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The French Connection: 25 70's albums from 25 acts
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Poll Question: Plese choose up to five (or more) from the poll.
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [2.11%]
8 [8.42%]
1 [1.05%]
2 [2.11%]
4 [4.21%]
2 [2.11%]
14 [14.74%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [4.21%]
1 [1.05%]
4 [4.21%]
9 [9.47%]
1 [1.05%]
7 [7.37%]
1 [1.05%]
7 [7.37%]
7 [7.37%]
1 [1.05%]
1 [1.05%]
1 [1.05%]
4 [4.21%]
1 [1.05%]
8 [8.42%]
3 [3.16%]
2 [2.11%]
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Well, on 2nd thought, there certainly is something to it. And I think it's more than just nostalgia. I was born in 1996 and still I can see a certain strangely unique appeal to the 70s music that can't be found elsewhere.

Still, I'm not as blinded by it as most of the folk here and I can appreciate modern music equally as much. Peace.


I was born in the 70s, and really came to appreciate much of the music that is appreciated at PA in the 80s. Liking 70s music is not a nostalgia thing for me. if I were older, then it more likely would be. The vast majority of what I love from the 70s I had not heard before the 2000s.

I think there is something special and unique about the 70s, but I could say that of other decades too. I love and have lots of music I appreciate from all of the decades from the 60s up. I listen to more contemporary music mostly. And 80s and 90s does gets lots of playtime from me too. Some here are really dismissive of the 80s, but for me music like Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division and things in PA's RIO/Avant category like Art Zoyd, Camberwell Now, This Heat, Thinking Plague and Cardiacs I love.

The 70s is just one part of my diet.
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I've listened only a few from the list. Votes for

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I've got to listen to more French music. I know only those in both polls that already have very solid numbers of votes. I can only make the rich even richer.

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This is my favourite of the the two polls on the whole although obviously I like the music in both.


With most of what I listen to these years I tend to stream, although I knew all of this list before these streaming years. I am hoping to save enough money to get the newest auditory cortex implant (streams straight to your brain) that comes with built-in ad block.

Just mentioning the playlist again with one track per album just in case anyone wants to check out samples of any of the music.
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Yeah, some of the folk here who are simping for the 70's, speak of the 80's as if it was some embodiment of evil.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

I'm sometimes confused why a lot of you guys are such 70's fanboys and treat said decade as some holy worship-worthy magical fairy dust time period. For the record, Stonehenge (2010) is one of my favorite French prog albums ever.


It has probably something to do with age. A wee teenage laddie is probably more prone to influences taking root than a 65yo goat, such as Paul and I are nowadays. My early teens coincided with the heyday of prog, so I am in a position to muse on that period with nostalgic melancholy, vemod as one of my favourite bands from a later era would call it. And the days after, such as the 80's, feel like a great decline indeed. Not an embodiment of evil, and even then there have been released some good albums (I think 1981 was a pretty good year for prog).

Of my 10 favourite prog albums, 8 are from the 70's; the other two were released in 1997 and 2009.

The 2010's are my second favourite decade. Yet much post-70's prog still points back to the 1970's .

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Fair point. However, I still think the 80's don't deserve so much shіt. Yes, that was long after the "heyday" as you called it but in terms of recordiong technology, the early 80s frickin ruled. That brief period between 1980 and popularization of digital musical equipment touches my heart in a unique way.

My favorite early 80s albums include:

◦East - Játékok (1981)
◦Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980)
◦SBB - MzBT (1980-1981)
◦Synkopy & Oldřich Vesely - Křídlení (1983)
◦Eloy - Colours (1980)
◦VA - Kolęda Nocka (1981)
◦Step Ahead - (1982)

Edited by Hrychu - October 26 2024 at 03:44
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