Interactive Polls #18: Free-For-All

TCat wrote: And again, huge thanks to Geo (mathman0806) for putting these together in one easy place on You Tube for us.

  Yes, three cheers for George!  

Edited by Lewian - August 29 2020 at 18:01

mathman0806 wrote: I'll add I prophesy disaster's choice when it's made.

As I suspected at the beginning, my number 1 remained the same, regardless of how many other wonderful selections that came along.  Several are also known pieces to me, which disqualifies them for my choice in my method.  Some elected to not go for choices that would have scored higher for me, as well, but that’s my own quirky taste, they will likely go quite well overall, as it was so hard to make decisions, once again.  Bravo and brava to all who made this one yet another most difficult decision and special thanks to Mike for braving through it with personal concerns ongoing, to George for making the relistening so easy to do and, as always, to Lorenzo for the advent of these polls.

1.        Kristin Hersh “Your Ghost”  Goosebumps.  Gotta find out more about this artist.  Just LOVE this.  (Added bonus, Michael Stipe in it, big big REM fan from the first EP).   But this got me even before he showed up.  On second listen, even more so. Still the winner and thank you for the discovery!

2.  Angelo Branduardi  “Confessioni di un malandrino”  Utterly gorgeous.   In particular, I find this one very contemplative and the spare production suits the feel of the poet revisiting his rustic past.  

      3.  Black Sabbath “Air Dance”  The band really wanted to stretch out, even with things behind the scenes being so difficult.  You get an idea of how they might have evolved further, had they not been kept forced into their tighter niche.  Bill said they always would start rehearsals with a jazz jam, this echoes those jams.  And I love the addition of piano in their sound, this gets very Traffic-y, one of my favourite bands.  (Which I will vote for, once it's up, I thought I'd messed up at first and had to confirm it WAS the choice).

Edited by Snicolette - August 30 2020 at 14:54

Edited by The Anders - August 30 2020 at 12:27

After listening once to the final selections, one track grabbed me as the clear winner:

I am very pleased that people enjoyed the Hank Dogs.  I love to champion the underdogs, artists I feel should have had more attention.  I have to say that even if I don't mention anyone's choices a second time, it's not out of seriously considering what everyone here has brought to the table, everyone here has excellent ears and it's only out of sticking to the top three (outside of it's being something I've not heard before) that I may not mention it a second time.  Because anyone here has brought it here, it deserves my serious attention and I do accord each and every entry and then, nomination, that complete attention.  Some of you have made me take notice of types of music that are really far outside of my usual listening (thinking of the electronica etc) and expanded my horizons.  For that, I'm very grateful.  Thank you.  

my 3 choices

suitkees wrote: Fortunately, this voting thing is just a frivolous way of ending the proceedings so we can prepare ourselves for the next poll... There have been wonderful suggestions again in this thread and the final nominees hardly reflect the richness of all the music that has come up here. It was overall a great listen. Now, since I will probably not be allowed to vote for eight songs, my voting is actually rather arbitrary. I am not voting for those songs that I love, but that I knew before: Angelo Branduardi and Alice Cooper; otherwise I would have wanted to vote for ten songs. Finally, I have much difficulties making a choice between FC/Kahuna, Stringtronics, Hank Dogs, Vitalba, Ginger Baker, Kristin Hersch, Hidden Orchestra and Black Sabbath, so it's much of a toss-up, won by: - Stringtronics - Hank Dogs - Vitalba All of the others were also very good discoveries! Thanks to all!

  This!  And I purchased a download of the Yar Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson recording, although that wasn't your nomination, for some reason it resonated well for me.  Thanks!

Edited by Snicolette - August 31 2020 at 10:33