The final five in my top 20 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

richardh wrote:

Mike Oldfield (most everything from 1973 to 1984 I love) then it's patchy although Amarok and Songs Of Distant Earth as well as Return To Ommadawn are great. I can listen to a dozen Mike Oldfield albums quite happily....

An excellent assessment throughout, although I'm slightly less in love with either Platinum or Discovery while Side 2 or Crises is fairly wretched... I probably have more of a soft spot for TB II & III than you do, however..

Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson

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Mike Oldfield (most everything from 1973 to 1984 I love) then it's patchy although Amarok and Songs Of Distant Earth as well as Return To Ommadawn are great. I can listen to a dozen Mike Oldfield albums quite happily while there's only about 2 Dream Theater albums I like that much (not the obvious ones!) and only one Moody Blues album I care for (A Question Of Balance). I don't know Nektar at all. Spock's Beard have about 4 or 5 albums I like a lot, especially Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep which is a masterpice imo but that's not enough to challenge Oldfield (although in terms of '3rd wave of prog' The Beard are a top band for sure)

Mike Oldfield, I'm with the majority here,

David_D wrote:

Mike Oldfield

more precisely, the first three albums

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Mike Oldfield

Saperlipopette! wrote:

I'll probably go for Nektar. I've listened to them quite a lot in the last couple of years.

So have I; my interest was re-ignited by 'The Other Side' which I enjoyed more than anything since 'Recycled'

Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson

Mike Oldfield

The Moody Blues

Nektar

Spock's Beard

Dream Theater

Mike Oldfield

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Spock's Beard over Dream Theater but its close. Depends on the mood.
True story from a dozen years ago or so, but the former manager of HMV ended up leaving that job and showing up at one of the local grocery stores here. We had a nice talk and he told me every time he saw me previously in the music store he would think of Spock's Beard. Not sure if he listened to them, but I ordered them from him.

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

Poll Question: Which of these artists do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Dream Theater	8	[18.18%]
The Moody Blues	7	[15.91%]
Nektar	3	[6.82%]
Mike Oldfield	15	[34.09%]
Spock's Beard	9	[20.45%]
I don't know all well enough to vote	1	[2.27%]
All Equally	0	[0.00%]
None of them	1	[2.27%]
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