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Points: 997 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2012 at 20:02
I'm going for a top 20 because I heard so many good and great albums this year that a top 10 would not show what I liked. (only studio releases)

--- 5* albums---
1- Headspace - I Am Anonymous
2- Silhouette - Across The Rubicon
3- Nine Stones Close - One Eye on the Sunrise

--- 4.5* albums
4- Enochian Theory - Life...And All It Entails
5- Galahad - Beyond the Realms of Euphoria
6- Anathema - Weather Systems
7- Big Big Train - English Electric (Part 1)
8- Kompendium - Beneath The Waves
9- Sunchild - Isolation

---4* albums
10- Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
11- Mystery - The World is a Game
12- Flower Kings - Banks of Eden
13- Marillion - Sounds That Can't be Made
14- Threshold - March of Progress
15- IOEarth - Moments
16- 3RDegree - The Long Division
17- Neal Morse - Momentum
18- Affector - Harmagedon
19- Rush - Clockwork Angels
20- Galahad - Battle Scars

I have one 5* release not mentioned since it's not a full album but an EP: Moon Safari - Lovers End pt III: Skelleftea Symphony which would easily have made the top 5 if it was a full album. Also Phideaux' giveaway album could make the top 10...
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The nine albums listed below are literally the only 2012 releases that I listened to this year.  So, the top 4 listed I really like and are in order and after that, I could take or leave the rest (hence the gap).
 
1. Astra - The Black Chord
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels
3. Beardfish - The Void
4. Anglagard - Viljans Öga
 
 
5. Echolyn - Echolyn
6. The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden
7. Gazpacho - March Of Ghosts
8. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
9. The Mars Volta - Nocqturniquist (I can't spell it LOL)
 
And that's it.  I'm sure I'm missing out on tons of great releases this year, but I just haven't gotten around to listening to them.  I guess I was too busy filling out my "old prog collection".
 
For my non-prog release favorites for this year, just a couple:
 
Soundgarden - King Animal
Deftones - Koi No Yokan


Edited by MillsLayne - December 31 2012 at 01:57


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Originally posted by Soul Dreamer Soul Dreamer wrote:

I'm going for a top 20 because I heard so many good and great albums this year that a top 10 would not show what I liked. (only studio releases)

--- 5* albums---
1- Headspace - I Am Anonymous

ANOTHER poster who put that album at #1, and it can't even break 4 stars here - anyone starting to see why I think this site has a tendency to low ball Prog Metal albums?  Wink
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Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

Originally posted by Soul Dreamer Soul Dreamer wrote:

I'm going for a top 20 because I heard so many good and great albums this year that a top 10 would not show what I liked. (only studio releases)

--- 5* albums---
1- Headspace - I Am Anonymous

ANOTHER poster who put that album at #1, and it can't even break 4 stars here - anyone starting to see why I think this site has a tendency to low ball Prog Metal albums?  Wink
Well it's averages so for it's always going to have a lower score than the people who think it's 5 stars.

I personally think one doth protest too much. Try being an Avant fan here. I don't see more than the odd posts mentioning 1 or 2 of my top 30. Of my first three picks they have 2 ratings, 31 ratings & aren't on the site yet!!

At least your stuff is getting talked about SmileEmbarrassed


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - December 30 2012 at 14:29
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I'd like to say mine, but... You can put it in your own lists LOL

The Elijah - I Loved. I Hated. I Destroyed. I Created.  Simply amazing, though someone should explain to them that they are making prog, they don't seem to have noticed...

Mystery - The World Is a Game

Steve Hackett - GRII

Threshold - March of Progress

It Bites - Map of the Past


Edited by A-JCharron - December 31 2012 at 01:21
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1.Lucas Bielejewski  - "2 Fast 2 Swizzle"
2.Trioscapes - "Separate Realities"
3.David Bryne and St.Vincent - "Love This Giant"
4.Pseudo/Sentai - "Nature's Imagination Part II"
5.Rush - "Clockwork Angels"
6.Hanashukketsu - "Ceramic Knives"
7.Vompatti - "Reverberations of a Disquieting Wall"
8.Hanashukketsu - "Nonethereal"
9.Trio M - "The Guest House"
10.I Am Three People - "Explore the Vertical"
11.Chewbacca and the Chekhovs - "The Amateur EP"
12.Krallice - "Years Past Matter"
13.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "'Allelujah! Bend, Don't Ascend!"
14.Lemon Demon - "I Am Become Christmas"
15.perhaps - "Volume One"
16.Darren Lock - "The Stinkhorn EP"
17.Clams Casino - "Instrumentals 2"
18.Lemon Demon - "A Mask of My Own Face"
19.Vompatti - "Light Bright Enough to Eclipse the Arrayed Constellations of the Midnight Sky"
20.Pseudo/Sentai - "Making a Hole in the Center of the First Outside Planet"
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1. Weather Systems - Anathema
2. The Hand Not The Weapon - Steve Hogarth/Richard Barbieri
3. Perilious - Glass Hammer
4. Invicta - The Enid
5. The Three Fates Project - Keith Emerson
6. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone
7. Relic Of The Modern World - Presto Ballet
8. The Second Law - Muse
9. English Electric (Part One) - Big Big Train
10. Sounds That Can't Be Made - Marillion
 


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Yeah, I'm a Newb but what the hell:

1. Perilous - Glass Hammer
2. English Electric Part 1 - Big Big Train
3. The Black Chord - Astra
4. March of Ghosts - Gazpacho
5. Invicta - The Enid
6. Echolyn - Echolyn
7. Four Pieces - Cailyn Lloyd
8. Beneath the Waves - Kompendium
9. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone
10. Lost in the New Real - Arjen Lucassen
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as i said when i joined.....i like all sorts of music.....so this isn't strictly prog......sorry!
 
1....Swans...the seer
2....Field Music....plumb
3....north atlantic oscillation......fog electric
4....Sharon Van Etten.....Tramp
5....Melvins lite.....Freak Puke
6....Deerhoof....Breakup song
7....Diagonal...the second Mechanism
8....Animal Collective....Centepide Hz
9....Tall ships....Everything touching
10..Undersmile.....Narwhal
 
 
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1. SkyHarbor - Blinding White Noise 
2. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
3. Meshuggah - Koloss
4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
5. Rush - Clockwork Angels
6. Anathema - Weather Systems
7. Beardfish - The Void
8. Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
9. Big Big Train - English Electric Part 1
10. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion 
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These are the 2012 releases I spent the most time with this past year:

1. Burial's 2012 releases: the EPs KINDRED and TRUANT, and the Four Tet collaboration, "Nova"
2. Frank Ocean's CHANNEL ORANGE
3. Andy Stott's LUXURY PROBLEMS
4. The Holy Other's HELD

I haven't yet heard the new Big Big Train album, but I'm sure I'll like it a bunch.
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Banks of Eden-TFK
Clockwork Angels-Rush
Storm Corrosion-s/t
HFMC-Powerplay
Neal Morse-Momentum

2013
#1-New Transatlantic
#2-New Dream Theater
Stardust we are.
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Alphabetical order:

Anglagard - Viljans Oga
Astra - The Black Chord
Beardfish - The Void
Dirty Three - Towards The Low Sun 
Motorpshycho - The Death Defying Unicorn
Perhaps - Volume One
Shadow Circus - On A Dark And Stormy Night
The Samuel Jackson Five - The Samuel Jackson Five
Toundra - "III" OK
Trioscapes - Separate Realitites
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1. Shadow Circus - On a dark and stormy night
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels
3. The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden
4. Nine Stones Close - One Eye on the Sunrise 
5. Profusion - Rewotower
6. Big Big Train- English Electric Part one
7. Arjen A Lucassen - Lost in the new real
8. Threshold - March of Progress
9. Anglagard - Viljans Oga
10. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone

A strong year for PROG!!!!
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This is a very incomplete list (edit: It is now slightly more complete). My prog listening is significantly less than is was last year, so in the coming months I will get everything I missed and reorganize. I tried to keep this list prog, rather than prog related. No specific order.

Top 3:
Echolyn - Echolyn
Beardfish - The Void
Enslaved - RIITIIR

The Next 7:
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandoras Pinata
Astra - The Black Chord
Trioscapes - Separate Realities
T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca
Fusion Syndicate - s/t
Between the Buried and Me


4Front, Karcius, Gazpacho, Anglagard, Anathema, also put out some good releases.


Edited by DragonX32 - February 09 2013 at 11:48
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Here is my top 20 of the 2012 albums. In (red) the ranking of these albums in the PA Collaborators' top albums list:

 
 1. echolyn - s/t (3)
 2. English Electric (Part One) - Big Big Train (2)
 3. In a Cold Embrace - Battlestations (26-27)
 4. RewoToweR - Profusion (17)
 5. Moyen-Âge - Ange (179-197)
 6. Valta - Alamaailman Vasarat (38)
 7. Imposing Elements - Dean Watson (24)
 8. Attosecondo - Alphataurus(30-31)
 9. Utopia - Distorted Harmony (22)
10. Clockwork Angels - Rush (10)

11. Thick As a Brick 2 - Ian Anderson (34-35)
12. One Eye on the Sunrise - Nine Stones Close (60-63)
13. Crush of Night - IZZ (118-132)
14. Invicta - The Enid (18)
15. Wing Beat Fantastic - Mike Keneally (242)
16. ... Laid to Rest - Frequency Drift (92-97)
17. On a Dark and Stormy Night - Shadow Circus (46-51)
18. Disclosure - The Gathering (179-197)
19. Viljans Öga - Änglagård (1)
20. Enough Blame to Go Around - Disconnect (-)
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Now that the official list is out I can share my contribution to it:

1. Susanne Sundfør, The Silicone Veil 
2. Storm Corrosion, Storm Corrosion 
3. Rhys Marsh And The Autumn Ghost, The Blue Hour 
4. Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Lost in the New Real 
5. The Gathering, Disclosure 
6. Mostly Autumn, The Ghost Moon Orchestra 
7. The Enid, Invicta 
8. Crippled Black Phoenix, (Mankind) The Crafty Ape 
9. Torga Ostera, Queda Ascendente
10. Saturnia, Alpha Omega Alpha 
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Didn't buy nearly enough Prog last year so only those that were purchased are listed ... and that's the only reason Rush is on there!

01 - Anglagard - Viljans Oga
02 - Hawkwind - Onward
03 - Storm Corrosion- Storm Corrosion
04 - Echolyn - Echolyn
05 - Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden
06 - Astra - The Black Chord
07 - Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited II
09 - Can - The Lost Tapes (not heard this enough yet but its better than Rush)
08 - Rush - Clockwork Angels


Edited by Daysbetween - February 03 2013 at 04:31
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How about Top 3 (and only counting the albums that we actually bought):
  • Viljans Öga 
  • Get All You Deserve (Wilson redeemed himself)
  • Beneath the Waves (stretching it a little, 'cause it's not really "prog prog")
Perhaps - perhaps, the most noticeable debut.
Clockwork Angels - the most dignified swan song? 

Top 3 in the Meh, Bleh and Blah subcategory:
  • Storm Corrosion
  • Les Voyages de l'Ame
  • Rewotower
Some notable additions in the 2012 Non-"Prog" category:

Vivaldi Recomposed







Edited by Argonaught - February 02 2013 at 10:26
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