Collaborators Top Albums of 2007 - Results

Man With Hat wrote: Maybe these collabs with get it right one day...

avestin wrote: Man With Hat wrote: Maybe these collabs with get it right one day...     If that came from anyone else, then=    but you=

Edited by Man With Hat - January 25 2008 at 19:32

I didn't know know Angherr Shisspa, Black Oni or S.U.S.A.R. back in 2005 and I think I voted for Deadwing, as No. 1, if not Wobbler's Hinterland.

If I'd know about Angherr Shisspa, Black Oni and S.U.S.A.R., I'd have put them in the top 5, as all three of those albums are my favourite albums of all times.

I have Perils on CD and have yet to hear it, strangely, I must correct that issue sometime soon.

I'll see if I can dig out my 2005 list... actually, I wasn't a Collab. then, so I'm not sure what I voted it in, but I remember doing so.  I did vote for 2006 Collab. album though, I believe.

Geck0 wrote: I didn't know know Angherr Shisspa, Black Oni or S.U.S.A.R. back in 2005 and I think I voted for Deadwing, as No. 1, if not Wobbler's Hinterland. If I'd know about Angherr Shisspa, Black Oni and S.U.S.A.R., I'd have put them in the top 5, as all three of those albums are my favourite albums of all times. I have Perils on CD and have yet to hear it, strangely, I must correct that issue sometime soon. I'll see if I can dig out my 2005 list... actually, I wasn't a Collab. then, so I'm not sure what I voted it in, but I remember doing so.  I did vote for 2006 Collab. album though, I believe.

I dont think you were a collab in 2005 so you couldnt have voted for Deadwing.

Anyway, reffering to a previous post of yours, I dont think you voted for Battles- Mirrored either, though you did mention it.

the indie invasion of Prog is in full swing, and it's gonna be ugly for awhile

not thrilled with this list at all

Interesting results,it's nice to see The Pax Cecilia and Grayceon place so high.

Geck0 wrote: Micky, I am not sure which other album you're referring to in regards to not being prog, but I can tell you that Comicopera, although containing much prog elements, also has some prog on it too.  It's a typically brilliant Wyatt album.

I'll give the PT album the benefit of the doubt.. and chalk it up to being the most uninspiring and flaccid prog album of the year.  but I think the Rush album is even more of a stretch.. it is a better album.. but even as open minded as I am to what prog is and is not.. and you all know just how open minded I am. That album is a stretch to be considered a prog album.. much less in the top 10 of the year  hahhaha

anyhow.. I posted something in the collab area....


Edited by micky - January 25 2008 at 20:35

Logan wrote: Man With Hat wrote: Sad to see PT at the top again. Deadwing I could see (not exactly sure what else came out that year anyway) but FOABP is certainly not as good/progressive as the rest of their discog or many of the other releases this year (IMHO of course). And yes...I am a fan of the band.   Maybe these collabs with get it right one day... 2005 is a great year by my reckoning... Porcupine Tree's Deadwing only rates at 20 on the studio albums all genres for 2005 Top 100 list, and only 30 if you don't specify studio albums, but I was already a user of this site when it was at the top I think.  I enjoyed Deadwing... I bought it soon after it came out due to the samples at the band's site.  Some of my favourites from 2005 are Koenjihyakkei's Angherr Shisspa, Guapo's Black Oni, Bondage Fruit's BF VI, Nil's Nil Novo Sub Sole, VdGG's Present, Miriodor's Parade, Djam Karat's Recollection Harvest, Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses' Perils,  Indukti S.U.S.A.R. etc. Anyway, it would be interesting to know if the Collaborators' album of 2005 was redone today just how well it would rank (people have heard a lot more of 2005 by now).  I expect that a couple years done the road, PT's FoaBP won't be thought of as the prog album of 2007.  Much as I liked Deadwing, I didn't think it that prog.

EnglishAssassin wrote: For what little my opinion's worth, I think it's an interesting list.  I'm already enjoying finding samples of all the many bands I hadn't even previously heard of. In reference to the above suggestion of redoing previous years' lists with the benefit of hindsight; surely that rather misses the point.  Annual best-of lists are meant to be things of their time, recording opinions as they were then, not something subjected to constant revisionism as tastes change.

hmmmm.. good post... but what hindsight are you referring too... every swinging dick on this forum knew who was going to win   I mentioned in a post I just made in the collab area that I'd like to see this revoted upon.. and here is why. 

Ask yourself...  why do the collabs have a seperate list from the gen pop here...

any person can vote for albums based on whether we like it or not.. you don't have to be a collab to do that.. however... we as collabs are held to a different standard.. the price of those fancy tags and nice stars they give us along with the parking spaces and album allowances.  The site expects the collabs to think a bit deeper than just .. I liked it.. regardless if this album was a retread of some album done better years ago.. yet other albums that are fresh and progressive are not looked upon with some added weight. I think that should be stressed.. and the list revoted upon...  drum up some interest.. and get people off their asses . .and listening to something different.  Isn't that why you are are here. I'm sure it isn't for my stand-up routines hahahha


Edited by micky - January 25 2008 at 21:15

^ another reason for a re-vote hahahhaha

and Gazpacho would have been in my 5 as well