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    Posted: November 20 2021 at 00:47
My only memory of the year 1997 is of me driving my tricycle into a lake. Luckily my dad pulled me out of the water in time, or else I wouldn't have been able to enjoy all the undoubtedly wonderful prog albums of 1998!

1. Mats/Morgan - The Music Or The Money...
2. David Bowie - Earthling
3. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
4. Tipographica - Floating Opera
5. Volaré - The Uncertainty Principle
6. Björk - Homogenic
7. Harpy - Do Not Eat
8. Happy Family - Toscco
9. Brand X - Manifest Destiny
10. Koenjihyakkei - Viva Koenji!
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Haven't participated in many of these, so it's time to make up for that now Smile

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞
2. Bjork - Homogenic
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale 
5. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
6. Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity (One of DT's most underrated albums in my opinion)
7. Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
8. IQ - Subterranea 
9. Sigur Ros - Von
10. Sadist - Crust (extremely underrated technical/progressive death metal, although I prefer their Tribe album)


Edited by Necrotica - November 20 2021 at 01:20
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1997, a good year, maybe the best so far since the 70's

13        Höyry-Kone     Huono Partur   i Fin      

12        Lindh Project, Pär       Mundus Incompertus     Swe   

12        Phish   Slip, Stitch, and Pass     USA  

11        'O'rang            Herd of Instinct          Eng     

11        Anekdoten      Live EP            Swe 

11        Happy Family  Toscco            Jpn  

11        Godspeed You Black Emperor!        F♯A♯∞   Can

11        More Experience        From Acid Dreams      Pol   

11        Radiohead      OK Computer 

11        Smell of Incense   -  Through the Gates of Deeper Slumber          Nor

11        Sinkadus      Aurum Nostrum    Swe     

11        Tangle Edge    Tarka   Nor  

11        Volare      The Uncertainty Principle      USA   

11        Wizards of Ooze         Bambee          Bel  

11        Wyatt, Robert Shleep             Eng

11        Yes      Keys to Acsension 2   Eng    


Bubbling under: 

10        Aka Moon       Ganesh           Bel      

10        Aum     Aum     Bel     

10        Dagmähr         My Magnificent Instability     Can  

10        Discipline -   Unfolded Like Staircase     USA

10        Djam Karet      The Devouring            USA      

10        Lowercase      Kill the Lights  USA 

10        Mogwai           Young Team    Sco    

10        Narajama        V Tom Vine Je Nalhano          Cze    

10        Orange Blossom         Orange Blossom         Fra        

10        Portishead      Portishead      Eng      1997    

10        X-Legged Sally / The Smith Quartet  Bereft of a Blissful Union      

10        Zorn, John / Masada  Het (Eight)      USA            

09        Blast    Stringy Rugs    Net      

09        Krutzen, Henry            Iceland            Bel    

09        Louise Attaque           Louise Attaque           Fra     

09        Niacin      Niacin     USA   

09        Stern, Mike     Give and Take            USA   

09        Thule   Graks   Norw    

09        Tuatara           Breaking the Ethers    USA    



Edited by Sean Trane - November 21 2021 at 01:55
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Marillion - This Strange Engine
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Threshold -  Extinct Instinct
Pain of Salvation - Entropia
Sieges Even - Uneven
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
IQ - Subterranea
In The Woods - Omnio
The Night Watch - Twilight
Ivanhoe - Polarized 



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Stardust We Are - The Flower Kings

MIND Volume 1 - Isildurs Bane

Subterranea - IQ

Shleep - Robert Wyatt

Black Light Syndrome - Bozzio, Levin & Stevens

Paradox - Royal Hunt

Bílé Inferno - Iva Bittová & Vladimír Václavek

Doppler 444 - Mongol

Unfolded Like Staircase - Discipline

Homogenic - Björk



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Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus
Mansun - Attack of The Grey Lantern
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#
Radiohead - OK Computer
IQ - Subterranea
Enchant - Time Lost
Steve Hackett - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Marillion - This Stange Engine
Tangerine Dream - Tournado
The Verve - Urban Hymns


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^ nice to see Enchant in your list, I forgot about them. Embarrassed

I just remembered Devin Townsend released Ocean Machine in 1997, that's an excellent album (IMO). 


