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    Posted: January 11 2023 at 08:45
The idea is that one person posts a track (and lists the year) and another person challenges that track with another track from the same year. The next person votes on which is their favourite of those two tracks and can then post any track from any year, and then someone challenges that track, and so-on. This is open to Prog and non-Prog.

Later on I am considering doing some polls covering our music choices if this takes off.

{Note: please specify band/artist and track/song name in post as sometimes vids can not be seen by various others due to restrictions, and please mention the year to avoid errors. I guess this could be in Just For Fun, but I am treating it as a more serious way to discover some music along the way.}

I'll start this off with Cardiacs' "Dirty Boy" from one of my favourite years in music, which is 1996.



So does anyone want to choose another track from 1996 as the "Dirty Boy" challenger?

Edited by Logan - January 11 2023 at 08:58
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5 stars 1996: Rick Wakeman - Fields of Green - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvfF08nkYprRds1mZ2yTXUO

Rick Wakeman - Fields of Green (title track with Chrissie Hammond on vocals) Heart
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Thanks, Paul.

The gauntlet has been thrown down. Now who, if anyone, is going to smell the glove and vote between the 1996 challengers, Rick Wakeman's Fields of Green vs. Cardiacs's Dirty Boy (two very different sounding tracks), and then hopefully mention his/her/their own track/song choice from any year to be challenged?
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I’ll do it, I don’t know the tracks😊
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I guess I should have specified that along with one's track, one should provide a listening link or, preferably, a youtube embed so that people who don't know the music can listen to it. I'm so used to things like the Interactive Polls and I often use embeds or now add playlists to my polls that I forgot to get into more specifics. I put so little effort into preparing this topic.

In this case, both Paul and I used youtube embeds, and if people are to state a preference then I would ask them to familiarise themselves with the music. This might well prove too much of a challenge to really get going, but I have long liked those kinds of topics which get us listening to each other's music choices rather than just going with what we already know. But I think most others don't like to discover and listen to music this way. I hadn't heard that Wakeman piece until Paul posted it.

If youtube is proving problematic for some for these:
https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-boy-2

I was looking for Fields of Green on Rick Wakeman's bandcamp page but didn't find it. https://rickwakeman.bandcamp.com/music

I would like to try to make this a more inclusive topic if I can, which has a broader range of potential participation with diverse forum members.

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Well, Mr. Wakeman gets my vote here, so it’s a win for Paul!

The Cardiacs sounded like a punk version of Suede, sorry Logan, not my cup of tea. The other piece was pleasant, nothing particularly special, but more pleasant to my ears!
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

Well, Mr. Wakeman gets my vote here, so it’s a win for Paul!

The Cardiacs sounded like a punk version of Suede, sorry Logan, not my cup of tea. The other piece was pleasant, nothing particularly special, but more pleasant to my ears!


No problem, I appreciate you listening. Thanks, man. Cardiacs is quite marmite and I wanted to go for something that I and certain others here love but doesn't have the broadest appeal.

If you can think of a track, Prog or not, from any year, please do mention it. If you don't want to, then someone else can come up with one.

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OK, I’m going for one of my favourite years, 2019. A brilliant year for music for me, before the s**t hit the fan the following year.

One of my favourite albums from that year is The Spell by Cellar Darling. Fronted by the wonderful Anna Murphy (vocals, hurdy-gurdy, flute), Cellar Darling are folk prog metal. The Spell is a concept album, and I choose Insomnia, link to the fantastic video below - sorry, I don’t know how to embed!

https://youtu.be/QeXDYjDV2mw

Bring on a decent challenger🤘
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Although some would rather not have embeds, and I might change from those as they can slow down pages, I will add that. I know it can be harder to do especially when one is on one's phone (one does not need to add embeds or hyperlinks).



I'm enjoying that one myself, and have one I would like to challenge it with, and I want to give someone else a shot, but I can't resist 2019 with Lingua Ignota's Caligula album.

This is 2019's "May Failure Be Your Noose" by Kristin Hayter (aka Lingua Ignota).



Warning: not kid friendly, uses the fu** swear word, but I think it's a decent challenger despite the indecent language. ;)

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Of the original, 1996 challenge, I have to go with the Wakeman-Hammond collaboration. (Sorry, Ian). The Cardiacs song is just too monotonous for me--and I do not hear lyrics so the words/message is meaningless to me. 

My challenge from 1996 releases is my favorite song from that year: After Crying's "Külvárosi éj" from their wonderful album De Profundis:


[ tube]oLx8TJuO_18&ab_channel=bundybasher[ /tube]






Edited by BrufordFreak - January 11 2023 at 15:53
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^ Sorry, that embed is not working, just want the oLx8TJuO_18 part in between the tube tags.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLx8TJuO_18

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Okay, I guess I'll challenge again on 1996 after having lost the last 1996 challenge with Dirty Boy.

I challenge After Crying's "Külvárosi éj" from their wonderful album De Profundis with Stereolab's "Cybele's Reverie" from the wonderful Emperor Tomato Ketchup.



So we now have two challenges going on:

2019's Cellar Darling's "Insomnia" vs. Lingua Ignota's "May Failure Be Your Noose"

AND 1996's After Crying's "Külvárosi éj" vs. Stereolab's "Cybele's Reverie" (and also against the first winner "Fields of Green" if people want a threesome).

I was thinking that one would choose one's winner of the latest challenge before introducing a new challenge, but I guess it may be fine to go back to earlier ones and be flexible as long as we can keep track of the challenges where the victor has not been decided. It's all good, and it should find its way if it goes on even if that way is any which way and every which way. :) And of course I'm happy to see comments on any of the selections and "battles".

Results of concluded battles so far:

1996: Cardiacs' "Dirty Boy" vs Rick Wakeman's "Fields of Green":
"Dirty Boy" = LOSER
"Fields of Green" = Winner

Current Ongoing Battles (undecided):

- 2019: Cellar Darling's "Insomnia" vs. Lingua Ignota's "May Failure Be Your Noose"

- 1996: After Crying's "Külvárosi éj" vs. Stereolab's "Cybele's Reverie"

Edited by Logan - January 11 2023 at 18:21
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Correction Logan - I chose the track Insomnia by Cellar Darling, from the album The Spell! Although to be fair the whole album is brilliant, I’m just finishing listening to it again now😎
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^ Sorry about that error, I think it's because I couldn't sleep last night again for some reason. There should be a name for that disorder. :p

Now corrected to "Insomnia".
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ Sorry about that error, I think it's because I couldn't sleep last night again for some reason. There should be a name for that disorder. :p

Now corrected to "Insomnia".


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Come on, somebody☹️
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For the 2019 challenge, I pick Cellar Darling as the winner. Stylistically, Lingua Ignota would usually be my preference, but the vocals by Anna Murphy impressed . Cool visuals in that video though not a factor in deciding the winner.

I haven't decided on the other challenge going on yet. In the meantime, will offer up from 2001:

Dreadnaught - Ballbuster



This is the eclectic prog band, spelled with "naught" not the eclectic metallish band spelled with "nought".

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For the 1996 challenge, I vote for Stereolab.

Wippy Bonstack "Beautiful Stain". 2022.



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I would vote for Stereolab as well. Both tracks are great but stereolab definitely had a Sunday morning vibe while After Crying was definitely at dusk music.
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I'll challenge Wippy Bonstack with Kikagaku Moyo.

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