Favourite Magma Studio Album
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Topic: Favourite Magma Studio Album
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: Favourite Magma Studio Album
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:14
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Choose your favourite Magma studio album. I had to slightly alter some album titles; the system could not handle "ẁ" respectively "Ẁ" in "Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kommandöh" and "Ẁurdah Ïtah" and "ǧ" and "ƶ" in "Šlaǧ Tanƶ". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:16
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The debut. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:17
| I cannot vote! I don't hate Magma, for sure. I listened to some of their songs many many years ago and found them interesting. I have to get into them sometime. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:34
They are best watched live; I highly recommend this video: There is no studio version of "Theusz Hamtaahk", by the way.
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Shadowyzard wrote:Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:35
| ^ Gonna watch it soon. Thanks. |
Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:38
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It pains me to vote for what I think will eventually the winner, but I have to go with MDK. I'd rather have given some love to a more obscure album, but I just can't deny the power of the original MDK. If it had been an option, I could have happily voted for Theusz Hamtaahk aka Trilogie au Trianon, since I think that has the best rendition of MDK on record. Philippe Bussonnet on bass - WOWZERS! I'd flown to Paris from NYC to attend the Trianon shows, and was there for all 3 nights. On the 1st night, the guy sitting next to me had flown up from Santiago Chile just for the Trianon shows, so I wasn't the only nutcase obsessive in the crowd. The guys sitting in front of us had driven over from Germany, and I heard a lot of English with various UK accents, so it was a really international affair. It wasn't the 1st time that I saw Magma. The year before, I'd flown over from New York to see them in Verviers, Belgium. Nor was it the last time, since I later saw them twice in New York City. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 09:12
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MDK. Attahk and 1001° aren't far behind that. ------------- ---------- 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: suitkees
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 09:27
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Although I very much like all five or six first albums, I'll vote for the debut. Afterwards, it remained high quality, but those first albums are enough for me... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 09:35
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There was an earlier poll asking for a ranking of all Magma albums we had, and I mentioned that it feels like something of a random ordering because they are all at high standard and I can't really come up with an order that wouldn't be different on the next day. I tend to honour MDK (also in the recent France poll), but here I'll go for Köhntarkösz, the very strong and worthy successor. I love the Jannick Top era most. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 09:55
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Kobaïa still for me, but I like to love them all. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 11:52
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I just find Magma completely unlistenable, I'm afraid.
I'd rather listen to an hour of people farting. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:34
Me too!  But I'll settle for belching.  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 12:46
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I pretty much love them all, but for me nothing beats their five first masterworks (not counting Christian Vander's Tristan et Iseult, but its almost up there as well) Voted for St/Kobaïa as always. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 13:48
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I"ll be a basic bitch and go MDK ------------- 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: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 15:00
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For me it is a tough choice between "K. A" and "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré". I just love the repeated "Hallelujah" in "K.A", and "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré" sounds like a black mass to me. I also prefer "Mëkanïk Kommandöh" to "Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kommandöh"; it is in my opinion a better version of the composition. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 15:57
So, Camel. Got it!
I went with Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré. It is the only studio album where Hhaï appears, which is the piece that made Magma click for me seeing them live. All of the other parts show up on other albums, but the quality of the recording and contiguous arrangements really make the album an amazing work of art. I think a lot of people have a certain expectation of what Magma is supposed to be that isn't met with the album that 90% of them start with, including me; which was MDK. The original recording really didn't convey the thematic power they were aiming for. Seeing it live, even on one of the videos, really delivers the power. Especially in the context of the Theusz Hamtaahk trilogy. I would honestly steer anyone looking for recommendations toward, as you have done earlier, the live albums or videos. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 18:38
| It's hard to choose a favorite, since they have so much great music. I voted for Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kommandöh, because it was the first album I heard from them, so it has a special place in my heart. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 20:18
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The great Kohntarkosz. I'm more into the live stuff but it's all good. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 20:36
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MDK > Kohntarkosz > KA > ER ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 06:47
I love that song. Also love the album cover with the sunglasses fashioned out of safety pins. ------------- ---------- 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: November 13 2021 at 08:13
Connoisseurs of noisy bodily functions of the world unite! And as for the cover art, H.R. Giger rocks. For impatient people, start at about 1:35. Attahk is one of my very favourite albums, and I do love Maahnt. Like with burps generally, not all will have acquired the same taste. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: rik wilson
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 09:49
| Emehntehtt-Re is my favorite. Their four day concert of all previous band members participating in the best video set of the band live. |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: November 14 2021 at 02:09
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Wurdah and 1001 for me ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 01 2024 at 17:40
Reading this I was reminded of what Rolling Stone Record Guide wrote about them back in 1979: " Christian Vander, a German gypsy who was taught to play drums by Elvin Jones and Chet Baker, and has played with Chick Corea and John Coltraine, had this typically Teutonic concept: a musical ensemble that would embody the Gessamkunstwerk, or music for all mankind, accessible on manifold levels. Magma was the medium. Vander also invented his own language, a sort of universalist Esperanto called Kobayan, an imaginary planet where there's room for revolutionary thought and where "Univeria Zekt," the new man, finds greater energy and meaningfulness. Vander claims this music comes from the deep Polish and Baltic forests, and it undeniably sounds as if it just climbed out from under a rock. He's also into voodoo, exorcism, trance music, German and Russian neoromanticism and classical Greek tragedy. But for all its pretensions, Magma sounds like the worst possible slowed-down clone of Deep Purple or Tangerine Dream undergoing a bout of colitis. Do the locomotion. " Then rated MDK and Udu Wudu with one star each, and Kohntarkosz zero Just thought that was funny  Anyways, I love Magma and for me, Kohntarkosz might be their best studio album overall, though it's usually even better live, but MDK, Udu, KA and Emehntehtt-Re are close up to it.  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |