Welcome to France
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Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog Polls
Forum Description: Create polls on topics related to progressive music
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Topic: Welcome to France
Posted By: suitkees
Subject: Welcome to France
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 10:21
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Yes, a short round trip in France, where the temperatures are currently good enough to make a nice brochette of yourself by just walking outside. Sorry to all the Mike Oldfield fans: To France is not a poll option, but just the poll intro song (I know it would get most of the votes otherwise - not that I don't have my idea which track will get them now...) On offer a selection of music that will make you visit - for better or worse - different corners of that holiday destination called France. Again, I tried to make a quite eclectic selection of songs/tracks so most of you might find something to please you. Listen for your enjoyment, if you wish to enjoy yourself, and vote for your preferred track(s). In order of appearance: In the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJarpjng42A&list=PL9sdQ5qbl2rCt2wPEqYMxAIQy9brpybbd" rel="nofollow - youtube playlist : Pallas - Paris is Burning (Neo Prog) Focus - La Cathédrale de Strasbourg (Symphonic Prog) Torngat - Bordeaux Boredom (Post Rock/Math Rock) Ange - La Gare de Troyes (Symphonic Prog) Le reveil des tropiques - Antibes (Krautrock) Klimperei - Le marché de Limoges (RIO/Avant-Prog) Alan Stivell - Rentrer en Bretagne (Prog Folk) The Psychic Paramount - Perpignan, Pt. 1 (Psychedelic/Space Rock) On bandcamp: Betrayal at Bespin - Cherbourg (Post Rock/Math Rock) Levin Minnemann Rudess - Marseille (Heavy Prog) ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 11:06
| Focus |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 11:09
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Will listen later (maybe not to all tracks in full TBH as there quite a few) and edit this post then with some basic impressions and my vote. The only one I can recall without listening is Focus' "La Cathédrale de Strasbourg", which I have loved. Just started on the youtube playlist portion, the Pallas would not play in my region (but I expect I can easily find one that would). I skipped the Focus as I already know it so very well -- I loved to play Hamburger Concerto in my high school creative writing class on the teacher's record player and it's an album I have since I was quite a young child and connected really early on. Anyway... Torngat's Bordeaux Boredom just finished and I love that, already worth it for me checking out the playlist for that (I think I have heard that before). Probably heard it before, but the Ange did not come up on the youtube playlist for me either, so it went straight to the Antibes, which I am loving! I surely am glad that you went for multiple votes, much as I love the Focus I do like to focus on the newer to me and will start with votes for Antibes and the Torngat. Le marché de Limoges makes for a nice interlude (I like it, and pleasant in the playlist but won't get my vote as a standalone)... I enjoyed the Stivell (good contrast going in the list). The Psychic Paramount's Perpignan is the kind of noisy and driving "sound" music I can really get into, and will get a vote from me. Love the drumming and the whole sound experience. The bandcamp ones did not do it as much for me, although of those I definitely gravitate much more to Betrayal at Bespin - Cherbourg. I will check out that Ange at some time (expect I have heard it before) but it already has a vote, and Focus has a vote so don't feel it needs another from me. Le réveil des tropiques and Torngat I loved, and I really enjoyed The Psychic Paramount too. This was extremely well worth checking out for me for those three especially. Thanks. By the way, not sure how many like me tend to favour the fresh and new to them in such things but I'd quite like to see series of polls where we only vote for ones we are not already familiar with. Just an idea. I like those ones where we discover new to us music rather than just focusing on the really well-known. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 11:34
| Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 11:45
I agree with Paul ------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 11:48
| Ange - La Gare de Troyes |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 11:59
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Having lived and loved in Strasbourg for the school year 1978-79, I've always had a super soft spot for Focus' gorgeous rendering with "La Cathédrale de Strasbourg" … din don, din don. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 12:21
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I hope I end up not being the only one who likes multiple options in this multiple choice poll. I discovered some great for me music, Le reveil des tropiques - Antibes, and The Psychic Paramount - Perpignan pt. I, and I got to revisit an old fave of mine with Focus - La Cathédrale de Strasbourg. I don't think I had heard that Ange before, as it;s 80s Ange, and I enjoyed that too, as well as Alan Stivell's, which I had heard before. EDIT: I had already mentioned it an earlier post and I doubt this post will add to conversation anyway, but I had meant to include Torngat - Bordeaux Boredom in the list above as that was one of my votes. That and Le reveil des tropiques were awesome to me finds, and I do very much like The Psychic Paramount as well. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 12:36
Yeah, I knew that. That is why it is not a poll option. If you don't care to discover music you don't know, then there's really no point in posting here. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 12:58
I'm glad someone agrees with me. Mike Oldfield's presence in this poll is as ephemeral as a moonlight shadow, but at this rate, he could go on to win it.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 13:17
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Focus ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 22 2023 at 15:43
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Focus gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 02:40
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------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 06:30
Another vote for Focus. 
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 10:39
| I only knew Cathédrale de Strasbourg, it's also the only place I went to from the list. I voted for Antibes, very cool jam. |
Posted By: Argentinfonico
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 12:44
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La Cathedrale is probably my favourite track from Focus! ------------- -Will I see you tonight? -I never make plans that far ahead. Casablanca (1942) |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 15:24
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If we are talking about French prog. bands, I'd point to: Ange Catharsis Roland Bocquet Catherine Ribeiro + Alps Gong Jean-Benoit Dunckel Lard Free Magma Malicorne Martin Circus (second album only) Moving Gelatine Plates Nicolas Godin Nino Ferrer (70's albums) Philharmonie Shylock Turzi |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 15:32
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One more for Focus. Some other titles that pop up in my mind (admitted, increasingly out of the box): John Cale - Paris 1919 Camel - Dunkirk Supersister - Present from Nancy Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice UK - Nothing to Lose ------------- 
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 03:03
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 04:13
^Spot on!  -------------
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 04:41
I actually used San Tropez in the recent https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=131326" rel="nofollow - Where Can I Go? poll, so I didn't want to use it again...
Hehe... I actually searched for Toulouse - I lived a while there, as I did in 4 other cities of this poll - but strangely the UK track didn't pop up.  ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 04:44
that's actually funny.
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 04:50
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 04:58
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^ In France it is "Saint", but in Pink Floyd land it isn't. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 05:02
| Ah, tant mieux. |
Posted By: Moyan
Date Posted: April 16 2024 at 20:52
| "La Gare de Troyes" |