Edited by Cristi - November 20 2021 at 02:59
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Not very familiar with the period, but 1997 has seen the best prog album outside the classic era:

Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase

Another album worth mentioning is Ok Computer.
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1. Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins - Sluggo!
2. Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day 
3. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
4. Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity
5. Pain of Salvation - Entropia
6. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
9. Bill Bruford Earthworks - Heavenly Bodies
10. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
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     1997     
1. STEREOLAB Dots and Loops
2. ALAIN ESKANAZI/BRAINSCAPES Chakradancer
3. PÄR LINDH PROJECT Mundus Incompertus
4. HÖYRY-KONE Huono Parturi
5. DISCIPLINE Unfolded Like Staircase
6. PAT METHENY Imaginary Day
7. BJÖRK Homogenic
8. AFTER CRYING 6
9. VOLARÉ Uncertainty Principle
10. RADIOHEAD OK Computer

11. THE FLOWER KINGS Stardust We Are
12. THE GATHERING Nighttime Birds
13. ART ZOYD Häxan
14. IN THE WOODS Omnio
15. FATES WARNING A Pleasant Shade of Gray
16. SINKADUS Aurum Nostrum
17. ROBERT WYATT Shleep
18. DJAM KARET The Devouring
19. DAVID CROSS Exiles
20. SYMPHONY X The Divine Wings of Tragedy

Honorable Mentions:
BONDAGE FRUIT III - Récit
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A fabulous year for music and the most interesting, exciting, varied and enjoyable decade for my life. Even in the 90s I used to think that I wished that the decade (or certain years especially) could last forever for me.

This list of ten is arranged alphabetically by artist. I did include two not in PA (Stereolab and Portishead) -- I don't think those out of place in this list considering music by Björk and Radiohead.

Art Zoyd - Häxan
Björk - Homogenic
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞
Ground Zero - Plays Standards
Höyry-Kone - Huono Parturi
Portishead - Portishead*
Radiohead - OK Computer
Stereolab - Dots and Loops*
Tipographica - Floating Opera
Wyatt, Robert - Shleep
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My favs are in no particular order

Bjork - Homogenic
Volaré - The Uncertain Principle
GYBE! - F♯A♯∞
The Gathering - Nightime Birds
In The Woods... - Omnio
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Bark Psychosis - Game Over
The Night Wacht - Twilight
Timothy Pure - The Blood Of The Berry
Sinkadus - Aurum Nostrum

honorable mentions

Discipline - Unfold Like Staircase
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Grey
Hoyre-Kône - Huono Parturi
Fruitcake - One More Slice
Voivod -Phobos
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine
Crucible - Tall Tales
Art Zoyd - Haxan



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Radiohead - OK Computer
Koenji Hyakkei - Viva Koenji!
Volapuk - Slang!
5UU's - Crisis In Clay
Höyry-Kone - Huono Parturi
Vezhlivy Otkaz - Kosa na Kamen
Djam Karet - The Devouring
Idiot Flesh - Fancy
Happy Family - Toscco
Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn


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1. 5uu's - Crisis in Clay
2. Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
3. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
4. Koenjihyakkei - Viva Koenji!!
5. Citizen Cain - Raising the Stones
6. Cliffhanger - Not to Be or Not to Be?
7. Leger de Main - Second First Impression
8. Bi Kyo Ran - Kyobo Na Ongaku (A Violent Music)
9. Doracor - The Long Pathway
10. The Night Watch - Twilight

Honorable mentions:
Poppsykosen - Sig du vil ha’ mig
After Crying - 6
Crucible - Tall Tales
Big Big Train - English Boy Wonders
Lizard - W Galerii Czasu
Fish - Sunsets on Empire
IQ - Subterranea
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Clepsydra - Fears
Djam Karet - The Devouring
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Holger Czukay vs. Dr. Walker - Clash
Art Zoyd - Häxan
Can - Sacrilege
Kong - Earmined
Radiohead - OK Computer
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞
.O.rang - Fields and Waves
Björk- Homogenic
Mogwai - Young Team
Robert Wyatt - Shleep

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In no particular order
Art Zoyd- Haxan
The Smell Of Incense- Through The Gates Of Deeper Slumber
Fig Leaf- The Humble Poet
Sinkadus- Aurum Nostrum
Arcana- Arc Of The Testimony
In The Woods...- Omnio
GYBE!- F#A#
The Gathering- Nighttime Birds
Twin Age- Lialim High
Tangle Edge- Tarka


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I'm not sure if I'm the only one who remembers Mansun or whether I'm the only one who rates them? Admittedly their next album Six was their best and I hope to see that on a few lists and not just mine when we get to 1999!
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IQ - Subby
Marillion  - TSE
Mansun - AOTGY
Prodigy - FOTL
Symphony X - DWOT
DT - FII (although not one of their best)
Radiohead - OK C
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Radiohead - OK Computer ,   a Prog album??, I'd like to see that Prog definition which include it.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Radiohead - OK Computer ,   a Prog album??, I'd like to see that Prog definition which include it.

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