Interactive Tracks Poll: Goodbye 2023, Hello 2023!

Say goodbye to 2023, and celebrate 2023.

Welcome to another Interactive Poll, this time to celebrate the music of 2023. This poll is open to any tracks that were released and not archival from 2023 (Prog, not Prog). Because part of it is about listening to each other's choices (only the nominees are required to be listened to to participate), I would try to keep the tracks on the shorter side.

First comes the suggestions stage: In this you can mention as many tracks as you like, but please post no more than three videos per post as that can cause problems. Those tracks will be potential choices for nomination.

Then comes the nominations stage: After maybe two weeks, we each will choose which one to nominate from our mentions (or depending on numbers, I might make it two or even three tracks per person). And please try to keep your tracks under about ten minutes.

The comes the voting stage: Come voting time, after listening to the tracks in the playlist, you will choose three of those tracks to vote for. Vote for those in the poll and comment on those three.

Please post the name of the band and title of the song.

I will start with these three:

Susanne Sundfør "Blómi" (off Blómi)



Sprain "Man Proposes, God Disposes" (off The Lamb as Effigy)



Sufjan Stevens "sh*t Talk"



Here is a playlist of suggestions (potential nominations):



Here are the nominations with two lists, the first for expected listening with one choice per person, and the second being suggested listening, with the "second" choices from most contributors.

Please vote for three tracks that you you did not suggest from the first list (the number one or sole picks) and one can vote for another two from the bonus 2's).


The number one or sole picks

Squid "The Blades"
Aksak Maboul "La parole de la peau"
Pixie Ninja "Alpha Waves"
Grace Potter "Good Time"
Harp "Seven Long Suns"
OGIVES "Mighty Pumpkin"
Grave Pleasures "Lead Balloons"
Zopp "Reality Tunnels"
The Chronicles of Father Robin "The Tale of Father Robin"
Voyou "Huis Clos"
Canned Dream "Grandma's Funeral"

Bonus 2's

Sufjan Stevens "Sh*t Talk"
Radian "Skyskryp12"
Go Go Machine Orchestra "Atom" (feat. Minyeh Hsien)
D'Virgilio Morse and Jennings "The Weary One"
Edenya "Another Place"
De Staat "Burning the Flag"
Host "Tomorrow's Sky"
Uriah Heep "Hail the Sunrise"
Zaho de Sagazan "Ne te regarde pas"

Here is the playlist of the nominations:



Edited by Logan - January 15 2024 at 10:22

Here 's Aksak Maboul; La parole de la peau

Edited by Lewian - January 01 2024 at 17:44

So we are allowed to post both prog and non-prog songs, right? 

Logan wrote: ^ Yep, any track on or off the "Prog spectrum" as long as it was released in 2023 and is not an archival release, and is hopefully within about ten minutes (but there is flexibility).

Logan wrote: ^ Opinions vary on how long must a song be to be considered long. It's kind of like the age old question, "How long is a piece of string?" I do have my own string theory.... And time is relative.

Grace Potter - Good Time

mathman0806 wrote: ^Nice to see Grace Potter posted. I saw her live in Sepember and she is a phenomenal performer. My favorite from her album Mother Road is Masterpiece.

Snicolette wrote: Excellent, Logan!  I will love hearing these, and will be participating.  Just have to think.  Please confirm whether this is open to both Prog and non-Prog or not?

I'll post a song from each of my top three, as shared with the Awesome Prog site, of favourites of the year.  I write mini-reviews on Bandcamp of the artist's whose material I purchase, choosing a "favourite track," as Bandcamp suggests, with the review.   I then play the material once a month on my Nickie's Niches show, there's a forum thread here on ProgArchives dedicated to the show under Prog Tribute Bands and Prog Radio.  I do also play non-Bandcamp artists.  That all being said, I will post my mini-review with each entry as well, and in reverse order of my favourites this past year.

Edited by Snicolette - January 04 2024 at 20:45

Logan wrote: ^ Thanks all, and great to see the descriptions, Nicky. By the way, I have not yet taken the chance to listen to more than the first two suggestions not my own properly, and aside from really liking that Aksak Maboul track, I really like that Pixie Ninja track. Both I must admit, when I saw the name Tim Smith above I had a moment of unreasonable hopefulness. It's a good track not by the Tim Smith I think of when I think Tim Smith.