Best Albums Of 2012: non-prog edition

[Jerjo]

Still compiling my list but I think I see a four man band from California making a big run at the top spot.

[Serendipity]

Oh what the heck:

Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears
Paul Gilbert - Vibrato
Kiss - Monster
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last of a Dying Breed
Santana - Shape Shifter
Iron Maiden - En Vivo!
Warren Haynes - Live at The Moody Theater

[CybrKhatru]

Dry The River - Shallow Bed

[Duncan Glenday]

NOT PROG!!

;)

But this might actually be a very interesting thread.

Can we add metal and extreme metal albums?

[walt]

Don Preston-Filters,Oscillators &Envelopes 1967-82
John Cage-The Works For Percussion 2-Third Coast Percussion
Laurie Spiegel-The Expanding Universe
Trad Dads,Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers British Jazz 1961-1975
F.C. Judd-Electronics Without Tears
Captain Beefheart-Bat Chain Puller
Lovelock-Burning Feeling
Steve Moore-Light Echoes
T.R. Mahalingam-Portrait of a Prodigy-His Early Years 1940s-1950s
Jazz Band de Free-Ego
Gary Burton QuartetIn Concert-Live at Carnegie Recital Hall 1968
Sam Rivers- Dave Holland-Barry Altschul-Reunion-Live In New York
Carl Ruggles-The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles

[mogrooves]

Steve Lehman Trio - Dialect Flourescent
Matthew Shipp Trio - Elastic Aspects
Tyshawn Sorey - Oblique - 1
Joe Locke/Geoff Keezer - Signing
Wadada Leo Smith - Dark Lady of the Sonnets
John Adams - Son of Chamber Symphony
Ronnie Cuber - Infra-Rae
John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes
Darius Jones Quartet - Book of Mae'bul
Trio M - The Guest House
Eugene Chadbourne/Warren Smith - Odd Time
Tim Berne - Snakeoil
Fly ~ Year of The Snake
Joe Chambers ~ Moving Pictures Orchestra
Kenny Wheeler ~ The Long Waiting
Wayne Escoffery ~ The Only Son Of One
Joe McPhee & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten ~ Brooklyn DNA
John Luther Adams ~ Songbirdsongs
Philip Glass ~ Symphony #9
Billy Hart ~ All Our Reasons
The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles
Henry Threadgill ~ Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry
Evan Ziporyn ~ Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Orrin Evans ~ Flip The Script
So Percussion ~ Where (We) Live
Donnacha Dennehy ~ Stainless Staining
Joe Morris ~ Altitude
Steve Davis ~ Gettin' It Done
David S. Ware ~ Planetary Unknown
Insub Meta Orchestra ~ Archive #1
EAOrchestra ~ Likeidos
Ravi Coltrane ~ Spirit Fiction
Aimee Mann ~ Charmer
Mike Formenak ~ Small Places
Donny McCaslin ~ Casting For Gravity

[R. Totale III]

Caravan Palace - Panic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JOa3dISg0

Patti Smith - Banga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxYid-L05xw

John Cale - Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ24ZtoerKo

[Jerjo]

NOT PROG!!

;)

But this might actually be a very interesting thread.

Can we add metal and extreme metal albums?

Be my guest.

[Jerjo]

Van Halen - Different Kind of Truth
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
Dr. John - Locked Down
Jack White - Blunderbuss
John Hiatt - Mystic Pinball
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Sonny Landreth - Elemental Journey
Bob Dylan - Tempest

[Rarebird]

The only 4 I own:
Joe Jackson - The Duke
Heinz Rudolf Kunze - -Ich bin Heinz Rudolf Kunze nach 30 Jahren
Heinz Rudolf Kunze & Räuberzivil - Hier rein da raus
Loreena McKennitt - Troubadours on the Rhine (a trio performance)

[3LockBox]

Faves (so far):
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
David Byrne & St.Vincent - Love This Giant
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk
The Sea & Cake - Runner
Zeus - Busting Visions
Mystery Jets - Radlands
Muse - The 2nd Law
Aimee Mann - Charmer
ZZ Top - La Future
Ultravox - Brilliant
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy

Just OK:
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Ben Folds Five - The Sound of The Life of The Mind
Grizzly Bear - Shields
The Gathering - Disclosure
The Killers - Battle Born
The Darkness - Hot Cakes
Keane - Strangeland


Disappointment:
Anathema

STOP while you're ahead! award:
Kiss - Monster




guilty pleasure:
Taylor Swiftus - Red

[Nicky Cupcakes]

Faves (so far):
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Muse - The 2nd Law


Agreed! I've really been digging Oceania.



