Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Music Lounge
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - TOP 10 PROG ALBUMS OF 2006 - POLL RESULT!
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedTOP 10 PROG ALBUMS OF 2006 - POLL RESULT!

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 45678 14>
Author
Message
chamberry View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 24 2005
Location: Puerto Rico
Status: Offline
Points: 9008
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 22:19
I remember last year's top 5 list of prog albums  and there were some members that complained because the list looked "too safe". Most of the bands were known prog acts and their sound wasn't pretty demanding.  With this year, things changed and I have to say for the better.

It isn't healthy to stay inside our homes where everything is nice and warm. Sometimes we have to go outside, explore and get ourselves dirty! Cool

Back to Top
progadicto View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2005
Location: Chile
Status: Offline
Points: 4316
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2007 at 23:19
I agree with most of this Top 10... Exceptions: Tool and and Mars Volta. Not my cup of tea and I think that these both albums are very irregular...

And...

WHERE IS
RED SPAROWES - EVERY RED HEART SHINE TOWARDS THE SUN???

... E N E L B U N K E R...
Back to Top
Logan View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
Site Admin

Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Status: Offline
Points: 36152
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:00
^Red Sparowes "Alone and Unaware" is listed at number 26 according to Tony R's post on the previous page.  But that's just the name of the first track from At the Soundless Dawn (the band's 2005 release), right?

At least Every Red Heart, specifically, made Avestin's list (in about number 30).

As it's only rated 3.50 at this site (click), I wouldn't have expected it to be high on the collab's list.
Back to Top
avestin View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: September 18 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 12625
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:02
Just to be clear, my list is not aranged by any order (sorry for not mentioning it earlier).


    

Edited by avestin - January 18 2007 at 00:09
Back to Top
Logan View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
Site Admin

Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Status: Offline
Points: 36152
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:15
^ Really, I just meant about 30 down the list.  I had noted that Red Sparowes is part of an alphabetically ordered section.  I had figured your top ten would show some preference, as it becomes more alphabetically listed after that.
Back to Top
avestin View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: September 18 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 12625
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:20
Well, actually the first 3 are my favourites and after that it's 5-6 randomply ordered but also highly rated and the others, I jst couldn't remember all, so I went by A-B...

Anyway, Deluge Grander and Nemo are two great albums.
Also check out the previous incarnation of Deluge Grander with Dan Britton called Cerebus Effect and their Acts of Deception album.
As for Nemo, check all their albums. Pretty constant in their output (quality wise).

Back to Top
Drew View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 20 2005
Location: California
Status: Offline
Points: 12600
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:24
Can't wait to see the top 1- for 2007 (insert drool emotiocon here)



Back to Top
Prog-jester View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 05 2005
Location: Love Beach
Status: Offline
Points: 5883
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 07:15
Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:


Zaar - Zaar
Gargamel - Watch for the Umbles
La Machera Di Cera - Lux Ade
Disen Gage – Libertage
Karfagen – Continium
Little Tragedies – New Faust and THE SIXTH SENSE (Prog-Jester's edit)
Strangefish – Fortune Telling

    



also MINDGAMES' Actors in a Play is the best NEO album from 2006 so far.
Yep, Assaf, majority is always possessed with "the-ones-everyone-knows" and I wonder what prevents it from digging deeper. I, the Ukrainian student, have enough desire,money and time to find the ones I want to (or just maybe I'm the happiest person on Earth?) .I expressed some thoughts considering that problem in "emperor's new clothes"-thread...



ON MY "TO GET" LIST -
Steve Hackett - Wild Orchids(soon!!!)
Deluge Grander - August in the Urals(soon!!!)
PFM's new one
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun
Marygold – The guns of Marygold
Mono – You are there
NeBeLNeST - ZePTO
Nemo - Si partie I
Isis – In the absence of truth
...

