actually becomes harder for me to make as I get older. Most of this falls under my Prog umbrella.

2009: Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
2008: Portishead - Third
2007: PJ Harvey - White Chalk
2006: Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
2005: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
2004: Electrelane - The Power Out
2003: Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape (it's noisy and I find it fun)
2002: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2001: Air - 10 000 Hz Legend
2000: Broadcast - The Noise Made by People

Once again, I will be picking runners up, but there's also a few years (2003, 2007, 2009) where I ABSOLUTELY cannot pick just one album:

2000 Spocks Beard - V

2000: N/A¹

Edited by someone_else - May 28 2021 at 00:37

Progmind wrote: 2000 - Porcupine Tree - "Lightbulb Sun" 2001 - Maudlin Of The Well - "Leaving Your Body Map" 2002 - Agalloch - "The Mantle" 2003 - Anekdoten - "Gravity" 2004 - Bark Psychosis - "Codename: Dustsucker" 2005 - Guapo - "Black Oni" 2006 - Cult Of Luna - "Somewhere Along The Highway" 2007 - Ulver - "Shadows Of The Sun" 2008 - Dungen - "4" 2009 - No Sound - "A Sense Of Loss"

00 Fates Warning- Disconnected
01 Present- High Infidelity
02 Porcupine Tree- In Absentia

Edited by Mellotron Storm - May 26 2021 at 19:14

2000: Radiohead - Kid A

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ The Tangent have A Place in the Queue on my latest prog playlist starting tomorrow, just as soon as I finish my Strawbs listening marathon today. I've heard The Tangent bring a whole new angle to Neo Prog.

A Crimson Mellotron wrote: essexboyinwales wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Spaciousmind wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ The Tangent have A Place in the Queue on my latest prog playlist starting tomorrow, just as soon as I finish my Strawbs listening marathon today. I've heard The Tangent bring a whole new angle to Neo Prog.  Lol... a little like you with your older artists, looking at it this way by year it's clear in my collection that around 2007-2008 it seems I stopped moving forward and started going backwards in time again.  I have little new from 2008 onwards other than collecting from older artists and completing older artists. On that note, I'm currently putting together a list of my favourite albums from the years 2010 through to 2020, although I'll wait until I've listened to all of The Tangent's albums before I post it.  Going off on a slight tangent here, but I don't understand how listening to any album once could possibly result in it becoming your favourite album of that year!  Unless it's the only one you've heard from that year....   Well, if it is an unprecedented masterpiece and you get otherworldly visions and sensations while listening to it, while being transported through the sounds you hear to another universe that has been unknown to you before, then we can talk about albums becoming your favorites for a particular year after just one listen.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Spaciousmind wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ The Tangent have A Place in the Queue on my latest prog playlist starting tomorrow, just as soon as I finish my Strawbs listening marathon today. I've heard The Tangent bring a whole new angle to Neo Prog.  Lol... a little like you with your older artists, looking at it this way by year it's clear in my collection that around 2007-2008 it seems I stopped moving forward and started going backwards in time again.  I have little new from 2008 onwards other than collecting from older artists and completing older artists. On that note, I'm currently putting together a list of my favourite albums from the years 2010 through to 2020, although I'll wait until I've listened to all of The Tangent's albums before I post it.