Forum Home Forum Home > Other music related lounges > General Music Discussions
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Our favorite prog songs of the Seventies
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Our favorite prog songs of the Seventies
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 78910>
Poll Question: Choose four songs
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [7.69%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [3.85%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [7.69%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [11.54%]
2 [7.69%]
3 [11.54%]
1 [3.85%]
2 [7.69%]
1 [3.85%]
1 [3.85%]
3 [11.54%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [7.69%]
2 [7.69%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [3.85%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
You can not vote in this poll

Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
nick_h_nz View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Prog Metal / Heavy Prog Team

Joined: March 01 2013
Location: Suffolk, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 6737 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote nick_h_nz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 12:59
I read it. I simply can’t count, 🤪

I didn’t even realise I had posted five,r rather than four videos. When Kees asked which of my five videos were the four I meant for the poll, I had to go back and look. Five? What do you mean, five? I posted only four. Oh…. 😳

Disregard the Space Farm, and all is good.

(All of the songs I chose, I checked were present (for me) on YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music. Obviously there are geographic restrictions, and I can never be sure what shows for me, will show for others also.)
Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect
Back to Top
Lewian View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: August 09 2015
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 14754 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 07:44
Rrrrrrrrrrrread the opening posting!! All of it!! All of you!

Edited by Lewian - July 15 2022 at 07:45
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 17529 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote moshkito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 07:18
Hi,

DELETED the Post.

I simply can not EVER number choices of my likes. I love them all.

Sorry.


Edited by moshkito - July 15 2022 at 12:34
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
suitkees View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2020
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 9050 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 05:42
George offers us a more rock oriented prog selection, which suits me perfectly fine. I never heard much of Be Bop Deluxe and this is a great - impressive - guitar based track, but maybe the most conventional of the pack. FM is the big and pleasant surprise here for me; I think I've only heard the Surveillance album, but this track is really wonderful and will incite me to listen to the album. It even "smashes" those two other that I know (and like) very well, Colosseum II and Utopia. So, my points go to:

1. FM - Black Noise: 5 points
2. Colosseum II - The Scorch: 3 points
3. Utopia - Overture: The Mountaintop and Sunrise / Communion with the Sun: 2 points
4. Be Bop Deluxe - No Trains to Heaven: 1 point

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Back to Top
Lewian View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: August 09 2015
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 14754 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 05:24
Luciano Cilio - Secondo Quadro "Della Conoscenza"

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Earth Hymn
Birth Control - Film of Life
Association P.C. - Frau Theunissens Kegel
I tried to go for some stuff you may not know - Manfred Mann is very well known but this particular album seems a bit neglected. I have toyed around nominating Can - Spoon, which I'd probably nominate as number one track, but Can have already been mentioned, and I guess (though not sure) that it's better known than all those nominated. Have fun!
Back to Top
suitkees View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2020
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 9050 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 05:03
And now to Jean's selection. This is half/half for me: Can and Popol Vuh are the outstanding ones here - I don't listen that much to either band but every time it is wonderful. I listened to the Clearlight album (borrowed it from a local library) a very long time ago, but found it a bit too cheesy. It's OK, but still a bit on the cheesy side to my ears. I discover Dzyan here with this track and it sounds as if they refused to play together; a bit too directionless improvisation, imo. So, ranking them is a bit easier in this case:

Can - Splash: 5 points
Popul Vuh - Hosianna Mantra: 3 points
Clearlight - Spiral d'amour: 2 points
Dzyan - For Earthly Thinking: 1 point

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Back to Top
suitkees View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2020
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 9050 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 04:25
Listening (or relistening) to someone_else's suggestions makes me once more aware that ranking songs/tracks or albums really is not in my DNA. I would prefer not to rank them, because I like them all as much or almost, but here it goes:

Alquin: 5 points
Anthony Phillips: 3 points
Gnidrolog: 2 points
Traffic: 1 point

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Back to Top
mathman0806 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 06 2014
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 6442 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mathman0806 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 03:37
Lorenzo. Liked all your selections.

1. Quatermass - 5 pts - my phone tried to "correct" this but caught it. A great one and done album.
2. Tim Buckley - 3 pts
3. Roxy Music - 2 pts
4. Henry Cow - 1 pt
Back to Top
mathman0806 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 06 2014
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 6442 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mathman0806 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 03:33
^I would have considered Psychedelic Warlords but saw Hawkwind listed twice, so passed.

Edited by mathman0806 - July 15 2022 at 03:52
Back to Top
suitkees View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2020
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 9050 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 03:18
^ Thumbs Up

My points for I prophesy disaster's very energetic and wonderful selection (and, other than Hawkwind's position, the ranking is rather arbitrary...):
(hesitated briefly myself to include a Hawkwind track; it would probably have been from the Hall of the Mountain Grill album, which is with Warrior my preferred Hawkwind album)

1. Hawkwind - Opa-Loka: 5 points
2. Argent - Hold Your Head Up: 3 points
3. Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain: 2 points
4. Residents - Edweena: 1 point

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Back to Top
mathman0806 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 06 2014
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 6442 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mathman0806 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 03:06
Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

@George: I guess you mean Colosseum II (and not "Colossus" - you have to teach your phone some prog language...); this one works for me.



Haha. Yes. And the one in your link works for me so I will update.


In turn, your Ange video doesn't play for me but this does.
Back to Top
mathman0806 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 06 2014
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 6442 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mathman0806 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 03:00
Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

@George: I guess you mean Colosseum II (and not "Colossus" - you have to teach your phone some prog language...); this one works for me.



Haha. Yes. And the one in your link works for me so I will update.
Back to Top
suitkees View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2020
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 9050 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 02:50
@Nick and Friede: Which four of your five suggestions are your candidates for this poll (for our points distribution...)?

