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Poll Question: What's your favorite tune?
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    Posted: July 15 2021 at 12:07
I just love Univers Zero's "20th century classical chamber rock approach to prog" and their whole discography is pretty close to perfection. Especially their first five albums (I do have a prefernce for the first three, peronally), and these are all the 24+1 magnificent tracks present on those. I don't know what to vote for myself, but it's either:

-Malaise, Docteur Petiot, Jack the Ripper, Vous le Saurez en Temps Voulu... or perhaps Triomphe des Mouches.

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Holy crap this is a difficult poll!
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Holy crap this is a difficult poll!
I'd say:) - not a weak tune in sight and at least a dozen absolute highlights of the whole Avant/RIO-scene.
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As I know UZ isn't exactly a household name among proggers, I'm gonna post those five favorites of mine (but the most played songs on spotify are La Faulx, Dense and Presage)



Ok, so here's their top three "popular" amazing tracks as well:


...and the first tune that piqued my interest:







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Haha, "tunes"... Actually when it comes to UZ I am much more of an album than a track listener. Will make my mind up later.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Haha, "tunes"... Actually when it comes to UZ I am much more of an album than a track listener. Will make my mind up later.
Yeah I should have gone for "ditty":). As for albums, their two first are both desert island discs for me
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Oof, difficult indeed!

I'll vote for Jack The Ripper, one of the best and most representative of the avant-prog/RIO scene IMO. But I really want to vote for Heatwave, The Funeral Plane, and Combat as well. 
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Oof, difficult indeed!

I'll vote for Jack The Ripper, one of the best and most representative of the avant-prog/RIO scene IMO.
I wholeheartedly agree (and of course I love the ones you also want to vote for)
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The Funeral Plain for me but yeah some killer tracks listed there. 
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

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This is a hard one. so many great tunes. I’ll have to wait a little before I can vote.
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You can't do this to us!!  I love UZ:  I first heard about them via the inaugural RIO festival in 78 and had no idea about their career until a few years ago and I started gleefully catching up.  When all our prog heroes started simplifying like mad in the late 70s, UZ went in the opposite direction!  I wished I had seen them during this period.  The poll omits 'The Crawling Wind EP' which later included the wonderful Influences  that appeared on the legendary Recommended sampler in 1982, which I may well have voted for.  Here, it goes to La Faulx -  their tour de force.  
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I'll go with Dense
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

You can't do this to us!!  I love UZ:  I first heard about them via the inaugural RIO festival in 78 and had no idea about their career until a few years ago and I started gleefully catching up.  When all our prog heroes started simplifying like mad in the late 70s, UZ went in the opposite direction!  I wished I had seen them during this period.  The poll omits 'The Crawling Wind EP' which later included the wonderful Influences  that appeared on the legendary Recommended sampler in 1982, which I may well have voted for.  Here, it goes to La Faulx -  their tour de force.  
Yes, I sort of forgot about Crawling Wind. But its a live album/EP "collection", and the poll was perfectly filled to the brim with their 25 first studio tracks. Still I guess I should relisten to Influences - which I have no recollection of.
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I'm with, "Dense". My other faves are Emanations ; "Celesta (for Chantal )
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I go for Heatwave. Dense is great, too... actually they are so consistent, half of these would qualify for "best".
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I go for Heatwave. Dense is great, too... actually they are so consistent, half of these would qualify for "best".
True. Although I have a slight preference for their earlier works. I ended up voting for Malaise, as its such a joyous "tune". It simply brings me so much listening pleasure and there's nothing quite like it - outside of Shostacovich.
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Went for The Funeral Plain; some of the most bleak frightening music ever. Great. Andy Kirk came up with the most evil music...
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I can't think of a more consistently good band that released albums over many years than Univers Zéro. I do return to the début the most, but the first three albums in particular have received a large amount of playing time over the years. Mine is the third vote for "Malaise".
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I can't think of a more consistently good band that released albums over many years than Univers Zéro. I do return to the début the most, but the first three albums in particular have received a large amount of playing time over the years. Mine is the third vote for "Malaise".
That makes two of us:) - in regards to all that you wrote.
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I feel like I should listen to Heatwave in its entirety before I vote.

I feel like Heatwave would be quite good, given what I've heard. 

I'm definitely a Uzed  fan, so I'd probably vote "Présage". 

Fairly luke-warm on the rest of the albums TBH, but it's been a long while since I've played them...
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