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