Back to Top
stonebeard View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 27 2005
Location: NE Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 28057
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 07:16
Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

Can't wait to see the top 1- for 2007 (insert drool emotiocon here)

    
Erm...not gonna be Scarsick!
Back to Top
Slartibartfast View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam

Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 07:23
Any chance we can see the complete list of nominees and their ranking? Only one of my 2006 acquisitions made it to the top 10 (Wild Orchids) and I'm really curious how well some of my favorites that didn't make the list did.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Prog Folk

Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20273
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 10:57
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


I've wondered, as well, whether Kayo Dot should be listed under RIO/ Avant Prog.  They are a metal oriented Avant Prog band.  I like them a lot, and I am not usually attracted to metal bands -- it's the avant Prog boy in me, and my jazzy leanings, that likes them.  Estradasphere is another metal/ avant Prog band I like (listed at this site under Rio/ Avant Prog).  Of course there are a number who mix up metal with jazz etc. Ideally, this site would have multiple tags for bands to describe the music better (Kayo Dot, for instance, could be listed under more than one Prog subgenre -- several in fact.).

Much as I like symph prog, I tend to prefer metal influenced bands that are more in the Avant Prog Metal vein than those more in the Symhonic Prog Metal vein (or those bands which prominently mix Neo-Prog aesthetics with metal).

Anyway... I'm pleased to see Kayo Dot in the top ten (though I prefer their debut -- this one is more daring and more avant garde, I suppose.   It's too free-sounding for me -- isn't as tight as I would like).  However, from what I've heard, I like Zaar's album the most.  For a time my favourite was Kotebel's Omphalos, but it palled a bit as I feel the compositional structure seems a bit forced (I know the tricks and there's not quite enough variation for me -- especially considering the earlier albums).  And I'd like more of a spontaneous feel to it.  Nemo's is good too, but much of the vocals don't appeal much to me. 
 
I also have a prpoblem with Kayo Dot as progmetal, but Avant prog certainly not.
 
I think more of KD as a mix of drone metal ala Sun O)))) and Post Rock ala Sigur Ros.
 
And I think their first was much better also
 
 
As for the rest, I believe that Amputecture gets placed too low, but my #1 choice Nebelnest did not show as I expected it to.
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
Back to Top
Meddler View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: September 29 2005
Location: Massillon
Status: Offline
Points: 881
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 12:46
Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by E-Dub 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.Tongue

Like another Kayo Dot album. Wink
[IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/amorfous/astro-1.jpg">

Back to Top
Prog-jester View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 05 2005
Location: Love Beach
Status: Offline
Points: 5883
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 12:52
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I think more of KD as a mix of drone metal ala Sun O)))) and Post Rock ala Sigur Ros.


I hear a lot of GYBE in KAYO DOT
    
Back to Top
E-Dub View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 24 2006
Location: Elkhorn, WI
Status: Offline
Points: 7910
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 13:31
Originally posted by Meddler Meddler wrote:


Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:


Originally posted by E-Dub 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.
Like another Kayo Dot album.


Just because I don't care for them doesn't mean that I don't want anyone else to enjoy them. I'm glad people dig their music; they're just not for me.

E
    
Back to Top
Tony R View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: July 16 2004
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 11979
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 13:32
The new Blackfield album, though "only" Prog-Related, is wonderful. Absolutely stunning!!

Will be high on my list for 2007...
Back to Top
Logan View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
Site Admin

Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Status: Offline
Points: 36152
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 14:01
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 
I also have a prpoblem with Kayo Dot as progmetal, but Avant prog certainly not.
 
I think more of KD as a mix of drone metal ala Sun O)))) and Post Rock ala Sigur Ros.
 
And I think their first was much better also
  
As for the rest, I believe that Amputecture gets placed too low, but my #1 choice Nebelnest did not show as I expected it to.


