Interactive Poll : Then and Now

Doesn't seem too busy around so this might fizzle out, but let's give it a try.

The theme is Then and Now. Pick a year and a tune you loved back then when it came out. Then pick another tune from the same year that you learned about later on that you love. It's an opportunity to compare how your tastes may have changed or maybe you just know more now.

Lesser known prog (50 or fewer ratings) are fine. For voting, the tunes do not need to be paired up. But paired for final nomination.

Another rule is that the year should be at leat 10 years old. Each post should give one year and two tunes from that year. Nominate as much as you like.

This was just a thought that popped in my head, so I don't have a suggestion yet.

Have fun!


Edited by mathman0806 - March 19 2023 at 20:03

Excellent idea for a poll.

I don't know when I'd be able to vote because there is an family issue to contend with, but...

In 2004 (thought it was earlier actually) I regularly was using a site called Atom Films which had videos of all sorts, and it's there that I discovered the music video for Air's Cherry Blossom Girl. I soon grew to love Air, and I still do. I expect that I would have liked this El3ctrelane at the time too had I known it back then instead of much more recently.

Then: 2004's Air - Cherry Blossom Girl



Now: 2004's Electrelane - Oh Sombra!



Edited by Logan - February 14 2023 at 16:47

To the guy above me, I vote Oh Sambra! I'm a bit too young to make a suggestion for this lol I'm 25 y/o and didn't really start listening to music until 2009, nor modern music until 2012, nor prog until 2017. This is a really cool concept nonetheless.

But 2012 was over ten years ago, and you never specified this has be prog :)

Nevertheless:

2012 (discovery):
Stone Sour - House of God and Bones Pt. 1
(14 y/o bardberic was cool for listening to this :p)


2012 (retrospective - 2019 first listen):
Om - Advaitic Songs


Edited by bardberic - February 19 2023 at 14:39

Edited by suitkees - February 15 2023 at 10:59

In all cases I do prefer the later discovery. That may say something about my more matured tastes preferring others more matured tastes -- even if I may taste mostly like overmature moldy cheese.

This I had decided against being in competition, and I did add this to my most recent poll, but I had considered adding these originally. I had decided not to because I remembered prominently proposing the Eels discovery (back in 2006) first. I think I nominated it. I had mentioned Cherry Blossom Girl in an earlier Interactive Poll too.

Then in 1996: Eels - Beautiful Freak



Now from 1996: Fishmans - Long Season Part 5



Edited by Logan - February 15 2023 at 15:38

1997 with grungy Britpop sounding like the Smashing Pumpkins. I still listen to power pop and catchy rock but not as much as I used to. This one really caught my ear back then.

Feeder - Cement



I have played another track from this album City of Light in another poll (samsara). I had been a fan of Bill Laswell's work as a musician and producer before 1997 but he is just prolific and it's easy to miss his work. I didn't come across this until a few years ago. The album is a collaboration of 4 tracks where he writes and plays on the 1st and 4th. The 2nd track is by Coil and the 3rd by Japanese ambient artist Tetsu Inoue. The lyrics and spoken word on all 4 tracks are by singer/songwriter Lori Carson, who played with Laswell in the Golden Paliminos. This is the first track with tabla played by Trilok Gurtu.

Bill Laswell - Nothing

mathman0806 wrote: ... @logan (Greg), I took some inspiration from your recent polls for this one when you paired up years. I then wanted to use that and come up with something personal for the participants. Love the Eels. Electro-Shock Blues still holds a high place among favorite all-time albums for me. And I really like the Fishmans. Will have to respond to your 1996 poll....

I really like your approach, and thanks for responding to my poll. As my 1996 poll partially was inspired by thinking up options for this poll (that Eels one quickly came to me). It wasn't that easy choosing pairings, although I thought it would be very easy due to various polls I have made quite recently. Finding ones that I am into now from the past 40 plus years is easy (the 1980s would be a fair starting point for my sufficiently sentient and musically aware life_ but choosing ones that I was confident that I knew and liked (I wanted it to be about music I really liked/ was special to me) in that year and pairing it with another was harder. Had Laurie Anderson and Kate Bush had less ratings, then it would have been easier. Most of my life and with most music my tastes have been behind the times. And as I write this I remember many more, mostly from the late 80s and 90s, such as the classic Opus III - It's a Fine Day from 1992, but the I would want to pair it up with something that currently excites me and 1992 is not a particular fave year as I recall.... It's fun to talk a walk through memory lane, and it requires some researching.

^ Seeing 1997, now that is one of my very favourite years in music. I like the Indian motifs of that Bill Laswell track. A very interesting and diverse combo. I like that both are as different as they are.

Nena's guitarist with black hairs is Carlo Karges who had earlier been in Novalis by the way.

mathman0806 wrote: Doesn't seem too busy around so this might fizzle out, but let's give it a try. The theme is Then and Now. Pick a year and a tune you loved back then when it came out. Then pick another tune from the same year that you learned about later on that you love. It's an opportunity to compare how your tastes may have changed or maybe you just know more now. Lesser known prog (50 or fewer ratings) are fine. For voting, the tunes do not need to be paired up. But paired for final nomination. Another rule is that the year should be at leat 10 years old. Each post should give one year and two tunes from that year. Nominate as much as you like. This was just a thought that popped in my head, so I don't have a suggestion yet. Have fun!

Edited by jamesbaldwin - February 22 2023 at 11:31