Top 10 of 2012

[Magic Mountain]

Here is my list of top 10 of 2012. I limited my selections to those cds on the moon. My list includes no live albums or albums with cover tunes (Yes, Steve Hackett that means you). Only studio albums of new music.

Ok, here is my vote:

1) 308 - Nine Stones Close - One Eye On The Sunrise
2) 453 - Trioscapes - Separate Realities
3) 449 - TRAM - Lingua Franca
4) 115 - Diagonal - The Second Mechanism
5) 384 - SBB - SBB
6) 426 - Sylvan - Sceneries
7) 151 - Fontanelle - Vitamin F
8) 338 - Pineapple Thief - All the Wars
9) 148 - Flower Kings, The - Banks of Eden
10) 269 - Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made

Please share your list. This is the best way to learn about new music to check out.

regards,

Karl

[tobytanzer]

Nice list MM, but I don't want to possibly ruin the surprise by posting before the show.... I'll post afterwards.

[Magic Mountain]

Nice list MM, but I don't want to possibly ruin the surprise by posting before the show.... I'll post afterwards.

You mean that you'd go to the trouble of counting up all the points for all the albums? Too much trouble for me. Plus not everyone will post their lists.

By the way, I think we know all the albums that will be featured on a best of 2012 show :)

[emperorken]

1. #193- Hostsonaten- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
2. #214- InVertigo- Veritas
3. #158- Frequency Drift- Laid to Rest
4. #161- Galahad- Battle Scars
5. #307- Nexus- Aire
6. #393- Silhouette- Across the Rubicon
7. #302- Mystery- The World is a Game
8. #360- Red Sand- Behind the Mask
9. #181- Harvest- Chasing Time
10. #154- Forward Shapes- Legacy

Honorable mention: Indrek Patte, Big Big Train, Pinnacle, Quaterna Requiem, RPWL, & Sunchild.

MM, I'm looking forward to hearing the Nine Stones Close, but haven't yet.

[Magic Mountain]

See this is what I'm talking about. Thanks Ken for posting. I haven't heard the Hostsonaten. Need to listen to that one!

Ken I like all of your selections (that I've heard). Just goes to show you how great of a year it has been for prog!

[schupdoggy]

Here are my picks

1 - Echolyn - Echolyn
2 - The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden
3 - Kaipa - Vittjar
4 - Neal Morse - Momentum
5 - IZZ - Crush Of The Night
6 - Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made
7 - Anglagard - Viljans Öga
8 - Mangala Vallis - Microsolco
9 - Sylvan - Sceneries
10 - Presto Ballet - Relic Of The Modern World

[TheFish]

Pikers! #1 Majestic. Everything else is a wannabe.

[artw]

Since you showed me yours, I'll show you mine :p

1=376-Rush,Clockwork Angels
2=302-Mystery,The World Is A Game
3=291-Morse, Neal,Momentum
4=387-Sebastian Hardie,Blueprint
5=407-Special Providence,Soul Alert
6=290-Morglbl,Brutal Romance
7=154-Forward Shapes,Legacy
8=149-Flying Colors,Flying Colors
9=51-Beardfish,The Void
10=263-Mahogany Frog,Senna

Cheers,
Art

[Magic Mountain]

Sh*t I thought the Morglbl was 2011! Can I have a do over?

[KeithieW]

I hope you sent these to Mr Mortis guys. He is doing the tallying and we will be announcing the results in a live show on 12th January.

[schupdoggy]

Yes, I sent him my picks.

[schupdoggy]

On Echolyn's website....
"In their end of year poll at the Dutch Progressive Rock Pages (DPRP) echolyn's most recent album (self-titled, echolyn) was voted as the Number One (!) album release of 2012 out of 470 Progressive Rock albums reviewed by their writers."

[artw]

Bump to encourage others to post. C'mon, don't be shy!

[Magic Mountain]

Pikers! #1 Majestic. Everything else is a wannabe.

I just heard the Majestic and you are correct. Too bad it came out so late in the year.

