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Poll Question: Which of these "good" avant prog songs is your favorite?
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    Posted: May 29 2022 at 20:26
This poll includes some "good" songs from the Avant Prog genre.  Which are your favorites?  Admittedly, my avant collection is fairly small, so these were but the ones that I am aware of so feel free to provide others.  Unfortunately, only a couple of them are actually on YouTube, so I was unable to make up a YouTube playlist, so this will likely die a faster and quicker death then the rest of my polls. 




Edited by rushfan4 - May 29 2022 at 21:30
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Scambot, by Mike Keneally.
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Mike Keneally is great, but Scambot is not "good". Wink
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Lots I like not on the list of course as I am big on avant prog, but there is one track that really stood out for me from this list from one of the avant prog albums that I got into quite early in when exploring the scene. Vortex' "God Is Good For You, John" got my vote.
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It's mainly a funny thing, but I really like Salmon Boots by Uberband
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Of course there are "Good" avant songs more important to me that I could have suggested (even by Vortex themselves), but - God Is Good For You, John stood out immediately.
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No vote. However, three that come to mind (there are no doubt more if I put my mind to it) are The Residents - Edweena, Cardiacs - The Everso Closely Guarded Line, and Lost Crowns - Sound as Colour.
 
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It should be noted that all of the "good" songs in the poll have good in the title.

Edited by Logan - May 30 2022 at 04:02
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

It should be noted that all of the "good" songs in the poll have good in the title.
Right - then I choose the correct one.
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^ As did I. I don't like this nearly as much as the Vortex, and I know you don't care for Cardiacs, but since ipd mentioned "The Everso Closely Guarded Line" by Cardiacs(which may my favourite by Cardiacs), I will mention "There's Good Cud". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH6hhr_b790

I actually don't seem to have much "good" avant prog in my collection, especially that which is both "good" and good.
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Hard for me to not vote for that Vortex song. 
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

It should be noted that all of the "good" songs in the poll have good in the title.

Ah, ok, I did not notice that... both avant prog AND "good" in the title.
 
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French TV. Haven't heard the others.
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not "good" in the title but "beautiful", which is somehow related: "Beautiful as the Moon, Terrible as an Army with Banners" by Henry Cow. I would even call it a beautiful song




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^Why must you always mention something unrelated to the question? Your self-righteous opinions are rude, unhelpful, and irritating.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^Why must you always mention something unrelated to the question? Your self-righteous opinions are rude, unhelpful, and irritating.

first of all I don't think it is unrelated; I did on the contrary explain the relation. second I don't see what this has to do with self-righteousness. third: why do you always have to react so grumpy? Wink


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As has been figured out by others, this poll only includes songs with the word "good" in the title.  My last poll only included songs with the word "bad" in the title.  I thought I would be "cute" and create a poll with the opposite.  I came up with 70 songs from my collection that had "good" in the title, so instead decided to break it down by the avant genre, which gets a lot of love in this forum, but not necessarily a lot of polls.  Anyhow, I generally like to include a YouTube link to all of the songs, but many of these are on Cuneiform, and they are a label that is smart enough not to share all of their music for free, so people actually spend money to buy their artists' albums.  What a novel concept!!!
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Anyhow, I generally like to include a YouTube link to all of the songs, but many of these are on Cuneiform, and they are a label that is smart enough not to share all of their music for free, so people actually spend money to buy their artists' albums.  What a novel concept!!!

The more people abandon big corporation platforms the better, I think. 

Anyway, voted Beefheart of course. 
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