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Poll Question: name your favorite swiss prog rock band
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    Posted: December 07 2004 at 11:57

Despite that the swiss prog scene is very closed to the german Kraut/ prog scene, it would be interesting to know what are your feelings about notorious bands as Brainticket..and less known as Toad...

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Man, there is a Swiss prog scene?

Any band called Brainticket however get's my vote

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Brainticket.Cottonwoodhill and Celestial Ocean are excellent albums.
Eiliff(Swiss?) come a close second.
I also liked Tea (Mark Storace).First two albums produced by Deiter Dierks,but they turned into the awful Krokus.I remember picking up Eiliff's Girlrls (sic) album from a 'cut-out' bin when I was @ 14 and having to hide it from my parents because of the sleeve.(2 hookers at a window.)
Pretty tame now.
I never liked Toad.A bit too 'boogie/blues-Status Quoish.'




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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2004 at 14:41
Forgive my ignorance Philippe, but I am not qualifed to vote. I couldn't even vote "other", as I couldn't name any others!Confused
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Brainticket are excellent, 'Cottonwoodhill' is amazingly psychedelic and chaotic. Dawn Muir's tripped out vocals are quite overwhelming. I love it! 'Psychonaut' is less experimental but still brilliant. Ive yet to hear their album 'Celestial Dream'

I have to admit though that ive never heard any of the other bands mentioned.

 
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the only swiss stuff i iknow is andreas vollenweider
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Wow, now there's a list of bands I've never heard of...
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I also never heard any band from this list. I say more, I now very few about Swiss Prog Scene, except one album of the band named Galaad (don't substitute with British Galahad :)) - I have one (1992, forgot its French name :() album of them, and it's good. I think it's especially for those who love Marillion 83-88, Grey Lady Down, Pendragon, Arena - I mean the band plays "mainstreamish", keyboard-guitar oriented NeoProgressive, but of really good quality, with good taste and sence of beauty, "juicy" keyboard and guitar solos... (Only some harder than the bands I mentioned above).
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Eiliff is Swiss?- I thought as they are listed in a number of krautrock reference books that they were German

 

But what about Island?

http://www.lasercd.com/merchant/lasercd/lasersedge.asp#islan d

I was introduced to their reissued 1977 recording Pictures, as being the album Van Der Graaf would have recorded if they had stayed together - make of that what you will, but IMHO it is a good record.



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I owned a few Krokodil albums in my youth, but I don´t think I would listen to them today. 
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Originally posted by greenback greenback wrote:

the only swiss stuff i iknow is andreas vollenweider

Shocked Would it therefore be fair to say, Greenie, that there are some gaping holes in your Swiss collection? Ermm

Nice knives, watches and looted Nazi gold, though....Wink

 



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I have to say that, Peter you´re a fun guy !!! 
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^ Badda-boom!

Thank yew, thank yew -- I'm here all year! Big smile

Try the veal!

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Clepsydra is pretty good.
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Yes they are 
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

 

Shocked Would it therefore be fair to say, Greenie, that there are some gaping holes in your Swiss collection? Ermm

 

Also true about some other types of Swiss cheese.............................
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Philippe
Did you mean Ertlif instead of Eiliff?
If so,Ertlif's eponymous album is superb.
Klaus Schulze influenced,with loads of mellotron and synths.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mellotron

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