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50 Years Ago! (Part 1 - 1975)
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Poll Question: Some albums are turning 50 shortly - fave?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
15 [36.59%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [12.20%]
4 [9.76%]
3 [7.32%]
1 [2.44%]
2 [4.88%]
3 [7.32%]
2 [4.88%]
6 [14.63%]
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Zappa
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Voted Camel

also part of my collection :
Greenslade - Time and Tide     

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time     
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Soft Machine : Bundles     
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
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1975 was a blessed year for prog-rock afficionados ( By the way , I/We did not use the label 'prog rock' back then)

I 'd add some music from 1975 (and avoid the usual 'Prog Giants) and parts of my collection

10cc : Original soundtrack ( i gave it a spin today)
VDGG : Godbluff UK
Seventh Wave : Psi-fi UK
Quiet Sun : Mainstream UK
Fireballet : Night on bald mountain USA
PFM : Chocolate Kings ITALY
Esperanto : Last Tango International
Caravan : Cunning Stunts UK
Banco : Fist Italy
Magma Live France
Todd Rundgren : Initiation USA
Eno : another Green world UK
BJH : Time honoured ghosts UK
Atoll : L'araingée-mal France
Ange : Emile Jacotey France



Edited by mellotronwave - January 27 2025 at 15:03
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The Snow Goose.
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While I expect that there are quite few albums albums that I love from this period (the first six months of 1975), there are no complaints with the list as that has some of my very favourites and I usually prefer to go with an option in the list if there is one I am into there. I went with The Rotters CLub' over In Praise of Learning, Desperate Straits and Warrior on the Edge of Time. I also have loved Camel's Snow Goose.

A couple of others that I want to mention are:
February, 1975: NEU! - NEU! '75
March, 1975: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

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From your list, Frank Zappa (although Physical Graffiti, released in February, is probably the album of the year).

On the whole, I prefer the second half of 1975, thank you very much. In order, from July onward:

Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Kansas - Masque
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water


Plus, albums that veered over the edge of prog:

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - S/T
Rush - Caress of Steel
ELO - Face the Music
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I wasn't into much good prog music in 1975 and I was only 13 for most of the first half of the year. I loved Sweet who very much hard rock with a smattering of prog leanings but they had released Desolation Boulevard in November 1974 so I can't include them. BTW Just noticed that Paul Manzi (ex Arena) is now their lead singer would you believe it!
Suprised that no one has yet mentioned (EDIT, sorry post above does!) Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album that was released in February 1975. Maybe then the biggest rock band on the planet releasing a double album. I can imagine the excitement for many (even though I was there but wasn't grown up enough!) and Kashmir must surely be one of the greatest rock songs of all time.
From the list it's clearly Snow Goose but that band were nowhere near on my radar at the time. I first heard them on Alan Freeman's Saturday afternoon rock show when he played Lunar Sea about a year or so later. Wasn't that impressed to be honest but I'm now a lot more interested. Yesterday (mainly because the internet went down) I found myself listening to some of the Airbourne box set with Nude and the debut. Loving both for sure.


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Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time 
Camel - The Snow Goose
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
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Camel from the list, but 1975 was a great year. Everything went fine up to 1977
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At this point in the poll it's not surprising Camel are in the lead.  At the time I was 12 and was buying up the Hillage, Cow and Hatfield releases (courtesy of the aforementioned Alan Freeman show) on pocket money.  A couple of mentions here of Physical Graffiti, which I well remember coming out but I don't want to reopen 'the are Zeppelin prog debate'... much as I like the album.
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Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

I'll go with Greenslade from that list. 

although mysteriously, Greenslade still has no votes?  I'd have thought about them if it had been either of the first two, but T&T was really just an average attempt to go more mainstream...
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

I'll go with Greenslade from that list. 

although mysteriously, Greenslade still has no votes?  I'd have thought about them if it had been either of the first two, but T&T was really just an average attempt to go more mainstream...

I voted "Something Else" and kept picking things not in line with the criteria. So, I went and picked from the existing list. Smile
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I've got a clear top three from out of these (but I voted for Hatfield)
Hatfield and the North - The Rotter's Club
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


March, 1975: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

-could have gotten my vote if it was among the options. But I've got no complaints in regards to the options we actually got.
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No obvious choice here, though I'm surprised Hatfield didn't get more vote

Hillage, Zappa and Soft's Bundles are also in there.
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Snow Goose. Loved it the first time I heard it. Outside the choices in the poll LZ Physical Graffiti and Mahavisnu Orchestra's Visions of the Emerald Beyond would challenge Camel for my favorite album from 1975.
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