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Originally posted by natewait natewait wrote:

1. The Whirlwind- Transatlantic
2. Black Clouds and Silver Linings- Dream Theater
3. Act III: Life and Death- The Dear Hunter
4. The Darkened Room- IZZ
5. The Incident- Porcupine Tree
6. Number Seven- Phideaux
7. Destined Solitaire- Beardfish
8. Frequency- IQ
9. Realms of Eternity- Syzygy
10. Anno Domini High Definition- Riverside

Although I just bought The Hazards of Love by The Decembrists yesterday, and I'm really loving it, so I wouldn't be surprised if it finds its way in the top ten before the years up.
I love it, but just one question, where is Crack The Skye?????
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Originally posted by The Block The Block wrote:

 I love it, but just one question, where is Crack The Skye?????
I haven't heard Crack The Skye, Is it something worth checking out?
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I only heard the the debut by Subsignal (http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25577) in the past few days, but it is really good. And I KNEW that was the singer from Sieges Even!
 
I found out about it on RYM. Gotta pick up the pace, PA. Stern SmileWink
 
Little tidbit here, I think the new Wobbler is pretty well horribly dull. "Flurry of notes on a Hammond organ." That's all. Ugh.
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My top 10 - I think!
 
1. Mastodon - crack The Skye
2.  Nemo - Barbares
3. Secret Green - To Wake The King
4. Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
5. The Wishing Tree - Ostara
6. IQ - Frequency
7. Kotebel - Ouroboros
8. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
9. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
10. Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
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Originally posted by natewait natewait wrote:

Originally posted by The Block The Block wrote:

 I love it, but just one question, where is Crack The Skye?????
I haven't heard Crack The Skye, Is it something worth checking out?
 
Yes. Definitly. it is an awesome album, though it may take a couple listens to get into it.
 
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4.20 Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
(120 ratings)
WR = 4.1234
The Whirlwind
4.04 Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
(120 ratings)
WR = 3.9892
Number Seven
Phideaux
3.89 Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
(34 ratings)
WR = 3.8005
The Weirding
3.91 Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
(220 ratings)
WR = 3.8906
The Incident
Porcupine Tree
4.10 Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
(51 ratings)
WR = 3.9798
Destined Solitaire
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Not a final list (and the order within each group isn't final or all that important), and there are more 2009 albums I'll listen to this week for the first time, but it's getting there:

The Best:
1.    Wobbler - Afterglow
2.    Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
3.    Deluge Grander - The Form of the Good
4.    Phideaux - Number Seven
5.    Osada Vida - Uninivted Dreams
6.    Between the buried and me - The great misdirect
7.    Gösta Berlings Saga - Detta har hänt
8.    L’oeil Du Sourd – Un?
9.    Present - Barbaro (ma non troppo)
10.    Fun Machine - Sonnenhuhn
11.    Gargamel - Descending
12.    Kalisia - Cybion

13.    Nemo - Barbares
14.    Simon Steensland - Fat Again
15.    Aranis - Songs from mirage
16.    Pictorial Wand - Face of our fathers
17.    Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
18.    Miriodor - Avanti!
19.    Kotebel - Ouroboros
20.    Leprous - Tall poppy sydrome
21.    Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off!
22.    Forgas Band Phenomena – L’axe Du Fou
23.    Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
24.    miRthkon - Vehicle
25.    Lye By Mistake – Fea Jur
26.    The Future Kings of England - The Viewing Point
27.    The Low Frequency in Stereo - Futuro

The Great:
28.    Mouse on the Keys - An Anxious Object
29.    Flat Earth Society - Cheer Me, Perverts!
30.    Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
31.    Viima - Kahden kuun sirpit
32.    Led Bib - Sensible Shoes
33.    Ubi Maior - Senza Tempo
34.    Neom - Arkana Temporis
35.    Runaway Totem – Manu Menes
36.    maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
37.    The Autumn Project - This We Take With Us
38.    Il Ruscello - Paesaggio solare (estate 1972)
39.    Delirium – In Nome Del Vento
40.    Jono El Grande – Neo Dada
41.    Moraine - Manifest Density
42.    Wine From Tears - Through the Eyes of a Mad
43.    Indukti - Idmen
44.    Isis - Wavering Radiant
45.    Karda Estra - Weird Tales
46.    Greg Amov – The Noble Gases
47.    Basta – Cycles
48.    Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
49.    The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
50.    Ensiferum - From Afar
51.    Izz - The Darkened Room
52.    Moongarden - A Vulgar Display of Prog
53.    Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
54.    Exivious – Exivious
55.    Wardruna - Runaljod – gap var Ginnunga
56.    Kinetic Element – Powered By Light

