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Poll Question: Plese choose up to five (or more) from the poll.
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [3.23%]
6 [6.45%]
4 [4.30%]
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9 [9.68%]
5 [5.38%]
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12 [12.90%]
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4 [4.30%]
3 [3.23%]
2 [2.15%]
5 [5.38%]
8 [8.60%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [3.23%]
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2 [2.15%]
10 [10.75%]
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    Posted: November 15 2024 at 11:07
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So many good albums here Thumbs Up I think my top picks would be:

Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Stormy Six - L'apprendista
Picchio dal Pozzo - s/t
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra

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Choosing just 3, but I could have voted at least 10:

Area
Battiato
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Le Orme, PFM, Ys and Banco. Don't know much else on the list. I've streamed the Museo Rosenbach album and am aware of its exhalted reputation but wasn't feeling it. Don't know much anything else on the list but then the list of what I don't know could stretch round the planet several times..
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PFM, Le Orme, Banco.
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This list is very enjoyable.

Logan makes in evidence many obscured Italian albums.

My choices are not easy because

I love:

- Area Arbeit Macht Frei and
- Stormy Six: Macchina maccheronica
- Perigeo: Azimut

Logan prefers other albums by these bands, but they are wonderful in different ways, so
I voted for
Area, Stormy Six and Perigeo.



Edited by jamesbaldwin - November 08 2024 at 14:46
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt (1972)
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
Le Orme - Felona e Soron
Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo
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Love about 20 of these. My ten favorites in alphabetial order:

Area - Caution Radiation Area
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Dedalus - Dedalus
Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia di un minuto

Five more that might have been among the selected ten on another day:

Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Fabio Frizzi L'aldilà / The Beyond
Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Perigeo - Genealogia
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I picked five

Il Balletto Di Bronzo
Museo Rosenbach
Dedalus
Franco Battiato
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

While I had expected votes for Frizzi and Goblin from you, I had thought that you might also go with Automat. :)


I went back and forth with a few in the #4-5 slots. It's chock-full of killer sounds, but "Pulsar" is such a rip of Vangelis' "Pulsar," disco-style. It kind of bugs me, but it's listenable just because of those sounds! I'd definitely stick it in 6th place for the last two tracks (I like Side B better than Side A).
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

From the list:

Goblin – Profondo Rosso*
Fabio Frizzi – L'Aldilà
Il Balletto di Bronzo – Ys
PFM – Storia di un Minuto
Arti E Mestieri – Tilt


From Goblin, I enjoy Roller, Il Fantastico Viaggio and Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) more. But I love nearly everything by Goblin, so...


While I had expected votes for Frizzi and Goblin from you, I had thought that you might also go with Automat. :)
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From the list:

Goblin – Profondo Rosso*
Fabio Frizzi – L'Aldilà
Il Balletto di Bronzo – Ys
PFM – Storia di un Minuto
Arti E Mestieri – Tilt


From Goblin, I enjoy Roller, Il Fantastico Viaggio and Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) more. But I love nearly everything by Goblin, so...
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

From the list:

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (1973)
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona (1973)
Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (1973)
Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo (1972)

Otherwise:

Your favourite 12 Italian Prog albums? 



Ah yes, I remember that topic. There I went with:

Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Dedalus - Dedalus
Fabio Frizzi - L'aldila
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
Goblin - Profondo rosso
Sensation's Fix - Portable Madness
Perigeo - Genealogia
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Osanna - Palepoli

All still represented in this poll.

Edited by Logan - November 07 2024 at 15:43
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Not that it really feels right in a list of personal favourites where I would happily vote for all of them, but for five I will choose:

Alusa Fallax - Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
Franco Leprino - Integrati ... Disintegrati
Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo

Oh wait, that's six, I forgot to count the fingers on my right hand instead of the fingers on my left hand. ;)

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

My five favourite Italian albums are all by the same band.... [The Trip]. 


Good thing I didn't try counting the toes on my feet, then I might have really Tripped up. I enjoy The Trip as well, by the way.
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From the list:

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (1973)
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona (1973)
Semiramis - Dedicato a Frazz (1973)
Ys - Il Balletto di Bronzo (1972)
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Per Un Amico is imo the greatest Italian prog album of all time followed by Di Terra by Banco. Neither is on the list so I'll have to think about it. Maybe the first Banco or the first PFM. So many great ones! Le Orme are good too but I don't think they hold up as well as Banco and PFM. 


I know that for many people Per un amico is their favourite PFM. It was my first PFM and I was blown away by it. It is a fantastic album, but I, not that unusually, prefer Storia di un minuto to it, as well as, more unusually, L'isola di niente (I have really loved "Via Lumiere" of L'isola). Anyway, all three of those PFM albums are excellent. For one who is particulalry into Symphonic Prog I would expect Per un amico to be the favourite. I like the folky-ness of the debut and the jazzy-ness of L'isola...

As for BdMS, I love the first three albums: the self-titled, Darwin! and Io sono nato libero. I thought about going with Darwin!. I actually don't have the Banco ...di terra album.

Le Orme was the first Italian band I got into.   Collage, Uomo di pezza, Felona e Sorona and Contrappunti is, I think, a terrific run of albums.

Edited by Logan - November 07 2024 at 14:40
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Per Un Amico is imo the greatest Italian prog album of all time followed by Di Terra by Banco. Neither is on the list so I'll have to think about it. Maybe the first Banco or the first PFM. So many great ones! Le Orme are good too but I don't think they hold up as well as Banco and PFM. 
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Banco, Museo Rosenbach, Le Orme, Osanna, and Ys. I was interrupted by an hour of photosynthesis.
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