PA Album of the Year Discussion thread

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ Ok, I take it you just copied your previous post and moved things around? That works, and all these releases will be counted, but none of the new (non-pa) ones you added "manually". In order for them to be counted, you need to go to https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2023 again and select them properly.    Ah, so I can add the non-pa artists (they aren't in there to be selected)?  Some are not necessary prog adjacent (although they've been played on a prog radio station on my show).  Prog audiences seem open to them, however, even if they are not prog, and there are some that are prog, not yet in PA.  And I added yet another to that non-PA list in my post  BTW: Of course I do not need to fill the list until you reach 20 ...  even if you only submit one release it will still receive 20 points. So by all means limit the list to the releases you find awesome!

Edited by Snicolette - December 26 2023 at 15:09

Saperlipopette! wrote: There are several albums I'd like to check out on your list, but first things first Logan wrote: 2. [Non-PA] Lingua Ignota - THE END : LIVE AT ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL {ap:66662}

It's just Kristin Hayter singing and on piano; simple and transcendent. It's supposed to be The End of her Lingua Ignota persona.

And another feature: The list of releases to choose from is limited to PA releases by default again. Just click "show all releases" to see all available releases. Makes it easier for everyone who primarily cares about PA releases, and it is still the main aspect of the poll.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - December 25 2023 at 12:18

Update: Today I fixed the points calculation and added description texts to all the charts. With the new calculation method there is no "penalty" for submitting non-pa releases in-between pa-releases, the resulting all-users chart will calculate the points (20 for the #1 release, 19 from the #2 and so forth) from the filtered user lists.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - December 24 2023 at 17:25

Unless I'm mistaken I seem to have lost my selection when I click on the link to AP so am unable to change it unless I start from scratch again. I would certainly add eMolecule as a non PA release to my list and also the TEMIC release (Haken spin off band)

This is hardly my final PA and non-PA but all AP list or placement.

1. Swans - The Beggar {ap:63656}
2. [Non-PA] Lingua Ignota - THE END : LIVE AT ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL {ap:66662}
3. [Non-PA] PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying {ap:64883}
4. [Non-PA] Depeche Mode - Memento Mori {ap:54558}
5. PoiL - Poil Ueda {ap:55644}
6. [Non-PA] Sufjan Stevens - Javelin {ap:66095}
7. Squid - O Monolith {ap:55683}
8. [Non-PA] Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! {ap:67836}
9. Kosmischer Läufer - Volume 5 {ap:55138}
10. Trees Speak - Mind Maze {ap:55034}
11. ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - "Darling the Dawn" {ap:66339}
12. Susanne Sundfør - blómi {ap:54691}
13. [Non-PA] Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X {ap:66547}
14. [Non-PA] Die Wilde Jagd - Ophio {ap:67353}
15. Oiapok - OisoL​ü​n {ap:54573}
16. [Non-PA] Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World {ap:63054}
17. Univers Zéro - Lueur {ap:66471}
18. Tim Hecker - No Highs {ap:55665}
19. Goat - Medicine {ap:66299}
20. PoiL - Poil Ueda: Yosh*tsune {ap:65795}
21. The Holy Family - Go Zero {ap:65140}
22. Teeth Of The Sea - Hive {ap:65940}
23. Bob Drake - The Room in the Tower {ap:67570}
24. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse {ap:63750}
25. Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung (DAAU) - Musik Für Animierten Tonspurfilm {ap:66940}
26. Electric Orange - gap {ap:65210}
27. Explosions in the Sky - End {ap:65873}
28. [Non-PA] World's End Girlfriend - Resistance & The Blessing {ap:66252}
29. [Non-PA] Held By Trees - Solace ~ Live At Real World {ap:62892}
30. Agusa - Prima Materia {ap:64672}
31. [Non-PA] Cosmic Ground - Entropy {ap:65646}
32. [Non-PA] Matt Berry - Simplicity {ap:67454}
33. Chromb! - Cinq {ap:65683}
34. SWRM - Salamander {ap:64574}
35. Thee Oh Sees - Intercepted Message {ap:65750}
36. Jack O' The Clock - The Warm, Dark Circus {ap:66311}
37. [Non-PA] Monika Roscher Bigband - Witchy Activities And The Maple Death {ap:64093}
38. Homunculus Res - Ecco l'impero Dei Doppi Sensi {ap:64076}
39. Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria {ap:54888}
40. Zopp - Dominion {ap:54131}
41. La Theorie Des Cordes - 4u-9525 {ap:63207}
42. Uboa - Empathy Shield {ap:67524}
43. Kilter - The Suspended Woman {ap:67558}

Honorable note to the Beach House EP Become. Love Beach House, and was happy to add that to AP with various of the releases, more to come (surprised that was not on anyone's radar enough to add it before).

