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ozzy_tom 
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 14:03 |
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What's your favorite top 10 of the most organ-driven albums?
My choices:
1.Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Tarkus"(1971)
2.Eloy - "Inside"(1973)
3.Par Lindh Project - "Mundus Incompertus"(1997)
4.Still Life - "Still Life"(1971)
5.Trikolon - "Cluster"(1969)
6.Bodkin - "Bodkin"(1972)
7.Ars Nova - "Chrysalis - Force for the Fourth"(2006)
8.Collegium Musicum - "Konvergencie"(2CD version)(1971)
9.Birth Control - "Birth Control"(1970)
10.Skaldowie - "Krywań, Krywań"(1973)
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progismylife
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 14:05 |
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Rick Wakeman - Judas Iscariot
That is the only one I can remember right now. It is really cool.
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polyrythmic
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 14:43 |
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Tarkus for me.
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laplace
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 14:50 |
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The Eloy album is a particularly good pick. I'd like to add "Of Queues and Cures" by National Health if I may.
Out of interest, what style do Trikolon and Skaldowie play? I don't think I've heard the names before today.
Edited by laplace - January 13 2007 at 14:51
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salmacis
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 14:55 |
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Uriah Heep's 'Look At Yourself' is literally dripping with Hammond organ.
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:02 |
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Trikolon is a German band which recorded only this one album in 1969. They played very organ-based prog rock (art rock/symphonic prog/proto-prog) in the vein of The Nice. They were a trio (so there are no guitars). For example they played their own version of "Rondo" and ..."Fugue in D Minor". Highly recommended less known band.
Skaldowie is a Polish band which usually played pop-folk stuff but besides such a records they also recorded two great Symphonic/Art rock albums: "Krywań, Krywań"(with more then 17 minutes title suite) & "Stworzenia Świata Część Druga"(with title suite more then 19 minutes). Their organist is very high skilled (for example in "Krywań, Krywań" he plays excerts from "Light Cavalry" & "Pictures at an Exhibition"). Unfortunatelly in Poland they are wel known only as a pop band :-/. Anyway you can read something about them in PA. (Trikolon isn't even listed in this site so you can imagine how they are less-known :-) ).
Edited by ozzy_tom - January 13 2007 at 15:03
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hazard
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:08 |
Elp - Brain Salad Surgery
Edited by hazard - January 13 2007 at 15:11
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...
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The Rock
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:16 |
1.Uriah Heep ''Look at Yourself''
2.Deep Purple ''In Rock''
3.ELP ''Tarkus''
4.Quatermass ''self-titled''
5.Trace ''self-titled''
6Atomic Rooster ''Death walks behind''
7.Wicked Minds ''self-titled''
8.Jane ''Lady''
9.Zarathustra ''self-titled''
10.Le Orme ''Contrapuntti''
and hundreds of others....
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The Rock
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:17 |
 ozzy_tom wrote:
Trikolon is a German band which recorded only this one album in 1969. They played very organ-based prog rock (art rock/symphonic prog/proto-prog) in the vein of The Nice. They were a trio (so there are no guitars). For example they played their own version of "Rondo" and ..."Fugue in D Minor". Highly recommended less known band.
Skaldowie is a Polish band which usually played pop-folk stuff but besides such a records they also recorded two great Symphonic/Art rock albums: "Krywań, Krywań"(with more then 17 minutes title suite) & "Stworzenia Świata Część Druga"(with title suite more then 19 minutes). Their organist is very high skilled (for example in "Krywań, Krywań" he plays excerts from "Light Cavalry" & "Pictures at an Exhibition"). Unfortunatelly in Poland they are wel known only as a pop band :-/. Anyway you can read something about them in PA. (Trikolon isn't even listed in this site so you can imagine how they are less-known :-) ).
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Trikolon became Tetragon if I'm not mistaken?
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:32 |
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Yes Trikolon changed to Tetragon when guitarist joined them. They also made only one album under this name (called "Nature"(1971)). But I don't like this formation as much as Trikolon. Tetragon was more jazzy and that's why guitar became more important then organ in this record.
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:38 |
| 7.Wicked Minds ''self-titled''[ |
I suppose that you think about "From The Purple Skies" 'cause Wicked Minds doesn't have any self-titled album  .
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The Rock
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:48 |
uh.....Yes exactly!That's what I meant.
Btw,I do have Nature by Tetragon.You're right about it,some parts sounds like The Doors....
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 15:53 |
An Old Castle In Transylvania by Japanese band Cosmos Factory is a mindblowing organ driven album 
Others:
La Leyla by Ramses (Germany)
Collage by Le Orme (Italy)
Curses And Invocations by Standarte (Italy)
Hanson & Karlsson - Compilation CD (Sweden)
Crusis by Crusis (Argentina)
The Goddess Of Darkness by Ars Nova (Japan)
Inside by Eloy (Germany)
Sursum Corda by Quill (USA)
Live (?) by Collegium Musicum (Chech)
Live by Jane (Germany)
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 16:01 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Curses And Invocations by Standarte (Italy)
Sursum Corda by Quill (USA)
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I have to check this "Quill" 'cause I know all of your other choices and I have to say that they are all really great.
From "Standarte" I have only their self-titled album and "Stimmung". So I'll have to check this one too .
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endlessepic
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 16:37 |
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What about "Pictures at an Exhibition" Pscychadelic organ on that one!
BSS is the most well arranged organ romp. Tarkus is pretty decent too.
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dwill123
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 16:58 |
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Tarkus - ELP
Focus 3 - Focus
Octopus - Gentle Giant
True Stories - David Sancious & Tone
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 18:24 |
I am just back home from my late shift and, as a Hammond freak, immediately checked my collection, here some additions to my previous organ-driven list:
- eponymous Alphataurus album
- eponymous Corte Dei Miracoli album
- Odyssey - Setting Forth
- Social Tension - It Reminds Me Of MacBethia
- Ache - De Homine Urbano + Green Man
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 21:45 |
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the first off the top of my head:
The Doors-- S/T
Atomic Rooster--Death Walks Behind You
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progismylife
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 21:50 |
rileydog22 wrote:
Atomic Rooster--Death Walks Behind You
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I just reviewed that album. Amazing organ playing. 
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micky
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 21:56 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
An Old Castle In Transylvania by Japanese band Cosmos Factory is a mindblowing organ driven album
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damn right.. that's a great album.
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