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Poll Question: Come on add a song!
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All great choices and listening to them all at different time of the night and day when I felt different I changed my mind a few times. In the end I came to these 3 tracks:

Lambchop - Up with People
Loved this track from the outset as I had never heard it before. The intro was so cool then vocally with a kind of John Martyn/Robert Plant mixed feel. Quite current in style too even for the early 2000s. A nice overall groove and subtle backing vocals with a great brass section.  

Foals: Heavy Water
Took me back to the late 80s early 90s for some reason but I especially liked the middle part of the tune and again, I loved the small brass section towards the end and the whole smoothness but jerky accents in the song structure. 

Nick Drake: Riverman
Thoughtful and dreamy and would do well on my playlist. Melancholic but soothing, and very much iconic of the late 60s where being a poet with a guitar was the thing to be. The English Tim Buckley.  
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Just three is hard.

Lambchop - "Up With People". I really loved this one, and also loved it from the outset not having heard it before. I love this sort of laid back but interesting and kind of quirky, mellow, chamber pop, countryish brass with some gospel vibe, and this is the kind of thing I have been very into of late. I'm definitely going to be checking out more of this band. It left me feeling great.

Ratso - "I Want Everything" (ft. Yasmine Hamdan). I'm not good at describing music, but again, this sort of alternative vibe is just the kind of music that I've been digging of late. I like that mellow and gruff vibe. Very nice. Musically, it remind me a bit of the Rolling Stones "Miss You".

Foals - "Heavy Water". Very much what I'm in the mood for right now. Great Indie-Rock punkish/ ska-like sound. I like the jagged and smoothe qualities.
It remind me of some Fripp music. Love the brass accents.

CSI: L'ora delle tentazioni and Anna & Elizabeth's Little Black Train I had thought I might go for too, but those other three just fit my vibes well at the moment. I really liked most of the music that was posted, so thanks to everyone who participated.
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I'm listening and writing about our songs.....

See you later...
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Hi,

Heard them all ... 

Nice to watch Helmut Hattler ... although I'm not sure this is his best stuff.

Luna Amara ... very enjoyable. 

Sonia Dada ... crazy stuff ... strong.

Ratso ... nice to see someone else not try to be cool and sing. Very nice song.

Parliament ... still a very enjoyable listen.

Nick Drake ... 'nough said ... always good. 

Illinois Speed Press ... heard them in Madison, and I think they were in that huge concert near Green Bay ... have to check! 

Lambchop ... still resonates after all these years ... wonderful stuff and more folks need to do this these days. 
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Picked my three:

Sonia Dada - Nice cra cra stuff
Freak Kitchen - Cool
Hattler - Great R&B style
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My votes (own selection excluded):

Nick Drake (loved this song for 40 years)
Luna Amara
CSI

Also good: Foals, Anna & Elizabeth, Illinois Speed Press, Freak Kitchen, Ratso


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I won't vote for my own, and neither will I vote for Foals. Big fan here, but somehow this song for me isn't among their best, and also it'd block a vote for stuff that I wasn't that familiar with before.
Nick Drake - I heard this one before but it didn't hit me as it has done today. Absolutely great!
CSI - Great very special emotional music.
Luna Amara - very charming songwriting.
Shoes - Anna & Elizabeth - Lambchop not far behind, and I actually enjoyed all of them. Respect mosh for coming back! Let's keep this going!


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-Nick Drake- Riverman....been a fan for a long time....love his music.
-The Shoes- Time ....   not aware of them..thought it was the American power pop band from the 70's
like this psychy rock song
-Ides Of March-Vehicle.....being from the Chicago area I'm very familiar with them and always liked this track

All the songs were interesting but I tend to like more trad sounds which is why i chose those three.
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My choices:
I like very very much: 
1) SONIA DADA: JUNGLE. This is a truly contemporary, syncretic fusion song (funk, rap, heavy metal), with a stinging but very refined sound and an exceptional performance. Enhtralling and surprising. MASTERPIECE


2) LUNA AMARA: DEAD ENDS. Rock ballad dominated by the wonderful voice of the singer, and by the melody of the trumpet. It is a traditional pop-rock song, verse-refrain, which manages to get the best out of the arrangement and emphatic interpretation of the singer. The engaging emotional side is essential to appreciate it. I like it very much. ALMOST MASTERPIECE.

Then... it's not easy to choose between OTHER two "almost masterpiece" that I like very much. 

- Nick Drake: Riverman. Poignant, simple song, all based on melody. But this is the typical song that I call inspired and immediate, because it touches the strings of your heart. Drake's voice is perfectly suited to the mood of the song and the arrangement with the strings, very creative, raises the quality of the song.

- Freak Kitchen: Porno Daddy. Heavy metal arrangement, with very fast guitar slits, conventional verse-refrain structure but with great care for arrangement and composition, which always creates variations. Song powerful, that gives the charge, engaging.


BUT I CHOOSE 3) PORNO DADDY BECAUSE IT IS A SURPRISE FOR ME (i DIDNT KNOW FREAK KITCHEN.)


Other songs I like very much:
- THE ILLINOIS SPEED PRESS: Beauty. Californian rock and roll with great solos on the electric guitars.

