The ALMIGHTY Avant Poll
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Topic: The ALMIGHTY Avant Poll
Posted By: Raccoon
Subject: The ALMIGHTY Avant Poll
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 20:17
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Just a few of my favorite RIO-Avant Albums!! Choose your favorite!! Obviously I have a bias for Residents, so I added a massive amount of Res on this poll.. And Not Available ended up on my last poll, so that may be might vote.. But all wonderful, extremely differing albums here.. I've been possessed by a RIO spirit for about a year now
 Just simply love these wonderfully-creative albums. |
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Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 20:35
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Sandwich ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 20:52
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And I have to say, after listening to SO MUCH Zappa (everything from Freak Out! to Joe's Garage Act I, excluding Ruben) Zappa is the most genius artist I've ever heard. Each albums sounds completely different from the last one, and even his extra-sides (Burnt Weeny and Weasels, and I believe Chunga's Revenge is also extra-sides) are all fantastically-complete. He's the modern classical-composer, and there'll never be another--and there's never been anybody to try and imitate him, only people that have been inspired by him. I own 20 albums from him, and they're all wonderfully unique (I also enjoy Jazz From Hell, which I own) |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 22:02
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Mononcle Viande ------------- |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: August 10 2017 at 22:15
| Of the one's I've heard I'd go with We're Only in it for the Money, but had to disqualify myself on this one because of too many albums that I haven't heard yet. |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 00:35
| Meet The Residents, with Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Eskimo, and In Praise of Learning close behind |
Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 01:07
| LegEnd followed by the three other Henry Cow albums, Uncle Meat, Weasels, and Meet the Residents. Good selections! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 02:27
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In Praise of Learning. ------------- 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 05:31
| Of the ones I've heard, "We're only in it for the Money" gets my vote. I have to liste to the 4 I don't know, so my vote could change. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 05:44
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I'll go for Western Culture Could as easily have gone for Any of the Henry Cow's California A Little Man & A House... Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine If you'd put any of 3 other early UZ albums that would also have been a challenger ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 07:26
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I go for Cardiacs this time. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 08:48
| Tough one here! Really hard not to vote Cardiacs but We're Only In It For The Money gets my vote. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 08:59
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"We're Only In It..." for me with "In Praise of Learning" a strong 2nd... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 10:30
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Tough call. I'll go with Western Culture over Weasels..., Uncle Meat, Heatwave, and DV. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 11 2017 at 16:46
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Heatwave for me. Funeral Plain is one of my all time favourite Avant pieces. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 01:22
| Too many choices and too many challenges to loyalties - it is the whole genre that needs to be voted up. Even Genesis went avant on 'The Waiting Room'. I went for IPOL for the sake of voting...an album that should have captured more mainstream prog consciousness/wider success - its opener is less than 3 mins (the kick ass War). The album is better than anything achieved by bands such as King Crimson, etc. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 03:02
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After a lot of trying, I've finally got to understand the Cardiacs. I really like most of A Little Man....... and I'm currently working on Sing to God. But generally, this genre ain't my thing. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 07:20
Welcome aboard!  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Hercules wrote:Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 09:16
Such a lot of things I love here...meaningful choice is impossible  Anyway, I voted for the Jean-Claude Vannier because it's really great and nobody else did yet... ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 09:28
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I only know about half ogfthose albums.....I guess one of the Zappa albums would do it for me. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 09:35
| I've only have a few of these. Legend followed by Weasels. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 12 2017 at 10:11
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Disco Volante from the list. But there are tons of others not on the list that I enjoy more. Nebelnest - Nova Express Zamla Mama's Manna Thinking plague - In This Life Univers Zero - Uzed Poil - Brossaklit Idiot Flesh - Fancy SGM - Of Natural History ...and many others ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: questionsneverknown
Date Posted: August 13 2017 at 10:46
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Tons of stuff I love here, but my avatar went ahead and voted for itself. ------------- The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough. --Robyn Hitchcock |
Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: August 13 2017 at 14:20
| Unrest. Legend and Uncle Meat are up there with that one too. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 15 2017 at 09:27
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On Land and in the Sea, followed by the other Cardiacs albums and Heatwave. There's plenty of more stuff on the list that I like (and the mighty Art Zoyd are missing.) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 15 2017 at 10:04
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Many albums I love in the list, and this is one where I'd prefer a multiple choice poll, but I went with Vannier's l'enfant assassin des mouches. I adore that album. I probably would have gone with Unrest had the Vannier not been included. Agree about Art Zoyd, but then I am a massive Zoyd fan. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 15 2017 at 21:18
bingo.. sort of a vanilla list with WAY too much Zappa on it. classic Rio-Avant - Måltid Modern Rio-Avant - Book M ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: August 16 2017 at 04:30
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Lots of Zappa choices which is fine - not stacking the deck are ? Western Culture was tempting until I saw Heatwave tucked away at the bottom there. Boogie Nights. Great song. (Kidding. I know UZ did not do that number....) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 16 2017 at 05:21
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No more Zappa albums than Henry Cow and Cardiacs, mind you (four albums each). The Residents on the other hand has the first seven albums. Aksak Maboul and Mr Bungle have two albums each. Nothing wrong with posting various albums by the same acts, though. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 23 2017 at 17:48
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Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, Unrest & Meet The Residents Know and enjoy pretty much everything except I'm unfamiliar with two of the Cardiacs-albums and not their biggest fan. ------------- 
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: August 24 2017 at 03:18
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Jean Claude Vannier / Serge Gainsbourg |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 21 2018 at 13:06
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California ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |