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    Posted: December 02 2012 at 18:59
The top four are dark and heavy albums, while the next four are psychedelic gems with Popol Vuh closing out he list.
Pick one if you recommend it.
As much as i like all of these i'm leaning towards one of the bottom four.
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Though i haven't heard anything but Without Introduction - it's such a great record and i prefer it to any ELP record. As you said, i recommend it.
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Though i haven't heard anything but Without Introduction - it's such a great record and i prefer it to any ELP record. As you said, i recommend it.
Man i love that album and it's the only one on the list i gave 5 stars to. Very cool cover art too. A rare seventies prog band from the USA who hit one out of the park.
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Indeed! The artwork is gorgeous. 
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SHUB!!!
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I also have only heard the Polyphony.  And I agree its in general more enjoyable than most ELP.
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Gotta be the Shub.
 
Quite like Sotos as well, but...its no contest for me.
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Sotos without much contest, followed somewhat distantly by Popol Vuh.
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I'm going with the PLJ band.  Pretty wild stuff.  Dark, echoed acoustic/electric psych.  The songs are strange too.  Not outwardly strange, but we've-never-made-an-album-and-we're-not-sure-how-to-do-it-but-let's-just-see-what-happens strange.

Haven't been able to get my hands on that Yeti album, though I'm a huge fan of their first one, and was just revisiting it recently.  It sounds even better now than it did when I first heard it.  I might have been one of the first people to publish a review of their work, as I was blown away by a demo (consisting of 2 songs that later ended up re-recorded for their debut album) I was asked to review, and I think it even made my top 10 that year.


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haven't heard any of these

going right now to check out Polyphony  :)
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

SHUB!!!

You and Man With Hat made an excellent choice. I gave this 4.5 stars and i remember how impressed i was when i got this. No it's not their masterpiece but man it's close. This is my fav of the top four on the list.
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The French Floydians....also because Shub-Niggurath can win even without my vote.
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

I also have only heard the Polyphony.  And I agree its in general more enjoyable than most ELP.

Interesting story about the cool looking album cover for that one. There was this lady who worked at Sun Records who was responsible for the art work. She would listen to the master tape of the band and meditate while the music was playing waiting for a vision of what the cover art should be to appear in her mind.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Sotos without much contest, followed somewhat distantly by Popol Vuh.

Another one that i gave 4.5 stars to. Dark with cello and violin, this is an amazing ride and i do prefer it to ZAAR that rose out of the ashes of this French band.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I'm going with the PLJ band.  Pretty wild stuff.  Dark, echoed acoustic/electric psych.  The songs are strange too.  Not outwardly strange, but we've-never-made-an-album-and-we're-not-sure-how-to-do-it-but-let's-just-see-what-happens strange.

Haven't been able to get my hands on that Yeti album, though I'm a huge fan of their first one, and was just revisiting it recently.  It sounds even better now than it did when I first heard it.  I might have been one of the first people to publish a review of their work, as I was blown away by a demo (consisting of 2 songs that later ended up re-recorded for their debut album) I was asked to review, and I think it even made my top 10 that year.
That PLJ Band is from Greece and from the cover art to the music it's one unique adventure. I'm not sure what the right word is to decribe the mood here but the government of greece wasn't impressed as the banned this record and had all copies destroyed. The cd versions were taken right from an LP as the result. They use a lot of apocalyptic language from the Bible. The song "I See People" is almost hair raising as it we can hear crowd noise as the prophet preaches on the street. Wild and ominous stuff. Almost a serious version of Aphrodites Child's 666.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I'm going with the PLJ band.  Pretty wild stuff.  Dark, echoed acoustic/electric psych.  The songs are strange too.  Not outwardly strange, but we've-never-made-an-album-and-we're-not-sure-how-to-do-it-but-let's-just-see-what-happens strange.

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Oh and Steve that's a cool story about the YETI debut which i've never heard. Hard to believe these guys are from Texas and probably own guns.LOL
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Originally posted by digdug digdug wrote:

haven't heard any of these

going right now to check out Polyphony  :)
 
Thankfully this one was re-issued a couple of years ago because it was as rare as hen's teeth before that.Big smile
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

The French Floydians....also because Shub-Niggurath can win even without my vote.

Man i do love me some Pulsar, i really enjoyed this cd and it's stuffed with mellotron, and who doesn't love stuffing.
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I only have one Pulsar album, and that's "Halloween", and it's been so long since I played it, I barely remember what it sounds like.  Think I'll pull it out to listen to today.  Working from home today so it's nice and easy.
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PLJ all the way!! I really like that album, quite an obscure jam that would appeal to a lot of people around here. I really haven't heard it in a long time, I'm gonna play it tomorrow....I hope.

Also I'm surprised to see Polyphony doing so well. I personally am not too impressed by the album, it has some really good psyched stuff but some mediocare and amateurish stuff too. I think their drummer didn't fit the music so well which kinda made the overall playing a little sloppy. I think a harder edged drummer would make a huge difference, but don't get me wrong I do like it and play it some times.

Sotos and Shub are definitely Cool
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