SoundscapeMN's LISTS v. coming Top 10+ LISTS 2014-2024 per 10 Years on YouTube

[SoundscapeMN]

This a thread where I will be posting my favorite musical lists periodically. There are a couple of reasons why I am creating this topic:

-I have made and intend to make many favorite music based lists on other sites, namely in my blog and YouTube channel, and figured they may be worth sharing here
-I feel like there are many artists that have topics that I or maybe 1 or 2 others are fans of, but don't often see a lot of comments for, so making a specific thread or replying to an older topic for that artist/band would not warrant much interest in said topic, so it would be easier/better to just keep it in this consolidated thread to begin with
-The Boards "Lists" that are voted on by many here, while I have/like making my lists of course like others, and they are fun for many and I see their merit, I'm not sure they are for me. I feel like I would rather just Share mine here, in 1 topic.


This isn't a typical Top 50 Albums thread
I actually started one many years ago here, and never finished it. It was taking too much time, etc. I also recall around that time was when I had many life happenings that didn't help such as a Wedding to plan, etc.

I don't really know if I will be writing up blurbs for specific names, albums, songs really. I have found I am better at just sharing a FULL List all-at-once, and writing a Summary. While I'll admit, the Blurbs are great to read and add more, I find just creating a list and just giving an overview, to be easier/less stressful and less time consuming at this point. I suppose that could change at some point, or certain lists may include the big paragraph(s) for each item number ranked to include, but at least initially I know I'm much better at just writing a Summary.

The Lists will likely NOT be done as a COUNTDOWN. Just giving the whole lists at once, again, largely per time.

-This topic will be ONGOING per there is NO END of the list, or any LAST/FINAL LIST to include.
-The Lists will be updated and may be posted almost RANDOMLY. Both in how often they are updated/changed; it could be 1 a week, or it could be 1 per month, etc.
And on the actual kinds of lists. There's not going to be necessarily specific types of lists back-to-back-to-back.  1 week it might be favorite Marillion songs, the next week it might be favorite Album Covers, etc.

That all being said, here is the 1st list to share, it's a list of what I consider a massive part of my taste in music. I publshed it on my rateyourmusic page a little while ago, and have over the last few weeks made 13 Videos on YouTube going through it all, with the Final Top 10 Video put up today (12/16/22).

My Top 200+ (280 actually including Honorable Mentions) of Modern Progressive Art Rock albums:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/SoundscapeMN/favorite-modern-progressive-art-rock-albums-200-1/

This is kind of my Holy Bible of Rock music this Century.

Admittedly, it's a long, bloated list with many artists with several albums each included, but still warranted for me.

This really is my shit, and I feel like 1 of the only people who champions this hybrid of styles that connect through being progressive or artsy with modern rock/pop/folk/electronic/post/math/chamber music.

Certainly, it's not definitive, but it is the best I can do for now without overthinking for countless more hours/days/weeks/months or even years.

It's going to be reviewed in the coming days/weeks on the allmediareviews blog YouTube Channel likely starting 12/1/22.

