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- Favourite Albums:

- Strom Corrosion - Storm Corrosion:

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- Dead Can Dance - Anastasis:

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- Swans - The Seer:

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- Soap&Skin - Narrow:

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- Esbjörn Svensson Trio - 301:

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- Beak> - BEAK>>:

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- Om - Advaitic Songs:

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- Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet:

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THRONE:
Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased?

Vision Thing (9/10):
Asva - Presences of Absences
Grails – Deep Politics
HTRK – Work, Work, Work
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Tartar Lamb – Polyimage of Known Exits
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres


Somewhere along the highway (8,5/10):
Autopsy – Macabre Eternal
Cut Hands – Afro Noise 1
Dead Skeletons – Dead Magick I, II
Der Blutharsch and the infinite church of the leading hand + Aluk Tolodo – A Collaboration
Joanna Syze – Rodina
Pentagram – Last Rites
Terra Tenebrosa – The Tunnels
Scorn – Yozza
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Tom Waits – Bad As Me

Flashing/Stifling (8/10):
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto – summvs
Amebix - Sonic Mass
Aosoth – III
Bad Sector – Chronoland
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Blood Ceremony – Living With the Ancients
Chelsea Wolfe – Ἀποκάλυψις
Drive – OST
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw – Night Gallery
Graveyard – Hisingen Blues
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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. (=) Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (1977) - 8.07
2. (=) Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991) - 8.00
3. (=) Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974) - 7.58
4. (=) Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night (1973) - 7.43
5. (=) Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club (1975) - 7.34
6. (=) Gnidrolog - In Spite Of Harry's Toenail (1972) - 7.15
7. (=) Ian Anderson - Thick As a Brick 2 (2012) - 7.10
8. (=) Anathema - Weather Systems (2012) - 7.07
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This chart shows Prog Rock acts sorted by average plays per listener. An attempt has been made to ensure that the chart is clean of acts that have a minority of listeners who artificially inflate the average play number, but as that task is essentially impossible, take this chart with a large pinch of salt.

Charts:LastFM Popularity|position changes|most played|new listeners|average play gains

1. (new) 541921 Porcupine Tree (Heavy Prog) (84.41)
2. (new) 100378 Аквариум (Prog Folk) (53.15)
3. (new) 836086 The Mars Volta (Heavy Prog) (41.60)
4. (new) 1076918 The Decemberists (Prog Folk) (40.38)
5. (new) 68516 Karnivool (Heavy Prog) (38.96)
6. (new) 513477 Frank Zappa (Avant-Prog) (38.89)
7. (new) 333097 King Crimson (Eclectic Prog) (38.79)
8. (new) 256825 Blackmore's Night (Prog Folk) (36.67)
9. (new) 281438 Ska-P (Neo-Prog Rock) (36.55)
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The 3 Game

Goal of the game is to discover new genres, new music, new artists, new songs.

Pick at least 3 artists off a random user's profile page or from the user's posts and shouts. Listen to at least 3 tracks by each artist. Move your favourite artists to your list of final picks. When you have 10 artists on your list of final picks you can advance to the next round.

The players:
Lars
Meg
Sweets
Razz
Leija
Didja
Nikki
Diana
Fabs
Chrissanna
Jürgen

lacksesepsotygh profile link: http://www.last.fm/user/lacksesepsotygh
3 Artists picked:
1. Robert Hood done
2. Biosphere done (final pick)
3. Boards of Canada done (final pick)

Browolf profile link: http://www.last.fm/user/browolf
3 Artists picked:
1. 808 State done
2. Acid House Kings done
3. Astrud Gilberto done

Legobanan profile link: http://www.last.fm/user/Legobanan
3 Artists picked:
1. Quasimoto done (final pick)
2. Shpongle done (final pick)
3. Artifakt done

erikstahl profile link: http://www.last.fm/user/erikstahl
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