Best of 2014

[progmeister]

1. IQ - Road of Bones
2. Kaipa - Sattyg
3. Dave Bainbridge - Celestial Fire
4. Tony Patterson & Brandon Eyre - Northlands
5. A.C.T - Circus Pandemonium
6. Transatlantic - Kaleidescope
7. Druckfarben - Second Sound
8. United Progressive Fraternity - Fall in Love With the World
9. Salem Hill - The Unseen Cord
10. Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains

runners up:

Anathema - Distant Satellites
Soen - Tellurian
Opeth - Pale Communion
RPWL - Wanted
Haken - Restoration
Glass Hammer - Ode to Echo
Flights - History be Kind
Nick Magnus - N'Monix
Samurai of Prog - The Imperial Hotel
LogoS - L'enigma Della Vita
Anubis - Hitchiking to Byzantium
Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus
Amplifier - Mystoria
Seven Impale - City of the Sun
Tin Spirits - Scorch
The No Name Experience - The Clock That Went Backwards
Dave Kerzner - New World

[bondegezou]

Prog magazine's Critics' Choice top 10 (see more in latest issue of mag):

1. Opeth: Pale Communion
2. Anathema: Distant Satellites
3. Bigelf: Into the Maelstrom
4. Amplifier: Mystoria
5. Knifeworld: The Unravelling
6. Mastodon: Once More 'Round the Sun
7. North Atlantic Oscillation: The Third Day
8. The Pineapple Thief: Magnolia
9. Pink Floyd: The Endless River
10. Scott Walker & Sun 0))): Soused

They also asked various prog musicians for their best thing of the year, e.g.:

Jon Davison said The Samurai of Prog's The Imperial Hotel
John Wetton said Peter Gabriel's Back to Front, Live in London
Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett both said Nick Magnus's N'Monix
Tim Bowness said The Endless River

Henry

[gilawi]

1. Tony Patterson & Brandon Eyre: Northlands
2. The Pineapple Thief: Magnolia (The two CD Version). The acoustic CD is just as good.
3- IQ: Road of Bones
4- United Progressive Fraternity: Fall in love with the world
5- Ian Anderson: Homo Erraticus
6- Flying Colors: Second Nature
7- Perfect Beings: Perfect Beings
8- Nick Magnus - N'Monix
9- Samurai of Prog: Imperial Hotel
10- Dave Bainbridge: Celestial Fire
11- The Black Codex: Episodes 1-13
12- Lunatic Soul: Walking on a flashlight beam
13- Yes: Heaven and Earth

[bobert]

No need for me to make a list , all of my favorites of 2014 have already been brought up in this thread , it has been a great year for Prog music.

But I have to mention the new album from Dave Kerzner ,"New World" , I just bought it yesterday from his Bandcamp page and for me is it right up there with the very best from 2014 , a fantastic album. I am on my second listen as I type and am blown away by it.

[JKL2000]

No need for me to make a list , all of my favorites of 2014 have already been brought up in this thread , it has been a great year for Prog music.

But I have to mention the new album from Dave Kerzner ,"New World" , I just bought it yesterday from his Bandcamp page and for me is it right up there with the very best from 2014 , a fantastic album. I am on my second listen as I type and am blown away by it.

I Kickstarted the Deluxe edition. I'm probably waiting till the deluxe edition version is up for download, but looking forward to it. Amazing the energy Squids seems to have maintained for the duration.

[YtseJammer]

The new Bjørn Riis album will be in my top 3 for sure.

http://www.bjornriis.com/

http://www.progstreaming.com/_wb/pag...%20Car%20Crash

http://www.seaoftranquility.org/revi...ntent&id=17014

[arturs]

New stuff only...

Most played album of the year

Flying Colors Second Nature

Some other great records that may have changed my life just a little bit.

Glass Palindrome
Sonar Static Motion
My Brother the Wind There Once was a Time... (the title is a joke, right??)
Ideal Bread Beating the Teens


Records that haven't changed my life at all but were enjoyable all the same

Yes Heaven and Earth
Pink Floyd Endless River
Solaris Martian Chronicles 2
Djam Karet Regenerator 3017

Disappointments

Opeth Pale Communion (I'll try again with this one, but so far... nada.)
Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus (My own fault. I didn't like TAAB2. Why was I expecting this to be different?)

