Another 4's: 1974, 1984 and 1994 albums
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Topic: Another 4's: 1974, 1984 and 1994 albums
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Another 4's: 1974, 1984 and 1994 albums
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 10:32
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Vote for up to five you like (more more if desired) if any are liked, and mention in a post. This is meant as an additional 4's poll to cover various albums that I love not covered in John's (Mellotron Storm's) list https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=134976" rel="nofollow - HERE (Click) . He did already cover King Crimson with Starless and Bible Black, but as these are my favourites I want Red in it. If some think it unbalances the list by being such a popular choice, this is not meant to be a contest. I commonly dislike the idea of winners and losers in music. I know my tastes commonly are unpopular with many here, have had complaints when doing personal faves about missing the obvious choices (not obvious based on my tastes), and my tastes can be popular with others, but please try to choose up to fave albums in the poll that you appreciate. If you can't, that's fine. Additionally I would very much appreciate it if all who vote also list what they voted for... Love to put names to votes, so impersonal otherwise. And feel free to mention your own faves and lists (I like to compare). 1974: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You King Crimson - Red Area - Caution Radiation Area Janko Nilovic - Rythmes contemporains (not in PA) Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass Faust - Faust IV Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North 1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure (not in PA) Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting From Home Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hyæna (not in PA) Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance Jean-Paul Prat (Masal) - Masal Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (not in PA) 1994: Portishead - Dummy (not in PA) Pram - Helium Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (not in PA) Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (not in PA) Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (not in PA) ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 11:02
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King Crimson - Red Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 11:25
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Goodness me! Apart from the two albums I haven't heard here, There's not an album here I'd rate less than 7/10. Almost 20 of them could easily have have gotten my vote in some other poll that wasn't compiled by you, Logan. So far I've only tried to place them all in order of preference (within the years of release). But that didn't feel right either. Phaedra and Silent Corner fourth and fifth? Surely that can't be right, as they are two of my all time most treasured albums. Et cetera... I think I'll just come back later to see which ones I think deserves a vote - that has none:) 1974: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom King Crimson - Red Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery Faust - Faust IV Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North Area - Caution Radiation Area Janko Nilovic - Rythmes contemporains (not in PA) Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass 1984: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting From Home Cocteau Twins - Treasure (not in PA) Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hyæna (not in PA) Jean-Paul Prat (Masal) - Masal Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (not in PA) 1994: Portishead - Dummy (not in PA) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (not in PA) Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (not in PA) The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (not in PA) Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I Not heard (yet): Pram - Helium Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 12:04
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Thanks Cristi, and especially Saperlipopette! for such a detailed and positive response. We share a lot in common (much much more than, say, me and Hercules, hope he is okay). It was especially painful for me to leave off so many 70s faves like Miles Davis' Big Fun, Bobby Hutcherson's Cirrus, CLuster's Zuckerzeit, Henry Cow's Unrest and many others. Al least I should have included Big Fun. If I had fifty options then I would use them all, but I wanted to follow John's basic format (my list is more about personal faves than his methinks). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 12:14
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Tangerine Dream - Phaedra King Crimson - Red Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 15:57
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Tangerine Dream – Phaedra King Crimson – Red FSOL – Lifeforms Faust – Faust IV Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 17:44
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King Crimson: Red Greg, much to like in 1974 in both the Fusion and Prog world, but obviously our tastes diverge on what those are. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 18:14
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Rock Bottom - Red - Caution Radiation Area - Faust IV - Selected Ambient Works Volume II Could as well have voted for Phaedra. Helium is good but not quite up there. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 18:26
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I appreciate the inclusion of Janko Nilović. His output is often criminally overlooked. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 24 2025 at 23:35
^ Janko Nilovic is great.
I'm sure they do diverge, and be nice to know where they converge (presenting longer lists can help with that). In PA's jazz rock fusion category I really like Julian Priester's Love Love, Arti E Mestieri's Tilt, Eberhard Weber's The Colours Of Chloë, Miles Davis' Big Fun and Get Up With It, Bennie Maupin's The Jewel in the Lotus, Perigeo's Genealogia, Terje Rypdals' Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away, Placebo's Placebo, Kraan's Andy Nogger, Eddie Henderson's Inside Out.... Out of PA, I adore Janko Nilovic's Rythmes contemporains, Mandingo, and Bobby Hutcherson's Cirrus... What are some of your favourite fusion favourites for 1974? I'm guessing Weather Report might be in there. By the way, before I was thinking I was just going to work with non-poll lists because it is interesting I think when we can compare each other's yearly lists (see what we have in common, if applicable). Here is my top 59 at Awesome Prog (wonder how many albums you might appreciate there): https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1974/users/Logan" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1974/users/Logan The order often matters little, by the way, but I often will favour that which I have been more recently listening to and what just seems to better fit me most currently.. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Big Sky wrote:Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 25 2025 at 00:25
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TD > KC > Hamill is all I can really vote for here... I know I'm going to be shot down when I say this, but I really have tried Hatfield, I've really wanted to like it, but it doesn't do much for me... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 25 2025 at 00:40
| ^No one's gonna shoot you down for not enjoying Hatfield. You never struck me as someone who was into the Jazz Rock-fusion sound from the Canterbury Scene anyway, so its hardly surprising. |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: May 25 2025 at 01:26
Red 
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