25 "C" List Acts

A sailor went to C, C, C to C what he could C, C, C, and all that he could C, C, C was the bottom of the deep blue C, C, C.

These are 25 of my favourite C's, if you don't C anything you think worth mentioning, feel free to mention others, and feel free to mention others even if you do C things you like. I like to C what people like on the list, don't like, and what others they like.

Please vote for three acts (or more, or less), but only one vote per act please, and please feel as comfortable as possible voting even if you have very limited knowledge or if you know and like a lot here (as that can make it harder and less desirable when faced with many choices one likes. So easy if, say, one stands outs or a few with multiple choice polls like this).

Cages, Change, The Comsat Angels (which I was recently introduced to), Candy Claws, Cornelius are some others I would have liked to list. While not all in the list are Prog or in PA, it is of sufficient number and seems better suited to Prog polls on the whole to me. Boundaries between Prog and non-Prog can be very fuzzy (there has to me a middle ground and overlap) but I don't consider all of these Prog or even Prog related/ Prog adjacent. Speaking of Prog related and fuzzy boundaries, I'm overdue in adding The Flaming Lips to PR to which I have gotten some flames for... Plan to do that today. There's a case of one that to me clearly has enough relations to be included and others feel otherwise. Ah well, while especially one reaction made me wary, I don't expect any flame wars over it. :)

Here are the past polls: 25 "B" List Acts & 25 "A" List Acts

Edited by Logan - August 16 2024 at 09:54

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Edited by Mormegil - August 16 2024 at 11:00

Can, Cos and Cream were my picks. I'm still surprised Cream isn't on the site under prog-related.

Mellotron Storm wrote: Can, Cos and Cream were my picks. I'm still surprised Cream isn't on the site under prog-related.

There is a really strong case for Cream in PA, especially with related acts having been included here (Jack Bruce is in JRF, we have Baker Gurvitz Army in Heavy Prog and various other acts with Cream personnel participation). I long ago argued for Cream in Proto-Prog but some have seen it as little more than a bluesy jam band.

My favourite C's would be:

Jared wrote: My favourite C's would be: Camel, Caravan, Curved Air, Colosseum, (very early) Chicago, Cyan, Cairo, Circus Maximus, Collage, Clepsydra, & Citizen Cain... I have a feeling that Greg will go from A to Z in this series, listing bands I don't know...

Oh, I expect that you wouldn't know the majority but I would expect my polls to have many familiar names, and at least one name that I would rather expect most seasoned music lovers at this forum to know quite well. I might have expected you to be familiar with Atomic Rooster from A, I know you know Black Sabbath from B, and probably know Bowie, and you might not know it, but Banco del Mutuo Soccorso is popular. And from here I would expect Cream to be really well known to those into classic rock (and was it your sister who like The Cure?). I would be interested to know which polls contain all artists you and others have heard nothing from.

Started on my D list before and I doubt any of these would be up you alley:

Daughters
Richard Dawson
Dedalus
Deerhunter
Depeche Mode
Dionne - Brégent
Miles Davis
Dead Can Dance
Dom
Nick Drake
William D. Drake
Pascal Duffard
Dün
Dungen
La Düsseldorf
Duster
Dzyan

I genuinely would be more interested seeing other people's top 25's than my own. I have done A to Z lists before, but the ones that excite me most from my lists are ones that I fairly recently really got into (and I would expect most of those to be pretty obscure here).

Anyway, I really am happy to hear about any not in the list, and if none are known or liked from the poll so people just lst their own likes, that's good with me. You might turn someone onto music with similar tastes that they have not heard before. From your list, I do like Camel, Caravan, Curved Air, Colosseum and the first Chicago album (Chicago Transit Authority). I was very into Caravan and Camel especially at one time.

While many of the same names one likely recognise just from viewing my polls over time, I always have fresher discovered that excite me. I probably just focus on those in one topic. I wish we had more listening room type topics.

Logan wrote: Jared wrote: My favourite C's would be: Camel, Caravan, Curved Air, Colosseum, (very early) Chicago, Cyan, Cairo, Circus Maximus, Collage, Clepsydra, & Citizen Cain... I have a feeling that Greg will go from A to Z in this series, listing bands I don't know...  Oh, I expect that you wouldn't know the majority but I would expect my polls to have many familiar names, and at least one name that I would rather expect most seasoned music lovers at this forum to know quite well. I might have expected you to be familiar with Atomic Rooster from A, I know you know Black Sabbath from B, and probably know Bowie, and you might not know it, but Banco del Mutuo Soccorso is popular. And from here I would expect Cream to be really well known to those into classic rock (and was it your sister who like The Cure?). I would be interested to know which polls contain all artists you and others have heard nothing from.

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Cream and Cardiacs.