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    Posted: December 07 2023 at 06:04

By now, I've started threads with favourite albums from many countries but not this one yet.

So here it is, and my are:


Frank Zappa - Hot Rats  (1969) 

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew  (1970)

Santana - Caravanserai  (1972)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire  (1973)

Return to Forever - Where Have I Known...  (1974)

Herbie Hancock - Thrust  (1974)

Weather Report - Black Market  (1976)

Fates Warning - The Spectre Within  (1985)

Djam Karet - Reflections From The Firepool  (1989) 

Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow  (1992)

                        Thought Industry - Songs for Insects  (1992)     

Gordian Knot  - Gordian Knot  (1998)

Tool - Lateralus  (2001)

Aesma Daeva - The Eros of Frigid Beauty  (2001)

OSI - Office Of Strategic Influence  (2003)

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium  (2003)

Isis  -  In The Absence Of Truth  (2006)

Grails – Burning of Impurities  (2007)

Swans - To Be Kind  (2014)


Which are yours?

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Happy the Man - Crafty Hands

The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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Kansas - Leftoverture
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Styx - Pieces Of Eight
Kansas - Point Of Know Return
Happy The Man - Happy The Man
Starcastle - Starcastle
Spock's Beard - Snow
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Top 20 US Prog Albums  (one album per artist)

4 stars 2001: Aesma Daeva - The Eros of Frigid Beauty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzvYIr94fNg
5 stars 1976: Albatross - Albatross - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaBZNBUOPdk
5 stars 1980: Another World Production - The End of the Age - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cctfgc3VJE
5 stars 1978: Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m81I0bk1P8o
4 stars 1979: Easter Island - Easter Island - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uhd5ij39M
5 stars 1976: French Lick - Glide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTp9TOOxUlY
5 stars 1973: Froggie Beaver - From the Pond - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgc5h2XAGA
5 stars 1978: Happy the Man - Crafty Hands  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRera802pUU
5 stars 1975: Kansas - Song for America - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mv5TwSEUFcCEzc4A5b8yoR5Iw7-g7kMCQ
5 stars 1977: Quill - Sursum Corda - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w_yX72fUok
5 stars 1977: Surprise - Assault on Merryland  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qzNyRVPxDA
5 stars 1982: Trance Form - Stranger in the Same Land - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuVoKWv9wY
5 stars 1977: Universe - Universe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VtxzyHTZYM&t=1s



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In no particular order

Touch "Touch" 
Utopia "Todd Rundgren's Utopia"
Starcastle "Starcastle"
Hands "Hands"
Ethos "Ardour"
Cathedral "Stained Glass Stories"
The Facedancers "The Facedancers"
Mirthrandir "For You the Old Women"
Pentwater "Out of the Abyss"
Dream Theater "Train of Thought"
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Here's a few. I'm sure I forgot some. In no order.

Mike Keneally - Sluggo!
Wippy Bonstack - 22
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places
Steely Dan - Aja
Helmet of Gnats - Travelogue
Izz - Don't Panic
French TV - All Our Failures Are Behind Us
Spock's Beard - V
Dixie Dregs - What If
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - s/t
Pat Metheny - From This Place
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Echolyn - The End Is Beautiful
Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Eyeless Owl - Murmurations
Marco Minnemann - Their Colors Fade
The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Tale of the Golden King
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
King's X - Dogman
Neal Morse - ?
Frogg Cafe - Fortunate Observer Of Time
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Talking Heads - Little Creatures
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Utopia - Adventures in Utopia
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino
Happy the Man - Crafty Hands
Kansas - Leftoverture
Mirthkon - Snack(s)
The Jelly Jam - s/t
Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures
Covet - Technicolor
Nova Collective - The Further Side
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Mr. Bungle - California
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Planet X - Quantum
Ok Goodnight - The Fox and the Bird
Rascal Reporters - The Strainge Case of Steve
In-Dreamview - Triptych
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The Psychedelic Ensemble "The Tale of the Golden King"
The Psychedelic Ensemble "The Sunstone"
iNFiNieN "Light at the Endless Tunnel"
Eccentric Orbit "Attack of the Martians"
Nova Collective "The Further Side"
Shwizz "Big Things"
Reve "La Marionnette"
Robeone "Circles"
Azigza "Azigza"
Deluge Grander "August in the Urals"
Ghosts of Pompeii "The Last Days of Pompeii"
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

