2011年 Jan 2日 Sunday, 9:47
When rating Prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the musical ancestry. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart includes compilations, live albums and also any non-Prog albums I buy.
My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
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1. (=) Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (1975) - 8.00
2. (=) Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning (2011) - 7.96
3. (=) Gentle Giant - Free Hand (1975) - 7.77
4. (=) Phideaux - Snowtorch (2011) - 7.75
5. (=) Gentle Giant - In a Glass House (1973) - 7.67
6. (=) Marsupilami - Marsupilami (1970) - 7.61
7. (=) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973) - 7.61
8. (=) Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory (1974) - 7.57
9. (=) Finch - Beyond Expression (1976) - 7.56
10. (=) Osanna - Palepoli (1973) - 7.42
11. (=) Beardfish - Mammoth (2011) - 7.39
12. (=) Pär Lindh Project - Time Mirror (2010) - 7.38
13. (=) Finch - Galleons of Passion (1977) - 7.33
14. (=) High Tide - High Tide (1970) - 7.24
15. (=) Discipline - Discipline (2011) - 7.18
16. (=) Alphataurus - Alphataurus (1973) - 7.15
17. (=) Airbag - All Rights Removed (2011) - 7.00
18. (=) Various - Psychedelic Underground 16 (2011) - 6.95
19. (=) Introvisión - 08:36:59 (2010) - 6.91
20. (=) Earth and Fire - Atlantis (1973) - 6.90
21. (=) Cranium Pie - Mechanisms, Part 1 (2011) - 6.88
22. (=) High Tide - Sea Shanties (1969) - 6.87
23. (=) Sean Filkins - War and Peace & Other Short Stories (2011) - 6.86
24. (=) Phoenix - Cei Ce Ne-Au Dat Nume (1973) - 6.80
25. (=) Pandora - Sempre e ovunque oltre il sogno (2011) - 6.77
26. (=) Wigwam - Fairyport (1971) - 6.75
27. (=) The Enid - In the Region of the Summer Stars (1976) - 6.74
28. (=) William D. Drake - The Rising of the Lights (2011) - 6.74
29. (=) Raimundo Rodulfo - Mare Terra (2009) - 6.73
30. (=) Grobschnitt - Grobschnitt (1972) - 6.66
31. (=) Uriah Heep - Salisbury (1971) - 6.64
32. (=) Galliard - Strange Pleasure (1969) - 6.62
33. (=) Phoenix - Cantafabule (1975) - 6.62
34. (=) Hills - Master Sleeps (2011) - 6.62
35. (=) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow (1988) - 6.61
36. (=) Calliope - Citta di Frontiera (1993) - 6.60
37. (=) Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery (1975) - 6.56
38. (=) Supersister - To the Highest Bidder (1971) - 6.54
39. (=) Gevende - Sen Balık Değilsin Ki (2011) - 6.54
40. (=) Man Man - Life Fantastic (2011) - 6.50
41. (=) Progresiv TM - Dreptul de a visa (1970) - 6.48
42. (=) Il Rovescio della Medaglia - Io Come Io (1972) - 6.48
43. (=) Hidden Orchestra - Night Walks (2011) - 6.43
44. (=) Trettioåriga Kriget - Efter Efter (2011) - 6.43
45. (=) Matt Stevens - The European Perspective Sessions (2010) - 6.39
46. (=) Motis - Ripaille (2011) - 6.39
47. (=) Egg - Egg (1970) - 6.39
48. (=) Credo - Against Reason (2011) - 6.38
49. (=) Echo - The Dream (2010) - 6.36
50. (=) Wicked Minds - Visioni, Deliri E Illusioni (2011) - 6.31
51. (=) Egg - The Polite Force (1971) - 6.30
52. (=) The Old Man & The Sea - The Old Man & The Sea (1972) - 6.29
53. (=) Simeon Soul Charger - Meet Me in the Afterlife (2011) - 6.28
54. (=) Comedy of Errors - Disobey (2011) - 6.28
55. (=) Phoenix - Mugur de Fluier (1974) - 6.24
56. (=) Tolga Kashif - The Genesis Suite (2010) - 6.23
57. (=) Ske - 1000 Autunni (2011) - 6.20
58. (=) Ben Craven - Great & Terrible Potions (2011) - 6.19
59. (=) Greenslade - Greenslade (1973) - 6.19
60. (=) Gungfly - Lamentations (2011) - 6.19
61. (=) Gryphon - Raindance (1975) - 6.18
62. (=) Locomotive - We Are Everything You See (proto) (1969) - 6.17
63. (=) Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy (2011) - 6.15
64. (=) Circus - Circus (1969) - 6.13
65. (=) Tori Amos - Night of Hunters (2011) - 6.12
66. (=) North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon (2011) - 6.07
67. (=) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011) - 6.04
68. (=) Liam Davison - A Treasure of Well Set Jewels (2011) - 6.04
69. (=) Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North (1973) - 6.04
70. (=) Le Orme - La Via Della Seta (2011) - 6.02
71. (=) Jelly Fiche - Symbiose (2011) - 6.02
72. (=) Van der Graaf Generator - A Grounding in Numbers (2011) - 6.02
73. (=) Manning - Margaret's Children (2011) - 6.01
74. (=) Höstsonaten - Summereve (2011) - 6.01
75. (=) Pendragon - Passion (2011) - 6.01
76. (=) Spaces - Nothing Exists but Atoms and the Void (2011) - 6.01
77. (=) Bondage - Anima Terra (2000) - 6.00
78. (=) Euthymia - L'ultima illusione (2011) - 5.96
79. (=) Anima Morte - The Nightmare Becomes Reality (2011) - 5.94
80. (=) Sky Architect - A Dying Man's Hymn (2011) - 5.94
81. (=) Wobbler - Rites at Dawn (2011) - 5.93
82. (=) Acqua Fragile - Acqua Fragile (1976) - 5.91
83. (=) Peter Gabriel - New Blood (2011) - 5.90
84. (=) Quorum - Klubkin's Voyage (2011) - 5.89
85. (=) Gryphon - Gryphon (1973) - 5.88
86. (=) Jon Anderson - Survival and Other Stories (2011) - 5.86
87. (=) Sanhedrin - Ever After (2011) - 5.84
88. (=) Resistor - The Secret Island Band Jam (2011) - 5.79
89. (=) Travellers - A Journey Into the Sun Within (2011) - 5.75
90. (=) The Tangent - COMM (2011) - 5.74
91. (=) The RedZen - Void! (2011) - 5.74
92. (=) Frequency Drift - Ghosts... (2011) - 5.74
93. (=) Empty Space Orchestra - Empty Space Orchestra (2011) - 5.74
94. (=) Haken - Visions (2011) - 5.73
95. (=) Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (1985) - 5.73
96. (=) Gran Turismo Veloce - Di Carne, Di Anima (2011) - 5.73
97. (=) Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul (2008) - 5.70
98. (=) Celelalte cuvinte - Celelalte cuvinte (1986) - 5.69
99. (=) I Treni all'alba - 2011 A.D. (2011) - 5.69
100. (=) Cosmograf - When Age Has Done Its Duty (2011) - 5.69
101. (=) Matt Stevens - Ghost (2010) - 5.68
102. (=) Rush - Permanent Waves (1980) - 5.64
103. (=) Grails - Deep Politics (2011) - 5.63
104. (=) Konchordat - The New Crusade (2011) - 5.62
105. (=) Gnomonaut - The Chronocosm (2011) - 5.59
106. (=) Karmakanic - In a Perfect World (2011) - 5.58
107. (=) Celelalte cuvinte - Celelalte cuvinte II (1989) - 5.56
108. (=) Steve Hackett - Beyond the Shrouded Horizon (2011) - 5.55
109. (=) Matt Stevens - Echo (2008) - 5.53
110. (=) Pitom - Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (2011) - 5.50
111. (=) Little Tragedies - Obsessed (2011) - 5.49
112. (=) Slivovitz - Bani Ahead (2011) - 5.47
113. (=) Matt Stevens - Relic (2011) - 5.46
114. (=) Baku llama - Eris (2007) - 5.45
115. (=) D.F.A. - 4th (2008) - 5.45
116. (=) Anubis - A Tower of Silence (2011) - 5.44
117. (=) BunChakeze - Whose Dream? (2010) - 5.43
118. (=) Web - I Spider (1970) - 5.40
119. (=) La Coscienza di zeno - La Coscienza di zeno (2011) - 5.38
120. (=) Nemo - R€volu$ion (2011) - 5.37
121. (=) The Fierce & The Dead - If It Carries on Like This We Are Moving to Morecambe (2011) - 5.25
122. (=) Mars Hollow - World in Front of Me (2011) - 5.24
123. (=) The Watch - Timeless (2011) - 5.24
124. (=) The Aristocrats - The Aristocrats (2011) - 5.22
125. (=) Presto Ballet - Invisible Places (2011) - 5.22
126. (=) AltaVia - Girt Dog (2011) - 5.21
127. (=) C-Sides - Devitrification (2011) - 5.19
128. (=) Blackfield - Welcome to My DNA (2011) - 5.19
129. (=) Heather Findlay - The Phoenix Suite (2011) - 5.17
130. (=) October Equus - Saturnal (2011) - 5.15
131. (=) Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul II (2010) - 5.13
132. (=) Habitat - Tratando de Respirar en la Furia (2011) - 5.11
133. (=) Greylevel - Hypostatic Union (2011) - 5.09
134. (=) Bill Bruford - One of a Kind (1979) - 5.05
135. (=) CCLR - Cavalli, Cocchi, Lanzetti & Roverzi (2011) - 5.04
136. (=) TCP - Fantastic Dreamer (2011) - 5.00
137. (=) Motoi Sakuraba - Gikyokuonsou (1991) - 5.00
138. (=) Lunatic Soul - Impressions (2011) - 5.00
139. (=) Dog Soldier - Dog Soldier (1975) - 5.00
140. (=) Calomito - Cane di Schiena (2011) - 5.00
141. (=) Leap Day - Skylge's Lair (2011) - 4.96
142. (=) Lazuli - ( 4603 battements ) (2011) - 4.93
143. (=) Millenium - Puzzles (2011) - 4.90
144. (=) Yes - Fly From Here (2011) - 4.86
145. (=) R.E.M. - Collapse into Now (2011) - 4.85
146. (=) Stevegane Project - When Time is a Present (2011) - 4.84
147. (=) Various - Classic Rock Prog Presents: Prognosis 15 (2011) - 4.83
148. (=) Anasazi - Playing Ordinary People (2011) - 4.83
149. (=) Various - Classic Rock Prog Presents: Prognosis 14 (2011) - 4.83
150. (=) Bader Nana - Wormwood (2011) - 4.78
151. (=) Magenta - Chameleon (2011) - 4.75
152. (=) Franck Carducci - Oddity (2011) - 4.73
153. (=) Sphere³ - Comeuppance (2002) - 4.68
154. (=) The Samurai of Prog - Undercover (2011) - 4.68
155. (=) Déjà Vu - Baroque in the Future (1988) - 4.66
156. (=) Opeth - Heritage (2011) - 4.66
157. (=) Various - Classic Rock Prog Presents: Prognosis 16 (2011) - 4.62
158. (=) Art Bears - Hopes and Fears (1978) - 4.60
159. (=) Various - Classic Rock Presents: Prognosis 19 (2011) - 4.57
160. (=) Radio Noisz Ensemble - Psychedelic Underground 16 (2011) - 4.50
161. (=) Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! (2011) - 4.50
162. (=) The Decemberists - The King is Dead (2011) - 4.48
163. (=) Exhibit A - Make Mine a Lobster (2010) - 4.48
164. (=) Astralia - Osmosis (2011) - 4.46
165. (=) Orchestre Celesti - Transition of Power (2011) - 4.45
166. (=) Yacobs - Time Machine (2011) - 4.42
167. (=) Nine Stones Close - Traces (2011) - 4.35
168. (=) Karda Estra - New Worlds (2011) - 4.35
169. (=) Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974) - 4.32
170. (=) Genesis - And Then There Were Three (1978) - 4.32
171. (=) Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity of Miracles (2011) - 4.30
172. (=) Daymoon - All Tomorrows (2011) - 4.27
173. (+1) Various - The No.1 DJ Collection: 2010's, Volume 3 (2011) - 4.22
174. (-1) Spiral - The Capital in Ruins (2011) - 4.18
175. (=) Dream the Electric Sleep - Lost and Gone Forever (2011) - 4.00
176. (=) The Phase - Reviews (2007) - 4.00
177. (=) Mandrake Project - Transitions (2011) - 4.00
178. (=) Dec Burke - Paradigms & Storylines (2011) - 3.99
179. (=) Introitus - Elements (2011) - 3.82
180. (=) Exhibit A - Out There (1994) - 3.80
181. (=) Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs (2011) - 3.75
182. (=) FreddeGredde - Thirteen Eight (2011) - 3.60
183. (=) Knight Area - Nine Paths (2011) - 3.60
184. (=) The Winter Tree - The Winter Tree (2011) - 3.58
185. (=) Jump - The Beachcomber (2010) - 3.51
186. (=) White Willow - Terminal Twilight (2011) - 3.40
187. (=) The Source - Prickly Pear (2009) - 3.33
188. (=) 41Point9 - Still Looking for the Answers (2011) - 3.31
189. (=) Blackmore's Night - Autumn Sky (2010) - 3.29
190. (=) Memories of Machines - Warm Winter (2011) - 3.00
191. (=) The Source - All Along This Land (2006) - 3.00
