Top10 BM Team 2017


Here are the personal TOP10's of 2017 of our BM team members:


X
Henri Strik

X
Arthur Haggenburg


X
Pedro Bekkers
Album Top10:
  1: Monarch Trail -
        Sand
  2: The Samurai Of Prog -
        On We Sail
  3: La Bocca Della Verita -
        Avenoth
  4: Pandora -
        Ten Years Like In A
           Magic Dream...
  5: Anubis -
        The Second Hand
  6: Drifting Sun -
        Twilight
  7: The Tangent -
        The Slow Rust Of
           Forgotten Machinery
  8: This Winter Machine -
        The Man Who Never Was
  9: Magenta -
        We Are Legend
10: Karibow -
        From Here To The Impossible

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
RPWL -
    A New Dawn
Best Concert:
RanestRane, March 10,
    Parkvilla Theater,
      Alphen a/d Rijn (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Silhouette -
          The World Is Flat
  2: Knight Area -
          Heaven And Beyond
  3: Monarch Trail -
          Sand
  4: Big Big Train -
          Grimspound
  5: Nad Sylvan -
          The Bride Said No
  6: Magenta -
          We are Legend
  7: La Bocca Della Verita -
          Avenoth
  8: Unreal City -
          Frammenti Nocturni
  9: The Aurora Project -
          World Of Grey
10: This Winter Machine -
          The Man Who Never Was



Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???
      
Best concert:
Knight Area, June 3,
    DRU Ulft (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Pain Of Salvation -
        In The Passing Light Of Day
  2: Caligula's Horse -
        In Contact
  3: Persefone -
        Aathma
  4: Soen -
        Lykaia
  5: Von Hertzen Brothers -
        War Is over
  6: Sons Of Apollo -
        Psychotic Symphony
  7: For All We Know -
        Take Me Home
  8: Leprous -
        Malina
  9: Lion Shepherd -
        Heat
10: Lunatic Soul -
        Fractured



Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Rammstein -
      Paris
Best concert:
Ayreon, September 15,16 &17,
      013, Tilburg (NL)




X
Tracy van Os van den Abeelen

X
Roel Strik

X
Alison Reijman
Best 10, no order:
  x: Thrash Gordon -
        Milhouse
  x: Kaprekar's Constant -
        Fate Outsmarts Design
  x: Arabs In Aspic -
        Syndenes Magi
  x: Linus Kase -
        I
  x: Spoiwo -
        Salute Solitude
  x: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  x: Mayra Orchestra -
        Oracle
  x: Verbal Delirium -
        The Imprisoned Words Of
         Fear
  x: Father John Misty -
        Pure Comedy
  x: Steven Wilson -
        To The Bone



Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Dave Gilmour
    Live At Pompeï
Best concert:
Mayra Orchestra March 31,
    Bergsingelkerk, Rotterdam (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Monarch Trail -
        Sand
  2: Kaipa -
        Children Of The Sounds
  3: The Samurai Of Prog -
        On We Sail
  4: The Rome Pro(g)ject -
        III: Exegi Monumentum
           Aere Perennius
  5: Big Big Train -
        The Second Brightest Star
  6: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound
  7: The Tangent -
        The Slow Rust Of
         Forgotten Machinery
  8: This Winter Machine -
        The Man Who Never Was
  9: Wobbler -
        From Silence to Somewhere
10: Eloy -
        The Vision, the Sword and
         the Pyre, Pt. 1

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
RPWL -
    A New Dawn
Best Concert:
RanestRane, March 10,
    Parkvilla Theater,
      Alphen a/d Rijn (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: The Tangent -
        The Slow Rust of
        Forgotten Machinery
  2: Pain Of Salvation -
        In The Passing Light Of Day
  3: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound
  4: Damanek -
        On Track
  5: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  6: Nad Sylvan -
        The Bride Said No
  7: Cosmograf The Hay -
        Man Dreams
  8: Magenta -
        We Are Legend
  9: Ayreon -
        The Source
10: Discipline -
        Captives Of The Wine Dark
        Sea


Best DVD/Blu-Ray:
Lazuli -
Nos Âmes Saoules Live 2016
Best concert:
Big Big Train, September 30,
Cadogan Hal, London (UK)