-Foals: Heavy Waters. Rhythm-based electronium beginning with choirs with a decorative role. Characteristic is the sound, and the song gives its best in the surprising instrumental piece, completely creative, almost an improvised jam, syncopated in funky-jazz style. Too bad that in the end the sung part and the song fades without returning anything new. Notable song but missed masterpiece.

- ANNA & ELIZABETH: Little Black Train. Simple song, all based on country melody and vocal interpretation, both remarkable. It gives a nice pleasure, which is what I attribute to the true inspiration associated with immediacy.

Other songs very good to my ears:
- Hattler: Assalamu Alaikum. A basically soulful song with a pop-rock arrangement and remarkable guitar work. Strange the effect of the refrain with words in Arabic.

- Shoes: The Acid rock and roll with a typical Sixities arrangement (rock, psychedelia, beat), good creativity, interesting instrumental part, almost cacophonic, near to a jam-session.


Other good songs to my ears:
- Ides of March: Vehicle. Live song with a orchestral jazz arrangement, very exuberant, characterized by the powerful voice of the singer. It is not a genre that I love very much. Reminds me of the Colosseums with Chris Farlowe.

- Parliament: Mothership connection. Here we listen to a noisy funky, very uncouth, very spontaneous, it seems almost improvised, and there is something of a reggae. To be listened to while smoking marijuana because it remains the same from start to finish. It relaxes me and puts me in a good mood but does not exalt me. All based on rhythm, vocal interpretation and wind instruments. Tr

NOT EXACTLY OF MY TASTE:
-RATSO: I WANT EVERYTHING. The voice of the singer recalls Leonard Cohen! And even the atmosphere, languid, vaguely erotic, with the voice of a chorister in the background. Very relaxing song, to be heard at night with a woman before.... 

-LAMBCHOP: Pop song, airy, carefree, relaxed, all based on the singing and the light melody, minimal arrangement with percussion that are repeated so that it does not exalt me.


Edited by jamesbaldwin - May 19 2020 at 13:02
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The Illinois Speed Press and Nick Drake
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Time for CSI to be noticed here, strange but geat stuff.
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Few votes till now.

COME ON BOYS!
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

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Other good songs to my ears:
- Ides of March: Vehicle. Live song with a orchestral jazz arrangement, very exuberant, characterized by the powerful voice of the singer. It is not a genre that I love very much. Reminds me of the Colosseums with Chris Farlowe.
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Hi, 

Same time element, although I think that Ides of March were more influenced by CHICAGO and SONS OF CHAMPLIN than anything else. AND both of these had been doing shows in the Chicago area for some time, and were well known even before they were "signed" and their albums became known.

Ides of March started way before, but hit it big with the single in mid 1970.
Sons of Champlin very early but not "signed" until 1968. 
Colosseum mostly between 1968-1971


Edited by moshkito - May 20 2020 at 08:15
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Few votes till now.

COME ON BOYS!


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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Few votes till now.

COME ON BOYS!



Start a new set of 10 before you lose all of us LOL 


Haha, yes, I thought about posting something similar.

A quicker series might build up some momentum. Maybe a time frame for choosing the “winner” would help, as having a winner is part of the MO, but no reason why there can’t be multiple ones running at the same time.

Theese are all winners for me. There was only one I didn’t initially like much due to a certain anti-metal bias, and that I subsequently liked much more. I do plan to go rather more obscure next time with my choice even if not really obscure.
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by the way, let’s not forget that we are not all boys here. Some of us may be gender fluid, some may indentify as gender neutral, and some are even chicks! * So let’s not sound sexist or gender biased.

* using the term chicks in coordination with the sexist term is a sort of joke in case it’s not obvious to all
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My three votes.

1. My entry... Freak Kitchen.

2. Luna Amara - Cool melancholic groove. Like the trumpet. Catchy chorus. Sounds modern.

3. Sonia Dada - Wacky fun stuff. "No disco in the jungle." Right on! The screaming vocals are a bit much.
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far out man.. looks interesting based on ya'lls comments... I'll start listening and hopefully get my sh*t, thoughts and votes in order this evening..
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

by the way, let’s not forget that we are not all boys here. Some of us may be gender fluid, some may indentify as gender neutral, and some are even chicks! * So let’s not sound sexist or gender biased.

* using the term chicks in coordination with the sexist term is a sort of joke in case it’s not obvious to all

When I was young, and a huge fan of Springsteen, I wondered: why does Bruce have so few female fans? Now that I love prog I say to myself: but how is it that for prog there are above all male fans? It is not a good thing! 

And in fact how is my partner? She loves Italian melodic music, the one that comes from melodrama, from opera, similar to the Sanremo festival! And I have to listen to Tiziano Ferro or Jovanotti, or Vasco Rossi, or Eros Ramazzotti: I can't stand them! When I put Van der Graaf's music in the car, she says that music annoys her, irritates her (the only one she likes is Refugee). With Springsteen it's already better, she bears it more and she appreciates many songs. It must be said that she is from southern Italy, and I from Milan, I am Central European (Mitteleuropäisch) in all respects, she is still tied to the Byzantine culture.
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