@Nick: The vid for Dragon does not work for me (and maybe some others); this one does.
@Jean: same regarding Can's Splash, this one works.
@George: I guess you mean Colosseum II (and not "Colossus" - you have to teach your phone some prog language...); this one works for me.

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Back to Top
mathman0806 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 06 2014
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 6442 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mathman0806 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 20:47
A bit tricky as I post these from my phone. I might add some commentary later.

Be Bop Deluxe - No Trains to Heaven (1974)


FM - Black Noise (1978)


Colosseum II - The Scorch (1977)


Utopia - Overture: The Mountaintop and Sunrise / Communion with the Sun (1977)


I will need some time to rate the others. Some of these are not showing up for me by being in the U.S. Darn it YouTube.

Edited by mathman0806 - July 15 2022 at 19:22
Back to Top
jamesbaldwin View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 25 2015
Location: Milano
Status: Offline
Points: 5989 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 17:54
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Sorry, we misunderstood. We thought you meant "not from an album that is in the top 100".

Yes, no problem, we like to listen to music... and we would love to have you with us... if you want to partecipate, please select 4 songs from you list and listen to the other lists.
Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Back to Top
jamesbaldwin View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 25 2015
Location: Milano
Status: Offline
Points: 5989 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 17:44
Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

It's quite amazing to see some of those tremendous groups not represented with an album in PA's top 100 - it shows how relative this list is (and how very much Anglo-Saxon dominated). My choices (and the album's they're off) would be in my personal top 20, taking into account that there could be 38 albums in my top 20... was first thinking of Eloy, but the albums I prefer are from 1980-1982, so not eligible. I've always preferred the better Grobschnitt albums over anything Genesis and Ange is part of my personal Big Six... Anyway, these four pieces are for me those albums and bands that nourished my prog explorations in the early/mid eighties when I was discovering all these wonderful things. Regarding these four bands: it could have been another track from another album. In alphabetical order...

Alquin - Soft Royce (1972):

----------------

Ange - À Colin-Maillard (1978):
------------------


Grobschnitt - Severity Town (1977):
---------------------


Saga - Humble Stance (1978):
----------------------------



1) Alquin: Soft Royce. Long instrumental prelude with the sax, a soulful mood, then a piece of samba (oh my God! Stroke of genius or excess?); the vocals arrives after 3 and a half minutes but does not last long, and immediately comes a long final coda with the sax, in a pop-jazz style. In fact a very eclectic song in terms of atmosphere and tempo changes.

2) Ange: A Colin-Maillard: Dreamy atmosphere, languid singing in French, then towards the middle the rhythm accelerates, the vocals become aggressive, the song comes to life, then comes the electric guitar solo, finally the singing returns, all takes place on a carpet of keyboards, and the electric guitar returns again and then the vocals, the final structure is rather narrative, based on the lyrics.

3) Grobschnitt: Severity Town. This group is the only one of which I had heard some songs, the only one I know (little) of this selection. So, after a Dutch group, and a French one, here is a German group. Very fabulous music, with initial music box, with a percussive carpet of jazz drums. This is definitely a mini-suite in fact towards the middle there is a change of pace, now the music becomes Teutonic, adding street noises. The underlying influences to this group are really many (from space rock to Gentle Giant style math rock). The music becomes rockblues, the vocals become aggressive, the changes of tempo and atmosphere follow each other without respite, we breath prog to the nth degree. Acted fabulous ending, almost a la Donovan. A lot of good meat on the fire, perhaps too much.

4) Saga: Humble Stance. From Canada with fury. I've never heard them. We are in the new wave era, you can hear it from the rhythm and the production. This music seems more German than the previous one! Very marching style, carpet of keyboards or synths, quite commercial sound (in itself it is not a defect or a merit), in fact we are in the prog crossover, then a rather powerful guitar solo.

Not easy to sequence these songs, I would say that the first two are very close to each other, the third is the most elaborate in the prog sense, the most ambitious, the last is the least prog, easier to listen to but also powerful. I'm sure I like Ange's song a little bit more than Alquin's, the problem is where to put Grobschnitt's: first or third?
I put it first, long live to the prog!

1) Grobschnitt - 5 points
2) Ange - 3 points
3) Alquin - 2 points
4) Saga - 1 point.


Edited by jamesbaldwin - July 14 2022 at 17:49
Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Back to Top
BaldFriede View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 02 2005
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 10261 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldFriede Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 17:25
Sorry, we misunderstood. We thought you meant "not from an album that is in the top 100".


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
Back to Top
jamesbaldwin View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 25 2015
Location: Milano
Status: Offline
Points: 5989 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jamesbaldwin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 17:01
@BaldFriede, 

I'm happy to see you here, but these Interactive Polls are not the usual polls, there are some specific rules

(please read my first comment).

In this case, you should select just 4 songs, and not from the bands included in the Top100

(no Magma, no Gong, the other songs are ok).
Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
Back to Top
BaldJean View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: May 28 2005
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 10387 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldJean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 16:12
I'll add a few too:

Can - Splash (1974)


Dzyan - For Earthly Thinking (1974)



Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra (1972)


Clearlight - Spiral d'amour (1978)



Edited by BaldJean - July 14 2022 at 17:30


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
Back to Top
BaldFriede View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 02 2005
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 10261 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldFriede Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2022 at 15:46
Guru Guru - Der Elektrolurch (1973)


High Tide - The Joke (1970)



Embryo - Radio Marrakesch/Orient Express (1973)


Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Glissando (1976)



Hawkwind - Assault and Battery/The Golden Void (1975)









Edited by BaldFriede - July 14 2022 at 17:27


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 78910>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.119 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.