6 "A" bands first 3 albums (five in PA, one not)

Voted for Amon Düül II. Definitely like their first three albums. Then Area. As for the other bands, I had not listened enough to consider. I have heard and enjoyed the first Air album. I really don't know Art Zoyd, though I should.

Art Zoyd in this poll coming just above Arena (would've picked them had the selection included later albums), and then I would put Amon Duul II (which might have also landed higher for me but requires revisiting)

Amon Duul II 

A surprisingly easy choice as Amon Duul II released three five star albums to start their careers. In my opinion of course. Probably Area then Art Zoyd as a top three.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Air is the one not in PA right?

Yes, The French duo who made it big in the 90s and early 2000s, played Playground Love (off Virgin Suicides) at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, who I have heard playing in various fine cafés and makes a better Moon Safari than the Moon Safari in PA. Air goes great with a latte (for extra frothy milky aeration) and a croissant, or some kind of sandwhich and soup if you like that sort of thing!

While I have featured Air in a lot of poll over the years, here's a song I like that I have not focused on much with Beck off the, I think, underrated 10 000 Hz Legend.



Now I'm going to play Virgin Suicides again, been too long.





Edited by Logan - 13 hours 22 minutes ago at 18:21

Air is the one not in PA right?

Voted Arena. Some other "A" bands... Aerosmith (not prog), their first three are classics, and Animals As Leaders who led a new genre of music.



Edited by Grumpyprogfan - 14 hours 55 minutes ago at 16:48

^^ That would be appreciated, but not expected, Cristi. :) I just had assumed that you likely had some names that had already sprung to mind when you wrote that. :)

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By the way, Saperlipopette!'s and Lewian's comments come closest to my thinking out of the posts made so far. With Air, I have not heard The Virgin Suicides much. Aranis is great, but for me it does come down to the classic runs of Art Zoyd, Area and AD II the most. While those were my favourite Art Zoyd albums early on when I got into the band, I'm been more in a Phase IV, Les espaces inquiets and especially Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer as sequential albums place, arena, area, space or espace, one might say, for quite some time. Speaking of areas, those are my three favourite Area albums. Also, those are my three favourite ADII albums. Like Lewian, I am going with ADII even though it's tighter than a nun's wimple (or at least a very small one on a very big nun's head). Outstanding stuff (do especially love Yeti).

As for Arena, that is not a place I have gotten into. But If I did, I think I could take those bandmembers as I am pretty good with a baseball bat (I do prefer the Nerf! ones) and with a foamy Noodle. "A duel between Titans, your floppy noodle against mine."

I watched a terrible film from 1989 called Arena last night on Prime about a human arena fighter going up against a bevy of interstellar pugilists for a chance to be greatest in the universe! I won't give it away if he won in the end despite the attempts to thwart him). I do like watching terrible films now and then (especially of the sci-fi variety), and some have told me at PA that I like listening to terrible music.

Edited by Logan - 16 hours 22 minutes ago at 15:21

Logan wrote: Cristi wrote: Logan wrote: Thanks all. Cristi wrote: Arena I guess out of these  I appreciate the vote, and commenting on that, but there is no need to limit oneself to the selection for your comments. And I would rather people be on the more expansive side (brevity is not my strength). I encourage people to mention other choices. I'd really be interested to hear about yours and others choices not listed. Whenever someone says something like "out of these", I really want to know also what their choices are that are not out of these and it might be interesting to others. :) Might well find others who feel the same. Air is the other band i really like here. My choice was between these two.  Thanks. I had interpreted your "out of these" comment as something like "There are "A" bands not listed here with an initial trio of albums that I appreciate more than any of these." So it led me to wonder, "What are your faves not listed?"

Arena