25 "N" List Acts
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Topic: 25 "N" List Acts
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 25 "N" List Acts
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 16:57
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Again these are 25 of my favourites, where I have enjoyed music from each, and I'm sure there are others I like that did not come to mind. I encourage people to vote for AND mention three of these, or more, or less if they like any. It's not a contest. Again, I also encourage people to mention their favourites that are not in the poll. I would like people to feel comfortable voting with limited familiarity and mentioning others with no familiarity when it comes to my choices. And if you know and don't think highly of any of the choices (it is fairly eclectic), feel free to mention those. I mean Neurosis and News From Babel, for instance, are pretty different. So really happy to hear about others, but I do hope that people who can say something about the actual choices, or just mention them, decide to do so. And if you have what you think is a "better" list (not just better for your tastes), lay it on me bro, sis.... :) I like some spice in the mix, and despite the subjective nature of music appreciation, I would be happy to discuss the merits of our selective selections and to try to keep an open mind and open ears. Oh, also, not all of these are in PA, but I'm not going to leave out, say Joanna Newsom or various others. And others I just want here. Here are the past polls: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133557" rel="nofollow - 25 "M" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133546" rel="nofollow - 25 "L" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133533" rel="nofollow - 25 "K" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133437" rel="nofollow - 25 "I and J" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133395" rel="nofollow - 25 "H" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133382" rel="nofollow - 29 "G" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133376" rel="nofollow - 26 "F" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133371" rel="nofollow - 25 "E" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133361" rel="nofollow - 26 "D" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133352" rel="nofollow - 25 "C" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133348" rel="nofollow - 25 "B" List Acts & https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133346" rel="nofollow - 25 "A" List Acts ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:00
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Needlepoint NEu! Nucleus
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:17
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National Health Neu ! The National (not a prog act) |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:28
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Hi, Hahaha ... again ... NEUTRONS ... and they are listed under Eclectic Prog on PA .... 2 totally lovely albums, with "Black Hole Star" just having some far out vocals. "Tales From the Blue Cocoons" is better known for their song about the MAN band, and the various members they took and un-took! (No More Straight Scenes). And no NEKTAR? I'm gonna tell my mah about that!
 ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:32
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^ Being vindictive about my response to your "M" reply? Please just make your own polls Pedro if you have nothing positive to say about any of my choices and just want to complain and not respect the opening post. I just request that you do 25 for each letter not covered by my polls for excessive awesomeness. I like Nektar, but why should it be amongst my 25 favourites? Surely it gets plenty of recognition anyway. I often do feel like you don't actually read what others write, consider it, or bother to care. I've defended you plenty in the collab zone, and taken flak for it, but somehow I doubt you would do the same for me. ^^ Yeah, I have not limited it to what I consider to be Prog. I think of Prog as as a spectrum that can be incredibly diverse Some not in PA like Joanna Newsom, Janko Nilovic, Natural Snow Buildings, and music by The Necks I consider on the prog spectrum (or to have made Prog music). Gary Numan has made a kind of Kraftwerk related music. And Colin Newman I would not expect in PA, although I could relate it to music in PA. Not all need to be Prog for Prog polls, but that should dominate. I find more interest in a rather more holistic approach, but still this is limited to my interests. All of this for me relates to Progressive Rock, and I don;t think there is dividing line between Prog and non-Prog and Prog Related and Non Prog-Related. ^ Not claiming that is Prog. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:53
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National Health Neu! New Goblin Nucleus Gary Numan ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:55
I was not familiar with New Goblin. Nude Gobblin' is, however, another matter.   ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
verslibre wrote:Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 03:22
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Nico North Sea Radio Orchestra National Health Outside this list: Nice Beaver Nine Stones Close (Leaves is stellar) ------------- 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 03:48
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It does not feel right leaving out National Health from my top
three. But going by what I've been actively listening to in the last
couple of years, this is what's honest and correct. I used to think
Nucleus was alright, good, but nothing special. Now I think they are
quite special. The Necks are among my favorite discoveries in the last
five years or so. The Necks Nucleus Non Credo - National HealthNEU! Nico Needlepoint Joanna NewsomJanko Nilovic Gary Numan I
really like Nektar to but I'm not going to bitch about it not being in a
poll. It would only had made it more difficult to choose anyway:)
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 05:41
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National Health is my favourite out of these. Still an honourable mention must go out to Natural Snow Buildings which I've discovered only recently but who are a delight. ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 06:01
| Of the list—National Health. Not on the list—Nektar. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 06:03
Gary Numan  |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 06:54
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a few blasts from the past for me... Nektar Nightwish (pre-Disney) Nightingale Novembre No Name Clive Nolan ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 06:56
National Health have most votes up to now so I'll snub them, but honestly I love them. Instead votes go to North Sea Radio Orchestra (who saw that coming?  ), The Necks (one of the few I have seen live in 2024), Needlepoint. I also like Joanna Newsom and News from Babel and Neu! when I'm in the mood; the best stuff by Nine Inch Nails is absolutely voteworthy, but they did too much that leaves me cold.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 07:01
This. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 09:55
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Now I feel like going with Janko Nilovic (Rythmes contemporains is a brilliant album that was recommended to me considerable years ago here), North Sea Radio Orchestra (such a joy), Joanna Newsom (wonderful), and I am going to put my neck out by giving a fourth vote to The Necks (I adore Hanging Gardens). And for a song to share from the lovely Joanna Newsom:  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 10:18
"There's a mayor outside, and a local greyhound smoking a cigarette." Although I generally am opposed to greyhounds smoking cigarettes, unless it's the competition right before the big race, that video gets a thumbs up from me. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 11:11
 On that note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobblers_Knob" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobbler%27s_Knob ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Duddick
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 11:40
| Noetra |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 11:48
^ That's not a name I recall. Mind sharing a choice track so I can listen? I am up for some new-to-me music.
^ LOL, coughing up a lung now. Especially I was in a fairly serious mood before. Thanks.----------------------------------------------- On a different note as I had prepared this over the past hour, here is my longer O list: .O.rang* (see note) Agnes Obel Richard O'Brien October Equus Of Wondrous Legends (O.W.L.) Offering Thee Oh Sees** (see note) Oiapok Oingo Boingo Oiseaux - Tempete Oktober Mike Oldfield Sally Oldfield*** (see note) Olive Mess Angel Olsen Omega Oneohtrix Point Never OOIOO The Open Window Opeth Opus Avantra Opus-5 Orange Peel Orchestra Njervudarov Øresund Space Collective Organisation Le Orme Os Mundi**** (see note) otay:onii The Orb Las Orejas Y La Lengua Osanna Ose Osibisa Ougenweide Out of Focus Ozric Tentacles * .O.rang (aka 'O' rang should maybe be included under special characters) ** I would place Thee Oh Sees under T, as "Thee" means "You", not "The", but this is where PA places it. *** I actually have not listened to much Sally Oldfield but wanted to include her anyway for others in this list. **** Os Mundi is Latin for The World. PA puts it under O, I would put it under M. Anyway, I will be paring that down to my very faves, and I do favour that which still gets plays and/or is newer to me commonly. As always, people can list their own favourites, and one might expect and share that they would have thought I would include something, but of course I commonly don't appreciate people complaining (no name), acting like what they know is better (appreciation is subjective), or acting like I should have included something. I am happy to hear about what people like in my poll and don't like in my poll, and to hear about others favourites. I am even willing to argue to an extent the merits of the music, but I don't like to put down musicians/bands. I like "appreciation" the most and sharing our individual passions as I am a passionate lover of music and other arts. There's nothing wrong with me preferring some kinds of music over others, knowing the music I know best, and having my particular favourites, and the same goes for others. This goes without saying, but I said it anyway as sometimes there is this air of expectation, blame and ridicule for not including other ones. Taste is so personal and such a part of each one's identity here, and to me respecting that is quite sacrosanct. Sometimes I do forget favourites of mine too. I did not want this series to have the space to welcome more than what I know and like and I can't fit all I like into 25 spaces as I have explored a lot of albums and I love a great many acts. There's no shortage of good music, and good-for-me and good-for-you music. and there's no shortage in discovering new to oneself music that one might love.  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 12:48
Hi, Goodness gracious ... just having some fun and not suggesting that it was a negative reaction. You already know that I have been at this for some 50+ years, and the number of bands that could get listed anywhere is literally impossible to create without missing a lot of things. I merely mentioned two that were big for us in the 70's in Guy's show and my collection, as opposed to some of the newer stuff that you listed, a lot of which I have not heard and am working on it now. I could never consider doing a list of this or that ... I get burped up when I make a small list, for example, and then my head starts getting disappointed that I left out 5 or 10 other groups ... it is the main reason why I do not do "numbers" and "lists" in general ... I may list one or two special things here in there in my heart, but in general, all the music is special to me, and I don't like to leave anyone behind. Your work is fine, and good in my book ... so please do not think that I am being this or that ... because in general I am not ... my hopes are always to "add" something to the discussions, not "subtract" anything from the whole. After all, I'm still fighting for a lot of progressive music, instead of simply posting "favorites" ... and that's just my nature ... having come from a literary house with 40k books of Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish Literature ... and unlike Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan ... I do not think that all that paper is for the toilet at all ... and in fact I get disappointed and bummed if I see comments to that nature.
Special for me, in that I met them and saw them twice (first and second tours in America), and I had created a button that enchanted Mo Moore ... which he might still remember ... of all the guitar players and singer, Roye Albrighton is one of the best with a soul behind his words that few can decorate on a stage. I would also like to pay my respects to Mickie and Deke (MAN) and saw them and met the band when I did a 2 hour plus show of their music on my own show in 1999/2000 (called The Space) ... and it got Martin Ace to get a hold of me and thank for the interest. Deke's book is one of the saddest things about the rock journey by anyone ... but it is also a beautiful "flower" of an inspiration ... and I want Mickie's yodel's at my funeral, even if that choir is not there with him .. but I'm sure a choir of angels will show up un-announced. I need to dream some more!!!!! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 12:56
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^ I knew you were having fun, but I was surprised with this approach after my response to your M post. Anyway, no biggie, water under the bridge my friend. Thanks for explaining. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 16:32
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National Health and News From Babel. For the last hour I talked to my toothpaste. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 10 2024 at 10:55
| Gary Numan although I struggled a bit after the Replicas album. The Pleasure Principle is also good to be fair and those polyphonic synths are hard to beat! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 12 2024 at 09:03
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Top 24 "N-List" Artists on ProgArchives Pete Namlook National Health Nautilus Naxatras Ian Neal Nektar Neon Leaves Nessie Neuschwanstein The New Age Tom Newman The Nice Night Flight Project Nightwish Nirvana (UK) No Clear Mind No Man's Land Noa (Japan) No-Man Clive Nolan Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman North Star Novalis Nth Ascension |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: September 12 2024 at 09:25
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Numan, Gary National Health Nucleus
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 12 2024 at 09:39
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Nightwish for me… ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 13 2024 at 14:32
| from the list, Nucleus; other-Nektar |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 17 2024 at 03:11
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National Health, NEU! and Gary Numan.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 05:56
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Picking 3 from the poll: National Health, North Sea Radio Orchestra, and Nine Inch Nails |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 21 2024 at 21:35
| I neglected to mention nonlisted nonprog N artists. Correcting that: Nirvana and Negativland. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 26 2024 at 07:10
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North Sea Radio Orchestra The Necks National Health ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |