Chad Hutchinson CHAD’S BEST OF 2004 1. IQ, “Dark Matter” 2. Marillion, “Marbles” 3. Mike Keneally Band, “Dog” HM: Far Corner, “Far Corner” Guapo, “Five Suns” Helmet of Gnats, “Timeslip” Hidria Spacefolk, “Balansia” Karmakanic, “Wheel of Life” Le Orme, “L’inifinito” Particle, “Launchpad” Proto-Kaw, “Before Became After” Ken’s picks: 1. Black Bonzo - Lady Of The Light 2. IQ - Dark Matter 3. Helmet Of Gnats - Time Slip HM. 1. Rain - Cerulean Blue 2. Espers - Espers 3. Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night Luis Nasser 1. Marillion - Marbles 2. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R. 3. Far Corner - Far Corner HM: SGM - Of Natural History Paatos - Kallocain Magenta - Seven Christian Canzoneri Chris Best of 2004 1. Neurosis - Eye of Every Storm 2. Evergrey - The Inner Circle 3. Enslaved - Isa HM’s Isis - Panopticon Ayreon - The Human Equation Wintersun - Wintersun George: 3. MCM - Ritual Factory 2. Angra - Temple of Shadows 1. Chick Corea Elektric Band - To the Stars HMs: 7for4 - Time Helmet of Gnats - Timeslip Richard Hallebeek Project Eric’s Best of 2004 1. Derek Sherinian-“Mythology” 2. ExhiVision - s/t 3. Helmet of Gnats - “Timeslip” HM Marillion - “Marbles” Indukti - “S.U.S.A.R” Neal Morse - “One” Chuck’s Best of 2004 3. Of Natural History-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 2. Marbles-Marillion 1. Dark Matter-IQ •A Tribute to Brother Weldon-Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm •Madvillany-MadVillain Pete's picks: 1)Ayreon-The Human Equation 2)Black Bonzo-Lady of the Light 3)IQ-Dark Matter Honorable mentions: White Willow-Storm Season Glass Hammer-Shadowlands Derek Sherinian-Mythology Helmet of Gnats-Timeslip CC Elektric Band-To the Stars Angra-Temple of Shadows Threshold-Subsurface The Watch-Vacuum Arabs in Aspic-Far Out in Aradabia
I’m on the edge of my Prog Seat! This is my favorite type of show, where you guys take a whole year, or the A to Z of Bands that you did, or a whole country (“French bands” or whatever). These episodes dump whole lists of information on us and leave me scrambling to write down notes. I’m taking notes right now! You’ve mentioned IQ too many times , so I’m listening to some IQ and it’s really good!
I went on Ken's advice and decided to give Cerulean Blue a listen. Holy crap what an amazing album. It has been played pretty much non stop. I was intrigued because I thought it may be similar to War Of The Worlds...so so so much better. Thank You Ken and when the mood to actually try something new strikes, Dark Matter will be next.
@@lasercd7851 I couldn't agree more. Such a tremendous album. I WILL track down a copy so i don't have to deal with the compression that is streaming. Thank You again Sir
Same here. What a hidden gem. The narration, the story, the songwriting... Chilling. A bona fide masterpiece. And no details to be found about the mysterious creator... Wow in every regard.
1. Marillion- Marbles 2. Asia- Silent Nation 3. I.Q.- Dark Matter 4. The Flower Kings- Adam & Eve 5. Saga- Network 6. The Tangent- The World That We Drive Through 7. Neal Morse- One 8. Rush- Feedback E.P.
I admit , I know some stuff from 2004, but not even close to the knowledge of all the co hosts. I learned a lot. I’ll always have homework from these shows. lol. Thanks to everyone tonight 👍💯
Dr. Nasser mi hombre con Marbles! Also Chad and Chuck. It's really fantastic (place). I did get my name into it and every one since then. I just missed out on Araknophobia.
Great show, here’s my list: 1) ExhiVision - Self Titled 2) Kozo Suganuma - Pai-Patiroma 3) Magma - K.A 4) Koichi Yabori - Guess Where I Am 5) Trix - Index
Playing fast and loose with definition of prog perhaps but I'll say 1 Levithian by Mastodon 2 Ta Det Lugnt by Dungen 3 Madvillany by Madvillain 4 Spirals in Hyperspace by Ozric Tentacles.
Madvillainy is essentially hip-hop (which I'm usually not that into) with multiple people with multiple aliases. In a vid, flipping through albums and stop at a Gentle Giant so perhaps that's a nod to that band. Spirals in Hyperspace is slightly colder and less organic than most of their jam-tronic Hawkwind-ish albums. Have fun!
Some of my top 2004 Ayreon - Human Equation Marillion - Marbles IQ - Dark Matter Threshold - Subsurface Angra - Temple of shadows Black Bonzo - Lady of the light Evergrey - The inner circle
#1 The Tangent - The World We Drive Through #2 Happy The Man - The Muse Awakens #3 I.Q. - Dark Matter #4 Neal Morse - One #5 Glass Hammer - Shadowlands
2004: Amplifier - Amplifier Dark Suns - Existence Derek Sherinian - Mythology Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor Happy the Man - The Muse Awakens LoMenzo, Luzier, Hiketa - The Hideous Sun Demons Mahavishnu Project - Phase 2 Nero - Zedonk Ohm: - Live on KPFK Plankton - Humble Colossus Siena Root - A New Day Dawning Vital Information - Come On In
10 from me in no order: Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt Bark Psychosis - Codename Dustsucker IQ - Dark Matter Zombi - Cosmos Hidria Spacefolk - Balansia Landing - Sphere Color Haze - s/t Marillion - Marbles Spastic Ink - Ink Compatible Mastodon - Leviathan
I'm sorry to hear about Chris Canzoneri's poor health and medical woes maybe Pete could start a Go Fund Me. I know the SoT family will rally around you. 🙏
100% agree with Christian about isis and Neurosis.I saw Neurosis live during their "Through Silver In Blood " tour and that was the most intense concert I have ever seen in my life.
Enslaved's music serves as the perfect soundtrack to winter, and also for days of all seasons with heavy downpours and slaty skies. I got into the band by way of the video review Pete did for Heimdal coinciding with its release last year. I loved it upon first listen. Bought more albums from the band (I don't own them all at present), and enjoy each of the ones I have; Isa is excellent. My personal favorite, at the moment, is In Times. I was pleasantly surprised to see someone in the comments mention Orphaned Land; I believe they are more known in areas outside of the West, and I suspect that the band's music will not appeal to everyone. Talk about a metal band doing some interesting things! Mabool is an excellent album. I own the limited edition boxed set called "30 Years of Oriental Metal." My having found this band (last year) was due to serendipity. I vail my hat to Mr. Alvarez - Madvillainy _is_ all that. Always was! I have it on CD. Great show.
great show guys loved that luis picked INDUCKTI i have that one too but not too many people know about it IQ -DARK MATTER EVERGREY -THE INNER CIRCLE AYREON-THE HUMAN EQUATION INDUKTI ENSLAVED -ESA
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History Guapo - 5 Suns Ahvak - s/t Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons Electric Masada - John Zorns 50th Birthday Celebration Vol 4
If u don’t own double u may was well set money on fire 😂 you the need double u need the epic u need the Holy Spirit 😂😂😂😂 Luis was on fire humor thus episode.
This was a great year for Prog (and NEARFest). As I hear them: 5. Jing Chi - "3-D" 4. Cul de Sac / Damo Suzuki - "Abhayamudra" 3. Indukti - "S.U.S.A.R." 2. IQ - "Dark Matter" 1. Marillion - "Marbles"
Yes indeed a tough year: Here are a few that were just under the bar from those mentioned: K2-Book of the Dead (with Holdsworth) Riverside- Out of Myself Willowglass-debut Big Big Train- Gathering Steam Manzanera- 6pm Magenta- Seven Knight Area- The Sun Also Rises Finistere- la Mecchanica Naturale Hola Luis, and Go Rangers Chuck
it sure is good to see chris cantinary back in the prog seat. my life partner lupita has been worried something awful after reading in the comments about how he became gravely ill and had to be hosiptialized after receiving the covid-19 booster vaccine. but now her "prog prince" is back so she's happy and im allowed once again to watch the prog seat on the big tv instead of on my iphone.
Great episode guys! 👏🙋 Some great albums from 2004 are: Leviathan by Mastodon Panopticon by ISIS K.a by Magma MM... FOOD by MF DOOM Madvillainy by Madvillain and company Luis and Chuck should totally do a show about their favorite hip hop albums, that would be really cool!
@@chuckazeee I understand😞 but please continue bringing up hip hop albums whenever you think it's appropriate. It's thanks to you and Luis that I listened to "To pimp a butterfly" by kendrick lamar which was a life changing album for me and to then also discover a bunch of other great hip hop albums so thank you for that🙏🙋
A quick search of the Google machine gives me a number I liked, some that were ok/disappointing, some I have to revisit, and some that were WTF. I'll stick with only the prog albums without mentioning too many. 1. Marillion - Marbles, nothing comes close to this one, it's right at the top with Brave as my favorite Marillion album. 2. 3 - Wake Pig, great album that fits that weird niche band that sadly falls by the wayside. Joey Eppard is one talented dude like Damon Fox from Big Elf. 3. Proto-kaw - Before Came After, this sounded more like Kansas than Kansas did for some time. Of course with Kerry Livgren that's going to happen. Good album. 4. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R. - very good with some heaviness to it, didn't quite like the one that came after as much and they seemed to have disappeared from the map. 5. Orphaned Land - Mabool, this is one of those albums that were like I don't know if I like this because it's so different, like the first time I heard Remedy Lane or the Perfect Element Part 1. Then it's this is awesome once you "get it". And speaking of PoS, I remember buying BE at PP that year (maybe from Old Man Prog?), they hadn't even seen it yet before them signing it as it wasn't officially released yet. Daniel Gildenlow was a day late so I didn't get him to sign it until another time. They played nothing from it at the show. But I drove up that year so I got to listen to it on the way home a number of times and it was what the fuck did I just listen to? Talk about disappointing after Remedy Lane. It takes to the last few songs before it ever gets going. It was Gildenlow indulgence at its peak. And it still is a what the fuck album twenty years later. p.s. George, I know it's going to be one of your favorites, but AngrA isn't prog. 😉
😆Mostly, no. They do have 3 albums that many see a fair amount of prog elements in though. And hey, I don't see anything proggy about quite a few of the bands that the other guys mention on these shows, so fair game! Be sucks, outside of Nihil Morari and Martius. Goldenblow indulgence for sure
Goldenblow 😂 Daniel not Ken of course. Agreed on all points. Iter Impius is probably the best song on BE and that was written by Frederik Hermannson. Fun fact: I used to give people crap on the old DT board back in the day that AngrA was not prog when people tried to convince me they were. So I wore an AngrA shirt to the DT RCMH show where I can be seen wearing it I believe during TSCO. 😂
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A great pick for me on that year would be Mastodon's Leviathan, an absolute classic in my eyes. Although yeah way more of a metal album than a prog one.
