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Poll Question: Which of these songs from an animal band is your favorite?
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    Posted: September 20 2020 at 08:03
Welcome to the 3rd edition of a trip to the progressive zoo.  All of these bands are named after animals that you might find at a zoo.  I've tried to keep them to lesser known bands, but I have included a few better known bands because what would a zoo be without a Porcupine or a Camel.  LOL  Hopefully, at least a few of you will give them all a shot and maybe you will discover a lesser known band.  I scoured the prog archives' roster of bands to come up with as many animals as I could find and if this goes half way decent, I have a couple of more trips to the zoo planned for later weeks.  At the very least, I have enjoyed checking out a number of bands that I was not familiar with.  To try and make more conversation, I have opened up this poll for multiple votes.  Vote for your 3 favorites and then feel free to list them and discuss.

I am not going to post all of the videos here this time.  I have created a YouTube playlist that can be used to listen to all of these songs.  I am looking for some feedback here.  If there is a preference that I should post the videos in this thread, I can do that, but I know on some devices it tends to bog down the loading of the thread.  


Have fun!


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I like 6 bands out of this long list, I've heard of a few others. 
I'll listen and post later. Smile
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Mandrill. Santana meets Chicago. Interesting mix.
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Good band in this list, but for me, it has to be Camel.
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I voted for Badger but will say that Mandrill is the hottest group on this list. I expected to see Atomic Rooster somewhere.
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Atomic Rooster have themselves a spot in a future poll.  I don't know that I have ever seen a rooster at a zoo, but I suppose that there can be zoos with various farm animals in them.  Maybe a petting zoo?  
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Camel!

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Camel
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thought this was a bands poll and the songs just a sample to know their sound LOL

Chose Camel
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Had to give it to Camel.
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From that list Camel...but there are other tracks from PT's Stupid Dream that might have worked for me.
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I'm kind of disappointed.  Unfortunately, I expected this to be a two-horse race, so I am slightly surprised that it has become a one camel race.  I guess I shouldn't be too surprised though, as Camel is very well-loved here at PA.  Too bad for them it never translated into a bigger following outside.  I tried picking something from one of their lesser loved albums, but...it is still a pretty good song.  I'd say it is probably in my top 10 from this list and probably even top 5, but all is cool.  I hope that people have checked out some of the other songs, because there is some pretty good stuff in there.
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Lots of good ones. Lemur Voice, Platypus, Nice Beaver, but I shall choose...Wolfspring.

BTW, did not even listen to the Camel song.

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - September 21 2020 at 12:43
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Nice Beaver.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Atomic Rooster have themselves a spot in a future poll.  I don't know that I have ever seen a rooster at a zoo, but I suppose that there can be zoos with various farm animals in them.  Maybe a petting zoo?  


There is an area for farm animals here in the Guatemala zoo, so I say that inclusion is valid

Thanks for posting the videos in YouTube. It makes things simpler for those of us that are not familiar with much of the bands.
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I used the same principle of not voting for songs I already knew and voted for Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Mandrill and Les Rhinocéros. Nice to see Big Red Panda up there, even if I didn't like that album much.
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Captain Beefheart - Flash Gordon's Ape would be my vote!

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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Captain Beefheart - Flash Gordon's Ape would be my vote!

it's bands with animals in their name this round. 
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Yes.  As Cristi said, this poll is for bands named after animals...I suppose that Captain Beefheart, has "beef" in his name, and by all accounts he was a bit of an animal.  Wink  I've got a couple of Beefheart albums, but I am not overly familiar with him.  What I've heard really wasn't my thing though.  This song would have fit in the This Place is a Zoo#1 poll, which was songs with animals in the title.  I may do another one of those further down the road, so I'll have to keep this song in mind if I do.  
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I saw this on Facebook today, so I had to steal it for my poll since I thought it was appropriate.



Edited by rushfan4 - September 23 2020 at 16:08
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