Interactive poll#5 - This sounds Greek to me!

It doesn't take long here.. it just takes reading some of the comments on this forum to realize that most really don't know prog... they know only what they like and have been exposed to. ie very VERY UK centered .. and might really get into the spirit of digging some new stuff as we have with this non PA's polls.

makes me also lament the days when we had audio samples on the site... made it very easy to check out musiic outside the well known and bigger names.

What have we been doing here.. did we need all kinds of rules.. no we didn't. Most of us caught the implied jist Lorenzo had with his first poll.. we picked up on it and didn't flood his polll or subsequent ones with stuff that probably everyone know.  We generally understood that we were here to try to find stuff we may not have heard.. AND we would offer suggestions that we thought perhaps that others may not have heard.

so we simply do that regarding stuff on here.

What it would need to work.. is not a bunch of rules or stipulations.. it is YOU all who have been participating to start the ball rolling with the suggestions in the spirit we have generally had here.

so guys (and dear ladies) start thinking them up..  I will make clear in the opening post what we are doing.  Any suggestions that are deemed 'too mainsream'  will.. emmm..  be ignored.  I have no idea how many outside our little group here will participate... I meant what I implied earlier. This forum is a shadow of what it once was for once we had a lot of people here who really knew prog... knew the stuff outside the usual suspects.. many of those left over the years and been replaced with not fans of the music.. but fanboys of particular groups.

so start thinking up some prog songs you know implicitely without haveing to have restrictions imposed upon you.. I'll start the poll once I've heard back from you all that you are on board with this.

those rules/themes can come later.. like the obvious one..  modern? classic? Specific genres?  For now.. f**k it..free form.. free dope, booze and free love.. and free music...

whatever we want man.

What is needed though to start are not rules ..but you all to set the tone via the suggestions you make.  Someone is going to look mighty silly suggesting a goddmaned Genesis song in the midst of what we might be suggesting. For that perhaps it be best I take the first poll or two..  I do have a talent for dealing politely with those who miss the boat...  'ummm..  hey Bobblehead.. try again... read my f**king post and try suggesting something you think others might like that they may not know'

I've learned a good life lesson first in the service.. then later running crews of workers on jobsites.  It is easier to get a point across with a 2x4 ..blunt trauma ...  rather than trying to us reason'. It is how I got things done here as well as a collab leading teams.  It works...

This has been enjoyable for me. I'm basically a rock music fan as is reflected in most of my choices. I do enjoy and appreciate other music but not always looking for it. So, getting some suggestions outside of that has been great. I've really enjoyed the Africa-based music (Rokia Traore here and Seckou Keita from the 3rd one). 

I have an Amazon Music Unlimited streaming subscription and added the Beautiful Africa and a few of her other albums to my cloud, as well as the limited amount of Seckou Keita. I've surprisingly been able to find a good number of the suggested songs on Amazon, and that has lead to a rabbit hole of other music. The Amazon music player has a feature of "You might like" based on what I recently played. I currently have recommendations for Celtic and Nordic folk music and some East European rock music as a result of this poll.  

It looks like we've settled  in on having 'regulars' but I hope other people drop. Even just listen. I didn't contribute to the first poll and enjoyed it. I think there is that time commitment to want to listen to something different for an hour or so that probably holds people back. (Just had a thought - a prog poll in which everyone recommends a 15+ minute epic could be trouble.) 

Anyway, looking forward to the next couple of themes. I have some ideas for instrumentals, and will probably pick one based on what others suggest first as to provide variety. Latin America based music, on the other hand, I'll need to dig deep into my music collection. Outside of prog, Santana, and a Los Lobos compilation, not sure what else I have. 

np!!!  You do have me curious... so yeah.. you can run it by me in a PM and I'll give you an honest feedback.The thumbs up or down. Hah..  I do have a head for bread and circus's man.. it is probably what allowed me to keep my head attached with the classic admin team when I wasn't exactly a model citizen here.. but was never a dull one either. i think they got as much of a kick out of it as i did when we went Roman on the DT fans here and fed them to the hungry masses