Note: It may be difficult to seperate, but It would be beneficial if one had the option just to list in PA releases as that is not that onerous on people to go through the listings there for those applicable to the Prog AotY exercise. That said and as said I found going though it very useful because I saw releases that for acts in PA that were not added to the PA charts. As said, I added two of those albums to PA. PA is all too have to manually add everything, by the way.

Edited by Logan - December 23 2023 at 10:45

Here is my list, but it's missing some of my favourites (the site, me, or both missed them).

I did not see:

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (aka Lingua Ignota) - SAVED!
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
World's End Girlfriend - Resistance & the Blessing
Witch - Zango
Beach House - Become (an EP).

I might have to add those to your site, not sure if EPs are applicable, but those would all rank high for me. Going though the list, i noticed several albums that were not listed in PA, and I added two of those:

Here is my 40 I got, definitely very subject to change and some need re-listenings:

1. Swans - The Beggar {ap:63656}
2. [Non-PA] Lingua Ignota - THE END : LIVE AT ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL {ap:66662}
3. [Non-PA] PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying {ap:64883}
4. [Non-PA] Depeche Mode - Memento Mori {ap:54558}
5. PoiL - Poil Ueda {ap:55644}
6. Squid - O Monolith {ap:55683}
7. Kosmischer Läufer - Volume 5 {ap:55138}
8. [Non-PA] Sufjan Stevens - Javelin {ap:66095}
9. Trees Speak - Mind Maze {ap:55034}
10. ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - "Darling the Dawn" {ap:66339}
11. Susanne Sundfør - blómi {ap:54691}
12. [Non-PA] Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X {ap:66547}
13. [Non-PA] Die Wilde Jagd - Ophio {ap:67353}
14. Oiapok - OisoL​ü​n {ap:54573}
15. Univers Zéro - Lueur {ap:66471}
16. Tim Hecker - No Highs {ap:55665}
17. Goat - Medicine {ap:66299}
18. PoiL - Poil Ueda: Yosh*tsune {ap:65795}
19. The Holy Family - Go Zero {ap:65140}
20. Teeth Of The Sea - Hive {ap:65940}
21. Bob Drake - The Room in the Tower {ap:67570}
22. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse {ap:63750}
23. Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung (DAAU) - Musik Für Animierten Tonspurfilm {ap:66940}
24. Electric Orange - gap {ap:65210}
25. Explosions in the Sky - End {ap:65873}
26. [Non-PA] Held By Trees - Solace ~ Live At Real World {ap:62892}
27. Agusa - Prima Materia {ap:64672}
28. [Non-PA] Cosmic Ground - Entropy {ap:65646}
29. [Non-PA] Matt Berry - Simplicity {ap:67454}
30. Chromb! - Cinq {ap:65683}
31. SWRM - Salamander {ap:64574}
32. Thee Oh Sees - Intercepted Message {ap:65750}
33. Jack O' The Clock - The Warm, Dark Circus {ap:66311}
34. [Non-PA] Monika Roscher Bigband - Witchy Activities And The Maple Death {ap:64093}
35. Homunculus Res - Ecco l'impero Dei Doppi Sensi {ap:64076}
36. Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria {ap:54888}
37. Zopp - Dominion {ap:54131}
38. La Theorie Des Cordes - 4u-9525 {ap:63207}
39. Uboa - Empathy Shield {ap:67524}
40. Kilter - The Suspended Woman {ap:67558}

And I noteced a couple of album missing from PA so it's useful to go through those. I added Cosmic Ground - Entropy {ap:65646} and Held By Trees - Solace ~ Live At Real World to the bands' discography here.

So many awesome albums still to discover ... today I was really impressed by the Rubber Tea album. A really good mix of weirdness, depth and fun.

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