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Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1997 |
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Mirakaze 
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 Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1997Posted: November 20 2021 at 00:47 |
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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  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)
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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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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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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 Edited by Cristi - November 20 2021 at 02:18 |
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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 Edited by King Crimson776 - November 20 2021 at 02:32 |
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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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Posted: November 20 2021 at 02:58 |
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^ nice to see Enchant in your list, I forgot about them.
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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Posted: November 20 2021 at 04:03 |
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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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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 Day7. 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 Edited by Progmind - November 20 2021 at 07:56 |
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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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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
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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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Posted: November 22 2021 at 06:14 |
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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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Posted: November 22 2021 at 07:39 |
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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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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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