[spewie]

Since you are all sharing your top ten, I thought I would share mine as well, not everything on my list is on the Moon though

1. Sebastian Hardie - Blueprint
2. Kompendium - Beneath The Waves
3. Big Big Train - English Electric (part 1)
4. Focus - X
5. Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
6. Times Up - Snow Queen
7. Santana - Shape Shifter
8. Omega - Szimfonia / Rapszodia
9. Astra - The Black Chord
10. Anthony Philips - Seventh Heaven

see ya!

[TheFish]

by popular(?) demand. :dunno:

1. Majestic – V.O.Z.
2. Ohmphrey - Posthaste
3. Hiromi - Move
4. Rizengard - Chapter 21
5. TEE – Trans European Experience
6. Kotobel – Concerto For piano and electric ensemble
7. Cryptic Vision – Of Infinite possibilities
8. Tohpati Beragw - Riot
9. Steam Theory – Helios Rider
10. Lalle Larsson - Weaveworld III: Nightscapes
11. PanzerBallet
12. Dean Watson

....and actually, 7 and 10 can flip positions. Hindsight you know. :deadhorse


Not so much a top 10+ as an ‘this is all I can remember’ list. :headscrat

[RUNDVIS]

01-302 Mystery, The World Is A Game
02-324 Panic Room, Skin
03-197 Husband, Gary, Dirty & Beautiful, Vol. 2
04-452 Tribal Tech, X
05-228 Keneally, Mike, Wing Beat Fantastic
06-142 Farmers Market, Slav To The Rythm
07-127 Echolyn, echolyn (2012)
08-241 Larsson, Lalle, Nightscapes
09-310 North Atlantic Oscillation, Fog Electric
10-216 IZZ, Crush of Night

[Ramon Porta]

Ramon Porta
Ok artw this are mi list,perhaps change som fromm the original because i dont remember well.
1.-S:Hackett genesisi Revisited II
2.-Anatehma Weather Systems
3.-Big Big Train English Electirc.Part One
4.-Anglagard Viljars ôga
5.-Unitopia Coverted Mirror Vol.I
6.-Squakett A Life Within a Day
7.-Marillion Sounds Can't be Made
8.-Focus X
9.-Majestic V.O.Z.
10.-Gazpacho March of Gods.

[progdirjim]

1 Baraka - Trinity
2 Farmers Market - Slav To The Rhythm
3 Quaterna Requiem - O Arquiteto
4 Trix - Power
5 Yossi Sassi - Melting Clocks
6 Trevor Rabin - Jacaranda
7 Astra - The Black Chord
8 Panzerballett - Tank Goodness
9 Rizengard - Chapter 21
10 Kettlespider - Avadante
11 Special Providence - Soul Alert

[RogorMortis]

I published my top 30 on Facebook, but here's they are to make sure. I obtained close to 300 2012's so there was plenty to chose from. But Tom Brislin came after the 1 December as that would have joined in the top 10.

1 Big Big Train, English Electric Part One
2 I And Thou, Speak
3 Cross, Wake Up Call
4 Echolyn, echolyn (2012)
5 Barock Project, Coffee In Neukolln
6 Flower Kings, The, Banks Of Eden
7 Kompendium Beneath The Waves
8 IZZ, Crush of Night
9 District 97, Trouble With Machines
10 RPWL, Beyond Man and Time
11 Alphataurus, AttosecondO
12 Hogarth & Barbieri, Not The Weapon But The Hand
13 Distorted Harmony, Utopia
14 Jadis, See Right Through You
15 Squackett, A Life Within A Day
16 Sebastian Hardie, Blueprint
17 Ange, Moyen-Age
18 Tim Morse Faithsicence
19 Marillion, Sounds That Can't Be Made
20 Kaipa, Vittjar
21 Steve Hacket Genesis Revisited II
22 Pineapple Thief, All The Wars
23 I/O Earth, Moments
24 Hasse Froberg Musical Companion, Powerplay
25 Mangala Vallis, Microsolco
26 Delusion Squared, Delusion Squared II
27 Thorne, Steve, Crimes & Reasons
28 Mike Keneally Wing Beat Fantastic - Songs written by Mike Keneally & Andy Partridge
29 Field Music Plumb
30 The Enid Invicta