#12 1965-2024: In PA, One track per five years

I hope to have this series go up to 13 for a baker's dozen, but for now wwe have dirty dozen.

This is the twelth poll that I have done covering albums included in the discographies of Prog Archives band/artist listings where I list one release per five year period (one for 1965 to 1969, one for 1975 to 1979 etc.). This is the first poll that includes 2024, and I wanted to include The Smile track on the day of the official album release. I also have done various polls with the same concept for releases not included in the Prog Archives database.

Multiple votes allowed, please vote for up to three (or more if such limitations are too restrictive for you). And please vote no more than once per album. Additionally, feel free to vote even if you have very limited knowledge. Comments on the selections are appreciated even if not on the positive side, and feel free to mention your own favourites off any of the albums. I hope some will come up with their own lists and polls. No doubt many here would come up with much more popular choices than I generally. Also, I don;t try to go for best from my collection or even necessarily favourite but I get a feel for these playlists as I'm making them, so I get a kind of vibe. These are pretty easy for me to put together especially because I did a series of topics asking for lists of tracks (no more than one per album) covering five years periods and I covered a lot of music I know and like in those that are both in PA and out of PA that are of particular interest to me at this stage in my life.

The Incredible String Band "A Very Cellular Song" (The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, 1968)
Serge Gainsbourg "Cargo culte" (Histoire de Melody Nelson, 1971)
Kraftwerk "Spacelab" (Die Mensch-Maschine, 1978)
Eskaton "Attente" (4 Visions, 1981)
After Dinner "Ka-No-Pu-Su-No-Ha-Ko" (Paradise of Replica, 1989)
Mercury Rev "Frittering" (Yerself Is Steam, 1991)
M. Gira "Blind" (Drainland, 1995)
Pram "Penny Arcade" (Dark Island, 2003)
Secret Chiefs 3 "Barakiel" (Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9, 2008)
Anna von Hauswolff "Sova" (Ceremony, 2012)
Kikagaku Moyo - "Orange Peel" (Masana Temples, 2018)
The Smile "Bending Hectic" (Wall of Eyes, 2024)

As always, I made a playlist. Check it out if you desire. And please even if one choose not to vote, if you like anything here, show some support. I feel like this is way for me to recognise and thank these artists, in a way. I probably should write reviews to support the artists, but it's not something I enjoy doing. These kinds of topics cause ripples too.... Mostly I like doing these to revisit and rekindle interests and increase my appreciation for albums/ music. I enjoy the variety of such curated playlists despite more often listening to full albums. It can give music a new context and lease on life even.



Hopefully a few people will enjoy various choices here. Please honk if you do. And feel free to mention others. You might prefer others choices off these albums... I will present all of the in PA songs choices for these polls so far later. Thanks, your support for any of this music means a lot to me. And if none of it seems to be for you, that's fine too.

verslibre wrote: Kraftwerk – "Spacelab" (favorite album!) After Dinner The Incredible String Band

Thanks; always pleased to see you posting. I really love that Kraftwerk album. As a side-note, I would have liked to do a lot more electronica for these but some of it is so just so long, and I have been favouring "songs" commonly on the shorter side -- not because I favour shorter songs, I love long instrumentals and long songs.

I'll go for three different things, all quite arbitrary understandably when I choose from a list of personal favourites.

I'll go:
- The Smile "Bending Hectic". In honour of its release today, and because this is from my fave album of 2024 so far.
- Anna von Hauswolff "Sova". Beautiful, moves and excites me.
- Serge Gainsbourg "Cargo culte". French spoken-word, groovy. Jean-Claude Vannier did the arrangement, was music director, and co-composer. "Cargo culte" is very my favourite L'enfant assassin des mouches.

And I cannot resist a fourth vote for "Blind" which helped lead to a huge infatuation with Swans (Michael Gira is the founder/ leader of Swans). I love the lyrics of this. Such a far cry from:

"Come to my mouth
Come to my lung
Fun fun fun!
Mau mau mau
f**k f**k f**k!
Your name is f**k!"

Kraftwerk by miles

Logan wrote: Thanks; always pleased to see you posting. I really love that Kraftwerk album. As a side-note, I would have liked to do a lot more electronica for these but some of it is so just so long, and I have been favouring "songs" commonly on the shorter side -- not because I favour shorter songs, I love long instrumentals and long songs.

Yeah, fom the '70s, shorter instrumentals are less common, but there are a few, like "Sun and Moon" from Hoenig's Departure from the Northern Wasteland and the title track of Froese's Stuntman. Peter Baumann's second solo LP Transharmonic Nights consists of shorter pieces, definitely a reaction to Kraftwerk and changes in the electronic musical landscape of the late '70s. Good stuff.

Logan wrote: "Come to my mouth Come to my lung Fun fun fun! Mau mau mau f**k f**k f**k! Your name is f**k!"

Sounds like something out of one of Kevin Smith's movies.

Kraftwerk - Spacelab