Domingo 1 Jan 2012, 4h:25
When rating prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire body of prog. 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 does not include compilations or live albums.
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. (=) Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2 - 7.09
2. (new) Big Big Train - English Electric, Part One - 6.98
3. (-1) Änglagård - Viljans Öga - 6.70
4. (-1) Magma - Félicité Thösz - 6.66
5. (-1) Tusmørke - Underjordisk Tusmørke - 6.61
6. (-1) Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited II - 6.52
7. (-1) The Boot Lagoon - The Boot Lagoon (EP) - 6.46
8. (-1) Edison's Children - A Millions Away (EP) - 6.28
9. (-1) Ornithos - La Trasfigurazione - 6.25
10. (-1) Kotebel - Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble - 6.21
11. (-1) Alphataurus - Attosecondo - 6.21
12. (-1) Galahad - Battle Scars - 6.18
13. (-1) Citizen Cain - Skies Darken - 6.15
14. (-1) Psycho Praxis - Echoes from the Deep - 6.12
15. (-1) Elephant9 - Atlantis - 6.05
16. (-1) Lalle Larsson - Nightscapes - 5.97
17. (-1) The Prognosis - Beneath Box Hill (EP) - 5.93
18. (-1) Comus - Out of the Coma - 5.91
19. (-1) It Bites - Map of the Past - 5.91
20. (-1) Trioscapes - Separate Realities - 5.90
21. (-1) I and Thou - Speak - 5.79
22. (-1) Beardfish - The Void - 5.78
23. (-1) Galahad - Beyond the Realms of Euphoria - 5.75
24. (-1) Il Bacio della Medusa - Deus Lo Vult - 5.73
25. (-1) Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made - 5.72
26. (-1) Panzerpappa - Astromalist - 5.67
27. (-1) L'ombra della sera - L'ombra della sera - 5.62
28. (-1) Kompendium - Beneath the Waves - 5.61
29. (-1) Mostly Autumn - A Weather for Poets - 5.56
30. (-1) Silhouette - Across the Rubicon - 5.51
31. (-1) Mogador - Absinthe Tales of Romantic Visions - 5.51
32. (-1) TEE (The Earth Explorer) - Trans-Europe Expression - 5.50
33. (-1) Cucamonga - Alter Huevo - 5.48
34. (-1) echolyn - Echolyn - 5.47
35. (-1) Alan Reed - First in a Field of One - 5.35
36. (-1) Colin Mold - Girl on the Castle Steps - 5.33
37. (-1) Riversea - Out of an Ancient World - 5.29
38. (-1) Gosia - Fear of Ourselves (EP) - 5.28
39. (-1) Eclat - L'Esprit du Cercle - 5.27
40. (-1) Barock Project - Coffee in Neukölln - 5.26
41. (-1) Mostly Autumn - The Ghost Moon Orchestra - 5.26
42. (-1) RPWL - Beyond Man and Time - 5.24
43. (-1) Children of Nova - Impossible Landscape - 5.19
44. (-1) Argos - Cruel Symmetry - 5.16
45. (-1) Syndone - La bella e la bestia - 5.16
46. (-1) Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - 5.15
47. (-1) The Far Meadow - Where Joys Abound - 5.09
48. (-1) IZZ - Crush of Night - 5.00
49. (-1) Mangala Vallis - Microsolco - 5.00
50. (-1) El Doom & The Born Electric - El Doom & The Born Electric - 4.95
51. (-1) Randy George - Action Reaction - 4.94
52. (-1) Paul Cusick - P'dice - 4.93
53. (-1) Unitopia - Covered Mirror Vol. 1 - Smooth as Silk - 4.84
54. (-1) Cryptic Vision - Of Infinite Possibilities - 4.84
55. (-1) IOEarth - Moments - 4.84
56. (-1) Neal Morse - Momentum - 4.82
57. (-1) Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone - 4.82
58. (-1) Gandalf's Project - Insights - 4.79
59. (-1) Höstsonaten - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Chapter One) - 4.77
60. (-1) Mystery - The World Is a Game - 4.76
61. (-1) Centric Jones - The Anitkythera Method - 4.70
62. (-1) Manning - Akoustic - 4.67
63. (-1) Cross - Wake Up Call - 4.57
64. (-1) Six Elements - Primary Elements - 4.45
65. (-1) IMPULSO de los sonidos inconscientes - Mente y Gravedad - 4.33
66. (-1) Rush - Clockwork Angels - 4.26
67. (-1) Focus - X - 4.24
68. (-1) Red Sand - Behind the Mask - 4.20
69. (=) Van der Graaf Generator - ALT - 4.09
70. (-2) The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden - 4.05
71. (-1) Profusion - RewoToweR - 4.05
72. (-1) Slychosis - Fractured Eye - 4.04
73. (-1) The Prog Collective - The Prog Collective - 4.00
74. (-1) The Rome Pro(G)ject - A Musical Walk Through the History & The Places, The Greatness & The Beauty of the Eternal City - 3.90
75. (-1) Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion - 3.51
76. (-1) Coalition - In Search of Forever - 3.05
77. (-1) Superdensecrushloadfactor - Decease Estates - 2.93
78. (-1) Docker's Guild - The Mystic Technocracy, Season 1: The Age of Ignorance - 2.79
TO BE RATED…
79. Ange - Moyen-âge
80. Presto Ballet - Relic of the Modern World
81. Glass Hammer - Perilous
82. Farmers Market - Slav to the Rhythm
83. Chris Picton - Still Life
84. Magenta - Live: on Our Way to Who Knows Where
85. Stepan Project - Lumina
86. XII Alfonso - Charles Darwin
87. Unit Wail - Pangaea Proxima