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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

@George: I guess you mean Colosseum II (and not "Colossus" - you have to teach your phone some prog language...); this one works for me.



Haha. Yes. And the one in your link works for me so I will update.


In turn, your Ange video doesn't play for me but this does.
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^ Thumbs Up

My points for I prophesy disaster's very energetic and wonderful selection (and, other than Hawkwind's position, the ranking is rather arbitrary...):
(hesitated briefly myself to include a Hawkwind track; it would probably have been from the Hall of the Mountain Grill album, which is with Warrior my preferred Hawkwind album)

1. Hawkwind - Opa-Loka: 5 points
2. Argent - Hold Your Head Up: 3 points
3. Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain: 2 points
4. Residents - Edweena: 1 point

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^I would have considered Psychedelic Warlords but saw Hawkwind listed twice, so passed.

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Lorenzo. Liked all your selections.

1. Quatermass - 5 pts - my phone tried to "correct" this but caught it. A great one and done album.
2. Tim Buckley - 3 pts
3. Roxy Music - 2 pts
4. Henry Cow - 1 pt
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Listening (or relistening) to someone_else's suggestions makes me once more aware that ranking songs/tracks or albums really is not in my DNA. I would prefer not to rank them, because I like them all as much or almost, but here it goes:

Alquin: 5 points
Anthony Phillips: 3 points
Gnidrolog: 2 points
Traffic: 1 point

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And now to Jean's selection. This is half/half for me: Can and Popol Vuh are the outstanding ones here - I don't listen that much to either band but every time it is wonderful. I listened to the Clearlight album (borrowed it from a local library) a very long time ago, but found it a bit too cheesy. It's OK, but still a bit on the cheesy side to my ears. I discover Dzyan here with this track and it sounds as if they refused to play together; a bit too directionless improvisation, imo. So, ranking them is a bit easier in this case:

Can - Splash: 5 points
Popul Vuh - Hosianna Mantra: 3 points
Clearlight - Spiral d'amour: 2 points
Dzyan - For Earthly Thinking: 1 point

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Luciano Cilio - Secondo Quadro "Della Conoscenza"

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Earth Hymn
Birth Control - Film of Life
Association P.C. - Frau Theunissens Kegel
I tried to go for some stuff you may not know - Manfred Mann is very well known but this particular album seems a bit neglected. I have toyed around nominating Can - Spoon, which I'd probably nominate as number one track, but Can have already been mentioned, and I guess (though not sure) that it's better known than all those nominated. Have fun!
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George offers us a more rock oriented prog selection, which suits me perfectly fine. I never heard much of Be Bop Deluxe and this is a great - impressive - guitar based track, but maybe the most conventional of the pack. FM is the big and pleasant surprise here for me; I think I've only heard the Surveillance album, but this track is really wonderful and will incite me to listen to the album. It even "smashes" those two other that I know (and like) very well, Colosseum II and Utopia. So, my points go to:

1. FM - Black Noise: 5 points
2. Colosseum II - The Scorch: 3 points
3. Utopia - Overture: The Mountaintop and Sunrise / Communion with the Sun: 2 points
4. Be Bop Deluxe - No Trains to Heaven: 1 point

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Hi,

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I simply can not EVER number choices of my likes. I love them all.

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Rrrrrrrrrrrread the opening posting!! All of it!! All of you!

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I read it. I simply can’t count, 🤪

I didn’t even realise I had posted five,r rather than four videos. When Kees asked which of my five videos were the four I meant for the poll, I had to go back and look. Five? What do you mean, five? I posted only four. Oh…. 😳

Disregard the Space Farm, and all is good.

(All of the songs I chose, I checked were present (for me) on YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music. Obviously there are geographic restrictions, and I can never be sure what shows for me, will show for others also.)
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My votes so far:

jamesbaldwin:
1. Henry Cow (5 points)
2. Tim Buckley (3 points)
3. Roxy Music (2 points)
4. Quatermass (1 point)

suitkees:
1. Grobschnitt (5 points)
2. Alquin (3 points)
3. Ange (2 points)
4. Saga (1 point)

nick_n_hz:
1. Airlord (5 points)
2. Split Enz (3 points)
3. Ragnarok (2 points)
4. Dragon (1 points)
A close call!

I prophesy disaster:
1. Argent (5 points) by default. I almost picked this one for similar reasons. I fell in love with this one in 1972 at age 12 when I heard the organ solo for the first time.
2. The Residents (3 points)
3. Hawkwind (2 points)
4. Jeff Beck (1 point)
I could have arranged the latter three in any order.

BaldFriede (the first four):
1. High Tide - 5 points (I love this one)
2. Steve Hillage - 3 points
3. Embryo - 2 points
4. Guru Guru - 1 point (I find it hard to appreciate the first 7 minutes)
I would have ranked Hawkwind between High Tide and Steve Hillage.

BaldJean:
1. Popol Vuh (5 points)
2. Clearlight (3 points)
3. Can (2 points)
4. Dzyan (1 point)

mathman0806:
1. Colosseum II (5 points)
2. FM (3 points)
3. Utopia (2 points)
4. Be Bop Deluxe (1 point)

Lewian:
1. Luciano Cilio (5 points)
2. Manfred Mann's Earth Band (3 points)
3. Association PC (2 points)
4. Birth Control (1 point)



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Lorenzo:
5 Henry Cow
3 Tim Buckley
2 Quatermass
1 Roxy Music
The only one I didn't know was the Quatermass track, which is actually quite good, but both Henry Cow and Tim Buckley are very strong. Not that keen on Roxy Music.
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Kees:
Humble Stance is an all time favourite; it's very hard to put a ranking on the others. But I play the game:
5 Saga
3 Ange
2 Grobschnitt
1 Alquin
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For Kees:

Grobschnitt - 5 pts - theatrical prog. I had not heard this before. It's a fun track.

Saga - 3 pts - I've enjoyed them through their first 5 albums

Alquin - 2 pts - not familiar with them nor Ange. I like this a bit more. The music reminded me of Traffic. A good thing.


Ange - 1 pts



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I prophesy disaster


I’ve ranked these selections in the order that they appear, although definitely after Argent, and perhaps after Hawkwind, the order is more or less equal, and I simply went with the order they appear rather than have to make the effort to rank them in what would essentially be a fairly arbitrary order.


Argent (five points)

Hawkwind (three points)

Jeff Beck (two points)

Residents (one point)


Robert


I had never heard (of) Alquin, before Kees posted them earlier in this poll. They topped his selections for me, and came close to doing the same here, too.


Gnidrolog (5 points)

Alquin (3 points)

Ant Phillips (2 points)

Traffic (1 point)


Jean


It seems to be the case that for each of the sets of four tracks offered in this poll, two I’m familiar with, and two I’m not. It probably comes as no surprise that the two I’m familiar with here are Can and Popul Vuh, but where do they come in my ranking?


Dyzan (5 points)

Clearlight (3 points)

Popul Vuh (2 points)

Can (1 point)


George


And with George, I’ve managed to rank all the albums on the first page of the poll - with the exception of Friede, who like me has made a counting error. 


Be Bop Deluxe (5 points)

Colosseum II (3 points)

Utopia (2 points)

FM (1 point)
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Had to listen to Nick's selection again to come to a decision regarding the points. Not that it helped, BTW. It was clear from the start that Split Enz would end up on top, but ranking the other three becomes a bit more arbitrary. I didn't know Airlord, nor Dialog, and I find just a bit more originality in the former. I also very much like the up-tempo tight rhythm of the Ragnarok track, which becomes as such the trouble maker to rank these... In the end:

1. Split Enz: 5 points
2. Airlord: 3 points
3. Ragnarok: 2 points
4. Dragon: 1 point

Christian's selection was maybe one of the easiest to rank, for the number one and the number four spots were immediately obvious to me. Then, I love almost everything Jasper van 't Hof is involved in, even his cheesier work (Dutch cheese is famous!). Hadn't heard the Birth Control album since a very long while and forgot it was this good. The Manfred Mann's EB outing here is the least convincing. I never heard of Luciano Cilio, but this track alone is mesmerizingly beautiful, evoking something mysteriously intriguing, or intriguingly mysterious. So, without hesitation:

1. Luciano Cilio: 5 points (he deserves more!)
2. Association P.C.: 3 points
3. Birth Control: 2 points (they deserve more too, but well...)
4. Manfred Mann's Earth Band: 1 point

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Some supposedly cool stuff is lost on me and already was when I was getting into music around 1980. Already then Split Enz and particularly early Roxy Music were for those in the know (who also knew better what to wear to impress the girls) while I was listening to Pink Floyd and Eloy. Couldn't impress anyone in this way, just loved it more... 40 years on and still I don't get some of that stuff. Luckily I find Nick's other offerings very enjoyable, particularly that Airlord track.
5 Airlord
3 Dragon
2 Ragnarok
1 Split Enz


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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

Then, I love almost everything Jasper van 't Hof is involved in, even his cheesier work (Dutch cheese is famous!). 

His solo on Frau Theunissens Kegel is outright spectacular in my view. Rarely heard anything as good as that on keyboards. My keyboarder friend and music partner likes very civilised melodic music, but once in a while he runs wild like this (if admittedly not quite that virtuous) and it makes me so happy... although I have my doubts whether these are the bits of his own playing he likes most. Wink
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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

George offers us a more rock oriented prog selection, which suits me perfectly fine. I never heard much of Be Bop Deluxe and this is a great - impressive - guitar based track, but maybe the most conventional of the pack. FM is the big and pleasant surprise here for me; I think I've only heard the Surveillance album, but this track is really wonderful and will incite me to listen to the album. It even "smashes" those two other that I know (and like) very well, Colosseum II and Utopia. So, my points go to:

1. FM - Black Noise: 5 points
2. Colosseum II - The Scorch: 3 points
3. Utopia - Overture: The Mountaintop and Sunrise / Communion with the Sun: 2 poiit ts
4. Be Bop Deluxe - No Trains to Heaven: 1 point


Black Noise is by far FM's best album and only one worth listening to in my opinion.
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