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Poll Question: Darkest 70's Prog Album
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [2.88%]
21 [20.19%]
19 [18.27%]
7 [6.73%]
4 [3.85%]
2 [1.92%]
0 [0.00%]
13 [12.50%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.96%]
2 [1.92%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.96%]
1 [0.96%]
1 [0.96%]
0 [0.00%]
18 [17.31%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [1.92%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.96%]
8 [7.69%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 14:29
Red is not that dark...I think Lark´s is darker!...and better
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 15:30
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts is more dark and depressing than everything else on the list.
Seriously, I am trying to force some upbeat music on myself just to get away from it's spell.
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What's yer faovrite album? =^_^=
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 16:18
Any album that ends with Ivor Cutler singing 'I fight with the handle of my little brown broom' cannot be dark!    
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 16:38
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Red is not that dark...I think Lark´s is darker!...and better


true, true Smile

however, neither is that dark in comparison to other albums on that list; they're rather heavier than most of the stuff there
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 17:18
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Red is not that dark...I think Lark´s is darker!...and better
 
I agree! In fact, I'm listening to it right now, and it's darkness awes me! Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 17:56
Island "Pictures" is sadly not on this list, but out of those listed UZ "Heresie" is the darkest. The darkness there is almost psychotic, and it's not winning this poll simply because not enough people listened to it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 18:01
Originally posted by fuxi fuxi wrote:

Any album that ends with Ivor Cutler singing 'I fight with the handle of my little brown broom' cannot be dark!    


LOL LOL LOL

Anyway, I don't know quite a few of these, but voted for Il Balletto Di Bronzo's YS.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 19:09
I'll go with Red, an "unhappy" album at best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 20:24
jesus ....love the results hahahhahahahLOL


yeah  right



the man actually does a hell of a nice job with the options...  Jacula?   oh helll yeah...


and people choose the probably least 'dark' one of the whole damn  group  ... oh well


encounters with death...  scary as hell keys and guitars.. haunting female soprano voices.. .and mellotron dense enough to cut with a knife...


Il Balletto di Bronzo's - Ys  though could have with a number of others....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 20:30
I went for Animals, although I'm not familiar with many of the other choices.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 20:31


van der graaf is the first thing that came to mind, so I voted for that. Very very dark feeling music IMO


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 09:37
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 09:50
    It's gotta' be "Ys." Without even understanding the lyrics, this is some very dark stuff.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 11:46
Originally posted by Kleynan Kleynan wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Red is not that dark...I think Lark´s is darker!...and better
 
I agree! In fact, I'm listening to it right now, and it's darkness awes me! Wink
 
 
Lark's = dark???? No no no, Starless and Bible Black is dark!
 
Red isn't that dark either.
 
I pick Pawn Hearts.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 11:48
Peter Hammill - In Camera. I freaks me out everytime I hear it, especially Gog/Magog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 11:54
Something from Asia?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 12:01
Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

    It's gotta' be "Ys." Without even understanding the lyrics, this is some very dark stuff.


HT, if you are interested in an English translation of the lyrics to "Ys", that's the place to go:

http://www.arlequins.it/translations/translations.asp

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 12:09
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

in the absence of any Art Zoyd record, than Univers Zero's Heresie will win this hands down. I never really thought of Comus as dark in the depressive sense (which is what I believe is meant here)?
 
Comus was pagan , demons etc... >> spooky but not dark.
 
Prog doesn't get much darker than Heresie, although in the 80s Shub Niggurath arguably went even further with Les Morts Vont Vite. Art Zoyd were pretty sombre, but I don't think they ever went into quite as dark a place as early UZ.
 
Henry Cow - Unrest could also have a place on that list.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 23:43

Schulze - Irrlicht

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2006 at 00:55
I've yet to hear Heresie (only heard their debut), so I'm going for First Utterance.  I'd say that album was more scary and uncomfortable though.

VdGG, as much as I like them, are not that dark to my ears and infact, Hammill is pretty much having a laugh on all VdGG albums, even his own.  The exception to that is Over, which I've somehow not yet heard (waiting for the remaster).

I must listen to Ys again sometime, I've only heard it the once.
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