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Three albums that I've rated with 5 stars in the list. I can't not vote for Barrett, but Rituale Alieno and Stratosfear are masterpieces and Coma DIvine is my fav PT album. 
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So i picked ZAO. This is one of my favourite Zeuhl albums. Cahen on electric piano, Seffer on sax, Truong on drums all just kill. Freaking hired guns these guys are. Then add Mauricia on vocals and well it really is unique in the ZAO discography because of her vocals. She only sang on this one for them and yes some find her vocals too much but i love them. Oh i almost forgot the growly deep bass lines of Joel Dugreno.
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Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Piper is a very good album, one of my favorite Floyd's. Similarly I could easily vote for TD, Samla, Present & Zao.

But I gotta go with Heresie, it's not my favorite UZ (that would be Ceux Du Dehors), but it's a gloomy dark atmospheric monster. In fact I think I'll play it at work tomorrow.
As dark as Heresie is that PRESENT album sure is creeppy at times. The 4 part suite "The Limping Little Girl" is an example of this. Dave Kerman who drums on here once said he didn't want to know what the cover art was about.LOL. Macksoud who played with Kerman in 5UU'S and Chevalier who joined Kerman on an ARANIS record are fantastic on here as well. I love this PRESENT album and probably rate it as my fav from them.
By the way i have a Heresie t-shirt with the album cover of them standing in the foggy swamp. Very cool.Cool
Yep, No6 is a really creepy album, I like it a lot, I have a real tough time picking amongst Present albums. I have that Heresie T-Shirt as well, I can be seen wearing it in the Romantic Warriors RIO DVD. I will probably be wearing it, and my Got RIO? shirt, at ROSfest this year. LOLLOL


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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Damn...another close one it seems.

Univers Zero, UTO, and Present are at the top of my list. I'm tempted to give it to UTO but I'll give 'em all another listen before I vote.
Man that is an awesome top three Phil. Listening to that Present album right now and heard UTO earlier. I'll re-acquaint myself with Heresie tomorrow. Again that UTO album is so good with the female soprano vocals mixed with the male vocals. The first track is pure beauty. Very classical this allbum but dark and zeuhlish for sure.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Piper is a very good album, one of my favorite Floyd's. Similarly I could easily vote for TD, Samla, Present & Zao.

But I gotta go with Heresie, it's not my favorite UZ (that would be Ceux Du Dehors), but it's a gloomy dark atmospheric monster. In fact I think I'll play it at work tomorrow.
As dark as Heresie is that PRESENT album sure is creeppy at times. The 4 part suite "The Limping Little Girl" is an example of this. Dave Kerman who drums on here once said he didn't want to know what the cover art was about.LOL. Macksoud who played with Kerman in 5UU'S and Chevalier who joined Kerman on an ARANIS record are fantastic on here as well. I love this PRESENT album and probably rate it as my fav from them.
By the way i have a Heresie t-shirt with the album cover of them standing in the foggy swamp. Very cool.Cool
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Like others, i went with Piper. Syd Barrett's work in Floyd is sheer genius. Too bad he suffered from Schizophrenia-it ended up shattering his life.Ouch (and the LDS didn't help things, either)
Thanks Doug. This was being recorded at Abbey Road Studios at the same time that the Beatles were recording Sgt. Peppers. I think it was Nick Mason who said that when they met The Beatles there it was like meeting royalty. They had met McCartnney at the UFO Club before this as he walked backstage smoking a joint. Waters who wasn't much into drugs took a toke i guess because of his respect for the Beatle.
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Heard 'em all except the Present one(must be one of their more recent albums). I'd rank the rest like this:
 
UTO
Floyd
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TD (one of my least favourite of their '70s albums)
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Damn...another close one it seems.

Univers Zero, UTO, and Present are at the top of my list. I'm tempted to give it to UTO but I'll give 'em all another listen before I vote.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I'm going with Universal Totem Orchestra. I remember reviewing it when it came out and how pleasantly surprised I was. Maybe not the best Zeuhl out there, but at the time it was quite a beacon of light for Magma fans who had little hope of any new Zeuhl coming out.
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Count me among the Piper fans too. Just got the 40th Anniv set with the mono mix. Love me some mono mixes. Stereo was still pretty clumsy in '67,
I'm so glad someone picked Italy's own Universal Totem Orchestra. I like their next one The Magus even more but both are fantastic. They do thank Vander and Top in the liner notes and then proceed to give us their interpretation of Zeuhl.Clap
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Piper is a very good album, one of my favorite Floyd's. Similarly I could easily vote for TD, Samla, Present & Zao.

But I gotta go with Heresie, it's not my favorite UZ (that would be Ceux Du Dehors), but it's a gloomy dark atmospheric monster. In fact I think I'll play it at work tomorrow.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Heresieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  I can imagine them whispering that out sinisterly just as typed there...not my favorite UZ album (those are earlier and later albums) but still just chock full, dripping and oozing some sort of dark atmosphere which I totally love in my prog a lot of the time. I'd love to hear that Present before voting, but that's not likely to happen, as I've already voted.  Time manipulation is tricky.  Meditation Mass and Samla could have gotten it as well, good choices here.
Love your description Jon ! An album i always play at Halloween. It's just so dark and sinister. Samla's debut is just the oposite isn't it. Happy, happy,happy.LOL
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Out of the bottom six, disregarding TD(I was never Stratosfear's biggest fan), there's not an album I wouldn't vote for.

Love Meditation Mass, the serene hippie like feel of the thing with sheepheard flute and the works. Piper is piper, y know? Coma Divine is my fave from Porcupine, and then there's the chamber rocking weltschmerz of Heresie and the looney circus rock of Samla....

Yeah right, this is even harder than your last poll John
I hope you didn't get a brain crampShocked but yeah i know what you mean. Love that trippy and meditative album by Yatha Sidhra. In the liner notes of my copy there is this picture of the Indian Wheel Of Life and on the page next to it some writing in German with Achim Reichel's name underneath. Wish i knew what he said. Achim of course is from A.R. & Machines.
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Like others, i went with Piper. Syd Barrett's work in Floyd is sheer genius. Too bad he suffered from Schizophrenia-it ended up shattering his life.Ouch (and the LDS didn't help things, either)
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Originally posted by bytor2112 bytor2112 wrote:

I'd like to stop voting for Floyd... but c'mon Piper is a masterpiece, easily gets my vote.
You and Sumdeus have good taste.Big smile Not in my top five of favourite FLOYD albums but it's still cool to hear the beginnings of this band. Love Astronomy Domine and Intersteller Overdrive though. Killer tunes. I laughed at Producer Norman Smith's thoughts on working with Syd on the debut. "Working with Syd was pure hell and there are no pleasant memories". Norman had worked with The Beatles before being assigned to FLOYD and the fact Syd refused to play anything twice no matter how small the piece drove him crazy.LOL
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hmm really? i've never had an issue with the mix on The Doors' s/t
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Stereo was still pretty clumsy in '67,


I have a version of The Doors debut from the same year, and clumsy is probably a very apt word for the production. It's still a smoking album though...
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I'm going with Universal Totem Orchestra. I remember reviewing it when it came out and how pleasantly surprised I was. Maybe not the best Zeuhl out there, but at the time it was quite a beacon of light for Magma fans who had little hope of any new Zeuhl coming out.
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Count me among the Piper fans too. Just got the 40th Anniv set with the mono mix. Love me some mono mixes. Stereo was still pretty clumsy in '67,

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Heresieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  I can imagine them whispering that out sinisterly just as typed there...not my favorite UZ album (those are earlier and later albums) but still just chock full, dripping and oozing some sort of dark atmosphere which I totally love in my prog a lot of the time. I'd love to hear that Present before voting, but that's not likely to happen, as I've already voted.  Time manipulation is tricky.  Meditation Mass and Samla could have gotten it as well, good choices here.
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Out of the bottom six, disregarding TD(I was never Stratosfear's biggest fan), there's not an album I wouldn't vote for.

Love Meditation Mass, the serene hippie like feel of the thing with sheepheard flute and the works. Piper is piper, y know? Coma Divine is my fave from Porcupine, and then there's the chamber rocking weltschmerz of Heresie and the looney circus rock of Samla....

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I'd like to stop voting for Floyd... but c'mon Piper is a masterpiece, easily gets my vote.
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