192. (=) Fish On Friday - Shoot the Moon (2011) - 2.95
193. (=) Exhibit A - A Different Dimension (1990) - 2.94
194. (=) Ozone Player - Insane Logic (2000) - 2.47
195. (=) Ring of Myth - Ring of Myth (2011) - 2.38
196. (=) Various - The No.1 DJ Collection: 2010's, Volume 1 (2010) - 2.00
197. (=) All Over Everywhere - Inner Firmaments Decay (2010) - 2.00
198. (=) The Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger (2005) - 1.08
199. (=) Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera (1996) - 0.20
TO BE RATED…
200. Karnivool - Sound Awake (2009)
201. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Flutter (2001)
202. Mist Season - Mist Season (2004)
203. Brighteye Brison - The Magician Chronicles, Part 1 (2011)
204. HUNE - De l'Autre Côté du Monde (2009)
205. The Sallyangie - Children of the Sun (1969)
206. Ketil Bjørnstad - The Sea (1995)
207. Matching Mole - Matching Mole (1972)
208. Luciano Basso - Voci (1976)
209. Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards (1972)
210. Höstsonaten - Springsong (2002)
211. Machiavel - Jester (1977)
212. Elonkorjuu - Harvest Time (1972)
213. Narrow Pass - In This World and Beyond (2009)
214. Agalloch - The Mantle (2002)
215. Bachman & Turner - Forged in Rock (2010)
216. National Health - National Health (1977)
217. John Martyn - Solid Air (1973)
218. Gazpacho - London (2011)
219. Prince - LotusFlow3r (2009)
220. Soma Planet - Bholenath (2007)
221. Druckfarben - Druckfarben (2011)
222. Agitation Free - Malesch (1972)
223. Prince - MPLSound (2009)
224. Höstsonaten - Autumnsymphony (2009)
225. Armageddon - Armageddon (1975)
226. Verbal Delirium - So Close and Yet So Far Away (2010)
227. East of Eden - Mercator Projected (1969)
228. Aisles - In Sudden Walks (2009)
229. Contemporary Dead Finnish Music Ensemble - Land of Hope (2009)
230. Quicksand - Home Is Where I Belong (1974)
231. IQ - Re:Mixed (2011)
232. Trurl - Do Not See Me Rabbit (2011)
233. Rustichelli E Bordini - Opera Prima (1973)
234. Odyssice - Silence (2010)
235. Fire - The Magic Shoemaker (1970)
236. Marsupilami - Arena (1971)
237. Mindgames - MMX (2010)
238. autumn chorus - The Village to the Vale (2011)
239. The Phase - In Consequence (0)
240. Socrates - Phos (1976)
241. Mr. Bungle - California (1999)
242. Ketil Bjørnstad - The River (1997)
243. Ketil Bjørnstad - Water Stories (1993)
244. Supersister - Present from Nancy (1970)
245. Sfinx - Zalmoxe (1993)
246. Seven Reizh - Samsâra (2006)
247. Celelalte cuvinte - Stem (2008)
248. Alexl - Triz (2003)
249. Stud - Stud (1971)
250. Outre Mesure - Abacadaë (2009)
251. Various - Opening Themes ... A Tribute (2010)
252. The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (1977)
253. Il Volo - Essere O Non Essere? (1975)
254. Various - The Sampler (1999)
255. Various - Sampler 2 (2000)
256. Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn Ys (2001)
257. Big Sleep - Bluebell Wood (1971)
258. Cervello - Melos (1973)
259. Otto Klemperer - The Klemperer Legacy: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (1998)
260. Alquin - Marks (1972)
261. Eider Stellaire - 1 (1981)
262. Bria Valente - Elixer (2009)
263. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Live at the Empire Pool Wembley, London, 1974) (1974)
264. William D. Drake - Briny Hooves (2007)
265. Bo Hansson - Magician's Hat (1973)
266. Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (1973)
267. Titus Groan - Titus Groan (1970)
268. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight (2008)
269. Soft Heap - Soft Heap (1978)
270. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
271. Cartoon - Estribo (2008)
272. Time Traveller - Chapters I & II (2008)
273. Lebowski - Cinematic (2010)
274. 3rd World Electric - Kilimanjaro Secret Brew (2009)
275. Supersister - Iskander (1973)
276. Various - The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (2010)
277. the (ec) nudes - Vanishing Point (1994)
278. Grobschnitt - Ballermann (1974)
279. Peter Hammill - PNO. GTR. VOX. (2011)
280. Big Big Train - Goodbye to the Age of Steam (1994)
281. Samurai - Samurai (1971)
282. Basil Poledouris - Conan the Barbarian (1992)
283. Arc - Arc...At This (1971)
284. Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour (1976)
285. Alquin - Mountain Queen (1973)
286. Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy (2010)
287. Various - Iliad a Grand Piano Extravaganza (2010)
288. The Pretty Things - Parachute (1970)
289. Trigon - Emergent (2005)
290. Kiril Kondrashin - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (2003)
291. Edward Artemiev - Warmth of Earth (1985)
292. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
293. Zita Ensemble - Quintet Sessions (2007)
294. Cartoon - Bigorna (2002)
295. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun (2008)
296. Earth and Fire - To the World of the Future (1975)
297. Caterpillarmen - Caterpillarmen (2011)
298. Kitaro - Dream (1992)
299. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia di un Minuto (1972)
300. Various - Wish You Were Here Again (2011)
301. Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg (1988)
302. Various - Festival Music Sampler (2011)
303. Mostly Autumn - That Night in Leamington (2011)
304. Aranis - RoqueForte (2010)
305. Various - Return to the Dark Side of the Moon (2011)
306. The Dog That Bit People - The Dog That Bit People (1971)
307. vieux carré - Glispiriti Icorpi Elementi (2008)
308. Judy Dyble - Star Crazy - An Antroduction to Judy Dyble (2011)
309. Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power (1973)
310. Various - Prog Rocks! (2011)
311. Various - Classic Rock Prog Presents: Prognosis 2.1 (2011)
312. Various - Rolling Back the Years 70's: 1972-1973 (2004)
313. Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl (2011)
314. Daft Punk - Homework (1997)
315. U2 - War (1983)
316. Marek Grechuta - Korowod (1971)
317. Astrid Pröll - Astrid Pröll (2006)
318. Cannabis India - SWF Session 1973 (2009)
319. Tim Buckley - Happy Sad (1969)
320. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (2011)
321. Various - Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season 1 (2010)
322. Various - 80's Mixtape (2011)
323. Matt Cardle - Letters (2011)
324. Cartoon - Martelo (1999)
325. Various - The Ultimate Demonstration Disc, Vol. 2 (2008)
326. Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh (1975)
327. Nuova Era - Nuova Era (2010)
328. Goblin - Tenebre (1982)
329. Finnegans Wake - Yellow (1994)
330. Aardvark - Aardvark (1970)
331. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1981)
332. Various - Old Grey Whistle Test Present Prog Rock (2011)
333. Eddy Grant - The Greatest Hits (1997)
334. The Muffins - Palindrome (2010)
335. Echoes - Rachel (2007)
336. Brand X - Masques (1978)
337. Arabs in Aspic - Strange Frame of Mind (2010)
338. Various - Shine on (2006)
339. Various - Classic Rock Prog Presents: Prognosis 17 (2011)
340. Detroit Spinners - The Platinum Collection (2007)
341. Wham! - The Best of Wham! (1997)
342. Camembert - Schnörgl Attahk (2011)
343. Supertramp - Crime of the Century (1974)
344. Various - Classic Rock Prog Presents: Prognosis 18 (2011)
345. Various - Rolling Back the Years 70's: 1976-1977 (2004)