25 "C" List Acts
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Topic: 25 "C" List Acts
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 25 "C" List Acts
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 09:51
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A sailor went to C, C, C to C what he could C, C, C, and all that he could C, C, C was the bottom of the deep blue C, C, C. These are 25 of my favourite C's, if you don't C anything you think worth mentioning, feel free to mention others, and feel free to mention others even if you do C things you like. I like to C what people like on the list, don't like, and what others they like. Please vote for three acts (or more, or less), but only one vote per act please, and please feel as comfortable as possible voting even if you have very limited knowledge or if you know and like a lot here (as that can make it harder and less desirable when faced with many choices one likes. So easy if, say, one stands outs or a few with multiple choice polls like this). Cages, Change, The Comsat Angels (which I was recently introduced to), Candy Claws, Cornelius are some others I would have liked to list. While not all in the list are Prog or in PA, it is of sufficient number and seems better suited to Prog polls on the whole to me. Boundaries between Prog and non-Prog can be very fuzzy (there has to me a middle ground and overlap) but I don't consider all of these Prog or even Prog related/ Prog adjacent. Speaking of Prog related and fuzzy boundaries, I'm overdue in adding The Flaming Lips to PR to which I have gotten some flames for... Plan to do that today. There's a case of one that to me clearly has enough relations to be included and others feel otherwise. Ah well, while especially one reaction made me wary, I don't expect any flame wars over it. :) Here are the past polls: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133348" rel="nofollow - 25 "B" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133346" rel="nofollow - 25 "A" List Acts ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 10:34
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1. Cream 2. Clearlight 3. Comus
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 10:58
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 11:15
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Cortex! + Clearlight Cluster Cream Can ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 11:16
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Can, Cos and Cream were my picks. I'm still surprised Cream isn't on the site under prog-related. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 11:36
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The Cure Cream The Chameleons
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 12:09
There is a really strong case for Cream in PA, especially with related acts having been included here (Jack Bruce is in JRF, we have Baker Gurvitz Army in Heavy Prog and various other acts with Cream personnel participation). I long ago argued for Cream in Proto-Prog but some have seen it as little more than a bluesy jam band. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Mellotron Storm wrote:Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 13:26
| Cream, Can, Czukay. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 17:48
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I know only ten from the list. CAN (early) The Cure Comus ------------- 
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 16 2024 at 23:58
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Can Cocteau Twins Cardiacs
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 00:47
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My favourite C's would be: Camel, Caravan, Curved Air, Colosseum, (very early) Chicago, Cyan, Cairo, Circus Maximus, Collage, Clepsydra, & Citizen Cain... I have a feeling that Greg will go from A to Z in this series, listing bands I don't know... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 01:50
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Curved Air, Camel, Caravan, Chicago, The Carpenters - my favourite 'C' acts ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 07:48
Oh, I expect that you wouldn't know the majority but I would expect my polls to have many familiar names, and at least one name that I would rather expect most seasoned music lovers at this forum to know quite well. I might have expected you to be familiar with Atomic Rooster from A, I know you know Black Sabbath from B, and probably know Bowie, and you might not know it, but Banco del Mutuo Soccorso is popular. And from here I would expect Cream to be really well known to those into classic rock (and was it your sister who like The Cure?). I would be interested to know which polls contain all artists you and others have heard nothing from. Started on my D list before and I doubt any of these would be up you alley: Daughters Richard Dawson Dedalus Deerhunter Depeche Mode Dionne - Brégent Miles Davis Dead Can Dance Dom Nick Drake William D. Drake Pascal Duffard Dün Dungen La Düsseldorf Duster Dzyan I genuinely would be more interested seeing other people's top 25's