A favoured album from each PA category

^ Just to note that I'm just choosing these based on what category they are in and not judging whether I think they fit the category well, and asking the same of others in their lists of favourites. That above is my fifth list in this topic, while avoiding repeating acts in my lists. Anyone can make as many lists as they like. Bondage Fruit is more Zeuhl flavoured I would say, and how much depends on the track and album. Some of it is very Zeuhl to my ear. I'm happy with it in Zeuhl and there are those Zeuhlish rhythms. It's actually a pretty eclectic band with jazz, folk and world music, avant prog, from gentle to not.... Can be beautiful. I do suggest listening to their debut. I find it to be a wonderful album. They released an album this year, by the way.



I would place that album in Zeuhl, by the way.

With Far East Family Band, I agree it's more on the Space Rock side of the Psych & Space category at PA than Psych. I find real beauty in the album. I just adore this, for instance:



What has been said of my tastes commonly is that I often gravitate towards atmospheric music. I also often do like groove...

Edited by Logan - December 17 2024 at 09:33

^ I know. I taught English in Japan and met my wife there. Anyway, maybe that's part of why "Kokoro" captured my heart. I left a big piece of my heart in Japan, some in Belgium too.

Edited by Logan - December 17 2024 at 10:13

Canterbury: Gong - You
Crossover: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Eclectic: Alquin - The Mountain Queen
Experimental / Post Metal: Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
Heavy: Anekdoten - Until all the Ghosts are Gone
Indo / Raga: N/A
JR/F: Dean Watson - Track of Days
Kraut: N/A
Neo: Nine Stones Close - Leaves
Post/Math: Swans - The Beggar
Prog Folk: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Progressive Electronic: Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Progressive Metal: Dream Theater - Metropolis part II - Scenes from a Memory
Psych / Space: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
RIO / Avant: Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
RPI: Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde di Aries
Symphonic: Yes - Close to the Edge
Tech / Extreme: Openth - Pale Communion
Zeuhl: Magma - Köhntarkösz
Prog Related: John Cale - Music for a New Society
Proto: The Who - Who's Next

1) Canterbury: R. Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Not necessarily my first choice from each, but I love them all:

Edited by Lewian - December 18 2024 at 15:01

Thanks so much for all of the lists. I know it can be a real challenge and take some time, so the effort is very much appreciated.    More already have tried this than I was expecting. I find it interesting to see the lists, compare lists, and like to see what I know and like and don't know from the lists. This can give me rather broader sense of some of the tastes and interests in our community/ specific members.

I'll mention what i like from each list. Lorenzo's, great to see you around again!, is to be continued (a strategy I was thinking of suggesting for some), but I truly love every album mentioned in his list thus far.

With Nikola's list, I particulary love Third, Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Ege Bamyasi, Ágætis Byrjun, First Utterance, Zeit, Ummagumma, Freak Out!, Zarathustra, and Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh. Really like Relayer, and Aja is very good...

With Christian's list, I love The National, The Dreaming (you turned me more onto that album and now it is one of my very favourite albums), Holger Czukay - Movies (such a wonderful album, really, really love it), Rubycon, Ummagumma, Berlin and revolver. And I like Phlegm, Heavy Horses and Infernal Machina a lot. I should listen that Association PC live as I like the band a lot. I don't know Tarentel or Cilio at all that I can recall. Will try to remember to remedy that at some time.

With Samuel's list: I know we share a lot of musical loves in common, and so interesting to see as many album names I am unfamiliar with (means more for me to check out). :) I do love Le Poison Qui Rend Fou, Weidorje , Spiral and The Soft Parade. I know the Mastodon quite well and should listen again.

Again thanks all, and I hope more will try this challenge. It's "a favoured album", it doesn't need to be one's favourite. I know lots of us would know and love huge amounts of albums from our favoured categories.

^ Thanks Lorenzo, I have liked all of those albums (well, I know the Shawn Phillips less than the other albums). While I followed what's in PA's categories for my lists regardless of how well I think it fits there, I will say that I think of Area as more JR/F and Avant Prog than an RPI category act (RPI is kind of a strange category in various ways... rather too eclectic perhaps, and unlike Krautrock with finding bands outside Germany and Canterbury, finding bands outside Canterbury, all in that category are from Italy so it seems less of styles, influence, or specific movements...). I think it used to be in JRF? I could be wrong. And the two Family albums I have I think of as on the Proto-Prog side. Fine with the band in Eclectic as I do think of those as Prog Art Rock too with Psych qualities.

EDIT, on a related note: Some here have said that Proto-Prog bands are not Prog (and that Prog Related bands are not Prog) but to me it depends on the album, song, and there is no distinct dividing line between Prog, non-Prog, embryonic Prog and full-fledged Prog. And sometimes it just comes down to the individuals interpretation and parameters. How some PA members defined the band category-wise does not define the band let alone the individual albums by a band, and of course we can't use multi-tags or deal with the albums individually.   But this edit digresses....

Edited by Logan - December 18 2024 at 13:04

^ I didn't realise that Far Corner - Risk was a RIO/Avant-Prog album otherwise I would have included it on my list.

Far Corner - Risk was my album of the year.

Logan wrote: With Samuel's list: I know we share a lot of musical loves in common, and so interesting to see as many album names I am unfamiliar with (means more for me to check out). :) I do love Le Poison Qui Rend Fou, Weidorje , Spiral and The Soft Parade. I know the Mastodon quite well and should listen again.

I first thought of Susanne Sundfør's Ten Love Songs for Crossover but you had already mentioned that album :) I'd be curious to know what you'd make of that Banda do Casaco album (unfortunately the official stream sounds worse than the original CD remaster). The Soft Parade is genuinely my favourite album, I never understood the low ratings.