Thursday, March 9, 2023

2008's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2008 studio releases:

Masterpieces:
1. "Someone Starts to Fade Away" (8:55) - NOSOUND - (20/20) = 10.0
2. "Vento Madre" (13:24) - UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - (29/30) = 9.667
3. "Indigo" (14:41) - PENDRAGON - (29/30) = 9.667
4. "From Silence to Noise" (15:30) - NOSOUND - (29/30) = 9.667
5. "Crashmind" (10:52) - FROM.UZ - (19/20) = 9.5
6. "Ricorre l'abbandono" (13:37) - J'ACCUSE..! - (28.5/30) = 9.5
7. "The Garden" (22:33) - UNITOPIA - (42.75/45) = 9.5
8. "Bring Out the Sun" (10:45) - VON HERTZEN BROTHERS - (18.75/20) = 9.375
9. "Salto nel Buio" (13:45) - PANDORA - (28/30) = 9.33
10. "Ato piradime" (15:52) - UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - (28/30) = 9.33
11. "Argamasilla" (11:04) - WILLOWGLASS - (18.5/20) = 9.25
12. "Hybrisma" (9:32) - DATURAH - (18.5/20) = 9.25
13. "Pandora" (11:43) PANDORA (18.5/20) = 9.25
14. “De Astrologia” (19:30) - UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA (37/40) =  9.25
15. "Semi-Permiable Menbrane" (10:54) - DIAGONAL (18.5/20) = 9.25
16. "The Water Road" (11:13) - THIEVES' KITCHEN (18.5/20) = 9.25
17. "Metamorphosis" (23:15) - MAGENTA (46/50) = 9.2
18. "Rainsuite" (12:42) - HOSTSONATEN - (23/25) = 9.2  
19. "Brother Where You Bound" (26:33) - SIMON SAYS - (45.75/50) = 9.15 
20. "As The River Runs" (10:40) - SIMON SAYS - (18.25/20) = 9.125
21. "What Will Happen" - SHAMALL - (18.25/20) = 9.125  
22. "Infernal Machina" (55:30) - JANNICK TOP = 90.40


Also Very Good:
"The Long Fianchetto" (21:02) - THIEVES' KITCHEN- (36/40) = 9.0
"Le Grand Dieu Pan" (14:45) - SYRINX (27/30) = 9.0
"Suddenly The Rain" (14:47) - SIMON SAYS - (27/30) = 9.0
"Comatose” (parts I-III) (17:38) - PENDRAGON (22.5/25) = 9.0
"Too Much To Loose" (15:12) - THE PINEAPPLE THIEF (27/30) = 9.0
"Liber Nonacris" (19:38) SYRINX - (36/40) = 9.0
"The Willing Victim" - VON HERTZEN BROTHERS - (18/20) = 9.0
"Different World" (10:44) - THE PINEAPPLE THIEF (18/20) = 9.0
"The Lighthouse Song" - MOONGARDEN (18/20) = 9.0
"9" - DATURAH - (22.5/25) = 9.0
"Two Blocks from the Edge" (9:54) - KARMAKANIC - (18/20) = 9.0
"The Children Gathering Around the Lake " - STEVE JANSEN, RICHARD BARBIERI, NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA - (18/20) = 9.0 
"Beautiful & Monstrous" - SUBSIGNAL - (18/20) = 9.0
"Les Arbres" (10:27) - JELLY FICHE - (18/20) = 9.0
"Embryo" - MILLENIUM (26.75/30) = 8.9167
"Malebolge" - IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Yucatan 65: The Agitation of the Mass" - BIRDS AND BUILDINGS - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Ouroboros" - ASTRA - (31/35) = 8.857
"Coerenza delle percenuali" - UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - (31/35) = 8.857
"Ricorre l'abbandono" - J'ACCUSE..! (26.5/30) = 8.83
"Sleeping in Traffic" (35:44) - BEARDFISH - (61.75/70) = 8.8214
"13th August" (11:53) - FROMUZ - (22/25) = 8.8
"The Ballad of Samuel Layne" (20:17) - MAGENTA (35/40) = 8.75 
"Stories from the Forest - Part 4" (9:29) - THOM BRENNAN - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Tacenda for You" (9:34) - THIEVES' KITCHEN - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Def MK1" (9:48) - ONE SHOT - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"The Ghost of Flowers Past" (9:47)  - MOON SAFARI - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Chameleon" (9:00) - THIEVES' KITCHEN - (17.5/20) = 8.75 
"In The Dark" - MATTHEW PARMENTER (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Cruces y Sombres" - NEXUS - (26.25/30) = 8.75
"Deep B Flat" (13:17) - DATURAH - (26.25/30) = 8.75
"Segments" (10:32) SOMA PLANET - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Mirar Hacia el Centro" - NEXUS - (/35) = 8.7143
"Emëhntëhtt-Ré III" (13:08) - MAGMA - (21.75/25) = 8.7
"Up & Down" - MILLENIUM (21.75/25) = 8.70


Also considered:
"Other Half of the Sky” (31:50) - MOON SAFARI (56.5/65) = 8.692
"Comatose" (17:38) - PENDRAGON - (30.375/35) = 8.68
"Stone Salad" (15:17) - FROMUZ - (26/30) = 8.667
"Pact" (14:00) - DIAGONAL - (26/30) = 8.667
"The Labyrinth" (16:50) - WILLOWGLASS - (26/30) = 8.667
"The Maythorne Cross" (10:39) - WILLOWGLASS - (17.33/20) = 8.667
"Other Side Of The Water" (14:09) - FROMUZ - (26/30) = 8.667
"Perpetuum Karma" - NEXUS" - (26/30) = 8.667
"Black P" (9:09) - ONE SHOT - (17.33/20) = 8.667
"Caution Congregates and Forms a Storm" - BIRDS AND BUILDINGS - (17.25/20) = 8.625 
"The Ethernet" (9:48) - THE TANGENT - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Chronicle of the Invisible River of Stone" - BIRDS AND BUILDINGS - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Travesía" - NEXUS - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Ára bátur" - SIGUR RÓS - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"The Weirding" - ASTRA - (25.75) = 8.5833
"Return To W.I.T." (17:00) - FROMUZ - (30/35) = 8.571
"Methuselah's Children" (15:43) - MOON SAFARI  - ((25.667/30) = 8.556
"Beyond To Slight The Maze" (11:36) - ASTRA - (17/20) = 8.5 
"Bluebells" (10:11)  - MOON SAFARI - (17/20) = 8.5 
"Downwards" (9:10) ONE SHOT - (17/20) = 8.5
"Condemended" (10:47) - RATIONAL DIET - (17/20) = 8.5
"Road to Infinity" - MILLENIUM (25.5/30) = 8.5
"Limitations" (8:59) - THE QUIET EART ORCHESTRA - (17/20) = 8.5
"Silent Sleep" - ASTRA - (17.5/20) = 8.5
"Ghost Track" (12:32) - DATURAH - (21/25) = 8.4
"Entering the Halls of Winter "(10:13) - HOSTSONATEN - (16.75/20) = 8.375
"Del abismo al sol" - NEXUS - (16.75/20) = 8.375 
"Rat Race" - MILLENIUM (16.75/20) = 8.375
"La cage des vautours / Liberté" (15:25) - JELLY FICHE - (25/30) = 8.333
"Eraserhead" (9:05) - PENDRAGON - (16.5/20) = 8.25
"Vertex" (12:52) - DATURAH - (20.5/25) = 8.2


Too Short:
"Tout ce que j'ai rêvé" - JELLY FICHE
"Child of the Thundercloud" - DIAGONAL
"Moonwalk" - MOON SAFARI


*Bold print denotes songs that have risen into my pantheon of All-time favorite "epics."

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