Under the Radar
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Topic: Under the Radar
Posted By: digdug
Subject: Under the Radar
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 14:26
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This poll is inspired by Xonty's recent poll where he listed the number one album in each genre. I decided to make up a poll for the number one album in each genre where the number of ratings is 50 or less. By the way, I have yet to hear any of these albums.  So I can't even vote. I will be very interested in the results.  Please feel free to vote if you are familiar with only 1 option. ------------- Prog On! |
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 14:32
Swans is listed in both. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 14:34
| First one for me. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 15:04
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There's no way I'll ever hear all of these, or even most of them, but I love that Laurent Thibault album, so I'll vote for it. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 15:42
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Zanov - Green Ray is the most thrilling discovery for me in a long time. Amazing album from start to finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVWrQ-U4AaM ------------- 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 16:56
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RPI for me. ------------- 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: September 17 2014 at 18:06
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I have 8 of these and went with GAM ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 18:13
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I'll vote for the only one I have heard: Sagan om Ringen although I am more familiar with it as Lord of the Rings. Hansson captured a mysticism inherent in Tolkein's great work through atmosphere, tone, and mood. As a special note, I am somewhat familiar with Eberhard Weber's work but not this particular album. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 19:15
| Kew Rhone is really great but I can't not vote Swans here |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 20:03
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Laurent Thibault, for sure! (Belighted is too new for me to judge.) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 20:40
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This is almost impossible man! There are many favourites here like Dashiell Hedayat, Laurent Thibault, Gam, Latter e Mielle and Bo Hansson but my goes to the too overlooked outstanding metal gem Pan.thy.monium! Kudos Digdug for mentioning this album. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 23:50
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Nice idea for a poll. Six of these I have never heard. Of the rest I voted for Pan.thy.monium but I also really like the Greaves, Gam and Swans albums. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 17 2014 at 23:55
| Belighted by iamthemorning |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 05:00
| Prog Metal - Mind Key - Journey Of A Rough Diamond |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 09:11
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Swans is the only one I've heard on this list, so they get my vote.
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Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 10:55
| Bo Hansson work is timeless ! |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:00
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Lots of great releases, but I went with GAM in the end. Fantastic album and quite headscratching to think that the best album the group ever did first got it's release some 25 years later. Very tempted to go for Hedayatt and Thibault though.
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:10
According to PA Lord of the Rings was released in 1972 and Sagan om Ringen as released in 1970 There are two very different covers. Lord of the Rings has 101 ratings and wouldn't qualify for this poll based on that. Are these actually the same album? ------------- Prog On! |
Progosopher wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:21
Yes. Sagan Om Ringen is the same one as  Just like  is the same as  and  is the same as  as well as  being the same as  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 13:05
I'm flattered!  haven't heard most of these either, but it would probably be Belighted - my copy just arrived a couple days ago and there's some killer tracks on it! So far, don't think it's as good as the original, but maybe a few more listens (Os Lunatum is possibly their best song). Swans is up there too, but it's still too overrated IMO...
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 17:26
Indeed, they are the same. As I understand it, the first release was in Sweden only and all the titles were in their original Swedish. The second release was apparently international and in English. The music is all instrumental of course, so that makes no difference. The website for Hansson's label, Silence, lists the two titles side by side in one edition and features the 1970 Swedish cover. I do not speak or read Swedish, but had noticed that there are the same number of tracks, and the same track features Elrond's name. Also, I know enough about Scandinavian languages to see that Sagam an Ringen essentially means "Saga of the Rings," which seems an appropriate alternate to "Lord of the Rings." This complicates the nature of the poll, does it not?  ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 18 2014 at 19:44
this!!! |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 02:04
| I don't know all the albums, but that Deja Vu album is one of my favorites and it got my vote. |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: September 12 2017 at 15:29
| Zanov! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 12 2017 at 15:47
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there is a little typo in the poll; the name of the Eden album is not "Erwatung" (which is not really a German word, but if it were it would mean "Awading") but "Erwartung", which means "Expectation" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 12 2017 at 18:41
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This poll came out when I was taking a break from the site, methinks. There are a number of albums I love here, but I adore Zanov's Green Ray. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |