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'71 Acid Folk: Comus, Jan Dukes de Grey, Spirogyra
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    Posted: April 18 2020 at 22:29
I like all of these, but Comus is the one I love. That album is on my alltime 20 best albums list.

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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Of these three, Comus. But as Greg noted in his original post, there are far greater folk albums from that year (Cat Stevens, Roy Harper, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, etc.).


I do think that these are three of the greatest progressive Acid Folk albums of the year, and they are three of my favourite albums of the year. Hush's Extradition, Fresh Maggots self-titled, Bread Love and Dreams' Amaryllis, Tír na nÓg's self-titled, C.O.B.'s Spirit of Love, and Bröselmaschine's are some other favourites of mine of this ilk. I love psychedelic folk, and folk music more generally, but I am often particularly attracted to the psychedelic side of things, and I tend to appreciate the strange.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

The video of The Herald looks like snippets from Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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It is, with some footage of Pentangle I believe.
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The video of The Herald looks like snippets from Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Nice place, The Grampians.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


Comus' "The Herald" (eerily beautiful)


This is a very interesting video, which I wasn't aware of. Obviously a time piece, but it's not the pastoral girl scenes I find most interesting, but there are short trafficked snippets of the band filmed ... ShockedClap
Can you tell me if there are more of these or these were taken from a different source, please?


I din;t make the video, it's Picnic at Hanging Rock mixed with band footage, but looking closely at the video, I don't think that's Comus. There a double-bass and the line-up does not like right. I think it's Pentangle. I looked up some live concert footage of Pentangle, and compare to this:
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Hadn't seen this thread in its first life Embarrassed

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


Comus' "The Herald" (eerily beautiful)


This is a very interesting video, which I wasn't aware of. Obviously a time piece, but it's not the pastoral girl scenes I find most interesting, but there are short trafficked snippets of the band filmed ... ShockedClap
Can you tell me if there are more of these or these were taken from a different source, please?
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Comus.

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Comus for sure, but I'm getting to know the other bands.

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Of these three, Comus. But as Greg noted in his original post, there are far greater folk albums from that year (Cat Stevens, Roy Harper, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, etc.).
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Spirogyra takes my vote, out of these three fantastic albums.
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Gettiing into Comus recently so Comus
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Love all three albums here, but 1st vote for Spirogyra - can’t resist the beautiful Barbara Gaskin and that manic bass of Steve Borrill
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Definitely Comus. The other two are not comparable in my mind. (Meaning in terms of quality, not in terms of type of music, obviously) 
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I went with Comus also...due to it's legendary status and 'influence'?
But I ofen play others on that list, including St Radiguns and Stormcock, much more than Comus.....so lets let the opinion wars start .
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Sorry for St. Radigunds which is a minor masterpiece in its own right - but literally nothing compares to First Utterance
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Comus for me.
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This isn't close. Comus' First Utterance is one of the greatest prog albums ever.
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Comus for sure, but I'm getting to know the other bands.

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