Recent Prog Acquisitions

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1. Mekanïk Destruktïw Kömmandöh 2. First Utterance

First Utterance is one of the most unique albums I've ever heard.

Sorry, MDK, it has to be First Utterance

 Hatfield and the North would be my choice. I've always gravitated to the Canterbury scene stuff, and really like them and National Health.

Voted for Rotter's Club, both Magmas are great as well. Never heard Comus, don't like Tool too much...

There are a number of albums I really like in the list, but First Utterance  is too essential to my collection not to get my vote.  I consider it to be about the greatest acid folk album of them all, and amongst the greatest albums in PA.  I love Magma, but due to the twenty plus Magma albums I have, neither of those particularly stand-out (I love the "MDK" composition, but I also have it on so many live albums that I play more.  1001 Degrees... is one of my particular fave Magma albums, but I still prefer the rather similar debut overall).  I do love 'em, though.  I also like Rotter's Club a lot, and it is an essential album of the Canterbury Scene, but it's not a particular favourite Canterbury Scene album of mine.  Hamburger Concerto is an album I've called a meaty masterpiece, was an album that got me into Prog in the first place, and I do think is terrific except for the dull drumming since they replaced the former one, but I haven't listened to it in ages.  I used to love Per un Amico, but I now find it rather dull (haven't played it in years) and prefer other PFM albums (the debut and L"isola...) anyway.  PFM's sounds can be a bit too sludgy for me, and though PFM was once one of my favourites, it's hardly an Italian favourite anymore.   Included in the RPI category, I'm bigger on Area and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (both of which I discovered at about the same time some years ago).

As for Opeth and Tool, I never got into them (rather liked what I heard of Opeth, but just didn't explore the music). What little I heard of Tool I found off-putting.

So Comus' album is the obvious stand-out for me, and my usual pick for favourite album in Prog Folk.  I think it's one of the greatest albums in PA and would be a desert island disk.  And it's stood the test of time for me, unlike so many others that I stopped caring about.


Edited by Logan - July 18 2010 at 18:25

All tremendous purchases, with the exception of Damnation which is good and Comus that I still haven't got.

I've recently acquired Rotter's Club myself and must admit I find quite satisfactory.  In other words, it's great!  First Utterance is my second choice - brilliant, disturbing, and unique.

First Utterance for me.