25 "C" List Acts

Cardiacs
CAN
Leonard Cohen

Cellar Darling
Crash Test Dummies

Clearlight

Cardiacs here. No doubt.

Logan wrote: Jared wrote: Logan wrote: Not to be confused with the Dear Hunter in PA, mind you. woops...  I think I'm a lost case for you, Greg... I've been playing a lot of Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Focus, Nektar, Steve Hackett & Mahavishnu over the past month... any of those your bag? I love Tangerine Dream, am very into plenty of Vangelis, and Focus is one of my favourites. I also like Nektar. As for Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'm not nearly as into them as I was when I joined thiss site.

Jared wrote: 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. Greg, when I post comments like the one above, it is partly because I know how much work you put into creating your threads in an effort to keep the forum alive, along with frustration on my part that I can't contribute more to your polls. It is evident however that other than many of the aforementioned Prog mainstays, our tastes diverse significantly, to the degree that I think you actually have more in common musically with my Bro-In-Law and Sister than you do with me! Atomic Rooster: I'm with Rich here, of course I am familiar with them, but whereas I love ELP, AR have never really grabbed me in the same way. Too many line-up changes to create a coherent body of work? Either way, I don't mind them, but don't feel the need to have any in my collection. Black Sabbath: Along with Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Led Zep, I haven't listened to them in over 30 years now and doubt I will much again, although they provided part of the soundtrack to my life aged 15-20? Kate Bush & David Bowie: Am very aware of both and am also aware of the affection held for them within the Prog community. Whilst I am personally quite accepting of this, I have never held a torch for either (or Roxy Music for that matter) and indeed in Kate's case I am slightly bemused by the extent to which she has become a mainstream poster girl for the Prog community, in a similar way to Kylie Minogue and the Gay community... but I'm fine with it. Banco: Yes, this is where I fall down and must rectify.. I have simply not heard enough Banco, PFM or Italian Prog in general, to comment either way and do intend to put this right in due course.  Cream: Of course, but I tend to put them in that peripheral 'Sixties' Proto-Prog/ Crossover bracket, along with bands like Procol Harum, which I kind of enjoy in small doses, but haven't got in my collection. Cure, The: Yes, if it's anything Alt-Punk 80's/ New Wave, then you really need to be talking to Adriel, not me... 35 years ago, she had 'The Cure' and 'Siouxsie' screeching out from under her bedroom door, while I was playing Selling England...

Such a detailed response is very much appreciated. I sometimes feel like making polls is my penance. It is in part hoping to make the forum more lively but also because I am deeply passionate about music and like to share that which is so important to me. It is part of my identity and for how they have affected me, I hope to "pay back" those acts with positive recognition.

Cream is something I was very into as a teenager, but am not that into now. The Goth music is something I am much more into now than I was 30 or 40 or even 10 years ago. I have enjoyed The Cure's Disintegration since it came out. I prefer Siouxie and The Banshees overall but only got into that in the past few years. There are a lot of new to me related ones that I got into recently like Controlled Bleeding (that is industrial/ darkwave/ dark ambient music).

As for Atomic Rooster, to be honest I'm not that big on them either and could have gone with many I prefer, but I like to have some bigger names. And I go with what comes to mind often instead of putting lot of thought into these. Helped that I made other lists recently covering six tracks from each year for 1960 to now while not repeating any acts. That was ambitious and I still missed representing many of my favourite acts because some years (and decades) have much more music I know and love than others.

Anyway, I love the title track "Death Walks Behind You" and that's been the only AR album that I have cared about.

While often it is the newer-to-me that excites me (not what I liked in my youth or in my 20s or 30s even), ones I have known since I was a tween or child like Kate Bush and David Bowie I appreciate now more than ever. It was hearing an extended "The Ninth Wave" that got me very back into Bush, I now appreciate The Dreaming which I did not much say in the 90s when I was very into her, and Bowie's Blackstar album is to me incredible. Probably that and Hunky Dory are the ones I have played the most in recent years. I don't associate Kate Bush with Prog much at all, by the way, and I am interested that so many do. Like Bowie, to me she's an art pop artist primarily. That said, I love a lot of art pop and a lot of it has some kind of Prog Relation to me (relates to art rock and art music generally relates to Prog for me).

By the way, no, lol, no Dream Theater for D. While I often do like to make topics which might be likely to get positive responses from more general audiences (and those who would not normally post in my polls), and not require people just to go "other" (some do no matter how hard I try to appeal to them) as I want to reach out to everyone sometimes. I would rather these polls focus on music that is special to me (and maybe throw some popular bones that aren't that important to me any longer so it might have some broader appeal).

Anyway, not to worry not knowing most and not liking most of what you know. I do hope to expose some people to some names that they might want to check out. And it can be good for PA just having search engines pick up on this stuff. It would work better if I post the lists rather than having them in the poll potentially for those bots to index and then some might be searching the web and discover PA through a mention. Paul puts huge effort into what he does here and that gets a lot of response (those are more significant to PA than my list-making generally).

Edited by Logan - August 18 2024 at 14:57

Thanks Paul and all. Quite afew I like there but the one that most easily might well have been seen in this poll had I thought of it at the time is Carol of Harvest.

Jared wrote: Logan wrote: 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 Deerhunter would get a vote here; I found out my youngest sister Esther who lives in NZ is into them actually, which surprised me pleasantly! I don't own any Miles Davis, but I've heard enough to suggest he might get a second vote.  I don't like anything like Depeche Mode at all, and I'm not particularly fond of Nick Drake either, tbh.. are you going to include Dream Theater?

Not to be confused with the Dear Hunter in PA, mind you. I was not into Depeche Mode in the 80s, but recently I have started to appreciate music by the band -- the albums Violator (1990), Music for the Masses (1987) and Black Celebration (1986) in particular. I like a lot of atmospheric, dark and moody music and music related to Darkwave (which is dark, introspective music related to Gothic Rock). Nick Drake is such a tragic story. I find the music so deeply poignant. It deeply touches me and did even before I knew his tragic story. Often I feel like matters of like are so superficial and one can appreciate things on different levels. A kind of empathetic response often, but empathy works differently in different people and different things resonate with different people. What we appreciate says a lot about our more general personalities, associations, and dispositions, but I ramble.

Edited by Logan - August 18 2024 at 14:56

richardh wrote: Cream and Cardiacs. I am also surprised Cream are not on the site. They were the first so called 'power trio' and lead the groundwork for ELP, Rush etc.

Not to mention helping to pave the way towards hard rock & metal.

I have just discovered Clearlight and have been very impressed with what I have heard, so they got a vote. The only other one I gave was for Comus, long a favorite of mine.

Logan wrote: 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