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Matthew _Gill View Drop Down

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Posted: March 05 2015 at 18:30

Pink Floyd

Genesis

Archive

Radiohead

Camel

The big 5. Smile

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Tom Ozric

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Posted: March 06 2015 at 00:50

Here goes : during this week I can list another top-5 :
White Willow
Magma
Anything Hugh Hopper has graced
Elephant9
Pink Floyd
..............darn IMPOSSIBLE to settle on only 5. May as well hang myself.........

tamijo

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Posted: March 06 2015 at 02:06

King Crimson

Peter Gabriel

Genesis

The Marts Volta

Gong

Edited by tamijo - March 06 2015 at 02:07

Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours

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Posted: March 06 2015 at 07:41

Genesis

Yes

Camel

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

No... Pink Floyd

Edited by Moogtron III - March 06 2015 at 07:41

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Posted: March 06 2015 at 17:19

Moogtron III wrote:

Genesis

Yes

Camel

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

No... Pink Floyd

Nice last second save Moontron3, replacing UK with Pink Floyd!

Since I made the rules to this game, and you chose ELP, you can listen to KC's Court of the Crimson King, but no other KC. You also get any ASIA, Atomic Rooster, and Nice albums where Palmer or Emerson played a large part...

I've only recently explored the Camel catalog, so I don't know the solo projects the members of Camel have spawned...Are the Camel offshoots as fruitful as Pink Floyd and Yes?

Edited by omphaloskepsis - March 06 2015 at 17:21

richardh

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Posted: March 07 2015 at 04:39

You get a hell of a lot by choosing UK though when you think about it

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Posted: March 14 2015 at 08:35

Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by God Was A Mellotron

God Was A Mellotron wrote:

Magma (giving full access to Offering, Simon Goubert, Vander solo... & the quintessence of Gong's collection, via the Malherbe connection)
Miles Davis (Hancock, Zawinul, Corea, Coltrane, Williams, McLaughlin, Holland, DeJohnette et. al.)
Frank Zappa (Preston, Beefheart, maybe pre-DSOTM Floyd...)
Henry Cow (Frith, Cutler, Hodgkinson, News From Babel, Art Bears, The Work, Greaves, Blegvad, Cooper, Moore, Krause, Slap Happy, maybe Wyatt thanks to the Concerts collaboration)
Genesis/Brand X

I could perfectly live with all of this, even more so because the (parts) of this list will still be expanding in the future ~

^ Awww, that's cheating

It wasn't planned, but I certainly felt like it when the list was done LOL

Besides, your recent elegy about Daevid Allen is really a pristine hommage to the man and his music... RIP to the many different selves and talents of Gong's eternal oracle ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhn-ix9l7Ko

Edited by God Was A Mellotron - March 14 2015 at 08:38

Welcome to the insects. Let's change the subject !

(https://halcyondazeblog.wordpress.com/ ; https://arthurrainbow67.bandcamp.com/)~

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Posted: March 14 2015 at 10:23

Hi,

This is a very hard topic to discuss.

Almost all of us, when a special friend passes away, we tend to bury it as well, and not want to deal with it for sometime. I have some respect for the Beatles and George and John, but honestly, I can not listen to them at all anymore ... it's depressing!

I just tried to listen to Tangerine Dream, and felt so sad, that it looked like to me that the music spoke a completely different language.

I just heard some Gong, and ... I don't know why, but all of a sudden it felt a bit empty and sad ... it had the spiritual side, but it felt ... out there ... and out there, sometimes is really hard for any of us to undertake it and enjoy it. Still love the music, but this morning, my only concern was for Shakti and how much she added to the whole thing ... Daevid had glissando, but her voice WAS a glissando ... and we don't give her any credit! it just felt ... empty ... kinda lonely ... and I just want to give her a hug and say ... thank you ... for that spirit is just as important to a man ... as anything else he can come up with!

I don't look forward to seeing others I have appreciated leave us, despite all the reasons and ideas and concepts and thoughts and bullpucky ... and I look in the mirror, and the first thing I say ... where is me? I have lost myself! I depend on others' backs to make it through the day!

At that point, my answer to you is ... NONE. But I think I would tell you to give me a couple of instruments for me to play ... and that's that!

As it is, right now, all the music and love I have for it, is already in my heart. I have not forgotten ANY of it at all, and love all of it ... so choosing a friend? ... I do not have an Alfie, so all I have left would be me ... and I would be happy with an instrument or two!

Maybe a taco pizza once in a while, too!

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Posted: March 14 2015 at 10:52

Kevin Ayres (then allows Gong, Didier Malherbe etc)
Bram Stoker
Caravan
Gnidrolog
Jan Dukes de Grey

Some of these are bands with very few albums but
they are good to listen to repeatedly. Best band ever however is The Pretty Things.

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Posted: March 14 2015 at 18:30

Citizen Cain: I still haven't listened to all their songs yet, but so far all of them are good, every single one. Still my favorite band.
Saga: They are still writing, and have evolved through the years. They created their own style!
Marillion: Great band, tons of songs.
Genesis: A classic, obviously. Supper's Ready is that good.
Camel: Freefall \o/

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Posted: March 15 2015 at 01:22

Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush, Spock's Beard, Phideaux

Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus

Guy Guden

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Posted: March 16 2015 at 04:15

Disclaimer: I have an antipathy for this sort of thing. Lists... One album VS. another, etc. Art and philosophy

should not be a team sport. And if it is, than let it be more like female gymnastics; attractive and individual. :)X.

That said, ... in the spirit of Fun and Academic Discussion...

here are Guido's Cinco de My-O!

Experimental:

Pink Floyd (not everything)

Amon Duul 2 (" ")

Can (" ")

Mike Oldfield (" ")

Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra (" ")

Classical/Orchestral: ( likewise dittos )

Debussy

Bernard Herrmann

Saint-Saens

Beethoven

Ravel

Jazz/Big Band: ( the same )

Basil Kirchin

Henry Mancini

Johnny Dankworth

Edwin Astley

Burt Bacharach

Some might say ( but not all ), why didn't Franz make the Liszt?

But of course,... that's the shortfall of such things.

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Posted: March 16 2015 at 05:29

omphaloskepsis wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

Genesis

Yes

Camel

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

No... Pink Floyd

Nice last second save Moontron3, replacing UK with Pink Floyd!

Well, I wouldn't like to miss Dark Side Of The Moon and Shine On you Crazy Diamond for the rest of my life.

It would be a very big loss.

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Posted: March 16 2015 at 05:34

richardh wrote:

You get a hell of a lot by choosing UK though when you think about it

Well, Bruford's most interesting things were in other bands (I think) so he doesn't count.

Jobson's solo albums are good, and Wetton did some great stuff, but the biggest loss for me would be Allen Holdsworth's SynthAxe series of solo albums.

But in a thread like this, one has to choose.

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