25 Acts Album Duos From Prog Archives Chart

Nice idea. Many great duos here, and I have a hard time picking one. You are doing many polls and some bands come up very often, so I make my job easier by avoiding to vote for anyone I have voted in your polls already. That rules out Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield and probably also Univers Zero and Area (for sure I've voted for them in polls, not 100% sure it was yours).

Lewian wrote: Nice idea. Many great duos here, and I have a hard time picking one. You are doing many polls and some bands come up very often, so I make my job easier by avoiding to vote for anyone I have voted in your polls already. That rules out Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield and probably also Univers Zero and Area (for sure I've voted for them in polls, not 100% sure it was yours). That leaves Renaissance as the strongest choice (pretty sure I haven't voted for them in any of your polls; I know I have voted for them in a Renaissance poll, but that doesn't really count...)

^ Tangerine Dream, Univers Zero and Area are favourites of mine, so those three will have found their way into many of the polls that are lists of my favourite albums by my favourite acts.

General note: This poll came about because of conversations I have had with members. It seems to me to be a mildly fun (for those of us who like trivial site stats) and unusual way to show results in the charts that includes Proto-Prog and Prog Related since normally those do not come up in those, and a bit of a distraction for me from things I should be doing and worrying about in the tedium of putting it together. :) And I like the idea of choosing between set duos and trios, considering not just the act or one album but the specific line-ups of albums, as well as maybe mentioning what one's preferred album line-ups would be from favourite bands.

Very hard to pick one, voted for Univers Zero, could easily have been any of these

Univers Zero
Hatfield and the North
Mike Oldfield
Tangerine Dream

Voyage of the Acolyte, Spectral Mornings. Hard to let go Purple and Oldfield.

Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn, Tubular Bells

Pain of Salvation

Mr. Hackett.

^ I tend to favour making polls multiple choice, but I know that some prefer single choice. Some like the challenge.

Ultimately it doesn't matter much to me as I commonly don't pay much attention to poll results but instead I focus on the posts themselves and one can mention/ highlight as many albums/acts in a post as one wants. Still, if I have a bunch that are equal to me, I try to comes up with some process to choose one, and often that will be voting for an commenting on one of the underdogs to give it some more attention. Sometimes it's just the choice that I feel I would most like to listen to at the time.

I was going to go with Tangerine Dream, but then changed it on a whim to Bowie. Doesn't matter much to me as I got the chance to comment on both duos and many more.

I do like the those polls from others often enough where I have to choose between personal favourites even if ultimately my choice can feel all too arbitrary and random. I sometimes resort to ways to choose randomly between faves.

On another note: I got used to not making polls with certain popular choices multiple choice in my early years here because it all-too-often led to abuse.

^ The chart's entries commonly enough would not be my top either, but I definitely have favourites between the top 250 chart albums used for both lists. With Magma (studio only), I would like to go with Kobaïa, 1001° centigrades, and Attahk as my three. That's part of the fun for me, comparing what would be our personal choices with what the charts list and then coming up with choices where even if it would not be our choices, it is one where we still appreciate the albums, and sharing something of our thought processes that led to decisions.

On a side-note: I tend to be more of an ideas driven person than results driven. It's more about best fit to our appreciation than ideal fit often. That's all part of the challenge and part of the fun, I think.

If I chose the trios rather than having decided on an approach to stick with before looking through the list then the list would largely be very different indeed, but I can still find many trios in that topic where I like all three albums very much even when not the ideal choices.

Edited by Logan - March 25 2025 at 10:25