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Raccoon

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Posted: September 04 2017 at 01:32

Progosopher wrote:

Another opportunity to vote for the Residents!

Yaaay!

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Posted: September 04 2017 at 04:19

Raccoon wrote:

Progosopher wrote:

Another opportunity to vote for the Residents!

Yaaay!

Glad an opportunity to vote for The Residents makes some of you happy. Up to and including Tunes... and the gorgeous Intermission-EP released the same year - their whole discography is just perfect. I love every single release I've managed to get my hands on. But (except the Renaldo & The Loaf-collaboration Title in Limbo) its all downhill from here imo. Its like they suddenly lost interest in creating genuinely fascinating tunes. From 1983-84 and onwards they became 90% uninteresting, bad or dull musically speaking. Any of you think otherwise?

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Posted: September 04 2017 at 16:42

Saperlipopette! wrote:

Raccoon wrote:

Progosopher wrote:

Another opportunity to vote for the Residents!

Yaaay!

Many people like God In Three Persons, I wanted to try it out at my local store and the clerk saw it and went, "That's a good one!" It's their best after that classic period. I'm not too big on Demons Dance Alone, but perhaps that will change over time. Many people like Animal Lover considering it their best album. I'm not one of them.

But God In Three Persons is fantastic, and indubitably creative.

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Posted: September 04 2017 at 16:49

But at the rate they were releasing albums, yeah, probably.. 90% is about right, some really good albums within those years, but very few and far-between. Those albums from the classic-period that get mixed-reception (Fingerprince and Tunes..) age phenomenally, such original pieces of art. Fingerprince is one of my favorite albums, definitely one of their most ambitious. And somehow the perfect middle-ground from the Third Reich to the Commercial Album (I hear elements of each on that album)

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Posted: September 07 2017 at 11:36

Finally, I get to vote for Kate Bush. And I'm in with the plurality for once! That was the album which introduced me to Kate's work. I'd read a rave review in Trouser Press and rushed out and bought it. I wasn't disappointed. To this day, it remains my favorite album by her.

"Shockingly Decent" is an understatement. Finalists include Art Zoyd (who I voted for in a different year), Univers Zéro, Uakti, Pierre Henry & Urban Sax, Cos, Nekropolis, Eskaton, Yog Sothoth & Lacrymosa. I'm also very fond of Dead Can Dance, After Dinner & Danielle Dax. Tunes of Two Cities isn't one of my favorite Residents albums. I'm not familiar with: Osjan, Zanov, Clara Mondshine or Haniwa-Chan.

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Posted: March 27 2018 at 02:16

Kate Bush.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

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Posted: March 27 2018 at 02:39

Absolutely Kate Bush, one of her greatest albums.

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Posted: March 27 2018 at 15:50

Zanov (my French bias?)

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Posted: March 27 2018 at 16:55

Dopeydoc wrote:

Zanov (my French bias?)

No all his three first albums are masterworks (especially first and third) even for a non-french such as myself.

Poll Question: Got a favorite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982)	17	[38.64%]
Art Zoyd - Phase IV (1982)	3	[6.82%]
The Residents - The Tunes of Two Cities (1982)	2	[4.55%]
Uakti - Uakti 2 (1982)	1	[2.27%]
Univers Zéro - Ceux du Dehors (1982)	5	[11.36%]
Embryo - La Blama Sparozzi (1982)	0	[0.00%]
Fabio Frizzi - City of the Living Dead (1982)	2	[4.55%]
Pierre Henry & Urban Sax - Paradise Lost (1982)	0	[0.00%]
Nekropolis - Nekropolis 2 (1982)	0	[0.00%]
Osjan - Roots (1982)	1	[2.27%]
Axxess - Novels for the Moons (1983)	0	[0.00%]
Zanov - In Course of Time (1983)	3	[6.82%]
Danielle Dax - Pop-Eyes (1983)	1	[2.27%]
Codona - Codona 3 (1983)	1	[2.27%]
Cos - Pasiones (1983)	0	[0.00%]
Eskaton - Fiction (1983)	2	[4.55%]
Moebius - Tonspuren (1983)	0	[0.00%]
Clara Mondshine - Memorymetropolis (1983)	0	[0.00%]
After Dinner - After Dinner (1984)	0	[0.00%]
Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (1984)	2	[4.55%]
Yog Sothoth - Yog Sothoth (1984)	2	[4.55%]
Lacrymosa - Lacrymosa (1984)	0	[0.00%]
Membrillar - Membrillar (1984)	0	[0.00%]
Ananda Shankar and his Orchestra - 2001 (1984)	1	[2.27%]
Haniwa-Chan - Kanashibari (1984)	1	[2.27%]
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