50 Years Ago! (Part 1 - 1975)
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Topic: 50 Years Ago! (Part 1 - 1975)
Posted By: Rick1
Subject: 50 Years Ago! (Part 1 - 1975)
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 11:43
| Dear Reader, the poll is comprised of albums released in the first 6 months of 75 in case you are getting upset at Floyd getting missed out... A golden age, in my humble opinion... |
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 11:48
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The Snow Goose ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 11:53
Triumvirat-Spartacus  |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 11:56
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I won't be churlish and choose something else.... of the options given, it's a really tight call between Camel and Hawkwind and could change next week... but I've just voted for Warrior.
Aside from the Floyd you referred to, another dozen albums I love from this year would be Eloy: Power/ Passion, Froese: Epsilon, GG: Free Hand, Grobschnitt: Jumbo, Hackett: Voyage, MMEB: Nightingales, Nektar: Recycled, Oldfield: Ommadawn, Renaissance: Scheherezade, TD: Rubycon / Ricochet, VDGG: Godbluff, Vangelis: H&H... I wonder how many were released in the second six months?? ------------- 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: Cristi
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:05
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:08
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Camel and Steve Hillage for this period. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:26
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1. Camel - The Snow Goose 2. Steve Hillage - Fish Rising 3. Greenslade - Time and Tide
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:27
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Hawkwind Hillage FZ Soft Machine Greenslade ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: IncogNeato
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:27
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:29
^ two great albums, but I think the OP expects prog albums from 1975. 
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:40
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First vote for Henry Cow |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 12:41
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I'll go with Rush's Fly By Night. I can't say that I am much of a fan of the listed albums. The Snow Goose is probably my obvious choice as it is beautiful music, but I almost never fail to fall asleep while listening to it.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 13:05
Most of them!
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Jared wrote:Posted By: IncogNeato
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 13:19
Yeah, probably... Wish You Were Here Fish Out Of Water Free Hand Godbluff Power And The Passion Song For America Recycled  |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 13:29
^ 
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 13:35
Once again, only the first half of 75 for this poll...
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Posted By: IncogNeato
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 13:48
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Once again, only the first half of 75 for this poll... [/QUOTE]
Sorry...missed that.  I'll go with Greenslade from that list.
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 14:01
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What a great list! Soft Machine- Bundles Hatfield And The North- The Rotters Club Steve Hillage- Fish Rising All three are five star albums in my opinion, but I'm feeling more in a Bundles mood today. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 14:16
| Fish Rising has my vote. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 14:17
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Henry Cow > Steve Hillage > Greenslade. Yep, nice selection. Cheeseburgers are coming out of the air conditioning! ------------- ---------- 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: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 14:23
| Zappa |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 14:46
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Voted Camel also part of my collection : Greenslade - Time and Tide Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Steve Hillage - Fish Rising Soft Machine : Bundles Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 15:01
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1975 was a blessed year for prog-rock afficionados ( By the way , I/We did not use the label 'prog rock' back then) I 'd add some music from 1975 (and avoid the usual 'Prog Giants) and parts of my collection 10cc : Original soundtrack ( i gave it a spin today) VDGG : Godbluff UK Seventh Wave : Psi-fi UK Quiet Sun : Mainstream UK Fireballet : Night on bald mountain USA PFM : Chocolate Kings ITALY Esperanto : Last Tango International Caravan : Cunning Stunts UK Banco : Fist Italy Magma Live France Todd Rundgren : Initiation USA Eno : another Green world UK BJH : Time honoured ghosts UK Atoll : L'araingée-mal France Ange : Emile Jacotey France |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 15:31
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The Snow Goose. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 15:47
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While I expect that there are quite few albums albums that I love from this period (the first six months of 1975), there are no complaints with the list as that has some of my very favourites and I usually prefer to go with an option in the list if there is one I am into there. I went with The Rotters CLub' over In Praise of Learning, Desperate Straits and Warrior on the Edge of Time. I also have loved Camel's Snow Goose. A couple of others that I want to mention are: February, 1975: NEU! - NEU! '75 March, 1975: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Nice poll. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 19:08
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From your list, Frank Zappa (although Physical Graffiti, released in February, is probably the album of the year). On the whole, I prefer the second half of 1975, thank you very much. In order, from July onward: Gentle Giant - Free Hand Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Kansas - Masque Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Queen - A Night at the Opera Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water Plus, albums that veered over the edge of prog: Black Sabbath - Sabotage Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - S/T Rush - Caress of Steel ELO - Face the Music ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 27 2025 at 22:51
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I wasn't into much good prog music in 1975 and I was only 13 for most of the first half of the year. I loved Sweet who very much hard rock with a smattering of prog leanings but they had released Desolation Boulevard in November 1974 so I can't include them. BTW Just noticed that Paul Manzi (ex Arena) is now their lead singer would you believe it! Suprised that no one has yet mentioned (EDIT, sorry post above does!) Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album that was released in February 1975. Maybe then the biggest rock band on the planet releasing a double album. I can imagine the excitement for many (even though I was there but wasn't grown up enough!) and Kashmir must surely be one of the greatest rock songs of all time. From the list it's clearly Snow Goose but that band were nowhere near on my radar at the time. I first heard them on Alan Freeman's Saturday afternoon rock show when he played Lunar Sea about a year or so later. Wasn't that impressed to be honest but I'm now a lot more interested. Yesterday (mainly because the internet went down) I found myself listening to some of the Airbourne box set with Nude and the debut. Loving both for sure.
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 01:30
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Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Camel - The Snow Goose Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 02:03
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Camel from the list, but 1975 was a great year. Everything went fine up to 1977 ------------- 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: Rick1
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 03:28
| At this point in the poll it's not surprising Camel are in the lead. At the time I was 12 and was buying up the Hillage, Cow and Hatfield releases (courtesy of the aforementioned Alan Freeman show) on pocket money. A couple of mentions here of Physical Graffiti, which I well remember coming out but I don't want to reopen 'the are Zeppelin prog debate'... much as I like the album. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 07:00
although mysteriously, Greenslade still has no votes? I'd have thought about them if it had been either of the first two, but T&T was really just an average attempt to go more mainstream... ------------- 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: IncogNeato
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 08:41
I voted "Something Else" and kept picking things not in line with the criteria. So, I went and picked from the existing list.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 04:56
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I've got a clear top three from out of these (but I voted for Hatfield) Hatfield and the North - The Rotter's Club Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
-could have gotten my vote if it was among the options. But I've got no complaints in regards to the options we actually got. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 06:13
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No obvious choice here, though I'm surprised Hatfield didn't get more vote Hillage, Zappa and Soft's Bundles are also in there. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 11:56
| Snow Goose. Loved it the first time I heard it. Outside the choices in the poll LZ Physical Graffiti and Mahavisnu Orchestra's Visions of the Emerald Beyond would challenge Camel for my favorite album from 1975. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 12:30
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In Praise of Learning just over One Size Fits All ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |