In & out of PA faves: starting 2023 & moving down

Yearly album favourites, in album in PA and one not...

This topic is meant go down as far as you waish to or as modern as you like. I set it to start with 2023 to 2018 so as not to be too intimidating. Then I though we would move down to earlier years in later post as a sort of communal exercise but keeping it all to one topic.

I did a much longer list, but decided to split it into different posts over time. I just was going to do five years, 2022 to 2018, as 2023 is still quite new, but then I thought that I might as well include 2023. I think Komsicher Laufer's 2023 album is my fave in PA so far, but as I go down to earlier years, I want to avoid duplicating band/artist names and I have KL for 2013.

In each of these yearly pairs, the first option is in PA and the second is not.

2023: Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria
2023: Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

2022: black midi - Hellfire
2022: Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow

2021: Squid - Bright Green Field
2021: otay:onii - Ming Ming

2020: Cisnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album
2020: Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

2019: PoiL - Sus
2019: Lingua Ignota - Caligula

2018: Anna von Hausswolff - Dead magic
2018: Julia Holter - Aviary

What about you?

EDIT: Whatever, probably won't be a challenge many would want to take up.

I completed down to 2007 earlier. Might as well edit those in.

2017: Yolk - Solar
2017: Aquaserge - Laisse ça être
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar
2016: Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them
2015: Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana - Holographic Codex
2015: Gongjoong Doduk - Gongjoong Doduk
2014: Swans - To Be Kind
2014: Matt Berry - Music for Insomniacs
2013: Kosmischer Läufer - Volume One
2013: Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty (2013)
2012: Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
2012: Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon
2011: The Necks - Mindset
2010: Univers Zero - Clivages
2010: Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into the Snat
2009: Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2009: Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
2008: Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo
2008: Portishead - Third
2007: William D. Drake - Briny Hooves
2007: PJ Harvey - White Chalk

And added:

2006: OOIOO - Taiga
2006: Natural Snow Buildings -The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
2005: Guapo - Black Oni
2005: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
2004: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
2004: Electrelane - The Power Out
2003: Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
2003: Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
2002: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
2002: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2001: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
2001: Air - 10 000 Hz Legend
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2000: Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
1999: Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
1998: Tortoise - TNT
1998: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1997: Art Zoyd - Häxan
1997: Stereolab - Dots and Loops
1996: Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
1996: Fishmans - Long Season
1995: Pram - Sargasso Sea
1995: Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
1994: Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
1994: Portishead - Dummy
1993: Björk - Debut
1993: Komeda - Pop på Svenska
1992: Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
1992: Spın̈al Tap - Break Like the Wind
1991: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1991: Tuxedo Moon - The Ghost Sonata
1990: U Totem - U totem
1990: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
1989: Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea
1989: The Cure - Disintegration
1988: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA
1988: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
1987: Swans - Children of God
1987: The Lounge Lizards - No Pain for Cakes
1986: Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
1986: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial
1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1985: Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars
1984: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1983: Art Zoyd - Les espaces inquiets
1983: Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
1982: Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1982: Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi
1981: Eskaton - 4 Visions
1981: Phew - Phew
1980: Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
1980: Douji Morita - Un, deux, trois
1979: The Residents - Eskimo
1979: Tubeway Army - Replicas
1978: Bubu - Anabelas
1978: Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
1977: Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1976: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai
1976: Joni Mitchell - Hejira
1975: Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery
1975: Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
1974: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
1974: Janko Nilovic - Rythmes Contemporains
1973: Can - Future Days
1973: Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life
1972: Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
1972: Ennio Morricone - Cosa avete fatto a Solange?*
1971: Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust
1971: Egisto Macchi - I futuribili
1970: Magma - Kobaïa
1970: Exuma - Exuma
1969: E̤a̤s̤t̤ O̤f E̤d̤e̤n̤ - M̤e̤r̤c̤a̤t̤o̤r̤ Pr̤o̤je̤c̤t̤e̤d̤
1969: Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
1968: The United States of America - The United States of America
1968: Nico - The Marble Index
1967: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1966: The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band
1966: Love - Da Capo
1965: Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Please mention as many or as few yearly pairings as you wish. I would rather people start with 2023 and work their way down but if that is too hard, you can go to any years with one in PA and one not in PA.


Edited by Logan - May 30 2023 at 20:42

Hah, I didn't think anyone would respond, Will. Thanks. Seems every time I make a list it's rather different.

Edited by Lewian - May 16 2023 at 06:45

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I'd love to take part, but I can only come up with favourite prog albums for the years 2018-2023. I don't know any non-prog albums from those years.

Edited by David_D - May 16 2023 at 10:17

^ I appreciate their comments here, actually, and it's relevant to the subject. I am interested if people can come up with such pairings, especially when it comes to contemporary music. I will be going down the years (modern days was just the jumping off point), and I expect that we all have years when we can make pairings, even if we had to go down to the 80s or 70s to do so. One can do which yearly parings one can. My next pairs list here will likely go down to 1990 or so.

Edited by Logan - May 16 2023 at 11:46

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Do you 2 always feel the need to pop up and answer each other's posts even when adding nothing to the subject being discussed?

Lewian wrote: @Cristi, the fact that you printed my two favourites in bold is probably a coincidence...

All-Time Favourite Prog Albums 2018-2023

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 03 2024 at 07:41

Grumpyprogfan wrote: ^The Yes album is not yet released. How do you know it's your favorite, Paul?