11 "Y" List Acts and 17 "Z" Grade Acts
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Topic: 11 "Y" List Acts and 17 "Z" Grade Acts
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 11 "Y" List Acts and 17 "Z" Grade Acts
Date Posted: September 19 2024 at 21:31
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To get the last of these out of the way... I hope no one kills me for leaving off Zopp from my poll which I know has many fans. I liked Zopp with the debut then later I didn't care for the debut or the latest. On second thought, I will include Zopp by doubling up with Zombi. Under Z I also doubled-up Zaal and Zaar. I doubled more to include more Ys. Such doubling is inelegant, but ultimately I'm like, "Y not Zee going for it?" You can vote for one of those acts in the poll option or both -- please specify in a post. My longer lists: Yatha Sidhra * Yellow Magic Orchestra * Yeti Yezda Urfa * Yo La Tengo * Yog Sothoth * Yokai * Yolk * Yonin Bayashi * Thom Yorke Tatsuya Yoshida * Larry Young * Yugen * Zaal * Zaar * Thierry Zaboitzeff * Zamla Mammaz Manna * Zao * Zanov * Frank Zappa (and The Mothers/ Mothers of Invention) * Zarathustra * Joe Zawinul * Zed * Wulf Zendik (Zendik Farm Orgaztra) * Ziyo ZNR * Zombi * John Zorn * Zopp * Zwoyld * Zygoat * Zypressen * If applicable, please choose three acts, or more, or less, from this poll of some of my favourites to vote on and mention in a post, and please mention any of your own favourites. I encourage commentary and discussion on any that you think apply. I think that the only one of these in the poll not in PA is Yo La Tengo. I've known it for considerable years, and its album This Stupid World made my top albums list for 2023. The Indie Rock, Post-Rock and Krautrock qualities on it make me put it under the Prog umbrella. Here are the past polls: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133608" rel="nofollow - 25 "W" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133607" rel="nofollow - 17 "V" List Acts and 8 "X" Rated Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133601" rel="nofollow - 8 "Q" and 18 "U" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133598" rel="nofollow - 26 "T" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133590" rel="nofollow - 25 "S" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133589" rel="nofollow - 25 "R" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133580" rel="nofollow - 28 "P" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133579" rel="nofollow - 27 "O" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133567" rel="nofollow - 27 "N" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133557" rel="nofollow - 25 "M" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133546" rel="nofollow - 25 "L" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133533" rel="nofollow - 25 "K" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133437" rel="nofollow - 25 "I and J" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133395" rel="nofollow - 25 "H" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133382" rel="nofollow - 29 "G" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133376" rel="nofollow - 26 "F" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133371" rel="nofollow - 25 "E" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133361" rel="nofollow - 26 "D" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133352" rel="nofollow - 25 "C" List Acts & 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 Thanks to all who commented on music during this series. :) Thanks to those who considered my choices, mentioned others, and of course did both. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 19 2024 at 23:56
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Easier than most other letters. A clear personal top three + seven more that has brought me listening joy - or a nice challenge: Frank Zappa (and The Mothers/ Mothers of Invention) Zao Zanov - Thom Yorke* Yatha Sidhra Zypressen Yog Sothoth Yugen Yellow Magic Orchestra John Zorn *because Radiohead and The Smile are featured separately. Thom's solo projects are very respectable and sometimes amazing, but not really essential to me. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 00:38
| Zappa |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 03:22
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Again, sadly none of the above I'm afraid... however beside the really obvious, I could only vote for Zero Hour & Finn Zierler here... neither of whom get much of a listen these days. ------------- 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: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 03:48
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Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yezda Urfa, Frank Zappa (and The Mothers/ Mothers of Invention) and Zarathustra.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 04:49
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Yatha Sidhra * Yokai * Yugen * Thierry Zaboitzeff * The Mothers/ Mothers of Invention Zopp * ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 06:22
From this list, Frank Zappa. 
