1994 Albums Part Two
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Topic: 1994 Albums Part Two
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 1994 Albums Part Two
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 17:16
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This is part 2, covering M to Z acts, the first part was A to L. Mastermind was mentioned in thee last poll and so much as I like Lush, I decided to omit it from the poll to make space for Mastermind (a band I have heard of, and recognise this albums cover, but barely know). Starting with M is more aesthetically pleasing to my eyes anyway than finishing with L. I have not limited myself to ones included in PA, but I feel this works better in this section. Please vote on what you like most regardless of how Prog you consider it to be. I have 25 other albums from part 1 and I culled these from a longer list that I put together. I have not enabled multiple votes, but please mention as many as you like in the list. And feel free to mention any others her from M to Z, and from A to L in part one, but please try to comment on any of the choices in the poll too if you can. Cheers. Part 2. * Lush - Split (1994) (I like this album but it had to split to make way for Mastermind) Marillion - Brave (1994) Massive Attack - Protection (1994) Mastermind - III - Tragic Symphony (1994) Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror (1994) Melvins - Stoner Witch (1994) Merciless - Unbound (1994) Mercyful Fate - Time (1994) Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo (1994) Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster (1994) Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude (1994) The Necks - Aquatic (1994) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994) Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence (1994) Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (1994) Portishead - Dummy (1994) Pram - Helium (1994) Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito (1994) Elliott Smith - Roman Candle (1994) Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994) Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet (1994) Roine Stolt - The Flower King (1994) Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe (1994) Tortoise - Tortoise (1994) Yes - Talk (1994) Here is what I covered in Part One: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133953" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133953 5uu's - Hunger's Teeth (1994) Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994) Laurie Anderson - Bright Red (1994) Änglagård - Epilog (1994) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994) Bark Psychosis - Hex (1994) Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit (1994) The Cardigans - Emmerdale (1994) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994) Collage - Moonshine (1994) Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (1994) Dream Theater - Awake (1994) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - In the Hot Seat (1994) Fishmans - Orange (1994) John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (1994) Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy (1994) Killing Joke - Pandemonium (1994) King's X - Dogman (1994) Kingston Wall - III - Tri-Logy (1994) Koenji Hyakkei - Hundred Sights of Koenji (1994) Kyuss - Kyuss [Welcome to Sky Valley] (1994) Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon (1994) The Legendary Pink Dots - 9 Lives to Wonder (1994) Low - I Could Live in Hope (1994) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 17:20
| That's a hard one with many good albums but nothing that I find outstanding. I'll vote for Miranda Sex Garden guessing that maybe nobody else will do that. Tortoise, Pram, Necks, Ozrics would've been further candidates. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 17:29
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1. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell 2. Yes - Talk 3. Marillion - Brave 4. Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror 5. Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 17:35
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Not Prog, but for me Portishead's Dummy is an outstanding album. I think Pram would be my second choice. And I like the Nature and Organisation, Stereolab, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and Tortoise albums very much. I am not as familiar with that The Necks albums as others by the band -- I adore The Necks Hanging Gardens from 1999. It's actually not a particular favourite year of mine but ever year from the 60s up is special to me with albums I adore. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 17:55
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Ozrics > NIN, Floyd, Portishead, Soundgarden ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 18:59
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Mastermind, ahead of the Ozrics, because of this track, right here. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 19:10
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^ Glad it got a vote, I mean other than Mike's (AFlowerKingCrimson), of course, which I thought likely to come. While I voted for Portishead, to highlight one track from a band I have never noticed anyone mention other than me at this site before, except once in response to me ("I can hear why" someone might say), here is "Cup of Dreams" off that Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 album (not one in PA). I could imagine the vocals not appealing to many, and well, more about it too. Label it under quirky stuff I like. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 21:56
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Psychotic Waltz but I do like that Soundgarden album. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 22:21
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Talk is good so that's my vote. The Bristol based so called 'Trip-hop' bands are great of course. It's a bit scary that Protection is now 30 years old, I remember that video with Tracey Thorn like it was yesterday. Pink Floyd post Waters is just some empty shell of a band imo.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 23:31
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High Hopes is enough to top the list ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 00:40
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Marillion - Brave Fates Warning - Inside Out
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 01:52
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Brave, The Division Bell, Superunknown ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 02:28
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Marillion - Brave, followed by Roine Stolt's great offering, then Floyd and NIN sharing third place. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 02:39
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Marillion > Yes > PF > Mastermind ------------- 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: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 03:37
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Went with the Ozrics on this one. Otherwise known as the 8oo's and sometimes as the 14zz's. ------------- ---------- 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: Octopus II
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 04:41
| Marillion - Brave. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 05:03
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These are three of my favorite 90's albums: Tortoise Dummy Aquatic |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 08:09
Atta boy.
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verslibre wrote:Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 08:52
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The Floyds, Yes, and Marillion. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 10:47
You've no idea how disappointed I was to learn that Spock's Beard, not Mastermind, was opening for Fish in Los Angeles back in the late '90s. Mastermind did the whole tour up through San Francisco, but Spock's got the L.A. date. I was only going to go to see Mastermind.  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 11:05
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1. Brave is the greatest album Marillion has ever done and is in my All-Time Top 25. 2. Talk is my second-favorite (after 90125) Trevor Rabin-era Yes album. 3. The Division Bell is an album I would describe as "mostly good".
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 11:21
^ The Division Bell is quite uneven.
Well, I am glad that I included Mastermind, thanks for bringing it up, Mike. It got multiple positive mentions (yourself, Verslibre, Jared) which would be more than lots of my faves would get, and I guess is more popular than I had realised.  ------------------ One of my favourites in the list is Pram's Helium, and here is a favourite track of mine (doubt it would be to most tastes here. Quirky, as is much that I like). I go into Pram not long after getting into Stereolab and Broadcast, then got into some other things I relate to these artists like Komeda and Vanishing Twin. By the way, thanks for all of the responses thus far. I may not respond to all but I usually try to read and consider all. Well, I would hope that would be the same with most anyone who creates topics at this site and should not need saying, but I said it anyway. Suffice to say, it's appreciated. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 11:32
I get why a lot of people don't care for Mastermind. Bill Berends doesn't exactly have a great voice. He's an acquired taste. But throughout their discography, they have a surplus of instrumentals, and Excelsior! (with Jens Johannson on keyboards) is entirely instrumental, and right up any heavy jazz-rocker's alley. When Mastermind brought in Lisa Bouchet to be their lead vocalist on Angels of the Apocalypse, I thought they'd signed a new lease on career longevity, but it wasn't to be. It took them another ten years to release the unimpressive Insomnia. Bill Berends relocated to Brazil years ago. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 11:44
And also I think some people would find it too bombastic (reminiscent of ELP in various material, and let's face it, ELP did fall out of fashion). I have taken the time to listen to a cross-section, and I do like Lisa Bouchet's vocals. This is the first track I remember checking out when Mastermind came up in another topic at this forum at some time. "Tiger! Tiger!" the song reminded me of Spinal Tap, but then a lot does, and that's not really a bad thing as I sincerely and unironically one might say love Spinal Tap (not just for the film, but throughout the career). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 11:56
Mastermind played at a bar near where I used to live around 2004 or so. They actually played there twice but I missed them the second time. Anyway, I remember Bill Berends telling me that Mastermind opened up for Rush in NJ (I think maybe for the TFE tour but I don't remember for sure or even if he told me which exact tour). That kind of surprised me but in a good way. I still have my "late night with Mastermind" t shirt somewhere.
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Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: November 27 2024 at 23:23
 I have two CD's of theirs, they don't get the attention they deserve, very accomplished musicians.
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