Your Favourite 1997 PA Ranked Album
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Topic: Your Favourite 1997 PA Ranked Album
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Subject: Your Favourite 1997 PA Ranked Album
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:07
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1997 and prog metal dominates the chart with 7 entries while Discipline leads the way with their highest rated album. Barely missing the cut at 27 & 28 are Steve Hackett with "A Midsummer's Night Dream" and Marillion with "This Strange Engine". These are the top 25 PA ranked albums with at least 90 ratings presented in order of there QWR scores highest to lowest. Vote for your favourite 1997 prog album! ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
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Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:22
| The car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel... |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:24
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The magnificent Unfolded Like Staircase. I came late to this album (and to Discipline), but now I am a fan. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:25
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Discipline just over GY!BE ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 19:37
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Hmmm....OKC is probably my fave from that year but it's not as 'proggy' as what they did after it. I guess GYBE but Hoyry-Kone and Happy Family are not far behind. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 21:32
| From this list I only know Legendary Tales from Rhapsody, but I really love that song. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 00:00
------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Man With Hat wrote:Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 01:16
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Symphony X, Vanden Plas , Magellan |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 01:23
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a fine list of albums, really hard to choose. voted for Fates Warning in the end but In the Woods, Enchant, Devin Townsend, Radiohead, Vanden Plas, The Gathering all made some great music that year, at least for me. I will never understand how Rhapsody or Royal Hunt have high ranked albums here. Especially Rhapsody (of fire ). |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 01:48
| IQ although this list reminds me just how much prog I don't know. The 90's seems to be a lot like that! |
Posted By: Altairius
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 01:57
| Stardust We Are, then Subterranea |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 02:09
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1. Stardust We Are 2. Subterranea 3. Curious Corn ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: apps79
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 02:13
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it's one of the rare times I'll go with a Prog Metal album in such a poll, but Divine Wings of Tragedy is one of the best albums I've ever heard. ------------- When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace... listen to www.justincaseradio.com , the first ever Greek Progressive Rock radio |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 02:23
| OK Computer, just over Homogenic. |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 02:33
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F# A# Infinity -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 02:57
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Unfolded Like Staircase is the only album from the 1990s that made it to my top 10. OK Computer is second at a certain distance.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 03:28
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First vote for Huono Parturi! Not a great year though - at least not in PA's top of the pops. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 05:52
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Entropia, such an inventive album. I voted for that ahead of In the Woods.... ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 06:46
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I picked In The Woods.... but my favourite for 1997 isn't listed here in Art Zoyd(Haxan). ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 08:48
Ditto...
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 08:55
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides Godspeed ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 12:53
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Subterranea, even though it tries too hard to be The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:20
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OK Computer followed by Subterranea and Unfolded Like Staircase. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:31
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It's strange..I feel like the Arcturus double album is the one I prefer in that list... ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 19:41
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Stardust We Are, followed by OK Computer. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 23:10
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Godspeed for me with Subterranea a distant 2nd... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Wakeman's Birotron
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 23:35
| GY!BE or Pain of Salvation maybe... Though it's a good thing I can't vote as there are many I've never heard on this list |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 12:38
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My top 5 albums from this list: OK Computer - Radiohead
Homogenic - Bjork Unfolded Like Staircase - Discipline Subterranea - IQ Stardust We Are - The Flower Kings I voted for Radiohead, but I'm not sure though that the first two (Radiohead and Bjork) are what I think of as 'prog'. The other 3 are ranked pretty equally in my mind. |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 13:33
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The wonderful Wyatt album shines like a beacon in this largely 2nd rate lot (there are some exceptions...) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 13:51
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Radiohead Hoyry Kone Discipline Happy Familys Missing 5UU's - Crisis In Clay Djam Karet - The Devouring
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Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 14:57
| Out of these, I'm going to pick Homogenic |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 16:25
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DISCIPLINE! ...then Radiohead and another step behind, IQ Out of the list: Sinkadus - Aurum Nostrum Solar Project - ...In time Townscream - Nagyvarosi Ikonok ------------- 
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 16:54
Stuck between Shleep and F#A#∞. Quite a good year for prog though (especially for the 90s) 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 16:57
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OK Computer Divine Wings.. Unfolded.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 17:08
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IQ by a fair way, but The Flower Kings, Discipline and Nightwish albums are very good. And Subterranea tries very hard NOT to be The Lamb and succeeds; it's far better. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 19:28
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There was a Robert Wyatt interview on public radio when shleep came out. That became my first Wyatt solo album and got me interested in his solo career. I also have and like Unfolded and OK Computer both of which I like almost as much as shleep. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 19:47
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Nighttime Birds |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: January 31 2015 at 18:43
 -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: January 31 2015 at 19:17
| Subterranea followed by Curious Corn |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: January 31 2015 at 20:51
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Only heard Wyatt and Radiohead of those. And of those 2 it's Wyatt, ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 22:48
This one actually just missed the cut, I think at #27  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 21:03
Discipline, Unfolded Like Staircase.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |