11 "Y" List Acts and 17 "Z" Grade Acts

To get the last of these out of the way... I hope no one kills me for leaving off Zopp from my poll which I know has many fans. I liked Zopp with the debut then later I didn't care for the debut or the latest. On second thought, I will include Zopp by doubling up with Zombi. Under Z I also doubled-up Zaal and Zaar. I doubled more to include more Ys. Such doubling is inelegant, but ultimately I'm like, "Y not Zee going for it?" You can vote for one of those acts in the poll option or both -- please specify in a post.

My longer lists:

Yatha Sidhra *
Yellow Magic Orchestra *
Yeti
Yezda Urfa *
Yo La Tengo *
Yog Sothoth *
Yokai *
Yolk *
Yonin Bayashi *
Thom Yorke
Tatsuya Yoshida *
Larry Young *
Yugen *

Zaal *
Zaar *
Thierry Zaboitzeff *
Zamla Mammaz Manna *
Zao *
Zanov *
Frank Zappa (and The Mothers/ Mothers of Invention) *
Zarathustra *
Joe Zawinul *
Zed *
Wulf Zendik (Zendik Farm Orgaztra) *
Ziyo
ZNR *
Zombi *
John Zorn *
Zopp *
Zwoyld *
Zygoat *
Zypressen *

If applicable, please choose three acts, or more, or less, from this poll of some of my favourites to vote on and mention in a post, and please mention any of your own favourites. I encourage commentary and discussion on any that you think apply.

I think that the only one of these in the poll not in PA is Yo La Tengo. I've known it for considerable years, and its album This Stupid World made my top albums list for 2023. The Indie Rock, Post-Rock and Krautrock qualities on it make me put it under the Prog umbrella.



Here are the past polls: 25 "W" List Acts & 17 "V" List Acts and 8 "X" Rated Acts & 8 "Q" and 18 "U" List Acts & 26 "T" List Acts & 25 "S" List Acts & 25 "R" List Acts & 28 "P" List Acts & 27 "O" List Acts & 27 "N" List Acts & 25 "M" List Acts & 25 "L" List Acts & 25 "K" List Acts & 25 "I and J" List Acts & 25 "H" List Acts & 29 "G" List Acts & 26 "F" List Acts & 25 "E" List Acts & 26 "D" List Acts & 25 "C" List Acts & 25 "B" List Acts & 25 "A" List Acts

Thanks to all who commented on music during this series. :) Thanks to those who considered my choices, mentioned others, and of course did both.

Zappa

Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yezda Urfa, Frank Zappa (and The Mothers/ Mothers of Invention) and Zarathustra.

From this list, Frank Zappa. 

If I look at my 64 GB iPod Touch, which does not hold its charge and I stopped using quite a few years ago, under Z is Zanov, Zheng Jun Mian & Li Hong, Zhou Xian, ZNR and The Zodiac. Under Y is Yan Tregger, Yatha Sidhra and Yugen.

I never categorised it right, so, say, Frank Zappa is under F.

From the poll, I will choose Zao, Zanov and Yatha Sidhra

^ Not that into Zaal despite having it in your collection? As I notice you only mentioned voting for Frank Zappa.

Criswell wrote: After Zappa, the only "Z" on my iPod classic is Zebra...I thought they were going to be big after their first album, but then they fizzled. I think they got lost in MTV...

Zebra had the fastest-selling debut in Atlantic's history at the time of release. Yeah, they should've been a lot bigger. The second album enjoyed exposure with a couple singles/videos, but 3.V took on water and sank like a stone. It shouldn't have, since Triumph's "Somebody's Out There" enjoyed regular rotation and that was a hit.

Jared wrote: Again, sadly none of the above I'm afraid... however beside the really obvious, I could only vote for Zero Hour & Finn Zierler here... neither of whom get much of a listen these days.

I might do one more of these at some time ere long covering some of the less obvious, lesser-known or talked about at PA releases that have been covered by people other than me throughout this series. But I would want to famialiarise myself a bit with the music first. And I might cover some silly omissions, like missing Oriental Wind not one but twice if thinking Oriental Wind for O and thinking Okay Temiz and Oriental Wind for T. I should've checked my old iPod for this series but I do like to focus on music that is still very relevant to my particular interests right now. 10 years ago I was mostly listening to different stuff regularly. 10 years before that I mostly was listening to other stuff than then and so on.... It is the most current of tastes in people that tend to interest me the most, including music that people got into fairly recently. These polls do cover music I have known for many decades and some only quite recently.

Edited by Logan - September 20 2024 at 18:23

I’d noticed that Yes had been left out, but thought better not to make a drama of it…..

Yes, it’s not only Paul that can do bad humour😌

Have I been absent for the forum for very long or have you become quite impatient with posting the last letter polls?