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Poll Question: What would be your preferred one(s)?
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16 [61.54%]
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2 [7.69%]
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    Posted: August 22 2023 at 10:21


Yes, a short round trip in France, where the temperatures are currently good enough to make a nice brochette of yourself by just walking outside. Sorry to all the Mike Oldfield fans: To France is not a poll option, but just the poll intro song (I know it would get most of the votes otherwise - not that I don't have my idea which track will get them now...)

On offer a selection of music that will make you visit - for better or worse - different corners of that holiday destination called France. Again, I tried to make a quite eclectic selection of songs/tracks so most of you might find something to please you. Listen for your enjoyment, if you wish to enjoy yourself, and vote for your preferred track(s). In order of appearance:

In the youtube playlist:
Pallas - Paris is Burning (Neo Prog)
Focus - La Cathédrale de Strasbourg (Symphonic Prog)
Torngat - Bordeaux Boredom (Post Rock/Math Rock)
Ange - La Gare de Troyes (Symphonic Prog)
Le reveil des tropiques - Antibes (Krautrock)
Klimperei - Le marché de Limoges (RIO/Avant-Prog)
Alan Stivell - Rentrer en Bretagne (Prog Folk)
The Psychic Paramount - Perpignan, Pt. 1 (Psychedelic/Space Rock)
On bandcamp:
Betrayal at Bespin - Cherbourg (Post Rock/Math Rock)
Levin Minnemann Rudess - Marseille (Heavy Prog)

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Will listen later (maybe not to all tracks in full TBH as there quite a few) and edit this post then with some basic impressions and my vote. The only one I can recall without listening is Focus' "La Cathédrale de Strasbourg", which I have loved.

Just started on the youtube playlist portion, the Pallas would not play in my region (but I expect I can easily find one that would). I skipped the Focus as I already know it so very well -- I loved to play Hamburger Concerto in my high school creative writing class on the teacher's record player and it's an album I have since I was quite a young child and connected really early on. Anyway... Torngat's Bordeaux Boredom just finished and I love that, already worth it for me checking out the playlist for that (I think I have heard that before). Probably heard it before, but the Ange did not come up on the youtube playlist for me either, so it went straight to the Antibes, which I am loving! I surely am glad that you went for multiple votes, much as I love the Focus I do like to focus on the newer to me and will start with votes for Antibes and the Torngat. Le marché de Limoges makes for a nice interlude (I like it, and pleasant in the playlist but won't get my vote as a standalone)... I enjoyed the Stivell (good contrast going in the list). The Psychic Paramount's Perpignan is the kind of noisy and driving "sound" music I can really get into, and will get a vote from me. Love the drumming and the whole sound experience. The bandcamp ones did not do it as much for me, although of those I definitely gravitate much more to Betrayal at Bespin - Cherbourg. I will check out that Ange at some time (expect I have heard it before) but it already has a vote, and Focus has a vote so don't feel it needs another from me.

Le réveil des tropiques and Torngat I loved, and I really enjoyed The Psychic Paramount too. This was extremely well worth checking out for me for those three especially. Thanks.

By the way, not sure how many like me tend to favour the fresh and new to them in such things but I'd quite like to see series of polls where we only vote for ones we are not already familiar with. Just an idea. I like those ones where we discover new to us music rather than just focusing on the really well-known.

Edited by Logan - August 22 2023 at 12:06
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Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France


I agree with Paul
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Ange - La Gare de Troyes
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Having lived and loved in Strasbourg for the school year 1978-79, I've always had a super soft spot for Focus' gorgeous rendering with "La Cathédrale de Strasbourg" … din don, din don.



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I hope I end up not being the only one who likes multiple options in this multiple choice poll. I discovered some great for me music, Le reveil des tropiques - Antibes, and The Psychic Paramount - Perpignan pt. I, and I got to revisit an old fave of mine with Focus - La Cathédrale de Strasbourg. I don't think I had heard that Ange before, as it;s 80s Ange, and I enjoyed that too, as well as Alan Stivell's, which I had heard before.

EDIT: I had already mentioned it an earlier post and I doubt this post will add to conversation anyway, but I had meant to include Torngat - Bordeaux Boredom in the list above as that was one of my votes. That and Le reveil des tropiques were awesome to me finds, and I do very much like The Psychic Paramount as well.

Edited by Logan - August 24 2023 at 07:02
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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France

I agree with Paul


Yeah, I knew that. That is why it is not a poll option. If you don't care to discover music you don't know, then there's really no point in posting here.

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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France


I agree with Paul

I'm glad someone agrees with me. Mike Oldfield's presence in this poll is as ephemeral as a moonlight shadow, but at this rate, he could go on to win it. Tongue
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Focus
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Focus gets the nod.
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"PROG IS MY FERRARI".
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Another vote for Focus. Smile
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I only knew Cathédrale de Strasbourg, it's also the only place I went to from the list. I voted for Antibes, very cool jam.
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La Cathedrale is probably my favourite track from Focus!
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If we are talking about French prog. bands, I'd point to:

Ange
Catharsis
Roland Bocquet
Catherine Ribeiro + Alps
Gong
Jean-Benoit Dunckel
Lard Free
Magma
Malicorne
Martin Circus (second album only)
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One more for Focus. Some other titles that pop up in my mind (admitted, increasingly out of the box):

John Cale - Paris 1919
Camel - Dunkirk
Supersister - Present from Nancy
Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice
UK - Nothing to Lose
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice
St. Tropez would be a more obvious choice, and actually about that city Tongue
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