X
Andrew Cottrell

X
Martien Koolen

X
Erik Gibbels
Album Top10:
  1: Steven Wilson -
        To The Bone
  2: Dave Kerzner -
        Static
  3: Pain Of Salvation -
        The Passing Light of Day
  4: Bjorn Riis -
        Forever Comes To An End
  5: Steve Hackett -
        The Night Siren
  6: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  7: Anathema -
        The Optimist
  8: The Tangent -
        The Slow Rust Of
           Forgotten Machinery
  9: This Winter Machine -
        The Man Who Never Was
10: Richard Barbieri -
        Planets & Persona


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
David Gilmour -
      Live At Pompeii
Best Concert:
Big Big Train, September 30,
   Cadogan Hall, London (UK)
Album Top10:
  1: Sons Of Apollo -
        Psychotic Symphony
  2: Steven Wilson -
        To The Bone
  3: Steve Hackett -
        The Night Siren
  4: Ayreon -
        The Source
  5: Mastodon -
        Emperor Of Sand
  6: Caligula's Horse -
        In Contact
  7: Roger Waters -
        Is This The Life We
        Really Want?
  8: Anathema -
        The Optimist
  9: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound
10: Leprous -
        Malina


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???

Best concert:
Marillion, October 9,
Parkstad Limburg Theater, Heerlen (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: The Tear Garden -
        The Brown Acid Caveat
  2: Edward Ka-Spel
        Right on Station Yellow Moon
  3: Amanda Palmer & Edward
       Ka-Spel
        I can spin a Rainbow
  4: Xordox -
        Neospection
  5: Shpongle -
        Codex VI
  6: The Residents -
        The Ghost of Hope
  7: Laibach -
        Also sprach Zarathustra
  8: Uuuu -
        (same title)
  9: Six Organs of Admittance -
        Burning the Threshold
10: Godspeed! You Black
       Emperor? -
        Luciferian Towers

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???

Best concert:
Flying Horseman, March 24,
Lux, Nijmegen (NL)




X
Dave Smith
 
X
Peter Willemsen
 
X
Arne van Os van den Abeelen
Album Top10:
  1: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound
  2: Tiger Moth Tales -
        Depths Of Winter.
  3: Big Big Train -
        Second Brightest Star
  4: Wobbler -
        From Silence To Somewhere.
  5: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  6: Kaipa -
        Children Of The Sounds
  7: Steven Wilson -
        To The Bone
  8: Cosmograf -
        The Hay Man Dreams
  9: The Tangent -
        The Slow Rust Of
           Forgotten Machinery
10: Barok Project -
        Detachment


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Spock's Beard -
   Snow Live
Best concert:
Big Big Train Sept 29,
      Cadogan Hall, London (UK)
Album Top10:
  1: Monarch Trail -
          Sand
  2: Lifesigns -
          Cardington
  3: The Aurora Project -
          World Of Grey
  4: Steve Hackett -
          The Night Siren
  5: Mostly Autumn -
          Sight Of Day
  6: Magenta -
          We Are Legend
  7: This Winter Machine -
          The Man Who Never Was
  8: La Bocca Della Verita -
          Avenoth
  9: Karfagen -
          Spektra
10: Knight Area -
          Heaven & Beyond



Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???

Best concert:
???
Album Top10:
  1: Thrash Gordon -
        Milhouse
  2: Linus Kåse -
        I
  3: Steven Wilson -
        To The Bone
  4: Verbal Delirium -
        The Imprisoned Words Of
           Fear
  5: Kaprekar's Constant -
        Fate Outsmarts Desire
  6: Darkroom -
        Fall Out 4
  7: Servants Of Science -
        The Swan Song
  8: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  9: Ulver -
        The Assassination Of
           Julius Caesar
10: Arabs In Aspic -
        Sydenes Magi

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Franck Carducci -
    Tearing The Tour Apart
Best concert:
Mystery, August 19
    Cultuurpodium Boerderij,
      Zoetermeer (NL)




X
Neil Boughey
 
X
Erik van Os
 
X
Aad Bannink
Album Top5:
  1: Wolf Alice -
        Visions Of A Life
  2: Fen -
        Winter
  3: The Dark Element -
        The Dark Element
  4: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound.
  5: Tarja -
        From Spirits And Ghosts













Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???
Best concert:
???
Album Top10:
  1: Soen -
        Lykaia,
  2: Pain Of Salvation -
        The Passing Light of Day
  3: Caligula's Horse -
        In Contact
  4: Voyager -
        Ghost Mile
  5: Lunatic Soul -
        Fractured
  6: White Moth Black Butterfly -
        Atone
  7: The Contortionist -
        Clairvoyant
  8: Threshold -
        Legend Of The Shires
  9: Leprous -
        Malina
10: Mutemath -
        Play Dead



Best DVD/Blu-ray:
IQ - Scrape Across The Sky
Best concert:
Devin Townsend/Leprous,
January 28, Trix, Antwerpen (B)
Album Top10:
  1: Hangover Paradise -
        Out Of Sight
  2: Silhouette -
        The World Is Flat
  3: Steven Wilson -
        To The Bone
  4: This Winter Machine -
        The Man Who Never Was
  5: The D/A Method -
        The Desert Road
  6: Roger Waters -
        Is This The Life We
           Really Want?
  7: Bjorn Riis -
        Forever Comes To An End
  8: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  9: Lonely Robot -
        The Big Dream
10: PBII -
        Rocket! The Dreams Of
           Wubbo Ockels

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???
Best concert:
Marillion, October 10,
Tivoli/ Vredenburg, Utrecht (NL)





X
David Carswell
 
X
Michel Stolk
 
X
Kev Rowland
Album Top10:
  1: Monarch Trail -
        Sand
  2: Kaprekar's Constant -
        Fate Outsmarts Desire
  3: Nad Sylvan -
        The Bride Said No
  4: Kim Seviour -
        Recovery Is Learning
  5: The Watch -
        Seven
  6: Premiata Forneria Marconi -
        Emotional Tattoos
  7: Dave Kerzner -
        Static
  8: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound
  9: Art Griffin's Sound Chaser -
        Visions From The Present
10: Peter Hammill -
        The Trees


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???
Best concert:
Eddie Jobson & Marc Bonilla
'Fallen Angels' April 30, Garneau
College, Québec City, Canada.
Album Top10:
  1: Unreal City -
        Frammenti Notturni
  2: Pain Of Salvation -
        In The Passing Light Of Day
  3: Day Six -
        Solitary League
  4: The Tangent -
        The Slow Rust Of
           Forgotten Machinery
  5: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  6: Sons Of Apollo -
        Psychotic Symphony
  7: Barock Project -
        Detachment
  8: Ayreon -
        The Source
  9: Tiger Moth Tales -
        The Depts Of Winter
10: Bjorn Riis -
        Forever Comes To An End

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Spock's Beard - Snow Live
Best concert:
YES featuring ARW,
July 15, Night Of The Prog,
Loreley (Germany)
Album Top10:
  1: Kaprekar's Constant -
        Fate Outstrips Desire
  2: Big Big Train -
        Grimspound
  3: Galahad -
        Quiet Storms
  4: Bubblemath -
        Edit Peptide
  5: Cast -
        Power & Outcome
  6: Gentle Knife -
        Clock Unwound
  7: Black Noodle Project -
        Divided We Fall
  8: Threshold -
        Legend Of The Shires
  9: Barock Project -
        Detachment
10: Silhouette -
        The World Is Flat


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???
Best concert:
Steve Hackett, July 28,
Auckland Town Hall (NWZ)





X
Mike Thorne
 

 

Album Top10:
  1: Glass Hammer -
        Untold Tales
  2: Steve Hackett -
        The Night Siren
  3: Big Big Train -
        The Second Brightest Star
  4: Lifesigns -
        Cardington
  5: David Maxim Micic -
        Who Bit The Moon
  6: Persefone -
        Aathma
  7: Kettlespider -
        Kettlespider
  8: Nova Collective -
        The Further Side
  9: The Contortionist -
        Clairvoyant
10: Arch Echo -
        Arch Echo

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
David Gilmour Live At Pompeii
Best concert:
???






All Rights Reserved Background Magazine 2018