25 Acts Album Duos From Prog Archives Chart

^ Sometimes it's nice to come up with an idea where the content is not generated based on my tastes, but the idea is based on my interests still. In this case, coming up with an idea and then using the charts to choose the albums in order of first-listed-in-chart album ranking. Lots I love in these trio, duo, solo albums in the chart polls, and I do like ones which might connect with a wider audience and that might get some people posting who would not normally comment in my polls due to lack of interest and knowledge of the content.

Änglagård

The Who over Kansas, Big Big Train, Mike Oldfield, Wobbler and David Bowie.

^ The chart's entries commonly enough would not be my top either, but I definitely have favourites between the top 250 chart albums used for both lists. With Magma (studio only), I would like to go with Kobaïa, 1001° centigrades, and Attahk as my three. That's part of the fun for me, comparing what would be our personal choices with what the charts list and then coming up with choices where even if it would not be our choices, it is one where we still appreciate the albums, and sharing something of our thought processes that led to decisions.

On a side-note: I tend to be more of an ideas driven person than results driven. It's more about best fit to our appreciation than ideal fit often. That's all part of the challenge and part of the fun, I think.

If I chose the trios rather than having decided on an approach to stick with before looking through the list then the list would largely be very different indeed, but I can still find many trios in that topic where I like all three albums very much even when not the ideal choices.

Edited by Logan - March 25 2025 at 10:25

^ I tend to favour making polls multiple choice, but I know that some prefer single choice. Some like the challenge.

Ultimately it doesn't matter much to me as I commonly don't pay much attention to poll results but instead I focus on the posts themselves and one can mention/ highlight as many albums/acts in a post as one wants. Still, if I have a bunch that are equal to me, I try to comes up with some process to choose one, and often that will be voting for an commenting on one of the underdogs to give it some more attention. Sometimes it's just the choice that I feel I would most like to listen to at the time.

I was going to go with Tangerine Dream, but then changed it on a whim to Bowie. Doesn't matter much to me as I got the chance to comment on both duos and many more.

I do like the those polls from others often enough where I have to choose between personal favourites even if ultimately my choice can feel all too arbitrary and random. I sometimes resort to ways to choose randomly between faves.

On another note: I got used to not making polls with certain popular choices multiple choice in my early years here because it all-too-often led to abuse.

Mr. Hackett.

Pain of Salvation

Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn, Tubular Bells

Voyage of the Acolyte, Spectral Mornings. Hard to let go Purple and Oldfield.