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Poll Question: Who's your favourite Prog-related Dutch band?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [6.82%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [9.09%]
1 [2.27%]
17 [38.64%]
4 [9.09%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [11.36%]
1 [2.27%]
2 [4.55%]
4 [9.09%]
3 [6.82%]
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    Posted: April 15 2020 at 11:17
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Kayak - for those first five albums!!!
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

The Cats are Palingpop, not quite a subgenre, but rather a geographical indication, my small country's counterpart of RPI1: They come from Volendam, a picturesque fishermen's village.


Originally posted by socrates17 socrates17 wrote:

Other - Gruppo Sportivo
 

They are about as proggy as The Cats, anyway… Wink

1) On the other hand, Krautrock, though it seems geographical, may be regarded as a subgenre.

Agreed.  But I am of an extremely literalist bent, and the poll asked for "Favorite Dutch Band".  Equally, I could have gone the other way and cited the Willem Breuker Kollektief, which was one of my favorite jazz bands.
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There was underground Dutch band Kracq with very blurred/lo-fi sound.
Their only 1978 album Circumvision stuck in my head.
This style is really intriguing, has all shades of grayness and brings to mind French Ocarinah and generally "French style" prog a bit.

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(0:45 piano melody brings to mind some melody from Anglarard or Morte Macabre)

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Ayreon?


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Maybe it's time for a Krautrock poll. Wink
 

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Maybe it's time for a Krautrock poll. Wink
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Alquin. Focus and Supersister also have a place in my national top 5. I only wonder what Shocking Blue and The Cats are doing in a list of prog related bands...
 
Shocking Blue are a Psychedelic Rock band and Psychedelic Rock is listed as one of the many sub-genres of Prog-Rock on the main page of Prog Archives. Smile
 
I included The Cats on the grounds that they're a Psychedelic Pop band, although admittedly, it might be a bit of a stretch to call them "Prog-related" Wink
 

The Cats are Palingpop, not quite a subgenre, but rather a geographical indication, my small country's counterpart of RPI1: They come from Volendam, a picturesque fishermen's village.


Originally posted by socrates17 socrates17 wrote:

Other - Gruppo Sportivo
 

They are about as proggy as The Cats, anyway… Wink

1) On the other hand, Krautrock, though it seems geographical, may be regarded as a subgenre.


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Trace, which isn't on the list.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

SBB is Polish I'd always thought, unless SBB is being used as initialism for something else.

You’re right. I guess I got confused.
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SBB is Polish I'd always thought, unless SBB is being used as initialism for something else.
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Most likely Focus will win, so I voted for Golden Earring. If SBB was in this poll, my vote would go for them.
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If that last option is meant to be "other", that's what I chose - and it's PESTILENCE!

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I generally don't like Kayak compilations because they 'focus' on the radio friendly stuff. ie Wintertime is a good song but not reflective of their early seventies output.
 
There's also a Focus compilation that focuses on the radio friendly stuff. Tongue
 
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I generally don't like Kayak compilations because they 'focus' on the radio friendly stuff. ie Wintertime is a good song but not reflective of their early seventies output.
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This 2-CD compilation album is a good introduction to the band.
 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

maybe I need to give Kayak another chance. I don't remember what I heard from them that kinda put me off...
 

Their second album Kayak II is their best imo .

They did get a bit lame from about 78-82 and then there are the more recent 'Prog Opera' albums (Merlin, Nostradamus and Cleopatra) that will always divide opinion!
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