10 of my favourite bands
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Topic: 10 of my favourite bands
Posted By: Hercules
Subject: 10 of my favourite bands
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 17:55
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Logan has put his exotic choices in a poll: he and I have very disparate tastes, so I thought I'd chuck my take on the 10 best bands into the mix. I had to make a very tough choice to eventually leave Lazuli out, which is a pity because it's the only French band I've ever really liked. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 18:15
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I have exotic tastes in dancers. ;) My tastes are diverse. We definitely have our differences in tastes, but also overlap (especially in classic stuff). I've often mentioned the Snow Goose being one of my favourite albums, and I know you you like it very much. . I like music in this poll very much, particularly by Camel, Strawbs and Horslips-- I have multiple Camel albums and Strawbs, but only The Táin by Horslips. I tend to veer towards the underdog in a poll, but I am voting Camel. The debut to Moonmadness plus A Live Record have meant very much to me. If this were multiple choice like my poll, I'd vote for those three. EDIT: Like I said in my poll in response to you, "What can be interesting, but rarely is, is how tastes may totally differ on some things while harmonising on others. I tend to seek and focus more on the connections rather than the disconnections." But actually, I am interested in where those tastes both diverge and converge. When I think of you, I think, yeah we have differences but also similarities (I pay attention to what people like and don't like partially as I'm interested in people, and getting to know them more fully). I have broad tastes, and like most people here, I like a lot of the classic prog. Of the others in the list, I have found music I liked too (I've looked into all of them, and was recommended a Big Big Train track that I really enjoyed). Some can take a little more digging than others (I'm not generally that big on metal, a lot of hard rock, or arena rock/ AORish melodic rock). I like a lot of pastoral music and am more of a folky than a rocker at heart. My first love was classical music. There'a lot of folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop, lounge, Indie, electronica, academic, world music, some country music, that I love. Some is complex, some is simple, some is so-called avant garde, some is mainstream, some is "art" music, some is more industrial, some is oft considered high-brow, some low-brow, some is exotic and some is quite pedestrian. I do love exotica and the quirky. |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 18:43
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I voted for Riverside. If you had multiple choices, I would have picked Marillion also. I found personal likes and dislikes on both Logan's and your list. That's the beauty of having individual tastes. What??? Still no French TV? ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 19:03
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TCat wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 19:19
Don't think I can vote any of these, go figure.  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 19:50
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Strawbs narrowly over Camel, then Marillion, then I don't care. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 23:08
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I thought I could cast multiple votes on this one, too, so voted for the first appealing option, which was in fact the first option. Ooops. Could have voted for half of them. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 23:13
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Tough call between BBT, Camel, and Riverside. I'll go the latter. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: April 23 2020 at 23:21
Same here |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 00:19
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Big Big Train. If multiple votes were allowed, I might have picked Camel, IQ and Horslips as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 00:53
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BBT. the voting is quite mad on this so far. No votes for IQ and Marillion??!
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[33.33%]Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 00:56
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just for fun I will rank all the bands plus Lazuli 1) Big Big Train 2) IQ 3) Haken 4) Riverside 5) Lazuli 6) Camel 7) Marillion 8) Strawbs 9) Mostly Autumn 10) Pendragon 11) Horslips
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 01:38
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Everything on this list except Camel is overrated. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 02:06
Awesome list... I Voted for the neo-prog band!!!! IQ ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 02:53
IQ for me, but I also very much like Marillion, BBT, Mostly Autumn, Pendragon and The Snow Goose |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 03:12
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Vote for Camel who lead this by some distance for me, though I like some IQ and Strawbs. Logan's poll is closer to my tastes, not surprisingly. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 03:33
It would seem that I vote for Logan. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 03:37
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I actually have very few albums from this list of artists. But my favourite album from this list is from Riverside. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 06:20
I voted for Marillion for the work they did with Fish. 
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Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 06:22
throw rocks at me I don't care somebody has to speak the truth and say it. In reality Camel are about half as good as this site lets on.
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 06:49
| Big Big Train, over IQ, Riverside, Marillion, Pendragon and Haken. |
Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 07:26
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Impulse wanted me to go with BBT because of their strong output these last few years. After consideration, I couldn't ignore IQ's (almost)consistent run of essential albums since they began.
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 09:19
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There are very interesting bands here, and I love some of them. But, on this poll, I definitely choose Camel. It's a classic prog band and I'm a classic prog fan either.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 12:01
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Hmm, good poll. Camel, IQ, then Big Big Train. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 12:02
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Strawbs ------------- |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 14:17
| No Magenta ? Shame on you ! |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 24 2020 at 23:56
| Strawbs from these, like also some Camel & Marillion. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 25 2020 at 05:11
| Marillion out of these |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: April 25 2020 at 13:29
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BBT over Camel by a hair. ------------- The Prog Corner |