The only good thread is a mort thread.

I might go for Shub, but you must include Morte Macabre! 1,2 and 4 are my three favorites here. 

The description of Maajun is very interesting.  An excellent serie of polls!

If I arrange all of the letters in this poll, I'm sure I can create a band name I'll recognize. 

Rocktopus: You won't find Mort Macabre on the list, because my original conception of the poll was merely to highlight albums with the word "Mort" (or certain variations) in it, so I discarded it (was planning to mention it in my first post, but forgot).  That said, there was no good reason to limit the options that way, and I offered chances to vote for other options that didn't quite fit my intended parameters (nor did I mention that I has intended to limit this to "mort" album names), so I should have given that as an option within the expansion.  I'm glad you brought it up (and thanks for the myspace page) cause it would have been better to include it, good stuff, and might bring more people into the poll.  Perhaps I'll edit it in, and remove the Circus Mort option. 

febus wrote: Hi LOGAN , you are overdoing yourself....the best polls on PA...original and funny!!   Again, how do you know all those french obscurities living so far in British Columbia?? in Quebec, i might understand, but BC???? bravo, anyway.   I don't have all your knowledge, i just know 3 of them and my choice will be GERARD MANSET-La Mort D'orion.......so good, so unique athmosphere!........ ....otherwise i know only the Gong album and KOMINTERN

I was long into French electronic music.  Two things helped with that: A university radio program I would listen to where one of the people was into that kind of music and a good library which had many relevant CDs.  I was also quite familiar with Quebecois jazz because of the jazz festival we have here in Vancouver every here, and I frequently listen to the French CBC radio station for music (and have caught good music on TV5).

Later on it was because of the internet.  I used to go through the streaming mp3s at this very site looking for music that I liked, and I just found that French prog tended to have qualities that really appealed to me.  As I said in the other poll, there's something about French arts that has long appealed to me -- especially film.  I went into film studies to a considerable extent because of French language cinema -- that also exposed me to lots of French music.  I have spent some time in Quebec, and that helps too.

The internet has proved the real ear opener, and I've been fortunate to find others who share my passion, have helped to guide me, and have made considerable effort to revive or develop interest in albums/ artists, and expose people to what is a very fertile progressive music national or provincial tradition.  I'm indebted to the passion of others.  I'd list all the people at this site whose reviews, recommendations, writing of bios etc. have helped me, but I don't want to miss anyone.   You know who you are...  If it weren't for dedicated/ enthusiastic people such as Assaf, Christer, Yukorin, laplace, Hughes, members of ZART, and many others, I wouldn't know nearly so much.  And of course, a great deal of people here have broadened my horizons to a world (some being "out of this world") of progressive music.

Good choice with La Mort d'Orion, that is a terrific album.

Douce Mort from Nemo.  Not an album name but a song, but that is the extent of my Mort knowledge

febus wrote: I don't have all your knowledge, i just know 3 of them and my choice will be GERARD MANSET-La Mort D'orion.......so good, so unique athmosphere!........ ....otherwise i know only the Gong album and KOMINTERN

While I truly love Shub-Niggurath's and Komintern's, I too have given my vote to this album, which is superb.  I think it would be an excellent addition to the archives.

How about the spooky Morte Macabre and their stunning Symphonic Holocaust . Ca c'est froid!

Logan wrote: My next one might be more of a Science class poll... The Science Group (not yet in) vs. Solution Science Systems (not in) vs. Popular Science's Design for Living (not in) Laurie Anderson's Big Science (will it ever be in?) vs. The Diagram Brothers' Some Marvels of Modern Science (not in) vs. Weird Science (um, yeah) vs. Blotted Science vs. Brian Eno's Before and After Science vs. Forever Einstein's Racket Science vs. Tribal Tech's Rocket Science vs. Landmarq's Science of Coincidence vs. Karda Estra's The Age of Science and Enlightenement vs. whatever.

avestin wrote: Logan wrote: My next one might be more of a Science class poll... The Science Group (not yet in) vs. Solution Science Systems (not in) vs. Popular Science's Design for Living (not in) Laurie Anderson's Big Science (will it ever be in?) vs. The Diagram Brothers' Some Marvels of Modern Science (not in) vs. Weird Science (um, yeah) vs. Blotted Science vs. Brian Eno's Before and After Science vs. Forever Einstein's Racket Science vs. Tribal Tech's Rocket Science vs. Landmarq's Science of Coincidence vs. Karda Estra's The Age of Science and Enlightenement vs. whatever.   I had a similar idea (being a scientist) but wanted to also include albums that deal with science in a way, like Nemo's Si partie I+II (genetic engineering).

That would be an interesting idea of yours, Assaf (rather than just another preferred album poll, one that focuses on the science behind the albums -- unfortunately, I know my speculative and pseudo-science rather better than hard science being just an arts guy).  My wife, who is  a chemical engineer, works in bio-chem.  I feel that I missed my calling by not going into the sciences,, but an aversion to mathematics took me down another path (but if I'd found my true-calling, or at least a somewhat satisfactory career, I probably wouldn't have found my way here).