than my own. I have done A to Z lists before, but the ones that excite me most from my lists are ones that I fairly recently really got into (and I would expect most of those to be pretty obscure here). Anyway, I really am happy to hear about any not in the list, and if none are known or liked from the poll so people just lst their own likes, that's good with me. You might turn someone onto music with similar tastes that they have not heard before. From your list, I do like Camel, Caravan, Curved Air, Colosseum and the first Chicago album (Chicago Transit Authority). I was very into Caravan and Camel especially at one time. While many of the same names one likely recognise just from viewing my polls over time, I always have fresher discovered that excite me. I probably just focus on those in one topic. I wish we had more listening room type topics. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 09:01
| I'll take The Church with some Cream, and a bit of Trane. Some Cs that I'm missing: Crucis, Camel, Caravan, Curved Air. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 09:47
Greg, when I post comments like the one above, it is partly because I know how much work you put into creating your threads in an effort to keep the forum alive, along with frustration on my part that I can't contribute more to your polls. It is evident however that other than many of the aforementioned Prog mainstays, our tastes diverse significantly, to the degree that I think you actually have more in common musically with my Bro-In-Law and Sister than you do with me! Atomic Rooster: I'm with Rich here, of course I am familiar with them, but whereas I love ELP, AR have never really grabbed me in the same way. Too many line-up changes to create a coherent body of work? Either way, I don't mind them, but don't feel the need to have any in my collection. Black Sabbath: Along with Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Led Zep, I haven't listened to them in over 30 years now and doubt I will much again, although they provided part of the soundtrack to my life aged 15-20? Kate Bush & David Bowie: Am very aware of both and am also aware of the affection held for them within the Prog community. Whilst I am personally quite accepting of this, I have never held a torch for either (or Roxy Music for that matter) and indeed in Kate's case I am slightly bemused by the extent to which she has become a mainstream poster girl for the Prog community, in a similar way to Kylie Minogue and the Gay community... but I'm fine with it. Banco: Yes, this is where I fall down and must rectify.. I have simply not heard enough Banco, PFM or Italian Prog in general, to comment either way and do intend to put this right in due course. Cream: Of course, but I tend to put them in that peripheral 'Sixties' Proto-Prog/ Crossover bracket, along with bands like Procol Harum, which I kind of enjoy in small doses, but haven't got in my collection. Cure, The: Yes, if it's anything Alt-Punk 80's/ New Wave, then you really need to be talking to Adriel, not me... 35 years ago, she had 'The Cure' and 'Siouxsie' screeching out from under her bedroom door, while I was playing Selling England... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 10:08
Deerhunter would get a vote here; I found out my youngest sister Esther who lives in NZ is into them actually, which surprised me pleasantly! I don't own any Miles Davis, but I've heard enough to suggest he might get a second vote. I don't like anything like Depeche Mode at all, and I'm not particularly fond of Nick Drake either, tbh.. are you going to include Dream Theater?  ------------- 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 |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 12:04
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Camberwell Now, Can, Cardiacs. My tone toes are breezy; my cassette cubes are cantankerous. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 17 2024 at 23:50
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I have just discovered Clearlight and have been very impressed with what I have heard, so they got a vote. The only other one I gave was for Comus, long a favorite of mine. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 00:09
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Cream and Cardiacs. I am also surprised Cream are not on the site. They were the first so called 'power trio' and lead the groundwork for ELP, Rush etc.
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 01:13
Not to mention helping to pave the way towards hard rock & metal. ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 02:39
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Camel Canterbury Glass Capability Brown Captain Beyond Captain Marryat Caravan Carol of Harvest Castanarc Catapilla Chicago Ciccada Circus (UK) Citizen Cain Clannad Clepsydra Collage Colosseum Comedy of Errors Continuum The Cosmic Jokers Credo Cressida Curved Air Cyan Czar
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 13:14
Thanks Paul and all. Quite afew I like there but the one that most easily might well have been seen in this poll had I thought of it at the time is Carol of Harvest.
Not to be confused with the Dear Hunter in PA, mind you. I was not into Depeche Mode in the 80s, but recently I have started to appreciate music by the band -- the albums Violator (1990), Music for the Masses (1987) and Black Celebration (1986) in particular. I like a lot of atmospheric, dark and moody music and music related to Darkwave (which is dark, introspective music related to Gothic Rock). Nick Drake is such a tragic story. I find the music so deeply poignant. It deeply touches me and did even before I knew his tragic story. Often I feel like matters of like are so superficial and one can appreciate things on different levels. A kind of empathetic response often, but empathy works differently in different people and different things resonate with different people. What we appreciate says a lot about our more general personalities, associations, and dispositions, but I ramble. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 13:35
woops...  I think I'm a lost case for you, Greg... I've been playing a lot of Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Focus, Nektar, Steve Hackett & Mahavishnu over the past month... any of those your bag? ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 13:54
Such a detailed response is very much appreciated.  I sometimes feel like making polls is my penance. It is in part hoping to make the forum more lively but also because I am deeply passionate about music and like to share that which is so important to me. It is part of my identity and for how they have affected me, I hope to "pay back" those acts with positive recognition.Cream is something I was very into as a teenager, but am not that into now. The Goth music is something I am much more into now than I was 30 or 40 or even 10 years ago. I have enjoyed The Cure's Disintegration since it came out. I prefer Siouxie and The Banshees overall but only got into that in the past few years. There are a lot of new to me related ones that I got into recently like Controlled Bleeding (that is industrial/ darkwave/ dark ambient music). As for Atomic Rooster, to be honest I'm not that big on them either and could have gone with many I prefer, but I like to have some bigger names. And I go with what comes to mind often instead of putting lot of thought into these. Helped that I made other lists recently covering six tracks from each year for 1960 to now while not repeating any acts. That was ambitious and I still missed representing many of my favourite acts because some years (and decades) have much more music I know and love than others. Anyway, I love the title track "Death Walks Behind You" and that's been the only AR album that I have cared about. While often it is the newer-to-me that excites me (not what I liked in my youth or in my 20s or 30s even), ones I have known since I was a tween or child like Kate Bush and David Bowie I appreciate now more than ever. It was hearing an extended "The Ninth Wave" that got me very back into Bush, I now appreciate The Dreaming which I did not much say in the 90s when I was very into her, and Bowie's Blackstar album is to me incredible. Probably that and Hunky Dory are the ones I have played the most in recent years. I don't associate Kate Bush with Prog much at all, by the way, and I am interested that so many do. Like Bowie, to me she's an art pop artist primarily. That said, I love a lot of art pop and a lot of it has some kind of Prog Relation to me (relates to art rock and art music generally relates to Prog for me). By the way, no, lol, no Dream Theater for D. While I often do like to make topics which might be likely to get positive responses from more general audiences (and those who would not normally post in my polls), and not require people just to go "other" (some do no matter how hard I try to appeal to them) as I want to reach out to everyone sometimes. I would rather these polls focus on music that is special to me (and maybe throw some popular bones that aren't that important to me any longer so it might have some broader appeal). Anyway, not to worry not knowing most and not liking most of what you know. I do hope to expose some people to some names that they might want to check out. And it can be good for PA just having search engines pick up on this stuff. It would work better if I post the lists rather than having them in the poll potentially for those bots to index and then some might be searching the web and discover PA through a mention. Paul puts huge effort into what he does here and that gets a lot of response (those are more significant to PA than my list-making generally). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 13:58
I love Tangerine Dream, am very into plenty of Vangelis, and Focus is one of my favourites. I also like Nektar. As for Mahavishnu Orchestra, I'm not nearly as into them as I was when I joined this site. Unusually, Visions of the Emerald Beyond is my favourite MO album. Steve Hackett I have not really explored for some reason. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 18 2024 at 14:10
I agree with you on all of those preferences, and when it comes to Hindu deities, I prefer Shiva's Quintessence to the MahaVishnu Orchestra.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 21 2024 at 22:25
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Also very difficult. Well, not my two first. That was relatively simple: Can & John Coltrane But I'd like to give all of these four my third vote: Leonard Cohen, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Cos + Comus deserves a mention even if they only have an album and a EP that counts (for me) |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: August 22 2024 at 09:14
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Cardiacs here. No doubt. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 25 2024 at 10:28
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This is so cruel, by a country mile harder than the others as far as I've seen. I was tempted to say three bands in already all three votes are gone, but again to avoid those I have voted for so often already I'll give votes to Holger Czukay (rare poll appearance although for me of course a usual suspect), Cisnienie, and Coil. Ah, three first votes this time!
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 25 2024 at 14:47
| Clearlight |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: August 30 2024 at 20:12
| Voted for Can, Cream and The Cure. If there were a band called Corn (not Korn) then I could have had a Can of Cream(ed) Corn. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 15 2024 at 10:33
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Cellar Darling Crash Test Dummies ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 17 2024 at 02:49
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Can, Leonard Cohen and The Cure.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 26 2024 at 06:54
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Cardiacs CAN Leonard Cohen ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: September 26 2024 at 07:28
| Current 93 and Cardiacs |