25 Acts Album Duos From Prog Archives Chart
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Topic: 25 Acts Album Duos From Prog Archives Chart
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 25 Acts Album Duos From Prog Archives Chart
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 14:17
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I put up a https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=134681" rel="nofollow - 25 Acts Album Trios From Prog Archives Chart poll yesterday. This time I am only including acts that have two albums in the 250 chart, no more, no less. I have organised this by chart order and these are based on the first 25 acts I found in the chart with two albums in the top 250. https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=12&ssubgenres=37&ssubgenres=38&ssubgenres=3&ssubgenres=42&ssubgenres=44&ssubgenres=41&ssubgenres=35&ssubgenres=30&ssubgenres=17&ssubgenres=18&ssubgenres=32&ssubgenres=6&ssubgenres=33&ssubgenres=19&ssubgenres=15&ssubgenres=36&ssubgenres=28&ssubgenres=4&ssubgenres=43&ssubgenres=29&ssubgenres=11&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=1&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=1&smaxresults=250&x=62&y=13#list" rel="nofollow - HERE is the chart for reference CLICK, which includes Prog Related and Proto Prog This list just missed out on one I would be very tempted to vote for, which is Klaus Schulze's Mirage and Timewind. Please vote for a duo where you like and appreciate both albums. ----------------------------------- Lots of duos I like here. If it was Bowie's Blackstar and Hunky Dory then that surely would get my vote right now, but I still love Ziggy Stardust. Those Hatfield's are really great and could be an easy vote for me. With Area I do love Caution Radiation Area but in the cart are great. The Orme duo is superb. The Univers Zeros are both very good, but Uzed would not be in my top two or three (I prefer the earlier albums). The King Gizz duo, Santana's, Black Sabbath's and The Doors are great as are others. But I am leaning towards Tangerine Dream right now, or... Hmm, no, going with Bowie. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 16:26
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Nice idea. Many great duos here, and I have a hard time picking one. You are doing many polls and some bands come up very often, so I make my job easier by avoiding to vote for anyone I have voted in your polls already. That rules out Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield and probably also Univers Zero and Area (for sure I've voted for them in polls, not 100% sure it was yours). That leaves Renaissance as the strongest choice (pretty sure I haven't voted for them in any of your polls; I know I have voted for them in a Renaissance poll, but that doesn't really count...)
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 16:30
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Mike Oldfield ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 16:40
^ Tangerine Dream, Univers Zero and Area are favourites of mine, so those three will have found their way into many of the polls that are lists of my favourite albums by my favourite acts. General note: This poll came about because of conversations I have had with members. It seems to me to be a mildly fun (for those of us who like trivial site stats) and unusual way to show results in the charts that includes Proto-Prog and Prog Related since normally those do not come up in those, and a bit of a distraction for me from things I should be doing and worrying about in the tedium of putting it together. :) And I like the idea of choosing between set duos and trios, considering not just the act or one album but the specific line-ups of albums, as well as maybe mentioning what one's preferred album line-ups would be from favourite bands. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 16:51
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I landed on Rubycon & Phaedra as my favorite twofer here, but it was close: self-titled, The Rotters' Club Blackstar, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust Polygondwanaland, Nonagon Infinity Area: Arbeit Macht Frei, Crac ! Felona e Sorona, Uomo di Pezza The Doors, Strange Days -are all certainly up there as well... |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 17:35
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Very hard to pick one, voted for Univers Zero, could easily have been any of these Univers Zero Hatfield and the North Mike Oldfield Tangerine Dream ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 18:51
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Mahavisnu Orchestra. Pretty easy choice. Next 4: Kansas Return to Forever Big Big Train Porcupine Tree |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 21:24
| Voyage of the Acolyte, Spectral Mornings. Hard to let go Purple and Oldfield. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 21:45
| Seem to be a lot of options where I love one of the albums but not the other! I've gone for BBT although even there I would swap out Underfall Yard for Folklore although it's a lot closer than say Mike Oldfield where I prefer a bunch of albums he did over Tubular Bells. Thought about Deep Purple but I would probably even go for their most recent album over Machine Head where they were mostly just repeating the formula of In Rock. For Steve Hackett I would pick a modern album over Spectral Mornings and for The Who I am more a fan of Who By Numbers than Quadrophenia but on a prog site that is never going to be the option. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 22:56
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Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn, Tubular Bells |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 00:05
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Another difficult poll, I vote for Renaissance ------------- 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: March 25 2025 at 00:29
| Pain of Salvation |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 00:36
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1. Renaissance 2. Mike Oldfield 3. Santana 4. The Doors
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 04:55
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Mr. Hackett. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 05:12
this kind of poll doesn't make sense without a multiple vote possibility.  Indeed, most of the duos you name are spot on (the choice of the two albums), but it's almost impossible to choose only one artiste (there is possibly up to 10 faves in your list). Sooo, by default I voted for mone that didn't have a vote yet, if only to put it on the map.