The almost as great:
57.    The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
58.    Thee Maximalists - Crosstalk
59.    Kosmos - Vieraan Taivaan Alla
60.    Kathaarsys - Anonymous Ballad
61.    The Hylozoists - L'île de sept villes
62.    Adolf Plays the Jazz - Dirty Waters
63.    Afforested - Wolf's Heads and Woodlanders
64.    Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
65.    Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
66.    The Bronzed Chorus - I'm the Spring
67.    The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
68.    Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
69.    Syzygy - Realms of Eternity
70.    Big Big Train – The Underfall Yard
71.    Cobalt - Gin
72.    The Echelon Effect - Reunion
73.    Those Who Lie Beneath - An Awakening
74.    Zu - Carboniferous 
75.    Anouar Brahem – The Astounding Eyes Of Rita
76.    Russian Circles – Geneva
77.    Outre Mesure - Abacadaë
78.    KTU - Quiver
79.    Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
80.    Tyondai Braxton – Central Market


The Good:
81.    Taipuva Luotisuora - IV
82.    Narr - Oxymore Dans La Chrysalide Des Rêves
83.    Chance:Risiko – Sleep Talking
84.    Zombi - Spirit Animal
85.    The Source - Prickly Pear
86.    Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Exodusarabesque
87.    Jean-Jacques Toussaint - From Tiemko To Travelling
88.    The Necks - Silverwater
89.    Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
90.    Orphan Project - Spooning Out the Sea
91.    Lalle Larsson – Weaveworld
92.    Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
93.    Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians II
94.    Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians III
95.    Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia
96.    Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
97.    The Invincible Czars - Fortissimo
98.    IQ – Frequency
99.    Vril – The Fatal Duckpond
100.    Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I
101.    Absu - Absu
102.    Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
103.    Antigama - Warning
104.    The Antikaroshi - Crushed Neocons
105.    Martigan - Visions
106.    Astra - The Weirding
107.    Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent
108.    Bloody Panda - Summon
109.    Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure
110.    Calle Debauche - Calle Debauche
111.    Il Castello di Atlante - Cap. 7 - Tra le antiche mura
112.    Celan - Halo
113.    Nels Cline – Coward
114.    Be’lakor - Stone's Reach
115.    Isole – Silent Ruins
116.    My Lament – Broken Leaf
117.    Deterior - Cleanse
118.    Espers - Espers III
119.    Nils Frahm - Wintermusik
120.    Nils Frahm -  The Bells
121.    From Monument to Masses - On Little Known Frequencies
122.    Gan Eden - il Giardino delle Delizie - Ritratto di ballerina
123.    Kylesa - Static Tensions
124.    Guy Manning - Number Ten
125.    Mastodon - Crack the Skye
126.    Mumakil - Behold the Failure
127.    Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
128.    Om - God Is Good
129.    Ozric Tentacles - The YumYum Tree
130.    Pg.lost - In Never Out
131.    Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day
132.    Rhys Marsh and the Autumn Ghost - Dulcima
133.    Samael - Above
134.    Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter
135.    Scale the Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
136.    Senogul - Concierto de evocación sonora para conjunto instrumental
137.    Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
138.    Slon - Antenne
139.    Slough Feg - Ape Uprising!
140.    Sólstafir - Köld
141.    Stinking Lizaveta - Sacrifice and Bliss
142.    SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
143.    Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
144.    TwinSisterMoon - The Hollow Mountain
145.    Umphrey's McGee - Mantis
146.    Ben Woods - Things Weren't Always This Way
147.    Years - Years
148.    YOB - The Great Cessation
149.    Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
150.    The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death
151.    Gwyllion - The Edge of All I Know
152.    Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
153.    Pelican – What We All Come To Need
154.    Amogh Symphony – Abolishing The Obsolete System
155.    Ashaena - Cei Nascuti Din Pamant
156.    Randone – Linea Di Confine
157.    Hiroshima Will Burn – To The Weight Of All Things
158.    Kurai - Kurai
159.    The Echelon Effect - Leaving It Behind
160.    The Echelon Effect - Reference Reflection
161.    The Echelon Effect - Distant Desire

