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Topic: Your Album of the Years for 2005-2023

Posted By: Logan
Subject: Your Album of the Years for 2005-2023
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 18:03

I did two topics recently, first on the "winners" of the Prog Archives official Album of the Year event (and then a runners-up one), which goes back to 2005. I posted my alternate list with one album per act and not covering the albums in the list. Essexboy made me think that maybe I should start a topic for people's lists to compare to the officia winners (and runners-up). You don't have to do it the way I did (just one album per act, not duplicating any of the winning albums) to participate.

essexboyinwales wrote:

FOABP gets my vote, seeing as Resistance was the album that finally showed IQ to be fallible…..

But none of the albums that I have listened to from this list would get anywhere near my top 50 from these years!😊

I know choosing and looking up can be rather tough. Easy for me due to earlier topics I made. I just had to do a little working it out.

Here is mine (and I added a youtube playlist with a favourite track off each because that is what I do, and it's helping me to get set up for a video blog/podcast).

My List (excluding AOTY winners and just one album per act)

And a playlist of one track per album as is my wont just in case:

The Winners of PA's official AOTY

The Runners-Up for the official AOTY

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Love to see your lists and how they compare to the official lists. A number of those in those official lists were my albums of the year. In the polls I made, I voted for David Bowie - Blackstar and black midi - Cavalcade .

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Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 20:34

This was difficult to make, but here is my list:

2005: Pallas - The Dreams of Men

2006: The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel

2007: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon

2008: Opeth - Watershed

2009: Gazpacho - Tick Tock

2010: Spock's Beard - X

2011: Anubis - A Tower of Silence

2012: Echolyn - Echolyn

2013: Haken - The Mountain

2014: Swans - To Be Kind

2015: Leprous - The Congregation

2016: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

2017: Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

2018: Galahad - Seas of Change

2019: IQ - Resistance

2020: Pendragon - Love Over Fear

2021: Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe

2022: Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark

2023: Peter Gabriel - I/O

Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 20:35

Seems like we've done this before.

05 - Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
06 - Frost* - Milliontown
07 - Anti-Depressive Delivery - Chain Of Foods
08 - Thieves' Kitchen - The Water Road
09 - Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
10 - Helmet Of Gnats - High Street
11 - The Aristocrats - s/t
12 - Thank You Scientist - Maps Of Non-Existent Places
13 - The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
14 - Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
15 - Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
16 - Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
17 - Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
18 - FAT - #awesome
19 - Marco Minnemann - My Sister
20 - Pat Metheny - From This Place
21 - Ske - Insolubilia
22 - Wippy Bonstack - 22
23 - Rascal Reporters - The Strainge Case of Steve

Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 21:05

^ Thanks guys. We did something similar in General Music Discussions for both in and out of PA releases from 2023 down to whenever. I have not viewed that for quite a long time. https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=130924" rel="nofollow - HERE

Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 21:23

2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque

2006 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue

2007 Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

2008 Opeth - Watershed

2009 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

2010 Univers Zero - Clivages

2011 Opeth - Heritage

2012 Big Big Train - English Electric, Part 1

2013 Haken - The Mountain

2014 IQ - The Road of Bones

2015 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

2016 The Dear Hunter – Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional

2017 Big Big Train - Grimspound

2018 Southern Empire - Civilization

2019 Electric Asturias – Trinity

2020 Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep

2021 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End!

2022 Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side - Miles From Nowhere

2023 Peter Gabriel - I/O

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 23:06

Just to make my life easier I'm going to (mostly) take my picks from the PA Top 100 lists for each year (the placement in brackets).

2005 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (6)

2006 Frost* - Milliontown (65)

2007 Radiohead - In Rainbows (69)

2008 It Bites - The Tall Ships (67)

2009 IQ - Frequency (11)

2010 Glass Hammer - If (52)

2011 Steve Hackett - Beyond The Shrouded Horizon (69)

2012 Anathema - Weather Systems (13)

2013 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (1)

2014 Tin Spirits - Scorch (-)

2015 Dave Kerzner - New World (the extended edition called 'Deluxe') (34)

2016 Big Big Train - Folklore (14)

2017 Magenta - We Are Legend (100)

2018 Far Corner - Risk (8)

2019 IQ - Resistance (2)

2020 Lazuli - Le fantastique envol de Dieter Böhm (7)

2021 Frost* - Day and Age (12)

2022 Daal - Daedalus (8)

2023 Zopp - Dominion (16)

Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 02 2024 at 23:32

This was easy for me to do because I've already set up polls and voted in them for all the years.

for example: https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/ap/aoty-2005/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/ap/aoty-2005/users/Mike

So here's my list:

2005: Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2006: Decemberists - The Crane Wife

2007: Between the Buried and Me - Colors

2008: Ayreon - 01011001

2009: Mastodon - Crack the Skye

2010: Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

2011: Symphony X - Iconoclast

2012: Threshold - March of Progress

2013: Big Big Train - English Electric (Part Two)

2014: Devin Townsend - Z²

2015: Zierler - Esc

2016: Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

2017: Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

2018: Ghost - Prequelle (ok, it's only prog-adjacent, but all the prog stuff from that year is a whole tier lower)

2019: Neal Morse - The Great Adventure

2020: Haken - Virus

2021: Weezer - Ok Human (even though it's Weezer, that release is prog-adjacent IMHO)

2022: Meshuggah - Immutable

2023: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse

Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: February 03 2024 at 05:19

Now that I have catalogued my collection in a database it is much easier to come up with a list than before. Although I'm still not fond of making lists, here I was curious to know what would come out on top for me for these years. So, here it goes... (For some years I couldn't choose, and I tried to avoid mentioning an act more than once, but didn't succeed):

2005: Adrian Belew - Side One / Kate Bush - Aerial
2006: Saga - Trust / Lazuli - En avant doute
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2008: Phil Manzanera - Firebird V11 / Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
2009: Maudlin Of The Well - Part the Second
2010: A Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales / Univers Zero - Clivages
2011: Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity Of Miracles
2012: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
2013: Die anarchistische Abendunterhaltung - Eight Definitions
2014: Secret Chiefs 3, Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis
2015: Sonar - Black Light
2016: Faun Fables - Born Of The Sun / Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2017: Bucium - Miorița / Analog Missionary - Arc
2018: Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
2019: Yôkaï - s/t / Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar
2020: Lazuli - Le Fantastique Envol De Dieter Böhm / Ciśnienie (with Lód 9) - The Brass Album
2021: Fly Pan Am - Frontera
2022: Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable)
2023: La Théorie Des Cordes - 4U-9525

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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: February 03 2024 at 06:05

No winners and no repeat artists:

2005: Pocket Orchestra - Knēbnagäuje

2006: Yugen - Labirinto D'Acqua

2007: Salle Gaveau - Alloy

2008: Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Beyond Standard

2009: Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2010: Scissor Shock - Psychic Existentialist

2011: Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

2012: Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2013: Homunculus Res - Limiti All'Eguaglianza Della Parte Con Il Tutto

2014: Ryoko Ono - Electronic Elements

2015: Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot

2016: Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling

2017: Yowie - Synchromysticism

2018: The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations

2019: Rascal Reporters - Redux, Vol. 1

2020: Kairon;IRSE! - Polysomn

2021: Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Hue

2022: Perfect - Perfect

2023: Miller Twins - Early Compositions 1973-1976

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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 03 2024 at 07:22

2005: Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness

2006: Yugen - Labirinto D'Acqua

2007: The Future Kings Of England - The Fate Of Old Mother Ortis

2008: Combat Astronomy - Dreams No Longer Hesitate

2009: Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune

2010: Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi-Lebedi

2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon

2012: Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - Sister Death

2013: Jack O The Clock - All My Friends

2014: Poil - Brossaklitt

2015: Schnellertollermeier - X

2016: Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden

2017: Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope

2018: Far Corner - Risk

2019: October Equus - Presagios

2020: Thirlwell / Steensland - Oscillospira

2021: black midi - Cavalcade

2022: 5UU's - The Quiet In Your Bones

2023: Poil Ueda - Poil Ueda

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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 03 2024 at 11:56

I don't remember when I first started voting in the AOTY on this site. I think I might have done a couple a long time ago, but only took it more seriously in 2019. Anyways, below is what I would pick now, not necessarily what I would have picked back in those years.

2005: Koenjihyakkei - Angherr shisspa

2006: Zombi - Surface to Air

2007: Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum

2008: Birds and Buildings - Bantam to Behemoth

2009: Upsilon Acrux - Radian Futura

2010: Anima Mundi - The Way

2011: Discipline - To Shatter All Accord

2012: Scott Walker - Bish Bosch

2013: Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club

2014: Happy Family - Minimal Gods

2015: Alco Frisbass - Alco Frisbass

2016: La Bocca della Verità - Avenoth

2017: Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope

2018: All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light

2019: Solaris - Nostradamus 2.0: Returnity

2020: LogoS - Sadako e le Mille Gru di Carta

2021: Alco Frisbass - Le mystère du gué pucelle

2022: Deadly Orgone Radiation - Desecration of Form

2023: ni - Fol Naïs

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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: February 03 2024 at 16:20

2005 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
2006 Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
2007 Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
2008 Day Without Dawn - Understanding Consequences
2009 The Mars Volta - Octahedron
2010 Rose Kemp - Golden Shroud
2011 Discipline - To Shatter All Accord
2012 Om - Advaitic Songs
2013 Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods
2014 Swans - To Be Kind
2015 Anekdoten - Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
2016 David Bowie - Blackstar
2017 At The Drive-In - Inter Alia
2018 Tor Lundvall - A Dark Place
2019 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
2020 Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
2021 Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
2022 The Weeknd - Dawn FM
2023 Ville Valo - Neon Noir

dunno what happened to me in the last five years

Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 02:02

Not sure if this is supposed to be what was my top pick at the time, or what it is now. Some have changed. I suppose it would have to be now if I plan on playing with the 1 album/artist restriction.

2005 Bondage Fruit VI

2006 Martyr - Feeding the Abscess

2007 Antidepressive Delivery - Chain of Foods

2008 Opeth - Watershed

2009 Exivious - Exivious

2010 Ogo Dys - Azynder!

2011 Korekyojinn - Tundra

2012 Motorpsycho & Stale Storlocken - The Death Defying Unicorn

2013 Haken - The Mountain

2014 Poil - Brossaklit

2015 The Pneumatic Transit - Concerto for Double Moon

2016 Seven Impale - Contropasso

2017 Squintaloo - Uber Bord

2018 Voivod - The Wake

2019 Mimedyr - Mínym

2020 Wyxz - ODYX

2021 Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2

2022 Wippy Bonstack - 22

2023 ni - Fol Naïs

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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 05:10

My picks:

2005: Hamadryad - Safe in Conformity

2006: Deluge Grander - August in the Urals

2007: Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

2008: Neal Morse - Lifeline

2009: maudlin of the Well - Part the Second

2010: Areknamés - In Case of Loss...

2011: Akt - Blemmebeya

2012: Echolyn - s/t

2013: Days between Stations - In Extremis

2014: Deluge Grander - Heliotians

2015: Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone

2016: Nine Stones Close - Leaves

2017: Big Big Train - Grimspound

2018: Oaksenham - Upon All the Living and the Dead

2019: IZZ - Don't Panic

2020: Fish - Weltschmerz

2021: Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2

2022: The Tangent - Songs from the Hard Shoulder

2023: Swans - The Beggar

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 08:09

Thanks for all the lists, those are insightful for me to peruse.

Tapfret wrote:

Not sure if this is supposed to be what was my top pick at the time, or what it is now. Some have changed. I suppose it would have to be now if I plan on playing with the 1 album/artist restriction....

It's up to you, but I prefer now. I would not expect forum members to know which they were most into then. With me, it can change so often, even from day to day or moment to moment. It would be easier for some PA old-timers to remember what they were into then by searching, but I would not expect most members to remember. Had I not opted to exclude winners then I would have included David Bowie's Blackstar for 2016, which was my album for 2016. Had I not done it one per artist, Swans' The Glowing Man would have been very tempting.

From the winners and runners-up collab list, I voted in the AOTY for (I did not vote every year): Magma's Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré, Univers Zero' Clivages, David Bowie's Blackstar, black midi' Hellfire, maybe? (I got more into black midi early this year), Robert Wyatt's Comicopera, Far Corner's Risk maybe.

People can list as many alternate lists as they like, and if people want to post another list of what they recall being most into then, I would find it interesting to compare. My lists would be almost constantly in flux as there is much I love from the past 60 or so years and I often discover and become infatuated by new-to-me music from those years. Some people's preferences are more static than others.

Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 10:13

Only a very incomplete list from me Embarrassed

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (2005)

Green Carnation (N) - The Acoustic Verses (2006)

Amarok (ESP) - Sol De Medianoche (2007)

Lunatic Soul (PL) - Lunatic Soul (2008)

Hypnos 69 (B) - Legacy (2010)

Accordo dei Contrari (I) - Kublai (2011)

Swans (USA) - To Be Kind (2014)

Naxatras (Gre) - Naxatras (2015)

Universal Totem Orchestra (I) - Mathematical Mother (2016)

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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 10:23

There are a number of years like 2014 and 2018 that had 4 or 5 albums that would have easily knocked any of the other years' albums off the thrown. And some those other years are hard to pick for the opposite reason.

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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 10:31

Tapfret wrote:

There are a number of years like 2014 and 2018 that had 4 or 5 albums that would have easily knocked any of the other years' albums off the thrown. And some those other years are hard to pick for the opposite reason.

similarily for me

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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 13:54

I have years like that as well.

Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 13:57

2005: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006: Tool - 10 000 Days
2007: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
2008: Cynic - Traced in Air
2009: Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
2010: Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
2011: Discipline - To Shatter All Accord
2012: Anathema - Weather Systems
2013: Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
2014: Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies
2015: The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
2016: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
2017: Accordo Dei Contrari - Violato Intatto
2018: Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
2019: The Tea Club - If/When
2020: J.G. Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Oscillospira
2021: Consider the Source - Hybrid Vol. 1 - Such as a Mule
2022: Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
2023: Swans - The Beggar

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 14:00

2005: Underground Zero - Powerplay - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZecuvJZsQ3JOwGXO_C32sy" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZecuvJZsQ3JOwGXO_C32sy

2006: The Enid - Sheets of Blue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kqWrRJM8T1fOt-za97sFZXskadhoh7VGw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kqWrRJM8T1fOt-za97sFZXskadhoh7VGw

2007: Galahad - Empires Never Last - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lizRZ06AO-krwtJMVgiYaYqjQxMwPVuFU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lizRZ06AO-krwtJMVgiYaYqjQxMwPVuFU

2008: Martin Orford - The Old Road - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ksA4A-Q-b1CHVURkcc30XFx11G1rmVVm0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ksA4A-Q-b1CHVURkcc30XFx11G1rmVVm0

2009: Astra - The Weirding - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mpilOzd6fViNrW0Rmy4Oao-7UJa7655qE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mpilOzd6fViNrW0Rmy4Oao-7UJa7655qE

2010: Karnataka - The Gathering Light - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYlEFW_zJhpD4aLoQfCgDC-" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYlEFW_zJhpD4aLoQfCgDC-

2011: Sean Filkins - War and Peace & Other Short Stories

2012: Francis Lickerish - Far & Forgot: From the Lost Lands - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAor2ZzTuTl4QIZgWoZqIV-8x9QgBWfi8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAor2ZzTuTl4QIZgWoZqIV-8x9QgBWfi8

