2002's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2002 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Chonyi Bardo - A Path Of The Lights" (28:54) - OÖPHOI - (60/60) = 10.0

2. "Untitled #8 (Popplagið)" (11:45) - SIGUR RÓS - (19.75/20) = 9.75 

3. "Beyond the Pale" (9:56) - PAIN OF SALVATION - (19.5/20) = 9.75

4. "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" (20:42) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (38/40) = 9.5 

5. "Coming Like Light" (11:40) - IZZ - (19/20) = 9.5

6. "Chikai Bardo - Dissolution" (11:38) - OÖPHOI - (19/20) = 9.5

7. "Skin" (29:27) - BONDAGE FRUIT - (56.5/60) = 94.1667

8. "No Quarter (Page - Plant)" (11:51) - QUIDAM - (23.5/25) = 9.4

9. "Tsunami" (11:06) - 35007 - (18/75/20) = 9.375

10. "Quits" (14:49) - PAATOS - (28/30) = 9.33

11. "Silent Inferno" (14:22) - THE FLOWER KINGS - (28/30) = 9.33

12. "Untitled #7 (Dauðalagið) (The Dead)" (13:03) - SIGUR RÓS - (23.125/25) = 9.25 

13. "Deep Inside" (9:14) - SYLVAN - (18.5/20) = 9.25 

14. "In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion" (14:45) - AGALLOCH - (27.5/30) = 9.1667

15. "motherfucker=redeemer" (31:33) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (55/60) = 9.1667

16. "Quimpromptu" (9:37) - QUIDAM - (18.25/20) = 9.125

17. "In The Same Deep Water" (11:42) - STEVE ROACH - (18.25/20) = 9.125

Other Very Good Prog Epics:

"La Maschera di Cera" (19:20) - LA MASCHERA DI CERA (36/40) = 9.0

"The Hawthorne Passage"(11:19) - AGALLOCH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Untitled #5 (Álafoss)" (9:57) - SIGUR RÓS - (18/20) = 9.0

"Del mio abisso e del vuoto" (9:41) - LA MASCHERA DI CERA (18/20) = 9.0

"Weight" (13:29) - ISIS - (18/20) = 9.0

"Under the Tree" (9:37) - THE JELLY JAM - (18/20) = 9.0

"Trance Spirits" (16:44) - STEVE ROACH - (27/30) = 9.0

"Taking Flight" (10:36) - STEVE ROACH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Artificial Paradise" (20:16) - SYLVAN = (35.75/40) = 8.9375

"A Place in The World" (9:52) - PAT METHENY GROUP - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Waiting for Water" (9:39) - GRAND STAND - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"The Truth Will Set You Free" (31:02) - THE FLOWER KINGS - (53/60) = 8.833

"Proof" (10:09) - PAT METHENY GROUP - (17.5/20) = 8.75 

"Pangaia" (11:42) - HIDRIA SPACEFOLK - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"A Nod and A Wink" (11:16) - CAMEL - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"III (Toamna)" (15:12) - NUGURA BUNGET - (/30) =

"Le Chat de Schrödinger" (24:08) - ART ZOYD - (/50) =

 

Also Reviewed:

"Petroleum Addicts" (11:02) - PARALLEL OR 90 DEGREES - (17.25/20) = 8.675

"Voyage Automatique" (13:24) 35007 - (26/30) = 8.667

"9-15-00 (Part One)" - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (26/30) = 8.667

"The Gathering Sky" - PAT METHENY GROUP - (17.3333/20) = 8.66667

"Jurassic Spark" (11:24) - GRAND STAND - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Devils Playground" (24:30)  THE FLOWER KINGS - (43/50) = 8.6

"Old Man's Tale" (16:00) - GRAND STAND - (25.75/30) = 8.5833

"Mei" (49:33) - ECHOLYN - (85.75/100) = 8.575

"Frasco" (19:40) - BONDAGE FRUIT - (34/40) = 8.5

As-yet unrated:

"Hym" - ISIS

"Fox Hill" - CAMEL

"For Today" - CAMEL

"Empty Barrels Rattle the Most" - GRAND STAND

"Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" (42:04) - DREAM THEATER - (/85) =
"NoVa eXPReSS" (15:32) - NEBELNEST - (/30) =

"The Odyssey" (24:09) - SYMPHONY X - (/50) =

"Olim Sol Rogavit Terram II (Cadaverone..... " (20:22) - DEUS EX MACHINA - (/40) =

"Forgiving Eden" (43:32) - A TRIGGERING MYTH - (/85) = 

"Act I" (36:16) - NIL - (70) =
"Act II" (26:42) - NIL - (/50) =

"Malstrøm - Parts 1-7" (40:58) - SOTOS - (/80) = 
"Wu" (27:37) - SOTOS - (/55) = 

"Soft Machine" (16:33) - UZVA - (/30) =

"Drontti" (17:13) - UZVA - (/35) =

"Ragged Curtains" (25:55) - MANNING - (/50) =

"Again" (16:19) - ARCHIVE - (/30) = 

"White Glove" (15:26) - SIMON SAYS - (/30) =

Philéas" (20:12) - NEMO - (/40) =

"Beginning to End" (20:20) - OVERHEAD - (/40) =

"Talk with Myself" (22:37) - MINDFLOWERS - (/45) =

"Babel Lights" (16:34) - SAENS - (/30) =

"Morte Di Un Amore" (15:24) - RANDONE - (/30) =
"The Great Goodnight - Parts -XIII" (32:05) - MAGELLAN - (/65) =

A Little too Short:
"Troum und Spiegelglas" -- FAUN

"Hypnotique" - PAATOS

"Star Evil Gnoma Su" - IZZ

"Untitled #6 - SIGUR RÓS

*Bold print denotes a song that has risen into my pantheon of All-time favorite "epics."