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Topic: z.a.r.p.e.k. (G-N) XIV Posted: November 13 2012 at 13:00
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Man With Hat wrote:
For once I don't have to worry about voting for Magma.
Hmmm....GonG or Henry Cow. I'll go with the Cow on this one.
Oh yeah your not big on that Magma album i forgot, i remembered it wasn't one of Greg's favs either. Leg End is pretty awesome although i still rate Western Culture as my favourite Cow record.
Western Culture has always been my favorite. I really need to get Leg End... I bought it when it first came out on CD, but didn't really like it. I even got rid of it, during a period when I was broke and needed quick cash. Then I heard that the mix they released for that pressing was really terrible and it's since been fixed. I've still never heard the "fixed" version. If it's anything like Unrest, I should definitely get off on it.
Thanks to regrettable purgings like that, I've pretty much vowed to never get rid of any of my albums. Never know when I might want to give them another shot.
Well i can relate as i've gotten rid of some(not many) over the years and have since realized that buying stuff twice doesn't make a lot of sense. Because our tastes do change and what i might not be too into today might be something i cherish 5 years from now. Lesson learned.
Another vote for Heldon's masterpiece Stand By. Man I love that album to pieces! Remember when I first started listening to it, I was living on the outskirts of Copenhagen besides a big forest called Hareskoven(The Hare Forest). Walking amongst the huge trees down by the lake all to myself with Bolero playing in my ears had an almost spiritual effect on yours truly - even making me caress the bark of the trees with my fingers as I passed them. I know..... sounds like something out of a hippie Barbra Cartland novel, but to me it was real, and still is. I tried making the same voyage last time I went there on visit to see my friends of old, and the magic was still there in full force. Ever since I can remember, we used to go down to the lake, down besides an ancient ruin, where this lonely tree spread its branches in all kinds of scary images. We called it Drømmetræet(Tree of Dreams), as it magically changed with the seasons and for some reason always felt alive. Like really alive. Funny thing is, that now when I am older, I always go to see it with Heldon's Stand By in my ears - and a huge smile. It isn't frightening anymore.
I think you should have been a hippie in the late sixties David. Cool story though.
As per usual you've got my number John
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 12:40
Mellotron Storm wrote:
Man With Hat wrote:
For once I don't have to worry about voting for Magma.
Hmmm....GonG or Henry Cow. I'll go with the Cow on this one.
Oh yeah your not big on that Magma album i forgot, i remembered it wasn't one of Greg's favs either. Leg End is pretty awesome although i still rate Western Culture as my favourite Cow record.
Western Culture has always been my favorite. I really need to get Leg End... I bought it when it first came out on CD, but didn't really like it. I even got rid of it, during a period when I was broke and needed quick cash. Then I heard that the mix they released for that pressing was really terrible and it's since been fixed. I've still never heard the "fixed" version. If it's anything like Unrest, I should definitely get off on it.
Thanks to regrettable purgings like that, I've pretty much vowed to never get rid of any of my albums. Never know when I might want to give them another shot.
Edited by HolyMoly - November 13 2012 at 12:44
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 09:51
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Another vote for Heldon's masterpiece Stand By. Man I love that album to pieces! Remember when I first started listening to it, I was living on the outskirts of Copenhagen besides a big forest called Hareskoven(The Hare Forest). Walking amongst the huge trees down by the lake all to myself with Bolero playing in my ears had an almost spiritual effect on yours truly - even making me caress the bark of the trees with my fingers as I passed them. I know..... sounds like something out of a hippie Barbra Cartland novel, but to me it was real, and still is. I tried making the same voyage last time I went there on visit to see my friends of old, and the magic was still there in full force. Ever since I can remember, we used to go down to the lake, down besides an ancient ruin, where this lonely tree spread its branches in all kinds of scary images. We called it Drømmetræet(Tree of Dreams), as it magically changed with the seasons and for some reason always felt alive. Like really alive. Funny thing is, that now when I am older, I always go to see it with Heldon's Stand By in my ears - and a huge smile. It isn't frightening anymore.
I think you should have been a hippie in the late sixties David. Cool story though.
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 09:43
Fox On The Rocks wrote:
Ah, close call between Magma and Gong. Both my favourite albums from each band, so a toughie for sure. Magma it is. And on a sidenote, I've actually heard most off the albums on the list for a change.
It's interesting that those are your fav Gong and Magma albums, i feel the same way about Kohntarkosz but i rate "You" a little higher than "Angels Egg".
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 01:20
Mellotron Storm wrote:
Man With Hat wrote:
For once I don't have to worry about voting for Magma.
Hmmm....GonG or Henry Cow. I'll go with the Cow on this one.
Oh yeah your not big on that Magma album i forgot, i remembered it wasn't one of Greg's favs either. Leg End is pretty awesome although i still rate Western Culture as my favourite Cow record.
Yeah. Live I like the title track alot, but for some reason the studio version doesn't get past good for me (and the other two tracks are fine but nothing spetacular). And Leg End, Unrest, and Western Culture have all occupied by favorite HC album spot. Right now it's WC for me as well.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 21:03
Logan wrote:
I like all of these considerably, but am going with Heldon's Stand By.
This is right near the top of my list too. I used to rate Interface a little higher than this but i gotta say this is my fav Heldon album now. Hey we even get Blasquiz from Magma helping out.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 20:53
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I'm not much of a Magma listener, and find some of their stuff irritating, but "Kohntarkosz" is an absolute monster, and by far my favorite of theirs. I have to choose it despite a few real worthy albums here.
That's my favourite Magma album as well with Emehntt-Re right there too then maybe the debut as my top three.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 20:44
octopus-4 wrote:
I was about to vote for Magma but I've seen Angel's Egg.....
Well those two along with Nektar seem to be getting all the votes. There won't be any Nektar on the next poll which is also the last for this section but i'm sure Magma and Gong will continue to battle it out near the top.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 20:41
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Magma is kicking some ass on this poll. Hey i love the ripping guitar on Kohntarkosz Part II, we don't get a lot of that with Magma. Great cover art too.
and it's got that nightmarish wild endless organ solo and piano middle section that drives you to madness!
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 20:26
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Nektar-A Tab In The Ocean
Bogdan !! No metal here man but thanks for the vote. I used to rate Journey To The Center Of The Eye higher than A Tab In The Ocean but after listening to both of late they're pretty even in my mind with the latter maybe even slightly ahead now.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 20:16
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Oh man, what a dilemna!
`Angels Egg' was the first Gong album I ever heard, pretty soon after I first started getting into prog, and it was such a wild and varied album...and Hawkwind's `Hall of the Mountain Grill' was the first Hawkwind album I bought and I really loved it. It was the only Hawkwind album I had for a couple of years, I played it over and over!
But I'm going for that ungodly and vile dark beast Kohntarkosz, which I think I recently mentioned as sounding like `A bunch of aliens conducting a seance'!
I love how unnerving some of those hissing choral vocal moments get on the first side!
Magma is kicking some ass on this poll. Hey i love the ripping guitar on Kohntarkosz Part II, we don't get a lot of that with Magma. Great cover art too.
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HolyMoly wrote:
Then I heard that the mix they released for that pressing was really terrible and it's since been fixed. I've still never heard the "fixed" version. If it's anything like Unrest, I should definitely get off on it.
). The music however - how it was praised and pursued, man I can dig it - and get down with it from here on to the ends of the earth! 
