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Poll Question: Choose four songs
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Originally posted by Mila-13 Mila-13 wrote:

@Lorenzo, I think you will have to contact Cristi either by PM or by posting your message in the team thread. If I'm not mistaken, he hasn't visited this thread so far.- How many of our suggestions will be included in the final selection, still two per participant?







Yes, I am writing to Cristi.

Yes, two songs per partecipant will be included in the final selection, the two with the higher score.

And we will vote for three song.
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George: The Utopia and FM tracks sound very attractive to me, the other two not quite as much.
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Jean:

The top spot goes to Can. Then selected Clearlight, which I had not heard before. Almost prog by numbers, I enjoyed it. Thought Dzyan was a bit too free form and not composed, so Popol Vuh in the third spot.

1. Can - 5 pts
2. Clearlight - 3 pts
3. Popol Vuh - 2 pts
4. Dzyan - 1 pt
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Even though I am participating, I have found it easy to overlook this thread because it doesn't have "Interactive Poll" in the title.
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@Lorenzo, I think you will have to contact Cristi either by PM or by posting your message in the team thread. If I'm not mistaken, he hasn't visited this thread so far.- How many of our suggestions will be included in the final selection, still two per participant?



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Friede

This has been the toughest set of four yet for me to rank, with all four tracks being impressive in their own way. This is how I’ve ranked them today, but it’s definitely with the knowledge that I could easily come up with a completely different ranking on another day.

Embryo - 5 points
High Tide - 3 points
Guru Guru - 2 points
Steve Hillage - 1 point

Christian

Conversely, this was one of the easiest selection of four to rank for me. All but Manfred Mann’s Earth Band could easily have been five pointers in any other selection. Here they had to compete with each other, but my order of preference was clear.

Luciano Cilio - 5 points
Association PC - 3 points
Birth Control - 2 points
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - 1 point
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Cristi, don't you join us? You got time
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

It was hard for me to find tracks that are (1) from the 70s, (2) not from a group in the top 100, (3) less than 10 minutes in length, AND (4) a favourite. But in the end, I found more than four and had the tough choice of picking just four:
 
 
 
Argent - Hold Your Head Up (1972)
 
I first heard this on the radio when it first came out and fell in love with it immediately even though I was quite young and not yet into progressive rock. And it was the organ solo that I especially loved.
 
 
 
Hawkwind - Opa-Loka (1975)
 
 
I was quite surprised to find that Hawkwind are not in the top 100, so I took this opportunity to present my favourite Hawkwind track and one of my favourite tracks overall.
 
 
 
Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain (1975)
  
In my circle of friends, this album is a classic. And for me, this track along with the previous track, is the highlight of the album and is among my favourite jazz-rock tracks.
 
 
 
The Residents - Edweena (1978)
 
 
This was my first exposure to The Residents, which I heard on the radio late one night. I was disappointed when the announcer said the album was "Not Available", but later found that it was available after all.
 
 


Argent - Rather repetitive song based on the rhythm and the chorus repeating a phrase in an obsessive way, the creative part is mainly left to the organist. It doesn't excite me. 2 points

Hawkwind - instrumental piece based on a blues riff that makes the backbone, but it is not my cup of tea (I prefer other Hawkwind songs), 1 point

Jeff Beck, perhaps the best guitarist since Jimi Hendrix, pulls out a rockblues piece with an acid guitar sound, then the keyboards repeat the riff, virtuosic song, 3 points

The Residents, a song taken from their masterpiece, I don't often listen to this kind of cerebral and "cultured" music, with refined sounds, dissonant pieces, use of vocals in an anti-melodic sense, but here experimentalism is not an end in itself, music is not penalized from the research of the sound, and the whole composition takes the form of a completely coherent avant-garde theatrical piece, in short, a masterpiece, certainly a contender for my final vote, 5 points.




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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Guru Guru - Der Elektrolurch (1973)

High Tide - The Joke (1970)

Embryo - Radio Marrakesch/Orient Express (1973)

Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Glissando (1976)



I know very well this High Tide album, which I consider a small masterpiece, the completely new musical mix they gave birth, between acid-blues, acid folk, psychedelia (great work on the violin) is excellent. First place, 5 points

Emrbyo are very close, theirs is a more classical musical form, similar to the blues jam, but very inventive and inspired, second place, 3 points.