Steven lives in the U.K, there’s a five hour difference between his time and the EST that the majority of our panel lives in. So it’s usually after midnight by him and he has a family and also has a full time job. He’s a great guy and he’s missed.
As per Chuck and Luis, take 90 seconds to check out the claymation video for Strange Ways by Madvillian. Hip hop over a Gentle Giant sample, a claymation MF Doom looking at the Gentle Giant album cover, and GG being first in the comment section of the video. My picks which aren’t prog but in similar jazz and metal universes: Medeski Martin & Wood: end of the world party The Bad Plus: give (this has a piano trio version of Iron Man) Madvillian: Madvilliany Isis: panopticon
@@chuckazeee I mean, there’s so much classic prog across hip hop, from Raekwon to Kanye to black moon to Danny brown. So Madlib and Doom should definitely get some time on here!
@@chuckazeee absolutely. A sci-fi concept album? Definitely prog. I really liked that album when it came out because I was a big Blur fan at the time. The music is great, and Del’s flows are so distinct.
1. Chick Corea Elektric Band: To The Stars 2. The Flower Kings: Adam & Eve 3. Rush: Feedback EP 4. Derek Sherinian: Mythology 5. Neal Morse: One 6. Pain Of Salvation: BE 7. Ayreon: The Human Equation 8. Asia: Silent Nation
1- Magma: KA (best album of the decade) 2- Ozric Tentacles : Spirals in Hyperspace 3- Neal Morse : One 4- Karmakanic : The Wheel of life 5- Ahvak : Ahvak
As I watch this show and do a little research online, I just realized that I do not own one album from 2004. Complete whiff. I bought Rush's Feedback as a massive Rush fan, but that has long since been lost and no desire to replace it.
@@georgelamie7001 Not sure, George, maybe I missed something in the internet lists of releases but I have nothing. I have at least a thousand CDs and several thousand songs on my computer. Nothing from 2004. Plenty for 2003 and 2005, though.
Fates Warning - FWX Enslaved - Isa Orphaned Land - Mabool Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History Loudness - Terror/Racing Megadeth - The System has Failed Colonel Claypools Bucket of Bernie Brains - Big Eyeball in the Sky Meshuggah - I (Ep) Mastodon - Leviathan Melvins/Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire Mike Keneally - The Universe Will Provide/Parallell Universe (Dog... Bites)
All this panel are great but my favorite is Luis because he's so passionate and really says what he feels. I'm not even a huge fan of prog simply because I haven't given it the time but I always enjoy this show.
There is actually a Gentle Giant sample (of the song "Funny ways") hidden within the masterpiece that is Madvillainy ! (in the track "Strange ways"), to emphasize even more regarding the hip hop and prog crossover. The official UA-cam account of Gentle Giant even paid a tribute to MF DOOM in the comments of the music video and praised the song.
Nice to see "Espers' Ken ! there is 'Espers I II III and album 'The weed Tree' great album, think al songs are covers but played in the Espers way, very good album and band and Meg Baird has a great voice and made some good solo albums
...here's my final comment on this "episode"...I have found a bunch of stuff that I'd not heard before that I absolutely LOVE!!! Karmakanic has become one of my favorite new bands...thanks, guys.
Yes! At the last moment Pete Pardo pulls a rabbit out of his hat and mentions the underrated - and under appreciated - THRESHOLD! Boom! 1. IQ ~ Dark Matter 2. Threshold ~ Subsurface 3. Neal Morse - One Honorable Mentions: Myriad ~ Natural Elements Marillion ~ Marbles Cheers from The Big Apple. Rock Out and Prog On… … in each and every lexicon! Your clone and mine, ~ The Delirious Doppelgänger of Davey Cretin, from CRETIN CLASSICS.
...of all the albums mentioned here, my 2 "go to" albums are IQ and Ayreon...amazing stuff...going through some of the other choices here, and damn...I'm gonna be busy for a while...
Some good stuff to pick from. My top picks: Arabs In Aspic/Far Out In Aradabia Asturias/Bird Eyes View Black Bonzo - s/t Blackfield - s/t Coheed And Cambria/In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 Crack The Sky/Dogs From Japan Dave Bainbridge/Veil Of Gossamer Derek Sherinian/Mythology Enchant/Live At Last Flower Kings/Adam & Eve Flying Circus/Pomp Gentle Giant/Scraping The Barrel (4 disks of demos/leftovers/etc, includes quite a bit of good 2004 stuff Glass Hammer/Live At Nearfest & Shadowlands Glass Harp/Stark Raving Jams Happy The Man/The Muse Awakens IQ/Dark Matter Izz/Ampersand Volume 1 The Jelly Jam/The Jelly Jam 2 Jordan Rudess/Rhythm Of Time Karnataka/Strange Behaviour Magrathea/Legends Manfred Mann Earth Band/2006 Moongarden/Round Midnight Nektar/Evolution & 2004 Tour Live Nemo/Prelude А La Ruine Nick D'Virgilio/Live & Acoustic Particle/Launchpad The Pineapple Thief/12 Stories Down The Polyphonic Spree/Together We're Heavy Proto-Kaw/Before Came After Retroheads/Retrospective Rush/Feedback Saga/Network Simon Apple/River To The Sea Steve Hackett/Live Archive 04 Swedish Family/Vintage Prog Todd Rundgren/Liars The Watch/Vacuum
For some context of how far removed these choices are from audiophile orthodoxy, and what was deemed "relevant" at the time, here are some releases that repeatedly pop up when you Google "Greatest albums of 2004": Smile, American Idiot, The College Dropout, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Franz Ferdinand, and Funeral. Big shout out to Chuck for mentioning at least one album a newcomer/non-prog fanatic would know if they're still an album geek. Madvillainy is awesome!
These aren’t what was deemed ‘relevant’…this is a prog rock show, a genre that is as far from mainstream as it gets. Not sure what your expectations were. It’s called In the Prog Seat for a reason. And it’s ‘favorites’ of 2004, not most popular.
Am I the only person who prefers the single album version of Marbles? I think it flows much better and it’s a more digestible length, even at 63 minutes. I did also buy the long version and the other 4 songs are fine, but the shorter version is the definitive one for me.
Maybe a bit far fetched to call Mastodon anno 2004 a full blown prog. metal band yet, but to me 'Leviathan' was by far the best album of that year regardless of genre! A masterpiece! 👌
just over 9 minutes into this episode, and someone mentions Pete's favorite band, Magma! Gotta love that! Viewers here need to start up an "official mandate" to have Pete do a Magma "ranking the albums" show next year for April Fool's Day!!! Listening and watching him describe their stuff is always hilarious and highly entertaining!
Black Bonzo played RosFest during the Apocolipse tour and they showed to be assholes lying to the people about having their melotron stolen from the airport. Was total BS but they were a very good band.
Chad Hutchinson
CHAD’S BEST OF 2004
1. IQ, “Dark Matter”
2. Marillion, “Marbles”
3. Mike Keneally Band, “Dog”
HM:
Far Corner, “Far Corner”
Guapo, “Five Suns”
Helmet of Gnats, “Timeslip”
Hidria Spacefolk, “Balansia”
Karmakanic, “Wheel of Life”
Le Orme, “L’inifinito”
Particle, “Launchpad”
Proto-Kaw, “Before Became After”
Ken’s picks:
1. Black Bonzo - Lady Of The Light
2. IQ - Dark Matter
3. Helmet Of Gnats - Time Slip
HM.
1. Rain - Cerulean Blue
2. Espers - Espers
3. Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
Luis Nasser
1. Marillion - Marbles
2. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R.
3. Far Corner - Far Corner
HM:
SGM - Of Natural History
Paatos - Kallocain
Magenta - Seven
Christian Canzoneri
Chris Best of 2004
1. Neurosis - Eye of Every Storm
2. Evergrey - The Inner Circle
3. Enslaved - Isa
HM’s
Isis - Panopticon
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Wintersun - Wintersun
George:
3. MCM - Ritual Factory
2. Angra - Temple of Shadows
1. Chick Corea Elektric Band - To the Stars
HMs:
7for4 - Time
Helmet of Gnats - Timeslip
Richard Hallebeek Project
Eric’s Best of 2004
1. Derek Sherinian-“Mythology”
2. ExhiVision - s/t
3. Helmet of Gnats - “Timeslip”
HM
Marillion - “Marbles”
Indukti - “S.U.S.A.R”
Neal Morse - “One”
Chuck’s Best of 2004
3. Of Natural History-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
2. Marbles-Marillion
1. Dark Matter-IQ
•A Tribute to Brother Weldon-Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm
•Madvillany-MadVillain
Pete's picks:
1)Ayreon-The Human Equation
2)Black Bonzo-Lady of the Light
3)IQ-Dark Matter
Honorable mentions:
White Willow-Storm Season
Glass Hammer-Shadowlands
Derek Sherinian-Mythology
Helmet of Gnats-Timeslip
CC Elektric Band-To the Stars
Angra-Temple of Shadows
Threshold-Subsurface
The Watch-Vacuum
Arabs in Aspic-Far Out in Aradabia
Really enjoyed the show. Well done everyone and Welcome Back Chris!
I’m on the edge of my Prog Seat! This is my favorite type of show, where you guys take a whole year, or the A to Z of Bands that you did, or a whole country (“French bands” or whatever). These episodes dump whole lists of information on us and leave me scrambling to write down notes. I’m taking notes right now! You’ve mentioned IQ too many times , so I’m listening to some IQ and it’s really good!
TILES Window Dressing.
Full disclosure, I am in the band.
Just thought I would throw our release out there.
Great episode.
I went on Ken's advice and decided to give Cerulean Blue a listen. Holy crap what an amazing album. It has been played pretty much non stop. I was intrigued because I thought it may be similar to War Of The Worlds...so so so much better. Thank You Ken and when the mood to actually try something new strikes, Dark Matter will be next.
Glad I could be of help. Shame that Rain disappeared.
