The "Best of 2003" results are in and tallied, and here are the results for the first category, favourite album of the year (total 60 participants)
TOP 5 ALBUMS
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought (20)
Neal Morse Testimony (18)
The Tangent - The Music That Dies Alone (14)
Opeth Damnation (13)
OSI Office Of Strategic Influence (12)
The rest of pack finished like this:
Arena - Contagion (10)
King Crimson - Power To Believe (9)
Steve Hackett - To Watch The Storms (9)
Spock's Beard - Feel Euphoria (8)
Enchant - Tug Of War (6)
Kaipa Keyholder (6)
Magellan - Impossible Figures (6)
Anekdoten Gravity (5)
Bodin, Tomas - Sonic Boulevard (4)
Karnataka- Delicate Flame Of Desire (4)
Cast - Al-Bandaluz (3)
Dead Soul Tribe - Murder Of Crows (3)
Galleon - From Land To Ocean (3)
Gordian Knot Emergent (3)
Lucassen's Star One, Arjen Anthony - Live On Earth (3)
Muse Absolution (3)
Nil - 40 Jours Sur Le Sinai (3)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (3) -- though this actually is a 2002 release
Satellite - A Street Between Sunrise & Sunset (3)
Syzygy - Allegory Of Light (3)
A.C.T - Last Epic (2)
Flower Kings - Meet The Flower Kings (2)
Flower Kings - Unfold The Future (2)
Frameshift - Unweaving The Rainbow (2)
Howe's Remedy, Steve - Elements (2)
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death (2)
Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (2)
La Maschera di Cera - Il Grande Labirinto (2)
Mostly Autumn - The Passengers (2)
Pineaple Thief - Variations On A Dream (2)
RPWL - Stock (2)
Sherinian, Derek - Black Utopia (2)
Townsend Band, The Devin - Accelerated Evolution (2)
Transatlantic - Live In Europe (2)
Adagio Underworld (1)
After Crying - Show (1)
Alias Eye - A Different Point Of View (1)
Andromeda - II=I (1)
Apocalyptica - Reflections (1)
Arsnova - Biogenesis Project (1)
Beck, Jeff - Jeff (1)
Beller, Bryan - View (1)
Cap Il Bianco Regno Di Dooah (1)
Caravan The Unauthorizes Breakfast Item (1)
Carptree- Superhero (1)
Clogs - Lullaby For Sue (1)
Djam Karet - A Night For Baku (1)
Edenbridge - Aphelion (1)
Norlander, Erik - Music Machine (1)
Evergrey - Recreation Day (1)
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (1)
Flower Kings - Alive 2003 (1)
Friedman, Marty - Music For Speeding (1)
Frogg Cafe - Creatures (1)
Hill, Andrew - Passing Ships (1)
Hughes, Gary - Once and Future King (1)
Glass Hammer - Lex Rex (1) - technically, a 2002 release
Glass Hammer - Shadowlands (1) - technically a 2004 release...
Green - Life (1)
Ion Vein - Reigning Memories (1)
Isuldurs Bane - Mind Vol. 4: Pass (1)
Izz - I Move (1) - technically, a 2002 release
Jack Yello - Thorns Of Anger (1)
Jadis Fanatic (1)
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (1)
KBB Four Corner's Sky (1)
Mew - Frengers (1)
Nathan Mahl - Shadows Unbound (1)
New Machine - New Machine (1)
Paatos Timeloss (1)
Poverty's No Crime - The Chemical Chaos (1)
Pride Of Lions - Pride Of Lions (1)
Queensryche - Tribe (1)
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (1)
Riverside - Out Of Myself (1)
Riverside Riverside (1)
Royal Hunt - Eyewitness (1)
Rush Rush In Rio (1)
Saga Marathon (1)
Salem Hill Be (1)
Singularity - Between Sunlight And Shadow (1)
Softworks Abracadabra (1)
Spocks Beard - Snow (1) - technically, a 2002 release
Sting - Sacred Love (1)
Stratovarius Elements Pt 1 (1)
Syrinx Reification (1)
Taal Skymind (1)
Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi (1)
Tantra - Terra (1)
Threshold Wireless (1)
US - Eamon's Day (1)
Violent Silence - Violent Silence (1)
Wetton, John - Rock Of Faith (1)
Wolverine - Cold Light of Monday (1)
Yellow Matter Custard - One Night In New York (1)
Yes Remixes (1)
Yogi Salve (1)
TOP 5 DVDS:
Rush - Rush In Rio (22)
Tranatlantic - Live In Europe (17)
Flower Kings, The - Meet the Flower Kings (12)
Gabriel, Peter - Growing Up Live (7)
Opeth Lamentations (5)
Star One - Live On Earth (5)
The rest:
Arena - Caught In The Act (4)
Kansas - Device - Voice Drum (4)
King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open (4)
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (4)
Hackett, Steve - Somewhere in South America (3)
Led Zeppelin (3)
Pallas - The Blinding Darkness (3)
Iron Maiden - Vision Of The Beast (2)
Marillion - Frome Stoke Row... (2)
Ozric Tentacles - Live at the Pongmasters Ball (2)
Saga Silouette (2)
Toto - Live In Amsterdam (2)
Vai, Steve - Live at the Astoria (2)
VDGG - Godbluff Live 1975 (2)
Yes Yesspeak (2)
Ange - 70s/80s
Asia - Live In The Usa
Mostly Autumn - At The Grand Opera
Bowie, David - Ziggy Stardust
Camel - Curriculum Vitae
Coldplay - Live 2003 (in Sydney)
Dio - Evil or Divine
Fates Warning
Heart - Alive In Seattle
Jadis
John Mayall - 70th Birthday Concert
Manowar - Fire And Blood
Marillion - Before First Light
Marillion - Christmas In The Chapel
Slayer - War At The Warfield
The Residents Eskimo
Triumph - Live At The US Festival
Yes - Symphonic Live
There weren't many responses to the rest of the poll, but here are some of those we did get for some of the categories.
BEST NEW ARTIST
The Tangent (8)
O.S.I (6)
Satellite (3)
NiL (2)
Riverside (2)
Akacia
Andromeda
Bryan Beller
Chrome Shift
Green
I'm A Robot
Jack Yello
Masterplan
Mew
Morgana X
New Machine
Paatos
Syrinx
Syzygy
Violent Silence
Wobbler
Honorable mention: Neal Morse (but since he released a couple of solo albums before Testimony, not really "new")
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
The most often mentioned disappointment was Spock's Beard's Feel Euphoria (8 of you felt that way), followed by Dream Theater's Train of Thought (5 of you). While all of the responses were interesting, here are a few that I'll single out: "Kaipa's Keyholder wasn't an instrumental album," "No prog bands touring Australia still.....," "Demise of Magna Carta" (and I think he means the label, not the band ??), "No Pink Floyd reunion," and a couple of you cited Metallica's St. Anger
FAVORITE REVIEWER
This was based on who you read the most, and who has most "picked your pocket" of money because of his/her reviews. One could choose more than one of us, as you might expect (and not every one made selections in this category); in decending order, these are the names selected most often.
BoBo (23)
Steph (20)
Keith (11)
Clay (5)
Larryd (5)
Eric (5)
Igor (4)
Davide (2)
Marcelo (2)
Ripz (2)
Dave (1)
(The numbers refect those of us who publish a lot of reviews during the course of a year, and so "pop up on the radar" more often.)
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's poll.
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