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Poll Question: What is, in your opinion, the best year for prog in the 1970s?
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18 [36.73%]
13 [26.53%]
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6 [12.24%]
1 [2.04%]
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    Posted: September 02 2020 at 06:47
If you're new to this poll series, I will be making a series of polls on the best year for prog for each decade from 1960 to 2019. After three days from the making of this poll, I will announce voting is closed, and whichever year is winning at the time will be declared the ultimate winner (all votes after that will not count). I will then repeat the process for every other poll. When the last poll, the 2010s poll, is closed, the ultimate winners will be put in in the "Best Ever Year in Prog" poll... and the year that wins that will have to be a pretty good year for prog. Wink
So far, the winners are...
1969
1972
I'm voting for 1973, the year of Selling England by the Pound, Dark Side of the Moon, Lark's Tongues in Aspic, Tales from Topographic Oceans, A Passion Play... and many others.
Let the voting begin! Smile
Poll is closed: the winner is... 1972!


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Close call but I've gone for '72.
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I don't know. 
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^Are you going to vote in any of these? You didn't vote in the 60s one either! LOL
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

^Are you going to vote in any of these? You didn't vote in the 60s one either! LOL

I did vote in the 60s. Big smile Just after you said you closed the poll (which you personally cannot LOL). 

Every year in the 70s has great albums, I don't know which year to pick TBH. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

^Are you going to vote in any of these? You didn't vote in the 60s one either! LOL

I did vote in the 60s. Big smile Just after you said you closed the poll (which you personally cannot LOL). 

Every year in the 70s has great albums, I don't know which year to pick TBH. 
Glad you voted! What exactly for? Smile
Oh, and I know I personally can't close the poll, it just means the votes after that don't count. It was clear nothing was going to beat 1969, though.
 

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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

^Are you going to vote in any of these? You didn't vote in the 60s one either! LOL

I did vote in the 60s. Big smile Just after you said you closed the poll (which you personally cannot LOL). 

Every year in the 70s has great albums, I don't know which year to pick TBH. 
Glad you voted! What exactly for? Smile
Oh, and I know I personally can't close the poll, it just means the votes after that don't count. It was clear nothing was going to beat 1969, though.
 

true, like I said 1969 is the predictable winner.
I voted for 1968 - Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Deep Purple, Soft Machine alone makes it worth a vote. Big smile
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Yeah, this is a tough call . . .
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In the early 70's, the "progressive music" movement which in the late 60's was consisted of a relatively limited number of British underground bands, began to grow into a European meta-genre which then encompassed such different styles from Italian "rock sinfonico" to German "kosmische Musik". That meta-genre had reached its peak as a dominant European youth counterculture in the mid-seventies, so my vote goes for 1975.
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1971 is amazing for the number of bands who truly jumped onto the bandwagon of expanded, experimental musical fusion that would someday be called "prog."
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1974 for two November releases: Relayer and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
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^I can't see your vote. Smile
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At this point in my life, 60, all these years tend to blur together. I can only say the early decade tended to be better than the later decade.
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Originally posted by Boboulo Boboulo wrote:

In the early 70's, the "progressive music" movement which in the late 60's was consisted of a relatively limited number of British underground bands, began to grow into a European meta-genre which then encompassed such different styles from Italian "rock sinfonico" to German "kosmische Musik". That meta-genre had reached its peak as a dominant European youth counterculture in the mid-seventies, so my vote goes for 1975.
On the contrary, late '75 and '76 was when punk broke through and Johnny Rotten donned his I Hate Pink Floyd shirt. I dunno though... maybe Britain just got hit first... for instance, you say prog only began in the early 70s, wheras in England it was in full flow by '69. Do you live in Britain? (Or will you not give the internet that information?)
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

At this point in my life, 60, all these years tend to blur together. I can only say the early decade tended to be better than the later decade.
How Progosophical!
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Most likely 1972, though 73-76 was also a great period, and all those years had very important albums released.
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'72 and '73 are already battling it out, and I've only just made the poll today! Big smile
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72 brought us a lot of classics but generally speaking production in the early 70s was still a little primitive all over the world. I think 1975 is when albums started to sound really good. Some fantastic sounding albums from 75 till 79:
Kaipa - Inget Nytt Under Solen (1976)
SBB - Welcome (1978)
Welcome - Welcome (1976)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water (1975)
Quill - Sursum Corda (1977)
TR's Utopia - Ra (1977)

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Finally decided with '72. Can't discount Foxtrot and CTTE.
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probably 72 or 73 but idk dates and such
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