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Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 07:55
| After Zappa, the only "Z" on my iPod classic is Zebra...I thought they were going to be big after their first album, but then they fizzled. I think they got lost in MTV... |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 08:25
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If I look at my 64 GB iPod Touch, which does not hold its charge and I stopped using quite a few years ago, under Z is Zanov, Zheng Jun Mian & Li Hong, Zhou Xian, ZNR and The Zodiac. Under Y is Yan Tregger, Yatha Sidhra and Yugen. I never categorised it right, so, say, Frank Zappa is under F. From the poll, I will choose Zao, Zanov and Yatha Sidhra ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 08:47
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More Z from my collection : Zen rock and roll (USA) Zaal (Italy, liked to Finisterre) Zuffanti Fabio ( Finisterre 's leader) Zello (Sweden) And The Zombies |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 09:49
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^ Not that into Zaal despite having it in your collection? As I notice you only mentioned voting for Frank Zappa. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 12:26
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Yellow Magic Orchestra Larry Young Zanov Frank Zappa Joe Zawinul Zebra Zombi ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 12:31
Zebra had the fastest-selling debut in Atlantic's history at the time of release. Yeah, they should've been a lot bigger. The second album enjoyed exposure with a couple singles/videos, but 3.V took on water and sank like a stone. It shouldn't have, since Triumph's "Somebody's Out There" enjoyed regular rotation and that was a hit. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Criswell wrote:Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 13:29
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Yezda Urfa, Yôkaï, Tatsuya Yoshida, and Zombi. I'm made with titanium and come with four different finishes. ------------- ---------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 18:17
I might do one more of these at some time ere long covering some of the less obvious, lesser-known or talked about at PA releases that have been covered by people other than me throughout this series. But I would want to famialiarise myself a bit with the music first. And I might cover some silly omissions, like missing Oriental Wind not one but twice if thinking Oriental Wind for O and thinking Okay Temiz and Oriental Wind for T. I should've checked my old iPod for this series but I do like to focus on music that is still very relevant to my particular interests right now. 10 years ago I was mostly listening to different stuff regularly. 10 years before that I mostly was listening to other stuff than then and so on.... It is the most current of tastes in people that tend to interest me the most, including music that people got into fairly recently. These polls do cover music I have known for many decades and some only quite recently. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 22:36
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The biggest one that might make some people scratch their heads with "Y would you leave it out?", especially those who know little of my interests, is Yes. It's not one of my particular favourites (I like Fragile the most of its albums), but also, I didn't even think of it for this poll. Some say it's better to leave the biggest names of the polls anyway... Course Zappa is here. As ever, the commentary and amicable discussion means more to me than the votes themselves. And this series was meant to be not just about what I include in the poll, but about what others appreciate and would like to give some attention to and discuss. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 22:53
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I’d noticed that Yes had been left out, but thought better not to make a drama of it….. Yes, it’s not only Paul that can do bad humour😌 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 20 2024 at 23:11
| Zombi and YMO |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 04:55
Have I been absent for the forum for very long or have you become quite impatient with posting the last letter polls? 
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 07:50
I can't make a choice here.  Some Z artists Zyma Zykes Cross Zopp Zomby Woof Ziff Zen Zero Hour Zierler Some Y artists Yoo Doo Right Yargos |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 08:47
A. Time is relative. B. Hell yeah. I am not the most patient of people, commonly don't like it when things drag on, like to get things "done" that I start, found it easier and more time efficient to prepare the last four or five polls all together, and knowing that I'd be very busy soon, I did want to get them out of the way. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 08:48
Nice. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 08:50
Right Dude , my mistake , sorry
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 09:13
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^ No worries, was not meant to point out error, I was just unclear on it. Easy to miss things in these long lists especially as I combined it with Zaar to have more entries. And some are still used to just voting for one entry when it comes to multiple vote series. Heck, I genuinely totally forgot about Yes for Y. I mean it did not even occur to me as I made the list. Even if I didn't include it, for it not to come to mind is odd (I have Holes in my head bigger than Mercury Rev, just to reference a song I love). I think I would have included Yes as I have been growing to appreciate Yes more again in recent years (I was big on early Yes as a teenager, up to Fragile). And while I have spoken against Close to the Edge as only really liking the title track, I have forgotten to mention that I do like "And You And I" a lot too. "Siberian Khatru" is **** however. ;) Fill in asterisks as desired. I still think as a three track album that it is overrated (that dreaded word) in comparison to the more sophisticated Bubu - Anabelas. Courses for horses. Fragile is great though. :) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 12:19
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^ ....especially as I combined it with Zaar... right ! Guess : **** = fine 
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 14:56
I'll not vote for Zappa as I find enough with few votes here that I can support: Yugen, Zamla Mammaz Manna, John Zorn. Zopp could have a vote as well but that's a double bill so they'd only get half of my vote, and half of Zopp can't compete with the others. Very strangely, I realise, being a massive Art Zoyd fan, I have never heard a Zaboitzeff solo album in full, just a few videos. Not even because I didn't like what I heard, just... it has never happened. 
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Posted By: rik wilson
Date Posted: September 22 2024 at 13:09
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From the list: Yugen ; Zwoyld ; Zappa ; YMO ALSO: Zech Marquise ;Zypressen ;Zombi Woof
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 22 2024 at 17:53
| Frank Zappa for sure. |