4 stars 2001: Aesma Daeva - The Eros of Frigid Beauty

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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

4 stars 2001: Aesma Daeva - The Eros of Frigid Beauty

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I only remembered to include Aesma Daeva after seeing them on your list first. Embarrassed


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From the Top 250 PA list of albums from USA bands
17. Tool - Lateralus
27. Neal Morse - ?
38. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
45. Echolyn - Suffocating The Bloom
48. Kansas - Song For America
78. Neal Morse - One
79. Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE2
102. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
120. The Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly
125. Far Corner - Risk
126. Chicago - The Chicago Transit Authority
141. Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
159. Chicago - Chicago VII
164. Kansas - Kansas
183. Sparks - Kimono My House
185. Animals as Leaders - Animals As Leaders
228. Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside
229. Astra - The Black Chord
250. Fright Pig - Out Of The Barnyard

Others
Glass Hammer - If
Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret
IZZ - Don't Panic
Deluge Grander - Heliotians
Dream The Electric Sleep - Heretics
Dream The Electric Sleep - The Giants Newground
Isobar - I,II and III
Echolyn - As The World
Spock's Beard - A Kindness Of Strangers






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5uu's - Hunger's Teeth (1994)
5uu's - Crisis in Clay (1997)
Absolute Zero - Crashing Icons (2000)
Alizarin - The Last Semblance (2020)
Astra - The Black Chord (2012)
Babylon - Babylon (1978)
Behold... the Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove (2020)
Birds and Buildings - Bantam to Behemoth (2008)
Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap (2013)
Blue Sausage Infant - Flight of the Solstice Queens (2010)
Bubblemath - Edit Peptide (2017)
Cairo - Cairo (1994)
Carpe Nota - Carpe Nota (2012)
Carpe Nota - Not Greater Than You (2020)
Castle Canyon - Gods of 1973 (2009)
Castle Canyon - Criteria Obsession (2015)
Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories (1978)
Cell15 - Chapter One (2014)
Cell15 - River Utopia (2018)
Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)
Crucible - Tall Tales (1997)
Deadwood Forest - Mellodramatic (1999)
Deluge Grander - August in the Urals (2006)
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy (1977)
Din Within - Awaken the Man (2007)
Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase (1997)
Discipline - To Shatter All Accord (2011)
Discipline - Captives of the Wine Dark Sea (2017)
Dixie Dregs - What If (1978)
Bob Drake - What Day Is It? (1994)
Dream Theater - Octavarium (2005)
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (2007)
Eccentric Orbit - Attack of the Martians (2004)
Echolyn - As the World (1995)
Echolyn - Mei (2002)
Emme Phyzema - Dispelling Differences (2019)
Emme Phyzema - A Series of Related Dreams (2020)
Emme Phyzema - Unadulterated Bliss (2020)
Eye - Vision and Ageless Light (2016)
Eyestrings - Consumption (2005)
Far Corner - Far Corner (2004)
Far Corner - Endangered (2007)
Far Corner - Risk (2018)
Fervent Send - Dietro la soglia (2020)
The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity (2021)
French TV - All Our Failures Are Behind Us (2021)
Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True (2000)
Glass Hammer - Lex Rex (2002)
Glass Hammer - Shadowlands (2004)
Glass Hammer - Valkyrie (2016)
Shaun Guerin - The Epic Quality of Life (2003)
Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973)
Herd of Instinct - Herd of Instinct (2011)
Herd of Instinct - Manifestation (2016)
