A Homely Poll

verslibre wrote: Tie between Hatfield (vote) and Genesis for me. Coltrane's piece (covered soon after on Santana's brilliant record Welcome) is also lovely.

I love the Hatfield. Been ages since I last heard Welcome, I should check that out again. And no worries about posting the vid. I'm pleased when people do that when they express appreciation for something on the list.

The Geddy Lee is not working in the embed for me, so here is a hyperlink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0YJTlsy66k
It's a very energetic song.

Genesis, love the lyrics to that one.

Home by the sea----another nice Banks keyboard solo.

Supertramp !

verslibre wrote: Logan wrote: I love the Hatfield. Been ages since I last heard Welcome, I should check that out again.  Oh, that record is just awesome. Doug Rauch on bass, and the double keys attack of Tom Coster & Rick Kermode. A keyboard tandem wasn't Santana's usual formula.

Never had it in my collection, but a friend's brother did, and I certainly had liked that album. Have been listening to some of that album and listened again to the "Going Home" version on it (I see Alice Coltrane performs on it), and it's very nice indeed. The John Coltrane cover "Welcome" is terrific. I'm a pretty big fan of Herbie Mann and really like the version of "Mother Africa" and both "Light of Life" and "Flame-Sky" are pretty electrifying. I'll be getting the album. I don't have the later ones, but Santana is really good at least up to Borboletta. I once had an embarrassing moment when I was caught dancing to Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" -- it's not like I was dancing in my underwear, but still it was very embarrassing.

I voted for Alice Coltrane's "Going Home". I love her early 70s albums (she also did Illuminations with Carlos Santana).

Upbeat Tango Monday wrote: Hatfield by far,no contest! Can't believe Home by the Sea is winning ...and I'm a huge Genesis fan. Homerton is lightyears better.

I greatly prefer the Hatfield (almost voted for it), but Home by the Sea must have got quite a few mentions here or else it wouldn't have come to my mind almost immediately when I thought of this poll (I was planning to leave it off the list). I knew it had its fans here. I don't mind it, but it is my least liked of the choices. I haven't listened to much post Wind and Wuthering Genesis. To each their own tastes. It might help if you grow up with the music, and maybe as John gets at, appreciating the lyrics helps (I generally don't pay a lot of attention to lyrics with the common exception of English language Folk music, being more of an instrumental guy).

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I was hoping to see votes, or at least mentions, for the U Totem and Spirogyra (I know those bands have had quite a few fans at the forum over the years). "At Home in the World" was an immediate standout track for me with St Radigunds, and while the lengthy opener of U Totem's debut "One Nail Draws Another" tend to get the most attention from the album, I enjoy the lengthy closer "Vagabonds Home" at least as much. Spirogyra's St Radigunds was one of the first acid folk albums I got, and that U Totem was one of my first "modern" prog acquisitions that I loved.

Incidentally, that youtube version of U Totem's Vagabonds Home does not sound very good to me, but the album is available for streaming at the Cuneiform Record bandcamp page for U Totem, including, of course, Vagabonds Home. It was a revelatory album for me when I first heard it.
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/u-totem

Manuel wrote: Of these, Genesis.

If by "of these" you mean that there are other "Home" songs that you prefer, feel free to mention any others that you like. I hope that people will discover music that they like thanks to these topics, but I also like to discover new-to-me music (even if discoveries are more likely to hit the mark when its not themed around a word in the title but instead based on style of music, but even if it doesn't work for me, that's fine too, since someone else might discover something they love thanks to "others" that are mentioned).

Edited by Logan - March 24 2018 at 20:47

I edited the post. Youtube embeds won't work that way anymore. Now you just use the unique identifier after v=, in this case it is GqHSrJ2mLo0 and put that between the tube tags rather than the whole url. If done improperly it will try to install flash objects on a computer. I used to always use that way to embed vids and when old topics get bumped, sometimes I have to go in and fix mine as I was a too frequent embedder.

We're from the same city, and the same age, but different worlds, perhaps. That Dream Theater track makes for an interesting contrast to my choice of this bunch.



Try playing both the Dream Theater and the Alice Coltrane at the same time for a transcendental experience. ;)




Edited by Logan - March 24 2018 at 21:48

Hatfield all the way for me......absolutey love that album.

One of my favorite 'Home' songs.......love the whole album.

Edited by dr wu23 - March 25 2018 at 10:38