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Poll Question: Which of these "songs" do you like or are your favourites?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
8 [6.45%]
4 [3.23%]
4 [3.23%]
17 [13.71%]
22 [17.74%]
5 [4.03%]
2 [1.61%]
25 [20.16%]
7 [5.65%]
22 [17.74%]
6 [4.84%]
2 [1.61%]
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    Posted: September 30 2024 at 12:02

This is the last of the polls with "songs" which for the largest part have been mentioned in some threads as socially engaged, and still, you can vote for as many as you wish (multiple votes allowed).


Here's the previous poll if it still should have some interest: Thinking politically / socially-engaged songs (3) 

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Wow, lots of great music here. That said, the Area, Henry Cow, Magma, Pink Floyd, and VdGG most caught my eye (I wouldn't vote for the HC actually even though I love the album) based on music I like (and I like Curved Air, the Jethro Tull which I know super well, and the Genesis...). I was thinking about going with VdGG, but for the music and message, it's "Dogs" for me. Those lyrics and the song itself often come to mind, and it has been one of my favourite songs since I was a teenager and remains so.

EDIT: While "Dogs" is the only one where I tend to think about the message, I did give the VdGG, Area, and Magma ones a vote each as well for the music.

Edited by Logan - September 30 2024 at 17:16
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I'm doggedly voting for Pink Floyd again. Smile
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ELP, Genesis, Floyd, Tull and VdGG.
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ELP, but of course some classic prog here. 
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I happen to like all four that have no votes yet (Area, Curved Air, Henry Cow, Magma), and I don't like to vote for too many, so there go my votes, even though there are six or so further ones that would deserve my vote, too, including my favourite Genesis track, and stunningly good works by Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and VDGG. 

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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

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Points: 20301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2024 at 02:47
Definitely Moonlit Knight's Dogs as BricksWink

I don't understand Kobaian, but I'm not sure Magma ever had socially conscious  lyrics.
I am under the understanding that their lyrics are more Space Opera stuff ala Assimov's Empire & Foundation.
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Genesis and The Tulls.

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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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I love almost all of the greats here. Big smile
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How can an instrumental song, "Industry," be a political or socially engaged song? Aren't lyrics required to meet the criteria?
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Points: 15249 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2024 at 08:19
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I don't understand Kobaian, but I'm not sure Magma ever had socially conscious  lyrics.
I am under the understanding that their lyrics are more Space Opera stuff ala Assimov's Empire & Foundation.
  
Well, it can be said in general about Magma's maybe more or less entire work, or at least the one from the '70s, that Christan Vander, according to Wikipedia, has claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_(band)) - which I find to be very socially engaged. Furthermore, concerning the side-long track from Udu Wudu, "De Futura", which is included in the poll here: The original release of this album has a rather long description of this track in French. It's a Sci-Fi story, but it looks very probable to me that it symbolizes some social concern - maybe "nightmarish technocracy".


Edited by David_D - October 01 2024 at 14:16
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

How can an instrumental song, "Industry," be a political or socially engaged song? Aren't lyrics required to meet the criteria?

It's a track from the album entitled Western Culture, and I've found those titles and the music itself to be enough to consider it as socially engaged. Besides that, Henry Cow are well-known for being leftists and wanting to express their ideology through the music. There's also the communist hammer and sickle on the front coverart, so I reckon that this track is about criticism of the capitalist industry.


Edited by David_D - October 01 2024 at 10:24
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Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
ELP - Karn Evil 9
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