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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Topic: French Prog: 1st AlbumPosted: August 07 2025 at 11:39 |
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I had an alternative alliterative title in mind for this series of French Prog polls, but politeness and good sense prevailed.
  1978: Jean-Pierre Alarcen - Jean-Pierre Alarcen - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfb2R92OHulZeVCVrEDEfjgf7PGH6JCb 1972: Ange - Caricatures - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kGqNZLW4d2LVll6qE4eW5l-n-zjs1EXl8 1976: Art Zoyd 3 - Symphonie pour le Jour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vkxhq68A-w&list=RD_Vkxhq68A-w&start_radio=1 1979: Asia Minor - Crossing the Line - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nYUU-u2QQq9DEvrYbGL_yCpnhfzOCYars 1978: Christian Boule - Photo Musik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_lgLkYgjA 1975: Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2K-fx3uoeo&list=RDW2K-fx3uoeo&start_radio=1 1982: Jean Michel Desbouis - Prince - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JutX_ziHXM 1976: Andre Fertier's Clivage - Regina Astris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfcptwfsHcY&list=RDMfcptwfsHcY&start_radio=1 1974: Harmonium - Harmonium - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-4ZB4kYBtbfhE4mkTzX9ozmuLTkwQLc8 1974: Heldon - Electronique Guerrilla - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k_aoKu1zO9fZSIf9soX0Dd2HrhnejXiMI 1972: Jean Michel Jarre - Deserted Palace - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC95B32592AAB8CB 1970: Magma -Kobaia - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEm46t1WfHpIzyKm7WRNFB4oGoZiBYH2z 1979: Didier Malherbe - Bloom 1975: Maneige - Maneige - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tVIPVLG5LQ&list=RD8tVIPVLG5LQ&start_radio=1 1970: Alain Markusfeld - Le Monde en Etages - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc4VoigXJIs&list=RDVc4VoigXJIs&start_radio=1 1988: Minimum Vital - Les Saisons Marines - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nu-rdN5kVKxqFer4vdDbbnGEMQrOpmhhQ 1971: Moving Gelatine Plates - Moving Gelatine Plates - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lcyR8RvLW41ztn8ou18nHE1wbkOoT8GPM 1975: Pulsar - Pollen - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nptTyJye84agL5j_yBKh8WzjA4h5czoEs 1969: Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxdkHs7yFF7QYyiUBz_zWW2RkBnQ8E4Oo 1972: Sandrose - Sandrose - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH-Z9W9MZCGESdNDR_WKt20KuCohHixLv 1984: Shub Niggurath - Shub Niggurath - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruth7e4w_dY&list=RDruth7e4w_dY&start_radio=1 2000: Taal - Mister Green - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kFhWeMESXzMcRGYNtHHfxIDuji_Z_QdaQ 1988: Christian Vander - To Love - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mZfcyy-B6KVQm6zdHymVOZLQXecVv8rmI 1996: XII Alphonso - The Lost Frontier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTjh0YfJnak&list=RDHTjh0YfJnak&start_radio=1 1976: Zanov - Green Ray - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfS3goKv89I&list=RDbfS3goKv89I&start_radio=1
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 11:56 |
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From that lot: Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis.
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 12:41 |
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Shub Niggurath.
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 12:51 |
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Harmonium (74) is from Quebec, Canada
So is Maneige. Too many outstanding stuff to vote, anyways.  Edited by Sean Trane - August 07 2025 at 12:55 |
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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 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 12:53 |
I knew that, and so are French-Canadians Maneige.
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 12:56 |
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I rarely find something that beats Art Zoyd in a poll where they feature, but Bloom is just such a great, underrated album! (Many other good ones here, Clearlight, Kobaia, Pollen, Shub Niggurath...)
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 13:46 |
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Moving Gelatine Plates ahead of Taal and Pulsar.
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 14:59 |
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Coming up in the second French Prog poll: Pierre Moerlen's Gong and Jean-Luc Ponty.
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 15:15 |
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No Weidorje or Eskaton?
If it was up to me I'd pick Poil, but from your list I'd say Heldon. |
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 17:53 |
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^ Eskaton and Weidorje are awesome, but plenty I love in this list with Art Zoyd, Clearlight, Clivage, Heldon, Magma, Moving Gelatine Plates, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Shub-Niggurath, Zanov and others I like. That said, it's an easy vote for the 2 star greatness of Kobaia. That is my favourite Magma album and what I consider to be one of the most outstanding debuts that I have heard. It's audacious as: a double-album with its own mythology and its own lexicon. To me it's so far above what the vast majority of others under the Prog umbrella put out as debuts in terms of being ambitious and adventurous and just bloody great to these ears. I don;t think Magma ever beat it. Even though ones like Harmonium, Pollen and Maneige are from French Canada, I would not have expected them. Magma is from France via Kobaia sort-of maybe. Anyway, Kobaïan hhaï cause it is so hundin, and vive la musique progressive français.
By the way, when I joined PA I think France was my favourite country for music, and Quebec rules for me in terms of Canadian music. |
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 19:57 |
I agree my friend! At least on the MGP pick. Love that record! Ange is my runnerup. Edited by Mellotron Storm - August 07 2025 at 20:00 |
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 20:23 |
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Art Zoyd > MGP
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 22:20 |
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Heldon – Electronique Guerrilla
Clearlight – Clearlight Symphony Art Zoyd – Symphonie pour le Jour Zanov – Green Ray Minimum Vital – Les Saisons Marines |
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Posted: August 07 2025 at 23:43 |
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1. Asia Minor - Crossing the Line
2. Sandrose - Sandrose 3. Pulsar - Pollen 4. Jean Michel Desbouis - Prince 5. Christian Boule - Photo Musik 6. Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony |
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Posted: August 08 2025 at 02:49 |
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Harmonium - Harmonium
Pulsar - Pollen Maneige - Maneige |
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Posted: August 08 2025 at 05:06 |
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Harmonium, followed by Asia Minor.
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Posted: August 08 2025 at 11:37 |
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Harmonium is Canadian.
Shub Niggurath here |
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Posted: August 08 2025 at 12:35 |
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Tai Phong - s/t from 1975 still has a special place in my heart.
Edited by Hrychu - August 08 2025 at 12:36 |
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Posted: August 08 2025 at 23:44 |
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I don't have any reason to complain really, as there are plenty of albums I love here. But lncluding French-Canadian artists in a French poll is like including American bands that has members of British heritage in a UK-poll isn't it? I'm quite certain you wouldn't have done that. And there's not exactly any lack of bands from France that could have been considered/included instead. + an actual French-Canadian poll would have been interesting too.
Five, or close to five star albums: Magma - Kobaia Moving Gelatine Plates - Moving Gelatine Plates Zanov - Green Ray Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis - Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis (there was no + Alpes yet) Art Zoyd 3 - Symphonie pour le Jour* Andre Fertier's Clivage - Regina Astris Shub Niggurath - Shub Niggurath Also great: Jean Michel Desbouis - Prince Heldon - Electronique Guerrilla Ange - Caricatures Quite like these too: Jean-Pierre Alarcen - Jean-Pierre Alarcen Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Pulsar - Pollen *the 1980 re-recording has ended up my go-to version. If this was the only one I've knew of the two, it would have been placed higher |
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we can easily think of the word you imagoned rhyming with prog and blog, just like you had done for your Dutch clog prog blog.  thx for abstaining 
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