------------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 05:57
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^ I tend to favour making polls multiple choice, but I know that some prefer single choice. Some like the challenge. Ultimately it doesn't matter much to me as I commonly don't pay much attention to poll results but instead I focus on the posts themselves and one can mention/ highlight as many albums/acts in a post as one wants. Still, if I have a bunch that are equal to me, I try to comes up with some process to choose one, and often that will be voting for an commenting on one of the underdogs to give it some more attention. Sometimes it's just the choice that I feel I would most like to listen to at the time. I was going to go with Tangerine Dream, but then changed it on a whim to Bowie. Doesn't matter much to me as I got the chance to comment on both duos and many more. I do like the those polls from others often enough where I have to choose between personal favourites even if ultimately my choice can feel all too arbitrary and random. I sometimes resort to ways to choose randomly between faves. On another note: I got used to not making polls with certain popular choices multiple choice in my early years here because it all-too-often led to abuse. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 06:14
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I appreciated better your duos than trios of albums, because I didn't agree with some choices (especially for Magma) I went for Santana here, whereas I didn't vote for the trios ------------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 06:26
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^ The chart's entries commonly enough would not be my top either, but I definitely have favourites between the top 250 chart albums used for both lists. With Magma (studio only), I would like to go with Kobaïa, 1001° centigrades, and Attahk as my three. That's part of the fun for me, comparing what would be our personal choices with what the charts list and then coming up with choices where even if it would not be our choices, it is one where we still appreciate the albums, and sharing something of our thought processes that led to decisions. On a side-note: I tend to be more of an ideas driven person than results driven. It's more about best fit to our appreciation than ideal fit often. That's all part of the challenge and part of the fun, I think. If I chose the trios rather than having decided on an approach to stick with before looking through the list then the list would largely be very different indeed, but I can still find many trios in that topic where I like all three albums very much even when not the ideal choices. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 07:23
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Many duos I can vote for: The Who, Santana, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Univers Zero. Black Sabbath, etc. Since they don't have a vote, I'll put one in for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Been listening to them more recently as they have become my workout music. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 10:07
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 11:54
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Änglagård. I directeth mine own nose to sniffeth out blank pieces of pap'r and runneth bags ov'r the trunk tireth container boxeth. ------------- ---------- 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: someone_else
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 16:46
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The Who over Kansas, Big Big Train, Mike Oldfield, Wobbler and David Bowie. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 25 2025 at 20:34
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Difficult, so I cheated and gave Le Orme the vote simply because they didn't have one. They need to have one! Classic RPPI right there. Anglagard Mahavishnu Orchestra PT Hatfields My top five. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: March 29 2025 at 05:49
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Änglagård ------------- Non mi svegliate ve ne prego ma lasciate che io dorma questo sonno, c'è ancora tempo per il giorno quando gli occhi si imbevono di pianto, i miei occhi... di pianto. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 29 2025 at 08:35
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Grief Greg.... you've surprised me there as with your polls, I tend to struggle to find even a couple to vote for, but here are 8 or 9 that could easily win! I've gone out on a limb and gone for Pain of Salvation this time... that pair of albums were unique, ground breaking and quite superlative ------------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: March 29 2025 at 10:07
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^ Sometimes it's nice to come up with an idea where the content is not generated based on my tastes, but the idea is based on my interests still. In this case, coming up with an idea and then using the charts to choose the albums in order of first-listed-in-chart album ranking. Lots I love in these trio, duo, solo albums in the chart polls, and I do like ones which might connect with a wider audience and that might get some people posting who would not normally comment in my polls due to lack of interest and knowledge of the content. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: March 29 2025 at 11:21
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Those first Black Sabbath albums were with me all through High School and still grace my turntable regularly... Next would be the WHO 2 Doors Bowie Santana P-tree All The usual suspects for an old man ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/new-2025-broken-hearts-troubled-minds |