No Stardust We Are? No Thinking Plague? No Advent? No Cirrus Bay? What kind of a list is this anyway??
No Anglagard, no echolyn, no avant, no spacerock
Metal and symph only, I guess.
Chad
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couldn't agree more. the people who put this together must think metal is the new prog. I have no problem with DT being on the list but one album would have been more than sufficient. their view of the "best" is obviously skewed in that direction and that alone taints the whole list. between everything related to DT, Wilson, Spock's Beard and Roine Stolt, it seems more like a list of one fans favorite albums during that time period. all that prog metal and no Wolverine, who BTW should be releasing a new album this year according to the drummer
I'm no expert by any means but how can you leave out a band like Ozric Tentacles or Quantum Fantay, Kaipa, Planet X, etc., etc....I'm sure we could all go on and on. there's such a huge reservoir of progressive music that can easily be tapped into with even the slightest research. lists such as that tend to steer new listeners towards a small fraction of prog and nowhere else. that's too bad.
i.ain't.dead.irock
Exactly how I feel. I went to the site and annoyingly one must click on a new page for each 10 entries. I went a few pages in and it was more of the same. I consider progressive rock my favorite genre, if one can call it that, but most of these bands don't speak to me at all.
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With all due respect to the posters, there is only one thing becoming more predictable than these 'best of' lists and it is the PE reaction to them. The lists are generally made up of the same names....Steven Wilson, Transatlantic, Neal Morse, Spock's Beard, etc. I am ok with that as I actually like those artists, but I still don't give these best of lists much thought as ultimately they are all pretty silly. That said, the reaction to them here is pretty much akin to the guy who complains each year about the academy award nominations because there aren't more independent films on the Best Picture list. For better or worse, depending on your tastes, the names on these best of lists generally represent either the best known names in the current prog scene or they cater to a certain style of prog. Tastes will vary, but my guess is that you will find more people who are familiar with Spock's Beard or Dream Theater than Guapo. There is no reason to be indignant or even insulted or insulting of the bands listed. If you don't like the list, create your own and post it somewhere. To be shocked by lists containing these names can't seriously be surprising at this point, can it?
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Anekdoten
Credit where it's due, the Rolling Stone list was far more encompassing than this one.
Perhaps the title should have read "DT crowned best "SELLING" Prog album of the last 25 years! " And some of those bands are questionably proganything. However Thank You Scientist is a valid entry!
I believe some of you owe Rolling Stone an apology...
50.Enchant - Wounded
49.TFK - Desolation Rose
48.Mastodon - Crack the Skye
47.Haken - visions
46.Jolly - Audio guide to Happiness
45.Scale the Summit - The Migration
44.The Mars Volta - De loused in the comatorium
43.Karnivool - Sound Awake
42.Thank you Scientist - Maps of non existant places
41.BigBig Train - Full Power
40.Rush - Test for Echo
39.Kings X - Faith hope love
38.Dream Theater - Train of Thought
37.Messhuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
36.Riverside - Shring of a new Generation
35.Tool - 10000 days
34.Transatlantic - Whirlwind
33.Animals as Leaders - st
32.Fates Warning - Parallels
31.Rush-Clockwork Angels
30.Spocks Beard - Beware of Darkness
29.Fates Warning - A pleasant shade of grey
28.Periphery - st
27.Neal Morse - one
26.Anathema - Were here becasuse were here
25.Between the buried and Me - Colors
24.Flying colors - Second nature
23.Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
22.Cynic - Focus
21.Liquid Tension Exp. 1
20.Spocks Beard - V
19.Opeth - Watershed
18.Dream Theater - Awake
17.Haken - The Mountain
16.Liquid Tension Experiment - 2
15.Steven Wilson - Hand cannot Erase
14.Dream Theater - 6 degrees of inner turbulence
13,Queensryche - Empire
12.Neal Morse Sola Scriptura
11.Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
TOP 10
1.Dream Theater – Images And Words
2.Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
3.Dream Theater – Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory
4.Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
5.Transatlantic – Bridge Across Forever
6.Opeth – Blackwater Park
7.Spock's Beard – The Light
8.Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
9.Tool – Lateralus
10.Spock's Beard – Snow
Lot's of Inside Out, Magna Carta, and bigger labels. The last 25 years has produced many a great gems, non of which are listed. This list also has a somewhat favored Progmetal leaning, and even that would make it a bit flawed to many progmetal fans here I am sure. Just goes to show you, we are the dinosaurs now. Our days have become what once were and now will never be.
Last edited by MJBrady; 07-25-2015 at 07:04 PM.
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