Collaborators' Top Albums List - 2010

Cheers! 

Ok heres the top 10

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: Ok heres the top 10   the actual genres are not very diverse. I thought there were more worthy contenders to be honest.   What about Persephone's Dream's "Pan"? and even the latest Star One album...   Can't argue with Haken though. Wonderful album.     1 Clivages (Univers Zero) 231 2 Bateless Edge (Frogg Café) 200 3 Coyote (Kayo Dot) 188 4 Aquarius (Haken) 188 5 Iridule (Yugen) 166 6 Ecailles de lune (Alcest) 152 7 One-Armed Bandit (Jaga Jazist) 146 8 Il Tempio Delle Clessidre 144 9 Marrow Of The Spirit (Agalloch) 142 10 Creation de l'Univers (Xing Sa) 140

The forums are populated with avant hipsters. I'm actually quite surprised that Haken is even in the top 10. 

harmonium.ro wrote: I'm looking on the "wayback machine" and in December 2006 Dowsing Anemone was on #68 in the 2006 chart so I don't think there was much of a backlash against them . I guess that will remain the Collab's choice the farthest away from the general tastes... Magma and UZ's albums were both in the top 10 when they won their lists.

Edited by CCVP - March 16 2011 at 06:03

harmonium.ro wrote: ^ Honestly I haven't heard it yet.  There is a den of the avant-hipsters which we call the Shred, but the majority here is largely into classic prog, retro-symph, classic prog-metal, etc. Which explains the more and more wide gap between the Collabs' Lists and the general chart.

Edited by CCVP - March 16 2011 at 06:22

I didn't vote because I only picked up a couple of prog albums last year. Mind you, having just heard Xing Sa's latest offering, I'm not sure I've really missed much.

harmonium.ro wrote: I'm looking on the "wayback machine" and in December 2006 Dowsing Anemone was on #68 in the 2006 chart so I don't think there was much of a backlash against them . I guess that will remain the Collab's choice the farthest away from the general tastes... Magma and UZ's albums were both in the top 10 when they won their lists.

I remembered it being not very popular, but I had forgotten that it was all the down at 68 even in '06. Clivages and E-Re are much more accessible and friendly albums than Dowsing so it makes sense, but I guess that means my point is rather wrong. Oh well.  

CCVP wrote: Also, yeah, but > 9000% of the collabs drop by the shred. And having ~20 people on the avant teams doens't help at all with the charts being completelly distorted from the general view.

Besides what Alex pointed out, all the people who are not avant-garde partisans are still generally much more receptive to more experimental music than the random PA browser. 

Triceratopsoil wrote: Caio dude, hipsters don't listen to avant music; they're too scared off it.  A Shredder is an entirely different entity

Hipsters have limited appreciation of avant-garde music. Pitchfork gave the This Heat reissue a 9 in 2002, and before you say "Well, that was back when they still reviewed Merzbow and John Zorn albums", well, that's true, but they also gave Zs' very brutal 2010 album a 7. It just has to be underground and still have some rock. I mean, isn't Can the most hipster band of the '70s? :P

Edited by Henry Plainview - March 18 2011 at 03:47

Should Univers Zero get a banner?

Nice work Alex

Awesome list. Out of the top 10 that I've heard so far, Jaga Jazzist's One-Armed Bandit and Xing Sa's Creation de l'Universe are most definitely worthy. I need to check out the others, especially Coyote.

harmonium.ro wrote: And here is the FULL top, sepparated in digestable chunks and with the point totals: 1 Clivages (Univers Zero) 231 2 Bateless Edge (Frogg Café) 200 3 Coyote (Kayo Dot) 188 4 Aquarius (Haken) 188 5 Iridule (Yugen) 166 6 Ecailles de lune (Alcest) 152 7 One-Armed Bandit (Jaga Jazist) 146 8 Il Tempio Delle Clessidre 144 9 Marrow Of The Spirit (Agalloch) 142 10 Creation de l'Univers (Xing Sa) 140 11-30: 11 We're here because we're here (Anathema) 128 12 Axioma Ethica Odini (Enslaved)  100 13 Heavy Metal Fruit (Motorpsycho) 94 14 Beacons (Cloudkicker) 90 15 Valley Of Smoke (Intronaut) 84 16 Excavations of the mind (Sky Architect) 72 17 Paracletus (Deathspell Omega) 68 18 Five Deadly Venoms (Shaolin Death Squad) 68 19 Il gioco del silenzio (Nichelodeon) 67 20 A Child in the Mirror (Ciccada) 66 21 Self-Preserved While The Bodies Float Up (Oceansize) 66 22 The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR (Orphaned Land) 65 23 Jupiter (Atheist) 65 24 Il Pittore Volante (Raccomandata con Ricevuta Ritorno) 64 25 Pan: An Urban Pastoral (Persephone's Dream) 64 26 Legacy (Hypnos 69) 60 27 Lover's End (Moon Safari) 60 28 Blood Of The Earth (Hawkwind) 56 29 Victims of the Modern Age (Star One) 54 30 On Phenomena and Existences (Rational Diet) 53 31 - 50: 31 After (Ihsahn) 52 32 In The Wake Of Evolution (Kaipa) 52 33 Petali Di Fuoco (La Maschera Di Cera) 52 34 X (Spock's Beard) 52 35 Rabbit (The Tea Club) 50 36 Seventh Story (Fromuz) 50 37 A-Live (Picchio Dal Pozzo) 49 38 The Final Frontier (Iron Maiden) 48 39 Random Acts Of Beauty (David Minasian) 46 40 Neogothic Progressive Toccatas (Three Monks) 42 41 The Threshingfloor (Wovenhand) 42 42 Behind the Black Veil (Shadow Theory) 42 43 Emotion & Commotion (Jeff Beck) 41 44 In case of loss (Areknamess) 40 45 Lunatic Soul II 40 46 Wanderer on the Edge of Time (Mekong Delta) 40 47 Mars Hollow  38 48 The Big Red Spark (Tinyfish) 38 49 Hammer and Anvil (Pure Reason Revolution) 38 50 Adverse Camber (The Reasoning) 37 51 - 100: 51 Inner Firmaments Decay (All Over Everywhere) 36 52 Dan Berlund's Tornbruket 35 53 Road Salt One (POS) 34 54 Kollaps Tradixionales (Silver Mt. Zion) 34 55 The Seraphic Clockwork (Vanden Plas) 34 56 Planet Earth? (The Watch) 34 57 This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank 34 58 Someone Here Is Missing (Pineapple Thief) 34 59 The Best Of Anti-Depressive Delivery 34 60 Periphery 34 61 Caves (Uz Jsme Doma) 32 62 The Crown of Creation (Lucifer Was) 30 63 Stained Glass EP (KD) 30 64 Journey's End (The Enid) 30 65 Desert Call (Myrath) 30 66 Spring (Kaarna) 30 67 Wilderness Heart (Black Mountain) 30 68 Madame Zelle (Conqueror) 30 69 Unsettled (Dean Watson) 30 70 Bryologie (Rouge Ciel) 28 71 The Gathering Light (Karnataka) 28 72 Small Craft On A Milk Sea (Brian Eno) 27 73 Concealing Fate (Tesseract) 26 74 Twilight In The Crystal Cabinet (My Brother The Wind) 26 75 Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic 25 76 Morse (Jean Louis) 24 77 The Way (Anima Mundi) 24 78 Light of a Vaster Dark (Faun Fables) 23 79 Anthropocentric (The Ocean) 23 80 Walk the Nile (Elephant9) 22 81 Moonberry (PikaPika Teart) 22 82 Nymf (Carptree) 22 83 Long Distance Trip (Samsara Blues Experiment) 22 84 The Tree That Bears The Equine Fruit (Anta) 22 85 Blackjazz (Shining) 22 86 Missa Atropos (Gazpacho) 22 87 Option Paralysis (The Dillinger Escape Plan) 22 88 Songs From a Solitary Home (Major Parkinson) 20 89 Ipsissimus (Moonchild Trio) 20 90 Children Of Another God (Nick Magnus) 20 91 Silence (Odyssice) 20 92 Grappling Hooks (North Atlantic Oscillation) 20 93 Snowballs (Kakaokamkami) 20 94 Le Bois Travaille, Même le Dimanche (Ange) 20 95 Continent & Western (Fond of Tigers) 20 96 Remember It (FramePictures) 20 97 Spiral Vendetta (Godsticks) 20 98 Charlestown (Guy Manning) 20 99 Myster Möbius 20 100 The great escape (Seventh Wonder) 20 101 - 150: 101 I, Vigilante (Crippled Black Phoenix) 20 102 Tempo (Banda do Sol) 20 103 World Is Round (Believe) 20 104 Royal Toast (Claudia Quintet) 18 105 Curse of the Red River (Barren Earth) 18 106 Roqueforte (Aranis) 18 107 Lady Of The Wild Things (Magdalena Solis) 18 108 Ragged Atlas (Cosa Brava) 18 109 Double Reign (Aries) 18 110 Bridges of Kukuriku (Quantum Factory) 18 111 Journey Through the Hidden Gardens (Disperse) 18 112 Orchestion (Pat Metheny) 17 113 To The One (john McLaughlin) 17 114 Castles, Wings, Stories, Dreams (Paolo Siani) 16 115 Interzone (John Zorn) 16 116 Salon des Refuses (In Lingua Mortua) 16 117 My Grandmother's Spacesuit (Fonderia) 16 118 Iridium (Empty Tremor) 16 119 The Grand Design (Day Six) 16 120 Initiate (Nels Cline Singers) 16 121 AD 2010 – La Buona Novella (PFM) 16 122 Harvest Aorta (Ephemeral Sun) 16 123 Ciencia de Los Inutiles (Omar Rodriguez Lopes) 16 124 Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith, Songbook 16 125 Heavy Soul Sessions (Djam Karet)  14 126 Crush Depth (Chrome Hoof) 14 127 Go Well Diamond Heart (Mostly Autumn) 14 128 Look To Winward (Fortunes Haze) 14 129 Hybrid Child (District 97) 14 130 Patagonian Rats (Tera Melos) 14 131 Saturnine (Dante) 14 132 Year Of The Black Rainbow (Coheed & Cambria) 14 133 City Of Angels (Ten Midnight) 14 134 Traces (Nine Stones Close) 14 135 T (Anti-Matter Poetry) 14 136 If (Glass Hammer) 14 137 Soup (Stick Men) 14 138 Cosmogenesis (Gru) 14 139 Autumn Sky (Blackmore's Night ) 14 140 In Between (Eric Truffaz) 13 141 Talu (Phlox) 13 142 Barrel Fire (Gord Grdina) 12 143 Ghost Surveillance (Algernon) 12 144 Cosmology (Rolo Tomassi) 12 145 Diving Bell (Sanguine Hum) 12 146 Circles (Argos) 12 147 08.36.59 (Introvision) 12 148 Slip Into The Vortex (Oresund Space Collective) 12 149 Progress Has No Patience (The Dreaming Tree) 12 150 Challenging Gravity (Steve Unruth) 12 151 - 214: 151 Touch The Sky Vol. 1 (Supernal Endgame) 12 152 Far Skies Deep Time (Big Big Train) 12 153 The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer (Red Sparrows) 12 154 The Collibro (Lis Er Stille) 12 155 Psy Valley Hill (Gurumaniax) 12 156 Uchi-Mani Deluxe (Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Mani Neumeier) 10 157 Krautrock From Hell (Electric Orange) 10 158 Panic Room (Satellite) 10 159 Infinity of Worlds (Lalle Larsson) 10 160 DramaRama (Agents Of Mercy) 10 161 The Bowls Project (Charming Hostess) 10 162 Ptah (Phaedra) 10 163 Cizana de los Amores (Omar Rodriguez Lopez) 10 164 Scenes From Hell (Sigh) 10 165 Positive Wave 10 166 Heliocentric (The Ocean) 9 167 Faust Is Last (Faust) 8 168 ]]][[[ EP (Cloudkicker) 8 169 I Forgive You For All My Unhappiness (French TV) 8 170 Black Garden (K2) 8 171 Addicts: Black Meddle Part II (Nachtmystium) 8 172 Fever (Sleepy Sun) 8 173 We Were Exploding Anyway (65daysofstatic) 8 174 Ressentiment (East Of The Wall) 8 175 Time To Get Up (Beyond-O-Matic) 8 176 Ceiling Unlimited 8 177 This Is What Happens (The Reign Of Kindo) 8 178 Tuvalu 8 179 Earth Divided By Zero (Combat Astronomy) 6 180 Colster 6 181 Ipos (Masada) 6 182 Sister Kinderhook (Rasputina) 6 183 Omega (Asia) 6 184 Of Seismic Consequence (Yakuza) 6 185 Nature / Existence (Echoes) 6 186 Phlegethon (Kingcrow) 6 187 NDR Jazz Workshop (Soft Machine) 6 188  Virstele Pamintului (Negura Bunget) 6 189 (Im)Patient (Madelgaire) 6 190 Thin Ice Crawling (Sould Enema) 6 191 Echo and Boo (Pavlov's Dog) 6 192 Ausserwelt (Year Of No Light) 6 193 Lüger 4 194 ...And The Sky Fell EP (Pet Slimmers Of The Year) 4 195 High Street (A Helmet Of Gnats) 4 196 Where Stories End (Darkwater) 4 197 Sepulcros de Miel (Omar Rodriguez Lopez) 4 198 Modulator (Trey Gunn) 4 199 Determinism Of Morality (Rosetta) 4 200 Rise (Resistor) 4 201 The Myth Of Dying (The Psychedelic Ensemble) 4 202 Whose Dream? (Bun Chakeze) 4 203 Taming The Cannibals (Ehnahre) 4 204 Grey Swans (Lorenzo Monni) 2 205 The Stone (Medeski Martin & Wood) 2 206 Pennies in the Karma Jar (Salem Hill) 2 207 Scratch My Back (Peter Gabriel) 2 208 White Hills  2 209 Sheperd's Dream (DAAU) 2 210 Melapesante (Syndone) 2 211 Crime Scene (Terje Rypdal) 2 212 Honor Thy Drummer- A Tribute to Mike Portnoy 2 213 We Became Your Family When You Died (Bullets In Madison) 2 214 Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring (A Forrest Of Stars) 2

Fabulous for us mere mortals....thank you

Did you ever do a collaborator's all-time version?