The top 20 albums of 2013.

20 : Carl Roa - The Lord Of The Strings
19 : Rovo and System 7 - Phoenix Rising
18 : Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
17 : Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
16 : Shadow Circus - On A Dark And Stormy Night
15 : The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
14 : Anima Mundi - The Lamplighter
13 : Touchstone - Oceans Of Time
12 : Haken - The Mountain
11 : The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Tale Of The Golden King
10 : La Maschera Di Cera - The Gates Of Tomorrow
09 : Fright Pig - Out Of The Barnyard
08 : Oblivion Sun - The High Places
07 : Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club
06 : Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare And Fantasy
05 : Lifesigns - Lifesigns
04 : Big Big Train - English Electric Part 2
03 : The Tangent - Le Sacré Du Travail
02 : Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut
01 : Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing

[teermin8r]

Great job guys. I hope you had as much fun as I did.

[roger]

Thanks for the great show guys!! A wonderful afternoon on the Moon!

[theShadow(-)]

Me & Gooze say thanks guys. Good job mates. Despite no Aristocrats or Fates Warning placing. ;-)

[Yesspaz]

Where's the honorable mention/runner up list?

And thanks for all the hard work.

The other lists will be forthcoming when I have collated the info. Six hours worth of show takes a while to get together and it's gone midnight here.

Patience please........:-)

[emperorken]

Awesome show guys. Thanks a million.

I'm happy I got 4 of my picks in the top 20 this this year. Twice as many as the last 2 years.

[Rick and Roll]

Hi everyone! All hell broke loose here and I couldn't make the show. I've traded a couple of emails a week ago with Mr. Mortis so I knew the Moonopoll was still alive and well.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, and will see some of you at Rosfest if I ever buy a ticket, and yes, some of you in Mexicali!

Here's my top 100 (I listened to about 150 titles this year)

Take care,

Rick

1 Nemo - Le Ver Dans Le Fruit
2 Black Sabbath - 13
3 Lizard - Master & M
4 Half Past Four - Good Things
5 Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 1
6 Magenta - The Twenty-Seven Club
7 Discipline - This One's For England
8 Flamborough Head - Lost In Time
9 Violent Silence - A Broken Truce
10 Resistor - Live At Rosfest
11 Thieves' Kitchen - One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
12 Little Atlas - Automatic Day
13 Niacin - Krush
14 Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
15 Osada Vida - Particles
16 Haken - The Mountain
17 Apple Pie - The Gates Of Never
18 Pawel Penska - Pandemonium
19 Leap Day - From The Days Of Decaulion, Chapter 1
20 La Tulipe Noire - Matricide
21 Il Tempio Delle Clessidre - Alienatura
22 Sanguine Hum - The Weight Of The World
23 The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
24 Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare And Fantasy
25 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
26 The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
27 Deep Purple - Now What?!
28 KBB - Age Of Pain
29 Gin Lady - Mother's Ruin
30 Believe - The Warmest Sun In Winter
31 Touchstone - Oceans Of Time
32 Big Big Train - Full Power
33 Volto! - Incitare
34 Vultress - Distance
35 Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
36 Mahogany Head Grenade - Return To The Point Of Departure
37 Gran Torino - Fate Of A Thousand Worlds
38 Trion - Funfair Fantasy
39 Ghost - Infestissumam
40 Styx - The Grand Illusion/Pieces Of Eight Live
41 Riverside -Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
42 Science NV - The Last Album Before The End Of Time
43 Alessandro Bertoni - Keystone
44 Vermillion Sands -Spirits Of The Sun
45 El Trio - Las Manos
46 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
47 Museo Rosenbach - Barbarica
48 Bolus - Triangulate
49 King Bathmat -Overcoming The Monster
50 Circle Of Illusion -Jeremais - Foreshadow Of Forgotten Realm
51 Profundo Ensueno - El Origen
52 Fright Pig - Out Of The Barnyard
53 Haze - The Last Battle
54 Legend - The Dark Place
55 Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisted: Live At Hammersmith
56 Standing Ovation - The Antikythera Mechanism
57 The Windmill - The Continuation
58 Fromuz - Sodom And Gommorah
59 Russ Tippins Electric Band - Combustion
60 Wolf People - Fain
61 Dialeto - The Last Tribe
62 Willowglass - The Dream Harbour
63 Maschine - Rubidium
64 Miriodor - Cobra Fakir
65 Might Could - Relics From the Wasteland
66 Sky Architect - A Billion Years Of Solitude
67 Ontofield - Sleeping With Fractals
68 Days Between Stations - In Extremis
69 Oceans 5 - Return To Mingulay
70 Levin / Minnemann / Rudess - s/t
71 Mavara - Season Of Salvation
72 The Tangent - L'Etagere Du Travail
73 Birds And Buildings - Multipurpose Trap
74 Protest the Hero - Volition
75 Tom Slatter - Three Rows Of Teeth
76 miRthkon - Snack(s)
77 Sonus Umbra -Winter Soulstice
78 Canvas - Long Way to Mars
79 Lantinor - Ensign Of Fairies, Book I
80 Simak Dialog - The 6th Story
81 Karfagen - Aleatorica
82 Ampledeed - A Is For Ampledeed
83 Elephants Of Scotland - Home Away From Home
84 Joe Satriani - Unstoppable Momentum
85 Portnoy Sheehan MacAlpine Sherinian - Live in Tokyo
86 Oxhuitza - Oxhuitza
87 Godsticks -The Envisage Conundrum
88 3rd Ear Experience - Peacock Black
89 Elekriti - s/t
90 Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happimess (Part 2)
91 Orphaned Land - All Is One
92 Garden - Somewhere Else
93 Stick Men - Deep
94 Dream Theater - Dream Theater
95 Manning - The Root, The Leaf & The Bone
96 Charles Brown - Light Of the Dawn
97 Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut
98 Spiral Key - Perfect Machine
99 Lifesigns - s/t
100 The Inner Road -Ascension

(Shadow Circus was a top 5 in 2012, and Oblivion Sun was also in my 2012 list)

[mariocc]

Very good very nice spirit friends ,,thanks again....just for fun,,here my T10...The Tangent ...we share them ...be well congrats and thanks again

position 1, 2, 3 in that order,,of course my fav...rest of them random

10 Arabs In Aspics Pictures In A Dream
9 Ingranaggi Della Valle In Hoc Signo
8 Rafart The Handbook Of The Acid Rider
7 The Aristocrats Boing We'll Do It Alive Dec 12 / 12
6 Virgil Donati In This Life
5 Volto ! Incitare
4 Simon Phillips Protocol ll
3 The Tangent La Sacre Du Travail
2 Various Artists The Age Of Twilight
1 Wayne Shorter Qt Without A Net

[Thor]

Surprised Rick that you had Elephants of Scotland so far down your list. :=)

[artw(Admin)]

It was a really great day of music! Caused some spontaneous purchases ;-)

Thanks!

Art

[Magic Mountain]

Here is my top 10. I only considered new studio albums with new music: no Live albums, no covers, no reissues. I hope that others post as this is a great way to learn about new music:

1 Wilson, Steven - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and other stories)
2 Wrong Object, The - After the Exhibition
3 Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club
4 Tatvamasi - Parts of the Entirety
5 Progenesi - Ulisse L'alfiere Nero
6 Soma White - Soma White http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8038
7 Echoes of Giants - At the End of Myself
8 Guapo - History of the Visitation
9 Fish - A Feast of Consequences
10 Airbag - The Greatest Show on Earth

I had one replacement from what I sent Rogor; that is, I replaced Amplifier - Echo Street with Tatvamasi - Parts of the Entirety

Karl

[emperorken]

My list has actually changed a bit from the one I sent in for the Moon 'O Poll. The top 5 was not hard, but there were probably another 15 or so from which to chose #'s 6-10.

1. Anima Mundi- The Lamplighter
2. Comedy of Errors- Fanfare and Fantasy
3. La Maschera di Cera- The Gates of Tomorrow(I prefer the English version)
4. Shadow Circus- On a Dark and Stormy Night
5. Kerrs Pink- Mystic Spirit
6. Gandalf's Fist- A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer
7. La Tulipe Noire- Matricide
8. The Windmill- The Continuation
9. Believe- The Warmest Sun in Winter
10. Shamall- Turn Off

[thegooze]

There is no doubt. We all have different tastes. I still don't get the Big Big Train & Tangent being so high. Even though COMM was great. I like Ricks idea. Top 100. And Black Sabbath 13! Up there. LOL! Here are my picks. 10-Trix-Deluxe (407) 9-Carl Roa-Lord of the strings (447) 8-Vultress-Distance (422) 7-Farfard, Antoine-Occultis Tramatis (114) 6-Hallebeek, Richard-Project II pain in the jazz (159) 5-Donati, Virgil-In this life (97) 4-Simon Phillips-Protocol II (448) 3-Dream Theater-Dream Theater (99) 2-Fates Warning-Darkness in a different light (116) 1-the Aristocrats-Culture clash (28) Keep it Heavy. In 2014! NO WEENIE TUNES! Steve Wilson was my honorable mention at #11. I just kept it out of my top 10. Because I knew EVERYBODY else was voting for it. ARGH! lol. Lot's of fun overall. Cheer's mooner's!

[artw(Admin)]

1 Days Between Stations | In Extremis
2 Cosmograf | The Man Left In Space
3 Tangent, The | Le Sacre Du Travail
4 Airbag | The Greatest Show on Earth
4 Satriani, Joe | Unstoppable Momentum
6 Rovo and System 7 | Phoenix Rising
7 Riverside | Shrine of New Generation Slaves
8 Wilson, Steven | The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories)
9 Caron, Alain | Multiple Faces
10 Aristocrats, The | Culture Clash


Not sure I'm entirely happy with it, but it is what it is.

Cheers,
Art

[Yesspaz]

I only picked a top 8, but this is what they were.

1} Sigur Rós - Kveikur
2} Appleseed Cast, The - Illumination Ritual
3} Rovo and System 7 - Phoenix Rising
4} Volto! - Incitare
5} Long Distance Calling - The Flood Inside
6} Fierce And The Dead, The - Spooky Action
7} Ryuichi Sakamoto - Three
8} Mogwai - Les Revenants [not on AM... yet]

[RogorMortis]

Here is the runners up list (21 - 30) in random order.......

Pfm In Classic - Da Mozart A Celebration - PFM Premiata Forneria Marconi
Himlabacken Vol. 1 -Moon Safari
In This Life - Virgil Donati
The Greatest Show On Earth - Airbag
Levin Minnemann Rudess - Levin Minnemann Rudess
There's Something Very Strange In Her Little Room -Submarine Silence
Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith - Steve Hackett
The Flood Inside - Long Distance Calling
Le Ver Dans Le Fruit - Nemo
In Extremis - Days Between Stations
The Man Left in Space - Cosmograf
State -Todd Rundgren
The Weight of the World - Sanguine Hum

[podakayne]

well better late, than never...the show was aWeSome but at the time i was too swapped to shout or put in a reply here and kept putting it off till...well it's fraking MARCH already!!!!

anyway great work gentlemen i enjoyed the show...and below is my list
this was just too hard

10. Oblivion Sun — The High Places
9. Fright Pig — Out Of The Barnyard
8. Sanguine Hum — The Weight Of The World
7. The Flower Kings — Desolation Rose
6. Haken — The Mountain
5. Yuka & Chronoship — Dino Rocket Oxygen
4. Flicker — How Much Are You Willing To Forgive?
3. Chris — Days Of Summer Gone
2. Anathema — Universal
1. Airbag — The Greatest Show on Earth

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Half Past Four - Good Things
Submarine Silence - There's Something Very
Strange In Her Little Room
Todd Rundgren - State
Traumhaus - Das Geheimnis
Camelias Garden - You Have a Chance
Fromuz - Sodom & Gomorrah
Lizard - Master & M
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Violent Silence - A Broken Truce
t - Psychoanorexia

did my best to put new groups in the mix...twas an outstanding year though!