A Nordic Poll of 28 Albums
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Topic: A Nordic Poll of 28 Albums
Posted By: Logan
Subject: A Nordic Poll of 28 Albums
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 10:24
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I made this poll out of my choices for David's https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133772" rel="nofollow - Your favourite Nordic prog music albums? . Due to space limitations, I put all of the Samla Mammas Manna projects chosen by me albums together in on line as "or" options. But it can be "and" as well. And I combined two at the end. I left off Savage Rose because even though I evaluated that for PA, it's not one I have played as much as the others. Duplicating my list here just because I find polls more likely to lead to some discussion/ commentary, and recommendations than topics in the top ten lists. Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i forntiden (Sweden, 1972) Anna Sjalv Tredje - Tussilago Fanfara (Sweden, 1977) Björk - Homogenic (Iceland, 1997) Causa Sui - Euporie Tide (Denmark, 2013) Culpeper's Orchard - Culpeper's Orchard (Denmark, 1970) Dungen - Ta det lugnt (Sweden, 2004) Dr. Dopo Jam - Entree (Denmark, 1973) Elephant9 with Reine Fiske - Silver Mountain (Norway, 2015) Fire! Orchestra - Arrival (Sweden, 2019) Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird (Norway, 1970) Goat - World Music (Sweden, 2012) Gösta Berlings Saga - Detta har hänt (Sweden, 2009) Haikara - Haikara (Finland, 1972) Bo Hansson - Sagan om ringen (Sweden, 1970) Hoyry-kone - Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa (Finland, 1995) Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (Sweden, moved to Denmark, 2018) Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar (Sweden, 1981) Bjorn J:Son Lindh - Från storstad till grodspad (Sweden, 1971) Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust (Sweden, 1998) Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (Norway, 2012) Ragnarök - Ragnarök (Sweden, 1976) Samla Mammas Manna - Måltid (Sweden, 1973) Von Zamla - Zamlaranamma (Sweden, 1982) Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor (Sweden, 1980) The Savage Rose - Dødens Triumf (Denmark, 1972) Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus (Denmark, 1976) Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (Iceland, 1999) Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (Norway, 2015) Terje Rypdal - Odyssey (Norway, 1975) Please vote for up to five (or more if you really want to) and if choosing a poll option with multiple options, please state in a post which specific albums you choose. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 10:28
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Bo Hansson - Sagan om ringen (1970) Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus (1976) Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (1999) Ragnarök - Ragnarök (1976)
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 10:40
| Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 10:49
| Culpeper's Orchard - Culpeper's Orchard |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 11:35
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Morte Macabre Bo Hansson Terje Rypdal ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 11:37
| Homogenic, Detta har hänt, The Death Defying Unicorn, Familjesprickor, Ágætis byrjun. I don't know a majority of these. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 13:44
| Bo Hansson, Anna von Hausswolff. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 13:58
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Most of these I don't know very well, but I like the Kultivator album. I put a puzzle into my nose and it unfolded itself into sinus caverns filled with sticks and cheese logs. ------------- ---------- 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: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 14:24
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Loads of great albums. Voted for these five: Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird (Norway, 1970) Ragnarök - Ragnarök (Sweden, 1976) Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust (Sweden, 1998) Bo Hansson - Sagan om ringen (Sweden, 1970) Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar (Sweden, 1981) Might have voted for any of these as well: Dungen - Ta det lugnt (2004) Haikara - Haikara (Finland, 1972) Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (Norway, 2015) Terje Rypdal - Odyssey (Norway, 1975) |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 27 2024 at 15:06
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Thank you for mentioning my thread, and my choices here are: Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden är ett svävande skepp.. (1972) Bo Hansson - Sagan om ringen (1970) Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus (1976) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: October 28 2024 at 02:10
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Bo Hansson ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: October 28 2024 at 04:19
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Gösta Berlings Saga - Detta Har Hänt.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 28 2024 at 09:37
Glad to, David, especially as I often encourage people to make their own lists particularly when they like none of mine or think things "missing", and there already was set topic for doing just that. And because I took my list from your topic, which in turn I had based on (expanded on those) my choices in https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133658" rel="nofollow - Paul's Nordic band -- not albums -- topic , it only seemed right to acknowledge sources and inspiration. I hope more people list their album choices in your topic. By the way, I noticed that Goat's Commune is in your list in your Nordic topic. That's a really good one, although I opted to go for World Music at the time of the poll (I was wondering which to go for). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
David_D wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 01:26
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Bo Hansson here (I have the original vynil) ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:03
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:06
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Voted Morte Macabre also in my collection Björk - Homogenic Causa Sui - Euporie Tide Culpeper's Orchard - Culpeper's Orchard (1970) Elephant9 with Reine Fiske - Silver Mountain (2015) Bo Hansson - Sagan om ringen (1970) Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (1999) and lot still to discover...:-) |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 14:44
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Voted for- Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust Elephant9 with Reine Fiske - Silver Mountain This poll reminds me... I've got to give Secret Oyster a listen.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 17:08
 not least Sea Sun------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 17:17
That would be nice and especially easy for those who already have made a list of bands in Paul's https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133658" rel="nofollow - Your Top 12 Nordic Prog Bands . ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 18:13
I like best Commune as more diverse and rocky, and by the way, I enjoy much Goat's freaky, energetic, colourful, exotic and spiritual show at their concerts (on videos oploaded on Youtube). ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 29 2024 at 18:39
I'll have to check out those lives. By the way, while the reviews I have seen have been somewhat lukewarm, I really enjoy Goat's latest (released on October 1th, 2024). I know I'm more quantity than you (still plenty of quality imo), but it favours well in my top 40 albums of 2024. General note: about time people might want to consider thinking about their year end lists for PA even if we still have more than two months left of the year and people will have longer to get their votes in. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 19:19
| How can such a poll not include Hybris from Anglagard? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 21:27
You've been around at this forum just a few years shy of me at this forum, if not as frequently, and you probably are aware that I often don't pick the better known or more popular of choices in my lists of favourites. I have known more than one at this forum that really disliked that album and years ago I remember defending the merits, the quality of the album. Of course people are free to like what they like and there is no accounting for taste, or so it is said. Had I made such a Nordic poll when you joined, then it surely would have been on my list of personal favourites. But it's an album that I have barely listened to for many years. I often say that I tend to favour that which is newer to me, that which is fresher to my ears, and that was the first of any of the albums in the list that I knew. I still recognise it as a great album, but there are many albums that are fresher to me and excite me more these days. Thinking about the albums in the list just excite me more -- I'd rather play any of them right now as well as many other albums by the acts in the list as well as various acts I did not include. Maybe I will return to Hybris again and get excited all over some day. "Jordrok" I particularly remember loving. By the way, do you know many from my list and like any of them? I'd be interested to see a list of your favourites in David's topic: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133772" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133772 Anyway, when I do a topic like this I am interested to hear about what others like, what they like in my list, and don't like. All part of getting to know each others tastes better and vive les différences, or should I say länge leve skillnaderna?  I think there's plenty of good stuff in the poll, and am pretty happy with my choices, but of course I am biased.------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 12 2024 at 00:59
Fair enough. I haven't gotten tired of Hybris, though. About what I may like from this list, I'm afraid there's so much around that I haven't been able to hears so many from your list. Algarnas Tradgard was interesting and I did enjoy it, but not really among my favorites. Bo Hanson just about the same. And I have heard a few Susanne Sundfor songs that I enjoyed, but I would need to check out more from her. I enjoyed very much Landberk's Riktig Akta album, as well as Anekdoten's "Until all the Ghosts are Gone" (and I should check out some of their earlier stuff). I have not been able to get much into The Flower Kings, and Kaipa I enjoy, but it's not my favourite stuff, yet, I enjoyed the Kaipa DaCapo project very much. And of course I like Opeth very much. Not very much prog, but I have enjoyed Therion too, specially the Secret of the Runes album. And there's a band (that's even less prog, but rather folk), Garmarna, which I enjoyed a lot. There's a band, Soup, I think Norweigian, from whom I enjoyed the album Remedies a lot. And there's Wobbler, which has gotten a lot of attention, at least some years ago, which I did enjoy, but I feel I didn't get to love as much as others seemed to praise them. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 13 2024 at 10:41
Thanks, Omar, I appreciate the response. Anglagard is a great name that I could indeed expect to see on a list of Nordic albums. Anekdoten is another. Actually, it was when I was arguing for it with someone who disliked Hybris that I went off it. I find reviewing, critiquing and overthinking music can put me off it and in that case I thought I should try to be more critical and open to negative suggestion to be fair -- to question the worth I gave to it and to try to hear it from another perspective. I like to experience music more than actively think about it so I rarely have much of substance to say or that I wish to express about music. I went off a variety of films I had appreciated when in film studies. The critiquing, thew analysing, and breaking it down put me off. It's a reason why I don't liking reviewing albums much. I was writing reviews for show called The Prisoner for a website, and that too put me off. On the other hand, sometimes arguing for the worth of band has made me explore the music more and appreciate the band much more. This happened for me with Paul and Swans. But I ramble... I've listened to music by all those you mentioned but Garmarna. I'm listening to the album Guds spelemän right now and enjoying it. Thanks. Soup is one I particularly enjoyed and remedies has one of my favourite album covers. I should listen to its Visions album from 2021. I'm not a TFK fan either. I actually prefer some of their more modern stuff to their early stuff. I bought Space Revolver in I think 2004 or early 2005, hoping to try more contemporary music, and I do count that amonsgt my least favourite music purchases. I also did get Hybris around the same time and loved it! Sometimes too to make it more well balanced in a way, I do avoid the heaviest of hitters, but it's not, as some have claimed in the past, obscurity for obscurity sake. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: November 14 2024 at 01:39
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Great poll, here's my vote:
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 17 2024 at 06:01
Secret Oyster - Straight to the Krankenhaus - one of only two albums I know of in the poll, the other one being Culpeper's Orchard. 
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