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    Posted: October 26 2021 at 01:12
Happy to know that the year of my birth was able to provide me with a top 10 I'm pretty satisfied with.
My relationship with The Downward Spiral over the years has been very strange, going from obsessing over it, to associating it with a particularly bad time in my life and therefore wanting to purge it from memory, to the present time where I can look at it with more emotional distance and acknowledge it as the finely crafted musical opus that I believe it to be (EDIT: Rectification further down this page)

1. Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III
2. Tim Hodgkinson - Each In Our Own Thoughts
3. Vangelis - Blade Runner: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4. U Totem - Strange Attractors
5. Robert Fripp - 1999: Soundscapes Live In Argentina
6. French TV - Virtue In Futility
7. Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence
8. Popol Vuh - City Raga
9. Il Berlione - In 453 Minutes Infernal Cooking
10. FFWD - FFWD

Honourable mentions:
* California Guitar Trio - Yamanashi Blues
* Herbie Hancock - Dis Is Da Drum


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Marillion - Brave
Fates Warning - Inside Out
Dream Theater - Awake
King's X - Dogman
Tiles - s/t
Soul Cages - s/t
Threshold - Psychedelicatessen
Ivanhoe - Visions And Reality
Citizen Cain - Somewhere But Yesterday
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
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Jon Anderson - Change We Must
Peter Bardens - Big Sky
Eloy - The Tides Return Forever
The Enid - Tripping the Light Fantastic
Annie Haslam - Blessing in Disguise
Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth
Sally Oldfield - Three Rings
Mike Pinder - Among the Stars
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Rick Wakeman - Chronicles
Yes - Talk
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.O.rang - Herd of Instinct
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Richard Sinclair - R.S.V.P.
Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery
Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Stamping Ground Live
Tortoise - s/t
Fred Frith - Quartets
Robert Fripp - 1999 Soundscapes: Live in Argentina
David Byrne - s/t
Legendary Pink Dots - 9 Lives to Wonder
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Those with asterisks are not in PA, and sorry going over ten and not just sticking with "Prog", I love this year.

Portishead - Dummy*
Pram - Helium*
.O.rang - Herd of Instinct
Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude*
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet*
Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery
Faust - Rien
5uu's - Hunger's Teeth
Zbigniew Preisner - Trois couleurs: Rouge*
Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit
Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
Koenji Hyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji
Tortoise - Tortoise
U Totem - Strange Attractors
X-Legged Sally - Eggs and Ashes
John Greaves - Songs
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In no particular order

Marillion - Brave
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Collage - Moonshine
The Spacious Mind - Organic Mind solution
Ines - Hunting The fox
Landberk - One Man Tell´s Another
O.Rang - Herd Of Instinct
Anglagard - Epilog
Citizen Cain -Somewhere But yesterday
Porcupie Tree - Staircaise Infinities

Honorable mentions

Red Jasper - The winter´s Tale
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Il Trono Dei Ricordi -  Il Trono Dei Ricordi
Finisterre - Finisterre
Cairo - Cairo
Clepsydra - More Grains Of Sand
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1. Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck
2. Dream Theater - Awake
3. Echolyn - As The World
4. King's X - Dogman
5. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
6. Soundgarden - Superunknown
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

My relationship with The Downward Spiral over the years has been very strange, going from obsessing over it, to associating it with a particularly bad time in my life and therefore wanting to purge it from memory, to the present time where I can look at it with more emotional distance and acknowledge it as the finely crafted musical opus that I believe it to be.


Clearly the emotional distance isn't quite wide enough yet... After hearing it again and ruminating on this decision for a while, it no longer sits well with me to accredit this album in such a way. The unrelentingly aggressive and resentful nature of the lyrics is what repels me once more; I think even later NIN albums were better able to dose or channel their negative emotions in a more bearable fashion. I have no problem per se with unfiltered expressions of anger and despair in music, but the one emotion that in my experience exudes most of all from The Downward Spiral is downright hatred, seemingly borne from some of the ugliest and most sinister forms of misanthropy. I cannot relate to it and I don't want to be associated with it anymore. If it were mostly instrumental I might have stood by it, but right now I'm taking it off my list.
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Great year for avant leaning releases, the top 4 of my list are all top drawer.

5UU's - Hungers Teeth
U Totem - Strange Attractors
X-Legged Sally - Eggs & Ashes
Deathprod - Treetop Drive
Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth
Virgil Moorefield - Distractions on the Way to the King's Party
Anglagard - Epilog
Finnegans Wake - Yellow
Philharmonie - Nord
Steve Roach - The Dream Circle


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - October 26 2021 at 11:13
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1. 5uu's - Hunger Teeth
2. Citizen Cain - Somewhere but Yesterday
3. Marillion - Brave
4. Änglagĺrd - Epilog
5. Mastermind - Mastermind III: Tragic Symphony
6. Cairo - Cairo
7. Versus X - Versus X
8. Roine Stole - The Flower King
9. Bob Drake - What Day Is It?
10. Afterglow - Yggdrasil

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AmonullunomA - Amplifeeding Fyrewarmtouch
Cosmos - The Deciding Moments of Your Life
High Wheel - Remember the Colours
Mad Crayon - Ultimo Miraggio
Ars Nova - Transi
Eloy - The Tides Return Forever
Landberk - One Man Tells Another
Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence
Ines - Hunting the Fox
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13        Portishead      Dummy     

12        Änglagĺrd       Epilog

11        Aka Moon       Rebirth       

11        Page, Jimmy / Robert Plant    No Quarter Unledded 

11        Zorn, John / Masada  Alef (One)      

11        Zorn, John / Masada  Beit (Two)       

11        Zorn, John / Masada  Gimel (Three)    

10        Finnegans Wake         Yellow       

10        Isildurs Bane   Lost Eggs     

10        Lindh Project, Pär       Gothic Impressions   

10        Marillion         Brave  

10        .O.rang - Herd of Instinct

10        Present           C.O.D. Performance 

10        Spacious Mind    Organic Mind Solution      

10        Standarte        Standarte    

10        Tortoise          Tortoise      

10        X-Legged Sally            Eggs and Ashes    

10        Zazou, Hector      Songs from Cold Seas  




bubbling under:   

10        Buckley, Jeff   Grace

10        Dead Can Dance        Toward the Within       

10        dEUS    Worst Case Scenario

10        Electric Orange          Sessions Nebenan (CDR)     

09        Amos, Tori      Under the Pink      

09        Clepsydra        More Grains of Sand  

09        Crosby, David It's All Coming Back To Me Now    

09        Daran et Les Chaises Huit Barré   

09        Ensemble Nimbus      Key Figures  

09        Finisterre        Finisterre   

09        Fukkeduk         Ornithozozy  

09        Germinale       Germinale   

09        Justine       Langages Fantastiques     

09        Landberk         Jag Är Tiden (EP)      

09        Litfiba  Spirito       

09        Ozric Tentacles   - Arborescence

09        Pearl Jam        Vitalogy        

09        Quaterna Requiem     Quasimodo  

09        Santana           Brothers         

09        Schell, Daniel & Karo     Gira Girasole    

09        Sinclair, Richard         R.S.V.P.     

09        Sume   Persersume    

09        Third Ear Band            Radio Session          

09        Traffic Far From Home 

09        Travis, Theo    View from the Edge    

09        Vervloesem, Pierre     Home Made 

09        Wizards of Ooze         The Dipster     

09        Zao      Akhenaton      



Edited by Sean Trane - October 26 2021 at 15:08
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

My relationship with The Downward Spiral over the years has been very strange, going from obsessing over it, to associating it with a particularly bad time in my life and therefore wanting to purge it from memory, to the present time where I can look at it with more emotional distance and acknowledge it as the finely crafted musical opus that I believe it to be.


Clearly the emotional distance isn't quite wide enough yet... After hearing it again and ruminating on this decision for a while, it no longer sits well with me to accredit this album in such a way. The unrelentingly aggressive and resentful nature of the lyrics is what repels me once more; I think even later NIN albums were better able to dose or channel their negative emotions in a more bearable fashion. I have no problem per se with unfiltered expressions of anger and despair in music, but the one emotion that in my experience exudes most of all from The Downward Spiral is downright hatred, seemingly borne from some of the ugliest and most sinister forms of misanthropy. I cannot relate to it and I don't want to be associated with it anymore. If it were mostly instrumental I might have stood by it, but right now I'm taking it off my list.

By the way, your ranking of it on top made me listen to this for the first time - I love Ghosts and had sampled some other NIN before but the other stuff hadn't clicked with me. The Downward Spiral is musically very good, and I tend to ignore lyrics, however, as happens with quite some music, I don't like the voice much. For me he should stick to instrumentals.
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This is the best year of the Nineties!

1. Marillion - Brave
2. John Wetton - Battle Lines
3. Yes - Talk
4. Traffic - Far From Home
5. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
6. Jon Anderson - Change We Must
7. Saga - Steel Umbrellas
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hooray, I can actually make a proper prog top ten!

Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions
Mike Oldfield - The Songs Of Distant Earth
Eloy - The Tides Turn Forever
Big Big Train - Goodbye To The Age Of Steam
Cairo - Cairo
Dream Theater - Awake
Yes - Talk
Anglagard - Epilog
Vangelis - Blade Runner (OST)
Marillion - Brave

in general 'rock music' was making a big comeback, this was the year Oasis released their debut album. You also had the likes of Soundgarden, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers , Portishead, REM, The Cranberries and The Stone Roses making a big splash. Cool year for music!
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Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Tim Hodgkinson - Each In Our Own Thoughts
Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence
ELP - In the Hot Seat
Orbital - Snivilisation
Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Loop Guru - Duniya
Banco de Gaia - Maya
Faust - Rien
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
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Marillion - Brave
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Dream Theater - Awake
Mike Oldfield - Songs Of Distant Earth

That's it.  I was mostly listening to Pritpop and the like as I was at Uni.  Great days (but shame about my musical tastes at the time....)
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Epilog and Brave. Both amazing but the only other Prog album from 1994 that really hits me is Hunger Teeth.
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Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III
Yes - Talk
David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio - Polytown
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
Dream Theater - Awake
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence
Versailles - Le Trésor de Valliesres
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Cairo - s/t
MKII - Burning Daylight
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red

I hesitate to mention Marillion's Brave: every track is good to excellent, but I find the album as a whole too long and too boring.




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1. COLLAGE Moonshine
2. BARK PSYCHOSIS Hex
3. LANDBERK One Man Tells Another
4. BONDAGE FRUIT I
5. JON ANDERSON Change We Must
6. SEAL II
7. KINGSTON WALL III: Trilogy
8. ÄNGLAGĹRD Epilog
9. PÁR LINDH PROJECT Gothic Impressions
10. JULIA FORDHAM Falling Forward

Honorable Mentions:
DREAM THEATER Awake
AFTER CRYING Föld És Ég
MARILLION Brave
CITZEN CAIN Somewhere But Yesterday
CLEPSYDRA More Grains of Sand
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I'll take a stab at this

Anglagard - Epilog
Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit
Buckethead - Giant Robot
Dream Theater - Awake
Fates Warning - Inside Out
French TV III: Virtue In Futility
Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth
Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito
U Totem - Strange Attractors
Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic

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