2013: Willowglass - The Dream Harbour - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lBAqiW-qLlLHRcWFiBB_XCQH3ZCSFcGLo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lBAqiW-qLlLHRcWFiBB_XCQH3ZCSFcGLo

2014: Darryl Way - Children of the Cosmos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUQ3ZMKNlW2ktpc2j7sF6xPQi_rZYINt0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUQ3ZMKNlW2ktpc2j7sF6xPQi_rZYINt0

2015: Edison's Children - Somewhere Between Here and There - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaqe7_4Rwsx_4PT1GclZHts" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaqe7_4Rwsx_4PT1GclZHts

2016: Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvB1GvJ8s7xBNrPveo47iDE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvB1GvJ8s7xBNrPveo47iDE

2017: Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-nptvm9-hE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-nptvm9-hE

2018: Twelfth Night - Sequences - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8hBJ2qB-WM8fBUvb24MtXY-3HTcoGdxc" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8hBJ2qB-WM8fBUvb24MtXY-3HTcoGdxc

2019: Pallas - The Edge of Time - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJaD0QSr9lGkp1eKc2ZJDyA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJaD0QSr9lGkp1eKc2ZJDyA

2020: Magenta - Masters of Illusion - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJMP3JjOmOa_3Z0mr4GDeCA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpJMP3JjOmOa_3Z0mr4GDeCA

2021: Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYuJ1Qh69YMYSsII-YZBlxJ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYuJ1Qh69YMYSsII-YZBlxJ

2022: Collage - Over and Out - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nos67ErbvmGV2S3GmWZNXJrMIYSLS3X5M" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nos67ErbvmGV2S3GmWZNXJrMIYSLS3X5M

2023: Zopp - Dominion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvqUDj1Iy54" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvqUDj1Iy54

Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: February 04 2024 at 15:41

2005: Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating by the Stars

2006: Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making

2007: The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands
2008: The Tangent - Not as Good as the Book

2009: Darkology - Altered Reflections (Not ProgArchived but prog IMO.)
2010: Seti - Discoveries
2011: Nightwish - Imaginaerum
2012: Various Artists (Concept albums & Themed compilations) - The Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft - A SyNphonic Collection

2013: Circle of Illusion - Jeremias - Foreshadow of Forgotten Realms
2014: Voyager - V
2015: Zierler - ESC
2016: Cirrus Bay - Places Unseen

2017: Lucifer Was - Morning Star
2018: Gryphon - ReInvention
2019: IQ - Resistance
2020: Evolve - Choose Your Path (Not ProgArchived but prog IMO.)
2021: Artem Illusio - S/T
2022: The Guildmaster - Liber de Dictis
2023: Nospūn - Opus

Posted By: FlyingDingle77
Date Posted: February 05 2024 at 08:26

2023: I/O ~ Peter Gabriel
2022: Misadventures Of Doomscroller ~ Dawes
2021: Valentine ~ Snail Mail
2020: Virus ~ Haken
2019: South Of Reality ~ The Claypool Lennon Delirium
2018: Kiss Yr Frenemies ~ Illuminati Hotties
2017: To The Bone ~ Steven Wilson
2016: Emily’s D+Evolution ~ Esperanza Spalding
2015: Hand. Cannot. Erase. ~ Steven Wilson
2014: Great Western Valkyrie ~ Rival Sons
2013: The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) ~ Steven Wilson
2012: Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City ~ Kendrick Lamar
2011: Grace For Drowning ~ Steven Wilson
2010: Stone Temple Pilots ~ Stone Temple Pilots
2009: Before The Frost… Until The Freeze ~ The Black Crowes
2008: Schoolyard Ghosts ~ No-Man
2007: Fear Of A Blank Planet ~ Porcupine Tree
2006: The Crane Wife ~ The Decemberists
2005: Frances The Mute ~ The Mars Volta
2004: A Ghost Is Born ~ Wilco
2003: In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 ~ Coheed And Cambria
2002: Songs For The Deaf ~ Queens Of The Stone Age
2001: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ~ Wilco
2000: Figure 8 ~ Elliott Smith

Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: February 05 2024 at 10:06

Logan wrote:

I did two topics recently, first on the "winners" of the Prog Archives official Album of the Year event (and then a runners-up one), which goes back to 2005. I posted my alternate list with one album per act and not covering the albums in the list. Essexboy made me think that maybe I should start a topic for people's lists to compare to the officia winners (and runners-up). You don't have to do it the way I did (just one album per act, not duplicating any of the winning albums) to participate.

And a playlist of one track per album as is my wont just in case:

The Winners of PA's official AOTY

The Runners-Up for the official AOTY

I had to retrieve this thread to find my list:

https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=120296&PN=2

The years in question:

2005 - Octavarium - Dream Theater
2006 - Milliontown - Frost*
2007 - Dark Passion Play - Nightwish
2008 - Blomljud - Moon Safari
2009 - Frequency - IQ
2010 - The Wake Of Evolution - Kaipa
2011 - The King Of Number 33 - Deexpus
2012 - Weather Systems - Anathema
2013 - The Theory Of Everything - Ayreon
2014 - The Road Of Bones - IQ
2015 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish
2016 - Falling Satellites - Frost*
2017 - This Is The Sound - Cellar Darling
2018 - Prequelle - Ghost
2019 - The Spell - Cellar Darling
2020 - Human Nature - Nightwish
2021 - Day And Age - Frost*
2022 - Lightwork - Devin Townsend
2023 - Himlabacken Volume 2 - Moon Safari

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Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell

Posted By: Dapper~Blueberries
Date Posted: February 07 2024 at 10:04

This list of mine is a bit messy since some of these years I do not quite have a definitive AOTY for them, though I am certainly trying to find some stuff that may catch my ears and turn into definitives. I will put a star next to the years that aren't quite definitively placed yet.

2005: Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta
2006: Nothing - Meshuggah
2007: Ziltoid The Omniscient - Devin Townsend
2008: Little Lucid Moments - Motorpsycho*
2009: The Great Misdirect - Between The Buried and Me
2010: Warm Slime - Thee Oh Sees*
2011: Snowtorch - Phideaux
2012: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - Rick Wakeman*
2013: Still Life With Eggplant - Motorpsycho
2014: Citadel - Ne Obliviscaris
2015: Vulnicura - Bjork
2016: Here Be Monsters - Motorpsycho
2017: Remedies - Soup
2018: A Drop of Light - All Traps On Earth
2019: Periphery IV: Hail Stan - Periphery*
2020: Virus - Haken
2021: Cavalcade - black midi*
2022: All The Pretty Days - Fren
2023: Divine Inner Tension - Hail The Sun

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D~B

Posted By: emisan
Date Posted: February 08 2024 at 12:14

2005 Neal Morse - ? [Aka: Question Mark]

2006 The Tangent - A Place In The Queue

2007 Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura

2008 Il Bacio Della Medusa - Discesa Agl'Inferi d'un Giovane Amante

2009 The Tangent - Down And Out In Paris And London

2010 Magic Bus - Magic Bus

2011 Gran Turismo Veloce - Di Carne, Di Anima

2012 Big Big Train - English Electric, Part 1

2013 Ingranaggi Della Valle - In Hoc Signo

2014 Logos - L' Enigma Della Vita

2015 Unreal City - Il Paese del Tramonto

2016 The Dear Hunter – Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional

2017 Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere

2018 The Tangent - Proxy

2019 Sfaratthons - Appunti di Viaggio

2020 La Maschera Di Cera - S.E.I.

2021 Il Porto Di Venere - E Pensa Che Mi Meraviglio Ancora

2022 The Tangent - Songs from the Hard Shoulder

2023 Zopp - Dominion