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Nightfly 
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 Posted: June 28 2015 at 10:34 |
Jumbo (although I prefer their next one) but that's also a hell of a good National Health album.
Correction - I mean I prefer the previous one, not the next.
Edited by Nightfly - June 29 2015 at 16:00
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 28 2015 at 18:42 |
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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GKR
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Posted: June 28 2015 at 19:44 |
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Good friends, my readers, who peruse this book,
Be not offended, whilst on it you look:
Denude yourselves of all deprav'd affection,
For it contains no badness nor infection,
'Tis true that it brings forth to you no birth
Of any value, but in point of mirth;
Thinking therefore how sorrow might your mind
Consume, I could no apter subject find;
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span;
Because to laugh is proper to the man
- François Rabelais.
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- From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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t d wombat
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Posted: June 28 2015 at 21:16 |
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Obras de Violeta Parra, that's lovely. Lay down misere.
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Andrew B
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: June 28 2015 at 21:19 |
Octopus.
"The Boys in The Band" is one of my favorite GG tracks of all time.
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"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
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someone_else
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Posted: June 29 2015 at 03:15 |
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GG
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digdug
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Posted: June 29 2015 at 07:42 |
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I have to vote for Octopus
but Of Queues and Obras are both
amazing albums as well
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Prog On!
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: June 29 2015 at 08:19 |
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National Health, man.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: June 29 2015 at 20:42 |
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National Health, one of my top three Canterbury albums, big fan of GG and particularly Octopus, but that NH album is just a masterpiece (& it has .... you know)
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: June 30 2015 at 15:07 |
For what it's worth my volte goes to Jumbo. 
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 30 2015 at 15:13 |
Holding my vote, wanting to give Jumbo and Jaivas a chance. Preferring National Health over GG - I can already say that, though Octopus is a great album. But Of Queues And Cures is one of my top fave prog albums.
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micky
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Posted: June 30 2015 at 17:02 |
I could really see you loving Los Jaivas Marcel and I didn't even pick their (consensus for most people) definitive/best album. I allowed myself some slack for putting all time this contest did.. and picked some albums I wanted to see spotlighted. I adore this album, as much as one my absolute favorite Italian albums and damnit. .that is saying something. 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Cristi
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 02:19 |
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Octopus (1972) - Gentle Giant
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 13:05 |
 micky wrote:
I could really see you loving Los Jaivas Marcel and I didn't even pick their (consensus for most people) definitive/best album. I allowed myself some slack for putting all time this contest did.. and picked some albums I wanted to see spotlighted. I adore this album, as much as one my absolute favorite Italian albums and damnit. .that is saying something.
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Yes, they are good, Los Jaivas. All the bands in the poll are good. Strong composition. Voting for National Health, one of my favorite bands.
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micky
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 14:46 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Raff
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 15:04 |
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A vote for my fellow Italians of Jumbo, and for an album who debunks the myth of prog only being concerned with elves, gnomes and such. In particular, the lyrics to "Specchio", the song chosen as a sample (and also the album's opener) are a punch in the gut. I might even try my hand at a translation one of these days.
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 15:10 |
I listened to Specchio today while going to Padua. I just thought the same: Raffaella should do a translation 
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proggman
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Posted: July 02 2015 at 01:50 |
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Gentle Giant, Octopus.
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When he rides, my fears subside.
For darkness turns once more to light.
Through the skies, his white horse flies.
To find a land beyond the night.
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micky
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Posted: July 02 2015 at 07:21 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: July 02 2015 at 07:33 |
^^^
Yes, I know what you mean: the flipside is really tough (Gil, Vangelo, 40 Gradi... not exactly my cup of tea).
I think the album is really memorable only for its first side (for the one-two punch of "Specchio" and "Come Vorrei Essere Uguale a Te").
Edited by Andrea Cortese - July 02 2015 at 07:33
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though Raff always says, whenever I play the album, that the album depresses the hell out of her.