1 Apes and Androids - Blood Moon
2 dredg - El cielo
3 Ours - Distorted Lullabies
4 Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
5 Kaddisfly - Set Sail the Prairie
6 The River Empires - The River Empires (Epilogue)
7 The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
8 Pepe Deluxé - Queen of the Wave
9 The Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse
10 Bend Sinister - Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers
11 Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
12 Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
13 Small Leaks Sink Ships - Face Yourself, and Remove Your Sandals
14 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
15 Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
16 Oceansize - Frames
17 Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
18 The Reign of Kindo - Rhythm, Chord & Melody
19 dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
20 Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats
21 Cloud Cult - Light Chasers
22 dredg - Catch Without Arms
23 The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
24 Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
25 Mutemath - Odd Soul
26 The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
27 Mew - Frengers
28 Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
29 Blackfield - Blackfield
30 The Stiletto Formal - ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta!
31 Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
32 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
33 The Velvet Teen - Elysium
34 Bend Sinister - Through the Broken City
35 Kimbra - Vows
36 Fair to Midland - Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
37 Anathema - Weather Systems
38 Foals - Total Life Forever
39 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
40 Umphrey's McGee - Mantis
41 Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
42 Cloud Cult - The Seeker
43 Archive - You All Look the Same to Me
44 The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection
45 Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away
46 Dirt Poor Robins - The Raven Locks (Acts 1-3)
47 3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me
48 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Terror and Everything After
49 The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South, the River North
50 House of Fools - Live and Learn
51 Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
52 Eldren - Miss Information Aged
53 Klimt 1918 - Dopoguerra
54 Three - The End Is Begun
55 Vuvuzela - The Hollow Choir
56 Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
57 Kiss Kiss - Reality vs. the Optimist
58 Small Leaks Sink Ships - Golden Calf
59 3 - Wake Pig
60 Lehto & Wright - Children's Songs
61 Mutemath - Mutemath
62 Dirt Poor Robins - Deadhorse
63 Fair to Midland - Inter.Funda.Stifle
64 夢中夢 [Mutyumu] - イリヤ -Il y a-
65 Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
66 The Family Crest - Beneath the Brine
67 The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional
68 Mutemath - Play Dead
69 Ours - Precious
70 Archive - Controlling Crowds
71 Kimbra - The Golden Echo
72 Bend Sinister - Small Fame
73 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
74 Muse - Absolution
75 Silverchair - Young Modern
76 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
77 The Antlers - Hospice
78 Kacica - Mosaic
79 Porcupine Tree - In absentia
80 The Reign of Kindo - Play With Fire
81 Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
82 Anathema -Distant Satellites
83 Vonavi - Reflection
84 Vennart - The Demon Joke
85 Gospel - The Loser
86 Murder by Death - Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing
87 Brice Plays Drums - Man the Animal Cannon
88 Time of Orchids - Sarcast While
89 The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
90 Oceansize - Effloresce
91 Foals - Antidotes
92 Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
93 Karnivool - Themata
94 Long Distance Calling - Trips
95 Sigur Rós- ( )
96 Doves - Lost Souls
97 Call Florence Pow - These Are the Plans
98 Anathallo - Floating World
99 The Family Crest - The War: Act I
100 Clann Zú - Rua
101 Ramona Falls - Intuit
102 東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen] - 大人 (Adult)
103 Warpaint - The Fool
104 Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
105 Self - Breakfast With Girls
106 Anathallo - Canopy Glow
107 Mew - + -
108/109 Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal/Animal!
110 Neverending White Lights - Act II: The Blood and the Life Eternal
111 Self - Gizmodgery
112 House of Fools - Versus the Beast
113 sElf - Ornament & Crime
114 Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema
115 Gatherer - So Be It
116 Team Me - To the Treetops
117 Anathallo - Luminous Luminescence in the Atlas Position
118 Murder by Death - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?
119 Pure Reason Revolution - Amor vincit omnia
120 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil
121 King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
122 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
123 The Receiving End of Sirens - The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
124 Jazzkamikaze - Supersonic Revolutions
125 Mutemath - Armistice
126 Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
127 Menomena - Friend and Foe
128 Ramona Falls - Prophet
129 Team Me - Blind as Night
130 Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
131 22 - Flux
132 Imogen Heap - Sparks
133 Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
134 Timmy Sean - Songs From & Inspired By Noisewater
135 Dream the Electric Sleep - Heretics
136 Grimus - Emergence
137 The Tea Party - The Ocean at the End
138 Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is a Mouth
139 Typhoon - White Lighter
140 Clone - Clone
141 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
142 Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies
143 Squid - Bright Green Field
144 Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady
145 The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives
146 Kindo - Happy However After
147 Childish Japes & Dave Vives - Salamander
148 The Family Crest - The War: Act II
149 Clann Zú - Black Coats & Bandages
150 Steven Wilson - To the Bone
151 dredg - Leitmotif
152 Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
153 東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen] - スポーツ (Sports)
154 Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1
155 Russian Circles - Enter
156 People for Audio - The New Ancients
157 Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
158 Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells
159 Battles - Mirrored
160 Neverending White Lights - Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies
161 Godspeed You Black Emperor- Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like to Heaven!
162 Umphrey's McGee - Anchor Drops
163 Vennart - In the Dead, Dead Wood
164 Local Natives - Hummingbird
165 As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take It With You
166 note. - my city of ghosts, stars and hours
167 The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South of Reality
168 The Mercury Tree - Countenance
169 A Formal Horse - Here Comes a Man From the Council With a Flamethrower
170 Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8
171 Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy Little Doves
172 Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
173 Local Natives - Violet Street
174 Kaddisfly- Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn
175 Dirt Poor Robins - Queen of the Night
176 Jimmy Gnecco - The Heart: X Edition
177 Local Natives - Sunlit Youth
178 Midlake - For the Sake of Bethel Woods
179 Bend Sinister - Animals
180 Adebisi Shank - This Is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
181 Giant Sky - Giant Sky
182 Cloud Cult - Love
183 The Mask of the Phantasm - New Axial Age
184 Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
185 Markéta Irglová - Muna
186 Timbre - Sun & Moon
187 The Dear Hunter - Migrant
188 Bent Knee - Say So
189 Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
190 Blackfield - Blackfield II
191 Muse - Origin of Symmetry
192 The Apples in stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
193 fields. Everything Last Winter
195 The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens
195 Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
196 Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
197 Annuals - Be He Me
198 Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
199 Emanuel and The Fear - Listen
200 The Chap - Mega Breakfast
201 A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Some excellent albums on there, dredg, Imogen, Anathema, Porcupine Tree, Pure Reason Revolution, Fair To Midland, Steven Wilson, Silverchair, Decemberists, Esperanza Spalding, Karnivool, Minus The Bear, The Tea Party, Muse, GY!BE in particular.  Reign of Kindo is one I finally started checking out a few months ago and they seem quite promising.  Numerous others I've heard varying amounts of, but the jury is still out. 

[SoundscapeMN]

thanks.

"Numerous" is a good way to describe that list.

I know you have talked about struggling to make a Top albums list. If you include this album, you need to also include these other albums, etc and it balloons out. My initial intention was to make it just 50 of those, and then some Honorable Mentions. And it just got to the point I had too hard of a time eliminating certain albums or artists, that I just said Fuck It and it ended up at 200+.

Some weeks later now after compiling it, I keep coming up with albums I forgot, lol.

[twosuitsluke]

My favourites from your list will come as no great surprise.


Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Oceansize - Frames
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
The Mars Volta - Deloused
Fair to Midland - Fables From a Mayfly
Anathema - Weather Systems
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
The Dear Hunter - Act I
The Dear Hunter - Act V
Vennart - The Demon Joke
The Dear Hunter - Act III
Oceansize - Effloresce
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Steven Wilson - To The Bone
The Dear Hunter - Migrant

I'd say I've probably heard over 50% of these albums, but many may have only been one spin.

Only one King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard though? What kind of blasphemy is this? Nonagon Infinity hasn't opened the door yet.

[SoundscapeMN]

I know you're really into The Dear Hunter twosuits, so I'm not surprised by that nor The Mars Volta. Among the stuff on that list you don't know, you might enjoy some of the other Chamber bands

Anathallo? Typhoon? The Family Crest? Cloud Cult? etc

or even just many of the bands I wrote about Recommended for Fans of The Dear Hunter in the blog here a few years ago.

King Gizzard, as I recall mentioning in the 2022 Tracker topic, it's not that I don't enjoy their other albums, but there are so many, and among the 5 or 6 outside of Polygonwanaland that I have listened to, they've ranged from being hit-and-miss to something I question whether I want to listen to again. A lot of that has to do with the production. But also it comes down to so many. They have 23, in the 10 years they've been releasing albums.

It's a bit overwhelming, and just based on time/priority. Kind of like trying to get into Zappa or maybe Tangerine Dream. There is a lot of great stuff in there, but knowing that, it will require some going through a lot of stuff I'm not as into to discover what are the cream of the crop per say, lol.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I know you have talked about struggling to make a Top albums list. If you include this album, you need to also include these other albums, etc and it balloons out. My initial intention was to make it just 50 of those, and then some Honorable Mentions. And it just got to the point I had too hard of a time eliminating certain albums or artists, that I just said Fuck It and it ended up at 200+.

Yeah, sometime after the Katatonia discography thread I'll be contemplating my top 50 albums list, and already having a decent draft of it, besides limiting it to one per artist, I intentionally cut out a few albums that are related side projects, and will just make reference to them and some of the albums cut in the main entry.  Those sort of posts are always just launching points anyway, some people talk only about the album, other people mention more peripheral music. 

[soupytwist]

Cool list.  Some I'll be sure to explore.

Love :
Mew.
Dear Hunter.
Dirt Poor Robins (surprised Dead Horse wasn't higher to be honest).
Coheed.
The Decemberists.

Like :
Muse.
Ours.
Anathema.
The Family Crest
Sufjan Stevens
Silverchair (although Young Modern is an odd choice!)
Wolf Parade

Not so keen :
Bent Knee.
Biffy.
Foals.

Surprise Omission :
Arcade Fire - Funeral and The Suburbs.

Things I think you'd like based on this list  :
Okkervil River (The 5 album run of Black Sheep Boy to The Silver Gymnasium is quality).
The Sleepy Jackson.

[SoundscapeMN]

Cool list.  Some I'll be sure to explore.

Love :
Mew.
Dear Hunter.
Dirt Poor Robins (surprised Dead Horse wasn't higher to be honest).
Coheed.
The Decemberists.

Like :
Muse.
Ours.
Anathema.
The Family Crest
Sufjan Stevens
Silverchair (although Young Modern is an odd choice!)
Wolf Parade

Not so keen :
Bent Knee.
Biffy.
Foals.

Surprise Omission :
Arcade Fire - Funeral and The Suburbs.

Things I think you'd like based on this list  :
Okkervil River (The 5 album run of Black Sheep Boy to The Silver Gymnasium is quality).
The Sleepy Jackson.

I kind of explained it on YouTube, with Silverchair, Young Modern has become my favorite Daniel Johns album. Why? I think it's maybe down to the production and how some of it stays with me for days. Diorama I like, but also find the Grunge element still present enough, that I don't listen to it as much. I know many fans feel the opposite though.

As for Arcade Fire: I'm not a fan. I've never cared for them, despite many comparisons and influence on bands I enjoy. The same can be said about Radiohead, Tool, The Flaming Lips, Explosions in the Sky, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces, Tame Impala, Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, Modest Mouse, Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear., Circa Survive, Portugal the Man, Closure in Moscow....and it seems dozens of others.

Okkervil River I remember hearing some stuff from about 15 years ago, and I kind of liked initially, but ultimately I didn't get into. I recall it had to do with  the vocals and maybe the almost overtly folk/singer-songwriter element which I do like at times, but have heard many artists whose music seems to fall into that formula. Perhaps it was not their best song/album that I heard? unsure.

I've never heard of Sleepy Jackson. Suggestions? what kind of music are they/who might you compare them to?

[soupytwist]

I've never heard of Sleepy Jackson. Suggestions? what kind of music are they/who might you compare them to?

Luke Steele's pre Empire of the Sun band.  I personally think Sleepy Jackson were much better, they only made two album of them the debut 'Lovers' is better. 

Yeah Okkervil River from your list are closest to The Decemberists - Folky, Indie, Storyteller.

I really like Young Modern too.  Just the fans and I believe even the band don't!

I'm going to check out dredg tonight - I know it's a band that crop up a lot in circles of other bands I like, but the name has always put me off!  But I'll give them ago tonight - best introduction song/album?

[SoundscapeMN]

I've never heard of Sleepy Jackson. Suggestions? what kind of music are they/who might you compare them to?

Luke Steele's pre Empire of the Sun band.  I personally think Sleepy Jackson were much better, they only made two album of them the debut 'Lovers' is better. 

Yeah Okkervil River from your list are closest to The Decemberists - Folky, Indie, Storyteller.

I really like Young Modern too.  Just the fans and I believe even the band don't!

I'm going to check out dredg tonight - I know it's a band that crop up a lot in circles of other bands I like, but the name has always put me off!  But I'll give them ago tonight - best introduction song/album?

actually, I did wishlist "Lovers" I think last year when I was checking out the Daniel Johns podcast. I recall he went on about adoring that band/album/project etc. I never got that into Empire of the Sun, nor Daniel and Luke's band Dreams unfortunately. But The Sleepy Jackson I may, just need to prioritize to check it out (maybe today or this week?).

As for Okkervil River..there may have been a Decemberists comparison?..I dunno, the album Bolded on rateyourmusic is Black Sheep Boy from 2005. That may have been the album I checked out so many years ago. I dunno, maybe I need to go on to Spotify and sample a few tunes and see if something clicks.

dredg? I might check out The Pariah, the Parrot the Delusion 1st per it's maybe their best album that features their different styles. El Cielo is conceptual and atmospheric, and Catch Without Arms is more melodic and poppy. Leitmotif is heavier and more raw. Pariah kind of blends those all into 1. Songs? "Gathering Pebbles," "Information," Ireland," "Quotes."

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Diorama I like, but also find the Grunge element still present enough, that I don't listen to it as much. I know many fans feel the opposite though.

