Wednesday, August 2, 2023

2023's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

I've only listened to about 160 albums from 2023. These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2023 studio releases:


Masterpieces:
1. "Sisyphus" (13:22) - SEVEN IMPALE - (30/30) = 10.0
2. "Equus" (12:13) - NE OBLIVISCARUS - (25/25) = 10.0
3. "De ludo globi - Pars una" - (20:06) - VESPERO - (39/40) = 9.75
4. "You" (10:57) - ZOPP - (19.5/20) = 9.75 
5. "No Time for Lullabies" (11:05) - AMOEBA SPLIT - (19.5/20) = 9.75
6. "Misericorde II - Anatomy of Quiescence" (9:22) - NE OBLIVISCARUS - (19.5/20) = 9.75
7. "Lust och fägring (Sommarvisan)" (14:30) - AGUSA - (29/30) = 9.6667
8. "Naturens katedral" (16:36) - LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE - (29/30) = 9.6667
9. "Helen" (19:14) - UNITOPIA - (38.5/40) = 9.625
10. "The Beggar Lover (Three)" (43:51) - SWANS - (86/90) = 9.5555
11. "Requiem for a Dream" (25:13) - KARNATAKA - (48/50) = 9.5
12. "Dürer's Rhinocerous" (12:55) - JACK O' THE CLOCK - (23.75/25) = 9.5
13. "De ludo globi - Pars duo" (20:23) - VESPERO - (37.5/40) = 9.375
14. "The Lesser Evil" (10:59) - EARTHSIDE - (18.75/20) = 9.375
15. "The Mending" (9:43) - BILLIE BOTTLE'S TEMPLE OF SHIBBOLETH - (18.75/20) = 9.375
16. "The Beauty and the Least" (9:15) - MYSTERY - (18.75/20) = 9.375
17. "Storm in a Teacup" (9:37) - OZRIC TENTACLES - (18.75/20) = 9.375
18. "Musical Phylosophy" (15:23) - AGLAIA - (28/30) = 9.3333
19. "Delicate Light" (16:36) - AGLAIA - (28/30) = 9.3333
20. "Between the Light and the Stone" (14:37) - ISPROJECT - (28/30) = 9.3333
21. 
"Movement 2" (11:00) - SONAR (with David Torn & J. Peter Schwalm) - (18.5/20) = 9.25
22. "Under bar himmel" (10:19) - AGUSA - (18.5/20) = 9.25
23. "The Plague" (11:06) - AISLES - (18.5/20) = 9.25
24. "Ensonhet er bare en føldse" (9:17) - ACTIONFREDAG - (18.5/20) = 9.25
25. "Nashira" (9:11) - KARMAMOI - (18.5/20) = 9.25
26. "All Around the World" (11:30) - KARNATAKA - (18.5/20) = 9.25
27. "Enchanted signs" (11:50)  - ALIO DIE - (23/25) = 9.2
28. "Telepathic Minds" (17:18) - OVERHEAD - (32.125/35) = 9.1786
29. "Toxicity" (14:22) - ZOPP - (27.5/30) = 9.16667
30. "Starlifter: Fearless Pt. II" (18:00) - CROWN LANDS - (32/35) = 9.143
31. "Rytter av dommedag" (16:56) - LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE - (32/35) = 9.143
32. "Cruz da Ordem" (10:16) - CARAVELA EXCARLATE - (18.25/20) = 9.125
33. "Crumplepenny" (9:55) - OZRIC TENTACLES - (18.25/20) = 9.125
34. "On Detour to Shortcut" (9:06) - CHOCLAT FROG - (18.25/20) = 9.125
35. "Zealous Man" (orchestra version) (11:55) - KARMAMOI - (22.75/20) = 9.1
36. "Blink" (9:23) - AVIATIONS - (18.125 /20) = 9.0625
37. "Witches Brew" (12:32) - MONIKA ROSCHER BIGBAND - (31.625/35) = 9.036

