Monday, December 2, 2024

Prog Lists: My 100 Favorite Prog Albums of the Naughties

These are my 100 favorite prog-related albums of the 2000sThey're not all pure prog but all have contributed greatly to the forms and sounds that has became known as "progressive rock music."


1. ODYSSEY: "The Greatest Tale" (2005)


2. DOVES Lost Souls (2000)



3. IONA Open Sky (2000)



4. BJÖRK Vespertine (2001)



5. BIG BIG TRAIN The Difference Machine (2005)



6. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Part the Second (2009)



7. NIL Nil Novo Sol (2005)



8. ULVER Shadows of the Sun (2007)



9. PROGHMA-C Bar-do Travel (2009)



10. MOTORPSYCHO Phanerothyme (2001)


11. PÄATOS Timeloss (2002)
12. OCEANSIZE Everyone Into Position (2005)
13. FAUN Renaissance (2005)
14. DOVES The Last Broadcast (2002)
15. KARDA ESTRA Eve (2000)
16. PURE REASON REVOLUTION The Dark Third (2006)
17. BEARDFISH Destined Solitaire (2009)
18. SYLVAN Posthumous Silence (2006)
19. BARK PSYCHOSIS Code Name: DustSucker (2004)
20. RIVERSIDE Second Life Syndrome (2005)

21. JANNICK TOP Infernal Machina (2008)
22. KOTEBEL Omphalos (2006)
23. THE FLAMING LIPS Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
24. THE GATHERING If_then_else (2000)
25. AIRBAG Identity (2009)
26. ARCANE Chronicles of the Waking Dream (2009)
27. GA'AN - Ga'an (2009)
28. MAGENTA Seven (2004)
29. MAGMA Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009)
30. QUIDAM The Time Beneath the Sky (2002)

31. NOSOUND LightDark (2008)
32. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Leaving Your Bodymap (2001)
33. MAD CRAYON Preda (2009)
34. BOX Le horla de Montpassant (2009)
35. AISLES In Sudden Walks (2009)
36. KBB Lost and Found (2000)
37. STEREOLAB Sound-Dust (2001)
38. KARDA ESTRA Voivode Dracula (2004)
39. ANTIQUE SEEKING NUNS Mild Profundities (2003)
40. PORCUPINE TREE Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)

41. HIROMI’S SONICBLOOM (HIROMI UEHARA) Time Control (2007)
42. MOTH VELLUM Moth Vellum (2007)
43. SIGUR RÓS ( ) (2002)
44. KLAUS SCHULZE Kontinuum (2007)
45. KARDA ESTRA Constellations (2003)
46. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Bath (2001)
47. KATE BUSH Aerial (2005)
48. THORK Wê-ila (2004)
49. BONDAGE FRUIT V - Skin (2002)
50. DUNGEN 4 (2008)

51. THORK Nula Jedan (2007)
52. CORDE OBLIQUE The Stones of Naples (2009)
53. FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM Mourning Sun (2005)
54. MAGYAR POSSE Random Avenger (2006)
55. VIOLETA DE OUTONO Volume 7 (2007)
56. IONA The Circling Hour (2006)
57. FROST* Milliontown (2006)
58. AMAROK Quentadharkën (2004)
59. ESPERS II (2006)
60. UZVA Uomo (2006)

61. OOIOO TAIGA (2006)
62. ELECTRIC ORANGE Morbus (2007)
63. PENDRAGON Pure (2008)
64. GAZPACHO Night (2007)
65. MAGMA K.A. (2004)
66. NIL Quarant jours sur le Sinaï (2002)
67. RIVERSIDE Rapid Eye Movement (2005)
68. QUIDAM Pod Niebem Czas (The Time Beneath The Sky) (2002)
69. LAZULI En avant doute… (2006)
70. THE MARS BOLTA De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)

71. UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA The Magus (2008)
72. DAVE BAINBRIDGE Veil of Gassamer (2004)
73. PAT METHENY GROUP The Way Up (2005)
74. MONO You Are There (2006)
75. YVES POTIN Elsewhere (2007)
76. iNFiNiEN How to Accept (2006)
77. PAATOS Silence of Another Kind (2006)
78. MAGISTER DIXIT Cellules de Crises (2006)
79. PAIN OF SALVATION The Perfect Element, Part 1 (2000)
80. PORCUPINE TREE Lighbulb Sun (2000)

81. TOOL Lateralus (2001)
82. TOE. For Long Tomorrow (2009)
83. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows (2007)
84. AGALLOCH The Mantle (2002)
85. KOTEBEL Ouroboros (2009)
86. THE WATCH Ghost (2001)
87. 35007 Liquid (2002)
88. KNIGHT AREA Under a New Sign (2007)
89. ANGRA Temple of Shadows (2004)
90. THY CATAFALQUE Tűnő Idő Tárlat (2004)

91. OZRIC TENTACLES Spirals in Hyperspace (2004)
92. SYRINX Qualia (2009)
93. THE MARS VOLTA Fances the Mute (2005)
94. SIMON SAYS Tardigrade (2008)
95. MOON SAFARI Blomljud (2008)
96. VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Love Remains the Same (2008)
97. RED SPAROWES at the Soundless Dawn (2005)
98. WILLOWGLASS Willowglass (2005)
99. JEAVESTONE Spices, Species and Poetry Petrol (2008)
100. GAZPACHO Tick Tock (2009)


Honorable Mentions:

IZZ My River Flows (2005)
OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ Apocalypse Inside and Orange (2007)
FEN The Malediction Fields (2009)
RITUAL The Hemulic Voluntary Band (2007)
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE The Black Tomato (2007)
DIAGONAL Diagonal (2008)
IZZ The Darkened Room (2009)
IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE Cap. 7 - Tra le antiche mura (2009)
ANUBIS 230503 (2009)
PINKROOM Psychosolstice (2009)
KAYO DOT Choirs of the Eye (2003)
RISHLOO Feathergun (2009)
WOBBLER Afterglow (2009)
LA MASCHERA DI CERA Il grande labirinto (2003)
FROGG CAFÉ Creatures (2003)
ORPHANED LAND Mabool - The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (2004)
KARDA ESTRA The Age of Science and Enlightenment (2006)
VIIMA Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta (2006)
FROM.UZ Overlook (2008)
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT All Is Violent, All Is Bright (2005)
PANDORA Dramma di un poeta Ubriaco (2008)



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