@@lasercd7851 I couldn't agree more. Such a tremendous album. I WILL track down a copy so i don't have to deal with the compression that is streaming. Thank You again Sir
Same here. What a hidden gem. The narration, the story, the songwriting... Chilling. A bona fide masterpiece. And no details to be found about the mysterious creator... Wow in every regard.
Great show guys! Lots of new stuff to listen to and classics to revisit! Saga’s Network would be high on my list together with Dark Matter
1. Marillion- Marbles
2. Asia- Silent Nation
3. I.Q.- Dark Matter
4. The Flower Kings- Adam & Eve
5. Saga- Network
6. The Tangent- The World That We Drive Through
7. Neal Morse- One
8. Rush- Feedback E.P.
I admit , I know some stuff from 2004, but not even close to the knowledge of all the co hosts. I learned a lot. I’ll always have homework from these shows. lol. Thanks to everyone tonight 👍💯
Always homework Gary!
@@ericporter344 / it’s all good my friend/ enjoy your day 👍💯
hey Gary, it's been a while, I hope that everything's of for you, Im back.
@@LoLavilla82 / great to hear from you. 👍💯
Thanks a lot guys... this was fun and very informative! ✌
Thanks for the new music I need to listen to!
Indukti - Susar and Paatos - Kallocain are absolutely great. And Pete's honorable mention of White WIllow - Storm Season is also worth a listen.
Thank everyone great list will have to check out the one that I don't know 😊
Dr. Nasser mi hombre con Marbles! Also Chad and Chuck. It's really fantastic (place). I did get my name into it and every one since then. I just missed out on Araknophobia.
Great show, here’s my list:
1) ExhiVision - Self Titled
2) Kozo Suganuma - Pai-Patiroma
3) Magma - K.A
4) Koichi Yabori - Guess Where I Am
5) Trix - Index
👍
Playing fast and loose with definition of prog perhaps but I'll say 1 Levithian by Mastodon 2 Ta Det Lugnt by Dungen 3 Madvillany by Madvillain 4 Spirals in Hyperspace by Ozric Tentacles.
Big fan of the first two. I'll check out the other ones.
Madvillainy is essentially hip-hop (which I'm usually not that into) with multiple people with multiple aliases. In a vid, flipping through albums and stop at a Gentle Giant so perhaps that's a nod to that band. Spirals in Hyperspace is slightly colder and less organic than most of their jam-tronic Hawkwind-ish albums. Have fun!
Some of my top 2004
Ayreon - Human Equation
Marillion - Marbles
IQ - Dark Matter
Threshold - Subsurface
Angra - Temple of shadows
Black Bonzo - Lady of the light
Evergrey - The inner circle
#1 The Tangent - The World We Drive Through
#2 Happy The Man - The Muse Awakens
#3 I.Q. - Dark Matter
#4 Neal Morse - One
#5 Glass Hammer - Shadowlands
1. Augury - Concealed
2. Mastodon - Leviathan
3. Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
HM
Andromeda - Extension of the Wish (The Final Extension)
Man, I have some homework to do... One of my favorites from 2004 is the prog metal record Back To Times Of Splendor by Dissillusion.
1. Marbles....Marillion
2. Dark Matter.....IQ
3. Book of the dead....K2
Marillion and Ayreon are interchangable for one and two depending on the mood. Magenta would be in three.
2004:
Amplifier - Amplifier
Dark Suns - Existence
Derek Sherinian - Mythology
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Happy the Man - The Muse Awakens
LoMenzo, Luzier, Hiketa - The Hideous Sun Demons
Mahavishnu Project - Phase 2
Nero - Zedonk
Ohm: - Live on KPFK
Plankton - Humble Colossus
Siena Root - A New Day Dawning
Vital Information - Come On In
Wanted to add Cult of Luna- Salvation
10 from me in no order:
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
Bark Psychosis - Codename Dustsucker
IQ - Dark Matter
Zombi - Cosmos
Hidria Spacefolk - Balansia
Landing - Sphere
Color Haze - s/t
Marillion - Marbles
Spastic Ink - Ink Compatible
Mastodon - Leviathan
Aaargh!!! I forgot the Spastic Ink album! Great call!
I'm sorry to hear about Chris Canzoneri's poor health and medical woes maybe Pete could start a Go Fund Me. I know the SoT family will rally around you. 🙏
Dude, I’m fine now. Thanks for your concern. 🤘
100% agree with Christian about isis and Neurosis.I saw Neurosis live during their "Through Silver In Blood " tour and that was the most intense concert I have ever seen in my life.
Enslaved's music serves as the perfect soundtrack to winter, and also for days of all seasons with heavy downpours and slaty skies. I got into the band by way of the video review Pete did for Heimdal coinciding with its release last year. I loved it upon first listen. Bought more albums from the band (I don't own them all at present), and enjoy each of the ones I have; Isa is excellent. My personal favorite, at the moment, is In Times.
I was pleasantly surprised to see someone in the comments mention Orphaned Land; I believe they are more known in areas outside of the West, and I suspect that the band's music will not appeal to everyone. Talk about a metal band doing some interesting things! Mabool is an excellent album. I own the limited edition boxed set called "30 Years of Oriental Metal." My having found this band (last year) was due to serendipity.
I vail my hat to Mr. Alvarez - Madvillainy _is_ all that. Always was! I have it on CD.