Horse Lords - The Common Task (2020)
The Hosemobile - What Can & Can't Go On (1999)
In-Dreamview - Triptych (2021)
Isobar - Isobar (2020)
Izz - Everlasting Instant (2015)
Izz - Don't Panic (2019)
Kansas - Song for America (1975)
Dave Kulju - Notes in the Margin (2010)
Laktating Yak - Origin of the Yak (2018)
Léger de Main - Second First Impression (1997)
Little Atlas - Surface Serene (2003)
Little Atlas - Hollow (2007)
Lobate Scarp - You Have It All (2022)
Madrigal - On My Hands (1998)
Magellan - Impending Ascension (1994)
Majestic - Ataraxia (2010)
Majeure - Solar Maximum (2012)
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)
Mastermind - Excelsior! (1998)
Maxwell's Demon - Diablo (2009)
Mendez / Du Bose / Robinson - Obliterate the Moon (2019)
The Mercury Tree - Spidermilk (2019)
Metaphor - Entertaining Thanatos (2004)
Mirthrandir - For You the Old Women (1976)
Moon Letters - Until They Feel the Sun (2019)
Mourning Knight - Mourning Knight (2021)
Oblivion Sun - Oblivion Sun (2007)
Once & Future Band - Deleted Scenes (2020)
Ovrfwrd - Blurring the Lines (2018)
Matthew Parmenter - Horror Express (2008)
Partner - Green to Gold (2021)
Pentwater - Out of the Abyss (1992)
Perhaps - 7.0 (2020)
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon (2007)
Phideaux - Snowtorch (2011)
The Pneumatic Transit - Chordae Tendineae (2019)
Primus - Pork Soda (1993)
Product - On Water (2000)
Nick Prol & the Proletarians - An Erstwisle Alphabestiary, Book One (2020)
Puppet Show - The Tale of Woe (2007)
Quill - Sursum Corda (1977)
The Red Masque - Fossil Eyes (2008)
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior (1976)
Kurt Rongey - That Was Propaganda (1998)
Salem Hill - Mimi's Magic Moment (2005)
Shadowfax - Watercourse Way (1976)
Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone (1995)
Sonus Umbra - Beyond the Panopticon (2016)
Spock's Beard - The Light (1995)
Spock's Beard - Beware of Darkness (1996)
Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers (1998)
Spock's Beard - V (2000)
Spock's Beard - X (2010)
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep (2013)
Starcastle - Starcastle (1976)
Styx - The Grand Illusion (1977)
Sun Colored Chair - The Birth of the Sun (2019)
Syzygy - Realms of Eternity (2009)
Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)
THEO - Figureheads (2020)
Thinking Plague - In This Life (1989)
Thinking Plague - In Extremis (1998)
Thinking Plague - A History of Madness (2003)
Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope (2017)
Thirteen of Everything - Our Own Sad Fate (2019)
Titan to Tachyons - Cactides (2020)
Titan to Tachyons - Vonals (2022)
Trees Speak - PostHuman (2021)
Umphrey's McGee - Mantis (2009)
The Underground Railroad - Through and Through (2000)
The Underground Railroad - The Origin of Consciousness (2005)
Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum (2007)
Upsilon Acrux - Radian Futura (2009)
Voyag3r - War Mask (2019)
Wax People - Wax People (2021)
Weather Report - Black Market (1976)
Dan Weiss - Starebaby (2018)
Dan Weiss Starebaby - Natural Selection (2020)
Wippy Bonstack - 22 (2022)
Wyxz - YiY (2019)
Wyxz - Odyx (2020)
Yezda Urfa - Boris (1975)
Zen Rock and Roll - The Birthright Circle (2004)
Zevious - After the Air Raid (2009)
Zevious - Passing Through the Wall (2013)
Zombi - Surface to Air (2006)
Zombi - Shape Shift (2015)
Zombi - 2020 (2020)

During the making of this list, my nose popped off my face. It went outside and sniffed some leaves, then rolled around in the laundry room. By the time I made to the Z bands, it returned back to my face, albeit upside down and filled with leaves. I will begin tissuing procedures immediately.


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Great lists EVERYBODY!!! 

Makes me more proud of my home country's contribution to the lexicon of Prog World than I thought I would be!

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Hello friends our group is waiting to be on the site it is only missing a yes on the Suggest New Bands and Artists forum in the name of: Tales from the sky and we can have our chance to make ourselves known on your site you You can listen to our album Tales from the sky - In the world of Krimus available on Youtube, Spotify, Deezer etc and on bandcamp. Enjoy listening and thank you in advance to whoever will help us to be on the site! https://talesfromthesky.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-world-of-krimus
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With a lot of classic American prog records already getting their flowers here I'd like to shoutout some of my more modern faves:

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies
Bent Knee - Say So
Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean
The Tea Club - Rabbit
The Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly
3RDegree - Ones and Zeros, Parts 1 & 0
Swans - The Seer
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Atheist - Elements
Cynic - Focus
Cynic - Traced In Air
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Ut Gret - Ancestors Tale
The Dear Hunter - Acts IV & V
Far Corner - Risk
The Reticent - The Oubliette
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
Liturgy - 93696
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^ Should have included Bent Knee - Say So in my list. (also a few bands there I'm not that familiar with so will need to ckeck those out)
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Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune
Far Corner - Risk
Redfearn, Alec K. & The Eyesores - Sister Death
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Zappa, Frank - Hot Rats
5uu's - Hunger's Teeth
Davis, Miles - Bitches Brew
Hancock, Herbie - Crossings
Jack O' The Clock - All My Friends
Mr. Bungle - California
Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall
Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect
Weiss, Dan - Starebaby
Zorn, John / Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies
Swans - The Seer
Ut Gret - Ancestors Tale
Zevious - Passing Through the Wall


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

...

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats  (1969) 

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew  (1970)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire  (1973)

Djam Karet - Reflections From The Firepool  (1989) 

Grails – Burning of Impurities  (2007)

...

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Hi,

There are too many to consider, in my book, and I could never exclude The Doors, or even The Grateful Dead, Spirit, It's a Beautiful Day ... and even Jefferson Airplane. If you have not heard the remastered first and second album by TGD, they feature the long cuts that were what all the bootlegs were about for many years, which made TGD very famous for allowing folks to record off their board, and never did they complaint about it. It was a love fest! Something that I'm not sure the progressive folks can relate to. Music for the sake of its beauty ... nothing else, and everyone could share it and experience it!

I keep thinking that CHICAGO deserves to be listed ... they had too many great things in the first 4 or 5 albums that were very special and still sound magnificent ... we just don't listen to it, I guess, because we think that brass doesn't fit in progressive music! I would think that TVU deserves to be mentioned as well, but I don't know, or think that their material is exactly progressive at all ... it is very "personal", but not quite progressive, though they made their mark and fame because they were in NY and sold big in a huge area with the population to distort the likes, and sales, of a lot of music.

There are many more I did not mention, and I find it strange that the Al Kooper and some of those blends in the late 60's are not heard or considered, as some of them probably should be considered "progressive" for its inventiveness at the time ... 

Later, I think that the USA took the cake. Just seeing Frank, Miles and John Mc listed is a perfect example of how much great music was in America, and very progressive. What I think we miss, or don't get is that America is huge, and sort of like 4 or 5 countries compared to Europe ... so different things from the East Coast as compared to the West Coast are pretty obvious ... and btw, this is most visible in the studies of electronic music in America in the 60's when the West Coast stuff was considered free form and wide open, and the East Coast stuff was thought to be more "composed" .... both standards apply though very different.




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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

During the making of this list, my nose popped off my face. It went outside and sniffed some leaves, then rolled around in the laundry room. By the time I made to the Z bands, it returned back to my face, albeit upside down and filled with leaves. I will begin tissuing procedures immediately.

