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Finnforest View Drop Down

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 18:12

Great work Alex, thanks for your efforts.

Lots of good stuff there. The only surprise for me is that more people have not picked up on the Tea Club's "Rabbit." It deserves so much more buzz than it has gotten here, truly wonderful music.

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 18:11

SaltyJon wrote:

Starhammer wrote:

Here's to 2011 which will, hopefully, be full of masterpieces!

We already have one IMO (Korekyojinn's Tundra). Wink

I'm sure that will end up #1. Not a doubt about it. Cool

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:51

sleeper wrote:

Excellent work Alex. Very nice list, not least since Clivages and Coyote were my top two albums, and well chuffed that my review got quoted! I think its safe to say that 2010 is the year of Avant, jazz and black metal prog.

Only 65 voters? I think we had 90 last year, wheres every body gone?

~~Nope, there were 50-something voters last year, definitely an improvement.~~ You were right actually, there were 83 voters, I don't know how I picked that number.

Post-hardcore based prog metal also had a good year, with Intronaut, East Of The Wall, Periphery, The Ocean, etc. But I do like black metal based prog metal more.

sleeper

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:47

Excellent work Alex. Very nice list, not least since Clivages and Coyote were my top two albums, and well chuffed that my review got quoted! I think its safe to say that 2010 is the year of Avant, jazz and black metal prog.

Only 65 voters? I think we had 90 last year, wheres every body gone?

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:26

SaltyJon wrote:

Starhammer wrote:

Here's to 2011 which will, hopefully, be full of masterpieces!

We already have one IMO (Korekyojinn's Tundra). Wink

Haven't heard it yet, but if it's anything like the stuff I've heard on Youtube, I'll see if I can get it.

SaltyJon

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:21

Starhammer wrote:

Here's to 2011 which will, hopefully, be full of masterpieces!

We already have one IMO (Korekyojinn's Tundra). Wink

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:21

Nice, my review ended up on the post Tongue

Great job Alex and all the collabs. Although I had thought Heavy Metal Fruit and Coyote would be higher at the list.

Here's to 2011 which will, hopefully, be full of masterpieces!

Edited by Starhammer - February 22 2011 at 17:21

harmonium.ro View Drop Down

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:06

SaltyJon wrote:

Awesome list! Glad to see Univers Zéro coming in first, great band...one problem though, the blurb under their album isn't from my review, it's from Rune2000's. Wink

Damn it, I so much wanted to have the OP unedited for eternity! Angry

zravkapt wrote:

Great work Alex

How long did it take you to calculate all that?

One full day! Started from about 8 AM and ended at about 9 PM, with an hour or so of a break. It was probably the most painful non-physical task I've accomplished, not sure if I'm volunteering next year Tongue

Speaking of the task, many many thanks to the IT support team who helped me with Excel!

CCVP wrote:

wow, excepting Haken's album, every other I mentioned or would mention would be 45th of below. LOL

Well don't keep the goodies just for yourself, always keep some youtube links in your pocket, just in case! Wink

Easy Livin wrote:

I'm surprised the Anathema album didn't do better, it's done very well elsewhere.

I used to think it's a so-so album, but while typing stuff over and over today I realized that it's in a lot of lists! They don't get much talked around here lately, but 11 out of 214 is exceptional, much more than I expected for them. And I listened to the album today and (surprisingly?) I found it much better than I recalled it.

And the top 10 is just a convention, we could easily have a top 15 with the nice cover pictures, the flattering quotes and all that. Tongue

Edited by harmonium.ro - February 22 2011 at 17:16

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 16:33

Wow!

This might be the first time I had three albums (I chose) in the top five, and five in the top 10. Needless to say, I agree with this list ALOT more than lists of previous years. Huzzah UZ!

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Bonnek

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 15:27

Nice, my top 3 made it to positions 11-13.
Next time I'll try to have at least one of my choices represented in the top 10. Big smile

m2thek

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 15:21

Yay =D

I've been incessantly checking for this since it became 2011. Much thanks!

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:59

Great job H.Ro

I'm surprised the Anathema album didn't do better, it's done very well elsewhere.

zravkapt

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:55

Great work Alex

How long did it take you to calculate all that?

CCVP

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:54

wow, excepting Haken's album, every other I mentioned or would mention would be 45th of below. LOL

SaltyJon

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:24

Awesome list! Glad to see Univers Zéro coming in first, great band...one problem though, the blurb under their album isn't from my review, it's from Rune2000's. Wink

Edited by SaltyJon - February 22 2011 at 14:42

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:20

Negoba wrote:

I find it interesting that for another year we come together in jazz and avant styled prog. Haken took the metal world by storm this year and was the album I didn't want to be #1.

Thanks for all the work and looking forward to an amazing 2011.

I think more interesting is that there are two black metal albums in the top 10

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:19

Thanks Alex! Great work!
Congrats to UZ!

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:16

Oh wow, PA ditches symphonic and all that for a year? Interesting.

I don't think I would agree with a single one of these personally. Missa Atropos is the only prog album that might make it.

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harmonium.ro View Drop Down

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:16

Negoba wrote:

Very happy with this list. Good reflection of a strange year in prog.

My thoughts exactly. I didn't expect to be confirmed, but I did say at some point that I thought 2010 was good for avant, fusion and metal, and it was very weak for many other genres, especially those very based on classic prog, like symphonic, eclectic, folk, neo, etc. EDIT: but then, what about the strong RPI revival from these last years?

My first three choices (Jaga J, Coyote, Agalloch) are all in the top 10, I'm happy. 3 other of my choices are in the 11 to 30 segment.

Greg, the list was so avant-oriented that I thought a lot about you all day LOL

I kew you'd like the #1. Wink

Edited by harmonium.ro - February 22 2011 at 14:24

Negoba

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:16

I find it interesting that for another year we come together in jazz and avant styled prog. Haken took the metal world by storm this year and was the album I didn't want to be #1.

Thanks for all the work and looking forward to an amazing 2011.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.