The More You Live, The More You Love

September already and it seems the year is filled with a lot of new releases. The last top 10 I presented came from July, and at that time Unheilig and It Bites topped the list. Just two months later and several new releases have found their spot in the new top 10. Even surprisingly is the new number one. After so many years The Fixx finally wrote a new studio album, which is one of the best they ever made. Also it is thirty years ago the band released their first album Shuttered Room, which still is one of my favourite eigthies albums. 01. The Fixx – Beautiful Friction 02. It Bites – Map Of The Past 03. Unheilig – Lichter der Stadt 04. Clock Opera – Ways To Forget 05. Rush – Clockwork Angels 06. Nik Kershaw – Ei8ht 07. No-Man – Love And Endings 08. Marina And The Diamonds – Electra Heart 09. Big Big Train – English Electric (part one) 10. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

The fifth month of 2012 already on it’s way and I haven’t presented a top ten sofar. So here it is:   01. Galahad - Battle Scars 02. DeeExpus – King Of Number 33 03. Ultravox – Brilliant 04. It Bites – Map Of The Past 05. Unheilig - Lichter der Stadt 06. Keane – Strangeland 07. Mothlite – Dark Age 08. Clock Opera – Ways To Forget 09. Gazpacho – March Of Ghosts 10. IQ – IQ30 Live De Boerderij

Now that we are getting closer to the closing of the year, everywhere you can read the top 10 lists of the past year. Of course I could not resist, and created a top ten, which was presented on Facebook in the past days. But this was a compound list of progressive rock and other styles of music. 01. Comedy Of Errors - Disobey 02. Konchordat - The New Crusade 03. Florence And The Machine- Ceremonials 04. Mirrors - Lights And Offerings 05. Also Eden - Think Of The Children! 06. White Lies - Rituals 07. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow 08. Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Floating City 09. Pallas - XXV 10. Gotye - Making Mirrors Split this list in two and you get the progressive top ten: 01. Comedy Of Errors - Disobey 02. Konchordat - The New Crusade 03. Also Eden - Think Of The Children! 04. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow 05. Pallas - XXV 06. Rush - Time Machine 07. Sean Filkins - War And Peace & Other Stories 08. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning 09. Yes - Fly From ...

Again it seems that this year musically is very strong. Surprisingly strong albums of old timers Pallas and Yes, a coming back album of the neoproggers Comedy Of Errors, a first solo album of the former singer of Big Big Train, Sean Filkins, the nice album Of Mirrors, a farewell live album of A-Ha and many more. Five months before the end of this year it brings me to the following top 10: 01. Comedy Of Errors - Disobey 02. Sean Filkins - War And Peace & Othere Stories 03. Yes - Fly From Here 04. Pallas - XXV 05. Kate Bush - Director's Cut 06. Mirrors - Lights And Offerings 07. Memories Of Machines - Warm Winter 08. Ultravox - Moments From Eden 09. A-Ha - Ending On A High Note - The Final Concert 10. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool