24 bands fifth studio albums with 4-10 votes each - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Gotta be Future Days

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Saperlipopette! wrote:

Phaedra or Future Days - None of them stays in the shelf for very long. To choose one over the other is near impossible.

the former album had three votes and the latter only one, so I gave it to Future Days based on that.

David_D wrote:

I'm not much for making a choice between Wolf City and Godbluff. I'm also fond of Future Days and Rain Dances.

If I could make a new voting, it might be Godbluff.

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

^ Yeah, I decided not to do multiple votes partially out of deference to Lewian before (who had concerns with it). And I do wish I had left off the "try as I might, I can't decide on just one to vote for" because it is the most popular option.. As usual, though, I'm more interested in looking at the posts than the poll results.

Just a fanboy passin' through.

Tough choices but in the end, the last, great album of the 'classic' prog era - Western Culture!

Logan wrote:

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I feel like ADII should be here 2, but I have not heard that in ages and know the earlier ADII much better. I should rectify that.

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Hi,

For the longest time, "Wolf City" was my favorite AD2 album. The original LP, not the CD issued later, which had the sides of the album reversed, because "Surrounded by the Stars" had been noticed by many fans. Sadly, putting this song at the start, took away the wonderful order that the album had, and how it built up the strength, even with one experimental cut and a comedy cut on side one. Putting these on "Side 2" generally means no one is going to listen to the rest of the album anyway!

Since that time, when that happened, I lost a lot of my liking for "Wolf City" ... in its current state the whole thing does not sound as nice as the original version did, and this has caused me to take a look at "Yeti", "Dance of the Lemmings" and "Carnival in Babylon" ... which now are, my "favorite" AD2 albums, because of the courage it took to put them together and make them work. "Dance of the Lemmings" alone is a beauty that is hard to let go and leave behind. It's improvisational work is outstanding, and some of the lyrics are amazing ... though people here would never vote for "Mona Lisa you got a bird brain" ... or that something about "Tchaikovsky's hair", or even better, the line about the limousine (not giving it away!) ... that helped define the 3 albums as totally incredible.

The sign of how times change ... in a letter to the AD2 folks in their website, which for a long time DID NOT SHOW "Nada Moonshine #" at all, John W. replied to me and called the album "b*****d" ... and I presumed that there was some bad this or that about it, and then seeing them do a concert much later and doing various pieces from that album, pretty much tells you that it was the last "great" AD2 album. I call it "divine slime" ... and laugh folks that don't have the ears to listen to one of the most outrageous, different and special bands of all time. I suppose only FZ stands up here ... but AD2 very special creativity ... is best taken as crazy and insane, and in fact it is anything but that!

Edited by moshkito - May 15 2023 at 07:13

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Many good albums here. Köhntarkösz gets my vote and Godbluff is agood second.

Lots of excellent albums here, really solid stuff, I'll go with

1.Symphony X - V - The New Mythology Suite (2000)

2.Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff (1975)

3.Camel - Rain Dances (1977)

4.IQ - Ever (1993)

5.Therion - Theli (1996)

+ few more

^ I often hear people say, "it's just my opinion". Well, what matters to me is if it seems like a sensible (or sensible and informed) opinion, and I am more likely to adapt to those opinions if they convince me -- of course. My perspectives commonly shift due to my interactions with others. I really meant that I adapted to your concern partially because I respected your opinion and thought you made a sensible case for it. I am genuinely interested in people's opinions, I do try to take people's arguments into account, and often aim to please even when I seem to fail miserably, but I don't respect all opinions or consider all to the be equal. Deference may not be necessary, and I used the term to be slightly tongue-in-cheek but in a friendly way while indicating genuine respect, but I felt that the underlying respect was deserved (from my perspective).

Edited by Logan - May 16 2023 at 11:33

Just a fanboy passin' through.

Family's fifth album, Fearless, is beautiful.

And it's their most proggy album.

"Happiness is real only when shared"

Poll Question: If a preference be, which of these albums will get your vote as liked?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Amon Düül II - Wolf City (1972)	2	[3.23%]
Arena - Contagion (2003)	1	[1.61%]
Camel - Rain Dances (1977)	2	[3.23%]
Can - Future Days (1973)	3	[4.84%]
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973)	1	[1.61%]
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From a Memory (1999)	6	[9.68%]
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House (1973)	3	[4.84%]
Gong - Angel's Egg (1973)	2	[3.23%]
Henry Cow - Western Culture (1979)	4	[6.45%]
IQ - Ever (1993)	2	[3.23%]
Magma - Köhntarkösz (1974)	3	[4.84%]
Marillion - Seasons End (1989)	2	[3.23%]
Nucleus - Roots (1973)	0	[0.00%]
Orme, Le - Contrappunti (1974)	1	[1.61%]
Passport - Cross-Collateral (1975)	0	[0.00%]
Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture (1996)	0	[0.00%]
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream (1999)	1	[1.61%]
Strawbs - Bursting at the Seams (1973)	3	[4.84%]
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments ... (1977)	2	[3.23%]
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence (2006)	0	[0.00%]
Symphony X - V - The New Mythology Suite (2000)	2	[3.23%]
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)	3	[4.84%]
Therion - Theli (1996)	1	[1.61%]
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff (1975)	7	[11.29%]
try as I might, I can't decide on just one to vote for	11	[17.74%]
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