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14           Coltrane, John  A Love Supreme              USA       1964     

14           Santana               Caravanserai     USA       1972     

14           Spirit     The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus   USA       1970     

13           Buckley, Tim      Starsailor             USA       1970     

13           Coltrane, Alice  Ptah, the El Daoud          USA       1970        

13           Davis, Miles       Bitches Brew     USA       1970     

13           Espers  Espers USA       2003     

13           Espers  II             USA       2006     

13           Hendrix, Jimi     Electric Ladyland              USA       1968     

13           Jefferson Airplane          Crown of Creation          USA       1968     

13           Mingus, Charles               Black Saint & The Sinner Lady    USA       1963     

13           Return to Forever           Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy     USA       1973

13           Riley, Terry         A Rainbow in Curved Air              USA       1969     

13           Santana               Borboletta          USA       1974     

13           Tyner, McCoy   Asante USA       1970     

13           Tyner, McCoy   Sahara USA       1972     

13           Washington, Kamasi      The Epic               USA       2015     

13           Zappa, Frank     Waka / Jawaka USA       1972     

13           Zappa, Frank / The Mothers of Invention            The Grand Wazoo           USA       1972     

12           Allman Brothers Band, The         At Fillmore East                USA       1971     

12           Baku Llama         Eris         USA       2007     

12           Buckley, Tim      Happy / Sad       USA       1968

12           Buckley, Tim      Lorca     USA       1969     

12           Byrd, Donald     Ethiopian Knights            USA       1971     

12           Chango      Chango                USA       1975        

12           Chicago Transit Authority            Chicago Transit Authority            USA       1969     

12           Coltrane, John  Impressions       USA       1961                      

12           Coltrane, John  First Meditations             USA       1965     

12           Coltrane, John  Transition           USA       1965     

12           Coryell, Larry     Barefoot Boy     USA       1971     

12           Coryell, Larry     Offering              USA       1972     

12           Creedence Clearwater Revival  Bayou Country USA       1969     

12           Davis, Miles       In A Silent Way                 USA       1969

12           Davis, Miles       A Tribute to Jack Johnson           USA       1971     

12           Doors, The         L.A.Woman        USA       1971     

12           Evans, Gil            The Individualism of Gil Evans   USA       1964     

12           Gale, Eddie        Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music         USA       1968     

12           H.P. Lovecraft   Live May 11, 1968            USA       1968     

12           Hancock, Herbie              Crossings            USA       1972     

12           Hancock, Herbie              Sextant                USA       1973     

12           Jefferson Airplane          Surrealistic Pillow            USA       1967                      

12           Journey               Journey               USA       1975     

12           Kravitz, Lenny   Let Love Rule    USA       1990     

12           Lynyrd Skynyrd      Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd              USA       1973     

12           Meat Loaf           Bat Out of Hell USA       1977     

12           Moondog           A New Sound of an Old Instrument       USA       1979   

12           P.G. Six The Well of Memory     USA       2004     

12           Pearls Before Swine      The Use of Ashes            USA       1970     

12           Phish     Slip, Stitch, and Pass      USA       1997     

12           Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service                 USA       1968     

12           Red Hot Chili Peppers   Blood Sugar Sex Magik USA       1991         

12           Santana               Santana               USA       1969     

12           Santana               Abraxas               USA       1970     

12           Santana               Santana (aka III)              USA       1971                 

12           Smith, Lonnie Liston / Cosmic Echoes    Astral Travelling               USA       1973     

12           Spirit     Clear     USA       1969     

12           SRC        SRC        USA       1968     

12           Sweet Smoke   Just a Poke         USA       1970         

12           Talking Heads    Stop Making Sense        USA       1984                      

12           Trees Speak       Ohms    USA       2020        

12           Van Halen           Van Halen           USA       1978     

12           Vanilla Fudge    Renaissance      USA       1968

12           Violent Femmes              Violent Femmes              USA       1983     

12           Walker, Ryley    Primrose Green               USA       2015     

12           Woven Hand     Mosaic USA       2006     

12           Zappa, Frank     Hot Rats              USA       1969     

12           Zorn, John / Electric Masada      At the Mountains of Madness USA       2005

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Edited by Sean Trane - December 12 2023 at 16:30
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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