*passing the buck* It's Ghandi [sic for my lame purposes] 2's fault, he said it before me! If in doubt, always blame the second coming of Mahatma Gandhi.  He-he, ho-ho. "Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side" (random Gandhi quote). "Gandhi didn't believe in that stupid stuff anyway, since he was a Buddhist" (Ghandi 2 quote).

But seriously, you're right.   Post-rock (or post-metal) is more apt for Kayo Dot.  I said it could be in various categories utilising various Prog subgenre tags.  Art Rock sprung to mind first since the band is quite eclectic in terms of inspiration (but then Prog usually is), but with the latter release I'm inclined to say it's more fart than art.

However, I do think KD show significant avant Prog tendencies, particularly in the band's, I think, debut album (which is why I thought the tag fit).  I'm more familiar with the debut over the subsequent one, as I have only casually heard the second one once at an acquaintance's house as background noise and subsequent listening of samples.

You mention Nebelnest, I have yet to hear the whole album, but from what I have heard I prefer it to either KD album.  I must say, I was rather surprised to see KD's album take it since I thought their debut so much better.

Amputechture did nothing good for me, but chacun a son gout.  One man's meat is another man's poison and one man's fish is another man's poisson, as I like to say.

I like Avestin's list.  I have several of those albums and have sampled most of them and consider them to be excellent (still don't know Deluge Grander -- a big oversight as I've been meaning to check out their samples for some time -- not in the archive yet, are they?).  I would have predicted that Gargamel's album (the first album of 2006 I heard -- or was Hamster Theatre my first?) to get into the top ten earlier in the year.  Later I thought Maschera might take it (though I prefer the Gargamel).  The Nemo one is very good, but I didn't expect it to make more than the top twenty.  And of course, as I said, Zaar is my pick, but a close call.

'Twas a pretty good year year for Prog -- not up to 2003 (or 2005 or...) for my tastes from what I know, but then I probably don't know enough.  There hasn't been one year from the late 60's on that doesn't have a Progressive album I know and love -- well maybe there is, but none that I'm aware of. ;)


Edited by Logan - January 18 2007 at 14:12
Back to Top
StyLaZyn View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 22 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 4079
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 15:45
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

The new Blackfield album, though "only" Prog-Related, is wonderful. Absolutely stunning!!

Will be high on my list for 2007...


I found it merely OK. A nice adult alternative style CD. I don't consider it Prog.

That being said, I can't wait for the new PT!
    
Back to Top
Tony R View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: July 16 2004
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 11979
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 17:15
Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

The new Blackfield album, though "only" Prog-Related, is wonderful. Absolutely stunning!!

Will be high on my list for 2007...


I found it merely OK. A nice adult alternative style CD. I don't consider it Prog.

That being said, I can't wait for the new PT!
    

It's not Prog at all, I was referring to Blackfield's status here.

I was unsure on first play but with a few spins I have grown to love it. I am not a big fan of the first album but this is a real classy affair and I urge you to give it a few more listens.Smile
Back to Top
MikeEnRegalia View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: April 22 2005
Location: Sweden
Status: Offline
Points: 21206
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 17:36
Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

I agree with most of this Top 10... Exceptions: Tool and and Mars Volta. Not my cup of tea and I think that these both albums are very irregular...

And...

WHERE IS
RED SPAROWES - EVERY RED HEART SHINE TOWARDS THE SUN???



I voted for it ... Smile
Back to Top
Cluster One View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 03 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 780
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 18:17
For an alternate, non-collab (and possibly more representative?) view on the Top albums of 2006, check out the Prog Archives list as voted by ALL the site members with their reviews. TMV's Amputechture is #1 by a country mile.

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?year=2006

Remember, the list on the front page is Collaborator generated, and thus voted on by old farts like me. My votes went to Prog stalwarts like Adrian Belew, Steve Hackett, Fish, and Peter Hammill.


Edited by Cluster One - January 18 2007 at 18:24
Marmalade...I like marmalade.
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 45678 14>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.156 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.