Modern Battle of Albums Poll #22

Poll #22.  One vote, top 2 vote getters move on to 2nd round to face each other. Vote for the album people.. not the group. If you don't know the album, ask, google, youtube it. Lots of great music here man...

From Sweden!!!!''

Paatos!!



From Colorado!!!

Thinking Plague!!!



From Belgium.. one of the few (only?) non neo-prog bands to have albums both in the Classic and modern polls.

PRESENT!!



from somewhere here in the states

Mike Keneally

I have to pick between Thinking Plague and Present? Aaaargh.

will hold my vote for whoever needs it.

Yikes! I have all four and enjoy them all. It's between Paatos and Thinking Plague and I think i'll take the latter today.

That Paatos sample floored me...love it. I have to check them out now. Although I like Plague, Present and Keneally, I prefer other albums for all three. So were voting for Paatos.

Thinking Plague made my ears bleed. Paatos deserves the win probably but I'll go with Present. Not ever likely to be a real favourite but it is interesting. Kedgeree did nothing for me.

My hangover may well be effecting decision making.

ummm hmmm..  Mikey likes this... a lot

next up...  Thinking Plague...  let's put my expanded 'tastes' to the test. Much of the stimulus for the shifting in my tastes was the fabulous (best of the bunch) Romantic Warriors movie that educated the ignorant like me of this great scene.

Raff was always more adventurous musically than me.. but I'm trying really hard to catch up.


Edited by micky - July 05 2015 at 09:33

t d wombat wrote: Thinking Plague made my ears bleed.

  

yeah man... but my main tripping point.. which sort of goes back to what Ian and I chatted briefly about when talking about Disco Volante...  you really have to be a special case to love this stuff.  Get past the almost.. ingrained nature we have that music is for the soul and the heart.. one reason for all the crap I do give bad prog or generic prog.. the fact is there is simply nothing better. that the best of prog.

this stuff..  interesting.. but really only for those that see music with their brains.. and that is likely something I will never be able to do.

that said.. I can see where my tastes have shifted.. I'll never enjoy this stuff on a visceral level.. catch myself reaching for one of your T.P. album.. but yeah.. in a live setting.. or in a very occasional listen like this.. I can dig it.. .and that is a long way for me from 5 years ago when I would have sh*t all over this.  Going into one of my nasty 'over-intellectualism of music' rants that I was so famous for


Edited by micky - July 05 2015 at 10:08

moving on to Paatos!!

I did... like.. the T.P album and that is high praise enough from me. I was never going to love it but again.. I didn't hate it and that is because the slight maturing of my tastes over the last few years I suppose.