Friday, March 10, 2023

2009's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2009 studio releases:

Masterpieces:
1. "Incubus" (9:14) - THE BOX - (20/20) = 10.0
2. "Kana" (9:03) - PROGHMA-C - (20/20) = 10.0
3. "Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" (10:56) - MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - (20/20) = 10.0
4. "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)" (11:50) - MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - (20/20) = 10.0
5. "Vapour Trail" (14:30) - SYLVAN - (30/30) = 10.0
6. "Summer Fall" (9:57) - AISLES - (19.5/30) = 9.75
7. "We Don't Need Time, We're Already In Eternity" (23:43) - SIL MUIR - (48.5/50) = 9.70
8. "Naan" (8:57) - PROGHMA-C - (19.25/20) = 9.625
9. "Sovrano dell-illusione" (Parts 1 & 2) (17:17) - MAD CRAYON - (33.5/35) = 9.57
10. "Tick Tock" (22:24) - GAZPACHO - (43/45) = 9.56
11. "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré II" (22:24) - MAGMA (42.75/45) = 9.5
12. "Abigails Questions (in An Infinite Universe)" (9:49) - BEARDFISH - (19/20) = 9.5
13. "Serenity in a Nutshell" (13:12) - CIRRUS BAY - (28.5/30) = 9.5
14. "The Maiden" (9:30) - AISLES - (19/20) = 9.5
15. "Ryker Skies" (9:45) - IQ - (19/20) = 9.5
16. "Deadman" (12:04) - KARNIVOOL - (23.5/25) = 9.4
17. "Coup de grâce" (9:49) - BEARDFISH - (18.75/20) = 9.375 
18. "Spiralling to Another" (9:32) - PROGHMA-C - (18.75/20) = 9.375 
19. "Jack the Ripper" - PRESENT - (27.5/30) = 9.1667
20. "Zenobia" (16:47) - CIRRUS BAY - (32/35) = 9.143
21. "Thoughts Are Swimming in My Head" (Parts 1 & 2) - SHAMALL - (18.25/20) = 9.125
22. "Simurgh" (13:09) - KOTEBEL - (22.75/25) = 9.10


Other Very Good Songs:
"Disaffected and Abused" (17:38) - ANUBIS - (31.5/35) = 9.0
"Fading" - ARCANE - (22.5/25) = (9.0) 
"Hawaii" (15:00) - AISLES - (27/30) = 9.0
"Ouroboros" (16:07) - KOTEBEL - (27/30) = 9.0
"Until You Comply/entropy" (15:21) - BEARDFISH - (27/30) = 9.0
"Perpetual Twilight" - iNFiNiEN - (18/20) = 9.0
"Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)" (11:26) - MONO - (18/20) = 9.0
"Change" - KARNIVOOL - (18/20) = 9.0
"Re schiavo" (Parts 1 & 2) - MAD CRAYON - (18/20) = 9.0
"Cold Bright and Quiet" (9:09) - JAZZCOMPUTER.ORG - (18/20) = 9.0
"Kahden Kuun Sirpit" (22:50) - VIIMA - (40.25/45) = 8.9444 
"The Collapse" - ANUBIS - (22.25/25) = 8.9
"The Underfall Yard" - BIG BIG TRAIN - (40/45) = 8.889
"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of" (10:40) - BEARDFISH - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Deliverance" - THE BLACK NOODLE PROJECT - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Can't Feel the Earth, (Part II)" - IZZ - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Sorterargatan 3" - GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Dopo il vento" - DELIRIUM - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Bond of Mutual Distrust" - ANUBIS - (17.75/20) = 8.875
"Imperial Winter Wine" - WOBBLER - (26.5/30) = 8.833
"A Last Drop" - PRESENT - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)" - MONO - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"La Roche (Meeting Point)" - MIRIODOR - (17.5/20) = 8.75 
"Harpsong" (19:19) - Judy Dyble - (35/40) = 8.75
"Västerbron 05:30" - GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Sycamore" - CASPIAN - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Asylum: Acolyte Zero" - ARCANE - (21.75/25) = 8.7
"Victorian Brickwork" (12:33) - BIG BIG TRAIN - (21.75/25) = 8.70
"In Taberna" - WOBBLER - (21.75/25) = 8.7
"Emëhntëhtt-Ré III" (13:08) - MAGMA - (21.75/25) = 8.7


Also considered:
"The Walk" (Parts I & II) (13:39) - GAZPACHO - (26/30) = 8.667
"Vertiges" - PRESENT - (26/30) = 8.667
"Mariachi" - AISLES - (17.33/20) = 8.667 
"Destined Solitaire" (10:53) - BEARDFISH - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Those I Left Behind" - YVES POTIN - (17/20) = 8.5
"Knives of Summer" (10:20) - THE NERVE INSTITUTE - (17/20) = 8.5
"Mont St. Michel" (10:57) - THE BOX - (16.75/20) = 8.375 
"The Exposure of Truth" (9:23) - CIRRUS BAY - (16/20) = 8.0


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

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