50 Years Ago! (Part 2 - 1975) - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Too much great stuff here. No vote

I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

Pink Floyd > Mike Oldfield > Renaissance > Gentle Giant

Floyd > GG >= VdGG >= TD > Renaissance > Oldfield

The great ones are here.

VDGG over Magma and Gilgamesh. These three standout above the rest.

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

I guess relatively few of us have heard either?

I mean, I know 6 of those albums like the back of my hand (I'm sure you can guess which 6) and 4 of them, I've never actually heard?

Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Jared wrote:

I guess relatively few of us have heard either?

I mean, I know 6 of those albums like the back of my hand (I'm sure you can guess which 6) and 4 of them, I've never actually heard?

The same for me with most likely the same four albums I've never actually heard. Smile

well, both Gilgamesh and Wigwam are JR/F, which I can only do in small doses and only then with the emphasis on the R rather than the J. I have tried Gilgamesh but decided it wasn't for me...

Magma is a world I simply don't understand at all.. the Utopia album I've probably heard stuff from actually; their first two were pretty good, but have never owned any..

Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson

Wow...a lot of great stuff came out in the second half of 75.

Of all on the list, I listen to Free Hand more than the others.

Gentle Giant: Free Hand

Rick1 wrote:

Dear Reader, part 2 of the 1975 poll (from July onwards). I know many will cry that their favourites are missed out but I expect the Floyd to dominate anyway. Incidentally, that summer I saw my first proper bands at an outdoors gig. One of them was definitely prog and I recall seeing a Mellotron on stage. Their name was Limelight and a few years later they had 'reinvented' themselves as a NWOBHM outfit!

Ha! i saw Limelight supporting Saxon around 1979/80.. sort of an odd 3 three piece, trying to be NWOBHM but not really doing it LOL

Of these albums, there is not one i dont like but i must say of all the Todd/Utopia albums, Another Live, is not one i listen to much..

I'm going to give Wigwam's Nuclear nightclub its first vote 'cos although its not the 'best' lp out of the bunch, its an album i'm particularly fond of Smile

Mellotron Storm wrote:

Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

Rick1 wrote:

Dear Reader, part 2 of the 1975 poll (from July onwards). I know many will cry that their favourites are missed out but I expect the Floyd to dominate anyway. Incidentally, that summer I saw my first proper bands at an outdoors gig. One of them was definitely prog and I recall seeing a Mellotron on stage. Their name was Limelight and a few years later they had 'reinvented' themselves as a NWOBHM outfit!

Ha! i saw Limelight supporting Saxon around 1979/80.. sort of an odd 3 three piece, trying to be NWOBHM but not really doing it LOL

Of these albums, there is not one i dont like but i must say of all the Todd/Utopia albums, Another Live, is not one i listen to much..

I'm going to give Wigwam's Nuclear nightclub its first vote 'cos although its not the 'best' lp out of the bunch, its an album i'm particularly fond of Smile

I actually have their self titled debut. Very much in that Iron Maiden style, just not an album I want to return to. I thought they were Rush fans to be honest by their name. But I don't hear that influence although I only got part way through it.

Thats what i thought (that they were Rush fans) and i also (very briefly) had their debut album... trying to rember what label it was on; the cover just had the band name on a plain (possibly black?) background. Like quite a bit of UK 'small town' NWOBHM, there was some fine talent stifled by 'back-room bucket' production.. thank goodness for Tommy Vance's Friday night rock show which gave some these bands a chance to do sessions in the BBC studios so they could show what they could do.

Also worked backstage with Iron maiden (first lp and Killers era), Sampson, Praying Mantis and Tygers of Pan Tang during 1980/81 ha! they were the days LOL

Sorry for going off topic Wink

Poll Question: Some albums are turning 50 shortly - fave?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Gentle Giant - Free Hand	5	[9.62%]
Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh	3	[5.77%]
Magma - Live/Hhai	2	[3.85%]
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn	5	[9.62%]
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here	20	[38.46%]
Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories	2	[3.85%]
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet	5	[9.62%]
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Another Live	0	[0.00%]
VDGG - Godbluff	9	[17.31%]
Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub	1	[1.92%]
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