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Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2002

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

The fact that the following list is filled with older artists (or artists working in older idioms) doesn’t mean that I haven’t heard anything more “hip” or contemporary from 2002. Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is probably their best album; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Down the Road, Mark Knopfler, Mind If We make Love to You, power pop, prog, progressive rock, Snow, Spock's Beard, symphonic prog, The Ragpicker's Dream, The Rising, Top 5 Albums of 2002, Van Morrison, Wondermints | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2000

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

If you follow this blog, you’ve probably noticed that I have pretty eclectic tastes. Nowhere is that eclecticism more evident than here at the dawn of the twenty-first century. I have my favorites, of course, but I try to keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Children of Bodom, Follow the Reaper, Fortress, Mark Knopfler, melodic death metal, metal, prog, progressive rock, Sailing to Philadelphia, Sister Hazel, Spock's Beard, Steely Dan, Top 5 Albums of 2000, Two Against Nature, V | 3 Comments

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1995

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

After a solid decade of struggling to find full albums that I’d even listened to, 1995 marks, for me at least, the beginning of something of a rock & roll renaissance. Maybe it’s that bands were finally getting away from … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Back in the World of Adventure, Ben Folds Five, Britpop, Dead Winter Dead, Flower Kings, Oasis, power metal, prog, progressive rock, Savatage, Spock's Beard, symphonic metal, The Light, Top 5 Albums of 1995, Trans-Siberian Orchestra | 2 Comments

Album Review: Transatlantic, “Kaleidoscope”

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Forming a supergroup is always a risky proposition. If you aim high, you risk alienating your fans, and the record-buying public at large, if/when your material doesn’t hit the mark. And if you aim high, no matter how good the … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2014, Black as the Sky, Dream Theater, Flower Kings, Into the Blue, Kaleidoscope, Marillion, Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Peter Trewavas, prog, progressive rock, Roine Stolt, Shine, Spock's Beard, symphonic prog, Transatlantic | 4 Comments

Track Spotlight: Transatlantic, “Shine”

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Speaking as a Christian–as a Christian who’s going to seminary next year even–Christian rock music is, by and large, terrible. Just… terrible. Neal Morse is one of the few popular artists working today who writes music that is both explicitly … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Track Spotlights | Tagged Dream Theater, Flower Kings, Kaleidoscope, Marillion, Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Pete Trewevas, progressive rock, Roine Stolt, Shine, Spock's Beard, symphonic prog, Transatlantic | 3 Comments

Album Review: Haken, “The Mountain”

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Tom Emanuel

London-based Haken could’ve chosen any number of beautiful, snow-capped Alpine peaks for the cover of their album The Mountain (2013). Instead, they went with an unidentified mass of naked rock, half-hidden in clouds: huge, impressive, forbidding. And if you look … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2013, Atlas Stone, Cockroach King, Dream Theater, Gentle Giant, Haken, Icarus, James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Pareidolia, prog, progressive metal, progressive rock, Ross Jennings, Sisyphus, Spock's Beard, The Mountain (album) | Leave a comment