Great show.
great show guys loved that luis picked INDUCKTI i have that one too but not too many people know about it
IQ -DARK MATTER
EVERGREY -THE INNER CIRCLE
AYREON-THE HUMAN EQUATION
INDUKTI
ENSLAVED -ESA
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Guapo - 5 Suns
Ahvak - s/t
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
Electric Masada - John Zorns 50th Birthday Celebration Vol 4
Black Bonzo - Lady of the Light
Umphrey's McGee - Anchor Drops
The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
1. Marillion "Marbles"
2. Ayreon "The Human Equation"
3. Asia "Silent Nation
4. Magenta "Seven"
5. I.Q. "Dark Matter"
Born this year
If u don’t own double u may was well set money on fire 😂 you the need double u need the epic u need the Holy Spirit 😂😂😂😂 Luis was on fire humor thus episode.
Viktor Krauss - Far From Enough
The Blue Nile - High
Terry Callier - Lookin' Out
Those IQ and Marillion albums are so dope.
This was a great year for Prog (and NEARFest). As I hear them:
5. Jing Chi - "3-D"
4. Cul de Sac / Damo Suzuki - "Abhayamudra"
3. Indukti - "S.U.S.A.R."
2. IQ - "Dark Matter"
1. Marillion - "Marbles"
I'd agree the IQ would be in the latter half of a top 10 for me.
Nice list
Yes indeed a tough year: Here are a few that were just under the bar from those mentioned:
K2-Book of the Dead (with Holdsworth)
Riverside- Out of Myself
Willowglass-debut
Big Big Train- Gathering Steam
Manzanera- 6pm
Magenta- Seven
Knight Area- The Sun Also Rises
Finistere- la Mecchanica Naturale
Hola Luis, and Go Rangers Chuck
it sure is good to see chris cantinary back in the prog seat. my life partner lupita has been worried something awful after reading in the comments about how he became gravely ill and had to be hosiptialized after receiving the covid-19 booster vaccine. but now her "prog prince" is back so she's happy and im allowed once again to watch the prog seat on the big tv instead of on my iphone.
Chris Alive!
Couldn’t be further from the truth. Don’t believe random posts from people who aren’t us as gospel.
Great episode guys! 👏🙋
Some great albums from 2004 are:
Leviathan by Mastodon
Panopticon by ISIS
K.a by Magma
MM... FOOD by MF DOOM
Madvillainy by Madvillain and company
Luis and Chuck should totally do a show about their favorite hip hop albums, that would be really cool!
Sadly, that would have to something totally unrelated to Sea of Tranquility.
@@chuckazeee I understand😞 but please continue bringing up hip hop albums whenever you think it's appropriate. It's thanks to you and Luis that I listened to "To pimp a butterfly" by kendrick lamar which was a life changing album for me and to then also discover a bunch of other great hip hop albums so thank you for that🙏🙋
Derek sherinian mythology
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A quick search of the Google machine gives me a number I liked, some that were ok/disappointing, some I have to revisit, and some that were WTF. I'll stick with only the prog albums without mentioning too many.
1. Marillion - Marbles, nothing comes close to this one, it's right at the top with Brave as my favorite Marillion album.
2. 3 - Wake Pig, great album that fits that weird niche band that sadly falls by the wayside. Joey Eppard is one talented dude like Damon Fox from Big Elf.
3. Proto-kaw - Before Came After, this sounded more like Kansas than Kansas did for some time. Of course with Kerry Livgren that's going to happen. Good album.
4. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R. - very good with some heaviness to it, didn't quite like the one that came after as much and they seemed to have disappeared from the map.
5. Orphaned Land - Mabool, this is one of those albums that were like I don't know if I like this because it's so different, like the first time I heard Remedy Lane or the Perfect Element Part 1. Then it's this is awesome once you "get it".
And speaking of PoS, I remember buying BE at PP that year (maybe from Old Man Prog?), they hadn't even seen it yet before them signing it as it wasn't officially released yet. Daniel Gildenlow was a day late so I didn't get him to sign it until another time. They played nothing from it at the show. But I drove up that year so I got to listen to it on the way home a number of times and it was what the fuck did I just listen to? Talk about disappointing after Remedy Lane. It takes to the last few songs before it ever gets going. It was Gildenlow indulgence at its peak. And it still is a what the fuck album twenty years later.
p.s. George, I know it's going to be one of your favorites, but AngrA isn't prog. 😉
😆Mostly, no. They do have 3 albums that many see a fair amount of prog elements in though. And hey, I don't see anything proggy about quite a few of the bands that the other guys mention on these shows, so fair game!
Be sucks, outside of Nihil Morari and Martius. Goldenblow indulgence for sure
Goldenblow 😂 Daniel not Ken of course.
Agreed on all points.
Iter Impius is probably the best song on BE and that was written by Frederik Hermannson.
Fun fact: I used to give people crap on the old DT board back in the day that AngrA was not prog when people tried to convince me they were. So I wore an AngrA shirt to the DT RCMH show where I can be seen wearing it I believe during TSCO. 😂
@@georgelamie7001/ I’m a novice/ I’ll sit back and learn as you strike me out tonight. I’m on my 3 rd spin of. Eric. Marienthal today. 👍💯
@@jimmypage2843 I tried to friend you a week ago. Zuck wouldn't let me. It said, it appears you don't know this member, maybe you should invite people you know. A fantastically stupid and presumptuous reply if I've ever seen one
That Monk Hughes album is incredible. Great shout Chuck
Thanks Phillip👍
Iq love them and this album is my favourite
A great pick for me on that year would be Mastodon's Leviathan, an absolute classic in my eyes. Although yeah way more of a metal album than a prog one.
Yep, I picked them as my #1 when we did. This same topic on Hudson Valley Squares.
Nice vidéo😄👍
1. Secret Chiefs 3- "Book of Horizons"
2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- "Of Natural History"
3. Magenta "Seven"
4. Mastadon-" Leviathan"
5. IQ- Dark Matter
Is Steven off this crew? I miss his input but great show anyway.
Me too! He's taking some time off.
Steven lives in the U.K, there’s a five hour difference between his time and the EST that the majority of our panel lives in. So it’s usually after midnight by him and he has a family and also has a full time job. He’s a great guy and he’s missed.
I miss Rick LaBonte too. They should bring him back once in a while.
@@mattwhite7995 he’s a busy man, nice guy.
1 - IQ Dark Matter
2 - Enslaved Isa
3 - Evergrey Inner Circle
Dark Matter is still one album I can listen to anytime
As per Chuck and Luis, take 90 seconds to check out the claymation video for Strange Ways by Madvillian. Hip hop over a Gentle Giant sample, a claymation MF Doom looking at the Gentle Giant album cover, and GG being first in the comment section of the video.
My picks which aren’t prog but in similar jazz and metal universes:
Medeski Martin & Wood: end of the world party
The Bad Plus: give (this has a piano trio version of Iron Man)
Madvillian: Madvilliany
Isis: panopticon
Your post makes me happy👍👍
@@chuckazeee I mean, there’s so much classic prog across hip hop, from Raekwon to Kanye to black moon to Danny brown. So Madlib and Doom should definitely get some time on here!
@@alexposilkin9683Deltron 3030 is arguably as progressive as any Prog albums done in 2000.
@@chuckazeee absolutely. A sci-fi concept album? Definitely prog. I really liked that album when it came out because I was a big Blur fan at the time. The music is great, and Del’s flows are so distinct.
I forgot Happy the Man "The Muse Awakens"!!!
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@@ericporter344 love Contemporary Insanity, the title-track, Stepping Through Time and the closing track.
@@arnaudb.7669 there are some great songs, I wanted to love it being a huge HtM fan, but it fell a bit short for me. Still a good listen
@@ericporter344 i agree
@@arnaudb.7669 I still love them Arnaud!!!
Can somebody help me out here ? Ken's No.3 pick.Not picking up the name clearly of the title of this album.Thanks !
Time Slip
Thank you great list from everyone 😊
1. Chick Corea Elektric Band: To The Stars
2. The Flower Kings: Adam & Eve
3. Rush: Feedback EP
4. Derek Sherinian: Mythology
5. Neal Morse: One
6. Pain Of Salvation: BE
7. Ayreon: The Human Equation
8. Asia: Silent Nation
Nice list Warhawk!
@@ericporter344 thanks friend and great job on another top show. Keep up the good work
@@WarhawkBeyond2040need to make more Sherinian fans out there!!! 😂
@@ericporter344 absolutely!!!! That's our mission for 2024, to get as many people out there to become Sherinian fans 😂
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Great show, as usual! I’m a big fan. Can you please publish your lists? Thank you!
They have been published
For me it's Mastodon - Leviathan far above all. Maybe not prog to some?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Magma album from that year is not going to be one of Pete's favorites. 😂
Shout out to Chris Canz for the Neurosis pick! Love that band
1- Magma: KA (best album of the decade)
2- Ozric Tentacles : Spirals in Hyperspace
3- Neal Morse : One
4- Karmakanic : The Wheel of life
5- Ahvak : Ahvak
I figured there would be one or two people in the comments listing Magma's K.A. as top pick for 2004 - it's my #1 from that year, too.
Just my little opinion, but K.A. is easily the AotY for 2004. Nothing else is even in the ballpark.
As I watch this show and do a little research online, I just realized that I do not own one album from 2004. Complete whiff. I bought Rush's Feedback as a massive Rush fan, but that has long since been lost and no desire to replace it.
How is that possible, bro? You can't listen to many bands if absolutely no one had a release!
@@georgelamie7001 Not sure, George, maybe I missed something in the internet lists of releases but I have nothing. I have at least a thousand CDs and several thousand songs on my computer. Nothing from 2004. Plenty for 2003 and 2005, though.
@@georgelamie7001 Edit: I found one!! Joe Satriani "Is There Love in Space?" Hallelujah!!
1. Marillion "Marbles"
2. Neal Morse "One"
3. Ayreon - "The Human Equation"
Not exactly prog, but I would just add Deja Fou by Strawbs. Beautiful music and it features John Hawken on keyboards.
Fates Warning - FWX
Enslaved - Isa
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Loudness - Terror/Racing
Megadeth - The System has Failed
Colonel Claypools Bucket of Bernie Brains - Big Eyeball in the Sky
Meshuggah - I (Ep)
Mastodon - Leviathan
Melvins/Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire
Mike Keneally - The Universe Will Provide/Parallell Universe (Dog... Bites)
All this panel are great but my favorite is Luis because he's so passionate and really says what he feels. I'm not even a huge fan of prog simply because I haven't given it the time but I always enjoy this show.
There is actually a Gentle Giant sample (of the song "Funny ways") hidden within the masterpiece that is Madvillainy ! (in the track "Strange ways"), to emphasize even more regarding the hip hop and prog crossover. The official UA-cam account of Gentle Giant even paid a tribute to MF DOOM in the comments of the music video and praised the song.
Lol, was just about comment that. Indeed a masterpiece!
Nice to see "Espers' Ken ! there is 'Espers I II III and album 'The weed Tree' great album, think al songs are covers but played in the Espers way, very good album and band and Meg Baird has a great voice and made some good solo albums
...here's my final comment on this "episode"...I have found a bunch of stuff that I'd not heard before that I absolutely LOVE!!! Karmakanic has become one of my favorite new bands...thanks, guys.
Yes! At the last moment Pete Pardo pulls a rabbit out of his hat and mentions the underrated - and under appreciated - THRESHOLD! Boom!
1. IQ ~ Dark Matter
2. Threshold ~ Subsurface
3. Neal Morse - One
Honorable Mentions:
Myriad ~ Natural Elements
Marillion ~ Marbles
Cheers from The Big Apple.
Rock Out and Prog On…
… in each and every lexicon!
Your clone and mine,
~ The Delirious Doppelgänger of Davey Cretin, from CRETIN CLASSICS.
'Subsurface' is an exquisite album.. 👌R.I.P. 'Mac'... 😕
...of all the albums mentioned here, my 2 "go to" albums are IQ and Ayreon...amazing stuff...going through some of the other choices here, and damn...I'm gonna be busy for a while...
Some good stuff to pick from. My top picks:
Arabs In Aspic/Far Out In Aradabia
Asturias/Bird Eyes View
Black Bonzo - s/t
Blackfield - s/t
Coheed And Cambria/In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
Crack The Sky/Dogs From Japan
Dave Bainbridge/Veil Of Gossamer
Derek Sherinian/Mythology
Enchant/Live At Last
Flower Kings/Adam & Eve
Flying Circus/Pomp
Gentle Giant/Scraping The Barrel (4 disks of demos/leftovers/etc, includes quite a bit of good 2004 stuff
Glass Hammer/Live At Nearfest & Shadowlands
Glass Harp/Stark Raving Jams
Happy The Man/The Muse Awakens
IQ/Dark Matter
Izz/Ampersand Volume 1
The Jelly Jam/The Jelly Jam 2
Jordan Rudess/Rhythm Of Time
Karnataka/Strange Behaviour
Magrathea/Legends
Manfred Mann Earth Band/2006
Moongarden/Round Midnight
Nektar/Evolution & 2004 Tour Live
Nemo/Prelude А La Ruine
Nick D'Virgilio/Live & Acoustic
Particle/Launchpad
The Pineapple Thief/12 Stories Down
The Polyphonic Spree/Together We're Heavy
Proto-Kaw/Before Came After
Retroheads/Retrospective
Rush/Feedback
Saga/Network
Simon Apple/River To The Sea
Steve Hackett/Live Archive 04
Swedish Family/Vintage Prog
Todd Rundgren/Liars
The Watch/Vacuum
1. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of Natural History
2. Ayreon: The Human Equation
3. Ahvak: Ahvak
I'm shocked nobody took Magma :)
For some context of how far removed these choices are from audiophile orthodoxy, and what was deemed "relevant" at the time, here are some releases that repeatedly pop up when you Google "Greatest albums of 2004": Smile, American Idiot, The College Dropout, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Franz Ferdinand, and Funeral. Big shout out to Chuck for mentioning at least one album a newcomer/non-prog fanatic would know if they're still an album geek. Madvillainy is awesome!
These aren’t what was deemed ‘relevant’…this is a prog rock show, a genre that is as far from mainstream as it gets. Not sure what your expectations were. It’s called In the Prog Seat for a reason. And it’s ‘favorites’ of 2004, not most popular.
Am I the only person who prefers the single album version of Marbles? I think it flows much better and it’s a more digestible length, even at 63 minutes. I did also buy the long version and the other 4 songs are fine, but the shorter version is the definitive one for me.
Yes you are that's insane. 😂
Maybe a bit far fetched to call Mastodon anno 2004 a full blown prog. metal band yet, but to me 'Leviathan' was by far the best album of that year regardless of genre! A masterpiece! 👌
Threshold - Subsurface
IQ - Dark Matter
Ayreon - The Human Equation
hard to believe...but Dark Matter is among my least favourite IQ album...don't like the sound. The suite is the better song.
just over 9 minutes into this episode, and someone mentions Pete's favorite band, Magma! Gotta love that! Viewers here need to start up an "official mandate" to have Pete do a Magma "ranking the albums" show next year for April Fool's Day!!! Listening and watching him describe their stuff is always hilarious and highly entertaining!
Side projects by members of flower kings are better then flower kings 😂😂😂 your fired if I was Pete you be hearing those words
Magnitude Nine - Decoding the Soul
Good that those two that say the "f" word every two words aren't here i
Umm, Anthony and Steven are the only two that didn’t make the episode, and they never use the F word, so not sure who you are referring to.
What the fuck are you talkin' about? Smooches!
Black Bonzo played RosFest during the Apocolipse tour and they showed to be assholes lying to the people about having their melotron stolen from the airport. Was total BS but they were a very good band.