Top 50 of the 2010s as rated on RYM and PA - Progressive Rock Music Forum

PhideauxFan wrote:

Thank you for that list ! Wink

I've got 23 of these albums.

Aallriight, then your collection certainly includes some of the most appreciated 2010's albums - which I in general am fond of concerning my collection.

And thanks! Smile

Edited by David_D - May 13 2022 at 03:54

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Saperlipopette! wrote:

btw: Swans - To Be Kind

is RYMs no. 1 album for 2014 (all genres included)

-has 268 reviews, over 22000 ratings and a 4.00 average

Yes, but when I worked out this list, I didn't find this album to be in line with the Prog Rock definition, I used as basis for making it.

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Know most of these bands, but far from all of the albums. A lot of those albums on the list, I know I'll will never give a listen.

I really like these:

King Gizzard : Polygondwanaland

Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race +

Kayo Dot: Hubardo

...is good

btw: Swans - To Be Kind

is RYMs no. 1 album for 2014 (all genres included)

-has 268 reviews, over 22000 ratings and a 4.00 average

Edited by Saperlipopette! - May 11 2022 at 14:37

I can tell that the last 15 years, I've made many top lists of different countries and periods of time with the purpose to

become knowledgeable about the most appreciated albums and bands, and that due to:

1. explore and find albums and bands, I could like

2. as a part of my work as "music journalist"

3. simply because I've been curious and liked to do it.

The last couple of years, I've published some of these top lists, being convinced about that many other people can make

good use of them, too - and I can assure that it takes a lot of time to make lists like that. It ain't easy in other ways, either. Star

Edited by David_D - May 10 2022 at 02:17

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moshkito wrote:

And for the record, most of us from those days, never had a list, and never saw one. We bought it from the covers, from the titles, from the names of the pieces ... and for me, and even Space Pirate Radio, how it showed its art ... and it has been an important part of this music world. It's just bizarre to me that one has to have a "list" to find something or MEET a new something ... it's a new world (so to speak) and you either meet it with a smile, or go find a list that didn't exist at the time.

There's another load of revisionist bullsh*t to add to the pile of Mosh manure myth. Billboard lists have been around forever, even before you were hatched, Ducky. Creem, Rolling Stone, Circus, Beat and Crawdaddy all had lists, in addition to articles regarding new artists and trends. Lists of artists and albums have been around for a century. It is just presented in a different and more extensive medium today. You. Are. Not. Special.

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David_D wrote:

Well, guys, we look very differently at it.

Hi,

You are from a different generation, and you were not amidst the issues that we went through to even find that kind of music. Nowadays, folks look at a place like PA, then choose one or two things, and boom ... "I know progressive music" ... and in all honesty, the moment you say that "you know something or other", you just lost sight of that "knowing" as it is called in some places in high level digital-neuro circles ... and replaced it with an "idea" of your own.

Sure you can say that "we" look very differently at it", sure, I had open eye surgery to save the eye and see double, but it didn't affect my musical story and tastes!

If it's perspective you are looking for, or some consensus ... then you wouldn't create something that is rated in the devil's circles, or in god's circles ... it makes no difference, but it is much easier to support the hollow idea with those numbers that mean nothing to a real artist!

You got to take a larger interest in the ART OF IT ALL. Is about the only thing I like to say ... that's not an "idea" ... it's a reality about people and their work!

Mellotron Storm wrote:

I love lists like this, especially when I was buying music. Some of my favs.

...

And for the record, most of us from those days, never had a list, and never saw one. We bought it from the covers, from the titles, from the names of the pieces ... and for me, and even Space Pirate Radio, how it showed its art ... and it has been an important part of this music world. It's just bizarre to me that one has to have a "list" to find something or MEET a new something ... it's a new world (so to speak) and you either meet it with a smile, or go find a list that didn't exist at the time.

Moby Disk had thousands of titles, and the only "album" showing, was the one that was being played, and a couple on the wall. Rasputin's was impossible. You walked in into a Pacific Ocean of so much, that if you had a list you would be better served to use it for toilet paper! The three floors (I think it was three or maybe two) of music at the Warehouse in Westwood, was a veritable ... where do I start?

You have no idea what this means to your discovery of some music, and how it teaches you some independence, and this is the part that you are objecting ... you can't stand not being a part of everyone agreeing with you! And then you like "progressive music" and don't even realize that it came up from that opposite, and the folks that handled it were less worried about your ideas than they were in theirs ... go ahead ... criticize and "support" your article that makes you feel bigger and better!

Edited by moshkito - May 08 2022 at 07:01

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The ones I enjoy from the list (in the order they appear in the list):

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Aust) : Polygondwanaland (2017)

Haken (UK) : The Mountain (2013)

IQ (UK) : The Road of Bones (2014)

Änglagård (S) : Viljans Öga (2012)

Wobbler (N) : From Silence to Somewhere (2017)

Phideaux (US) : Snowtorch (2011)

All Traps on Earth (S) : A Drop of Light (2018)

Motorpsycho (N): The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

The ones I enjoy from the list are:

Steven Wilson, Rush, Haken, Big Big Train, Wobbler, Discipline, Spock's Beard, Echolyn and Caligula's Horse.

My favorite from the list is: Thank You Scientist.

thanks, Grumpy, and Paul Smile

Edited by David_D - May 07 2022 at 07:13

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I love the idea of limiting the Top 50 list to just one album per artist. If it wasn't for that rule, then my own personal Top 50 list would include all of Mostly Autumn's 26 albums.