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Posted: September 29 2020 at 13:21

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Posted: September 29 2020 at 14:05

A friend turned me on to Fruupp years ago, and they're still enchanting.

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Posted: September 29 2020 at 14:19

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A friend turned me on to Fruupp years ago, and they're still enchanting.

Fruupp completely passed me by in the proggy 1970's and I only heard them on YouTube for the first time after 2010, when I first went online. Bizarre as it seems now, I wasn't even aware you could watch music videos on the Internet before I went online. The Internet is like MTV times TEN!!

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Posted: September 29 2020 at 14:36

Never been able to pull the trigger on that box set. Would be quite nice to have all the albums but I wish the price was just a little cheaper (although its only £6 a disc on Amazon which probably is good).

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Posted: September 29 2020 at 15:11

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Never been able to pull the trigger on that box set. Would be quite nice to have all the albums but I wish the price was just a little cheaper (although its only £6 a disc on Amazon which probably is good).

I bought two Fruupp albums for £11 each from Rough Trade in Nottingham about five years ago, although it was worth it as they're both pretty rare albums.

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 00:38

Wow! Now here's something brand new to my ears! Thank you, Paul!

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 00:58

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Wow! Now here's something brand new to my ears! Thank you, Paul!

My pleasure. Fruupp are one of the great undiscovered treasures of classic British prog. They passed by virtually unnoticed back in the proggy 1970's. Fruupp are one of those rare bands whose last album is just as good as their first album. Thanks to ProgArchives and YouTube, they're gaining some well-deserved recognition in the 21st century. I'm glad you like them too.

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 02:37

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Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Wow! Now here's something brand new to my ears! Thank you, Paul!

Thanks Paul, not a band I've listened to before. They sound interesting so far but are all four of their albums really 5 star classics?

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 03:06

chopper wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Wow! Now here's something brand new to my ears! Thank you, Paul!

Thanks Paul, not a band I've listened to before. They sound interesting so far but are all four of their albums really 5 star classics?

I listened to all four Fruupp albums together yesterday and it was really hard to pick a favourite album when they're all deserving of five stars in my opinion.

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 03:16

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

chopper wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Wow! Now here's something brand new to my ears! Thank you, Paul!

Thanks Paul, not a band I've listened to before. They sound interesting so far but are all four of their albums really 5 star classics?

I listened to all four Fruupp albums together yesterday and it was really hard to pick a favourite album when they're all deserving of five stars in my opinion.

We'll have to differ on that one then, they're good but hardly essential prog classics.

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 03:23

^ Fruupp sound as good to me as any of Genesis' classic albums from the 1970's - I gave all of those Genesis albums a 5-star rating too.

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 03:37

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^ Fruupp sound as good to me as any of Genesis' classic albums from the 1970's - I gave all of those Genesis albums a 5-star rating too.

That's fine, but there's a reason why Fruupp are not as well-known as Genesis.

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Posted: September 30 2020 at 03:39

chopper wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ Fruupp sound as good to me as any of Genesis' classic albums from the 1970's - I gave all of those Genesis albums a 5-star rating too.

That's fine, but there's a reason why Fruupp are not as well-known as Genesis.

That's a good point.

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Posted: October 02 2020 at 03:11

As promised, here's the first of my favourite songs from each of Fruupp's four fabulous albums, starting with Future Legends ...

Song for a Thought

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Posted: November 28 2020 at 05:24

chopper wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

chopper wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Wow! Now here's something brand new to my ears! Thank you, Paul!

Thanks Paul, not a band I've listened to before. They sound interesting so far but are all four of their albums really 5 star classics?

I listened to all four Fruupp albums together yesterday and it was really hard to pick a favourite album when they're all deserving of five stars in my opinion.

We'll have to differ on that one then, they're good but hardly essential prog classics.

Okay, I've made a compromise with my Fruupp album rankings: I've rated their legendary debut album "Future Legends" as a well-deserved 5-star album and downgraded the following three albums to 4-star ratings.

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Posted: November 28 2020 at 09:27

Missed this thread a few months back....I have the 2 double cd releases of the 4 lp's.,...I think some tracks were left off..but they are good compilations anyway. I would pick up original vinyl on these if I ever saw one....but they are pricey these days.

Good symph type prog but not essential classics as some think..imho.

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dr wu23 wrote:

Missed this thread a few months back....I have the 2 double cd releases of the 4 lp's.,...I think some tracks were left off..but they are good compilations anyway. I would pick up original vinyl on these if I ever saw one....but they are pricey these days.

Good symph type prog but not essential classics as some think..imho.

I'd forgotten about this thread, until I came back to it and gave it a new title.

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Posted: November 28 2020 at 11:12

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FRUUPP may sound like some obscure Krautrock outfit from deep in the heart of Bavaria, but no, they're some obscure Belfast-based outfit from deep in the heart of Northern Ireland.

No, they don't sound like "some obscure Krautrock outfit from deep in the heart of Bavaria," nor are they "some obscure Belfast-based outfit from deep in the heart of Northern Ireland." They're FRUUPP, man!

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Posted: November 28 2020 at 11:26

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Psychedelic Paul wrote:

FRUUPP may sound like some obscure Krautrock outfit from deep in the heart of Bavaria, but no, they're some obscure Belfast-based outfit from deep in the heart of Northern Ireland.

Well, they're not obscure any more.

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