The mediocre / OK but didn't do much for me:
162.    Panzerballett - Hart Genossen von Abba bis Zappa
163.    Shadow Circus - Whispers and Screams
164.    Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
165.    The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
166.    Arpia - Racconto d’inverno
167.    Baroness - Blue Record
168.    Believer - Gabriel
169.    Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
170.    Black Math Horseman – Wyllt
171.    Sylvan – Force of Gravity
172.    Black Messiah - First War of the World
173.    Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
174.    Circulus - Thought Becomes Reality
175.    Daedalus - The Never Ending Illusion
176.    Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
177.    Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
178.    Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
179.    Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
180.    Egoist - Ultra Selfish Revolution
181.    Elegi - Varde
182.    Escherbach - Cycles
183.    Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children of the Dark Waters
184.    Fen - The Malediction Fields
185.    Gaë Bolg - Petite Introduction Aux Pratiques Des Gymnosophes
186.    Gorod - Process of a New Decline
187.    Gutbucket - A Modest Proposal
188.    Stéphane Horeczko - G. 1888
189.    Hourglass - Oblivious to the Obvious
190.    Kevin Hufnagel - Songs for the Disappeared
191.    Lobster Newberg - Actress
192.    Naam - Naam
193.    Nihiling - M[e]iosis
194.    Psyopus - Odd Senses
195.    Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
196.    Karl Sanders - Saurian Exorcisms
197.    Sendelica - The Girl From the Future Who Lit Up the Sky With Golden Worlds
198.    Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
199.    Toma - As We Fall Into Static Our Hearts Sing
200.    Weird Owl - Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed
201.    Sansara - 69
202.    Porcupine Tree - The Incident
203.    The Gathering - The West Pole
204.    Secret Chiefs 3 - Traditionalists: Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini
205.    Oceans Of Night - The Shadowheart Mirror
206.    Psychodrome – Psychodrome
207.    Dead Heroes Club – A Time Of Shadow
208.    Enochian Theory - Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio
209.    Satellite - Nostalgia


The ones I don't like:
210.    Children of Bodom - Skeletons in the Closet
211.    Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
212.    Earth as a Womb - Life In A Nitrogen Enriched Atmosphere
213.    Epignosis - Still the Waters
214.    Four Letter Lie - A New Day
215.    Luna Mortis - The Absence
216.    The Mars Volta - Octahedron
217.    Mystica - Second Dive
218.    Paniyolo - I'm Home
219.    Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
220.    Roswell Six - Terra Incognita: Beyond the Horizon
221.    Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle
222.    uSSSy - uSSSy
223.    Yair Yona - Remember






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So far its Mastodon's crack the skye and between the buried and me's the great misdirect. But that may change, got Transatlantics whirlwind for Christmas, haven't listened to it yet, been listening to other cd's I got.
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My '09 top 50 (full list, not just prog)

1. Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2. Astra - The Weirding
3. Led Bib - Sensible Shoes
4. Animal Collective - Merrywheater Post Pavillion
5. The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
6. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
7. Nemo - Barbares
8. Return To Forever - Returns
9. Anour Brahem - The Astounding Eyes Of Rita
10. 5bridgeS - The Thomas Tracks

11. Gosta Berlings Saga - Detta Har Hant
12. Wobbler - Afterglow
13. Kronos Quartet - Floodplain
14. Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
15. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
16. Tomasz Stanko Quintet - Dark Eyes
17. The Antlers - Hospice
18. Black Bonzo - Guillotine Model Drama
19. Lobster Newberg - Actress
20. Lalle Larsson - Weaveworld

21. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
22. Gargamel - Descending
23. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
24. IQ - Frequency
25. maudlin of the well - Part The Second
26. Van der Graaf Generator - Live At The Paradiso
27. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
28. Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
29. Novo Gordiano - Flektogon
30. Queen Elephantine - Kailash

31. Keith Jarrett - Testament (I listened to the Trio's Yesterdays only...yesterday, it's better, but it's too late to add it)
32. Gregor Samsa - Over Air
33. Phideaux - Number 7
34. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
35. Gong - 2032
36. Conqueror - Sprazzi Di Luce
37. Sula Bassana - The Night
38. Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe Du Fou
39. Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
40. Crimson Jazz Trio - King Crimson Songbook Volume Two

41. John Abercrombie Quartet - Wait Till You See Her
42. Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
43. Zombi - Spirit Animal
44. Faust - C'est...c'est...complique
45. Espers - Espers III
46. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
47. Present - Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)
48. Five Peace Band - Five Peace Band Live
49. Umphrey McGee - Mantis
50. f**k Buttons - Tarot Sport
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Top 15, prog (in bold) + non-prog:

1. Wilson: Insurgentes
2. Riverside: ADHD
3. Indukti: Idmen
4. Astra: The Weirding
5. Katatonia: Night is the New Day
6. Between the Buried and Me: The Great Misdirect
7. Porcupine Tree: The Incident
8. Editors: In This Light
9. Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue
10. Heaven and Hell: The Devil You Know
11. Megadeth: Endgame
12. OSI: Blood
13. Miosis: Albedo Adaptation
14. Immortal: All Shall Fall
15. Depeche Mode: Sounds of the Universe

Albums I wished I hadn't invested in: Amorphis, 5bridgeS, Transatlantic, Baroness, Marillion
Not heard yet: Magma, Gong

Nicest "discoveries" for me in 2009: Univers Zero, Pete Namlook and Gentle Giant (I finally acquired the taste, 2010 is gonna be a gigantic Gentle Zappa year for me!)


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I wanted to post this on New Year's Eve but I'm running out of time so I thought I'd just get it out of the way...

Before anything I have to post this warning: These are not ACTUALLY the "best" albums of the year but rather just my favorites. It's my opinion, etc, etc, etc...

So... Another year has passed. To be honest 2009 was a fairly mediocre year for music and was filled with a multitude of disappointments. There is not a SINGLE album that was released this year that I would consider a true masterpiece. '08 was a much better year for music with some fairly amazing albums and '07 was even beyond that... 2010 should make up for it, however, as there are a gargantuan amount of amazing releases scheduled.

Overall some genres that stood out for doing well this year were indie folk/rock (Mumford & Sons, The Decemberists, etc.), and doom metal (Stabat Mater, Mournful Congregation, etc.)

Best overall album: Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

Best album cover: Baroness - The Blue Record

Biggest Disappointment(s): Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade, Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition, Porcupine Tree - The Incident, Muse - Resistance, Drudkh - Microcosmos, Funeral Mist - Maranatha, and Ruins of Beverest - The Foulest Semen of the Sheltered Elite... There were more but I need not list them. This year was extremely disappointing. All of these bands have released AMAZING material and the past and these 2009 albums are not even close to up to par.

Best debut album(s): Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More, and Gungfly - Please Be Quiet

Album(s) that climbed my chart the quickest: Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (which literally climbed my charts the quickest out of any other album in my life...), and Les Descrits/Alcest Split

Biggest Surprise: The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love. I don't like any of their past albums at all but I just LOVE this album. Originally I didn't think I'd like it and I bought it on impulse.

Album most worth waiting for: maudlin of the Well - Part the Second (8 years)

Most underrated album: Siena Root - Different Realities. No one has ever even heard of this one. It's a great album!

Most overrated album: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion. A good record, most definitely, but not an "awe-inspiring masterpiece" by ANY means! I've heard that description tossed around a bit...

Best Reissue(s): The King Crimson remasters/remixes by Steven Wilson, and The Beatles' remasters.

Best Demo: Ascension - With Burning Tongues. That being said, I didn't listen to many demos this year.

Best Packaging: Teitanblood - Sevan Challices DGFLP IS SICK but the pressing error on Side A was a bummer... Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions DLP was pretty sexy... Also the Die Hard edition of SIXX - Sister Devil and I'm NOT just saying that because it features my artwork. :P

Top 'tron: Wobbler - Afterglow, Astra - The Weirding (Memotron...), and Gösta Berlings Saga - Detta Har Hänt

Most pretentious album title: Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away. [ Hahaha... I made this category just so I could bash this title. :P ]

Without further ado... The list:

   1. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
   2. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
   3. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
   4. The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
   5. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
   6. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
   7. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
   8. Les Descrits/Alcest Split
   9. Siena Root - Different Realities
  10. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
  11. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
  12. Gungfly - Please Be Quiet
  13. Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Rê
  14. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
  15. Gösta Berlings Saga - Detta Har Hänt
  16. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
  17. Wobbler - Afterglow
  18. Stabat Mater - Stabat Mater
  19. Skagos - Ást
  20. Astra - The Weirding
  21. Koi - In Tomorrow Hid Yesterday
  22. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
  23. Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
  24. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
  25. Katharsis - 4th Reich
  26. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
  27. Cobalt - Gin
  28. Isis - Wavering Radiant
  29. dälek - Gutter Tactics
  30. Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
  31. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
  32. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
  33. Mournful Congregation - The June Frost
  34. Portal - Swarth
  35. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
  36. Sólstafir - Köld
  37. John Zorn - O'o
  38. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
  39. Ruins of Beverest - The Foulest Semen of the Sheltered Elite
  40. Yob - The Great Cessation
  41. Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
  42. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
  43. Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless
  44. Urna - Iter Ad Lucem
  45. Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader
  46. Merrimack - Grey Rigorism
  47. Baroness - Blue Record
  48. Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
  49. Jacaszek - Pentral
  50. Russian Circles - Geneva
  51. The Life And Times - Tragic Boogie
  52. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
  53. Devin Townsend - Ki
  54. Whitetree - Cloudland
  55. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
  56. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
  57. Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence
  58. The Devil's Blood -  The Time of No Time Evermore
  59. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
  60. Devin Townsend - Addicted
  61. Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
  62. Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
  63. Altar Of Plagues - White Tomb
  64. Drudkh - Microcosmos
  65. Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
  66. Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió
  67. Caïna - Caïna
  68. Shining - VI
  69. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
  70. Exivious - Exivious
  71. The XX- XX
  72. Phideaux - Number Seven
  73. Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light
  74. Oceansize - Home & Minor EP
  75. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
  76. Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom
  77. Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain EP
  78. Om - God is Good
  79. Callisto - Providences
  80. Peste Noire - Ballade c**tre lo Anemi francor
  81. Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm
  82. Hazards of Swimming Naked - Our Lines Are Down
  83. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
  84. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
  85. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
  86. Muse - The Resistance
  87. Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away
  88. Blakroc - Blakroc
  89. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
  90. Absu - Absu
  91. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
  92. Liturgy - Renihilation
  93. OSI - Blood
  94. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck
  95. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
  96. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
  97. The Axis of Perdition - Urfe
  98. Kylesa - Static Tensions
  99. Ephel Duath - Through My Dog's Eyes
 100. <Code> - Resplendent Grotesque


If one of your favorites of the year isn't on this list it's because I either didn't listen to it, forgot about it, or didn't quite like it...

- Jake

p.s. Albums that may be considered 2009 albums but not to me are Steven Wilson - Insurgentes, and Fen - The Malediction Fields. Both are great, especially Insurgentes.  
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Wow...you guys and your 50+ lists make me jealous...(copied this from the other topic so that I was in the 'right' topic now, if it looks familiar that's why ;))

I'm going to have to update my list later, as I have a few albums from 2009 still in the mail on their way to me (Magma, Big Big Train, The Tangent, etc...)

So far, though, it looks like:

1. Beardfish - Destined Solitaire 
2. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
3. Gazpacho: Tick Tock
4. Phideaux: Number Seven
5. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death
6. The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
7. Nemo: Barbares
8. Mono: Hymn To the Immortal Wind
9. 5Bridges: The Thomas Tracks
10. The Mars Volta: Octahedron

The rest I've heard so far...
11. IQ; Frequency
12. Muse: Resistance
13. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
14. Porcupine Tree: The Incident
15. Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Night Castle
16. Devin Townsend Project: Ki
17. Guy Manning: Number Ten
18. Peter Hamill: Thin Air
19. Riverside: Anno Domini High Definition
20. Ozric Tentacles: The Yumyum Tree


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ShockedShockedShockedShocked Blimey! - I feel like an amateur with all of these massive lists for just the one year.

Anyway, the only disappointment for me in 2009 was Porcupine Tree's The Incident.

I listen to IQ so much these days, and The Frequency certainly hasn't let me down.

Marillion's Less is More is an absolute treat for fans of the band, and I also downloaded one of the HITR gigs from 2009, which is great. On a similar theme, The Wishing Tree's Ostara is highly recommended.

I still quite enjoy Insurgentes, certainly far more than his day job this yearOuch

Listening to The Whirlwind for the first time as I write this, and am very impressed on first listen. Looking forward to Phideaux later on as well with their new one.

A mere eight new LPs for the year. However, as the wise old woman once said, its not the quantity, its the qualityLOL
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my top 5 are:

1. Between The Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

2. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Lining

4. Muse - The Resistance

5. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
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My top 5 is something like this:

miRthkon - Vehicle
Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Rê
Gong - 2032
Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
Nemo - Barbares
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Er, more than 5...anyways, the first two are fighting for my #1, everything afterwords is usually moving around a bit.
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Here's my final list. (all genres, not just prog)

 
1
Wavering Radiant

Isis

Wavering Radiant (2009)
 
2
Sensible Shoes

Led Bib

Sensible Shoes (2009)
 
3
Movements in Colour

Andy Sheppard

Movements in Colour (2009)
 
4
Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré

Magma

Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009)
 
5
A Real Diamond in the Rough

Buckethead

A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
 
6
Two Suns

Bat for Lashes

Two Suns (2009)
 
7
The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion

dredg

The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion (2009)
 
8
Living With a Tiger

Acoustic Ladyland

Living With a Tiger (2009)
 
9
The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists

The Hazards of Love (2009)
 
10
Flowers From Exile

Rome

Flowers From Exile (2009)
 
11
Fear Draws Misfortune

Cheer-Accident

Fear Draws Misfortune (2009)
 
12
Spiritual Dimensions

Wadada Leo Smith

Spiritual Dimensions (2009)
 
13
Vehicle

miRthkon

Vehicle (2009)
 
14
The Great Misdirect

Between the Buried and Me

The Great Misdirect (2009)
 
15
Ki

Devin Townsend

Ki (2009)
 
16
Isla

Portico Quartet

Isla (2009)
 
17
Mantis

Umphrey's McGee

Mantis (2009)
 
18
Exivious

Exivious

Exivious (2009)
 
19
Destined Solitaire

Beardfish

Destined Solitaire (2009)
 
20
Night Is the New Day

Katatonia

Night Is the New Day (2009)



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Lol, I thought we listened to similar music Evolutionary, but I've only heard two of the albums on that list, and I didn't like The Hazards of Love, and there are maybe 2 or 3 I'd consider buying. Of course, I hadn't even heard of 3 of them*. I didn't think Andy Sheppard would edge in above Annour Brahem.  
 
I'll be posting my list in the new year because you should only post them after the year is over.
 
*I listened to Portico Quartet, and it's annoying indie kid jazz, I don't know what neo-classical apocalyptic dark folk means but I think applying it to Rome is overstating it, and Exivious is metal so idgaf.
 
And good lord Assaf, I only have around 250 albums total. Did you actually buy all those?


Edited by Henry Plainview - December 30 2009 at 03:18
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