Guru Gurus is a group that I have followed sometimes for their creativity, the song is definitely experimental and not very melodic, certainly a valuable art-work, even if it does not excite me like the previous ones (it is more refined and cerebral), 2 points

Steve Hillage's song, although very refined, seems to me very evanescent, more tricks of the trade than from musical inspiration, 1 point.
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Friede:

I will not include Hawkwind unless it is and then adjust my ranks. The Hillage track stood out for me, so it gets my top spot, and then it gets difficult. The Guru Guru track did not feel as cohesive for such a long track, and Embryo edges it. I had a hard time deciding where High Tide should go but was won over by the guitar.

1. Steve Hillage - 5 pts
2. High Tide - 3 pts
3. Embryo - 2 pts
4. Guru Guru - 1 pt
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^ You mean BaldFriede?! Jean only suggested four...

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@Mila

No problem of time!

We can take the next two weeks!

I suggest to start with the vote on Tuesday 26th.

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I suggest to follow the idea of suitkees with the selection of Bald Jean!

PS I am surprised! It's lovely you are so fast to put the points. I'm on holiday, i'Ll Do it with calm
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jamesbaldwin:
 
Quatermass - Laughin' Tackle (5 points)
Tim Buckley - Lorca (3 points)
Henry Cow - Beautiful As The Moon (2 points)
Roxy Music - A Song For Europe (1 point)
 
 
 
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Alquin - Soft Royce (5 points)
Saga - Humble Stance (3 points)
Ange - À Colin-Maillard (2 points)
Grobschnitt - Severity Town (1 point)
 
 
 
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Split Enz - Stranger Than Fiction (5 points)
Airlord - Ladies Of The Night (3 points)
Ragnarok - Caviar Queen (2 points)
Dragon - La Gash Lagoon (1 point)
 
 
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Thanks for the feedback, Kees! Those Yugoslav bands are i.a. known for their fusion of jazz-rock and traditional Balkan sounds. I was a bit torn between those and their more Western sounding tracks. I may have made the wrong choice. Anyway, I just wanted to show something different and introduce a few lesser known bands. It doesn't make much sense to me to bring in internationally known bands or bands that sound like many others.- As a non-aligned country Yugoslavia played a pioneering role in Eastern Europe in many ways. And yes, you are right, I'm rather into jazz and jazz fusion than into prog rock. Moreover, in the field of rock I'm rather into psychedelic, punk, garage rock etc.- As for Mainhorse, Switzerland is of course very pround of their prog hero, Patrick Moraz! :)



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Nice of you to join in, Mila. Never heard of the Yugoslavian bands and completely forgot the music of La Salamandre (great film!). With the first three we are more in jazz-rock territories. Very enjoyable, but at the same time not very spectacular. After the obligatory drum solo (rather conventional) the Smak piece becomes quite amazing, and both Leb i Sol tracks are very enjoyable too, veering sometimes more into melodic/bluesy rock. Difficult to rank these three, which is also why I put Mainhorse on top: a very energetic melodic rock track with that touch of sophistication... After that it becomes a bit of a toss-up:

1. Mainhorse - La Salamandre: 5 points
2. Leb i Sol - Akupunktura: 3 points
3. Smak - Domaci zadatak: 2 points
4 Leb i Sol - Damar: 1 point

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If we consider only Friede's first four suggestions (leaving out Hawkwind), then my ranking would be determined by two outstanding tracks and two very good tracks but less convincing. The ranking within each of these couples is rather arbitrary but here it goes:

1. Guru Guru: 5 points
2. Steve Hillage: 3 points
3. Embryo: 2 points
4. High Tide: 1 point

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Thanks, Nick! Being part of the game is what counts, but all prog polls should stay where they belong imo. Besides i'm not the biggest fan of the "nostalgia" kind of polls. :P Unless Lorenzo changes his mind, he wrote in his initial post that two songs per person shall get into the final. But let's wait and see.



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Originally posted by Mila-13 Mila-13 wrote:


@Lorenzo, how much time is left for voting and what about 4 votes per participant in the final voting?


Glad you changed your mind!

I’m assuming that when it comes time for voting, we will have only one of our suggestions in the poll, and it will be the one that has accumulated the most points.
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@Lorenzo, how much time is left for voting and what about 4 votes per participant in the final voting?



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I'm in after all, and here is my selection:

From Ex-Yugoslavia

1. Smak: Domaci zadatak (Album: Crna Dama, 1977)

2. Leb i sol: Akupunktura (Album: Leb i sol 2, 1978)

3. Leb i sol: Pod vodom (Album: Leb i sol, 1977)
song replaced, same album.

From Switzerland

4. Mainhorse, Patrick Moraz: La salamandre (La Salamandre OST, 1972)

La Salamandre, a film by Swiss film director Alain Tanner.



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