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    Posted: July 07 2011 at 14:19
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 14:36
Personally, not a single one of those albums would be even in my top 100 of the decade.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:06
Ah, so the cartoon self-portrait avatars have finally made their way here.

This list caters to a very particular type of prog taste.  I'm sure there are a number of folks here whose list would look quite similar, but it's certainly not widely applicable.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:24
Not a bad list, really.  I was actually pleasantly surprised to see such (relatively) obscure gems and Milliontown and Wintercoast in the Top 20.  That said, there were a few omissions I found rather shocking:
 
Mei by Echolyn
Doomsday Afternoon by Phideaux
The Underfall Yard or The Difference Machine by Big Big Train
The Dark Third by Pure Reason Revolution
 
...all would've featured on my Top 10.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:25
inb4 ur religious so ur opinion is invalid
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:27
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

inb4 ur religious so ur opinion is invalid


Rest assured, my friend, that I have never used religion to invalidate your opinion.  Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:29
I find this list severely...limited.  Maybe that's because no fewer than 8 out of the 20 albums listed are Neal Morse or Steven Wilson related.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:30
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

inb4 ur religious so ur opinion is invalid


Rest assured, my friend, that I have never used religion to invalidate your opinion.  Wink


Yes, good sense or just "I'll give you a beer if you admit that you're wrong" works plenty fine!  LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:33
No Sleepytime Gorilla Museum = UnhappyCryAngry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:34
I really like the new Phideaux album (Snowtorch), but he is a new discovery for me so he didn't make my decade list.
I have both Big Big Train albums, but they fell short for me. 
I will definitely look into Echolyn and Pure Reason Revolution. Thanks for the input.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:36
Originally posted by BobVanguard BobVanguard wrote:

I really like the new Phideaux album (Snowtorch), but he is a new discovery for me so he didn't make my decade list.
I have both Big Big Train albums, but they fell short for me. 
I will definitely look into Echolyn and Pure Reason Revolution. Thanks for the input.


But will you look into Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:38
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

[QUOTE=BobVanguard]
But will you look into Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?
Checkin' them out NOW!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:38
Originally posted by BobVanguard BobVanguard wrote:

I really like the new Phideaux album (Snowtorch), but he is a new discovery for me so he didn't make my decade list.
I have both Big Big Train albums, but they fell short for me. 
I will definitely look into Echolyn and Pure Reason Revolution. Thanks for the input.


Yes, if 2000 isn't included in the this decade (2001-2010), and Somwhere to Elsewhere doesn't make it, then you sir, have missed out on a phenomenal album.  Wink

But Echolyn's Mei would probably be my top album from 2001-2010.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:42
Viva La Vida, Or Death and All His Friends, by Coldplay, 2008 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:45
Not intending to pile on further, but an album that I would have somewhere on a top 20 list would be The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:48
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Not intending to pile on further, but an album that I would have somewhere on a top 20 list would be The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium.


Was just going to mention them.  I've not given any of their albums 5 stars (all 4 for me), but what an immensely important and creative band of the 2000s.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:51
Anyone who includes albums by the likes of Doctor Nerve, Volapuk, Guapo, Aranis, Sotos, Rational Diet, Yugen, Zaar, and Non Credo is okay with me. Oh wait, he didn't.  His tastes are obviously very far removed from my tastes. 

My favourite album at the moment from that decade, incidentally, is Ernst Reijseger's Requiem for a Dying Planet which I got very recently.


Edited by Logan - July 07 2011 at 15:55
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:53
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Yes, if 2000 isn't included in the this decade (2001-2010), and Somwhere to Elsewhere doesn't make it, then you sir, have missed out on a phenomenal album.  Wink
GASP! Isn't Kerry Livgren a bit too "religious?!" ;-)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:55
Originally posted by BobVanguard BobVanguard wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Yes, if 2000 isn't included in the this decade (2001-2010), and Somwhere to Elsewhere doesn't make it, then you sir, have missed out on a phenomenal album.  Wink
GASP! Isn't Kerry Livgren a bit too "religious?!" ;-)


Not nearly as religious as this guy. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2011 at 15:55
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Anyone who includes albums by the likes of Doctor Nerve, Volapuk, Guapo, Aranis, Sotos, Rational Diet, Yugen, Zaar, and Non Credo is okay with me. Oh wait, he didn't.  His tastes are obviously very far removed from my tastes. 


Everyone's tastes are very far removed from yours.  Wink
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