THE PROGRESSIVE TRACKS SHOW #648 (“ProgTracks’ Best of 2025”)

This week Mike presents his annual list of favorite albums that has negligible links to anyone else’s picks… or to reality, truth be known.

Take these picks simply as recommendations to revisit or possibly rediscover, because in the end all musical taste is personal and subjective.

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PLAYLIST:

FACS – “Talking Haunted” from Wish Defenseon Trouble In Mind Records (2025) [01:36]

FACS – “Desire Path” from Wish Defenseon Trouble In Mind Records (2025) [06:00]

FACS – “Wish Defense” from Wish Defenseon Trouble In Mind Records (2025) [08:13]

Tom Penaguin – “Ominous Bathtub In April” from Beginningson áMARXE (2025) [14:24]

Tom Penaguin – “Two And A Half” from Beginningson áMARXE (2025) [22:18]

Singlelito – “Picture Of An Alleycat” from Non-Consciousness on áMARXE (2025) [26:52]

Singlelito – “Cacophony In Zé Major” from Non-Consciousness on áMARXE (2025) [32:30]

Abrete Gandul – “Colusiones Y Corrupciones (Conclusions And Corruptions)” from Suciedad Contemporánea on Azafrán Media (2025) [38:31]

Abrete Gandul – “Atomización Ideológica” from Suciedad Contemporánea on Azafrán Media (2025) [43:06]

Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis) – “Shuffled Fate” from TRUCE <3on Iapetus (2025) [51:16]

Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis) – “Crooked” from TRUCE <3on Iapetus (2025) [54:25]

Sigilu – “[i.4]“ from Betaon Astronomy Recording Music (2025) [01:00:09]

Sigilu – “Concursología“ from Betaon Astronomy Recording Music (2025) [01:05:56]

Dominic Sanderson – “Faithless Folly” from Blazing Revelations on 2957216 Records DK (2025) [01:12:04]

Hooffoot – “Phantom Limb” from Phantom Limbon Paura Di Niente Records (2025) [01:23:02]

Chafouin – “Facteur d’amortissement” from Tout ce qui reste on epicericords (2025) [01:34:41]

Fulguromatic – “Grmmf“ from Fulguromaticon áMARXE (2025) [01:43:23]

Thought Bubble – “Floating Up The Steeple” from A Made Up World EP on Independent (2025) [01:51:31]

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Show 44 : 4 January 2026; featured album – In The Wake of Poseidon by King Crimson

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Playlist:

Raintime – Beat It (Michael Jackson cover)
Moths – 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson cover)
In The Woods… – Epitaph (King Crimson cover)
Spiral Architect – Prelude To Ruin (Fates Warning cover)
Nightingale – Losing Myself (Edge of Sanity cover)
Between The Buried And Me – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover)
The Ocean – Even Deeper (Nine Inch Nails cover)
Tool – No Quarter (Led Zeppelin cover)
Queensrÿche – Welcome To Machine (Pink Floyd cover)
Vision Divine – The Needle Lies (Queensrÿche cover)
Toehider – I Don’t Believe In Love (Queensrÿche cover)
The Reticent – Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover)
Wilderun – Everything in its Right Place (Radiohead cover)
Allegaeon – Roundabout (Yes cover)
Dream Theater – Heart of the Sunrise (Yes cover)
Opeth – Would? (Alice in Chains cover)
The Contortionist – 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover)
Judas Priest (feat. Ozzy Osbourne) – War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)
Adrenaline Mob – The Mob Rules (Black Sabbath cover)
Lithium Dawn – Open Car (Porcupine Tree cover)
Damnation Plan – T2: Judgement Day (Brad Fiedel cover) (excerpt)

Edition 428 of Sounds That Can Be Made is now available as a podcast!

Playlist:

Hippie Death Cult – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–V) (Pink Floyd cover)
Panic Room – Bitches Crystal (Voodoo Vamp Mix) (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)
The Dear Hunter – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John cover)
Black Country Communion – Medusa (Trapeze cover)
Whitesnake (feat. The Hook City Strings) – Soldier of Fortune (Deep Purple cover)
Ndlovu Youth Choir – Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover)
Ukandanz – War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)
Sergeant Thunderhoof – Parents (Budgie cover)
Iron Maiden – Cross-Eyed Mary (Jethro Tull cover)
Fleesh – Script For a Jester’s Tear (Marillion cover)
Poverty’s No Crime – Distant Early Warning (Rush cover)
Les Claypool – Thela Hun Ginjeet (live) (King Crimson cover)
Les Claypool – Sheep (live) (Pink Floyd cover)
Unitopia – Yes Medley
In The Woods… – Let There Be More Light (Pink Floyd cover)
Brown Sabbath – Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath cover)
Anubis Gate – Back in Black (AC/DC cover)
Ronnie James Dio & Yngwie Malmsteen – Dream On (Aerosmith cover)
Sergeant Thunderhoof – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI–IX) (Pink Floyd cover)