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Poll Question: Pick 3 of your favorites
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [2.22%]
3 [6.67%]
2 [4.44%]
1 [2.22%]
5 [11.11%]
1 [2.22%]
1 [2.22%]
1 [2.22%]
3 [6.67%]
2 [4.44%]
3 [6.67%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [6.67%]
4 [8.89%]
6 [13.33%]
7 [15.56%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [4.44%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Just voted for my three picks. I went with Planxty, Seckou Keita and Enter the Haggis. Great job everyone! I'd like to volunteer for #4.
  It'll be fun to see what parameters you come up with!  
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she hasn't told me.. all i can say is will be without carwrecks, traincrashes and puking in a wastecan

she is the yin to my wang..  I am chaos and imperfection personified.. she is order and perfection personified Heart
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Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

This was very tough.  I think it all would depend on the mood I'm in.  But as for today.  Mickey, I loved your Tania Maria selection.  Her vocals and piano would melt glass.  
 

yeah I absolutely love her voice and she is no slouch on the keys either.  Here was my favorite from the album.. for the poll I went with the one that got me introduced to her, and this album, but this was the one that solidified my love of the album


Ok I am sold Micky.  I gotta get me some more of that.

yeah.. I should have gone with that one.. if I was interested in racking up the votes. It was the highpoint of the album.  She has quite the career and discography....and I have barely scratched the surface of it myself. Perhaps if Guigo were still around the forums he could illuminate her better than I could.
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

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Thank you!  Being a harp player, I do know a lot of unusual harpers


Did you know this one? To understand the humour here, you need to know about djent music. I hate that crap, and want it out of progressive metal more than anything else; it is my biggest wish regarding music. Djent guitarists generally use many-stringed electric guitars. 8-strings is quite common, for instance.

I think the video is hilarious and the harp player plays a cool tune, haha.


now THAT is what you chose when whoring selections for votes man.. that ruled!!!!
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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:


So, bonus vids.

Goddesses of Bagpipes with the Snake Charmer:

And, Beavis and Butthead would have been overloaded if I had posted this Thunderpussy video instead:


ahhh.. hahahhah
 
*double beer spray on monitor*




time for a smoke and fresh beer after those 2 videos.. 
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Some Ten Years After....



So, suggestions that aren't some weird-a** harp variant of rock and roll aren't accepted or what?
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

she hasn't told me.. all i can say is will be without carwrecks, traincrashes and puking in a wastecan

she is the yin to my wang..  I am chaos and imperfection personified.. she is order and perfection personified Heart
  Sweet!  
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Some Ten Years After....



So, suggestions that aren't some weird-a** harp variant of rock and roll aren't accepted or what?

nah.. those just get no votes LOL  Short of complete chaos and there was enough of it it here.. I had to cut off submissions at some point and get to voting.  Raff should start one next Saturday or so and take admsssions.




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Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

We used to carry them on our buses, and we were living in the Denver area when they were big.  Great band and I loved their version of that song!  BUT was trying to stick to things I hadn't heard before when deciding on the runners-up.  I did go with something I had heard before, but only because it always affects me the same way and I hadn't heard it in ages.
 
I usually try to vote for bands or songs I haven't heard before too, but that doesn't completely rule them out.  The one I'm going to pick next is an odd one, but performed by a fairly well known band, and track that I am sure not many have heard.  I'm interested to see what everyone thinks of it.
 
In the meantime, here is another song from Big Head Todd and the Monsters that more closely resembles their style for those that are interested. 
 

I like that and if this one was more true to their style I really liked it. Very laid back and chill .. and yeah.. might have been a better choice for the poll. I vaguely remember hearing of the group..the song you picked was the only one i could have named by the group.  I was a in very bad place in my life when I guess they were popular and don't remember much new music wise since I was often waking up in unknown beds and occasionally dumpsters with Billie Holiday songs still ringing in my ears but few precious memories of how i arrived there.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

[QUOTE=The Dark Elf]Some Ten Years After....



So, suggestions that aren't some weird-a** harp variant of rock and roll aren't accepted or what?

I am SO tempted to only find weird-a** harp variants of rock for all of the ensuing polls.  Wink  
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OK let's see...
8) Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Iconic stuff really. Maybe heard a bit too much of this kind of thing in my life already.
7) Time Machine - I understand how they get everyone in a good mood there. Maybe a bit too lyrics oriented (and the problem isn't that it's Russian)
6) Planxty - There may be days on which I'd vote for this... love much of this kind of stuff and it's well done, but today I'm not in the mood for it.
5) Tania Maria - The poll was up to a good start with this one, love the piano in particular! It's also groovy. The composition eventually doesn't quite cut the mustard (of course you can say that shouldn't matter for this kind of music - but then there's other all too cool stuff).
4) Thunderpussy - Yeah, this is how rock music should be played! Misses top 3 narrowly because the singer at the end demands a bit too much of herself.
3) Enter the Haggis - I had this on first position in the first go. It makes it almost too easy for me to like it, sharp instrumental with folk elements and original instrumentation, but the first two seem to have more hidden secrets.
2) New York Stories - Incredibly full sound for youtube, I almost sensed them playing around me. Wasn't quite sure where to rank them at first try, but after I had gone through everything once or twice and this came up again, it was a clear vote in.
1) Seckou Keita - Yes I vote for Snicolette's one again! Actually didn't think it'd be first three on first go, but there I listened too superficially also having my nose in some other stuff, and it couldn't draw me out. But when I took the time to concentrate on it, oh how it hit home!
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*curtseys*  

It wasn't even a dead guy!  Or a suicide!  Honestly, that man just exudes happiness when he plays.  
So glad that others are discovering him and enjoying the music.
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Time machine - Conversation on the train ----Time machine play popular folk music that could resemble Italy's Romagna ballroom dancing. Everything has a spontaneous and amateurish sound, which in Italy I could hear at a village festival while I drink beer and eat pork chops. It amused me, for heaven's sake, but it doesn't get to the top 3.

Sort Sol - Daughter of Sad (1991) is an electric ballad, with a beautiful warm voice, which alternates atmospheric moments with hard rock passages with distorted, almost cacophonic guitars. It certainly affects the listener.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Boom Boom Boom is a blues classic, which I first heard sung by Bruce Springsteen. I'm not excited about this version. I like the guitar solo.


New York Stories - Dolly's Ditty is a rockblues instrumental piece, almost a jam, with a nice trumpet solo. Good music, this is not discussed. But... is it in my top 3?


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Ok, here's to you my ranking.

TOP 3: 

1) Thunder Pussy - Velvet Noose. 

2) Stan Ridgway – Drive, She Said 

3) Sort Sol - Daughter of Sad (1991)


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4) New York Stories - Dolly's Ditty


5) Comsat Angels – Our Secrets


6) Seckou Keita – Rewmi live : very tribal song. Interesting musical arrangements. I would say tribal-rock / fusion. Could It enter my top 3? Hmmmmm We will see.


7) Enter the Haggis -Lancastar Gate


8) Adrian Enescu - Autostrada





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1. Seckou Keita
2. Enter the Haggis
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Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

   I'm a fan of Comsat Angels already,

Good to know I'm not alone. Criminally underrated and far too little known band. Dean is another Fan on PA. Certainly a top 5 band for me!

By the way, after three rather dark albums they also had some kind of pop turn for two albums or so before they went back to post punk, and different from Genesis and the like I love their more poppy stuff as well. By the way, I recently discovered that their singer, guitarist and master mind Stephen Fellows has put out a solo album on bandcamp early 2020, 25 years after the last album of the Comsats, and it is awesome!)


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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

   I'm a fan of Comsat Angels already,

Good to know I'm not alone. Criminally underrated and far too little known band. Dean is another Fan on PA. Certainly a top 5 band for me!

By the way, after three rather dark albums they also had some kind of pop turn for two albums or so before they went back to post punk, and different from Genesis and the like I love their more poppy stuff as well. By the way, I recently discovered that their singer, guitarist and master mind Stephen Fellows has put out a solo album on bandcamp early 2020, 25 years after the last album of the Comsats, and it is awesome!)
 
Good info and thanks for the update on the Fellows solo album, I'll have to check it out.
 
 

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