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Duncan Glenday's Top 20 2005:

Any ommission of very good records is not a reflection of their quality - it just means I haven't heard it yet. Here's my top 10 of 2005:
Okay - my top 20 (Okay okay - my top bunch!)

  1. Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
  2. Magic Pie - Motions of Desire
  3. Doddy, Fritz - The Feeling Of Far
  4. Morse, Neal - ?
  5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
  6. Arena - Pepper's Ghost
  7. Satellite -- Evening Games
  8. Meshuggah -- Chapter Thirty Three
  9. Mangala Vallis -- Lycanthrope
  10. Porcupine Tree -- Deadwing
  11. Pallas -- The Dreams Of Men
  12. Green Carnation -- The Quiet Offspring
  13. Van Der Graaf Generator -- Present
  14. The Mars Volta -- Frances The Mute
  15. House Of Not -- The Walkabout Of A Nexter Niode - Part 2 Sexus
  16. Willowglass -- Willowglass
  17. Riverside -- Second Life Syndrome
  18. Sieges Even -- The Art Of Navigating By The Stars
  19. Shadow Gallery -- Room V
  20. Nevermore -- This Godless Emperor
  21. Guy Manning -- One Small Step
  22. Man On Fire -- Habitat
  23. Children of Bodom -- Are You Dead Yet?
  24. Wobbler -- Hinterland
  25. Farpoint - From Dreaming To Dreaming
  26. Arcturus -- Sideshow Symphonies

And a DVD that really stood out (a 2005 DVD release of a 2004 album):

  • Pain Of Salvation - Be (DNG)

    A special mention for an album in a genre I don't usually approach:

  • System Of A Down -- Mesmerize / Hypnotize

    STOP PRESS ... STOP PRESS

    Two late additions:

    • Sonus Umbra -- Digging For Zeroes
    • Arcturus -- Sideshow Symphonies

    Tom Karr's Top Symphonic Prog Releases 2005:

    Sorry there are only a few, but there are only a few.

    • Glass - Illuminations
    • Wobbler - Hinterland
    • PFM - Dracula Opera Rock
    • Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret
    • Izz - My River Flows
    • Interpose - Interpose+
    • Various Artists - Odyssey - The Greatest Tale (Musea/Colossus) (Nathan Mahl, Nexus, Glass Hammer, XII Alfonso, Simon Says, CAP, Tempano, Minimum Vital, Aether)
    • Satellite - Evening Games

    EARLY LEADER FOR BEST SYMPHONIC PROG RELEASE OF 2006

    Eric Porter's Top 10 2005:

    Stephanie Sollow's (Preliminary) Top 10 12 for 2005:

    So far, these are the releases that are in my top picks list (alphabetically, updated 7/23/2006*):

    And many more not yet listened to ... thus it's "so far" and "preliminary" :-)

    *yes, midway through '06, I'm still revising.

    Joshua Turner's Top 10 2005:

    1. Bodin, Tomas - I Am
    2. Neal Morse - ?
    3. Moon Safari - A Doorway To Summer
    4. Salem Hill - Mimi's Magic Moment
    5. Spock's Beard - Octane
    6. Frameshift - An Absense Of Empathy
    7. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
    8. Stolt, Roine - Wall Street Voodoo
    9. Echolyn - The End is Beautiful
    10. Kaipa - Mindrevolution

    Honorable Mentions:

    Top Debut of the Year

    Top Live Albums (only four are worthy)

    1. RPWL - Live - Start The Fire
    2. Saga - Chapters Live
    3. Spock's Beard - Gluttons For Punishment (Live In '05)
    4. Tangent, The - Pyramids And Stars

    Top DVD

    • Pain Of Salvation - Be

    Top Concert

    • Tangent, The - The World That We Drive Through tour
      (ROSfest 2005 Headline Act and US Debut)

    Top Diversion

    • The Killers - Hot Fuss

    Early Entry for '06

    • Tangent, The - A Place In The Queue


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