Interactive Polls #18: Free-For-All

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Topic: Interactive Polls #18: Free-For-All
Posted: September 03 2020 at 16:05

My votes:

Angelo Branduardi - "Confessioni di un Malandrino"

Them Crooked Vultures - "Elephants"

Hidden Orchestra - "Flight"

Edited by The Anders - September 03 2020 at 16:05

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Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:35

My three votes go to:

1. Them Crooked Vultures - "Elephants"
2. Hank Dogs - "18 Dogs"
3. Stringtronics - "Dawn Mist"

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Posted: September 02 2020 at 16:22

Raff wrote:

Once again, I would like to thank Lorenzo for first coming up with this great idea, and everyone else who has been contributing regularly. If it wasn't for these polls, I'd have stopped visiting the site altogether. These days, it annoys me quite a bit. The stupidity of some threads is really overwhelming.

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Posted: September 02 2020 at 16:16

Ok, here we are.

My podium

1) Confessioni di un malandrino. Well, I am surprised that this song got so much success, because it is quite simple from the harmonic point of view and above all the arrangement, and it would have been very good in the thread on the acoustic songs of the singers / authors, in fact it is based on the lyrics, beautiful, very refined, which finds inspiration, as Raff said, from a poem by Esenin. In any case it is a song that I know by heart, one of the best written by Branduardi despite its simplicity and monotony, proving that when there is inspiration and excellent melody, it takes little to excite.

2) Where did John Brown of the Masters of Reality go? I would have played this song, taken from an album that I know very well, but I see that it has been discarded, and so .... who is it?

Orange Blossom

3) Stringtonics

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Honorable mentions:

4) Alice Cooper

5) Hank Dogs

6) Kogenkunst

7) Kristin Hersch

8) Black Sabbath

Great poll!

Edited by jamesbaldwin - September 02 2020 at 16:20

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Posted: September 01 2020 at 16:00

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The Anders wrote:

I cannot access Ginger Baker - "Mektoub". I guess it is somewhere in the "Middle Passage" clip, but that is blocked here. I couldn't find it on Spotify either :(

Try this bandcamp link.

Thanks a lot. It works :)

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Posted: September 01 2020 at 15:59

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The Jelly Jam - "Care": And enter the heavy rock area. With members of Dream Theatre apparently, it seems like some sort of supergroup. My main association is 90's rock music. Not what I listen to the most, but I like the song.

Just one Dream Theater member, bassist John Myung. He's got a nice friendship and collaboration with Ty Tabor and Rod Morgentern, they made 6 albums together (2 Platypus and 4 Jelly Jam).

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Posted: September 01 2020 at 15:52

The Anders wrote:

I cannot access Ginger Baker - "Mektoub". I guess it is somewhere in the "Middle Passage" clip, but that is blocked here. I couldn't find it on Spotify either :(

Try this bandcamp link.

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Posted: September 01 2020 at 15:40

Orange Blossom - "Cheft el Khof": If I am not mistaken, this is what they call drum'n bass. Acknowledging its qualities, it is not really my taste, sadly. I like the middle eastern sounds though.

Kristin Hersch - "Your Ghost": Melancholic singer/songwriter. Somehow it reminds me a bit of R.E.M. I think I need to listen to it some more times, but it's certainly not uninteresting.

Them Crooked Vultures - "Elephants": Riff-heavy hard rock. It's Dave Grohl playing drums if I am not mistaken? I like what I hear, especially the super-tight groove and the chord changes.

Ginger Baker - "Mektoub": I probably need to listen to this again, but my first impression is positive. Interesting drumming in any case.

Hidden Orchestra - "Flight": Another very interesting track. Quite dreamy, with sounds faded in and out. Evolves slowly, building a tension.

Black Sabbath - "Air Dance": Not being that much into Black Sabbath, my main references are the likes of "Paranoid" and "Iron Man". Listening to this, it sounds like a totally different band. I'm a bit unsure of what to think of it.

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Posted: September 01 2020 at 15:35

I cannot access Ginger Baker - "Mektoub". I guess it is somewhere in the "Middle Passage" clip, but that is blocked here. I couldn't find it on Spotify either :(

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 16:05

^ Thanks a lot.

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 16:01

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Angelo Branduardi - "Confessioni di un Malandrino": A very classic type of vise/ballade/chanson/canzone with tasteful classical guitar. I would like to see a translation of the lyrics (sorry if there is already posted one, I'll check it out); without understanding Italian, it seems to me like a sort of narrative song, which of course is very common within the genre of vise/ballade/chanson/canzone.

The song lyrics are an Italian translation of a poem by Russian author Sergei Yesenin. Here is the English translation (acceptable, though nowhere as beautiful as the original), which I posted in my original submission:

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 15:42

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OK, my votes have just been cast. Here's how it went:

Ginger Baker - Mektoub: excellent world fusion with stellar musicianship. The whole album is very well worth a listen (and more);

Hidden Orchestra - Flight: authentically progressive music, impossible to label. I was already familiar with the band, but not with this song;

Hank Dogs - 18 Dogs: another lovely folk gem courtesy of Nickie. Right up my alley!

Honourable mentions:

FC/Kahuna - Hayling: oddly infectious and very easy on the ears in its unique way;

Them Crooked Vultures - Elephant: great hard rock with the added value of John Paul Jones (the real genius in Led Zep).

I was already familiar with Kristin Hersch's song (we have the album at home), so I didn't include it in my selections. On the whole, another outstanding edition of our Interactive Poll! Looking forward to the next one.

So glad you enjoyed the Hank Dogs, Raff! They were sorely underappreciated in their time.

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 15:37

FC/Kahuna - "Hayling": Very interesting intro with several pling/plong sounds. A bit triphop-like overall. The voice sounds autotuned to me, but I am sure it is meant as an artistic twist, not because she can't hit the right pitch. Personally I have always found it hard to appreciate the type of track where there is one or two sentences that are repeated over and over again throughout the song. But I do like the track musically.

Alice Cooper - "Killer": I have heard it before a couple of times as I once had the Killer album copied to a cassette tape. But it's very long time ago, so I can't really recognise it. Really like the blues feel about it, and I absolutely love the guitar work. Kind of proggy song structure.

Stringtronics - "Dawn Mist": I had never heard of Stringtronics before. They seem to be from the early 70's, but it actually sounds very ahead of its time and makes me think of music from the 90's. Wonder if Portishead knew them.

Hank Dogs - "18 Dogs": Another band I didn't know about. That type of folk is not so much my taste, but I fully acknowledge its qualities.

Vitalba - "Fiure di Palestina": Is it some sort of protest song? Once again we're in the folky area. I really like the vocal harmonies a lot. The song itself doesn't entirely grab me, unfortunately.

Ted Nugent - "Free-For-All": This one I already knew. I sometimes do have a passion for very basic rock'n'roll, but this one is not really for me. I like the gliding guitar notes though. Kind of Clapton'ish...

ErichWK, Snappleman, Maiko - "Smile and Tears". This sounds like quite a style confusion to me (which is not not necessarily a bad thing). The synth intro and melodic piano notes sound like they're from a totally different song than the drumbeat. Then there is the anthemic guitar solo. My favourite part is probably the synth break halfway. But overall it's hard for me to decide what to think of it.

Edited by The Anders - August 31 2020 at 16:25

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 15:12

Once again, I would like to thank Lorenzo for first coming up with this great idea, and everyone else who has been contributing regularly. If it wasn't for these polls, I'd have stopped visiting the site altogether. These days, it annoys me quite a bit. The stupidity of some threads is really overwhelming.

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 12:46

Lewian wrote:

suitkees wrote:

Lewian wrote:

Errr. First six, there's still also Kristin Hersh... makes things no easier...

Listen again and it will become eight... LOL

I'm wise and now only listen to those six! Wink

Despite liking that Black Sabbath one quite a bit, it doesn't reach me as directly emotionally as the others. And then it becomes really really hard. They're all of this quality that I listen to them and am 100% in it... they don't give me reasons to vote against them really... so what do I do? Well, I suspect myself of some anti-American and pro-continental European bias... so I do the opposite and vote the Americans in this time. Hank Dogs, Kristin Hersh... and I can't get around that Ginger Baker thing, which has the great Jah Wobble on it! Sorry raff and Lorenzo, these are great suggestions and I just love them as much, but a line has to be drawn...

Just for the record, Hank Dogs are English (but I am American)...but glad you enjoyed them. This was terribly hard, I hard the largest amount of things to give a third listen to decide than ever before, and pretty much only took out the ones I'd heard before, of which there were some real gems, also.

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 12:44

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Snicolette wrote:

This! Clap

And I purchased a download of the Yar Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson recording, although that wasn't your nomination, for some reason it resonated well for me. Thanks!

This is the pleasure of exchanging music! My list of music-to-buy is also growing thanks to these polls (and Hank Dogs is on it, now), but I still like those tangible things called LPs or CDs... Smile

Me too, but I've been preferring CDs. I truly prefer LPs but for space I just have saved my about 250 rare ones and only play them sparingly (I also have CDs of the same now pretty much, so can save the vinyl). That collaboration only offered LP or download, so I felt I liked and listened to it enough that I must in good conscience, buy it. I try to be as supportive of artists as I can be, as I would have done in the past when there was no other option.

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 11:34

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster

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I'll have to listen to the tracks again to choose my second and third votes.

I've narrowed my second and third votes to the following six:

FC/Kahuna - "Hayling"
Stringtronics - "Dawn Mist"
Hank Dogs - "18 Dogs"
Ginger Baker - "Mektoub"
Orange Blossom - "Cheft el Khof"
Hidden Orchestra - "Flight"

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 11:08

suitkees wrote:

Lewian wrote:

Errr. First six, there's still also Kristin Hersh... makes things no easier...

Listen again and it will become eight... LOL

I'm wise and now only listen to those six! Wink

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Posted: August 31 2020 at 11:01

Lewian wrote:

Errr. First six, there's still also Kristin Hersh... makes things no easier...

Listen again and it will become eight... LOL

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