Collaborators Top Prog-Rock Albums 2008

The Whistler wrote: I was gonna vote, but then I couldn't decide which of the "Always the Bridesmaid" Decemberists singles to put in the top spot...

^Thanks for the list

Rico, is that the whole list?

Where's The Wrong Object - Stories from the Shed?  I voted for that in my top 5 and don't see it.

Oh wait, it's top 100.  No worries.

A very surprising result... none of the albums I voted for were in the top 10.  I did have Watershed in my top 5 but moved it to number 6 (so out of the votes).


Edited by James - December 31 2008 at 06:16

  Good job doing the list  ..  If the consensuses is 2008 was a happening year for prog  I think I`m starting to lose interest in it , which is weird because I love all the other years still. Overall I found 2008 to be lacking.


Edited by Yorkie X - December 31 2008 at 07:23

Yorkie X wrote: Yeah job doing the list last ..  If the consensuses is 2008 was a happening year for prog  I think I`m starting to lose interest in it , which is weird because I love all the other years still.

I thought it was a good year musically, actually.

4 bands out of my Top-5 made it into the top 100, I wonder where the last one (Sonar) ended up. Chances are I'm the only PA member who owns that album, though....

1. La Primavera dei Sordi - Pennelli di Vermeer (47)
2. The Fruit Fallen - Edensong  (54)
3. Abbandono Del Tempo E Delle Forme - J'Accuse (31)
4. Celluloid - Sonar (??)
5. TriSector - Van Der Graaf Generator (13)

As promotor of new and unsigned I'm happy to start over in 2009. After all, #1-#4 in my list were all debut albums, and they seem to have caught on here.

Kestrel wrote: I'm curious as to how many albums the collaborators on average have listened to? I try to refrain from making "x of the year" lists as the year ends because there are so many things I missed out on in that year and some things don't really seem to surface until a little later anyway. *shrug*

Yes, and that is the problem with these sorts of lists. Unless everyone listens to all albums (or most) then the list is not really to be taken too seriously or to be treated with high reliance. More like a guildeline for the albums that made "noise" this year.

My personal 5 would be
Cast - Originalis
Rational Diet - At Work
Birds & Buildings - Bantham To Behemoth
Cargo Cult Revival - Snakecharmer
Fromuz - Ovrelook

The rest of the list (which included at first 75 albums) now is made up of over 100 and it still growing (not all of them on PA, but most are progressive in nature).

avestin wrote: Kestrel wrote: I'm curious as to how many albums the collaborators on average have listened to? I try to refrain from making "x of the year" lists as the year ends because there are so many things I missed out on in that year and some things don't really seem to surface until a little later anyway. *shrug* Yes, and that is the problem with these sorts of lists. Unless everyone listens to all albums (or most) then the list is not really to be taken too seriously or to be treated with high reliance. More like a guildeline for the albums that made "noise" this year. My personal 5 would be Cast - Originalis Rational Diet - At Work Birds & Buildings - Bantham To Behemoth Cargo Cult Revival - Snakecharmer Fromuz - Ovrelook The rest of the list (which included at first 75 albums) now is made up of over 100 and it still growing (not all of them on PA, but most are progressive in nature).

The top was from the start based on every person's "preferences" - i.e. favorites. Perhaps we could emphasize more the "valorous" perspective - lowering that way half of the so-called "popular" names and works - that way a Collaborator being able to make the difference between, hypothetically speaking, having liked Opeth very much, but highlighting a rich progressive album by someone else.

Otherwise though, if it's about listening to many albums and then making a choice worth being called "valid", we could only gather few Collaborators who do in fact listen to a lot of new albums during one year (let's say you, Olav, Uwe, Erik N., Angelo, me, Igor and others) and do our own "critical top of the year".


Edited by Ricochet - December 31 2008 at 07:46

Not in my list it won't.

James wrote: Not in my list it won't.

As you've already seen, your list is not enough to make a difference.



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