Scottish Prog: 1st Album
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Topic: Scottish Prog: 1st Album
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Scottish Prog: 1st Album
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 00:51
 1984: Abel Ganz - Gratuitous Flash - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZxsS9xKBm3HCPO8bTIHEUX" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZxsS9xKBm3HCPO8bTIHEUX  1983: Ian Anderson - Walk into Light - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nd9oZac_gB_TuVJ2S51pbNPsUqs78fJwY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nd9oZac_gB_TuVJ2S51pbNPsUqs78fJwY 1970: Beggars Opera - Act One - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-zviPKnOeQSUNkvo8W4RQHKv3hMDNgMw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-zviPKnOeQSUNkvo8W4RQHKv3hMDNgMw  1998: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lcbBHZNY1YP-yJMLufIAuk6s1NXF0N_bU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lcbBHZNY1YP-yJMLufIAuk6s1NXF0N_bU  1972: Bodkin - Bodkin - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k_3sY07fWx8OEhS4CK-IZSbHOm-EKyv_8" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k_3sY07fWx8OEhS4CK-IZSbHOm-EKyv_8 1969: Bread, Love & Dreams - Bread, Love & Dreams - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mCDPqjz-2cZuueHNzre_O5-PBxcVwd1WM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mCDPqjz-2cZuueHNzre_O5-PBxcVwd1WM 1969: Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9PKg6dqqrozEbFXURmscPRBLIC06sw7w" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9PKg6dqqrozEbFXURmscPRBLIC06sw7w 1989: David Byrne - Rei Momo - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mO3HpUtmgslYO_IIqWjYWGuIuy0k5Yo-M" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mO3HpUtmgslYO_IIqWjYWGuIuy0k5Yo-M 1978: Caedmon - Caedmon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcTOx34g9XRxe58YiApuexDCmv0tJCps" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcTOx34g9XRxe58YiApuexDCmv0tJCps 1969: Clouds - Scrapbook - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUNlWbpnDCWhIcDy-x9mVpc_cDQsJ7zUM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUNlWbpnDCWhIcDy-x9mVpc_cDQsJ7zUM 1982: Cocteau Twins - Garlands - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kvGus1bRAVWYmU_BfFcwIyC172sT3moVw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kvGus1bRAVWYmU_BfFcwIyC172sT3moVw 2011: Comedy of Errors - Disobey - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltyzGbaVBR4by_QwOp0xtRWMAGsqSwafM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltyzGbaVBR4by_QwOp0xtRWMAGsqSwafM 2011: The Cosmic Dead - Psychonaut - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNmK3kabaChV0H_EXP9Mlr04w6Mfrb6i1" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNmK3kabaChV0H_EXP9Mlr04w6Mfrb6i1 2003: Crooked Mouth - Crooked Mouth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nPzRKtZ9eE8d7N3oIMZF0YpZeKwchmO6g" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nPzRKtZ9eE8d7N3oIMZF0YpZeKwchmO6g 1990: Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMVag1y9L4oOgK_gfnmIfQ6Kj3ceVmb9E" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMVag1y9L4oOgK_gfnmIfQ6Kj3ceVmb9E 2015: Grand Tour - Heavy on the Beach - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeQCy90X3E&list=RDoDeQCy90X3E&start_radio=1" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeQCy90X3E&list=RDoDeQCy90X3E&start_radio=1 1966: Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0EwQQq1mA&list=RDl-0EwQQq1mA&start_radio=1" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0EwQQq1mA&list=RDl-0EwQQq1mA&start_radio=1 2010: Midas Fall - Eleven Return and Revert - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4jovKmP5sPDovzjBD3MJhodJ2D2aanPc" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4jovKmP5sPDovzjBD3MJhodJ2D2aanPc 1997: Mogwai - Young Team - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kr-kk0uQXPce7LduMx2nQ3NxZeUTEZeY0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kr-kk0uQXPce7LduMx2nQ3NxZeUTEZeY0 1984: Pallas - The Sentinel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLcpeZ4mTlBspQfPJcAsh94" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLcpeZ4mTlBspQfPJcAsh94 2009: Roads to Damascus - One - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_noULH6MaSoPvrjU6kGjyimZf_vyv3DvpU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_noULH6MaSoPvrjU6kGjyimZf_vyv3DvpU 1967: Al Stewart - Bedsitter Images - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt0N8zooabEgLRsJBa8PjQx" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt0N8zooabEgLRsJBa8PjQx 1971: Sunday - Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnDyqzF-eI&list=RDHAnDyqzF-eI&start_radio=1" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnDyqzF-eI&list=RDHAnDyqzF-eI&start_radio=1 2009: Trembling Bells - Carbeth - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kfBguTJYijuBV8vDYdZwsGr9Nbrzs2tEQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kfBguTJYijuBV8vDYdZwsGr9Nbrzs2tEQ 1969: Writing on the Wall - Power of the Picts - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXEQJubcY7JTh7GRyD1A5OFrYHq1GwZm0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXEQJubcY7JTh7GRyD1A5OFrYHq1GwZm0
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 01:02
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Comedy Of Errors over Mogwai. There's not a lot on here I know. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 01:07
My four favourite albums here rate from 2 to 5 stars in the OP. They are:
I really like that Writing on the Wall album and have been very into Cocteau Twins in recent years, and I like Mogwai, but my choice was obvious (same as in my avatar). I really love Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right to Children. Interestingly to me, it's a rare album I have played in the car that my son has actually mentioned liking (and he tends to favour classical piano music). In fact, I think it's the only time he mentioned liking the music of something I played in the car (other than when he was really small and I would play Zelda music in the car). ------------- 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: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 01:53
^ I'd always assumed Boards of Canada were Canadian (naturally), until yesterday.  Coming up tomorrow:- Irish Prog, including Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore & Thin Lizzy, who aren't really prog, but they're just too good to leave out, although I did draw the line by not including U2.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 05:44
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Fish, followed by Ian Anderson. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 05:51
| I love that Caedmon album actually. Think I'm gonna go with that. |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 08:03
| I wouldn't really consider Byrne's Rei Momo prog, but it's hard to keep your feet still listening to it...cool album cover too... |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 08:13
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Beggars Opera - Act One Cocteau Twins - Garlands Pallas - The Sentinel Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 09:04
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First vote for Grand Tour. ------------- ---------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 09:45
Boards of Canada likely is my favourite project with country in the name where the members are not from. Certainly when it comes to the country I live in. :P I love that dynamic Scottish duo. I'm not a big fan of U2 generally, have not explored it enough but have liked various music very much, and I am not suggesting that you should include it, but Boy is such an acclaimed album that it does seem sad not to have it. I actually was listening to U2 some time back, exploring it a bit more, and really liking "Unknown Caller" off the lowly rated at RYM album No Line on the Horizon from 2009. And while I'm mentioning a track from U2 (its 12th album), here's a track off Music has the Right to Children that I have shared at PA more times than I have brain cells left (Aquarius -- damn I dig its groove). That little faceless kid on the right of the album reminds me of myself as a youngster even though I happen to have a face. Otherwise it looks like me, we both have hair!, and I had a shirt like that. Reminds me of a trip I took when young. ------------- 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: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 11:04
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^ Okay, you've talked me into including U2 too, although I didn't need much persuasion.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 16:12
No String Driven Thing ??  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 16:24
I ran out of room to include String Driven Thing, but I can add them to the next Scottish poll in place of Sunday, who only recorded one album, presumably because they had to go back to their day jobs on the Monday.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 30 2025 at 22:36
| Beggars Opera |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 00:06
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Fish ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 01:21
you could replace Cocteau (who haven't got much to do in this list) with them (SDT).  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 01:50
^ I know someone here who'd be disappointed if I dropped Cocteau Twins from the poll. 
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 04:04
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Comedy of Errors - Disobey (I didn't realise they were Scottish lol) ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 04:21
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Definitely Pallas here, followed closely by Derek Dick and Ian Anderson coming up third.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 04:28
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 10:25
| Beggar's Opera |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 11:40
It beggars belief that I'd never heard of them before joining ProgArchives. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 11:44
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1. Pallas - The Sentinel 2. Abel Ganz - Gratuitous Flash 3. Beggars Opera - Act One 4. Writing on the Wall - Power of the Picts |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 12:30
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2025 at 13:11
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^ Burke Shelley of Budgie has a very distinctive vocal range (which may be an acquired taste for some) alongside David Surkamp of Pavlov's Dog and not forgetting Geddy Lee of Rush fame. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 02 2025 at 10:18
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Fish - Seen him live in the Vigil tour a life ago ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |