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Poll Question: Pick your favourite of these
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    Posted: January 03 2017 at 07:20
Figured I may as well join the poll-making fun and games with this one. Pick your favourite out of my 2016-released album purchases.
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Folklore followed by Affinity.
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I'm not really into any of them. Maybe Steven Wilson.
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Got The Train and Marillion.

Going with Folklore.
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Marillion then BBT, DT and Frost. I do not understand the love for 4 and a half by SW. I find it to be throw away stuff from his last album; nothing stands out to me.
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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

I do not understand the love for 4 and a half by SW. I find it to be throw away stuff from his last album; nothing stands out to me.
Most tracks better than most of HCE, in my opinion. Still, it doesn't feel like an album to me.

I'll go with Affinity here. That list is very British, unlike mine.
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BBT over Marillion
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I don't know. There are a few that I didn't get. Mostly I at least like the ones I did get, but my favourite ones aren't in you list, which are Iamthemorning's "Lighthouse" and Opeth's "Sorceress"... going into the "folky" element, I find Opeth's album much more rewarding than "Folklore". Oh yeah, also "Blackstar" is brilliant, and I guess I liked it better than the ones on the list too, as well as Devin Townsends "Trascendence".
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I do like a lot the ones from Steven Wilson, Haken, and Big Big Train. The Marillion one still needs more listens, but I find it a bit too subdued... I still don't know much from H era Marillion, but at least I liked "Sounds that Can't be Made" better than this new one (at least for the moment). I think I checked the Circa one on You Tube, but it didn't do much for me... it seemed promising at first, but in the end it suffers from the same tired sound from most Sherwood's music. And Dream Theater just can't recover their inspiration since Black Clouds... and since I have never really liked musicals, well, this new one sounds too much like one, and that doesn't help (though it's got a few welcome elements to twist a bit their tired formula, but that's not really enough).
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Folklore and Affinity are both amazing. I honestly don't want to choose. Earthrise and Folklore are currently my two most played tracks (with Pareidolia and Judas Unrepentant third and fourth!). 

Anyone who says that prog died in the 70s (as some do) needs to remove their head from their rectum and listen to these two albums, then buy everything from their catalogue. 
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Folklore, then F.E.A.R.
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Haken and Airbag for me.  Could only vote 1 so chose Haken.    Have most on the list shown and all good but found Marillion  strained at times with Steve Hogarth voice on this album!..  I used to admire Hogarth's voice but this album seems to show his age!...  The only one album I don't have is Dream Theater which I'm not a fan of...

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