Other Great Songs:
"Contemplative fields" (34:02) - ALIO DIE - (63/70)
"Like Shards of Glass Falling Through My Fingers" (19:51) - DOMINIC SANDERSON - (36/40) = 9.0 
"The Stuff Of Dreams" (17:02) - RESIDUOS MENTALES - (31.5/35) = 9.0
"The Ring of Golden Light" (27:40) - SEQUENTIA. LEGENDA - (49.5/55) = 9.0
"All We Knew and Ever Loved" (9:19) - EARTHSIDE - (18/20) = 9.0
"The Place Where I Belong" (13:16) - RIVERSIDE - (27/30) = 9.0
"Riptide" (16:07) - JEF BEK - (27/30) = 9.0
"Summer Lies Beyond" (15:27) - COMEDY OF ERRORS - (27/30) = 9.0
"Pearls and Fire" (12:43) - MYSTERY - (22.5/25) = 9.0
"Ceasing to Exist" (9:24) - DEPOSED KING - (18/20) = 9.0
"Manticore" (12:06) - HACKBERRY - (22.5/25) = 9.0
"Birds of Passage and the Enchanted Forest" (19:02) - KARFAGEN - (36/40) = 9.0
"Distant Starlight" (14:32) - JEF BEK - (27/30) = 9.0 
"Flamethrower" (9:21) - KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - (18/20) = 9.0
"The Architect" (11:32) - NINE SKIES - (18/20) = 9.0
"Komeda" (11:03) - HANIA RANI - (18/20) = 9.0
"Doppi sensi" (10:04) - HOMUNCULUS RES - (18/20) = 9.0
"Hydra" (10:34) - SEVEN IMPALE - (18/20) = 9.0
"Dark Triad" (9:26) - THE MERCURY TREE - (18/20) = 9.0
"Ancora Luce" (10:54) - ANDREA ORLANDO - (18/20) = 9.0
"Baby, You Fill Me with Inertia" (11:15) - FRENCH TV - (18/20) = 9.0
"The Beggar" (10:15) - SWANS - (18/20) = 9.0
"S'fumato (Part 1)" (9:28) - UNIVERS ZERO - (18/20) = 9.0
"God of Panic" (9:56) - YAAROTH - (18/20) = 9.0
"Stjernestigen" (10:21) - JORDSJØ - (18/20) = 9.0
"Border Point" (13:16) - AGLAIA - (27/30) = 9.0
"Impending Catastrophe" (9:12) - RESIDUOS MENTALES - (18/20) = 9.0


"Mermaid Lullabies" (17:20) - ARNAUD BUKWALD - (31/35) = 8.957
"Out of Time" (23:13) - THE EMERALD DAWN - (40.25/45) = 8.94444
"Around the Great Central Sun" (19:56) - SEQUENTIA LEGENDA - (35.75/40) = 8.9375
"To Find the Light, Part Two" (19:58) - THE GREAT WIDE NOTHING - (35.75/40) = 8.9375
"DNA" (9:24) - RETREAT FROM MOSCOW - (17.875/20) = 8.9375
"How Are We Doing..." (13:16) - JACK O' THE CLOCK - (26.75/30) = 8.9166667
"Watching the Earth Sink" (11:46) - EARTHSIDE - (22.25/25) = 8.9
"A Series Of Self-Correcting Errors" (12:03) - RESIDUOS MENTALES - (22.25/25) = 8.9
"Bon Voyage" (20:45) - SEQUENTIA LEGENDA - (35.5/40) = 8.875
"Graal" (8:53) - EX OBLIVISCARUS - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Coma" (10:45) - AVIATIONS - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Solitary March" (10:21) - HACKBERRY - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"The Approbation" (13:36) - AVKRVST - (26.625/30) = 8.875
"The Stroke of Midnight" (9:39) - UNITOPIA - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Tracce" (10:34) - ANDREA ORLANDO - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"The Machine Stops" (13:32) - RETREAT FROM MOSCOW - (26.5/30) = 8.83333
"Mysterious Forest (Part 1) - World in a Grain of Sand" (14:03) - KARFAGEN - (26.5/30) = 8.8333
"Lunares" (15:48) - HACKBERRY - (26.5/30) = 8.8333
"Off the Grid" (9:26) - ONE SHOT - (17.66667/20) = 8.83333
"The Showdown" (20:16) - INNER PROSPEKT - (35.25/40) = 8.8125
"Is This How the Story Ends?" (19:11) - MYSTERY - (35.25/40) = 8.8125
"Forgiven" (11:49)  - KARNATAKA - (22/25) = 8.8
"Threnody for a Dead Queen" (12:28) - COMEDY OF ERRORS - (22/25) = 8.8
"Eleision Forest" (11:57) - THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN - (22/25) = 8.8
"When Silence Calls" (12:19) - JEF BEK - (22/25) = 8.8
The "Occulus" Suite - DAMANEK - (57.05/65) = 8.776
"Let the Truth Speak" (10:47) - EARTHSIDE - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Count All the Days" (16:33) - THIRTEEN OF EVERYTHING - (26.25/30) = 8.75
"Twilight Fields" (15:24) - THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN - (26.25/30) = 8.75
"A Wordless Fable" (11:20) - INNER PROSPEKT - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Dragon" (9:44) - KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Memories in a Box" (9:05) - SINGLE CELLED ORGANISM - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Hunter" (10:33) - SEVEN IMPALE - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Foreshadow" (11:44) - HACKBERRY - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Suspyre" (10:09) - EX OBLIVISCARUS - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"I Am the Night" (10:20) - GIANT SKY - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Ikaros" (9:26) - SEVEN IMPALE - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Northern Skies (expanded version)" (14:14) - SUNCHILD - (26.25/30) = 8.75
"Anodyne" (10:14) - AVKRVST - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Ur askan" (10:28) - AGUSA - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Cell to Call Home" (10:15) - ADVENT HORIZON - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Ebbing" (11:04) - SWANS - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Being of Equal" (20:49) - UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY - (35/40) = 8.75
"We Only Get One Chance" (10:03) - UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"The Island of Despair" (11:47) - INNER PROSPEKT - (21.75/25) = 8.7
"Br​ättom" (12:29) - NEON HEART - (21.75/25) = 8.7
"Mustang" (12:04) - ONE SHOT - (21.75/25) = 8.7


Also Considered:
"The Mimus Polyglottos Alarm Clock" (10:12) - ISOBAR - (17.3333/20) = 8.66667
"The Pilot's Not Fit to Fly" (9:19) - OVERHEAD - (17.3333/20) = 8.66667
"The Seventh Seal" (14:10) - COMEDY OF ERRORS - (26/30) = 8.66667
"8 Prinzessinnen" (9:04) - MONIKA ROSCHER BIGBAND - (17:3333/20) = 8.66667
"Wetlands" (15:45) - AGLAIA - (26/30) = 8.66667
"La Strada del Ritorno" (15:01) - ANDREA ORLANDO - (26/30) = 8.66667
"S​öderut" (9:52) - NEON HEART - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"I Can Hear You Calling" (11:36) - RETREAT FROM MOSCOW - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Alea Iacta Est (The Die Is Cast)" (9:01) - FRAMAURO - (17.25/10) = 8.625
"Dogs & Cats" (9:00) - FRAMAURO - (17.25/10) = 8.625
"The Haunted" (11:32) - NINE SKIES - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Ghosts from the Future" (12:41) - OVERHEAD - (21.5/25) = 8.6
"Resurrection" (13:07) - JAVIER MIRANDA - (21.5/25) = 8.6
"The Sacred Law of Retribution" (23:46) - TRITOP - (43/50) = 8.5
"The Uncertain" (18:34) - UNITOPIA - (34/40) = 8.5
"Sedimented dreams" (20:37) - ALIO DIE - (34/40) = 8.5
"Mérovée" (11:13) - ONE SHOT - (17/20) = 8.5
"Mania" (12:30) - UNITOPIA - (21.25/25) = 8.5
"Rise of Kassandra" (13:00) - TRITOP - (21.25/25) = 8.5
"The Descent" (11:04) - JAVIER MIRANDA - (17/20) = 8.5
"The King of Istanbul" (10:35) - THIRTEEN OF EVERYTHING - (17/20) = 8.5
"Sailing the Vastness" (22:37) - ED ZERO - (38/45) = 8.4444
"Beyond the World of Dreams" (24:28) - ED ZERO - (42/50) = 8.40
"The Lost" (9:09) -  NINE SKIES - (16.875/20) = 8.4375 
"In Transit" (9:00) - JAVIER MIRANDA - (16.75/20) = 8.375
"Timeless" (including "The Eternal River" & "Janus Divided") (14:42) - THE EMERALD DAWN - (25/30) = 8.33333
"Suspended pathways" (19:15) - ALIO DIE - (33/40) = 8.25
"Lethe" (22:01) - ATON FIVE - (37/45) = 8.22222
"Expansion of gratitude" (12:39) - ALIO DIE - (20/25) = (8.0)
"Liquid Suite" (15:30) - LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ - (24/30) = 8.0
"Premonition" (9:07) - ROZ VITALIS - (16.75/20) = 7.875
"Everything" (11:03) - JAVIER MIRANDA - (15/20) = 7.5


As-yet unrated:
"Between the Devil and Me" (10:38) - MOON SAFARI - (/20) =
"Forever, For You" (10:08) - MOON SAFARI - (/20) =
"Teen Angel Meets the Apocalypse" (21:03) - MOON SAFARI - (/40) = 


Great but too short:
"Frogs Might Disappear" (8:42) - OIAPOK
- (19.75/20) = 9.875
"We Who Lament" (8:44) - EARTHSIDE - (19/20) = 9.5
"Tyranny" (8:39) - EARHSIDE - (19/20) = 9.5
"Rounded by Sleep" (8:36) - MANNA/MIRAGE - (18.75/20) = 9.375
"The Day Is Done" (8:24) - LUMSK - (18.5/20) = 9.25
"Take Me Home" (orchestra version) (8:31) - KARMAMOI - (18.5/20) = 9.25
"Existentialism" (8:39) - AGLAIA - (18.5/20) = 9.25
"...And Who Will Tell Us?" (8:21)  - JACK O' THE CLOCK - (18.5/20) = 9.25 
"Half-Light" (8:59) - DEPOSED KING - (18.25/20) = 9.125
"People Who Eat People" (8:53) - RASCAL REPORTERS - (18.25/20) = 9.125
"Motor Spirit" (8:32) - KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - (18.25/20) = 9.125

* Bold print connotes a song's elevation to Progressive Rock's Vahalla of all-time masterpieces.

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