Still must buy...
Cellar and Point, Aranis, Aquaserge

[Prog70]

1. IQ - Road of Bones
2. Anathema - Distant Satellite
3. D Project - Making Sense
4. Druckfarben - Second Sound
5. Pendragon - Men Who Climb Mountains

[Dodie]

OK, I'll play...
Here's an alphabetical list of stuff I've picked up this year and enjoyed quite a bit (including a few live albums)

Anathema: Distant Satellite
Flying Colors: Second Nature
Imogen Heap: Sparks (almost counts as "prog" in my world, even if not in most of yours)
IQ: Road of Bones
Knifeworld: The Unravelling
Nick Magnus: N'Monix
Marillion: A Sunday Night Above the Rain [enjoyed the Holland edition more than the Montreal gig]
Moon Safari: Live in Mexico
Opeth: Pale Communion
Pineapple Thief: Magnolia
Pink Floyd: The Endless River
Steve Rothery: Ghost of Pripyat
RPWL: Wanted
Sanguine Hum: Live in America
Matt Stevens: Lucid
Tin Spirits: Scorch
Transatlantic: Kaleidoscope
Transatlantic: KaLIVEoscope

My favourite five are Flying Colors, Nick Magnus, Pineapple Thief, Pink Floyd and Transatlantic.

Having pre-ordered the deluxe edition of Squids' new magnum opus, and not received it yet, I'll have to count that as 2015. I'm looking forward to it, whenever Dave can manage it (I'm happy to wait).

I bought Yes's Heaven and Earth, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd wanted to. There's no way it's consistent enough to include in the above list, but I don't regret buying it.

I picked up some albums from 2013 that I'd missed on release that I really liked, including Airbag's The Greatest Show on Earth and The Tangent's Le Sacre du Travail.
Also, I picked up several Porcupine Tree albums that I'd never got around to (Fear of a Blank Planet, Deadwing and In Absentia), and also some classic Gentle Giant and Van der Graaf Generator.
All in all, I've had a very pleasing Prog year.

[nosebone]

12/30/14
Based on play counts in Itunes and Ipod in car, where all of my music listening is done.

In no particular order:

Franck Vaillant - Raising Benzine
Bly De Blyant - Hindsight Bias
John Zorn - Psychomagia
Tuatara - Underworld
pommelHORSE -Winter Madness
Pat Metheny - Kin (<-->)
Flying Lotus - You're Dead
Ludi Voyak - s/t
The Cellar And Point - Ambit
Univers Zero - Phosphorescent Dreams
Magma -Riah Sahiltaah

[snowsnow]

I mentioned that the Flying Colors album was in my top 5 and got a few puzzled replies. So I am glad that a few more people have mentioned this enjoyable album - though they have yet to have their decision questioned��

Lovely album - probably just prefer the latest efforts by Gazpacho, Anathema and IQ.

2014 - a decent year (IMHO)

[Shadow]

12/30/14
Based on play counts in Itunes and Ipod in car, where all of my music listening is done.

In no particular order:

Franck Vaillant - Raising Benzine
Bly De Blyant - Hindsight Bias
John Zorn - Psychomagia
Tuatara - Underworld
pommelHORSE -Winter Madness
Pat Metheny - Kin (<-->)
Flying Lotus - You're Dead
Ludi Voyak - s/t
The Cellar And Point - Ambit
Univers Zero - Phosphorescent Dreams
Magma -Riah Sahiltaah

For someone who puts out music I like, I own none of these. Was the Tuatara as good as Trading With The Enemy.

[Morpheus]

Poil- Brossaklitt
The Cellar and Point- Ambit
Blituri- s/t
Knifeworld- The Unraveling
Aquaserge- A L'amite
Sonar- Static Motion
Steve Lehman Octet- Mise en Abîme
Marc Ducret- Tower Bridge
Factor Burzaco- 3
Bob Drake- Lawn Ornaments
Swans- To Be Kind
Flying Lotus- You're Dead
Happy Family- Minimal Gods

[Kavus Torabi]

Aquaserge and Sonar seem to keep cropping up on lists of people with similar tastes to me.
I will investigate further.

[NogbadTheBad]

Aquaserge and Sonar seem to keep cropping up on lists of people with similar tastes to me.
I will investigate further.

Both are excellent.

[NogbadTheBad]

Poil- Brossaklitt
The Cellar and Point- Ambit
Blituri- s/t
Knifeworld- The Unraveling
Aquaserge- A L'amite
Sonar- Static Motion
Steve Lehman Octet- Mise en Abîme
Marc Ducret- Tower Bridge
Factor Burzaco- 3
Bob Drake- Lawn Ornaments
Swans- To Be Kind
Flying Lotus- You're Dead
Happy Family- Minimal Gods

Seeing as I love those in green I better checkout those in red.

[Musitron]

Mastodon: Once More 'Round the Sun is not prog to me. Maybe some of their previous albums are prog. I don't know. But the latest is definitely not prog.

[Haruspex Carnage]

Mastodon: Once More 'Round the Sun is not prog to me. Maybe some of their previous albums are prog. I don't know. But the latest is definitely not prog.

Do you like it? Isn't that really all that matters? FWIW the only album i like of their's is Blood Mountain.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Mastodon: Once More 'Round the Sun is not prog to me. Maybe some of their previous albums are prog. I don't know. But

How 'bout that latest Yes album? Is it or isn't it prog - to you? Is it? Isn't it? I mean, maybe some of Yes' previous albums are prog, but is this prog? Truly true prog? This one?

[Kavus Torabi]

I bought the Flying Lotus LP recently and am really enjoying it.

[walt]

Archival release-Volume 4 of the 10 volume cd retrospective of Hugh Hopper's music has found its way to my player numerous times over the past couple of months. I have all of the releases in this series,and so far, Vol. 4-Four By Hugh By Four is my favorite of the series and a wonderful listen in its own right.Sax/bass clarinet, trombone, bass guitar and drums is the lineup for this live date from 2000 in Amsterdam.No guitar or keyboard in the front line gives this date a sense of space and instrumental separation that sets it apart from the others in this series.Strong playing from all, good sound...yeah, i'll put this in with my best of 2014.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

here's a funny...

there are 6 albums in Gnosis listed as having been released in 2015

I havent finished listening to all the 2014 albums enough times to rate them all

now, with 2015 2 days away, I already have 6 albums I'm behind on

[Steve F.]

Aquaserge and Sonar seem to keep cropping up on lists of people with similar tastes to me.
I will investigate further.

Kavo (wanted to say that for years)

Aquaserge are AWESOME.

Signed,

Uncle Steve

[mnprogger]

Mike Portnoy http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/m2914115.aspx

MP's Top 10 Albums of 2014
(in alphabetical order):
1. Bend Sinister - Animals
2. Beck - Morning Phase
3. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
4. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun
5. Killer Be Killed
6. KXM
7. Opeth - Pale Communion
8. Pink Floyd - The Endless River
9. Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
10. Triggerfinger - By Absence Of The Sun

[Ken Baird]

Guess I'm done for 2014.

1. IQ- The Road of Bones
2. Introitus- Anima
3. Flying Colors- Second Nature
4. Synaesthesia- s/t
5. Anubis- Hitchhiking to Byzantium
6. Silhouette- Beyond the Seventh Wave
7. Monarch Trail- Skye
8. TNNE- The Clock That Went Backwards
9. Huis- Despite Guardian Angels
10. Philippe Luttun- The Taste of Wormwood

Honorable mention:
Anton Roolaart
Kaukasus
Kant Freud Kafka
Druckfarben
Dawn
Anima Morte
Cast
Gandalf's Fist
RPWL
The Watch
Solaris
Pallas
Logos
Nick Magnus
Iluvatar

Overrated and/or disappointing:
Knight Area
Opeth
The Gift

Thanks for including Monarch Trail/Skye here, Ken! Hope you have a great new year's eve tomorrow and all the best for 2015!