#6 1965-2023: In PA, One track per five years

National Health, Cardiacs, Swans. Can't really listen to all the stuff you put out in your polls, as much as I 'd like to.

Thanks all for the votes and comments.

As if I need to demonstrate my biases any more than I regularly do, here are the choices from the past in PA polls (I also did a not in PA series of polls). I choose sometimes not just based on being favourite, but for length (sometimes I want short, sometimes long), for contrast in the playlist, for being similar to others, for flow, based on current mood, based on current listening.... Often it's because one track leads to another in my thought process and I want to create playlist that interest me and my quirky tastes. And I do sometimes avoid some of the biggest in aid of hopefully turning some possibly kindred soul onto something they may not know and like. Anyway, here's are the past choices (plenty of replication of fave acts).

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The Soft Machine "Hibou, Anemone and Bear" (Volume Two, 1969)
Spirogyra "The Furthest Point" (Bells, Boots and Shambles, 1973)
Hawkwind "Spiral Galaxy 24968" (Warrior on the Edge of Time, 1975)
This Heat "Cenotaph" (Deceit, 1981)
Camberwell Now "Working Nights" (The Ghost Trade, 1986)
Swans "Love Will Save You" (White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, 1991)
Mr. Bungle "Pink Cigarette" (California, 1999)
Radiohead "Pyramid Song" (Amnesiac, 2001)
William D. Drake's "Seahorse" (Briny Hooves, 2007)*
North Sea Radio Orchestra "Morpheus Miracle Maker" (I a Moon, 2011)
Susanne Sundfor "Silencer" (Ten Love Songs, 2015)
Black Country, New Road - "Opus" (For the First Time, 2021)

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Kevin Ayers "Lady Rachel" (Joy of a Toy, 1969)
John Cale & Terry Riley "Church of Anthrax" (Church of Anthrax, 1971)
David Bowie "Move On" (Lodger, 1979)
Kate Bush "Night of the Swallow" (The Dreaming, 1982)
Thinking Plague "Lycanthrope" (In This Life, 1989)
Dead Can Dance "The Carnival Is Over" (Into the Labyrinth, 1993)
Cardiacs "Dirty Boy" (Sing to God, 1996)
Secret Chiefs 3 "Blaze of the Grail" (Book M, 2001)
Coil "Fire of the Mind" (The Age of Naples, 2005)
Kayo Dot "Calonyction Girl" (Coyote, 2010)
Anna von Hausswolff "Discovery" (The Miraculous, 2015)
Magick Brother & Mystic Sister "Les Vampires" (s/t, 2020)

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Miles Davis "Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio" (Sketches of Spain, 1960)
Frank Zappa "Peaches en Regalia" (Hot Rats, 1969)
Jan Dukes de Grey "Sun Symphonica" (Mice and Rats in the Loft, 1971)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi "Osorezan" (Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai, 1976)
Art Zoyd "Migrations" (Les espaces inquiets, 1983)
Cardiacs "Big Ship" (Big Ship, 1987)
Talk Talk "After the Flood" (Laughing Stock, 1991)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! "The Dead Flag Blues" (F♯A♯∞, 1997)
Shibusashirazu "Images" (Shibuboshi, 2004)
William D. Drake "Seahorse" (Briny Hooves, 2007)
Kosmischer Läufer "Der Traum des Jungen" (The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83: Vol. Three, 2014)
Swans - "The Glowing Man" (The Glowing Man, 2016)
Ciśnienie (with Lód 9) "Same Trupy" (The Brass Album, 2020)

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Fifty Foot Hose "Fantasy" (Cauldron, 1967)
Magma "Naü extila" (Kobaïa, 1970)
Cos "Mein Maschine ist schön" (Babel, 1978)
Eskaton "La danse des feux" (Fiction, 1983)
Swans "In My Garden" (Children of God, 1987)
John Zorn/ Naked City "Sunset Surfer" (Radio, 1993)
Tortoise "The Taut and the Tame" (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1996)
Dungen "Om du Vore en Vakthund" (Ta det lugnt, 2004)
North Sea Radio Orchestra "Kingstanding" (North Sea Radio Orchestra, 2006)
Goat "Det som aldrig förändras / Diarabi" (World Music, 2012)
Kikagaku Moyo "Green Sugar" (House in the Tall Grass, 2016)
black midi "Dangerous Liaisons" (Hellfire, 2022)

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East of Eden "Moth" (Mercator Projected, 1969)
Brave New World "The End" (Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley, 1972)
Bubu "El viaje de Anabelas" (Anabelas, 1978)
Dün "L'épice" (Eros, 1981)
Dead Can Dance "Advent" (Spleen and Ideal, 1985)
U Totem "Vagabond's Home" (U Totem, 1990)
Swans "Helpless Child" (Soundtracks for the Blind, 1996)
Explosions in the Sky "Your Hand in Mine" (The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, 2003)
Espers "Rosemary Lane" (The Weed Tree, 2005)
William D. Drake "Me Fish Bring" (The Rising of the Lights, 2011)
Anna von Hausswolff "Ugly and Vengeful" (Dead Magic, 2018)
Sprain "Margin for Error" (The Lamb as Effigy, 2023)

Edited by Logan - January 12 2024 at 07:18

Nice selection

Hammill!

National Health "Tenemos Roads" (National Health, 1978)

Cardiacs

Pentangle

Thanks, very pleased to see some interest, and what a great choice if I do so say myself. :)

Of course I love that Cardiacs track and much as it pulls me, since you gave it a vote, I will go with these three based on my whims du moment.

The Pentangle "Hunting Song"
Peter Hammill "A Louse Is Not a Home"
Black Country, New Road "The Place Where He Inserted the Blade"

We now return to your regularly scheduled Yes programming (j/k)

This is the sixth poll that I have done covering albums included in the discographies of Prog Archives band/artist listings where I list one release per five year period (one for 1965 to 1969, one for 1975 to 1979 etc.) I also have done four (or was it five?) polls with the same concept for releases not included in the Prog Archives database.

Multiple votes allowed, please vote for up to three (or more if such limitations are too restrictive for you). And please vote no more than once per album. Additionally, feel free to vote even if you have very limited knowledge. Comments on the selections are appreciated even if not on the positive side, and feel free to mention your own favourites off any of the albums. I hope some will come up with their own lists and polls. I don't only like to share that which I like, I like to check out what others like.

The Pentangle "Hunting Song" (Basket of Light, 1969)
Peter Hammill "A Louse Is Not a Home" (The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, 1974)
National Health "Tenemos Roads" (National Health, 1978)
Magma "Theusz Hamtaahk" (Rétrospective Vol. 1 & 2, 1981)
Cardiacs "The Whole World Window" (A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, 1988)
Pram "Blue" (Helium, 1994)
Radiohead "Exit Music (For a Film)" (OK Computer, 1997)
Mogwai "Killing All the Flies" (Happy Songs for Happy People, 2003)
Angels of Light "Star Chaser" (We Are Him, 2007)
Swans "Bring the Sun / Toussaint l'Ouverture" (To Be Kind, 2014)
black midi "Ducter" (Schlagenheim, 2019)
Black Country, New Road "The Place Where He Inserted the Blade" (Ants From Up There, 2022)

I made a youtube playlist of the tracks in case anyone wants to check out any of the music.