Just OK:
Ben Folds Five - The Sound of The Life of The Mind


Didn't even know this one was out. To Amazon I go!

Also, the new Heart is pretty good. Nothing groundbreaking, but a solid release nonetheless.

[Deano]

Rival Sons - Head Down
Magnum - On The 13th Day
Swanee River - Smoking Jacket
Absolva - Flames Of Justice
Springsteen - Wrecking Ball

[Gruno]

STOP while you're ahead! award:
Kiss - Monster

That would have been 20+ years ago for KISS.

[3LockBox]

That would have been 20+ years ago for KISS.

sure, but all things considered... not a band album with which to bow out, for reals.

[3LockBox]

Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears
Paul Gilbert - Vibrato


Funny, I saw these two at the record store the other day and thought that the Paul Gilbert one sounded familiar :lol

I picked these both up w/o realizing it was in this thread (musta been subliminal or something). That Gilbert CD smokes. And that's the best Yoakam CD since This Time - has it really been nearly 20 years since that album came out :O

[JIF]

sure, but all things considered... not a band album with which to bow out, for reals.Don't you mean bad, not band?

[mitchgx]

Some that come to mind as my favorites this year:

Anathema - Weather Systems
Toadies - Play.Rock.Music
Circa Survive - Violent Waves
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Soen - Cognitive
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
Kamelot - Silverthorn
Threshold - March of Progress

[JIF]

Some that come to mind as my favorites this year:

Anathema - Weather Systems
Toadies - Play.Rock.Music
Circa Survive - Violent Waves
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Soen - Cognitive
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
Kamelot - Silverthorn
Threshold - March of ProgressThis is the non prog edition. So, Rush and Threshold should not be on your list.

[Frumious B]

Here's my whole list of favorites for the year, only a couple of prog related titles on it anyway...

Van Halen-A Different Kind of Truth
Rush-Clockwork Angels
Field Music-Plumb
Amanda Palmer-Theatre is Evil
Cat Power-Sun
Mumford & Sons-Babel
Echolyn-Echolyn
Memoryhouse-The Slideshow Effect
Sigur Ros-Valtari
The Shins-Port of Morrow
Glen Hansard-Rhythm and Repose
Trevor Rabin-Jacaranda
Leonard Cohen-Old Ideas
Marillion-Sounds That Can't Be Made
Bruce Springsteen-Wrecking Ball
Keane-Strangeland
Bob Dylan-Tempest
The Mars Volta-Noctourniquet
Muse-The 2nd Law
Smashing Pumpkins-Oceana

[Trane]

Holy Fffff....

Santana's shape Shipter is the best album in over 30 year :O (35, if you consider Oneness and Swing are solo Carlos)

[cupwonder]

I would have to say Killing Joke--MMXII. This album blew me away.

[bill g]

Beach House - Bloom
Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio
Pinback - Information Retrieved

[Trane]

Just in case.... Dr John's latest Locked Down is rather excellent

Maybe his best in three decades (though admittedly I'm not ver familiar with his post 70's stuff)

[bobert]

Haven't seen the new Outlaws album "It's About Pride" mentioned yet. For me this one should make any non prog best of list for 2012.

[ItalProgRules]

Haven't bought much non-Prog this year, but I did pick up the Skynyrd album and was quite pleasantly surprised.

[davis]

Golden Earring - Tits 'n Ass
Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band - Between The Ditches
Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot: Live From the Planet
The Sword - Apocryphon
Reverend Horton Heat - 25 to Life
The Doors - Live at the Bowl '68
Paul McCartney - Kisses on the Bottom
Los Straitjackets - Jet Set

[Rufus]

The Producers
Coldplay
The Script
Example

[Tim35]

This is the non prog edition. So, Rush and Threshold should not be on your list.

Rush has not made a prog album since I was in my early teens. I am 43 now.

[Trane]

Rush has not made a prog album since I was in my early teens. I am 43 now.


