z.a.r.p.e.k. (O-Z) XIV
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Topic: z.a.r.p.e.k. (O-Z) XIV
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Subject: z.a.r.p.e.k. (O-Z) XIV
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:03
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The two Popol Vuh cds listed here i have as a two on one. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:05
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Univers Zero, Thinking Plague and Violeta De Outono are my top three, i'll vote later. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:13
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Tangerine Dream. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:14
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hmm I actually have to consider voting for something other than Floyd this time! as much as I love Saucreful,
In Den Garten Pharaos is really f**king awesome and my favorite Popol Vuh record... ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:20
The colourful teddybear s'got a point Seriously thinking about giving my vote to Popol Vuh on this one, but Force Majeure, Portable Madness and volume 7 are there as well... Too hard to choose right now. May just have to lend my vote to something that gets neglected over(and here I'm speculating) Saucerful of Secrets - even if it is a charming bugger. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:39
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yeah i decided to just go with In Den Garten Pharaos.That album is just something else... takes me away to such fantastic lands and worlds. ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:47
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It is a real trip. That first long stretch feels like a rubberband being stretched to the edge of infinity, before those 'harmonics' enter and completely rearranges the overall feel of the thing. If you want something akin to that Popol Vuh album, albeit slightly more modern and menacing in scope, you should try out Art Zoyd's Berlin. I've always felt they were long lost brothers separated by a good decade. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:47
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That Thinking Plague is amazing, no brainer for me.
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:50
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Oh, `Portable Madness' all the way, love that deep thick spacey hypnotic classic so much, even though I probably play `Force Majeure' (and love it) more often than it.
I DO have the vinyl of `In Den Garten Pharaos' but not given it a spin yet, and I've had it for years. Going to dig it off the shelf right now, I know it's very loved and praised! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:51
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I have heard all the albums minus the Sensations Fix and the Violeta... ones. Of the ones I have, In den Garten Pharaos is a no-brainer for me. I think that it's a really terrific album. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:53
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I have a feeling I'd vote for Sensations Fix if I ever got to hear that album. I'm really enjoying the 2 disc anthology I just bought, though I have no idea which songs are on the Portable Madness album. I'd imagine a good chunk of the album is on there. I'm heavily considering voting for In This Life, since I voted for Moonsongs in the last one, and In This Life is even better than that one. But the Pink Floyd always poses a significant threat in every round for me.... hmm. I'll go with Thinking Plague. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 14:56
Just goes to show where all the people with great taste go: John's polls Michael: That Popol Vuh one is probably not the kind of thing your colleagues at work are going to salivate over. They're most likely going to look at you like zoo visitors look at a strange romantic meeting between a hippo and a python... ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:06
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Yep, John's is the first name in `Quality Polling' lol! - Hmmmm, that sounded dirty!
Dave, your pro-interspecies love, anti-work agenda has been quite clear for some time! 
Thanks for the heads up, think I'll give that `Popul Vuh' a spin home here before attempting it at work! I did have a nightshift run at work lately where I played Klaus Schulze/Andreas Grosser `Babel' and TDream's `Tyranny of Beauty' (kind of meh), and I thought they were pretty easy listening to some choices I could have made! But they were not appreciated....
I was hearing a lot of requests for the `I'm Britney, b*tch' song, God help me.....whatever that is! |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:12
And here I was thinking to myself that my future underwater attack hose with propelling tail would sneak under the radar, but again you've proven me wrong  All power to the species yet to come!!!!! (I'm secretly filming the love scenes for a 'special' clientele on the internet)BTW How do you find that Schulze/Grosser collaboration? ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:19
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My brain said "vote for the Floyds dumbass" but somehow I voted for Portable Madness. It was stronger than me. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:21
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Never listen to your brain.... It only wants money and a new roof. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:24
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^ Well it's hard not listening to him all the time, after all he did got me through college.
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:24
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Dave, we've got a second hand record chain here called Dixons, and on December 27th and 28th they had a 20% off all stock sale, and even though I was meant to be sleeping in the morning from working the previous night at nightshift, I dragged my zombie corpse down there and spent two hours in a daze searching through everything!
Came across that `Babel' album on LP, got it for $16 (down from $20). The guy at the counter even said to me `Urh, I wouldn't...are you sure you want this? It's not very good', but I figured it was a little rarer, so I took the chance. I wonder if it was his copy that he'd traded in? Anyway, it's very synth/classical based, occasionally dull and tedious, but very effective and striking when it works.One or two themes are very haunting and dark. No percussive elements at all, it's essentially one long floating classical work on keyboards/piano. I don't regret buying it for a second, even if it's no classic. I wanted to ask you, they also had (for $45!) a Schulze/Rainer Bloss/Ernst Fuchs collaboration called `Aphrica' on LP, do you know if it's any good? I was a little reluctant at that price...then again, that would have been the best time to grab it, would have got it for $36... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:32
He obviously wants payback.... ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:35
Well erm.... first of all, I haven't heard that album - so I won't pretend to know anything about it other than it's bad rep, which it's got. Big time! This tends to be the one people go out of their way to not buy... and at this price, it just seems outrageously insane. That is, if you're not one of those few who collect bad music on purpose(I actually know a few of those... ).------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:43
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Thanks for the tip-off, Dave! I did think at the time of grabbing it, but the price must have put me off taking the risk! I think I also noticed it was from 1984, and thought that it could go either way due to that.
No, I'm not one to collect average albums on purpose, althogh I DO have a few that I do defend! 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:43
Man after all the posts boasting about In Den Garten Pharaos i decided to spin it right away(hey i'm unemployed and at home ) anyway what a monster this is. Florian's second album with two side long tracks. Love the second track with all of that organ. Hey i wanted to quote Brandon from the Ground & Sky site, well paraphrase is more like it. "While Klause Schulze and Tangerine Dream's goals were to take you to the planets and stars, Popol Vuh's goals is to take you right into the presence of God himself". Man he ain't sh*ttin' anyone after listening to this album.------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:47
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High Infedelity with no votes?! Not anymore! In Den Garten, Relaps, and In This Life also very good. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 15:50
yeah haha, that record just makes me feel like I just gobbled up a bunch of mushrooms and am sitting near a little creek in a mystical forest, waiting for divine spirits to come share their secrets with me ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 17:11
Big fan of In Den Garten, Relaps, In This Life, Force Majeure & Saucerful |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 19:29
| In Den Garten is just so crushing, gets my vote |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 20:38
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Several goodies in this one as well! I vote for Present - High Infidelity. I think I might have voted for TD - Force Majeure, as I recall loving it the one time I heard it about 20 years ago, but I've not been able to find it since! Not even to stream! Yargh! ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 20:50
That's one way to look at it.------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 20:54
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 20:58
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 21:04
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 04 2013 at 21:16
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Finally made a decision and picked Thinking Plague. It's everything i love about avant/rio music. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 07:12
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TD, Popol Vuh, Univers Zero and Thinking Plague are all great albums, but they can't compete (in my heart) with Saucerful of Secrets ------------- 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: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 05 2013 at 11:04
------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: January 07 2013 at 10:04
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A saucerful of secrets. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |