Recent Prog Acquisitions
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Topic: Recent Prog Acquisitions
Posted By: Zombywoof
Subject: Recent Prog Acquisitions
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:17
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Above is a list of some of my most recent prog acquisitions. Which is your favorite, and why? I can't honestly choose one, since I think all of them are unique and fantastic for different reasons. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:19
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1001
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:23
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Lateralus for me, perfect.
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:24
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1. Mekanïk Destruktïw Kömmandöh
2. First Utterance
3. 1001° Centigrades ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:25
I must not lie
I must not lie
I must not lie
I must not lie
  Seriously, I don't like Tool. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
progkidjoel wrote:Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:29
| First Utterance is one of the most unique albums I've ever heard. |
Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:29
Honestly, it's my least favorite of the bunch. I much prefer Hatfield, Comus, and the Magma! ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:36
| Sorry, MDK, it has to be First Utterance |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:39
Voilà!
Listen to him, Joel, he's a wise man  ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: beebs
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:43
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Hatfield and the North would be my choice. I've always gravitated to the Canterbury scene stuff, and really like them and National Health. ------------- "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of one's own mind" * Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:46
| I'll be the first to vote for Hamburger Concerto, and Per Un Amico is great too (a bit short though). All the selection is great. |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 17:53
| Voted for Rotter's Club, both Magmas are great as well. Never heard Comus, don't like Tool too much... |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 18:01
| First Utterance. Damnation next. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 18:19
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There are a number of albums I really like in the list, but First Utterance is too essential to my collection not to get my vote. I consider it to be about the greatest acid folk album of them all, and amongst the greatest albums in PA. I love Magma, but due to the twenty plus Magma albums I have, neither of those particularly stand-out (I love the "MDK" composition, but I also have it on so many live albums that I play more. 1001 Degrees... is one of my particular fave Magma albums, but I still prefer the rather similar debut overall). I do love 'em, though. I also like Rotter's Club a lot, and it is an essential album of the Canterbury Scene, but it's not a particular favourite Canterbury Scene album of mine. Hamburger Concerto is an album I've called a meaty masterpiece, was an album that got me into Prog in the first place, and I do think is terrific except for the dull drumming since they replaced the former one, but I haven't listened to it in ages. I used to love Per un Amico, but I now find it rather dull (haven't played it in years) and prefer other PFM albums (the debut and L"isola...) anyway. PFM's sounds can be a bit too sludgy for me, and though PFM was once one of my favourites, it's hardly an Italian favourite anymore. Included in the RPI category, I'm bigger on Area and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (both of which I discovered at about the same time some years ago). As for Opeth and Tool, I never got into them (rather liked what I heard of Opeth, but just didn't explore the music). What little I heard of Tool I found off-putting. So Comus' album is the obvious stand-out for me, and my usual pick for favourite album in Prog Folk. I think it's one of the greatest albums in PA and would be a desert island disk. And it's stood the test of time for me, unlike so many others that I stopped caring about. |
Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 18:46
| These are all absolutely beautifully wonderfully super-amazing albums. I can't possibly vote. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 20:08
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All tremendous purchases, with the exception of Damnation which is good and Comus that I still haven't got.
I'll go for M.D.K., simply mind-boggling. The Rotters' Club as runner-up.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 20:13
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Magma or Hatfield and the North will get mine. I love the Comus album as well, but Magma and the Hatfields are the tops of the tops for me. I'm maybe going to go against my Magma fanboyism to be a fanboy of the Hatfields right now.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 21:06
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I've recently acquired Rotter's Club myself and must admit I find quite satisfactory. In other words, it's great! First Utterance is my second choice - brilliant, disturbing, and unique. ------------- 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: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 06:43
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Hamburger Concerto!
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 19 2010 at 16:03
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First Utterance for me. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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