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Poll Question: Out of these?
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    Posted: August 27 2012 at 10:23
Not necessarily crap but to me all these albums were huge disappointments. Well, with the exception that is the track represented in the poll. I know some of you love the albums these songs are originating from and that you even have other favorite tracks from them, but disagreeing and arguing is part of the fun. 

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Although I really dig the rest of the album, I voted for Shrunken Heads. It stands out in Zombi's discog - mostly because it is the only underground trance track they've produced. I love it, and I actually think it is the best tune off the album.
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Oh, so easy for me from this list!

Adelbert Von Deyen's `Atmosphere'! It's from one of my all-time favourite albums (one of the few I love enough that I gave a 5 star review to it on the Archives!), and I truly find the whole album amazing! :)

So I'm standing up for that generally unloved LP!
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Although I really dig the rest of the album, I voted for Shrunken Heads. It stands out in Zombi's discog - mostly because it is the only underground trance track they've produced. I love it, and I actually think it is the best tune off the album.

I didn't know I dug underground trance. I only really enjoyed Shrunken Heads on Escape Velocity, but love the whole of Surface to Air.
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I don't think that 'Changing Horses' by The Incredible String Band is a crappy album. And I really have no idea what this band is doing in this forum! Confused Together with 'Trees' of course!
But anyway, I voted for 'Creation' a song which I really love. If I had a second vote this would go to 'Murdoch' by the 'Trees'
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^ I'm not the slightest bit offended. I love Creation, and think its a masterpiece of sorts. But the rest of the album does little for me. Calling these albums crap is me exaggerating a little for the dramatic effect.

- Both ISB and Trees are considered progressive-folk at PA. Grateful Dead isn't here (although they should), but the title track on Terrapin Station is surely prog?
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:


Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Although I really dig the rest of the album, I voted for Shrunken Heads. It stands out in Zombi's discog - mostly because it is the only underground trance track they've produced. I love it, and I actually think it is the best tune off the album.

I didn't know I dug underground trance. I only really enjoyed Shrunken Heads on Escape Velocity, but love the whole of Surface to Air.



Yeah well I don't let myself get hung too much up on genres, but through recent years of partying with the underground electronic scene in Copenhagen I can safely say that this track lies very close to the music played at these events. Trance or not...
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From your list I voted Tangerine Dream's effort. My own top three would be:
 
Yes - Machine Messiah - Drama
Gentle Giant - Memories of old days - The Missing piece
Spock's Beard - The light - The light
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Another one where the album is rather meh, but holds a bonechillingly beautiful track, is The Enid's The Seed and the Sower. Last track Reverberations is by far my fave from the group and it is just so much better than everything else on the album. Damn I gotta go listen to it now!
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Voted for the Dead's Terrapin Station, though I'm unfamiliar with about half the songs on the list.  The Terrapin Station album isn't bad, but the title suite really takes an otherwise so-so album to another level, making it one of my preferred Dead albums overall.
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Voted Cornonstipicum. But unlike you, I love the whole album.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Another one where the album is rather meh, but holds a bonechillingly beautiful track, is The Enid's The Seed and the Sower. Last track Reverberations is by far my fave from the group and it is just so much better than everything else on the album. Damn I gotta go listen to it now!

Because I found them dead cheap I used to own both of Enid's two first albums. Didn't like any of them at all. Still worth investigating you think?
 

Originally posted by snowsnow snowsnow wrote:

From your list I voted Tangerine Dream's effort. My own top three would be:
 
Yes - Machine Messiah - Drama
Gentle Giant - Memories of old days - The Missing piece
Spock's Beard - The light - The light

Considered the two first, but dropped Machine Messiah based on quite enjoying most of Drama. And ditched Memories...because when I relistened to it I understood that while its my favorite song on The Missing Piece I still couldn't think of any track on Gentle Giant's first eight albums I didn't love more (except The Queen). 
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I have only heard one of these songs, but I just wanted to pop in and say Eliphas Levi (the person, not the song) is awesome.
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This may in fact be the first time I didn't vote for Magma in a poll.  (Which isn't to say I don't like the Magma song included here.)
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Regarding Enid, you may well find something to like from their middle period as it is much more of an electronic approach than a straightforward symphonic. Seed and Sower as well as Tripping the Light Fantastic are both recommendable imo.
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Mellow Candle and Hawkwind's Self Titled are hardly crap albums....Ermm
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''Alphataurus'' a crap?Shocked

you must be the only person in the forum to think that way about this album...
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^Its mainly the vocals that ruins it for me, though. 
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Originally posted by proggy proggy wrote:

Mellow Candle and Hawkwind's Self Titled are hardly crap albums....Ermm

I think they both kinda suck. But I have to admit that Sheep Season is a pretty song.
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