TOP 10 PROG ALBUMS OF 2006 - POLL RESULT!

Zitro wrote: I'm disappointed that great albums such as Green Carnation's "Acoustic Verses" and The Flower King's last album don't even appear when a somewhat dull album like "Wild Orchids" is 3rd place and a good but derivative "A Place in a Quene" manages to be in the top 10 with that awful singer.

How in the @#$!& did Kayo Dot become prog disc of the year? This sample is bloody awful. Please point me in another direction because if this is the best of 2006, then it was a poor year for prog...according to the collaborators.

E

The Kayo Dot sample is pretty mind blowing. I love it. I'm not really into metal but I really loved it. I'm definetely going to check out that band.

E-Dub wrote: How in the @#$!& did Kayo Dot become prog disc of the year? This sample is bloody awful. Please point me in another direction because if this is the best of 2006, then it was a poor year for prog...according to the collaborators. E

Opinions, opinions, opinions.

It won EASILY.


Not to my taste either, I voted for the more "traditional" albums but it was a Poll conducted among the site collaborators and was fair and above board.

PFM was my top album and I voted for Steve Hackett and Frost* too.

Just think how it will next year when I have to do the poll again and the new Rush album isnt album of the year, or Porcupine Tree...


or Marillion for that matter...
     
    
    

Edited by Tony R - January 17 2007 at 20:38

Well, 2007 is sizing up to be a damn fine year. I sure hope we can do better than Kayo Dot because I was expecting a lot more.

E

Cygnus X-2 wrote: E-Dub wrote: Well, 2007 is sizing up to be a damn fine year. I sure hope we can do better than Kayo Dot because I was expecting a lot more. E Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I guess, as I loved Dowsing (as well as the debut, Choirs of the Eye). Cheer up, Eric, there's a lot of good stuff coming out this year.

My man, it's going to take a lot more than a less-than-flattering sample of Kayo Dot to bring me down. The new Marillion is being mastered this week and should be out around my birthday, got a new Rush disc around the corner, new Dream Theater to accompany that, and then the new Neal Morse next month. I'm as happy as Rosie O'Donnell in a Hostess® outlet store!

E
    

Slartibartfast wrote:      The PFM sample was quite good. But none of my usual internet CD sources are selling it. CD Universe had it under the backorder category. PFM's web site is in Italian. If CD Universe doesn't come through, can anyone point me to internet store where I can get it?

    
Have you tried Laser's Edge?

www.lasercd.com

EDIT:
If you need more sources and online stores, PM me.


    

Edited by avestin - January 17 2007 at 21:18

avestin wrote: Slartibartfast wrote:      The PFM sample was quite good. But none of my usual internet CD sources are selling it. CD Universe had it under the backorder category. PFM's web site is in Italian. If CD Universe doesn't come through, can anyone point me to internet store where I can get it?      Have you tried Laser's Edge? www.lasercd.com EDIT: If you need more sources and online stores, PM me.

Ah, yes Triggering Myth's label. I need to bookmark that store. I'll wait on CD Universe, $26.29 vs. $34.00. Gotta stretch my prog dollars until they scream.

There's too much interesting stuff on Laser's Edge. Very scary.
    
    

Edited by Slartibartfast - January 17 2007 at 21:25

More places to buy PFM:
Wayside (yes they hold "regular" prog) - http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=09/SONY%208869703152

Kinesis - http://www.kinesiscd.com/storeframe1.htm (look in the catalogue)

BTF (Italian store) http://www.btf.it/default.asp?ij=3&qa=p&qb=sc&xy=cl007&jk=9802&zp=104D&ln=E&opt=dettaglio

For all those that keep mentioning Tool, Mars Volta, PFM, Flower Kings, Tangent et al. (which I love as well) - I want to suggest the following albums which are somewhat not mentioned enough or have been forgotten in this discussion here (no particular order):

Nemo - Si partie I (also grab partie II that came out this month).
Deluge Grander - August in the Urals
Zaar - Zaar
Gargamel - Watch for the Umbles
La Machera Di Cera - Lux Ade
NeBeLNeST - ZePTO
October Equus - s/t
Hamster Theatre - Public Execution of Mr. Personality/Quasi Day Room
Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
Naikaku – Shell
Astrid Proll – s/t
Adrian Belew – Side Three
John McLaughlin - Industrial Zen
Brighteye Brison – Stories
Callisto – Noir
Disen Gage – Libertage
French TV – This is what we do
Hammers of Misfortune – The Locust Years
Unexpect – In a Flesh Aquarium
Isis – In the absence f truth
Karda Estra - The Age Of Science And Enlightenment
Karfagen – Continium
Kotebel – Omphalos
Little Tragedies – New Faust
Madder Mortem – Desiderata
Marygold – The guns of Marygold
Mono – You are there
Novembre – Materia
OOIOO – Taiga
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun
Russian Circles – Enter
Sensitive to light – Almost human
Strangefish – Fortune Telling
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Taproban - Posidonian Fields
Trespass – Morning Lights
A Triggering Myth - The Remedy Of Abstraction
Umphrey’s McGee – Safety in numbers
Uzva – Uoma
Vanden Plas – Christ O
Beyond Twilight - For the love of art and the making
Viima - Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta

To name a few (there are more).

So my point is, there is so much more than the "known" and "usual" names. Just look a bit further and take Top-10 lists with a grain of salt and not so seriously. Anyway, top lists - I don't like them too much. I like to expand as much as possible.
Do the same.
Explore and enjoy.

Anyone interested in sources for samples and info, feel free to PM me.

Have a good prog year, everyone.


    
    
    

Edited by avestin - January 18 2007 at 00:04