Bad-a-boom crash!!! ;)

This might be a bit of an over-statement, but in itself, I can't dispute that too much

[ChrisXymphonia]

Haven't had the time yet to do any Best Of 2012 compiling but in the nonprog section these four will certainly end up high:

Gretchen Peters - Hello Cruel Word
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Treacherous Orchestra - Origins
Mumford And Sons - Babel

Yep, most of my listening time this year has been spent in the folky / Americana corner. Gretchen's album certainly is one of my most played albums, damn, what a great songwriter.

[JIF]

Haven't bought much non-Prog this year, but I did pick up the Skynyrd album and was quite pleasantly surprised.I've been wanting to get Last Of A Dying Breed, especially since Johnny Colt(ex-The Black Crowes and Train) is now Skynyrd's bassist.

[JIF]

Rival Sons - Head Down
I got this CD today at Best Buy, and it's pretty killer. I'd call it modern blues rock with a gospel twist.

[Oreb]

Shearwater, Animal Joy

Amanda Palmer, Theatre is Evil

Bob Mould, Silver Age

The Tea Party, Live from Australia

Alister Spence Trio, Far Flung

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, The Jazz Age

Les discrets, Ariettes oubliees

Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Live

Laura Marling, Live from York Minster

Pat Metheny, Unity Band

Mike Nock & Laurenz Pike, Kindred

[Wisdomview]

Rush has not made a prog album since I was in my early teens. I am 43 now.

:roll

[Facelift]

Rush has not made a prog album since I was in my early teens. I am 43 now.

Agreed. Rush is not a prog band.

My 2012 album of the year was probably "The Seer" by Swans. I did like the new GYBE album, too, but I feel like I need to hear it more.

[PeterG]

No idea, I stopped buying new albums a few years ago.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Agreed. Rush is not a prog band. My 2012 album of the year was probably "The Seer" by Swans. I did like the new GYBE album, too, but I feel like I need to hear it more.

+1. Both the recent Swans and GY!BE are actually more in line with progressive rock as well as "Prog" than Rush. I think Rush are a solid band, but again I agree - they're not "prog" (anymore) and they certainly don't need to be in order for them to be good.

[Wisdomview]

+1. Both the recent Swans and GY!BE are actually more in line with progressive rock as well as "Prog" than Rush. I think Rush are a solid band, but again I agree - they're not "prog" (anymore) and they certainly don't need to be in order for them to be good.

I agree, but I disagree with what many people on PE call prog like Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, etc.. To my ears those bands are not doing anything new, so by PE consensus definition, Rush is somewhat prog. :)

I also agree that the best post-rock bands (Labraford, GSY!BE, Tortoise, earlier Sigur Ros, Isotope 217, Chicago Underground, etc.) and I would add some electronic groups (Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada) are the prog of the 00's. I'm not really sure what is 'progressive' now though?

[Scrotum Scissor]

I agree, but I disagree with what many people on PE call prog like Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, etc.. To my ears those bands are not doing anything new, so by PE consensus definition, Rush is somewhat prog. :) I also agree that the best post-rock bands (Labraford, GSY!BE, Tortoise, earlier Sigur Ros, Isotope 217, Chicago Underground, etc.) and I would add some electronic groups (Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada) are the prog of the 00's. I'm not really sure what is 'progressive' now though?

I see what you mean, and I'm in perfect harmony with your qualitative judgment. For contemporary progressive rock music as such, try Secret Chiefs 3, Extra Life, Zs, (some) Kayo Dot, Upsilon Acrux, Ahleuchatistas, (some) Cheer-Accident, (some) Jack O' the Clock or a number of other acts that will likely never be heard, enjoyed or "grasped" by many followers of "traditional" progressive rock (or "Prog" as it's referred to).

[Wisdomview]

Word.
I've been in a jazz time warp as of late; I'll definitely have to check out some of those groups you mentioned. Thanks.

[NogbadTheBad]

I see what you mean, and I'm in perfect harmony with your qualitative judgment. For contemporary progressive rock music as such, try Secret Chiefs 3, Extra Life, Zs, (some) Kayo Dot, Upsilon Acrux, Ahleuchatistas, (some) Cheer-Accident, (some) Jack O' the Clock or a number of other acts that will likely never be heard, enjoyed or "grasped" by many followers of "traditional" progressive rock (or "Prog" as it's referred to).Nice list of bands, I like a bunch of those, I'd add Mirthkon, Yugen, Herd Of Instincts & The Nerve Institute.