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Poll Question: Which of these lesser known 1979-84 albums do you like?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
7 [5.93%]
7 [5.93%]
6 [5.08%]
2 [1.69%]
5 [4.24%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.85%]
13 [11.02%]
6 [5.08%]
12 [10.17%]
1 [0.85%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [2.54%]
9 [7.63%]
2 [1.69%]
3 [2.54%]
1 [0.85%]
4 [3.39%]
14 [11.86%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [3.39%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.85%]
5 [4.24%]
12 [10.17%]
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    Posted: December 10 2017 at 11:38
For the final poll in the series, I had to cover a wide range of years (1979-84) to find 25 PA albums I have that fit my definition of "lesser known" albums.  While Captain Beefheart himself could never qualify as "lesser known", I wanted to give visibility to his 1980 album, "Doc at the Radar Station".  Most of us know about "Trout Mask Replica" but "Doc..." shows what happens when you put the Captain and a mellotron in the same room LOL

Multiple choice so vote for all your favorites Wink


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Atlas - Bla Verdag

Synopsis - Minuit Ville
Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine
Dragonfly - Dragonfly
Rousseau - Retreat
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The only one I know (or knew) is the Planet P Project. I was given a cassette of it by a short-term girlfriend way back when. I recall thinking it was not bad, but it must be 30+ years since I've heard it. Wasn't the drummer formerly with Rainbow? Cozy Powell???
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Solaris by far
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Some very good albums like Anyone's Daughter "Adonis",Memoriance " L'Ecume des Jours D'Apres Boris Vian", Dragonfly "Dragonfly", Bacamarte  "Depois Do Fim" and Solaris "The Martian Chronicles": But my vote is Bacamarte followed by Anyone's Daughter !
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Asia Minor, Atlas, Beefheart, Brainticket, and Pink Dots....though my personal fave by the Dots is The Maria Dimension ..but that was 1991
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Bacamarte and SBB are by far my favourite ones in here, but I also tagged on a vote for Amenophis, which is quite good, too.
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I went with both Asia Minors, Bacamarte, Memoriance, Beefheart, Nightwinds, La Rossa & The Lens (an instrumental precursor to IQ)...
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Some fine albums by:
Bacamarte
Nightwinds
Planet P Project (Pink World is quite underrated)
SBB
Solaris
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Adonis by Anyone's Daughter
Between Flesh and Divine by Asia Minor
Amenophis by Amenophis

are all more or less tied

Retreat by Rousseau
Martian Chronicles by Solaris
Crossing the Line by Asia Minor
Minuit Ville by Synopsis

are all really good as well

I should check out Nightwinds
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Points: 14110 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2017 at 17:19
I thought I know quite a few lesser known albums from that period, but only very few of these. Nice to see the Legendary Pink Dots mentioned for once, though. (Plus votes for Adonis and Beefheart)
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I'm not familiar with most of these. I voted for Nightwinds because I thought it was a really good one if it's the same band I'm thinking of which is to say a Canadian band with a very Genesis(circa Trick and Wind)sound. Unfortunately that album has been out of print for some time and will apparently never see the light of day again because from what I heard the master tapes were lost. 
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Asia Minor's Between Flesh and Divine got my vote.
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For me, Bacamarte is the best here.
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Asia Minor, SBB, Drangonfly from this fantastic list. I don't know them all, so I'll check the ones that I'm not familiar with.
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Points: 20468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2017 at 07:44
There are at least 12 bands on that list I'm not familiar with ....looking forward to checking them out.
It's nice when one of the members here posts a list like that so the rest of us can educate ourselves.
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great to see so much love for Asia Minor here.  I wish they had started earlier - they could have been one of the bigger names in French prog - well French/Turkish prog  Clap

I'm actually surprised that the second Rousseau album is beating the first.  I do prefer it and partly because I love the vocalist, but I generally thought the first is more respected here


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I'll go with However, such an overlooked gem.
Other standouts for me are Solaris SBB Amenophis Oniris Synopsis Bacamarte...
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Martian Chronicles is my fave

also really like  the albums from Atlas, SBB, and Bacamarte
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