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Diego’s Sonic Scapes

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#ProgRock enthusiast. Also into some #AlternativeRock and #NewWave. I dig into albums, share music facts, and love a good #MusicChallenge.

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 23h

#2025Albums #Music2025 #NowPlaying #MusicSky

2025 music in review 🎧

Not an AOTY list — just sharing songs that stood out to me from albums I’ve heard this year. No rankings, just moments that caught my ear.

Mostly Prog and a bit of alternative music.

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 2m

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 2️⃣0️⃣
🎶 "How Was Your Ride?"
🎤 Blackfield
💿 Blackfield V
📆 10 February 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=lSjQ...

The perfect closure to this year’s playlist. Thanks for following along — and now, I simply ask:

How was your ride?

How Was Your Ride?

YouTube video by Blackfield - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 11m

#MusicChallenge #KillerTunes

▶️ Day 2️⃣0️⃣
🎶 "Wicked Little Doll"
🎤 David Byrne
💿 Feelings
📆 17 June 1997

music.youtube.com/watch?v=hGnV...

Wicked little doll, I'm not your victim
Wicked little doll, you need me too
Wicked little doll, I'll be your partner
Wicked little doll, can I play too?

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 20h

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣9️⃣
🎶 "Bartok of the Universe"
🎤 Motorpsycho
💿 The Tower
📆 8 September 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk2Q...

Motorpsycho kept their streak of stellar heavy psych/prog going. The intro to this song was so good, it became my ringtone for a while

Bartok Of The Universe

YouTube video by MotorPsycho - Topic

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 7h

#2025Albums #Music2025 #NowPlaying #Playlist2025

▶️ 1️⃣
🎶 "Welcome Gemini"
🎤 Shadow Academy
💿 Prisms
📆 8 August 2025
🏷️ Alternative Rock, Rock, Prog Rock

music.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVm...

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 7h

music.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVm...

Shadow Academy - Welcome Gemini (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Shadow Academy

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 7h

#2025Albums #Music2025 #NowPlaying #Playlist2025

▶️ 1️⃣
🎶 "Welcome Gemini"
🎤 Shadow Academy
💿 Prisms
📆 8 August 2025
🏷️ Alternative Rock, Rock, Prog Rock

music.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVm...

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 20h

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣9️⃣
🎶 "Bartok of the Universe"
🎤 Motorpsycho
💿 The Tower
📆 8 September 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk2Q...

Motorpsycho kept their streak of stellar heavy psych/prog going. The intro to this song was so good, it became my ringtone for a while

Bartok Of The Universe

YouTube video by MotorPsycho - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 23h

#MusicChallenge #KillerTunes

▶️ Day 1️⃣9️⃣
🎶 "Your New Cuckoo"
🎤 The Cardigans
💿 First Band on the Moon
📆 17 September 1996

music.youtube.com/watch?v=qEf9...

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 23h

#2025Albums #Music2025 #NowPlaying #MusicSky

2025 music in review 🎧

Not an AOTY list — just sharing songs that stood out to me from albums I’ve heard this year. No rankings, just moments that caught my ear.

Mostly Prog and a bit of alternative music.

Reposted by Diego’s Sonic Scapes

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 1d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣8️⃣
🎶 "Can’t Let Go"
🎤 Anathema
💿 The Optimist
📆 9 June 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=46dr...

In hindsight, a sad irony — released just a few years before Anathema’s hiatus, a bittersweet echo of hope and loss from one of prog’s most emotional bands

YouTube video by Anathema - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 1d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣8️⃣
🎶 "Can’t Let Go"
🎤 Anathema
💿 The Optimist
📆 9 June 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=46dr...

In hindsight, a sad irony — released just a few years before Anathema’s hiatus, a bittersweet echo of hope and loss from one of prog’s most emotional bands

YouTube video by Anathema - Topic

music.youtube.com

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 2d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣7️⃣
🎶 "No Distraction"
🎤 Beck
💿 Colors
📆 13 October 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Eema...

After the folky calm of Morning Phase, Beck flipped the script with Colors — slick, poppy, and effortlessly cool, showcasing his Bowie-like chameleon nature

YouTube video by Beck - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge #KillerTunes

▶️ Day 1️⃣8️⃣
🎶 "Golem"
🎤 Gazpacho
💿 March of Ghosts
📆 12 March 2012

music.youtube.com/watch?v=ghiG...

Golem
In the night's secrecy
You see shadow
Where I see me

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 2d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣7️⃣
🎶 "No Distraction"
🎤 Beck
💿 Colors
📆 13 October 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Eema...

After the folky calm of Morning Phase, Beck flipped the script with Colors — slick, poppy, and effortlessly cool, showcasing his Bowie-like chameleon nature

YouTube video by Beck - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge #KillerTunes

▶️ Day 1️⃣7️⃣
🎶 "Kodama"
🎤 Alcest
💿 Kodama
📆 30 September 2016

music.youtube.com/watch?v=g72N...

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 4d

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Saga

#️⃣ 🥇
🎶 "The Flyer"
🎤 Saga
💿 Heads or Tales
🎙️ 5th studio album
📆 12 September 1983

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqe8...

I fly and never look back
I fly away before they shoot me down

YouTube video by Saga - Topic

music.youtube.com

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 3d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣6️⃣
🎶 "Brave Captain"
🎤 Big Big Train
💿 Grimspound
📆 28 April 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=m8M6...

Following previous year’s Folklore, BBT originally planned to release an EP called Skylon — but ended up delivering a full LP instead with Grimspound

YouTube video by Big Big Train - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 3d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣6️⃣
🎶 "Brave Captain"
🎤 Big Big Train
💿 Grimspound
📆 28 April 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=m8M6...

Following previous year’s Folklore, BBT originally planned to release an EP called Skylon — but ended up delivering a full LP instead with Grimspound

YouTube video by Big Big Train - Topic

music.youtube.com

Reposted by Diego’s Sonic Scapes

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 4d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣5️⃣
🎶 "Frozen Butterflies"
🎤 Von Hertzen Brothers
💿 War Is Over
📆 3 November 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=c08V...

The power-pop song of an album that's proggier than it's predecessors. But for songs like this is that I enjoy VHB

Frozen Butterflies

YouTube video by Von Hertzen Brothers - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 4d

#MusicChallenge #KillerTunes

▶️ Day 1️⃣6️⃣
🎶 "The Knife"
🎤 Genesis
💿 Trespass
📆 23 October 1970

music.youtube.com/watch?v=v719...

Some of you are going to die
Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 4d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣5️⃣
🎶 "Frozen Butterflies"
🎤 Von Hertzen Brothers
💿 War Is Over
📆 3 November 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=c08V...

The power-pop song of an album that's proggier than it's predecessors. But for songs like this is that I enjoy VHB

Frozen Butterflies

YouTube video by Von Hertzen Brothers - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 4d

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Saga

#️⃣ 🥇
🎶 "The Flyer"
🎤 Saga
💿 Heads or Tales
🎙️ 5th studio album
📆 12 September 1983

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqe8...

I fly and never look back
I fly away before they shoot me down

YouTube video by Saga - Topic

music.youtube.com

Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 4d

#MusicChallenge #KillerTunes

▶️ Day 1️⃣5️⃣
🎶 "My Twin"
🎤 Katatonia
💿 The Great Cold Distance
📆 13 March 2006

music.youtube.com/watch?v=px0U...

The neck, and then the chain
The head is hung in shame

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 5d

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #Saga

#️⃣ 2️⃣
🎶 "Spin It Again"
🎤 Saga
💿 20/20
🎙️ 20th studio album
📆 6 July 2012

music.youtube.com/watch?v=ynP0...

Sometimes it's just the roll of the dice
That separates the real men from the boys

YouTube video by Saga - Topic

music.youtube.com

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 5d

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #2017Music

▶️ Day 1️⃣4️⃣
🎶 "Chocolate Song"
🎤 Tori Amos
💿 Native Invader
📆 8 September 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=29So...

Apparently this isn’t a fan favorite among Tori devotees — maybe being an occasional listener has its perks, because I adore it.

YouTube video by Tori Amos - Topic

music.youtube.com