Yeah, that's my favorite, though it's somewhat to just not spending enough time with the others.  The grunge influence varies track to track though, "One Way Mule" and "The Lever" has far more of it than "Across the Night" or "Tuna in the Brine", for example. 

[SoundscapeMN]

So, as stated, I'm not much for participating in the Group Lists Threads, but that doesn't mean I won't still make my own list.

And the Led Zeppelin Songs List topic hits home quite a bit for me, per Led Zeppelin are a bit of sacred ground to me per they were the 1st Rock band I really loved and they led to loving so many other bands/artists/albums.

And while I'm not the most versed in their entire catalog as some,  in-and-out, I do know it pretty damn well given how much time I spent with it around 30+ years ago when I was in High School.

And honestly, it's a pretty easy Catalog to rank compared to many others (Rush for example).

And as I mentioned on YouTube and in the blog, the top 10-15 songs are quite easily 10-15 of my favorite 100-200 songs ever.

So, here's my own Top 40+ Led Zeppelin Songs (also found on YouTube, rateyourmusic and the allmediareviews blog)



83   Bonzo's Montreux
82   Poor Tom
81   Royal Orleans
80   Candy Store Rock
79   Darlene
78   Ozone Baby
77   Rock and Roll
76   Black Dog
75   You Shook Me
74   Walter's Walk
73   Baby Come On Home
72   The Lemon Song
71   Tea for One
70   D'yer Mak'er
69   Hats off to (Roy) Harper
68   I Can't Quit You Baby
67   Black Country Woman
66   Whole Lotta Love
65   Boogie with Stu
64   Misty Mountain Hop
63   When the Levee Breaks
62   Hot Dog
61   All My Love
60   Communication Breakdown
59   Bron-Yr-Aur
58   We're Gonna Groove
57   Going to California
56   Hots On for Nowhere
55   Dancing Days
54   Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
53   Wearing and Tearing
52   Moby Dick
51   Heartbreaker
50   For Your Life
49   Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
48   Celebration Day
47   Custard Pie
46   Friends
45   The Rain Song
44   I'm Gonna Crawl
43   Fool in the Rain
42   Black Mountain Side
41   Down by the Seaside
40   Trampled Under Foot
39   South Bound Saurez
38   Your Time Is Gonna Come
37   The Crunge
36   Since I've Been Loving You
35   Hey, Hey, What Can I Do
34   In the Evening
33   Gallows Pole
32   Out on the Tiles
31   Dazed and Confused
30   Houses of the Holy
29   Good Times Bad Times
28   The Ocean
27   Travelling Riverside Blues
26   The Wanton Song
25   No Quarter
24   Nobody's Fault But Mine
23   That's the Way
22   Immigrant Song
21   Tangerine
20   Sick Again
19   Kashmir
18   Four Sticks
17   Night Flight
16   Thank You
15   Stairway to Heaven
14   What Is and What Should Never Be
13   Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
12   The Rover
11   Bring It On Home
10   The Battle of Evermore
9   The Song Remains the Same
8   Carouselambra
7   How Many More Times
6   Ten Years Gone
5   Over the Hills and Far Away
4   In the Light
3   In My Time of Dying
2   Ramble On
1   Achilles Last Stand

[Stadler]

Huh; the individual songs might not line up, but the "group" of songs you have at the bottom and you have at the top sort of mirror mine. 

Nice list.

[SoundscapeMN]

So, like the Modern Progressive Art Rock list, this 1 ballooned up to 200 albums and also with many that I likely didn't include (Alcest and Eluvetie albums included).

I have begun babbling on YouTube about this list, and was going to wait to post it in here and Social Media until I finished, but have figured, most don't watch the YouTube videos anyway (esp when they are long/so many of them to cover so long of a list), or if they actually do, would probably be interested in seeing the list 1st anyway.

That being said, I do look to go on about so many of these progressive and extreme metal albums that I enjoy on there, but in the mean time, here's the list. I'm sure a large percentage of people around here have and also will make similar lists. Although I suspect a lot of them may not include so many of the Extreme Metal albums outside of Opeth and Between the Buried and Me mostly.

I did mention in the 1st YouTube video, the 1st thought was to separate the Traditional Dream Theater-style/Clean Vocals Prog Metal albums from the Albums that come from bands using non-clean vocals and being more experimental/avant-garde and incorporating Death Metal and Metalcore. But what I noticed was how the Traditional Prog Metal list was somewhat just a list of 8-10 bands catalogs ranked which came across as rather homogenous. So, by combining the 2 styles of Metal, it at least seems like somewhat of a more varied list of names.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/SoundscapeMN/favorite-progressive-and-extreme-metal-albums-201-1/

This is a list of pretty much my Favorite Progressive (progressive)/Prog and Extreme/Experimental/Atmospheric/Post Metal albums

Admittedly, it's a long, bloated list with many artists with several albums each included, but still warranted for me.

I know there's some names and titles that are not here for various reasons;

-I'm not a fan (Tool, most Meshuggah and Devin Townsend, Haken, Seventh Wonder, Redemption...and many other names).
-I don't know the albums/bands well enough (Death, Dissection, Epel Duath, Atheist, Gordian Knot, some Martyr and Green Carnation albums)
-I forgot about the album (which could be edited at least later on in text form and maybe a Redux like in a year?)

Also some albums are lower than some might expect, that is largely due to my overall interest and familiarity with them. Some though, I just find not nearly as good as other fans. It's that simple. Much like Yes's Close to the Edge or maybe more so, Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet.

Some bands and albums might not really often be described as "Prog" or "progressive"..I guess I don't really care so much if their sound, style and genre is not exactly that, per they still fall under the umbrella and are Metal that I enjoy at least.

Certainly, it's not definitive, but it is the best I can do for now without overthinking for countless more hours/days/weeks/months or even years.

It's going to be reviewed in the coming days/weeks on the allmediareviews blog YouTube Channel likely starting 1/8/23.

1 Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
2 Dream Theater - Awake
3 Angra - Holy Land
4 Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
5 Dream Theater - Images and Words
6 John Arch -  A Twist of Fate
7 Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
8 maudlin of the Well - Bath / Leaving Your Body Map
9 Between the Buried and Me - Colors
10 Soundscape - Discovery
11 Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face
12 Burst - Lazarus Bird
13 Savatage - Handful of Rain
14 Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
15 Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
16 Protest the Hero - Kezia
17 Cynic - Focus
18 Fates Warning - Disconnected
19 Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
20 Opeth - Ghost Reveries
21 Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
22 Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven
23 In Vain - The Latter Rain
24 Fates Warning - No Exit
25 Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
26 Sculptured - Embodiment
27 Faith No More - The Real Thing
28 Spawn of Possession - Incurso
29 Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
30 Superior - Younique
31 Shaman - Ritual
32 Queensrÿche - Promised Land
33 Soundscape - Grave New World
34 Fates Warning - Parallels
35 Martyr - Feeding the Abscess
36 Angra - Angels Cry
37 Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
38 Toehider - I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories
39 Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
40 East of the Wall - The Apologist
41 Shadow Gallery - Shadow Gallery
42 Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
43 The Faceless - Akeldama
44 System of a Down - Mezmerize
45 Opeth - Deliverance
46 SikTh - Death of a Dead Day
47 OSI - Office of Strategic Influence
48 Pain of Salvation - Entropia
49 System of a Down - Toxicity
50 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
51 Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
52 Vektor - Black Future
53 Vektor - Outer Isolation
54 Extreme - III Sides to Every Story
55 Savatage - Edge of Thorns
56 Faith No More - Angel Dust
57 Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
58 Queensrÿche - Empire
59 In Vain - Ænigma
60 Crimson Glory - Transcendence
61 Angra - Fireworks
62 Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
63 Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
64 SikTh - Opacities
65 Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
66 Vektor - Terminal Redux
67 Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone
68 Superior - Behind
69 Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
70 Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
71 Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
72 Dream Theater - Octavarium
73 Painted in Exile - Revitalized
74 Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
75 The End - Elementary
76 Native Construct - Quiet World
77 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil
78 Pain of Salvation - Be
79 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
80 Protest the Hero - Fortress
81 Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
82 Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
83 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
84 Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
85 Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
86 Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar
87 Opeth - Blackwater Park
88 Fates Warning - FWX
89 Dream Theater - Train of Thought
90 Opeth - Still Life
91 Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
92 Arafel - For Battles Once Fought
93 Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
94 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
95 Galactic Cowboys - Galactic Cowboys
96 Saigon Kick - Devil in the Details
97 Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
98 Russian Circles - Enter
99 Ihsahn - After
100 Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
101 Devin Townsend / Biomech - Ocean Machine
102 Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
103 The Contortionist - Language
104 Shadow Gallery - Room V
105 Evergrey - In Search of Truth
106 Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
107 Meshuggah - I
108 Royal Hunt - Paradox
109 Orphaned Land - All Is One
110 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
111 Burst - Origo
112 Persefone - Spiritual Migration
113 East of the Wall - Farmer's Almanac
114 Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
115 Mastodon - Leviathan
116 Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
117 SikTh - The Future in Whose Eyes?
118 Textures - Phenotype
119 For the Imperium - For the Imperium
120 Andre Matos - Time to Be Free
121 Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
122 Journal - Unlorja
123 maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
124 Unexpect - Utopia
125 SikTh - The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild
126 Sculptured - Apollo Ends
127 Arch / Matheos - Winter Ethereal
128 What's Left of Her - Perceptions
129 Subterranean Masquerade - Temporary Psychotic State
130 Necrophagist - Epitaph
131 MullMuzzler - Keep It to Yourself
132 Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
133 A Dying Planet - Facing the Incurable
134 Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire
135 Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm
136 Demians - Building an Empire
137 Shaman - Reason
138 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
139 Superior - Ultima Ratio
140 Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
141 Cynic-  Kindly Bent to Free Us
142 Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
143 Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
144 Disillusion - Ayam
145 Opeth - Watershed
146 Toehider - I LIKE IT!
147 Queensrÿche Queensrÿche
148 Metropolis Behind Mysterious Walls
149 The Kris Norris Projekt - Icons of the Illogical
150 Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
151 Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
152 Subterranean Masquerade - Vagabond
153 Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror
154 Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy
155 In Vain - Currents
156 Saigon Kick - The Lizard
157 Arch / Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
158 Without Warning - Believe
159 Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
160 Born of Osiris - The New Reign
161 Mastodon - Blood Mountain
162 Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear
163 Savatage - Gutter Ballet
164 Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
165 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
166 Behemoth - Demigod
167 Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
168 Watchtower - Concepts of Math: Book One
169 Shaolin Death Squad - Intelligent Design
170 Sculptured - The Spear of the Lily Is Aureoled
171 Protest the Hero - Volition
172 Textures - Drawing Circles
173 Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
174 The Arusha Accord - The Echo Verses
175 Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
176 Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
177 Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
178 Ideology - Ideology
179 Agalloch - The Mantle
180 Leprous - Coal
181 The Human Abstract - Nocturne
182 Voivod - Nothingface
183 Presto Ballet - Peace Among the Ruins
184 Queensrÿche - The Warning
185 Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto for Futurism
186 Queensrÿche - Rage for Order
187 Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
188 Lemur Voice - Insights
189 Without Warning - Step Beyond
190 Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
191 Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
192 Pain of Salvation - Panther
193 Saigon Kick - Water
194 Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
195 Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
196 Seventh Sign - Perpetual Destiny
197 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
198 The Quiet Room - Introspect
199 Altura - Mercy
200 Shaolin Death Squad - Five Deadly Venoms
201 Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace

[wolfking]

Nice seeing a underrated album like Handful of Rain so high on that list.

[SoundscapeMN]

yeah, I love that record, although part of why it is that high is given it was my introduction to Savatage, and it holds a lot of sentimental value to me.

[twosuitsluke]

Great list, my favourites are as follows, in the order I'd personally rank...


20 Opeth - Ghost Reveries
161 Mastodon - Blood Mountain
39 Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
115 Mastodon - Leviathan
83 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
150 Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
49 System of a Down - Toxicity
145 Opeth - Watershed
5 Dream Theater - Images and Words
87 Opeth - Blackwater Park
72 Dream Theater - Octavarium
100 Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
101 Devin Townsend / Biomech - Ocean Machine
44 System of a Down - Mezmerize
90 Opeth - Still Life
45 Opeth - Deliverance
177 Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
180 Leprous - Coal
190 Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
116 Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
16 Protest the Hero - Kezia
8 maudlin of the Well - Bath / Leaving Your Body Map
93 Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
191 Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
165 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
195 Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
154 Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy
66 Vektor - Terminal Redux
9 Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2 Dream Theater - Awake
21 Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
79 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
76 Native Construct - Quiet World
62 Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
99 Ihsahn - After
125 SikTh - The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild
29 Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
80 Protest the Hero - Fortress
27 Faith No More - The Real Thing
167 Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
17 Cynic - Focus
132 Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
144 Disillusion - Ayam
117 SikTh - The Future in Whose Eyes?
112 Persefone - Spiritual Migration
138 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
89 Dream Theater - Train of Thought
78 Pain of Salvation - Be
140 Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
50 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
94 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
103 The Contortionist - Language
171 Protest the Hero - Volition
25 Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
91 Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
107 Meshuggah - I
179 Agalloch - The Mantle
46 SikTh - Death of a Dead Day
7 Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
173 Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
48 Pain of Salvation - Entropia
1 Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
97 Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

[billboy73]

Lots of great stuff that I love on both of your lists.  Nice to see some Umphrey's McGee on your list as well.  Anchor Drops is probably my favorite, but I like the London Sessions a lot too. 

[SoundscapeMN]

Lots of great stuff that I love on both of your lists.  Nice to see some Umphrey's McGee on your list as well.  Anchor Drops is probably my favorite, but I like the London Sessions a lot too.

thanks, yeah I enjoy The London Sessions as well, although I haven't gone back to it in a long time. And some of their others (Similar Skin), but Anchor Drops and Mantis are my top 2. Anchor Drops has a ton of great moments on it.

So I did a Kevin Gilbert Top 75 Songs list (and long 1 hour video on YouTube)

Kevin Gilbert is my favorite musician. Despite his short career, he was rather prolific, playing in several bands and releasing music under his own name, including a significant portion of recordings that came out officially, posthumously.

His estate has been releasing a lot of content since his death in 1996, and plans to continue to (soon to be entirely digital/streaming).

But this is a list of my top 75 Tracks from his career for now as of 1/23/23. An Update/2.0/Redux may happen at some point.

note: I go over the several versions (arrangements, re-recordings) in a video on my YouTube channel here. This list does not include multiple versions of any songs ("Because of You" and "Shrug (Because of Me and You)" I'm not really counting), although that may change at some point on an updated list.



1   Tired Old Man Suite
2   Last Plane Out
3   Water Under The Bridge
4   Image Maker
5   Kashmir
6   Home/Progress
7   Air Dance
8   Finally Over You
9   Goodness Gracious
10   The Best Laid Plans
11   The Way Back Home
12   Remember My Name
13   Things She Said
14   This Warm Night
15   Shrug (Because Of Me And You)
16   Shadow Self
17   Big Heart
18   Waiting
19   Rain Suite (A. If Ever Rain Will Fall/B. Broken Ties)
20   The City Of The Sun
21   Back In NYC
22   Because Of You
23   Goodbye L.A.
24   Masques
25   The Tears Of Audrey
26   When Strangers Part
27   From Here To There
28   Tea For One
29   The World Just Gets Smaller
30   Queen Of Misery
31   A Long Day's Life
32   The Toy Matinee
33   Childhood's End
34   The Ballad Of Jenny Ledge
35   Joytown
36   Suit Fugue (Dance of the A&R Men)
37   Until I Get Her Back
38   Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding/Burn Down The Mission
39   The Best Of Everything
40   We Always Come Home
41   Staring Into Nothing
42   Certifiable #1 Smash
43   There Was A Little Boy
44   Turn It On Salvador
45   All Fall Down
46   Never Say Never
47   Parade
48   Ghetto Of Beautiful Things
49   Waiting For The Rain
50   Lonely Road
51   Blank Page
52   Walking In Your Shoes
53   When You Give Your Love To Me
54   The Colony Of Slippermen
55   El Paso
56   Siberian Khatru
57   Johnny's Last Song
58   Song For A Dead Friend
59   God's Been Tapping My Phone
60   Danarae
61   Circling Winds
62   The Sultan Of Brunei
63   I Will Survive
64   Sometimes Why
65   Nightmares
66   Schizophrenia
67   Miss Broadway
68   Taxi Ride
69   Finale
70   While Heroes Cry
71   Welcome Home
72   Souvenir
73   Terpsichorean
74   Suitcase Living
75   Waking The Sun

[SoundscapeMN]

not anything out of the ordinary around here of course, but here's my list of my Top 76 Dream Theater songs.

A relatively definitive ranking of my favorite songs from Dream Theater, who truth be, were at 1 time one-of, if not my favorite band. So, I have a rather strong passion for their early and much of the middle period of their career.

At the same time, clearly there is an absence of most of the Mike Mangini stuff, per my interest in the band has waned even more than it had in the late-Portnoy era of the band.

The plan is to review this list on the allmediareviews YouTube channel around Wednesday March 1, 2023.

1 A Change of Seasons(demo)
2 Scarred
3 Space Dye-Vest
4 Finally Free
5 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6 A Change of Seasons
7 Octavarium
8 Blind Faith
9 Learning to Live
10 The Count of Tuscany
11 Raise the Knife
12 Voices
13 The Great Debate
14 Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper   
15 Lines in the Sand
16 Lie   
17 Innocence Faded
18 The Best of Times
19 Speak to Me
20 Misunderstood
21 Peruvian Skies
22 New Millenium
23 Home
24 Strange Deja Vu
25 One Last Time
26 Surrounded
27 The Killing Hand
28 6:00
29 Trial of Tears
30 Yste Jam
31 Under a Glass Moon
32 Take the Time   
33 A Fortune in Lies
34 In the Name of God
35 The Glass Prison
36 In the Presence of Enemies
37 To Live Forever
38 Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
39 Only a Matter of Time
40 The Way It Used To Be
41 The Mirror
42 Pull Me Under   
43 Don't Look Past Me
44 The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
45 Regression/Overture 1928
46 Another Day   
47 These Walls
48 Erotomania
49 You Or Me
50 Where Are You Now?
51 Cover My Eyes
52 Anna Lee
53 Status Seeker   
54 Burning My Soul   
55 Wait for Sleep
56 The Dance of Eternity
57 Light Fuse and Get Away
58 Hell's Kitchen
59 Endless Sacrifice
60 Forsaken   
61 Caught in a Web   
62 Hollow Years   
63 Stream of Consciousness
64 Beyond This Life
65 The Spirit Carries On
66 Breaking All Illusions
67 Take Away My Pain
68 Afterlife   
69 Honor Thy Father
70 Prophets of War
71 Fall Into the Light   
72 Through My Words/Fatal Tragedy
73 Disappear
74 The Silent Man   
As I Am (2003) [Single]
75 As I Am   
76 Eve

77-111 are included at the top here: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/SoundscapeMN/top-76-dream-theater-songs/

[Elite]

What’s the deal with the demo version being at the top?

[SoundscapeMN]

from the list on my rym:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/SoundscapeMN/top-100-marillion-songs-ranked/

Marillion are my favorite band. They have been for more than 25 years. So I am a fanboy and have both a huge bias and also some serious HAIR SPLITTING trying to rank so many songs I love against eachother.

This list, like all of the lists I've been making the last few years, is from Pubmeeple.com, and some tunes ended up a little lower than I might have expected.

It is 100 songs listed, out of approximately 184 songs total, which includes Marillion most recent album from 2022 An Hour Before It's Dark.
Some demos and renamed tracks did not get included (maybe they will for a redux version at some point?).
I've long considered Misplaced Childhood a *Suite* really of songs/parts/movements, but I decided to include all the tracks separately. By contrast, I decided to consider all the "Marbles" parts as 1 suite.

1 Grendel
2 The Invisible Man
3 Ocean Cloud
4 The Great Escape
5 Afraid Of Sunlight
6 That Time Of The Night (The Short Straw)
7 Warm Wet Circles
8 This Town/The Rakes Progress/100 Nights
9 Hard As Love
10 Berlin
11 Runaway
12 King
13 Interior Lulu
14 A Few Words For The Dead
15 The Leavers
16 Easter
17 Slainte Mhath
18 Heart Of Lothian
19 Script For A Jester's Tear
20 Genie
21 Seasons End
22 The Party
23 These Chains
24 Fugazi
25 Sierra Leone
26 Sympathy
27 Half Full Jam
28 Garden Party
29 Cinderella Search
30 Gazpacho
31 Quartz
32 Neverland
33 Just For The Record
34 Childhoods End?
35 Incommunicado
36 Drilling Holes
37 Bitter Suite
38 Don't Hurt Yourself
39 Three Minute Boy
40 Sugar Mice
41 Trap The Spark
42 Beautiful
43 Torch Song
44 Lavender
45 Goodbye To All That
46 Happiness Is The Road
47 Whatever Is Wrong With You
48 The Last Straw
49 The Answering Machine
50 Made Again
51 Marbles Suite
52 This Strange Engine
53 Rich
54 Hotel Hobbies
55 Lords Of The Backstage
56 If My Heart Were A Ball It Would Roll Uphill
57 The Man From The Planet Marzipan
58 The New Kings
59 Fantastic Place
60 White Russian
61 You're Gone
62 The King Of Sunset Town
63 Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
64 Marouatte Jam (Instrumental)
65 Somewhere Else
66 Sounds That Can't Be Made
67 The Web
68 This Is The 21st Century
69 After Me
70 Brave
71 Real Tears For Sale
72 A Legacy
73 Blind Curve
74 The Space
75 Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury
76 Deserve
77 The Fruit Of The Wild Rose
78 House
79 When I Meet God
80 Separated Out
81 Lady Nina
82 Map Of The World
83 Living In F E A R
84 Care
85 Charting The Single
86 Wrapped Up In Time
87 Man Of A Thousand Faces
88 Number One
89 A Voice From The Past
90 Kayleigh
91 Under The Sun
92 The Hollow Man
93 Angelina
94 Montreal
95 Power
96 Go!
97 Cathedral Wall
98 Living With The Big Lie
99 Cannibal Surf Babe
100 Paper Lies

