My All-Time Favorite Albums List: 2024 Update

This is an update of my continually evolving list of favorite albums from all periods and phases of my life, here limited to 100. (Oh! That hurts! Okay, maybe 200. No, let's do 300.) 

To see the original list and its now 600 plus albums, you can go to the blog's page for April 2014's publications.

1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

2. Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh - Magma
3. Limiti all'egualianza della parte con il tutto - Homunculus Res
4. Dots and Loops - Stereolab

5. Salinity Now! - Unaka Prong

6. Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter - Joni Mitchell

7. Eli - Jan Akkerman & Kaz Lux

8. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia - Utopia

9. Tiny Dynamine/Echoes on A Shallow Bay - Cocteau Twins

10. Jan Akkerman - Jan Akkerman

11. Aja - Steely Dan

12. Venusian Summer - Lenny White

13. Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones

14. Rapture - Anita Baker

15. Shiny Eyed Babies - Bent Knee  

16. Gentle Stream - The Amazing

17. Novella - Renaissance 

18. The Geese and The Ghost - Anthony Phillips

19. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian

20. Gregorian Chant - Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle

21. Indian Summer - Landberk

22. Nektyr - Demen

23. Natural Elements - Shakti

24. The Dream Academy - The Dream Academy 

25. Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison - Harmonium

26. The Mad Hatter - Chick Corea

27. Reach The Beach - The Fixx

28. Particelle - Lagartija

29. The Danish Girl Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Alexandre Desplat 

30. The Stranger - Billy Joel

31. Pelican West - Haircut One Hundred

32. Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

33. Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band

34. Not This City - Five-Storey Ensemble
35. It's Better to Travel - Swing Out Sister

36. America - America  

37. Strange Kind of Love - Love and Money

38. Disintegration - The Cure

39. Love Deluxe - Sade

40. Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron

41. Strange Kind of Love - Love and MoneyChakradancer - Brainscapes (Alain Eskinasi) 

42. The Look of Love - Diana Krall

43. Treasure - Cocteau Twins

44. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror - Harold Budd & Brian Eno

45. Boy - U2 

46. Lost Souls - doves

47. Night and Day - Joe Jackson

48. Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl

49. Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney

50. Love Devotion Surrender - Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin

51. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - Magick Brother & Mystic Sister

52. The Last Broadcast - doves

53. Gone to Earth - David Sylvian
54. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio

55. Puccini: Great Arias - London Records

56. Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield

57. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
58.  Astral Traveling - Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

59. A Distant Shore - Tracey Thorn

60. OisoLün - Oiapok

61. A Trick of The Tail - Genesis

62. Everything But The Girl (debut album, U.S. release) - Everything But The Girl

63. The Love Connection - Freddie Hubbard

64. Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones 

65. Shadows of The Sun - Ulver

66. The Last Samurai Original Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer 

67. Renaissance of The Celtic Harp - Alan Stivell

68. Waltz for Koop - Koop

69. Beyond the Veil - iNFiNiEN

70. 1984 - Anthony Phillips

71. Equations of Meaning - Tony Patterson

72. Todd - Todd Rundgren 

73. Open Sky - Iona
74. The Difference Machine - Big Big Train
75. Odyssey: The Greatest Tale - Colossus Magazine/Musea Records

76. Mozart's 23 Piano Concertos - Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Phillips, 1991.

77. Holographic Codex - Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà

78. Eden - Faun

79. Thrust - Herbie Hancock

80. Bar-do Travel - Proghma-C

81. If_then_else - The Gathering

82. Everyone into Position - Oceansize

83. Harvest Moon - Votum 

84. Vaughn Williams - Iona Brown, violin, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Argos, 1972.

85. Mind Fruit - Opus III
86. Pastorales de Noël - Michel LeGrande, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alexandre LeGoya

87. 22 - Wippy Bonstack

88. Relayer - Yes

89. Visions of a New World - Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

90. The Pavillion of Dreams - Harold Budd

91. Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia - Ryuichi Sakamoto

92. Porcelain - Julia Fordham

93. Animals - Pink Floyd

94. The Final Breath Before November - Edison's Children

95. Remain in Light - Talking Heads

96. Secret Story - Pat Metheny 

97. Pieseň z hôľ (Songs from Ridges) - Fermáta

98. Hope for the Mourning - Mice on Stilts

99. Light Shining Through the Sea - Cicada

100. Song of Innocence - David Axelrod

101. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

102. Incense and Peppermints - The Strawberry Alarm Clock

103. The Hurting - Tears for Fears

104. Formica Blues - Mono

105. Caravanserai - Santana

106. Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 - Joanna  Koslowska, soprano, Karimierz Kord and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Decca, 1992.

107. The Dreaming - Kate Bush

108. Vimana - Nova

109. Eve - Karda Estra

110. Vespertine - Björk

111. Crime of The Century - Supertramp

112. The Polite Force - Egg

113. Long Distance - Ivy

114. UK - UK

115. Fragile - Yes

116. Hamburger Concerto - Focus

117. New Gold Dream - Simple Minds

118. Cosmic Messenger - Jean-Luc Ponty
119. Mirabilis - Mediæval Bæbes

120. Codename: Dustsucker - Bark Psychosis

121. Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo

122. Songs of Robert Burns - Andy M. Stewart

123. Beyond Drama - Aisles

124. Turn of the Cards - Renaissance

125. Evaporate - Midas Fall
126. Terrapath - Plantoid 

127. Space Shanty - Khan

128. Janet. - Janet Jackson

129. Selling England by The Pound - Genesis

130. Discipline - King Crimson 

131. Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever

132. Unsound - Funin

133. The Dark Third - Pure Reason Revolution

134. The Great Bright Horses - Ghosts of Jupiter

135. Jam on Revenge - Newcleus

136. LightDark - NoSound

137. The Following Morning - Eberhard Weber

138. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays

139. Blade Runner soundtrack - The New American Orchestra (compositions by Vangelis)

140. Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

141. The extent of damage - Battlestations

142. Scheherazade and Other Stories - Renaissance

144. Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
145. The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson 

146. ~ – iamthemorning
147. Twenty Pills Without Water - Bent Knee

148. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid soundtrack - Burt Bacharach

149. A Gift of Love - Deepak Chopra & Friends

150. Close to The Edge - Yes

151. Metamorphosis - Axon-Neuron

152. Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

153. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
154. December - George Winston

155. New Wave - Soul Family Sensation

156. Interstellar Original Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer 

157. Nil novo sub sole - Nil

158. Fusion III - Michal Urbaniak

159. October - U2

160. Falling Deeper - Anathema

161. Playing The Piano - Ryuichi Sakamoto

162. High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera

163. Ga'an - Ga'an

164. Discontinuance - Ghost Medicine

165. Let the Truth Speak - Earthside

166. Pamiec - SBB

167

. Walking Up That Valley - Needlepoint

168. Initiation - Todd Rundgren

169. One Man Tells Another - Landberk

170. The Moon and The Melodies - Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd

171. Part the Second - Maudlin of The Well

172. Second Life Syndrome - Riverside

173. Trance Tara - Jonathan Goldman

174. Interior City - The Gabriel Construct

175. Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps - Laurent Thibault

176. Bleak House - Terje Rypdal

177. 

Phanerothyme - Motorpsycho

178. Moving Waves - Focus

179. The Weatherman Is Wrong - Gadadu

180. Foxtrot - Genesis

181. Even in The Quietest Moments - Supertramp

182. Café Bleu - The Style Council

183. Omphalos - Kotebel

184. Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 - Johannes Brahms

185. Timeloss - Paatos

186. Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

187. I Robot - Alan Parsons Project

188. Peaceful Evening - Steve & David Gordon

189. Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

190. City of the Sun - Seven Impale

191. Love, Love - Julian "Pepe Mtoto" Priester

192. Fuse - Everything But The Girl

193. Luna - Faun
194. Per un amico - PFM 

195. Renaissance - Faun

196. West Indian Girl - West Indian Girl
197. Baduizm - Erykah Badu

198. Overgrown - James Blake

199. In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

200. Bonfires on The Heath - The Clientele
201. Princesses Nubiennes - Les Nubians
202. Inside Out - Eddie Henderson

203. A Rare Moment of Insight - Brother Ape

204. Alibi - Emma Volard

205. Ghost in the Machine - The Police

206. Demons and Wizards - Uriah Heep

207. Postaeolian Train Robbery - Cos

208. The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears

209. Crac! - Area

210. Le quattro stagioni - Vivaldi

211. Tilt - Arti e Mestieri

212. Onda - Jambinai

213. Etna - Etna

214. Tarot, Part 1 - Magick Brother & Mystic Sister

215. Silver - Say She She

216. Sounds Good - Brainstory

217. Life - KNOWER

218. 'Live' at Monterey ! - Don Ellis Orchestra

219. Horizon Digital - Édition Spéciale

220. The Record - boygenius

221. Ghosts - Hania Rani

222. async - Ryuichi Sakamoto

223. Houses of The Holy - Led Zeppelin

224. Green Asphalt - Green Asphalt 

225. Something/Anything - Todd Rundgren

226. Blue Cello - David Darling

227. Mother Focus - Focus

228. Le Horla de Montpassant - The Box

229. Strange Valleys - Starving Daughters

230. Change We Must - Jon Anderson

231. Spirited Away OST - Joe Hisaishi

232. A Tab in The Ocean - Nektar

233. Sound-Dust - Stereolab

234. Kaleidoscope World - Swing Out Sister

235. Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins

236. 13 Moons - Hands of the Heron

237. Nursery Cryme - Genesis

238. Art Official Age - Prince

239. Get in Touch with Yourself - Swing Out Sister

240. Margot - Unaka Prong

241. Peter Gabriel (1) - Peter Gabriel

242. No Borders Here - Jane Siberry
243. Seven - Magenta

244. Cavalcade - black midi

245. Fish Out of Water - Chris Squire

246. Kontinuum - Klaus Schulze

247. Love Over Fear - Pendragon

248. Atma - Michał Urbaniak

249. Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth - Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth

250. Strands - Steve Haushildt

251. The Oubliette - The Reticent

252. Private Parts & Pieces III: Antiques - Anthony Phillips

253. Szobel - Hermann Szobel

254. Apparition - Jambinai

255. Tilt - Immagini per un orecchio - Arti E Mestieri

256. The Greatest Show on Earth - Airbag

257. Time Control - Hiromi’s Sonicbloom

258. Infernal Machina - Jannick Top

259. Mozart's Clarinet & Bassoon Concertos - Jack Brymer/Gwydion Brooke, Thomas Beecham and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; EMI.
260. The Sensual World - Kate Bush

261. Shake It Up - Boney James & Rick Braun

262. Heartstring - Earl Klugh

263. Preda - Mad Crayon

264. Guérison - Setna
265. Double Negative - Low
266. Jurassic Shift - Ozric Tentacles

267. Prelude - Deodato

268. Tingri - Jonn Serrie

269. Dead Magic - Anna Von Hausswolff
270. Ikaro - Aalto

271. Identity - Airbag

272. Stealing Fire - Bruce Cockburn

273. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan

274. Halflights - Starsabout

275. 4 - Dungen

276. Waking The Dead, Live in Japan 2005 - Anekdoten

277. In The Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan

278. Giant Sky - Giant Sky

279. Twenty Pills Without Water - Bent Knee

280. Posthumous Silence - Sylvan

281. Free Hand - Gentle Giant

282. UR- - Accordo Dei Contrari

283. Gaucho - Steely Dan

284. Apocalypse Now - RanestRane

285. No Frontiers - Mary Black

286. Leaving Your Bodymap - maudlin of The Well

287. Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

288. Said the Sun to the Moon - Tirill

289. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

290. Moonshine - Collage

291. Songs for The Inner Child - Shaina Noll

292. Firyuza / Фирюза - Firyuza / Фирюза 

293. Babylon - Babylon 

294. Sweetnighter - Weather Report

295. Antimemory - Vaneta
296. Silencia - Hammock

297. Mourning Sun - Fields of the Nephilim

298. Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues

299. Winter Dreams - R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton

300. Trespass - Genesis

301. Wind and Wuthering - Genesis

302. Gifts from Enola - Gifts from Enola
303. Frozen There - Alto Palo

304. Seal II - Seal

305. Hugsjá - Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik

306. Temperamental - Everything But The Girl
307. III - Focus

308. Mummer - XTC

309. La marmite cosmique, no. 6 - Arnaud Bukwald

310. Original Soundtrack - Godspell

311. Songs from The Big Chair - Tears for Fears

312. Winds of Devotion - R. Carlos Nakai, Nawang Khechog & Peter Kater
313. Sound Mirrors - Syd Arthur

314. Purple Rain - Prince

2024's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

 I've only listened to about 100 albums from 2024. These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2024 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Äiti Maan Lapset" (18:50) - VIIMA - (39.75/40) = 9.9375

2. "Ilion" (11:08) - SLIFT - (19.75/20) = 9.875

3. "The Words That Have Never Been Heard" (12:32) - SLIFT - (23.75/25) = 9.5

4. "Hold On" (21:22) - BELIEVE - (37.5/40) = 9.375

5. "And then there Were Just Us/Duck's End" - THE ARISTOCRATS - (18.75/20) = 9.375

6. "The World Breathes with Me" (10:00) - CALIGULA'S HORSE - (18.5/20) = 9.25

7. "Journey to a Shrine" (10:49) - KARFAGEN - (18.5/20) = 9.25

8. "The Wallflower Equation" (12:00) - VYLET PONY - (23/25) = 9.2

9. "It Walks Among Us" (14:02) - HAVEN OF ECHOES - (27.5/30) = 9.166667

10. "Out in the Open" (20:33) - BEARDFISH - (36.5/40) = 9.125

11. "Beneath the Masts" (17:26) - BIG BIG TRAIN - (31.75/35) = 9.071

12. "Good and Evil" suite (28:24) - ALEX CARPANI BAND - (54.5/60) = 9.08

Other Great Epics and Mesmerics:

"Helvetia" (21:13) - COLIN MASSON - (36/40) = 9.0

"The Fellowship of the Mystery" (21:44) - COMPASSIONIZER - (36/40) = 9.0

"Eternity in Your Eyes" (20:56) - NEAL MORSE and The RESONANCE - (36/40) = 9.0

"Vasilisa y la bruja, parts 1-5" (16:24) - VIENTOS MODERADOS DEL ESTE - (27/30) = 9.0

"Africa" (15:31) - SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR - (27/30) = 9.0

"Stalagmite Steeple" (9:58) - RETURNED TO THE EARTH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Housefly Leg" (14:25) - TOM PENAGUIN - (27/30) = 9.0

"Collapse" (12:50) - MONKEY3 - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"Caldwell 101" (9:26) - PARAPHON - (18/20) = 9.0

"Agora by Day" (10:04) - KRAFAGEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Die for Me" (9:09) - RETURNED TO THE EARTH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Nimh" (9:38) - SLIFT - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"Another World" (11:43) - ELLESMERE - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"L'Empio Simulacro" (11:24) - PHAEDRA - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"Shadowland" (11:21) - BELIEVE - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"270.45 Negative" (12:16) - PARAPHON - (22.3333/25) = 8.9333

"No Hill for a Climber" (28:50) - NEAL MORSE and The RESONANCE - (53.5/60) = 8.9167

"Prigioniero di Prisca Doglianza" (23:08) - PHAEDRA - (39.9375/45) = 8.875

"Wicked Flame" (11:44) - BELIEVE - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"By My Tears" (11:17) - BELIEVE - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Arrival of the Great Hedgehog" (9:16) - TOM PENAGUIN - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Uruk" (9:55) - SLIFT - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Ignition" (10:38) - MONKEY3 - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Le Nuit Des Morts-Vivants" (9:50) - UTOPIANISTI - (17.5/20) = 8.875

"Kali Yuga" (10:01) - MONKEY3 - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Frailty" (12:05) - DRIFTING SUN - (22/25) = 8.875

"Into the Kaleidoscope" (11:49) - KARFAGEN - (22.25) = 8.875

"Eager Glacier" (9:11) - YOO DOO RIGHT - (17.75/30) = 8.875 

"Canto per Lucy" (9:07) - PHAEDRA - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Amnesiac" suite (28:40) - ALEX CARPANI BAND - (48.75/55) = 8.864

"Non Sum - Non Curo (17:02) - HAVEN OF ECHOES - (31/35) = 8.857

"Mute" (12:00) - CALIGULA'S HORSE - (22.125/25) = 8.85

"Enigma of Reason" (10:06) - MAN DOKI SOULMATES - (17.6667/20) = 8.8333 

"Miramare" (10:18) - BIG BIG TRAIN - (17.667/20) = 8.833

"Back in Time" (14:24) - ODDLEAF - (26.5/30) = 8.8333

Also Considered:

"This Is the End" (9:18) - MEER - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Weavers' Weft" (9:41) - SLIFT - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Area 24 (part four)" (9:16) - COSMIC GROUND - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Sidus" (12:55) - AETHER - (22/25) = 8.80 

"Stranger Skies" (12:18) - ELLESMERE - (22/25) = 8.80 

"planet dirt" (13:28) - COSMIC GROUND - (26.375/30) = 8.79

"Black Science" (22:56) - INFRINGEMENT - (39.375/45) = 8.75

"black rain" (18:30) - COSMIC GROUND - (35/40) = 8.75

"Life in the Wires, Part 2" (15:51) - FROST* - (26.25/30) = 8.75

"The Story That Has Never Been Told" (12:35) - SLIFT - (21.75/25) = 8.75

"Dusk" (10:48) - NINE STONES CLOSE - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"KBC Void" (10:07) - PARAPHON - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Coexistence - Part I" (11:20) - ODDLEAF - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Figurative" (11:38) - ROLAND BUHLMANN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Palace of Tears" (10:58) - THE PNEUMATIC TRANSIT - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"La Selva degli Ombrosi Faggi" (10:00) - PHAEDRA - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Die for Me" (9:09) - RETURNED TO THE EARTH - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Exteroception" (9:45) - ROLAND BUHLMANN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"The Message (Tablet III)" (11:27) - BLOOD INCANTATION - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Camouflaging" (10:01) - ROLAND BUHLMANN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Zoo Galactica" suite (20:34) - SOLARIS - (34.875/40) = 8.719

"Sludge" (22:12) - VYLET PONY - (39.25/45) = 8.722

"Perchance to Dream" (13:10) - RICK MILLER - (21.75/25) = 8.70

"Eyota" (12:39) - OVRFRWRD - (21.75/25) 8.70

"Song for the Unloved" (14:21) - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - (26.6667/30) = 8.667

"Bones of the Mountain" (19:53) - COLIN MASSON - (34.6667/40) = 8.667

"Spirit's Heavy, But Not Overthrown" (13:19) - YOO DOO RIGHT - (26/30) = 8.667 

"Ly (Vuggesang)" (11:50) - KORNMO - (21.667/25) = 8.667

"Synaesthesia" (9:11) - WEATHER SYSTEMS - (17.33334/20) = 8.667
"Area 24 (part seven)" (9:08) - COSMIC GROUND - (17.333/20) = 8.667

"Huldras hale" (19:24) - KORNMO - (34.5/40) = 8.625

"Life" (11:31) - ODDLEAF - (17.125/20) = 8.625

"scab" (16:50) - COSMIC GROUND - (30.125/35) = 8.607

"We Forgotten Who We Are" (11:17) - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - (21.5/25) = 8.6

"White Lies" (20:08) - INFRINGEMENT - (34/40) = 8.5

"Frustration/Sedation" (11:55) - NINE STONES CLOSE - (21.25/25) = 8.5

"Perkunas" (9:28) - INNER EAR BRIGADE - (17/20) = 8.5

"The Nature of Evil" (10:21) - COLIN MASSON - (17/20) = 8.5 

"Sendebud fra vest" (17:44) - KORNMO - (29.375/) = 8.393

"Den dype skogen" (15:41) - KORNMO - (25/30) = 8.333 

"Altets hav" (9:11) - KORNMO - (16.5/20) = 8.25 

As-yet unrated:

"This Is Not the End, Part 2" (12:15) - PRESENT - (/25) = 

"This Is Not the End, Part 1" (26:30) - PRESENT - (/50) = 

"The Solution (Part I) (11:56) - THE SAMURAI OF PROG - (/25) = 

"The Solution (Part II) (7:12) - THE SAMURAI OF PROG -

"Do You Know?" (10:45) - JADIS - (/20) = 

"Ballad of Deluge" suite (21:03) - SOLARIS - (/40) =

"Dream Valley" suite (39:43) - SOLARIS - (/60) =

  

Great but too short:

"Confluence" (8:37) - SLIFT - (19/20) = 9.5

"Ad Infinitum (8:44) - HAVEN OF ECHOES

"Heartquake" (8:47) - LEVIATHAN

"Hearts of Strings" (8:56) - SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR 

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

Favorite Drummers

I am by no means an expert on drums and drummers. By brother was a drummer in our band, so I know a little about equipment and recording techniques. But I know what I like: I like space; I like syncopation and odd time signatures; I like the unusual--perhaps even more than the extraordinary.

     These are some of my favorites--the ones who always attract my attention when I'm listening to songs they're in. They are in some semblance of order.

 Classique

Steve Jansen

Bill Bruford

John Bonham

Giulio Capiozzo

Phil Collins

Lenny White

Billy Cobham

Trilok Gurtu

Tony Williams

Christian Vander

Michael Shrieve

Steve Smith

Narada Michael Walden

Bruno Castelucci

Since the "Renaissance" of Prog in the 1990s, there have been several drummers that catch my ear every time I hear them. Again, they are in order of my admiration.

Modern

Richard "Nuxflux" Nettermalm

Mark Heron

Shanti Colucci

Jon Theodore

Thomas Pridgeon

John Hargett

Kashukura Takashi

Philippe Hexaire

Martin Axenrodt

Danny Carey

Mike Portnoy

I do not know metal music very well (it has never been my favorite kind of music), but I've asked for help in getting to know the "who, what, where, and why" of Prog Metal drummers. so far, this is the list of drummers whose skills and performances interest me the most. 

Metal

Kenny Groholski

Baard Kolstad

John Longstreath

Jazz / Jazz-Rock Fusion

Billy Cobham

Jack DeJohnette

Tony Williams

Lenny White

Elvin Jones

Gerry Brown

Ndugu Chandler

Narada Michael Walden

Prog Lists: My Favorite Albums of the 2010s

These are my favorite prog-related albums of the 2010s: they're not all pure prog but all have contributed greatly to the forms and sounds that has became known as "progressive rock music."

1. HOMUNCULUS RES Limiti all'eguaglianza della parte con il tutto (2013)

2. UNAKA PRONG Salinity Now! (2018)

3. THE AMAZING Gentle Stream (2011)

4. DEMEN Nektyr (2017)

5. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Not That City (2013) 

6. ALIO DIE & LORENZO MONTANÀ Holographic Codex (2015)

7. TONY PATTERSON Equations of Meaning (2016)

8. LAGARTIJA Particelle (2011)

9. BENT KNEE Shiny Eyed Babies (2014)

10. CICADA Light Shining Through the Sea (2015)

11. MICE ON STILTS Hope for a Mourning (2016)

12. VOTUM Harvest Moon (2013)

13. BATTLESTATIONS The extent of damage (2015)

14. AXON-NEURON Metamorphosis (2016)

15. FAUN Eden (2011)

16. GHOST MEDICINE Discontinuance (2016)

17. GHOSTS OF JUPITER The Great Bright Horses (2016)

18. THE CONTORTIONIST Clairvoyant (2017) 

19. MIDAS FALL Evaporate (2018)

20. MEER Meer (2015)

21. SEVEN IMPALE City of the Sun (2014)

22. JAMBINAI Onde (2019)

23. EDISON'S CHILDREN The Final Breath Before November (2013)

24. SOUP Remedies (2017)

25. AMOEBA SPLIT Dance of the Goodbyes (2010)

26. STEVEN WILSON Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)

27. CORDE OBLIQUE A Hail of Bitter Almonds (2011)

28. KEOR Petrichor (2018)

29. MONOBODY Raytracing (2018)

30. BATTLESTATIONS Vixit (2017)

31. FAUN Luna (2014)

32. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Dream of the Jongleur (2011)

34. TIRILL Said the Sun to the Moon (2019)

35. ANATHEMA Falling Deeper (2011)

36. BROTHER APE A Rare Moment of Insight (2010)

37. THE GABRIEL CONSTRUCT Interior City (2013)

38. CAMEMBERT Negative Toe (2017)

39. MONOBODY Monobody (2015)

40. WOBBLER Rites at Dawn (2011)

41. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO async (2017)

42. UTOPIANISTI The Third Frontier (2016)

43. FUNIN Unsound (2010) 

44. IAMTHEMORNING ~ (2012)

45. STEVE HAUSCHILDT Strands (2016)

46. MOTORPSYCHO Behind the Sun (2014)

47. FROGG CAFÉ Bateless Edge (2010)

48. KATE BUSH 50 Words for Snow (2011)

49. ANTOINE FAFARD Ad Perpetuum (2014)

50. HAMMOCK Silencia (2019)

51. KANT FREUD KAFKA No tengas miedo (2014)

52. AIRBAG The Greatest Show on Earth (2013)

53. ACCORDI DEI CONTRARI Violatto Intato (2017)

54. LATTE E MIELLE Passio Secundum Mattheum - The Complete Work (2014)

55. HYPNO5E Alba - Los ombres errantes (2018)

56. PROMENADE Noi al dir di di noi (2016)

57. LIFESIGNS Lifesigns (2013)

58. MYSTERY Delusion Rain (2015)

59. JAKOB Signs (2014)

60. SETNA Guérison (2013)

61. VANETA Antimemory (2016)

62. OZRIC TENTACLES Technicians of the Sacred  (2015)

63. PAT METHENY Orchestrion (2010)

64. THE MERCURY TREE Permutations (2016)

65. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF Dead Magic (2018)

66. SONAR with DAVID TORN Vortex (2018)

67. BELIEVE Seven Widows (2017)

68. STEVE HAUSCHILDT Nonlin (2019)

69. NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA I A Moon (2011)

70. IAMTHEMORNING Lighthouse (2016)

71. I AND THOU Speak (2012)

72. STARVING DAUGHTERS Strange Valleys (2018)

73. TREE TOPS Ghosts Don't Dance with Shoes (2017)

74. STARSABOUT Halflights (2016)

75. IVAR BJØRNSON & EINAR SELVIK Hugsjá (2018)

76. VESPERO By the Waters of Tomorrow (2010)

77. MYSTERY One Among the Living (2010)

78. LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO La notte anche di giorno (2015)

79. ARANIS Roquefort (2010)

80. TIGER MOTH TALES Cocoon (2014)

81. UNAKA PRONG Margot (2016)

82. LUNATIC SOUL II (2010)

83. CICCADA A Child in the Mirror (2010)

84. MY BROTHER THE WIND I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity (2011)

85. FEN Epoch (2011)

86. CAMEMBERT Schnökrgl Attahk (2011)

87. BIG BIG TRAIN English Electric Part 1 (2012)

88. MOTORPSYCHO with STÅLE STORLØKKEN The Death-Defying Unicorn (2012)

89. ALL TRAPS ON EARTH A Drop of Light (2018)

90. DEWA BUDJANI Mahandini (2019)

91. ÄNGLAGÅRD Viljans Oga (2012)

92. KOTEBEL Concerto for Piano and Electric Orchestra (2012)

93. KOTBEL Cosmology (2017)

94. KOENJIHYAKKEI Dhorimviskha (2018)

95. PINIOL Bran Coucou (2018)

96. BUBU El eco del sol (2018)

97. BUBBLEMATH Edit Peptide (2017)

98. KANT FREUD KAFKA Onírico (2017)

99. GLEB KOLYADIN Gelb Kolyadin (2018)

100. REGAL WORM Pig Views (2018)

Honorable Mentions:

SWANS The Seer (2012)

VIOLETA DE OUTONO Espectro (2012)

THE CONTORTIONIST Language (2013)

NINE STONES CLOSE One Eye on the Sunrise (2012)

TIRILL Um HiminjǫÐur (2013)

SYD ARTHUR Sound Mirror (2014)

LEPROUS The Congregation (2015)

LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ Avenoth (2016)

GADI CAPLAN Morning Sun (2016)

AMOEBA SPLIT Second Split (2016)

MOTHER TURTLE II (2016)

EKOS Outra Dimension (2017)

WHALEPHANT KaMMA (2016)

OPETH In Cauda Venenum (2019)

SONAR & DAVID TORN Tranceporation, Vol. 1 (2019)

THE TEA CLUB If / When (2019)

HACKBERRY Hackberry (2018)

ELECTRIC MOON Stardust Rituals (2017)

VAK Budo (2018)

L'ESTATE DI SAN MARTINO Talsette di Marsantino (2012)

CICADA Hiking in the Mist (2019)

A FORMAL HORSE Here Comes a Man from the Council with a Flamethrower (2019)

BATTLESTATIONS In a Cold Embrace (2012)
SOLSTICE Prophecy (2013)
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Tale of the Golden King (2013)

VIENNA CIRCLE Silhouette Moon (2013)

ELECTRIC ORANGE Volume 10 (2014) 
THE ENID Invicta (2012)

SYLVAN Sceneries (2012)

INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE In Hoc Signo (2013)

MOTORPSYCHO Still Life with Eggplant (2013)

NOT A GOOD SIGN Not a Good Sign (2013)

DAVE BAINBRIDGE Celestial Fire (2014)

JERZY ANTCZAK Ego, Georgius (2014)

ANEKDOTEN Until All the Ghosts Are Gone (2015)

NEMO Coma (2015)

THE TEA CLUB Grappling (2015)

CICCADA The Finest of Miracles (2015)

THIEVES' KITCHEN A Clockwork Universe (2015)

CAST Power and Outcome (2017)

SOUL ENEMA Of Clans and Clowns and Clones (2017)

KETTLESPIDER Kettlespider (2017)

BLACK MIDI Schlagenheim (2019)

ORION 2.0 Virtual Human (2019)

IAMTHEMORNING The Bell (2019)

STEVE UNRUH Precipice (2019)

BENT KNEE You Know What They Mean (2019)