Your favourite of my 2017 purchases
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Topic: Your favourite of my 2017 purchases
Posted By: RoeDent
Subject: Your favourite of my 2017 purchases
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 00:56
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I have a feeling I did this here last year. I tried it on another forum and most there had never heard of these, so surely PA is the better place for this sort of poll, where prog rules more than metal. These are the 2017 releases I've purchased this year. Of these choices, which is your favourite?
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 02:36
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Grimspound, which will top my list in a year that has seen mostly excellent Symphonic Prog. ------------- 
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 05:12
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 05:42
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Grimspound. That album's on constant rotation at the house. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 08:27
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To the Bone and then the 2 Big Big Train releases. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 08:42
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I've enjoyed all of these albums, but Grimspound is my favorite and has gotten the most spins from me. ------------- 
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 08:55
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I voted for Grimspound although there were two LP's I ranked ahead of it this year: Wobbler and Discipline. I also ranked The Tangent in my Top 10. 2017 was a great year.
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 09:01
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I only have two of them I really liked the newest Blackfield album S Wilson's effort has some good parts and bad parts voted Blackfield ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 09:15
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b_olariu wrote:Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 09:19
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It's between Sight of Day and Grimspound, both of which are magnificent albums. I'll go for Sight of Day, because it represents a return to form for Mostly Autumn after the fairly mediocre Dressed in Voices. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 09:37
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BBT #1 ------------- 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: Rednight
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 11:05
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Finding an unwrapped, remastered CD last summer of Wishbone Ash's Argus at my favorite West L.A. used record store. Good stuff, Maynard. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 12:26
| I'll vote for The Big Dream, though all are very good albums. |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 14:18
------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: stewe
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 20:54
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Lonely Robot followed by SW and Blackfield. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/trevorrabin/?chartstyle=basic10" rel="nofollow">  <a href="http://steveer.ic.cz" rel="nofollow" |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 23:14
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The only one that I have is the MA and I haven't liked it. ------------- 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: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 10:24
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None, and then Grimspound. ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 10:52
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A nice selection - I went for Grimspound, but thought The Second Brightest Star was a damn fine companion piece. I enjoyed the Big Dream too - although maybe just a touch below the standard of Please Come Home a year or two earlier. Still trying to get to grips with To the Bone - and avoiding the hyped argument from either side that it is a work of eclectic genius, or others who see it as a pop-orientated betrayal to prog - it is neither!!! but it is not as good as his last 2.5 albums either IMHO. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 15:41
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The tangent, but I like BBT, SW and Blackfield too... |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 03:47
| Grimspound for me. There's also a bit I like about the raw quality of The Second Brightest Star as well. Also I'm a great fan of the new Steven Wilson album as well, although I concede a few people may not like the pop sensibilities of the album. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 08:18
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No Wobbler or Deluge Grander? Your list is incomplete! -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 15:24
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The Tangent ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 03:07
These should be excellent additions indeed (they candidate for #2 and #3 on my list). -------------
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Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 03:40
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Grimspound for me. I have also bought 4 of these and heard all the others. You need to get Wobbler. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 20:57
| From these I only have Grimspound, and it's just OK... or even good, but I don't really love it. I think I heard some Lonely Robot checking out songs, and they didn't impress me much... at least not enough to make me want check them out better. And To the Bone is yet among the albums I have yet to get (it isn't available yet here, and I have been waiting for it to arrive at the store instead of ordering it). I'm also waiting for Ayreon's album to arrive. However, out of the albums I have heard this year, the one I have really liked a lot are Oldfiel's "Return to Ommadawn", Soup's "Remedies", and Unreal City's "Frammenti Notturni". |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 12:14
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Grim ------------- |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 21 2017 at 17:27
| The Second Brightest Star is BBT's best album since English Electric Part One (imo) so I am a little surprised that Grimspound is leading the way. Magenta - We Are Legend is my album of the year but obviously not on this list. |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: December 22 2017 at 11:18
| This is exactly the sort of response I hoped for. Fantastic to see every album on this list has at least one vote. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 22 2017 at 17:13
I also think Magenta's - We Are Legend, is a really great album! Nad Sylvan, Anathema, Wobbler and Threshold are also up there in addition to the poll list - I think I'll have a bit of a personal retrospective myself on what I got this year during the festive break - a strong year for prog IMHO - thanks for getting me thinking! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 23 2017 at 04:07
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I've heard 4 of these. The two BBT albums, Mostly Autumn and the Wilson one I own myself. Sadly none of them resonates with me. No vote. ------------- “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 |