Collaborators' Top Albums of 2011

Andy Webb wrote: CCVP wrote: Andy Webb wrote: CCVP wrote: Andy Webb wrote: Does anyone know of a soundcloud sample of the Haken or Unexpect albums? I'd like to put one in but I couldn't find one for either album. I believe that the only media Haken has in the TUBES is their Myspace. Unexpect has a bandcamp: http://unexpect.bandcamp.com/ Yea, I just wanted soundcloud because it's easy to embed. I don't want to use youtube because the flash player is so stinkin large and the sound quality is not always so good. I'll look into embedding bandcamp stuff.. It's deff possible, after all Phideaux has his bandcamp embedded in his website. I just don't know if you can do it in PA. He used HTML, I assume, not BBCode.

IDK what he uses, but it's there, that's what I know.


Edited by CCVP - February 21 2012 at 14:17

Oy...not a brillant list by any mileage marker. But certainly one that favors the popular! (Or the free to listen too...)

Good man Karl

Fail first place. I like seeing Leprous and DT on the list though...

Good job.

Man With Hat wrote: One remark, SW is in crossover? That seems odd.

Heritage was fantastic and less divisive than I expected. I sort of expected metal heads to backlash at St. Anger levels. Only 2 of my picks were top 10. And one in the top 10 that would have made my bottom 5. I will keep it to myself to avoid any unpleasantries.

A Steven Wilson project has won half of the Collaborator Top Album awards to date.

darkshade wrote: The #1 spot was pretty predictable. Is this the first time DT managed to be in the top..... 25?

If memory serves, Octavarium made the first top 10 back in 2005. Unsurprisingly, Wilson won that year as well with PT's Deadwing. I believe Insurgents and The Incident are the only two major albums from him in the last 6 years that havn't won here (not counting Bass Communion, No-Mna and Blackfield since they dont garner anyware near s much interest as PT and solo do).

I was so happy when 2009 and 10 endend up as a straight fight between maudlin of the Well and Magma, and Kayo Dot and Universe Zero respectively. Now those made for good lists.

Something tells me Gamma Knife probably wont keep Drivers strike rate going though.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Nice list, I see most of my favorites appearing somewhere & I didn't expect to see my Avant leanings dominate somehow :) One question, I assume this is meant to be Camembert? 80 Schnoergl Attahk (Calomito)

First of all, congratulations Andy on a wonderful job Second of all, that list... Yuck! The 2010 list was much better and not just because UZ got first place. Surprising to me since I thought 2011 was the best year in prog in a long time. At least one of my picks got on the list.