Interactive Tracks Poll: Goodbye 2023, Hello 2023!

Although I shared this when it was quite new in another poll, I will mention this again as one of my favourites of the year.

ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT "The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal" (off Darling the Dawn)



And here is another of my favoourites

Squid "The Blades" (off O Monolith)



Reminder to all who participated, I hope to have the poll up by this coming Monday, then when the poll is up, vote for and list in a post three choices that are NOT your own. For those with multiple mentions, please list a top two or more of your choices in order of preference. Note that if your choice is considerably longer than ten minutes (I would not care with 11 minutes or so), then I would rather not include it and ask for another track.

And it's lovely to welcome some people who have not been regulars to these into the fold. I hope all with selections for nomination do participate in the listening and voting process.. Italian member Lorenzo started these some years ago, and it took on real life as others starting following suit with more polls, and bringing in their own twists and flavours to the proceedings, and it became its own little community at Prog Archives with participants who made these topics and voted in other peoples topics.   It's a neat way to expose yourself to music you might not usually hear, and sometimes it may be too far out of your comfort zone, but I figure us progressive music fans commonly are kind of used to challenging ourselves and being exposed to a very wide variety of music. Oops, starting to sound kind of preachy.... Enjoy, or not.    Thanks to all who posted selections.

While I have a playlist now for all of the selections so far in the opening post, once our choices are finalised, I will make a new playlist, just of the nominees, and put those choices in the poll.

Edited by Logan - January 09 2024 at 17:25

^Just listened to this for the first and really liked it. Very Swans-like in that post-expansive sort of way.

I might post a couple more tracks for fun. My Amazon had been throwing in a number of art punk/post punk releases from 2023. Haven't listened to the complete albums, but I am enjoying.

I wonder if that style is just been rising or just that Amazon keyed in on some albums that I listened to.


Edited by mathman0806 - January 09 2024 at 21:06

Another song i listened to a lot 

^ Alan: Thanks, you're in poll position number one with Grace Potter, and we have D'V/M/J as an additional. I'll add the actual poll when all have been decided. I am thinking that I will place the first pick in the first section of the poll, and have second choices in the second half as a "bonus" (optional to listen and vote for the bonuses).

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^^ George: I like post-punk a lot and enjoyed all of those (music and the videos). Model/Actriz's "Crossing Guard" I especially am into and would go to my favourites of the year. Great stuff, thanks.

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^^^ Cristi: Lead Balloons is awesome! Love it. Definitely going on my personal playlist for the very best of the year.

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I have opted to choose two (I can't say for sure I wont change my mind).

May be a bit too on the known side with some here (as knownness can discourage votes), but I'm going with Squid "The Blades" as choice one, and Sufjan Stevens "sh*t Talk" as choice two.

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Here's a playlist for nominations which I will be updating as we go on, as well as updating the playlist with all choices in my opening post.



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And here's another choice form from a very big name from the 80s -- Music for the Masses (1987) and Violator from 1990 are the two from DM that I have heard the most -- Depeche Mode "Ghosts Again" off Momento Mori, which is an album, like every other one represented here by me with a track, on my Albums of the Year list.





Edited by Logan - January 10 2024 at 04:54

^ It's a very fine song, one of my favourite that I've heard from DM. I think it's a fine album.

"Before We Drown" is another particular favourite of mine from the album.

I'm looking at my AOTY list and I can't think of a single song I could take away from the album. I'll have to nominate something that isn't Prog so here's a song I heard a few times on the radio and a lot more in my head 😅

Edited by Meltdowner - January 10 2024 at 07:59

^ I forgot to add that information. I edited my previous post.

Meltdowner wrote: ^ I forgot to add that information. I edited my previous post.

  thanks!  

Logan wrote: [/QUO

  Logan, I amended my post above to nominate my two choices (I originally put in all three, then corrected to two).

Hrychu wrote: Snicolette wrote: Logan wrote: [/QUO VADIS?]