What would be on your list?
What would be on your list?
Could easily list 50, in no particular order
Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi Lebedi
Pikapika Teart - Moonberry
Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall
Nik Bartsch Ronin - Live
Knifeworld- The Unravelling
North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon
Far Corner - Risk
Univers Zero - Clivages
Guapo - Obscure Knowledge*
Jack O The Clock - All My Friends
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
2010-2019 music Medals for the Decade
PLATINUM MEDAL
Anglagard-Viljans Oga
GOLD MEDAL
All Traps on Earth- A Drop of Light
David Bowie- Blackstar
Hidria Spacefolk- Astronautica
Snarky Puppy- We Like It Here
Special Providence- Soul Alert
SILVER MEDAL
Bent Knee- Shiny Eyed Babies
Bent Knee- Say So
Deus Ex Machina- Devoto
FM- Live at NEARfest 2006
Forgas Band Phenomena- Acte V
Forgas Band Phenomena- Live at NEARfest 2010
Gosta Berlings Saga- Glue Works
Unreal City - Il Paese del Tramonto
Steven Wilson- The Raven That Refused to Sing
BRONZE MEDAL
Alamaailman Vasarat- Valta
Aranis- Made in Belgium
Big Big Train- English Electric (Vols. 1 & 2)
Kenso- Uchinaru Koe Nu Kaiki Seyo
King Crimson - Live in Chicago
Koenjihyakkei- Dhorimvishka
Opeth- Pale Communion
Quantum Fantay- Bridges of Kukuriku
Riverside- Wasteland
Il Tempio delle Clessidre- Il Tempio delle Clessidre
Thank You Scientist- Terraformer
Tool- Fear Inoculum
Van der Graaf Generator- A Grounding in Numbers
1. The River Empires - Epilogue (2010)
2. Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave (2012)
3. Small Leaks Sink Ships - Face Yourself and Remove Your Sandals (2015)
4. Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Terror and Everything After (2011)
5. Cloud Cult - Light Chasers (2010)
6. Kimbra - Vows (2011)
7. Foals - Total Life Forever (2010)
8. Lehto and Wright - Children's Songs (2010)
9. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight (2016)
10. Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats (2015)
#'s 11-15
11. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (2011)
12. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
13. Fjokra - Thoughtsteps (2014)
14. 3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me (2011)
15. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
1. Unreal City - Il Paese Del Tramonto
2. Phideaux - Infernal
3. Bent Knee - Say So
4. Shylock - La Somme Des Parties
5. Gösta Berlings Saga - Glue Works
6. Ske - 1001 Autunni
7. Anthony Phillips - Seventh Heaven
8. Änglagård - Viljans Öga
9. Deep Purple - Infinite
10. Van Der Graaf Generator - Do Not Disturb
(runners-up) :
11. Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere
12. All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light
13. Tony Banks - Five
14. Nexus - En El Comienzo Del Topos Uranos
15. The Tangent - The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
16. Opeth - Pale Communion
17. IQ - The Road Of Bones
18. Aldo Tagliapietra - Invisibili Realtà
19. Rush - Clockwork Angels
20. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
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Top 10 in alphabetical order:
Änglagård - Viljans Öga
Bibio Mind Bokeh
Bubble Math Edit Peptide
Circa Valley of the Windmill
Deus Ex Machina Devoto
The Enid Invicta
Eye Vision and Ageless Light
Pink Floyd Endless River
Ske (Paolo 'Ske' Botta) 1000 Autunni
Tool Fear Inoculum
Runners up:
3.2 The Rules Have Changed
3rd Ear Experience Incredible Good Fortune
All Traps on Earth A Drop of Light
Aquaserge A L'Amitie
Bibio A Mineral Love
Black Sabbath 13
Cellar and Point Ambit
Forgas Band Phenomena- Acte V
Pixels We're all small pixels
Sanhedrin Ever After
Schnellertollermeier X
Willowglass Dream Harbour
Yes Fly From Here
Genuinely and truly pleased and honored to have had a hand in some folks’ faves over the last decade.
Seriously.
Thank you so much.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
You're very welcome, but it is we who should be thanking you. I know your heart and soul (and a lot of sweat) went into getting so much great music released. I only paid $15 for each of them!Originally Posted by Steve F.
1. Heterotopia - Schooltree
2. Big Big Train - English Electric II
3. Steve Hackett - Wolflight
4. Panic Room - Incarnate
5. Thieves Kitchen - Clockwork Universe
6. Glass Hammer - Breaking of the World
7. IQ - The Road of Bones
8. Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
9. Moon Safari - Lover's End
10. Karnataka - Secret of Angels
Honorable mention: Phideaux - Infernal, Kaipa - Vittjar, iamthemorning - Ocean Sounds
I am going to go with these, right now. There were way more than 10.
Some could make the list based on one song, but I tried for albums that I play over and over. Not just for one song.
Bent Knee - Say So/ Shiny Eyed Babies ( a tie )
Necromonkey - Necroplex
Gösta Berling's Saga - Glue Works
Beardfish - Mammoth / The Void
Thank You Scientist - Maps Of Non-existant Places
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Live
Big Big Train - English Electric: Full Power
Sanguine Hum - Live In America
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
there are so many I need to revisit before making a final decision, but for the moment these are the standouts:
Asturias ruled the decade in my view, but I'll just list their best one of the 4 that deserve a place on this list
Asturias Missing Piece of My Life
Alco Frisbass Le Bateleur
Änglagård Viljans Öga
Caillou Caillou
Daal Dodecahedron
F.M. Transformation
Human Factor Homo Universum
Kotebel Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble
Maat Lander The Birth Of Maat's Galaxy
Madden, Christian The Wrecking Place
Nova Collective The Further Side
Panzerpappa Pestrottedans
Pink Floyd The Endless River
ptf The World(s)
Rothery, Steve The Ghosts of Pripyat
Sanhedrin Ever After
Ske (Paolo 'Ske' Botta) 1000 Autunni
Tubo Elastico, El El Tubo Elastico
Worrell, Bernie / Orchestra BWO is Landing
clearly I need to spin Gosta's Glue Works again to refresh my memory since that seems like the single album everyone lists in common
Last edited by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER; 12-20-2019 at 10:34 PM.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Well, I suppose the easiest way for me to compile this list is to pick my top album from every year in the decade:
1. Frogg Café - Bateless Edge
2. Ske - 1000 Autumni
3. Croima - Quetzalcoatl
4. Rhun - Fanfare Du Chaos
5. Poil - Brossakilt
6. Alco Frisbass - S/t
7. John Zorn - The Painted Bird
8. Art Zoyd - 44 1/2 Live & Unreleased (if that doesn't count: Krokofant - III)
9. Far Corner - Risk
10. The Flying Luttenbachers - Shattered Dimension
After going through everything, this may be the easiest way but not be the most accurate way to do it. Especially since I've seem to have forgotten how excellent some of those early years were, and the fact that I made those lists many moons ago. I might come back later and do a more accurate estimation, but all of the above are albums I love so I can't be too displeased with it.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
Never let good music get in the way of making a profit.
I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
As they used to say on Monty Python: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:
VESPERO: By the Waters of Tomorrow
MY SLEEPING KARMA: Soma
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT: Age of the Fifth Sun
CAUSA SUI: Euporie Tide
FOLLAKZOID: II
BOSCH'S WITH YOU: Wired Promise To Be
DEAD SEA APES: Lupus
KORAI OROM: "2013"
DA CAPTAIN TRIPS: Adventures in the Upside Down
MY BROTHER THE WIND: I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity
1.The Blue Ship - the executioners lover
2. Ske - 1000 autunni
3. Rational diet - On phenomena and existances
4. Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine
5. Aranis - Made in Belgium II
6. Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
7. Lost Crowns - Every night something happens
8 Julia Holter - Aviary
9 Vezhlivy Otkaz - Geese and Swans
10 Schnellertollermeier - X
And an honourable mention to The Sea Nymphs - on the dry land.
1. David Bowie: ★ *****
2. Jack O' The Clock: Repetitions of the Old City II *****
3. Bent Knee: Say So *****
4. Joanna Newsom: Divers *****
5. Jack O' the Clock: Repetitions of the Old City - I *****
6. Thinking Plague: Hoping Against Hope *****
7. Univers Zéro: Clivages *****
8. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Live *****
9. Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas *****
10. Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) *****
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Not "the best" but the ones I've listened to the most and (arguably) enjoy the most too. NPO:
Ske - 1000 Autunni
Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi Lebesi (Geese & Swans)
Extra Life - Made Flesh
Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope
Discipline - To Shatter All Accord
Nerve Institute - Architects of Flesh-Density
Jack O' the Clock - All My Friends
Kayo Dot - Coyote
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
Hooffoot - Hooffoot
PoiL - Brossaklit
Needlepoint - Aimless Mary
Aquaserge - A l'Amité
(Damn, that's 13. My lucky number. Kudos to Sanguine Hum, The Cellar & Point, Anekdoten, Yowie, Bubblemath, All Traps on Earth, Yugen, Hokr, Seven Impale, Cheer-Accident, Thieves' Kitchen, Motorpsycho, Wobbler, Hyrrokkin, allstuff Mattias Olsson and Jake Holm-L., allstuff Kavus [music and the Believer's Roast label], allstuff Steve F./Cuneiform [supreme reign still, fully operative or not], allstuff AltrOck, moststuff Rune Grammofon, lotsa Tzadik et al.) - This is cheating, of course.
Last edited by Scrotum Scissor; 12-21-2019 at 09:03 AM.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Not all stuff Soleil Zeuhl?
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
That's ok. So was quitting without actually quitting....
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Absolutely. 'twas just my dementia talkin'.
Did you hear the Rhün release, Ian?
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Oh yeah I have it, lovely album, one of the 50 bubbling under list.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I would be willing to bet that a number of 'everyone' saw them at Nearfest Apocalypse. They blew my freaking mind.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
I'll try...
Tony Banks - Five
Ske - 1000 Autunni
Big Big Train - English Electric Full Power
Deluge Grander - Oceanarium
Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall
Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope
Thieves' Kitchen - Clockwork Universe
Thieves' Kitchen - Genius Loci
Advent - Silent Sentinel
Signals - Facial Furniture
Explorers' Club - Together
Last edited by bill g; 12-21-2019 at 07:57 PM.
I thi nk I'll have to prune 5 or 6 to make it 10
Youssef, Dhafer - Abu Nawas Rhapsody
Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic – s/t
Änglagård - Viljans Öga
Cassol, Fabrizio - Strange Fruit
Elephant9 & Reine Fiske - Atlantis
Forgas Band Phenomena - Acte V
Maalouf, Ibrahim - Illusions
Setna - Guerison
Wrong Object - After the Exhibition
Miriodor - Cobra Fakir
GoGo Penguin V2.0
Halsall, Matthew & Gondwana Orchestra - When the World Was One
Perret, Guillaume & The Electric Epic - Open Me
Agusa - Högtid
Serge Fiori – s/t
Heliocentrics & Orlando Julius - Jaiyede Afro
Maalouf, Ibrahim - Red and Black Light
Washington, Kamasi - The Epic
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts are Gone
Hooffoot - Hooffoot
Rêve Général - Howl!
Scherzoo - 03
Walker, Ryley - Primrose Green
Gösta Berlings Saga - Sersophane
Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom of Elders
Dinosaur - Together, As One
Ahmed, Yazz - La Saboteuse
Rudolph, Adam & Moving Pictures - Glare of the Tiger
Waters, Roger - Is This the Life We Really Want?
Accordo Dei Contrari - Violato Intatto
Heliocentrics - A World of Masks
Vak - Budo
All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light
Aquaserge - Deja Vous!
Far Corner - Risk
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Oreille Électrique
Maisha - There is a Place
Cykada - Cykada
Elephant9 & Reine Fiske - Psychedelic Backfire II
Grossmann, Muriel - Reverence
Ikarus - Mosaismic
Yokaï - Yokaï
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Looks like I need to find that Ske record. Lots of recommendations from these lists!
It's a great record top 20 for me
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
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