--------------------------

101 Chelsea Monday
102 El Dorado
103 The Release
104 Between You And Me
105 The Carol Of The Bells
106 The Uninvited Guest
107 The Only Unforgivable Thing
108 Market Square Heroes
109 Assassing
110 Out Of This World
111 Gaza
112 A State Of Mind
113 Thunder Fly
114 Three Boats Down From The Candy
115 Forgotten Sons
116 Estonia
117 Splintering Heart
118 Going Under
119 Be Hard On Yourself
120 Asylum Satellite #1
121 The Damage
122 Afraid Of Sunrise
123 He Knows You Know
124 Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)
125 Built-In Bastard Radar
126 White Feather
127 Beyond You
128 Freaks
129 Bridge
130 Dry Land
131 This Train Is My Life
132 Hooks In You
133 Tux On
134 Enlightened
135 Holloway Girl
136 One Fine Day
137 Hope For The Future
138 Memory Of Water
139 The Bell In The Sea
140 Murder Machines
141 Pseudo Silk Kimono
142 Holidays In Eden
143 The Wound
144 A Collection
145 Born To Run
146 The Crow And The Nightingale
147 No Such Thing
148 Tumble Down The Years
149 Incubus
150 Nothing Fills The Hole
151 Punch And Judy
152 The Sky Above The Rain
153 Jigsaw
154 No One Can
155 It's Not Your Fault
156 Dreamy Street
157 Margaret
158 An Accidental Man
159 Essence
160 Only A Kiss (Instrumental)
161 I Will Walk On Water
162 Faith
163 Costa Del Slough
164 Half The World
165 Reprogram The Gene
166 Tic-Tac-Toe
167 Invisible Ink
168 How Can It Hurt
169 80 Days
170 She Chameleon
171 Icon
172 The Last Century For Man
173 Emerald Lies
174 Waiting To Happen
175 Live Forever
176 White Paper
177 You Don't Need Anyone
178 The Other Half
179 Lucky Man
180 See It Like A Baby
181 Now She'll Never Know
182 Pour My Love
183 Thank You, Whoever You Are
184 Most Toys

[HOF]

Interesting top 10! Don’t know how many Marillion fans have Grendel as their number 1 song! I do agree that the This Town trilogy is really good and in general it seems a bit underrated. Nobody likes Most Toys, but I kind of dig it. I can think of songs I like less than it at least (Last Century for Man, A Legacy, She Chameleon).

[lonestar]

Interesting that you make This Town et Al a trilogy but not Hotel Hobbies

[faizoff]

not anything out of the ordinary around here of course, but here's my list of my Top 76 Dream Theater songs.




1 A Change of Seasons(demo)

Is this the demo you're referring to?
A Change of Seasons (Vocalist Audition Demo 1990) - YouTube


Very intriguing to have that as your fav DT track.

[HOF]

Also, Half Empty Jam at 27? That’s a surprise!

[SoundscapeMN]

not anything out of the ordinary around here of course, but here's my list of my Top 76 Dream Theater songs.




1 A Change of Seasons(demo)

Is this the demo you're referring to?
A Change of Seasons (Vocalist Audition Demo 1990) - YouTube


Very intriguing to have that as your fav DT track.

similar, but the version with LaBrie is the one I'm referring to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynJzS649AZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQk_kYpjWPA

LaBrie never did falsetto vocals better for me. Also the arrangement I've always preferred.

[SoundscapeMN]

Interesting that you make This Town et Al a trilogy but not Hotel Hobbies

well the Warm Wet Circles and That Time of the Night were both released as singles.

I dunno, I have never heard those 3 This Town tunes separately I guess, I'm unsure how to rate each 1.

The band has played the 3 Clutching tunes separately live many times from memory.

[SoundscapeMN]

Also, Half Empty Jam at 27? That’s a surprise!

  Half Full Jam..the energy is so good to end the 1st disc of Happiness.

[HOF]

Also, Half Empty Jam at 27? That’s a surprise!

  Half Empty Jam..the energy is so good to end the 1st disc of Happiness.

Can’t say I’ve even listened to it since I first got the album. Don’t think I even ripped it to my computer. In general I thought the ending of Essence was a little disappointing (don’t really like the song HITR). I like most of that disc otherwise.

[SoundscapeMN]

Also, Half Empty Jam at 27? That’s a surprise!

  Half Empty Jam..the energy is so good to end the 1st disc of Happiness.

Can’t say I’ve even listened to it since I first got the album. Don’t think I even ripped it to my computer. In general I thought the ending of Essence was a little disappointing (don’t really like the song HITR). I like most of that disc otherwise.

correction:
Half *Full* Jam

[Stadler]

Interesting that you make This Town et Al a trilogy but not Hotel Hobbies

well the Warm Wet Circles and That Time of the Night were both released as singles.

I dunno, I have never heard those 3 This Town tunes separately I guess, I'm unsure how to rate each 1.

The band has played the 3 Clutching tunes separately live many times from memory.

I knew they played Hotel Hobbies without "WWC/TTOTN", but I didn't know they split those other two.   Interesting.

That's a very Hogarth heavy top half, which is fine, but none of my Hogarth favorites are there:  Neverland, King Of Sunset Town, After Me...


I've been in a pretty big Marillion mode for the last couple weeks (By the way, if you like the new one, find the instrumental version from the DVD: it's KILLER). I'm not fresh on Happiness or This Strange Engine, but I can review... maybe I'll do my list.

[HOF]

I've been in a pretty big Marillion mode for the last couple weeks (By the way, if you like the new one, find the instrumental version from the DVD: it's KILLER).

 

Those are really great. A lot of cool stuff going on instrumentally on that album.

I’m hopping we could get maybe 15+ people to do a Marillion top 100 or whatever.

[SoundscapeMN]

bump.

I am celebrating 10 years on YouTube over the next few weeks, and decided to do a few of Top 10+ lists from the last 10 years as a restrospective.

I'm going to go over them in likely more than 1 livestream on YouTube, 1st one is planned for tonight (3/5/24) at 7PM Central.

Favotire New Bands (to me)
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Favorite Concerts

+ non-music, like Movies, Television Shows, etc

I'll pass along the stream link and lists.