by Rick Krueger
After the jump are the new albums and videos from 2017 that grabbed me on first or second listen, then compelled repeated plays. I’m not gonna rank them except for my Top Favorite, which I’ll save for the very end. The others are listed alphabetically by artist. (Old school style, that is — last names first where necessary!) Links to the ones I’ve previously reviewed are embedded in the album titles.
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Does anyone have any idea how to categorize movie soundtracks?
Certainly, by its very nature, prog is cinematic, often eerily so. But what about actual sound tracks? Do soundtrack composers–aside from Trevor Rabin–think of themselves as classical artists? Rock? Or, are soundtracks their own strange genre?
Why do I ask, you ask.
Since BATMAN BEGINS first came out in the theaters, I’ve regarded it as one of my two or three all-time favorite movies. It didn’t beat out my favorite, Hitchcock’s ROPE, but it came really close. In fact, I liked it so much, that I never quite made it through THE DARK KNIGHT, as I felt that second movie undermined everything the first accomplished.
Progarchy 