Random Album Clash - 1976
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Topic: Random Album Clash - 1976
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Subject: Random Album Clash - 1976
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 00:32
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Let's go back to the 70s for the third and final Random Album Clash for this week. Many excellent releases from 1976; I will be voting Rainbow's 'Rising', how about you?
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 00:35
| Camel - 'Moonmadness' |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 00:47
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Nice selection! More than half of these are 4 stars and up. My pick is Still Life. ------------- 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 00:52
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Still Life over RTF and GonG ------------- 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: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 01:11
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Wow! So many great albums in that list, with six of them competing more than the others for my vote. But one more standing above that competing pack. Because I find it pretty much impossible to look past Bowie’s Station to Station, which is easily one of my favourite Bowie albums. A lot of my favour for the album, admittedly, comes from the magnificent title track. But heck, I’d probably take that one song over any of the albums here. It’s such a tour-de-force! ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 02:12
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Quite a list! Don't know the Kaipa and Return to forever albums, but the rest... I like them all so it is difficult to single out just one album. Flipping the coin, today I'm going with Alan Parson's Project... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 02:18
| What a difficult choice!! Love both Genesis albums, Moonmadness is brilliant, Kaipa and Gong are both great too and I've always loved Tales of Mystery and Imagination, but they're my two favorite VDGG albums and Still Life edges it. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 02:23
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Moonmadness. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 02:52
Gazeuse! There are so many great albums to choose from in 1976, proving there's Still Life in this Rising tide of Random Album Clashes. I was Wind & Wondering whether to vote for Genesis again, but I'm humping for Camel this time around at the Dawn of a new day, before I make my Presence felt elsewhere. 
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 02:52
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Moonmadness, Still Life, and Gazeuse are outstanding. I'll vote for Gong as I feel that the other two will need my support less. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 04:52
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Still Life just ahead of Rainbow, Gong, RTF & Camel ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 05:24
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Too much good stuff!!! Trick o'the Tail, just ahead of W&W, Moonmadness, Tales/Mystery and Olias. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 05:27
| Tough one. First vote for RTF. |
Posted By: Artik
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 06:47
| So many realy great ones! But I'll go with my oldest love here - VDGG 'Still life' |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 07:20
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Nothing in the list can compete with Moonmadness ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 07:46
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I count 3 albums that I would call 5 star albums and many others that are awesome voted for Kansas ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 07:54
| Trick of the Tail just ahead of Moonmadness & Romantic Warrior. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 08:03
| GenesisT over GenesisW.... |
Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 08:12
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1976 was a great year for what in retrospect were the waining years of prog. At least the first wave. I can't get past the amazing card-trick of the tale. TotT>Romantic Warrior>W&W>Presence>oh my god, so many great records. I own practically this entire list on CD. I think this was pretty much the year I started discovering what alternatives were out there in music over what they were playing on the radio. The Eloy and Kaipa records are stuff I came upon much much later and have really enjoyed.
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 09:33
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Still life over Moonmadness. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 10:06
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A tough choice; A Trick Of The Tail and Romantic Warrior are both among my all-time favourite musical works. I'm picking the latter for now but could just as well go for the other on another day. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 10:41
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Camel - 'Moonmadness'. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 13:06
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It seems like three albums are 'clashing' for the title in this one. |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 13:52
| VdGG - Still Life. Meurglys III is an awesome suite. |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 17:24
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Trick. ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 17:58
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Much love for Gazeuse! over here! Trick of the Tail second. RTF third. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 05 2021 at 18:25
Those are the three I'm trying to make my choice from without much success so far. How am I supposed to pick? Good excuse to spin these over the weekend. I'll be back. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
A Crimson Mellotron wrote:Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 01:17
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VDGG Still Life ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 06:09
| Jon Anderson. Olias of Sunhillow is an amazing record. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 15:49
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Genesis - ATOTT; Close call with W&W, Still Life, Moodmadness, and Kaipa. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 19:38
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My favorite? Kaipa. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 21:44
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Went with "A Trick Of The Tail" over CAMEL. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 22:37
| I don't know all of these but voted for Olias anyway since it's my favorite album of all time. |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 23:39
Kansas - 'Leftoverture' 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 07 2021 at 10:23
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Moonmadness by far. ATOTT is very good, but Moonmadness is on another level. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: March 07 2021 at 16:43
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World record > Still life > Dawn ------------- 
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 10 2021 at 00:52
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Not a single album here will go voteless! That says a lot about the quality of these records, I think. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 10 2021 at 02:49
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1976 was a great year for rock music. A Trick of the Tail is my favourite album of all time, so I'm actually going to discount it from this list, as there are so many other big hitters here, and it won't need my vote! I'll give the vote to VDGG (Still Life) Other great albums from this year would have been 2112 - Rush, Too old to rock 'n roll.. - JT, Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music - Hawkwind, In the region of the summer stars - The Enid. A fine year!! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 01:17
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Tied between Moonmadness and Gazeuse! Went with Gazeuse! ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 02:09
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Romantic Warrior. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 09:35
| Great year and my first year working. As such I bought a lot of these on release. My favourite is W&W. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 09:49
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What a year! Moonmadness>Trick of the Tail>Leftoverture>Rising>Romantic Warrior>Still Life>Wind and Wuthering>Station to Station ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 10:02
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Kansas...Camel....Genesis... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |