The GrEEN DoLPHiN's PoLL – 8

Best albums, bands / solo artists & musicians of 2000

Porcupine Tree


B e s t   b a n d s / s o l o   a r t i s t s (194)
  1. Porcupine Tree (UK) (77)
  2. The Flower Kings (Sweden) (65)
  3. Spock's Beard (USA) (55)
  4. King Crimson (UK/USA) (51)
  5. Godspeed You Black Emperor! (Canada) (46)
  6. Jadis (UK) (42)
  7. Sigur Rós (Iceland) (38)
  8. Arena (UK) (35)
    Thinking Plague (USA) (35)
  9. Yes (UK/USA) (34)
  10. IQ (UK) (33)
  11. TransAtlantic (Sweden/UK/USA) (32)
  12. Magma (France) (30)
  13. Dream Theater (USA) (27)
  14. After Crying (Hungary) (24)
  15. Iona (UK) (23)
    Ozric Tentacles (UK) (23)
  16. Radiohead (UK) (21)
  17. Camel (UK) (20)
    DFA (Italy) (20)
  18. Gong (France/UK) (19)
  19. Kansas (USA) (18)
    Pendragon (UK) (18)
  20. Happy The Man (USA) (17)
    Peter Hammill (UK) (17)
  21. The Underground Railroad (USA) (16)
  22. Pain Of Salvation (Sweden) (14)
    Present (Belgium) (14)
    Quidam (Poland) (14)
  23. Bozzio Levin Stevens (USA) (13)
    Sonic Debris (Norway) (13)
  24. Faust (Germany) (12)
    Grandaddy (USA) (12)
  25. A Silver Mt. Zion (Canada) (11)
    Anekdoten (Sweden) (11)
    Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (UK/USA) (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best bands/solo artists of 2000"

Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun

The Flower Kings: Space Revolver

TransAtlantic: SMPTe

B e s t   a l b u m s (201)
  1. Porcupine Tree "Lightbulb Sun" (K Scope/Snapper Music) (84)
  2. The Flower Kings "Space Revolver" (Foxtrot/SPV) (69)
  3. TransAtlantic "SMPTe" (InsideOutMusic) (55)
  4. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!" (Constellation/Kranky) (50)
    Spock's Beard "V" (Radiant) (50)
  5. Arena "Immortal?" (Verglas/SPV) (46)
  6. Sigur Rós "Ágætis Byrjun" (Fat Cat) (41)
  7. King Crimson "The ConstruKction Of Light" (Virgin/DGM) (39)
  8. Jadis "Understand" (Jadis Music) (32)
  9. After Crying "Struggle For Life" (Periferic) (29)
  10. Iona "Open Sky" (Alliance) (27)
    IQ "The Seventh House" (GEP) (27)
  11. Radiohead "Kid A" (Parlophone) (26)
  12. Peter Gabriel "OVO" (Real World) (21)
    The Underground Railroad "Through And Through" (Laser's Edge) (21)
  13. Mike Keneally And Beer For Dolphins "Dancing" (Exowax) (20)
  14. Bruford Levin Upper Extremities "BLUE Nights" (Papa Bear) (19)
    Kansas "Somewhere To Elsewhere" (Magna Carta) (19)
  15. Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma & Margarita Botello "Sol Central" (Luna Negra) (18)
    Pat Metheny "Trio 99->00" (Warner) (18)
  16. Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic "Petrophonics" (Cuneiform) (17)
    Kevin Gilbert "The Shaming Of The True" (www.kevingilbert.com) (17)
    Pain Of Salvation "The Perfect Element Part 1" (InsideOutMusic) (17)
    Salem Hill "Not Everybody's Gold" (TDS) (17)
  17. Porcupine Tree "Voyage 34 - The Complete Trip" (Delerium) (15)
  18. Azigza "Azigza" (independent) (14)
    Gong "Zero To Infinity" (One Eyed Salmon/Snapper Music) (14)
    Sonic Debris "Velvet Thorns" (DVS) (14)
    Yes "House Of Yes Live From House Of Blues" (Eagle/Beyond) (14)
  19. Bozzio Levin Stevens "Situation Dangerous" (Magna Carta) (13)
  20. A Silver Mt. Zion "He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms..." (Constellation) (12)
    Primal Scream "XTRMNTR" (Creation) (12)
    Symphony X "V" (SPV/InsideOutMusic) (12)
  21. Belle And Sebastian "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant" (Jeepster) (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best albums of 2000"
B e s t   f e m a l e   v o c a l i s t s (94)
  1. Joanne Hogg (Iona) (55)
  2. Björk (49)
  3. Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy) (36)
  4. Magdalena Hagberg (Pär Lindh Project) (34)
  5. Tracy Hitchings (Landmarq) (33)
  6. Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering/Ayreon) (27)
  7. Lana Lane (Lana Lane/Ayreon) (24)
  8. Deborah Perry (Thinking Plague/5UU's) (23)
  9. Annie Haslam (Renaissance) (20)
    Emila Derkowska (Quidam) (20)
    Jacqueline Govaert (Krezip/Ayreon) (20)
    Loreena McKennitt (20)
  10. Amy Denio (The Danubians/The Science Group) (19)
    Lisa Francis (Kurgan's Bane) (19)
    Mariella Gonzales (Nexus) (19)
    Rachel Jones (Karnataka) (19)
  11. Fiona Apple (18)
  12. Anouk (17)
    Emma Pollock (The Delgados) (17)
    Iva Bittová (17)
    Lisa Bouchelle (Mastermind) (17)
  13. Polly Jean Harvey (PJ Harvey) (16)
  14. Cathryn V. Robson (Siren Circus) (15)
  15. Lucie Robson (Siren Circus) (14)
  16. Madonna (12)
  17. Julie Tippetts (Soupsongs) (11)
    Maire Brennan (Clannad) (11)
    Sylvia Erichsen (White Willow) (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best female vocalists of 2000"
B e s t   m a l e   v o c a l i s t s (123)
  1. Jon Anderson (Yes) (78)
  2. Peter Nicholls (IQ/Martin Orford) (50)
  3. Neal Morse (Spock's Beard/TransAtlantic) (48)
  4. Peter Hammill (46)
  5. Rob Sowden (Arena) (41)
    Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings/TransAtlantic) (41)
  6. Jón Þór Birgisson (Sigur Rós) (38)
    Peter Gabriel (38)
  7. Steve Hogarth (Marillion/H Band) (35)
  8. Adrian Belew (King Crimson) (34)
  9. Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) (33)
  10. Fish (27)
  11. John Wetton (Qango/The John Wetton Band) (26)
  12. Gary Chandler (Jadis) (24)
  13. Thom Yorke (Radiohead) (21)
  14. Geddy Lee (Rush) (20)
  15. Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain Of Salvation) (19)
    James LaBrie (Dream Theater) (19)
  16. Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden/Ayreon) (18)
    Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) (18)
  17. Julian Cope (17)
    Russell Allen (Symphony X) (17)
  18. Nick Barrett (Pendragon) (15)
    Phil Minton (Four Walls) (15)
  19. Antoine Paganotti (Magma) (14)
    Brian Molko (Placebo) (14)
    Robert Wyatt (14)
  20. D.C. Cooper (D.C. Cooper/Royal Hunt) (13)
    David Thomas (Pere Ubu) (13)
    Jason Lyttle (Grandaddy) (13)
    Maynard James Keenan (A Perfect Circle/ Tool) (13)
    Steve Walsh (Kansas) (13)
  21. Hasse Fröberg (The Flower Kings) (12)
  22. Ray Weston (Echolyn/ The Dark Aether Project) (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best male vocalists of 2000"
B e s t   g u i t a r   p l a y e r s (133)
  1. Robert Fripp (King Crimson/ProjeKct's/Fayman & Fripp) (75)
  2. Steve Howe (Yes) (65)
  3. Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings/TransAtlantic) (54)
  4. Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree/No-Man/Fish/I. E. M.) (53)
  5. Mike Holmes (IQ) (48)
  6. Gary Chandler (Jadis/Martin Orford) (43)
  7. John Mitchell (Arena/The Urbane/The John Wetton) (38)
    John Petrucci (Dream Theater/Liquid Tension Experiment) (38)
  8. Adrian Belew (King Crimson) (30)
  9. Andrew Latimer (Camel) (28)
  10. Jón Þór Birgisson (Sigur Rós) (27)
  11. Alan Morse (Spock's Beard) (26)
    Dave Bainbridge (Iona) (26)
  12. Steve Morse (Deep Purple/Dixie Dregs) (22)
  13. Fred Frith (John Zorn) (21)
    John McLaughlin (21)
    Mike Keneally (Mullmuzzler) (21)
  14. Nick Barrett (Pendragon) (20)
  15. Steve Stevens (Bozzio Levin Stevens) (19)
  16. Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) (18)
  17. Bill Pohl (The Underground Railroad) (16)
  18. Mike Johnson (Thinking Plague) (15)
    Scott McGill (Hand Farm) (15)
  19. David Torn (BLUE/Tony Levin/SPLaTTeRCeLL) (14)
  20. Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) (13)
    Silvio Minella (DFA) (13)
  21. Kevin Shields (Primal Scream/My Bloody Valentine) (12)
  22. Roger Trigaux (Present) (12)
    Steve Rothery (Marillion) (12)
  23. Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) (11)
    Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles) (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best guitar players of 2000"
B e s t   b a s s   p l a y e r s (122)
  1. Tony Levin (King Crimson/The California Guitar Trio/Bozzio Levin Stevens/BLUE) (106)
  2. John Jowitt (IQ/Jadis) (60)
  3. Chris Squire (Yes/Squire & Sherwood) (59)
  4. Pete Trewavas (Marillion/TransAtlantic/H Band) (50)
  5. Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree/Ex-Wise-Heads/No-Man) (43)
  6. Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings/Pär Lindh Project) (42)
    Trey Gunn (King Crimson/The Trey Gunn Band) (42)
  7. Ian Salmon (Arena) (40)
  8. Dave Meros (Spock's Beard) (38)
    John Myung (Dream Theater/Platypus) (38)
  9. Colin Bass (aka Sabah Habas Mustapha) (Camel) (36)
  10. Geddy Lee (Rush) (32)
  11. Georg Holm (Sigur Rós) (27)
  12. Phil Barker (Iona) (22)
  13. Mani (Primal Scream) (20)
  14. Peter Gee (Pendragon/Nolan & Wakeman/Michelle Young) (19)
  15. Philippe Bussonnet (Magma) (17)
  16. Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) (16)
  17. Bernard Paganotti (15)
  18. Péter Pejtsik (After Crying) (14)
  19. Dave Holland (13)
    John Wetton (Qango) (13)
    T.Garcia (Grandaddy) (13)
  20. Hugh Hopper (12)
    Keith Macksoud (Present/5UU's) (12)
    Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) (12)
    Thierry Amar (Godspeed You Black Emperor!/A Silver Mt. Zion) (12)
  21. Bill Laswell (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best bass players of 2000"
B e s t   k e y b o a r d   p l a y e r s (129)
  1. Clive Nolan (Arena/Pendragon/Shadowland) (77)
  2. Tomas Bodin (The Flower Kings/Ensemble Nimbus) (66)
  3. Martin Orford (IQ/Jadis/The John Wetton Band) (65)
  4. Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree/H Band/Jansen-Barbieri-Karn) (58)
  5. Igor Khoroshev (Yes) (50)
  6. Neal Morse (Spock's Beard/TransAtlantic) (42)
  7. Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) (40)
  8. Ryo Okumoto (Spock's Beard) (38)
  9. Lars Hollmer (Samla Mammas Manna) (28)
  10. Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Rós) (27)
  11. Rick Wakeman (23)
  12. Zoltán Lengyel (After Crying) (22)
  13. David Rosenthal (Happy The Man) (21)
  14. Andrew Giddings (Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson) (20)
  15. Alberto Bonomi (DFA) (19)
    Uri Caine (John Zorn) (19)
  16. Balázs Winkler (After Crying) (18)
    Cecil Taylor (18)
    Fiona Apple (18)
    Gwyo Ze Pix (Gong) (18)
  17. Emmanuel Borghi (Magma) (15)
    Kurt Rongey (The Underground Railroad) (15)
  18. Jason Lyttle (Grandaddy) (14)
    Lalo Huber (Nexus) (14)
  19. Oliver Philipps (Everon) (13)
  20. Kevin Moore (Chroma Key) (11)
    Mike Keneally (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best keyboard players of 2000"
B e s t   d r u m m e r s (114)
  1. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater/TransAtlantic) (68)
  2. Chris Maitland (Porcupine Tree) (64)
  3. Christian Vander (Magma) (54)
  4. Bill Bruford (Bruford Levin Upper Extremities/Earthworks) (52)
  5. Nick D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard) (51)
  6. Paul Cook (IQ/Martin Orford) (45)
  7. Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson/Mastica/The California Guitar Trio) (41)
  8. Mick Pointer (Arena) (34)
  9. Dave Kerman (Thinking Plague/5 UU's/Present) (32)
  10. Jaime Salazar (The Flower Kings) (27)
  11. Chris Cutler (23)
    Steve Christey (Jadis/Martin Orford/The John Wetton Band) (23)
  12. Alan White (Yes) (22)
  13. Hasse Bruniusson (The Flower Kings/Samla Mammas Manna/Ensemble Nimbus) (20)
  14. Fudge Smith (Pendragon/Henry Fool/Steve Hackett Band) (19)
  15. Phil Selway (Radiohead) (17)
  16. Jaki Liebezeit (Can/Club Of Chaos) (16)
    Terry Bozzio (Bozzio Levin Stevens) (16)
  17. Zsolt Madai (After Crying) (15)
  18. Alberto de Grandis (DFA) (14)
    Orri Páll Dýrason (Sigur Rós) (14)
  19. Ron Riddle (Happy The Man) (11)
The Green Dolphin's Poll Nr 8."Best drummers of 2000"
T h e  P a r t i c i p a n t s (37)

(Are from England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, The Netherlands,
Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, U.S.A. and Wales)
(C-Critic, M-Musician, P-Producer, R-Record store):
  1. Shawn Persinger (M, Boud Deun)    Shawn Persinger
  2. Sven Schmidt (M, Sfumato)       Sfumato
  3. Mel Huang (C/M)    Estonian Progressive Rock Page
  4. Chad Hutchinson (C)      Ghostland      North East Art Rock Festival
  5. Dominique Leone (C)    Ground And Sky
  6. Charles W. Vrtacek (M, Forever Einstein, Biota)    Forever Einstein
  7. Surjorimba Suroto (co-Producer of the radio show)
  8. Mike Ezzo (C/M, Rain Of Thought)    Rain Of Thought
  9. Enrique Jardines (M, Absolute Zero)    Absolute Zero
  10. Paul McAllister (C)
  11. Uwe D'Rose (M, Landmarq)    Landmarq
  12. Duncan Harris (C)
  13. Phil Jackson (C)    Phil Jackson
  14. Juan Mares (M, Mascarada)    Mascarada    Mascarada
  15. Alex Botten (M, Thee Moths)    Thee Moths
  16. Alan Holmes (M, Ectogram)    Ectogram
  17. Peter Maizitis (M, Pete Maizitis)    Peter Maizitis    Peter Maizitis
  18. Gayle Ellett (M, Djam Karet)    Djam Karet
  19. Peter Thelen (C)    Exposé
  20. Bob Eichler (C)    Ground And Sky
  21. Jeff Matheus (C)
  22. Christine Holz (C)
  23. Ken Senior (M, Purple, Parallel Or 90 Degrees, Elegant Simplicity, Evolue)
  24. Stephane Fougere (C)    Traverses
  25. Vasiliy Perelygin (C)
  26. Aigars Cervinskis (C, M, Holy Lamb)    Holy Lamb
  27. Yuri Chernenok (R)
  28. Andreas Kasper (C)
  29. Hester Stasse (M, C)
  30. Jon Byrne (C)    Ground And Sky    Jon Byrne
  31. Joakim Jahlmar (C)
  32. Aymeric Leroy (C)
  33. Kevin Goldsmith (C)    Unit Circle Media
  34. Alex West-Burnham (C)
  35. Janis Zilde (R, M, Satellites LV)    Satellites LV tracks 8-10 MP3
  36. Arnaud Lemoine (M)    Excowboy
  37. Juan José Salas (P)    Luna Negra

This poll was compiled by Dainis Bushmanis, January 20, 2001.

The Green Dolphin's Poll, © Dainis Bushmanis, P.O.Box 345, Riga, LV-1050, LATVIA.
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