In & out of PA faves: starting 2023 & moving down

^ Thanks, Mira, there are plenty of excellent albums on your list per my tastes. It is a big task to cover so many years and it is very much appreciated.

I considered and almost went with Henry Cow's Western Culture, National Health's st, and Soft Machine's Third. It can be quite arbitrary when there are many I love, but those all-time standout albums for me.

Romantic Warrior is the big one of which I had a very different impression. maybe I will appreciate it more now as it has been almost two decades since I last listened to it (2005, I think). I love lots of JRF and that is a lauded album that I really disliked. We do share some 60s jazz choices with A Love Supreme, Empyrean Isles, and Black Saint. :)

^ I don't really like to be corrected, but I do like to know when I'm wrong.

Edited by Logan - August 30 2023 at 17:48

^ Late to say it, but thanks.

I updated my list a bit, partially because I had not heard The Beggar yet and Chelsea Wolfe had not yet been added to PA. The first listed of a year in PA, the second is not (unless I made mistakes or ones have been added of which I am aware).

Feel free to mention as many or few years as you like.

2023: Swans - The Beggar
2023: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Darling the Dawn
2022: black midi - Hellfire
2022: Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
2021: black midi - Cavalcade
2021: Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
2020: Cisnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album
2020: The Necks - Three
2019: Cisnienie - JazzArt Underground
2019: Lingia Ignota - Caligula
2018: Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
2018: Julia Holter - Aviary
2017: Aquaserge - Laisse ça être
2017: Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar
2016: Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them
2015: Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana - Holographic Codex
2015: Gongjoong Doduk - Gongjoong Doduk
2014: Swans - To Be Kind
2014: Matt Berry - Music for Insomniacs
2013: Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
2013: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2012: Swans - The Seer
2012: Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon
2011: Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices - The Outside Room
2010: Univers Zero - Clivages
2010: Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into the Snat
2009: Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2009: Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
2008: Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo
2008: Portishead - Third
2007: William D. Drake - Briny Hooves
2007: PJ Harvey - White Chalk
2006: OOIOO - Taiga
2006: Natural Snow Buildings -The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
2005: Guapo - Black Oni
2005: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
2004: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
2004: Electrelane - The Power Out
2003: Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
2003: Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
2002: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
2002: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2001: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
2001: Air - 10 000 Hz Legend
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2000: Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
1999: Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
1998: Tortoise - TNT
1998: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1997: Art Zoyd - Häxan
1997: Stereolab - Dots and Loops
1996: Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
1996: Fishmans - Long Season
1995: Pram - Sargasso Sea
1995: Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
1994: Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
1994: Portishead - Dummy
1993: Björk - Debut
1993: Komeda - Pop på Svenska
1992: Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
1992: Spın̈al Tap - Break Like the Wind
1991: Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
1991: Tuxedo Moon - The Ghost Sonata
1990: U Totem - U totem
1990: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
1989: Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea
1989: The Cure - Disintegration
1988: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA
1988: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
1987: Swans - Children of God
1987: The Lounge Lizards - No Pain for Cakes
1986: Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
1986: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial
1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1985: Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars
1984: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1983: Art Zoyd - Les espaces inquiets
1983: Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
1982: Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1982: Giorgio Moroder - Cat People (OST)
1981: Eskaton - 4 Visions
1981: Phew - Phew
1980: Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
1980: Douji Morita - Un, deux, trois
1979: The Residents - Eskimo
1979: Tubeway Army - Replicas
1978: Bubu - Anabelas
1978: Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
1977: Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1976: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai
1976: Joni Mitchell - Hejira
1975: Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery
1975: Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
1974: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
1974: Janko Nilovic - Rythmes Contemporains
1973: Can - Future Days
1973: Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life
1972: Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
1972: Ennio Morricone - Cosa avete fatto a Solange?*
1971: Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust
1971: Egisto Macchi - I futuribili
1970: Magma - Kobaïa
1970: Exuma - Exuma
1969: David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
1969: Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
1968: The United States of America - The United States of America
1968: Nico - The Marble Index
1967: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1966: The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band
1966: Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
1965: Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1964: Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
1964: Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz / Gilberto
1963: none in PA that I see
1963: Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

I am making a youtube playlist with track from each album in my list (I tried to avoid the really long tracks). A fun way to revisit music for me, although it does too much cover the well trodden for me as it's easier to choose ones I have discussed before. and possibly expose others to some things they don't know and might like.



Edited by Logan - August 30 2023 at 18:33

Since I did an album in and out of PA (so two per year) from 2023 to 1965 (1965 seemed a good year to stop for me), I will start on a second list. I was thinking about waiting for the release of Swans' The Beggar, in June 2023 (heard some of the album already as that has been released, but I don't know how much I will like it or how long to really grow on me) and IU really like this KL album anyway. Maybe the Swans will make my third?

I hope to compile our lists into something elegant at some time - maybe a youtube video with music samples and commentary from your humble narrator and little droog friend, that is me, Logan deGreg, or maybe I'll print them out and make a papier mâché sculpture. It will be artistic anyway, hopefully, however I go about it.

The first listed for year is in PA, the second for that year is not.

2023: Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Five
2023: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Darling the Dawn (my most recent new-to-me album interest. bandcamp page

2022: The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
2022: Pan Daijing - Tissues

2021: black midi - Cavalcade
2021: Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

2020: Aksak Maboul - Figures
2020: The Necks - Three

2019: Cisnienie - JazzArt Underground
2019: Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology\

2018: Klaus Morlock - The Three Faces of Janice
2018: Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling

Daunting, but I hope people keep their lists coming for whatever years they can. And the list can be as long or as short as you like.

Edited by Logan - May 30 2023 at 21:48

1989: Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent

My Non-Prog Favourites from 2018-2023

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - May 19 2023 at 05:41

Grumpyprogfan wrote: ^The Yes album is not yet released. How do you know it's your favorite, Paul?

My original conception for this topic was that instead of doing it in separate topics we would slowly roll-out certain years (say once a week) and then move onto another so we are working on the same years. Mirakaze's yearly Prog album lists were very successful and became a communal event in a way that I guess this could not become when doing it this way, but I like to build on things and keep them together in one place to make reference easier. I did a lot of yearly polls to help me, but I haven't wanted to go back through those as I do like to do fairly fresh lists generally each time as I continue to discover music from different times and the new discoveries often excite me more.

I have plowed ahead of others too much, and trickling them in would have been better, but I am not the most patient person when it comes to such exercises. I do hope more will continue with the list and others will add lists (for whatever years if they can't start from the modern times). I have barely slept for days, and I do like to make lists during my nights of insomnia.

To continue with my yearly listings, here is the weighty for me and hatey for some others 80s. It is hard to choose just one from PA in each years as there are so many I like. Other than Cocteau Twins who have a number of 80s albums I love, it is harder for me to find many 80s out-of-PA albums that I love. Phew I once suggested for PA (and deleted it much later). In fact a lot that I mention that is not in PA I do not think really would be out of place in PA as progressive music acts more on the fringes of the greater prog umbrella rather than more traditional notions of Prog genre music (like The Flower Kings). Some I could suggest, and might well find success, but I just don't really care to especially because I like making topics like this and the more in PA the harder it is to do so. ;)

1989: Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea
1989: The Cure - Disintegration

1988: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA
1988: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll

1987: Swans - Children of God
1987: The Lounge Lizards - No Pain for Cakes

1986: Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
1986: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial

1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1985: Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars

1984: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure

1983: Art Zoyd - Les espaces inquiets
1983: Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels

1982: Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1982: Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi

1981: Eskaton - 4 Visions
1981: Phew - Phew

1980: Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
1980: Douji Morita - Un, deux, trois

I had originally thought to maybe not repeat artist/band names or at least very little, but I subsequently mostly threw that to the wind (some like Art Zoyd and Swans I am tempted to repeat more).