The top 20 albums of 2013.

[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)