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RoyFairbank View Drop Down

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 07:22

I dig the archives
(he digs the archives)<female backing singers
and give the old stuff a second life
(second life!)
in 2011, I listen to recordens
from the beach boys
band of choice
like their voice
the towllet was moist (???)
last year was ELO
I think I can go
a million years
without hearing
any of this 2011
stuff with too much peer
yeahr

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 07:00

2011 is looking like a very good year actually. Fen's Epoch is a masterpiece and the best thing released this year so far, but Altar of Plagues, Between the Buried and Me, Credo, Enslaved, Grails, Grayceon, Hiromi, Mastodon, Moonsorrow, Obscura, Paatos, Pendragon, Phideaux, Protest the Hero, The Tangent, Tartar Lamb, Ulver, Unexpect, and Virus have all released excellent EP's, studio or live albums, and the albums from Pallas and VdGG are decent as well, though I wasnt expecting them to really impress me anyway. Plus, I just got the new King Crimson ProjeKt and My Dying Bride albums in teh post this morning and I'm still to listen to the new Karda Estra.

Wobbler's Rites at Dawn has been the only disappointment so far this year, which when you consider the amount of music I've bought from the first 5 months thats quite impressive.

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 06:13

Saperlipopette! wrote:

seb2112 wrote:

Aheulchatistas, Wobbler, Battles, and now Cheer-Accident, every record I was expecting so far this year was nothing but disapointing! Anything left to come out this year that I should get my hopes up for?

Just discover something old instead. Why waste time being dissapointed about brand new mediocre crap, when there's tons of unheard mastepieces out there from all times?

WALTER? IS THAT YOU??

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 04:32

The Willow Farmer wrote:

New Decemberists, Blackfield, and Fleet Foxes have all been really good!

Meh. Debut album by Fleet Foxes was breathtaking, but the new one is, well, more proggy and much less inspirational.

Apart from that, I'm quite happy with King Of Limbs.

Edit: OH!! I forgot the new Brian Eno Cool

Edited by clarke2001 - June 01 2011 at 04:34

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 04:26

Henry Plainview wrote:

The Hemulen wrote:

The new Battles album isn't out for a week yet. Where have you heard it?

The internet tells me it leaked over 2 weeks ago. (All information on tumblr is 100% accurate, right?)

Fair enough. Leaking albums before their release date is such a supremely tossy thing to do, isn't it?

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 04:09

Another superb year of prog music, IMO! For me best albums so far are made by Phideaux, Nemo and Wobbler. Another high class albums include Van der Graaf Generator, Magic Pie, Le Orme, Pandora, Stratovarius. Not what expected by Pendragon and Beardfish. That's my conclusion for the prog year so far. Wink

And we are still expecting Yes, Dream Theater, King Crimson projekt and Symphony X as well as Sky Architect. So it's just inspiring, what is gong to be... Clap

Saperlipopette! View Drop Down

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 04:07

Just discover something old instead. Why waste time being dissapointed about brand new mediocre crap, when there's tons of unheard mastepieces out there from all times?

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 04:01

I think that some albums are simply more polarizing than others ... and those also tend to be the more interesting ones. That's why at PF albums receive a ranking bonus the more extreme their ratings distribution is. Big smile

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 03:34

The Hemulen wrote:

The new Battles album isn't out for a week yet. Where have you heard it?

The internet tells me it leaked over 2 weeks ago. (All information on tumblr is 100% accurate, right?)

if you own a sodastream i hate you

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 03:32

Don't forget new Meshuggah either!

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 03:21

The new Battles album isn't out for a week yet. Where have you heard it?

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 03:08

harmonium.ro wrote:

The progressive side of 2011 is weak, but the reast gives me quite some satisfaction. Better than last year so far.

This.

Tons of brilliant stuff out this year (in particular, hardcore and metalcore stuff). Not much prog that I've liked so far though.

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 02:56

darkshade wrote:

I'm not worried. I remember people complaining in 2009 that that year was disappointing Ermm

I am pretty sure someone makes this thread every year.
2010
2009
And I couldn't find one for 2008, and now I'm tired of looking, but you get the idea.

The Truth wrote:

And GY!BE album could come out this year.

There is no way that is happening.

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 02:33

Well I usually don't enjoy New albums for a few months, most to me seem a disappointment at first but eventually click

richardh

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 01:35

I like Alta Via's debut album Girt Dog but that's the only new album from this year I have purchased. I seem to end up buying endless remasters and reissues!

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 01:20

This year has already seen some really amazing albums. IMO you should re-think your strategy: Instead of working up your expectations on a very small number of albums, branch out and see which albums other users have found to be great. Have a look at album charts both here at Progarchives, but also Progfreak:

http://progfreak.com/Charts-50699.html

There you see the top albums of the current year and you can also browse each user's favorites ... from the albums you mentioned I recommend that you check out avestin's favorites. Many of the albums are available from Amazon or eMusic, which means that you can listen to extensive samples - 30 seconds from each track, which can seem disappointing if you're used to sampling full songs, but you can listen to those samples consecutively and that will give you a good overview of the album.

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