Albums choices from 1966 to 1990

Cardiacs followed by Love, Cos and Art Zoyd in that order

dr wu23 wrote: Yes...I meant Forever Changes......

  Fabulous recording.  Mentions snot way before Ian Anderson.   But seriously, a masterpiece.

Yes...I meant Forever Changes......

True, we three mean that we three mean that we like the third one more than the second one in Love's discography.

Edited by Logan - February 09 2019 at 10:31

^ I also like the second one more. I think it's the best known album on the list, not just generally, but in this community as well.

Logan wrote: ^^ No worries, James. As it's not a contest, feel free to vote even if you only know and like one of them. I wouldn't expect many here to know the majority of these. If you don't know it, since you're a cinephile, and into some surrealism, I might suggest watching La Planète Sauvage (aka Fantastic Planet), and hear the music in that context. Directed by René Laloux (it's one of my favourite animated films, and I love all the Studio Ghibli stuff which has been better for watching with my kids. Some other animated faves include When the Wind Blows, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs films. And while I expect you're somewhat familiar with horror legend Lucio Fulci, I don't know that you'd be into the film E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà. Especially or those into Goblin, Frzzi is worth checking out. ^^ And Gerinski, L'aldila does have symphonic prog qualities, but I guess it's not really 'good old symphonic prog" (more like an RPI approach). Love the whole album, and I really love this: L'enfant assassins des mouches is one that I would recommend to many. ^ That is really indicative of a style that I have been so into. By the way, I started on second poll, but they are time consuming to make even though I don't do options not from my collection, and I realized I just want to focus on my very many Ennio Morricone albums at the moment (my main man).

Edited by jamesbaldwin - February 09 2019 at 08:03

^^ No worries, James. As it's not a contest, feel free to vote even if you only know and like one of them. I wouldn't expect many here to know the majority of these. If you don't know it, since you're a cinephile, and into some surrealism, I might suggest watching La Planète Sauvage (aka Fantastic Planet), and hear the music in that context. Directed by René Laloux (it's one of my favourite animated films, and I love all the Studio Ghibli stuff which has been better for watching with my kids. Some other animated faves include When the Wind Blows, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs films.



And while I expect you're somewhat familiar with horror legend Lucio Fulci, I don't know that you'd be into the film E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà. Especially or those into Goblin, Frzzi is worth checking out. ^^ And Gerinski, L'aldila does have symphonic prog qualities, but I guess it's not really 'good old symphonic prog" (more like an RPI approach).

Love the whole album, and I really love this:





L'enfant assassins des mouches is one that I would recommend to many.



^ That is really indicative of a style that I have been so into.

By the way, I started on second poll, but they are time consuming to make even though I don't do options not from my collection, and I realized I just want to focus on my very many Ennio Morricone albums at the moment (my main man).



Edited by Logan - February 07 2019 at 12:24

Logan wrote: So I planned to focus on lesser-known albums, but I did end up including some big ones (sorry haters of Cardiacs, but I love that album). Multiple choice enabled in case you want to vote for more than one. If anyone claims that this is the wussy way to go about it or that having multiple votes might skew the results of the poll, I don't treat polls as contests and am much more interested in what people write and any discussion than looking at the poll results. If you want to mention an "other", feel free as long as you do vote for and mention something in the poll (it seems rather rude to me commonly when people don't do so). I could have just as easily gone for other choices. {Edited to add the extra decade of music to the title}

Logan wrote: I often favour music with a psych tinge, love folk music and jazzy music as well as classical, and one will commonly find Krautrock and Electronic Prog represented in my polls (and I'm a big fan of soundtracks and library music -- I should do a new topic on that specifically).   Logan wrote: Forever Changes is my favourite Love album. A lot of this poll would not be appreciated by many people, I would think. I do love a very wide variety of music. I listen to a lot of genres of music and always have.  A few genres hold little interest, but they are far outweighed by the numbers that do. I think that I've discovered that about you  (loving a wide  variety of music) during the various discussions hereabout.  And where my knowledge collides with yours, we often are in agreement.

 

^ Yep. A few of these would be pretty big for those into RIO/Avant Prog and Zeuhl (that Art Zoyd, that Cardiacs, U Totem and Shub-Niggurath), but it is quite an obscure list. In one case at least, I think I went too obscure. Other than various French Symphonic Prog, and some Italians, I'm not generally terribly into Symphonic Prog (which doesn't mean that I don't enjoy many of that ilk), so that would automatically lose me a fair share of audience.

I often favour music with a psych tinge, love folk music and jazzy music as well as classical, and one will commonly find Krautrock and Electronic Prog represented in my polls (and I'm a big fan of soundtracks and library music -- I should do a new topic on that specifically).

Snicolette wrote: Logan wrote: Forever Changes is my favourite Love album. A lot of this poll would not be appreciated by many people, I would think. I do love a very wide variety of music. I listen to a lot of genres of music and always have.  A few genres hold little interest, but they are far outweighed by the numbers that do. I think that I've discovered that about you  (loving a wide  variety of music) during the various discussions hereabout.  And where my knowledge collides with yours, we often are in agreement.

I agree. :)

I think of you as being an open-minded individual, so you have also been open to experiencing a wide variety of art. There are styles that I don't like because the expression doesn't resonate with me or downright alienates me, but I like to experience many things -- at least within my ethical parameters (I'm not very adventurous when it comes to some things, but I digress).

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: You mean 1990. ;)

At first glance I thought you might have meant, 1990 because U Totem is the only one you heard, then I looked at my title (it's rare that I don't make some mistake, which is one reason why one often sees edits in my posts, which is sad for a copy-editor, but I'm more in the zone when I'm working in Word). Originally I was planning to stop at 1980, but having some time, I continued. That said, I often get confused with numbers, or can't remember them, which can include which decade is now sometimes (remembering to regularly practice Mindfulness can help).

The.Crimson.King wrote: Logan wrote: The.Crimson.King wrote: Voted for the only 3 I have: Igor, Shub & Beausoliel...quite a trio of albums The Evil smile is right. Those are "wicked" albums. Ya, they'd make a great playlist for Halloween night if you wanted to scare the kids away from your door

I have put those those on as part of a Halloween playlist, plus some others that are creepy such as Arachnoid, Comus' "The Herald", and some music from "The Wicker Man."

I was listening to some podcasts on cults the other day, which also put me in mind of the Bobby Beausoleil album (his links to The Family). By the way, if you haven't heard it, Jimmy page's rejected soundtrack for Lucider Rising is an interesting one to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1QjB6fmKs